Camp 103d Illinois
Infantry, Jackson, Tenn.,
March 9, 1863.
We leave here again in the morning for the Grange. Ordered
to report there immediately to relieve a regiment, the 6th Iowa, which is going
down the river. Am right glad to be again on the way. Can't think that we will
stay there long, though I ought by this time to know that I have no business
thinking anything about the matter. The Fulton Democrat came into our
camp to-day, and that correspondence you mentioned in your last has raised
quite a stir. The writer is of course denounced as a contemptible liar. My boys
this evening got up a little paper which will appear in the Register shortly
(it goes in the morning by the same person who carries this) and some fifty of
them signed it, all there were in camp. My company would riddle that office in
a minute if they could get at it. Worked all day yesterday, Sunday, covering
and chinking a picket post, and will not get another day's use of it. Have so
much to do that I see I will have to stop this letter writing business.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 161
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