Up until this date there has been nothing worth recording,
but to-day got orders to fall in line with two days’ rations cooked. Left at 12
M. in box cars. We knocked holes in them to get fresh air. We laid over six
hours eight miles from Gerresburg in order to let the passenger cars pass us.
Several of our company left the train in quest of supper. We found a house
where a lady promised to give us supper for fifty cents each. As we were doing
full justice to her supper the train started, we left in a hurry, and did not
have time to pay for our meal. I don't suppose she gave us her blessing.
SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier,
p. 6-7
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