Fifteen
miles, good roads, men only waded in swamps. Whole corps in camp before dark.
Well settled country and oceans of forage. Our foragers and the 7th Illinois
"mounted thieves" had a nice little fight to-day. Came near scaring
Wade Hampton's chivalry out of their boots; four dead Yanks, and 11 Rebels is
said to be the result. Our fellows run them off to the left of our road into
the 14th and 20, who hurried their march a little. We are 27 miles from Goldsboro
and 18 from Faisons on the railroad, which point we will probably make
to-morrow and possibly get our mail. If I don't get at least six letters from
you I will be much disappointed. We are much amused over the Rebel papers we
get. All seem to take “gobs” of comfort from Lee's declaration that
"Tecumseh” can and must be whipped. Several of them assert that our
treatment of citizens is good. Don't believe a word of it, though I wish it
were so.
Monday, June 14, 2021
Major Charles Wright Wills: March 18, 1865
Four miles north from Smithfield's, N. C.,
March 18, 1865.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life
of an Illinois Soldier, p. 363-4
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