September 9—Up to to-day nothing new. Our regiment was paid off to-day, we receiving one month’s wages—eleven dollars for a private, which I have the honor to be.
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier By Louis Léon [53d North Carolina Regiment, infantry]
September 1—Wortheim and myself went to Halfway Station, to get a box that was sent to us from home, but it did not come.
August 31—Still digging dirt.
August 30—Our company went to work to-day throwing up breastworks.
August 29—Lieutenant Belk, whom we left at Weldon, sick, returned to us to-day.
August 28—Ordered to Drewry’s Bluff. We left Richmond at 8 P.M. and got there at 2 A.M. We are camping on the old oat patch, near our former camp.
August 27—Three of our companies got Enfield rifles to-day.
August 26—Up to date did not get half enough to eat.
August 23—Went uptown to see my brother, Morris, of the 44th Georgia Regiment; but his regiment had already gone to Gordonsville, so I returned to camp.
August 22—Sam Oppenheim, of the 44th North Carolina Regiment, an old comrade of the 1st North Carolina Regiment, came to see me. He is stationed on the other side of the city.
