Saturday, March 15, 2025

“At Goldsboro, we are promised a short rest.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

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Left bank, Cape Fear River, Opposite Fayetteville, March 15, 1865. Everything valuable to the Rebels has been destroyed, and we are about ready to push on to Goldsboro. Fayetteville is about a 3,000 town, nearly all on one street. There was a very fine United States Arsenal burned here, some 20 good buildings, all of [...]

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

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Charles Lynch

March 15th. Orders received for our regiment to report at Martinsburg. Must leave our winter quarters at Halltown. We are relieved by the 144th Indiana Regiment. Busy packing up, as we are to march tomorrow. Will pass one more night in our winter quarters. Time has passed very pleasant in this camp during the winter.

Civil War Diary of Charles H. Lynch, 18th Conn. Vol’s.

A Diary From Dixie.

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March 15th.–Lawrence says Miss Chesnut is very proud of the presence of mind and cool self-possession she showed in the face of the enemy. She lost, after all, only two bottles of champagne, two of her brother’s gold-headed canes, and her brother’s horses, including Claudia, the brood mare, that he valued beyond price, and her [...]

A Diary From Dixie by Mary Boykin Miller Chesnut.