Tuesday, January 19, 2021

Captain Charles Wright Wills: January 30, 1865

McPhersonsville, S. C., January 30, 1865.

We returned from Combahee river last night and at 10 p. m. received orders to move at 6 a. m. Came through Pocataligo and have made 14 miles to-day. Quite a place, but there is not even a clearing. Say 50 ordinary dwellings dropped down in the pine woods, and you have it. Not a citizen, white or black, here.

SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 339

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