Tuesday, February 12, 2019

Captain Charles Wright Wills: June 17, 1864

Near Big Shanty, Ga., June 17, 1864.

Has rained steadily all day, wetting everybody, but “drying up” all shooting. A very disagreeable day. I saw 83 Rebels come in to-day, about one-half of whom were deserters and the rest figured to get captured.

SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 263

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