Question

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? Kinston has been fighting for the Union. The town has been severely damaged by Union troops. Union soldiers have created a base there. During the war, the town has remained untouched.

Answer 1

The town has been severely damaged by Union Troops.

Step-by-step explanation:

'Diary of a Tar Heel Confederate Soldier' is a diary of a Confederate Army, who fought during the Civil War, 1861-65.

The war ceded with surrender of Confederate army in 1865. This Civil War is considered to be the most horrific of wars ever fought in America.

The diary was written by Loius Leon, who was a soldier in Confederate Army in this Civil War. In his diary, he carefully recorded his days during the war and aftermaths of war.

In the given excerpt, he is describing the Kingston as a 'perfect ruin.' The town of Kingston was made a ruin by thhe severe damage incurred by Union Troops, also known as Yankees. The excerpt was dated February 9, by Leon. Confederate army, according to Leon's diary, reached Kingston on February 7, and they began to camp there.

Union Troops has completely destroyed the Kingston town leaving it to be a desolate place.

Thus the excerpt is describing the town as the one that's been severely damaged by Union Troops.

The correct option is the second one.