Cedar Bluff, Ala.,
October 27, 1864.
Waiting here for the 17th Army Corps to get across the
Coosa. It is a beautiful little river, not as wide as the Illinois, but has a
deeper channel. We are starting on the road to Talladega; don't even know
whether we are starting on a campaign or not. Hood is reported across the
Tennessee. We understand that Sherman has men enough to attend to him, and that
Sherman intends to use us to Christianize this country. Many think we are now
on the way to Montgomery or Selma. River here about 120 yards wide. About a
thousand head of our cattle swam across, some of them swam over and back two or
three times, and many of the thin ones drowned, for which we were grateful to
the drovers as it saved us some very hard chewing.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 316
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