December 8—My birthday to-day. I am a man twenty-one years old, but I must say that I have been doing a man’s duty before I was twenty-one, providing a soldier’s duty is a man’s. I spent to-day in bringing mud to our palace for a fireplace.
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon
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