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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