The 17th Corps has the road to-day. Heavy thunder storm last night with a great deal of rain. Four men of our division were killed by lightning about 200 yards from our tent. One of them, William Hall, belonged to Company D of our regiment. Two men were killed in a tent in which were 15, and of the four lying side by side, two were killed.
Can't hear yet for certain when we will be mustered out. We move towards Alexandria to-morrow.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 380
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