Q. I know that Delta Air Lines has changed its policy regarding military baggage fees going forward. Did the company reimburse the soldiers for the baggage fees that caused the uproar?
-- Shirley Townsend, Atlanta
A. The company has reached out to the soldiers and will be reimbursing them, Delta spokeswoman Susan Chana Elliott told Q&A on the News in an email.
Q. I was reading Bill Hendrick’s column about the unknown soldier buried in Marietta that was identified. It mentioned a hospital in East Point. Can you tell me where it was and when it closed?
-- Barbara Mitchell, East Point
A. Officials with the Atlanta History Center were unaware of any Union or Confederate hospitals in East Point. Gordon L. Jones, senior military historian and curator with the center, told Q&A on the News: "There were hundreds of small hospitals all over the Atlanta area and into Middle and South Georgia, especially around the railroads. Some were makeshift hospitals in private homes; others were larger, purpose-built hospitals; some were only in operation for a few months. Hence, records are sketchy and precise locations difficult to pin down." The soldier would have been hospitalized after the fall of Atlanta to Union forces on Sept. 2, 1864, and most of the Union troops and hospitals were concentrated in the immediate vicinity of Atlanta, he wrote. But the hospital could have been a temporary facility while the Union army was consolidating around the city.
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