Sunday, June 21, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Friday, September 2, 1864

Cloudy and warm — threatened rain. No news.1 I wrote two letters today, one to Lewis Elseffer and one to Mrs. Mary Ham, Iowa City, Iowa.
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1 On this day John Hilton of Company E was severely wounded in the right side at Lovejoy Station. This was the last day's fighting In the siege of Atlanta. Crocker's Iowa Brigade had been under fire eighty-one days out of the eighty-seven days of the siege — from June to September. — A. G. D.

Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B., Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 213

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