Question

1. 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.
○ union soldiers have created a base there.
○ during the war, the town has remained untouched.
○ the town has been severely damaged by union troops.

Explanation:

The excerpt states Kinston is "a perfect ruin" with the Yankees destroying nearly everything, leaving only chimneys. This directly matches the claim of severe damage by Union (Yankee) troops. The other options are contradicted: Leon does not say Kinston fights for the Union, that the town was untouched, or that a Union base was created there.

Answer:

The town has been severely damaged by Union troops.