Tuesday, October 6, 2020

Captain Charles Wright Wills: November 27, 1864

Riddlesville, November 27, 1864. 

Was foraging this morning and supplied the regiment with staples within a mile of camp. Took the road as train guard at 1 a. m. Have had a tedious march over sandy roads and through pine woods for 11 miles. It is too dark to see the town. Have heard no “music” to-day. We crossed the head waters of the Ohoopee river to-day. Saw a magnolia tree by the road. The first I have seen in Georgia. 

SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 327

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