Monday, October 9, 2023

Diary of Private Louis Leon: January 16, 1864

Nothing more until to-day. W. R. Berryhill has got the smallpox. Quite a number of us were in the same quarters with him, but none of us caught the disease. I was detailed to work at the mills, and therefore I am learning a new trade. Live and learn.

SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 56

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