West bank of Ogeechee River, eight miles south of Millen,
December 2, 1864.
Recrossed the river this morning and, joining the brigade, made some eight miles to-day. We are ahead of the rest of the army or could have made more. Pine country, almost uninhabited. Saw to-day my favorite tree—the magnolia. Have seen but few of them in Georgia. In a swamp we passed through to-day a darkey pointed out to us some lemon trees. Saw in the same swamp some yellow pine. Nearly all the pine this side of the Oconee has been the “pitch” variety.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 330
