Use the excerpt and your knowledge of social studies to answer the questions. “february 9—we established a regular camp here. this last march has been a very hard one, and only a distance of thirty miles. but it took us from wednesday to sunday, through snow, rain, and mud ankle-deep and without rations. kinston is a perfect ruin, as the yankees have destroyed everything they could barely touch, but it must at one time have been a very pretty town—but now nothing scarcely but chimneys are left to show how the yankees are trying to reconstruct the union.” —louis leon, the battle of gettysburg, diary of a tar heel confederate soldier what does leon say about the town of kinston? the town has been severely damaged by union troops. union soldiers have created a base there. during the war, the town has remained untouched. kinston has been fighting for the union.