Friday, February 23, 2018

Captain Charles Wright Wills: September 26, 1863

Messengers Ferry, Big Black River, Miss.,
September 26, 1863.

When we assembled at regimental headquarters this p. m., the colonel informed us that our corps was ordered to report to Rosecrans, at Chattanooga, and that we should prepare to move at a moment's notice.

SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 191

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