Tuesday, June 27, 2017

1st Lieutenant Charles Wright Wills: April 10, 1862

April 10.—The Rebels have run and left Island 10, and our boys have taken some 2,000 of them prisoners below here. They passed up on a boat this morning. We will be paid off to-day or to-morrow.

SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 81

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