Diary of Orrin Brown, between Sylvania and Springfield, Georgia
Wednesday–Dec. 7th
We were on the road again this morning at 8 AM, marched about 3 miles and haulted to clear the road where the rebs had felled trees to blockade against us, we were on the road again about noon and marched very steady the rest of the day, it rained the most of the fournoon, we went into camp about 6 PM, we had a quite a shower of rain while we were getting supper.
Fast forward 77 years, to the morning of Sunday, 7 December 1941. A date that continues to live in infamy: 2,403 American soldiers and sailors and 68 civilians killed. 64 Japanese casualties. America was again at war.
Read More:
- War Comes Again: Comparative Vistas on the Civil War and World War II (Gettysburg Civil War Institute Books) by David Eisenhower Gabor Boritt, ed.
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