“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?

a The town has been severely damaged by Union troops.

b Union soldiers have created a base there.

c During the war, the town has remained untouched.

d Kinston has been fighting for the Union.