We are still camped
here. Have been prisoners since the 5th of this month, and have drawn three and
a half days' rations. On that kind of a diet I am not getting very fat. We
certainly would have suffered a great deal, but our Yankee guard gave us quite
a lot of their own rations.
SOURCE: Louis
Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 63
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