Near Kenesaw Mountain,
October 10, 1864.
Was on the ground we charged on the 27th of June, and also
on top of Kenesaw to-day. Very fine view, but nothing like equal to that from
Lookout. The signal station here communicates direct with Atlanta, Allatoona
and Roswell.
I picked up some black oak acorns to-day from a tree that
shades the graves of 12 or 15 of our soldiers, mostly from our regiment, who
fell on the 27th. They were buried where they fell. That charge was the maddest
folly of the campaign.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 308
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