The temporal evolution of quantum statistical properties of an interacting atom-field system in the presence of a homogeneous gravitational field is investigated within the framework of the Jaynes-Cummings model. Taking into account both the atomic motion and gravitational field a full quantum treatment of the internal and external dynamics of the atom is presented based on an alternative su(2) dynamical algebraic structure. By solving analytically the Schrödinger equation in the interaction picture, the evolving state of the system is found by which the influence of the gravitational field on the dynamical behavior of the atom-field system is explored. Assuming that initially the field is prepared in a coherent state and the two-level atom is in a coherent superposition of the excited and ground states, the influence of gravity on the atomic dipole moment, collapses and revivals of the atomic motion, atomic momentum diffusion, photon counting statistics and quadrature squeezing of the radiation field is studied.