Friday, May 9, 2025

“Coming back toward camp we found one of our soldiers unburied in the bushes.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

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Drury’s Bluff, Va., May 9, 1865. We were reviewed by Howard, Logan and Hartsuff this morning as we passed through Petersburg. We lie tonight along the outer line of Drury’s Bluff defenses which Butler took a year ago this month. Signs of a good deal of fighting; good many roads, etc. The James river is [...]

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