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Monday, August 16, 2021

Major Charles Wright Wills: May 18, 1865

Occoquan Creek, May 18, 1865.

Another day's march. Heavy rain and thunder storm commenced ten minutes before our wagons got in, and then the wind blew so hard that we could not get our tent up for an hour, and everybody got thoroughly soaked.

SOURCE: Charles Wright Wills, Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, p. 382