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

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Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon

July 21, 2013

Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier By Louis Léon [53d North Carolina Regiment, infantry]

July 21—Went through town at 5 this morning, to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, with Johnson’s division and part of Hampton’s Legion, to tear up the railroad. We destroyed six miles of it and returned to our camp at Darkesville—fifteen miles to-day.

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