April 18—Left at 9 this morning, and got to Greenville at 5 o’clock—eleven miles. This is a fine country, but hilly and hard marching. This is the end of the siege of Washington. We were there sixteen days, but could not draw the enemy out of their works.
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier by Louis Léon
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