Started early this morning for the Southern coast,
somewhere, and we don't care, so long as Sherman is leading us. The Army of the
Tennessee forms the right, while the Army of the Cumberland is moving off in
the direction of Milledgeville, Georgia. There are about sixty thousand men of
all arms, and they are in fine spirits and well clothed for the campaign. The
roads are good and the weather fine for marching. We went into bivouac for the
night about twelve miles from Atlanta. The country is very thinly settled and
there is nothing to forage. All is quiet at the front — none of the rebels in
sight.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 229
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