Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day by Day Record of Sherman's March to the Sea (Shawnee Classics) - Softcover

"One Michigan farm boy, who wrote [during the Civil War], 'I don't no wat is a going on, ' and proved his point repeatedly, eventually attracted a modern scholar willing to explain 'wat' to posterity. Books of routine and redundant soldier letters form a thicket that conceals those of value. One truly remarkable and incisive soldier's account, privately published in a small edition in 1906, has become a neglected classic."--John Y. Simon, from the Foreword "One Michigan farm boy, who wrote [during the Civil War], I don t no wat is a going on, and proved his point repeatedly, eventually attracted a modern scholar willing to explain wat to posterity. Books of routine and redundant soldier letters form a thicket that conceals those of value. One truly remarkable and incisive soldier s account, privately published in a small edition in 1906, has become a neglected classic."John Y. Simon, from the Foreword"

A high-spirited idealist who craved excitement when he enlisted in the Eighth Illinois Volunteers, Charles W. Wills of Illinois wrote frequently to his sister and kept a diary of General William T. Sherman's campaigns during the last years of the Civil War. This text combines his letters and diary.