Still in Camp near
Corinth, Miss., May 15, 1862.
It seems to me that we are a long time in bringing this “muss
a la probable” to a focus. What under the sun our Halleck is waiting for we
can't guess. One hour's march will commence the struggle now and you don't know
how anxious we are for that little trip. Buell and Thomas have both thrown up
long lines of earthworks to fall back behind if repulsed, I suppose. We have
nothing of that kind in our division. We have all been under marching orders
since morning, and Assistant Secretary of War Scott told the colonel last night
that the battle would commence to-day — but he lied. Talk is to-night again
that Corinth is evacuated. The main body of our army moved up within three
miles to-day. My battalion has been out since daylight this morning, but we
have been lying at ease near Pope's headquarters all day waiting for orders. I
came back to camp to stay to-night because I had no blanket with me and there
was no possibility of any more before morning. Have a sore foot now. My
confounded horse fell down with me in a creek the other day, threw me out on
the bank in a bunch of blackberry bushes and then crawled out over me, stepped
on my foot in the melee by way of showing sympathy, I suppose. It don't hurt my
appetite any and hasn't put me off duty.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 89-90
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