Thursday, October 22, 2020

Diary of Private Louis Leon: August 20, 1862

Left here at 6 P.M. and arrived at Petersburg at 3 o'clock in the morning. Took the same bed that I had the last time—the sidewalk—and the wall for my pillow. Katz, Hugh Sample, “Bat” Harry, Lieutenant Belk and some others were left behind, sick.

SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 9-10

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