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Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day-By-Day Record of Sherman's March to the Sea Paperback - 1996
by Charles W. Wills; Foreword by John Y. Simon; Compiled by Mary E. Kellogg
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A high-spirited idealist who craved excitement when he enlisted in the Eighth Illinois Volunteers for three months and reenlisted for three years, Wills, of Canton, Illinois, wrote frequently to his sister Mary Emily Wills and kept a diary of General William T. Sherman's campaigns during the last year of the war. A student and store clerk before enlisting, Wills found that army life "beats clerking". He enlisted as a private at the age of twenty-one and by twenty-four was a major. He had thought he might receive an infantry commission eventually, but when the opportunity arose for promotion to first lieutenant in the Seventh Illinois Cavalry, "cupidity and ambition" caused him to abandon the Eighth, enabling him to hold rank "without so much walking". For a while, he seriously rued his lack of action, but his enthusiasm for carnage waned as he marched with Sherman to the sea. Wills matured in the army. He joined solely to preserve the Union, and his early comments on slaves "lacked sympathy, even decency", according to John Y. Simon. Later he came to the point where he would arm blacks - in part, with an eye toward gaining rank by leading the new regiments. Yet he was not blind to the anomalies of a slave society. Wills died in 1883. To preserve his memory, his sister (now Mary E. Kellogg) printed his diary in 1904. Two years later, Kellogg combined the diary with the letters Wills had written to her earlier in the war.
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- Title Army Life of an Illinois Soldier: Including a Day-By-Day Record of Sherman's March to the Sea
- Author Charles W. Wills; Foreword by John Y. Simon; Compiled by Mary E. Kellogg
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reprint
- Pages 392
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Southern Illinois University Press, Carbondale
- Date 1996-07
- ISBN 9780809320462 / 0809320460
- Weight 1.21 lbs (0.55 kg)
- Dimensions 9.05 x 6.05 x 0.97 in (22.99 x 15.37 x 2.46 cm)
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- Chronological Period: 1851-1899
- Cultural Region: Midwest
- Cultural Region: Upper Midwest
- Geographic Orientation: Illinois
- Topical: Civil War
- Library of Congress subjects United States, United States - History - Civil War,
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95048898
- Dewey Decimal Code 973.781
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