Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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“Not a citizen, white or black, here.”–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

January 30, 2015

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

McPhersonsville, S. C,

January 30, 1865.

We returned from Combahee river last night and at 10 p.m. received orders to move at 6 a.m. Came through Pocataligo and have made 14 miles to-day. Quite a place, but there is not even a clearing. Say 50 ordinary dwellings dropped down in the pine woods, and you have it. Not a citizen, white or black, here.

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