September 5, 1864.
News of the capture of Fort Morgan. Orders to march at 8 p.
m. I was detailed to bring off the pickets, which was accomplished without
trouble. Rebels did not know when we left, as we heard them shooting after we
got back in our old works at Jonesboro. The whole army moved into the works we
built the 30th. I, with my pickets, got back just before day.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 298-9
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