Van Wirt, Ga., November
2, 1864.
It has rained steadily all day. Moved 12 miles. I have an
excellent pair of shoes. A good deal of water got into them to-day, but it all
ran out. Camp to-night on a high pine ridge. Pine knot fires come in first
rate. That 40th boy that was wounded last night was captured with three more of
our men by 30 Rebels and taken eight or ten miles, then formed in line and
ordered to about face and fired upon; two fell dead and the other two ran away.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois
Soldier, p. 317
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