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

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On termination of the campaign.–Army Life of an Illinois Soldier, Charles Wright Wills.

September 8, 2014

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

Near Eastpoint, September 8, 1864.

We are again in camp for a rest; don’t know for how long. What do you think now of the confidence I have so often expressed to you in Sherman and his army? I have every hour of the campaign felt that a failure in it was impossible.

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