Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon

February 13, 2013

Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier By Louis Léon [53d North Carolina Regiment, infantry]

February 13—Nothing new. We have been fixing our camps. Our company has built log huts, from two to three feet high, and then put our tents over them—building a chimney to each hut or tent, and we are very comfortable. We got orders to cook two days’ rations, and be ready to march in two hours, but did not have to go—in fact, nothing new until the 25th.

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