Kingston, Cass County,
Ga., May 19, 1864, 5 p. m.
The artillery has been working all day, but have not heard
how much of a fight. That dead Rebel colonel was Iverson, of the Second Georgia
Cavalry; we think he was formerly a M. C. of this State, and a secessionist.
The citizens here have most all left the towns, but are nearly all at home in
the country. The cavalry had sharp fighting in the road we have come over
to-day. Many dead horses and a number of fresh graves by the roadside. I wish I
was in the cavalry. This plodding along afoot is dry business, compared with
horse-back traveling. I hear this morning that Wilder's mounted infantry
captured two cannons and 600 Rebels this afternoon. Also that 6,000 prisoners
were yesterday started from Dalton for the North.
SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an
Illinois Soldier, p. 244
