Wednesday, May 20, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Wednesday, July 20, 1864

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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