Five miles northeast of Cheraw, S. C.,
March 6, 1865.
Crossed the Peedee this morning. Just after we passed through the town
a 12th Indiana boy seeing some powder scattered on the ground threw a coal on
it. It communicated with a concealed ammunition magazine and made a fine
explosion, killed and wounded 20 or 30 men in our division, stampeded a lot of
horses and burned some citizens. There have been half a dozen of such
explosions. Good country here, foragers get plenty, and also pick up many Rebel
deserters and stragglers. Our foragers yesterday found two of Kilpatrick's men
and five Rebel lieutenants all drunk and put them under guard.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier,
p. 358
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