Sunday, June 21, 2015

Diary of Corporal Alexander G. Downing: Thursday, September 1, 1864

It is quite warm. Nothing of importance.1 The number of men in the hospitals is decreasing rapidly, for so many are going home on furloughs and no more are coming in.2
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1 On September 1st Crocker's Iowa Brigade advanced from Jonesboro to Flint creek with the remainder of Sherman's army. The loss during the day was light. — A. G. D.

2 This shows how completely in the dark our diarist-nurse was, as to what was going on around Atlanta. — Ed.

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

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