This morning we got
orders to be ready at a moment's notice. Broke camp at noon, marched to our old
breastworks at Mine Run, seven miles from camp. Rested two hours, and moved
forward toward the river three miles further and halted.
SOURCE: Louis
Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 59-60
This morning we marched seven miles, halted a short time, and resumed our march. Got three miles further, and firing commenced in our front. We then counter-marched and formed in line of battle, in the edge of the woods. One corps of sharpshooters was sent out to find the enemy. Fought the enemy one-half hour and were forced back. My corps then went out as reinforcement. We fought then for four hours, and were called back to our command. I, at one time in this fight, was in a close place. Being in front, I did not hear the order to fall back, and being by myself was left a target for a dozen Yankees, but my Captain White saw what a fix I was in and sent a squad of our company to my relief, so I fell back with them. We then, that night, went to Mine Run and formed our line of battle there.
SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 52-3
Marched back to our camp at Moulton's Ford, and our regiment was sent on picket at Mitchell's Ford, seven miles from camp. This has been a very severe seven-days' campaign, as we fought mostly all the time. Cold, sleety, disagreeable weather, and we dare not make large fires, as that would be a sure target for the Yankees. Mine Run is a small stream on the Orange and Fredericksburg turnpike. Nothing more worth recording up to the 8th, my birthday, and spent it as dull as could be. Have been on picket, and relieved on Dole's Georgia Brigade. Up to the 27th nothing doing.
SOURCE: Louis Leon, Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier, p. 54
