Beaman's
Cross Roads, March 17, 1865.
About 12
miles, more than half of which had to be corduroyed. Roads awful. If a wagon
pulls off the corduroy, it drops to the hub. There are two or three inches of
black sand on the surface covering quicksand unfathomable. No one need tell me
that bad roads will stop an army. The 20th corps had sharp little affair
yesterday. Hear their loss is over 400. Everyone is expecting a fight before we
reach Goldsboro. The whole corps is camped together to-night. Our division has
been in rear of the corps two days and has not had a fight in the advance since
we left Columbia. I believe I have not heard a hostile shot for 27 days. Howard
is here to-night. Whole corps is on this road.
SOURCE:
Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 363
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