A picket came in
this morning and reported the enemy advancing. We were put in line of battle to
receive them, and after marching one mile up the road to get to our brigade we
were put at the extreme left of our line, and made breastworks out of rotten
logs. Stayed here one hour, when another picket came and reported them ten
miles away. So we resumed our march for camp and got there at 7 o'clock — twenty-one
miles to-day. Tom Notter, Aaron Katz and myself pressed into service to-day a
donkey and a cart with a negro, who took us to Kinston. Each of us drove at
times, and I was fortunate enough to stall in a mudhole. We had to get out and
lift the cart and donkey to dry ground again. Thus ends the march and fight at
Deep Gully.
SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar
Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 19
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