Saturday, May 17, 2025

“Desolation reigns equal to the Sodom and Gomorrah country.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

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Aquia Creek, Va., May 17, 1865. We passed over the whole line of Burnside’s battle ground this morning. (It was no fight, only a Yankee slaughter.) Through Fredericksburg, the most shelled town I ever saw; crossed the Rappahannock on a miserable shaky pontoon, and have been traveling ever since in the camps of the Potomac [...]

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