Left here on the Little Washington dirt road at 7 this morning. Marched seventeen miles and halted three miles from Washington. This is a Yankee post. Heard firing all day, and we are ordered to keep our cartridge boxes on us and our guns by our sides, as we may move any moment.
SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar
Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 20
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