Monthly Archives: December 2014
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 31, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Saturday–Dec. 31st The weather is cloudy and cool this morning and some sign of rain, we cleaned up our Guns etc. for inspection and it commenced raining about 9 AM and was so bad … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 30, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Friday–Dec. 30th The weather came off clear and a little warmer this morning, our regt. was relieved from Picket at about 9.30 AM marched back to camp and received orders to prepair for General … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 29, 1864
Brought to you by The Civil War Trust Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Thursday–Dec. 29th We received orders to go on Picket at 8 AM we packed up and reported at Brig. Head Quarters and were then marched to the … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 28, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Wednesday–Dec. 28th It is a little cooler this morning, we have had several pretty hard showers today so that our camp is very muddy. I have done considerable sewing todday fixing up my tent … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 27, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Tuesday–Dec. 27th We got up this morning about 5 Oclock prepaired our breakfast and fell into line at 7 AM marched to the City for General Review we paraded through town and haulted in … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 26, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Monday–Dec. 26th It commenced raining last night about 7 Oclock and it rained very hard for an hour or two then slacked up a little but rained all the fore part of the night … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 25, 1864: Christmas with Gen. Sherman
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Sunday–Dec.25th The old saying is that Christmas comes but once a year and here it is which makes the 28th Christmas that I have seen. There was a general fireing of musketry last evening … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 24, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Saturday–Dec.24th It is very cold again this morning. I am suffering a great deal again today with my eyes, we were drilled about an hour and a half today, the news came in today … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 23, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Friday–Dec. 23rd We had a very cold night there was ice in the mess pan this morning nearly 1/2 inch thick and the roads were froze quite hard. Jim Gifford and I went over … Continue reading
Diary of Orrin BrownâDec 22, 1864
Diary of Orrin Brown, at Savannah, Georgia Thursday–Dec. 22nd We had orders to be ready to march at 7 AM, we marched down to the Railroad and tore up the track and fixed the bridge so that our waggon train … Continue reading
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