Wednesday, April 24, 2024

“That I have lived something over a thousand days, in a blue uniform seems incredible. Six months sounds much more reasonable.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

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Scottsboro, Ala., April 24, 1864. Spring is here at last, and summer is almost in sight. The last two days have been fully as warm as I care to see weather in April. There has been a great deal of cold, wet weather here this spring, and vegetable life is unusually backward; but the last [...]

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

…five Yanks came up all drunk, they robbed those people with the wagons of all their money, drank up all the whiskey and treated them shamefully..,

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April, Sunday 24, 1864 This has been a terible day of excitement, two wagons from Memphis came out and camped in front of our gate all day, the Yanks did not bother them this morning only to take some Whiskey—two Confederate Soldiers were sitting in the Parlor all the time they were here, they did [...]

Diaries and Letters of Belle Edmondson