Our regiment was
sent on picket this morning at daylight-one mile from camp and two miles from
the enemy. Companies B and G are on the left, A and D on the right, F and I in
the center. We are within hailing distance of the Yankee line of pickets. There
is not much firing. Tom Tiotter and I are on the color guard. We have nothing
to do if we don't want to, except stay with the colors. So this evening at 4
o'clock we went as near the Yankees as we dared, to see the town of Washington.
Saw the place, their breastworks and their camps very plainly. We then returned
and slept on our arms all night that is, we tried to sleep, but could not for
the infernal noise from the owls that are in the swamps around us.
SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar
Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 20-1
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