Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 28, 1865 - 6 p.m.

Six miles south of Combahee River,
January 28, 1865, 6 p. m. 

The campaign commences Monday. It is yet cold; about an inch of ice forms every night, and sleeping out without tents is not a fair sample of paradise. I am in excellent health and we are all anxious to be en route. 

SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 338

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