Monday, January 31, 2022

Diary of Private Louis Leon: December 8, 1862

My birthday to-day. I am a man twenty-one years old, but I must say that I have been doing a man's duty before I was twenty-one, providing a soldier's duty is a man's. I spent to-day in bringing mud to our palace for a fireplace.

SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 12-3


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