June 1—Arrived at Weldon, North Carolina, at 7 o’clock. We set up our tents at Gerresburg, a short march from Weldon. Our company is close to the railroad track. We collected broom straw and made a bed of down of it.

Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon
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