Monday, October 2, 2023

“We are to stay here and haul wood for the whole division (damn).”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

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October 2, 1863. Our foraging party brought in forty mules, fifty cattle, beef, twenty-one hogs and thirty sheep. They report a beautiful, rich country, and abundance of eatables within five miles of the landing. Went with party of bee hunters in the p.m. They had found the tree in the forenoon. They took two bucketsful [...]

Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills, (8th Illinois Infantry)

War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.

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2nd. After breakfast mounted and reported to Col. Purington, a mile ahead. Co. H had been to Greenville and discovered nothing but reports. Co. C, 23 men, ordered to go till we found whether the rebels were camped at Henderson, 6 miles east of Greenville. Things looked suspicious as we went along but nothing very [...]

War Diary of Luman Harris Tenney.