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.

During the war, the town has remained untouched.

Union soldiers have created a base there.

Kinston has been fighting for the Union.