SEPTEMBER 11th.—Showery. No war news, though important events are looked for speedily. It is time. If our coat-tails were off, we should, in nine cases out of ten, be voted a nation of sans cullottes. We are already meager and emaciated. Yet I believe there is abundance of clothing and food, held by the extortioners. [...]

September, Sunday 11, 1864 Mrs. Johnson, Mary Lou, Maj. Cheatham and Woodie went to Church, Lou, Mrs. Reynolds & I spent the morning reading, &c—All slept in the afternoon. Mr. Clapp & Lucas arrived from Holly Spring, found his Wife doing her own work. The Yanks made a complete wreck of every thing in their [...]

Saturday, 10th.—Reported there is an armistice for ten days, to remove citizens out of Atlanta. Oh, that the time may soon come when we will all be permitted to return to our homes in peace. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)

September 10th. This morning brings rain, making camp life very miserable again. Heavy cannonading to the south, in the direction of the Winchester and Berryville Pike. The enemy is still in the valley. General Early will have to keep a sharp lookout for our gallant Phil Sheridan. A large mail received today. A very great [...]

10th.—We must give up our rooms by the last of this month, and the question now arises about our future abode. We are searching hither and thither. We had thought for a week past that our arrangements were most delightfully made, and that we had procured, together with Dr. M. and Colonel G., six rooms [...]

Saturday, 10th–A large number were sent to the front this morning. Jeremiah Argo of Company E, who had been among the wounded, was one of them. It is reported that the rebels are planning to raid this place, for we have but few soldiers here to defend it.

10th. Saturday. Busy over monthly papers. Letter from home. Fixed up my commissary returns.[1] [1] ‘In my possession are a large number of these duplicate packages of “Monthly Returns of Quartermasters Stores,” “Monthly Returns of Clothing, Camp and Garrison Equipage, Abstracts, Vouchers,” etc., etc., all carefully assorted and securely fastened. (F. D. T.) The following [...]

SEPTEMBER 10th.—Slight showers, and warm. Gen. J. H. Morgan was betrayed by a woman, a Mrs. Williamson, who was entertaining him. Custis made an estimate of the white male population in seven States this side of the Mississippi, leaving out Tennessee, between the ages of fifteen and fifty, for Gen. Kemper, for Gen. Lee, which [...]

September, Saturday 10, 1864 Today has been rather warm, and very idly spent by me. We have played Cards or backgammon most of the time. Lou and I beat Mrs. Reynolds and Maj. Cheatham badly after Tea. No news today, and nothing to write in my Diary—Of course ’tis always pleasant to me, I have [...]

September 9th. Camp near Summit Point, our old battlefield, June 15th, 1863. Company drill this morning. Very strange to us. No other regiment out, in the face of the enemy. Battalion drill this P. M. The boys are all mad over it. The men need the rest. It is thought Captain Tiffany wished to make [...]

Friday, 9th–It is clear and quite warm. The constant shifting of the sick and wounded men makes a great deal of work for the convalescents here. They are planning to close the hospitals here as soon as possible and the hospital equipment will be shipped either to Chattanooga or Nashville until needed. The field hospital [...]

SEPTEMBER 9th.—Rained last night; clear to-day. We hear of great rejoicing in the United States over the fall of Atlanta, and this may be premature. President Lincoln has issued a proclamation for thanksgiving in the churches, etc. Mr. Benjamin informs the Secretary of War that the President has agreed to facilitate the emigration of Polish [...]

September, Friday 9, 1864 Very cool and delightful—I finished my foullard Silk—if the weather improves as fast as it has done for the last few days, I think I will soon be left high and dry in my white dresses. We had a call from some young Ladies of Columbus, Miss Jennie Ebert, Misses Williams, [...]

Thursday, 8th.—General Morgan killed at Greeneville, Tenn. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)

September 8th. This morning comes in cool and very cloudy. An opportunity given us to send money home. I sent seventy dollars to put in bank. Did not wish to carry so much with me. One cannot tell what might happen to a soldier, for we remember that every battle kills a soldier. Orders came [...]

Thursday, 8th–Cool and cloudy with some rain today. All is quiet.[1] [1] Sherman’s army went into permanent camp in the vicinity of Atlanta for a much needed rest. The camps were in the timber and the men had good water.—A. G. D.

Near Eastpoint, September 8, 1864. We are again in camp for a rest; don’t know for how long. What do you think now of the confidence I have so often expressed to you in Sherman and his army? I have every hour of the campaign felt that a failure in it was impossible.

8th. Thursday. Rainy and cool. Lay still all day. Read “Charles Vivasseur.” Wagons came up, oats and rations. Wrote home and to Mrs. Wood.

SEPTEMBER 8th.—Bright and cool; subsequently cloudy and warm. Dispatches from Gen. Hood (Sept 7th) state—1st dispatch: that Sherman still holds his works one and a half miles from Jonesborough. 2d dispatch, same date: “Sherman continues his retreat!” He says, in a 3d dispatch, that Sherman visited the hospitals, and said he would rest awhile at [...]

September, Thursday 8, 1864 Maj. C. Capt. D. and Eddie all left after breakfast for West Point. We have had comparatively a quiet day. No news of importance from any point.

Wednesday, 7th.—Our wounded brought down from Jonesboro to-day. Yanks gone back to Atlanta. (Note: picture is of an unidentified Confederate soldier.)

September 7th. Storm cleared up this morning, for which we are very thankful. Relieved from picket by a company from the 12th West Virginia Regiment. Wrote a few letters. Weather clear and cool. Trying to get rest and sleep. When off duty call on members of other regiments. Very pleasant to become acquainted with soldiers [...]

Wednesday, 7th–The weather is still quite pleasant. There is nothing of any importance. All is quiet. Ward E is on the ground floor of the same building as Ward D, but at the rear of the building, and is a poor place to put sick men for any length of time, as it is poorly [...]

September 7, 1864. At 7 a.m. moved out on our return, and camped for the night on the left bank of Flint river, six miles south of Eastpoint. The Rebels had fortified to this place, and I don’t know how much farther south. As soon as Hood found out that Sherman was attempting to turn [...]