Major Charles Wright Wills: May 7, 1865

Petersburg, Va., May 7, 1865.

Twenty miles to-day, and the longest kind of miles. Had some bad road in the morning. We struck the Weldon railroad two or three miles below Ream's Station, where the 6th Corps was whipped last June, and came right up to the city. Saw hardly any signs of fighting the whole way. Ours and the Rebel works where we came through are fully two and one half miles apart, and the skirmish line further from each other than we ever had ours when we pretended to be near the enemy. I think the whole army

Part of it got here last night. We lie here tomorrow. The 17th A. C. goes on to Richmond.

SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 378

 

Charles W Wills,103rd IL INF,