All quiet to-day. Brother Morris returned from Richmond yesterday, where he has been for ten days on a furlough. Before our Jewish New Year there was an order read out from General Lee granting a furlough to each Israelite to go to Richmond for the holidays if he so desired. I did not care to go.
SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel
Confederate Soldier, p. 48-9
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