June 20—Up until this date there has been nothing worth recording, but to-day got orders to fall in line with two days’ rations cooked. Left at 12 M. in box cars. We knocked holes in them to get fresh air. We laid over six hours eight miles from Gerresburg in order to let the passenger cars pass us. Several of our company left the train in quest of supper. We found a house where a lady promised to give us supper for fifty cents each. As we were doing full justice to her supper the train started, we left in a hurry, and did not have time to pay for our meal. I don’t suppose she gave us her blessing.
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon
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