At daylight this
morning our company was ordered to go on picket at Shingle Landing, five miles
from Bellevue. I asked Colonel Morehead to let me go with them, but he refused,
and said I should stay with the colors, but I went without his permission. In a
march of five miles we waded through three miles of swamp, knee-deep. We are in
a devil of a position. The enemy can cut us off from our command easily, as we
cannot return, except through the swamp, which of course would be very slow
progress. At 4 this evening we were recalled, and met our regiment on the march
and fell in. Colonel Morehead did not miss me from the colors. We marched seven
miles and halted for the night.
SOURCE: Louis
Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 24
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