A heavy rain last night. We started early this morning and
arrived in camp about 9 o'clock. This afternoon we received orders to prepare
to march early tomorrow morning with fifteen days' rations. It is supposed that
the expedition is going out towards Kenesaw mountain, as it is reported that
Hood is moving north with the main part of his army, and that he is now in the
vicinity of Kenesaw. The Fourteenth, Fifteenth and Seventeenth Corps are to
move north, while the Twentieth and Twenty-third are to remain here at Atlanta.
News came today that General Grant is within five miles of Richmond and that he
has whipped the rebels at every point.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 219
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