Diary of Private Louis Leon: June 7, 1862

At 11 o'clock to-night we were roused out of our sleep and marched to Weldon Bridge, as the river was so swift that it was thought the bridge would wash away. We went there to knock the sides off, so that the water could run over it, but we got there without tools. When they came the water was receding, so we returned to camp.

SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 6