Have had pleasant weather for a week now. Most of the
citizens remaining here have been moved out of town, for the purpose of using
their homes for hospitals. No news.1
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1 On this day David Hobaugh of my
company was killed on the skirmish line. Our entire army moved forward making
an advance on Atlanta. — A. G. D.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 206
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