The camp of the Seventeenth Army Corps is four miles south
of town. We have a very nice camp here, the boys having built good bunks out of
old lumber, in their wedge tents. Our tents had been stored at Huntsville,
Alabama, and after the fall of Atlanta were sent forward. General Sherman's
entire army is in camp here, and strongly fortified, just south of Atlanta. The
army is to be paid off while in camp, the muster rolls having been sent in to
the paymaster. All is quiet.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 217
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