Five miles northwest of
Villa Rica, Ga.,
Novembebr 3, 1864, 6
p.m.
Forty-eight hours' rain without a stop and a good prospect
for as much more. We left Van Wirt and Dallas to the left, and by 16 miles hard
marching have got near enough over this barren ridge, I think, to find a few
marks of civilization. Rumor says we are going to Atlanta to relieve the 20th
Corps, and will then be paid. Passed to-day a one-horse wagon, a large ox in
the shafts and four women in the wagon dressed for a party.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier,
p. 317
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