There are now from five thousand to six thousand sick and
wounded here, and still more are coming. Though some of the sick are gaining
slowly, yet there are from five to six deaths daily; there have been as many as
eight deaths in a day, and not less than three a day for the time the hospital
has been established here. I am told that the dead are buried in the Rome
cemetery. Most of the men are sent out to the front again just as soon as they
can go. General Hospital, Ward D, Second Section, Second Division. Rome,
Georgia.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 211-2
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