April 3—As I have not heard from my parents since the war, thev living in New York, I thought I would send a personal advertisement to a New York paper to let them know that my brother and myself are well, and for them to send an answer through the Richmond paper. I gave this to a Yankee picket, who promised me he would send it to New York. Nothing more up to the 7th.

Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon
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