White Hall, two miles
west of Atlanta,
November 13, 1864.
We made 15 miles to-day very easily. Coming through Atlanta
the smoke almost blinded us. I believe everything of any importance there is on
fire. Understand that all the large buildings are to be burned. Tremendous
smoke also rising over the site of Marietta. It is said that we will lie here
two or three days. We are only one-half mile from where we did our hard
fighting “before Atlanta.”
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 319
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