July 21–Went through town at 5 this morning, to the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, with Johnson’s division and part of Hampton’s Legion, to tear up the railroad. We destroyed six miles of it and returned to our camp at Darkesville–fifteen miles to-day.
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier By Louis Léon
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