Life, Liberty & the Pursuit of Americana
Diary of Orrin Brown, New Bern, North Carolina Monday–Apr. 24th We had a cool night but it came off warm and pleasant through the day with a gentle S. W. wind. There was some more troops came in today and some started out but came back the same as yesterday. I am gaining in health-slowly. […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, New Bern, North Carolina Friday–Apr. 21st We had a nice night but it has been cloudy and quite warm the most of the day with light showers of rain but it is cool this evening. There has been 4 heavy guns fired about every 15 minutes all day down here in […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, New Bern, North Carolina Wednesday–Apr. 19th We had a pretty heavy thunder storms in the night it lasted about two hours. We were all called out today and our names taken together with our Co. Regt. and Corps so we could get our discriptive Roll. We heard a few days ago […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, New Bern, North Carolina Friday–Apr. 14th We had a quite a cool night but it came off warm and pleasant with a gentle S. E. wind we drew our cup of Coffee and a small piece of Salt Poark for our breakfast but did not draw anything at noon. We fried […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Sneedsboro, North Carolina Saturday–March 4th We broke up camp at 6 AM and found very bad roads AM but the roads were good PM. We had about 2 hours rain after we started this morning but it faired off and was quite pleasant the rest of the day we must have […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Tuesday–Jan. 24th The weather is a little cooler today. I wrote a letter to Mr. Moore folks today we had dress parade again this PM but the smoke hurt my eyes so that I could not go out. I read 6 Chapt. in the Testament today. In 1859, William […]
Diary of Orrin Brown, Savannah, Georgia Thursday–Jan. 19th We received orders this morning and left camp at about 8 AM and we pitched in and carried off all the lumber they had in their tents and about 4 PM they came back again but we had used up about all of the lumber to fix […]
