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

“We are only one-half mile from where we did our hard fighting ‘before Atlanta.’”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

White Hall, two miles west of Atlanta,
November 13, 1864.

We made 15 miles to-day very easily. Coming through Atlanta the smoke almost blinded us. I believe everything of any importance there is on fire. Understand that all the large buildings are to be burned. Tremendous smoke also rising over the site of Marietta. It is said that we will lie here two or three days. We are only one-half mile from where we did our hard fighting “before Atlanta.”

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