Left Bank Lynch's Creek, March 1, 1865.
We have finally got across this deuced creek. It has delayed us fully
four days, more than any three rivers did before. Our division train is yet to
cross and may not get over in 24 hours. We are getting hungry for the first
time, having foraged the country out for 15 miles around. The 4th
division started to-day on the Cheraw road. Prisoners taken to-day report that
Wilmington was being evacuated when Schofield with the 23d Corps, dropped in
and took the town and a brigade of prisoners. I wish he'd organize an
expedition and bring us some late papers. Everybody is speculating on a big
time with the enemy crossing the Great Pedee, but I don't believe they will
trouble us as much as this confounded creek has.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier,
p. 355
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