Six-thirty a. m. 25th. — Bless me, how it rained and blew
last night. Do you remember the storm at Point Pleasant, Mo., April 1, 1862?
Never a high wind that I do not think of it. Believe we had two killed, about a
dozen disabled and 20 horses killed. No paymaster yet.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 222
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