Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia
Monday–Jan. 16th
The weather is cold and cloudy this morning, the boys were all out in good season at work on their tents, we had orders last evening to prepair for general inspection tomorrow at 2 PM. We were all doing the best we know how this morning to get our tents fixed up comfortable when the orders came that we need not fix up our tents much for we had got orders to move wednesday morning so we stoped work on our tents, cleaned up our guns and accoutrements for inspection and then I went to writing. Rhumor sayes that we are going into Florida to make a raid of 10 days or two weeks and then come back here, and another report is that we are going to Charleston, and another sayes that we are going out to cut off the Augusta and Richmond railroad but I can tell better where we are going when we get there. We had a generall inspection of Arms, Knapsacks, Haversacks, Canteens and everything this afternoon by Col. Smith Comanding 14th Regt. Mich. Inft. and he is a fine old man too I say old for he is quite gray and his face is wrinkled, he is a tall Portly man but mild and gentle in his manor. We had a very pleasant day but it is cool again this evening. I wrote a letter to Ellen this evening.
Read More:
- Michigan and the Civil War: A Great and Bloody Sacrifice by Jack Dempsey (History Press Library Editions, 2011)
- Fierce Patriot: The Tangled Lives of William Tecumseh Sherman by Robert L. O’Connell (Random House, 2014)
- The March to the Sea and Beyond: Sherman’s Troops in the Savannah and Carolinas Campaigns by Joseph T. Glatthaar (New York University Press, 1985)
- The Memoirs Of General William T. Sherman by W.T. Sherman (Library of America, 1990)
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