Near Hillsboro,
November 19, 1864.
Have been foraging to-day. Crossed the Ocmulgee at Ocmulgee
Mills, on pontoons. This river is much like the Chattahoochie, but not so
broad. I am lost from the division tonight and camped near the 2d Division. By
the kindness of Mrs. Elizabeth Celia Pye, I occupy a feather bed to-night. It
is the first house I have been in for the last three months. She understood
from the Rebels that we burned all houses and she took all her things out and
hid them in the woods. The foragers found them and brought them in to her. Had
an excellent supper with the boys. This is a level, fine country, and has been
well cultivated.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 321
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