December 15—Sure enough. Got orders to cook five days’ rations. We started at 2 A.M. and got to Petersburg at 8 o’clock that night. I ran the blockade, and went uptown and stayed all night and had a very good time.
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon
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