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

“Foraged some peach brandy..,”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

Springs, 40 miles from Macon,
November 18, 1864.

We got here at noon but will wait until to-morrow, I understand, for the 3d and 4th Divisions to lay a pontoon bridge across the Ocmulgee river. This has been a summer resort of some note. From 800 to 1,000 people congregate here. The spring is a little stream of water not larger than your finger, which runs from the rock at the rate of a gallon a minute. It is sulphur water with some other ingredient that gives it a very disagreeable ordor. This is quite a romantic place. Foraged some peach brandy, which was destroyed.

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