May 20–Three years ago to-day the Old North State left the Union, and we went to the front full of hopes to speedily show the Yankee Government that the South had a right to leave the Union; but to-day, how dark it looks!
Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier By Louis Léon
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