March 30—Left this morning at 5 o’clock, marched fifteen miles. Waded clay-bottom swamps three-quarters of a mile long. This is in Pitt County, North Carolina. We then camped in the woods and made fires to dry ourselves with.

Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon
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