Kingston, May 20, 1864.
Our cars got here this morning; the whistle woke me. One of
the most improbable rumors afloat is that letters will be allowed to go North
to-day. I know you are anxious, so will not lose the rumor of a chance. Billy
Fox returned to-day. My things are all right at Chattanooga. I'm in excellent
health and all right every way. The news from Grant encourages us very much,
but if he gets whipped it won't keep us from whaling Johnston. We're now about
50 miles from Atlanta. Will probably take a day or two here to replenish the
supply trains, and let the men recruit a little after their twenty-day march;
don't know anything about Johnston; it is not thought he will give us a fight
near here.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 244
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