October 12, 1864.
Last night while our train was passing through Cassville, a
town four miles south of Kingston, an ambulance gave out and the driver
unhitched and concluded to stay all night. That was some three miles from where
we stayed. Nine stragglers also laid down beside the ambulance for the night.
The 17th Corps came through there to-day and found the driver dead, with a
bayonet thrust through him, and the traps of the nine men laying around. The
horses and nine men are missing. I heard to-night that the bodies of the nine
men had been found altogether. Our men burned the town. I expect we will lie
here tomorrow, and if Hood's army is in this vicinity go for it next day.
Nobody thinks he will dare to fight us. We have parts of five corps here.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 310
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