Sunday, August 9, 2020

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 3, 1864 — 6 p.m.

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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