We arrived in Atlanta about 9 o'clock last night. I stayed
over night at the Soldiers' Home, in one of the vacant store buildings. I got
my breakfast there and then with my knapsack on started for the headquarters of
the Seventeenth Army Corps. From there I went to the headquarters of the Iowa
Brigade and about noon joined my company. I was glad to see the boys. I
received a large mail, one letter from father with $5.00 enclosed. Atlanta is
quite a city, there being some fine buildings, one of the finest being the
railroad station. But the town is low and in the timber.
Source: Alexander G. Downing, Edited by Olynthus B.,
Clark, Downing’s Civil War Diary, p. 217
