Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Americana
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Tuesday–Jan- 17th We had a heavy frost this morning. The sun has warmed the air a little but there is a cool west wind blowing, all the clothing I drew last night was one pr. Drawers. The Sargt. has gone to draw rations it is the report that we […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Atlanta, Georgia Saturday–Nov. 5th We arrived at Calhoun at daybreak here I bought 1 doz loaves of bread for $1.50. Arrived at Kennesaw Mountain about 2PM here we saw where a battle had been fought three weeks before. Saw young groath timber 6 inches through out down by canon balls and […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Chattanooga, Tennessee Sunday–Oct. 30th It was cool and cloudy this morning but has come off Clear and warm. The 4th Corpse is coming in yet this morning. I washed up and went down to Church and heard a good sermon from Psalms 20th verse, came home to camp and went to […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Chattanooga, Tennessee Friday–Oct. 28th Got up this morning feeling pretty well it is clearing off and is going to be a pleasant day, we were not called out today, three of us went down and bought 40 loaves of Bread at 10 cts a loaf sold it at 15 cts got […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Chattanooga, Tennessee Thursday–Oct. 27th It rained last night verry hard for a while but our mess kept pretty dry but there was lots of them that had no tent and got a good soaking when we got out this morning we found our dusty Camp Ground verry muddy. There were 50 […]
