Fighting commenced
at daylight, and lasted all day. So did it last with their everlasting
reinforcements. If General Lee only had half their men, and those men were
rebels, we would go to Washington in two weeks. When he has fought such an army
for four years it certainly shows we have the generals and the fighting-stock
on our side, and they have the hirelings. Look at our army, and you will see
them in rags and barefooted. But among the Yankees I see nothing but an
abundance of everything. Still, they haven't whipped the rebels. Several of our
boys came in as prisoners to-day, with them Engle of our company. They think I
was killed, so does my brother, but as yet the bullet has not done its last
work for your humble servant.
SOURCE: Louis
Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 61
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