A train load of the
sick and wounded left today over the railroad for Rome, Georgia, where they are
to go into the hospital. I stayed here at Marietta all day.2 The
general quartermaster has his headquarters here now since the railroad is in
running order to this point. The supplies for the army are being taken from
here by wagon trains and distributed along the lines as needed. A great many
citizens are coming into Marietta for the purpose of going North to get away
from the war region.
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2 Mr. Downing thought that his fever was
broken and that he might soon rejoin
his company, yet he feared that he would have to go to Rome. There was some
danger in going to Rome, because of a possible attack, and then he dreaded the
thought of being confined in the general hospital. — Ed.
Source: Alexander
G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary,
p. 204
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