October 2, 1863.
Our foraging party
brought in forty mules, fifty cattle, beef, twenty-one hogs and thirty sheep.
They report a beautiful, rich country, and abundance of eatables within five
miles of the landing. Went with party of bee hunters in the p. m. They had
found the tree in the forenoon. They took two bucketsful of most beautiful
white comb. One of my sergeants in an hour to-day found three trees, and by dark
had taken the honey from all of them. We are to stay here and haul wood for the
whole division (damn).
SOURCE: Charles
Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 195
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