At 7 this morning we
resumed our march. Went two miles, halted a half hour, then turned about and
went to our old camp, but again were ordered back at 2 P.M. to our picket
posts, one mile from Washington. As we got there the Yankees gave us a good
reception in shot, shell and musketry, but all the damage they did was to rail
fences. and perhaps a few owls that are plentiful in the swamps. Our line is on
the edge of the swamp. They shelled heavy all night, but no lives were lost on
our side. At 8 P.M. our pickets fired on them, but they did not respond. We
laid here until 2 at night, when we went to Bellevue under fire from the enemy.
We stayed here the balance of the night.
SOURCE: Louis
Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 23
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