Monday, March 17, 2025

“I believe I have not heard a hostile shot for 27 days.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

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Beaman’s Cross Roads, March 17, 1865. About 12 miles, more than half of which had to be corduroyed. Roads awful. If a wagon pulls off the corduroy, it drops to the hub. There are two or three inches of black sand on the surface covering quicksand unfathomable. No one need tell me that bad roads [...]

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