[MANUSCRIPT CIVIL WAR DIARY OF PELEG T. BROWN, A UNION ORDERLY IN THE 20th CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, PROVIDING AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE MILITARY CAMPAIGNS IN ALABAMA, TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA DURING 1864, INCLUDING THE SIEGE OF ATLANTA AND SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA].

Brown, Peleg T.:

Edité par [Various places in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, as described below. 1864].

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A soldier's eyewitness account of some of the most important military engagements during the Civil War, including the Siege of Atlanta and the capture of Savannah. This fascinating diary, written by an intelligent twenty-eight-year-old medical orderly, covers the entire year of 1864 as his company marched through Alabama and Tennessee, and participated in the capture and occupation of Atlanta, and Sherman's March to the Sea. The 20th Connecticut Volunteers participated in eleven Civil War engagements, including Chancellorsville; Gettysburg; Tracy City, Tennessee; Resaca, Georgia; Cassville, Georgia; and Peach Tree Creek (near Atlanta). Peleg Brown participated in all these engagements. Brown's diary begins January 1, 1864, in Stevenson, Alabama, and ends in Savannah, Georgia, on December 30, 1864, and gives detailed information on his experiences during that year. It is unknown whether Brown kept additional diaries during the war. Brown was orderly to Surgeon J. Wadsworth Terry, whom historian John Storrs lauds as "one of the most faithful of the faithful surgeons" in the Regiment. Storrs quotes Terry as saying of Peleg T. Brown: "There were many fine officers and men in the regiment, among the latter I know of none more worthy of honorable mention than my faithful orderly, Peleg Brown, who, in every battle was by my side, rendering assistance to the wounded, and in the hospital gave most conscientious care to the sick and suffering." Every entry in Brown's diary begins with a brief mention of the weather, with many entries mentioning a regular correspondence with his wife, Jane (referred to here as 'Jennie'). Brown also records his support of "Uncle" Abraham Lincoln in the presidential election that year, and how he supplemented his income during the war by selling tobacco products, food, and other goods. Peleg T. Brown (1836 1922) was born in Scituate, Massachusetts, and was a resident of Derby, Connecticut, at the beginning of the Civil War. Brown survived the war and in 1869 moved to Sandwich, Massachusetts. At his death in 1922, he was buried in Scituate. Massachusetts historian Simeon Deyo describes Brown as "a tack maker by trade. He has been tax collector for the town for four years. He was in the war of the rebellion, serving in Company B, Twentieth Connecticut Volunteers, from 1862 to 1865. In 1858 he was married to Jane H. Sherman, who died in 1878, leaving one daughter, Mary L. In 1880 he was remarried.Brown was a member of the Masonic order, was a GAR Post Commander and a member of the Sandwich Methodist Episcopal Church." Brown enlisted in the Union army on August 5, 1862, as a Private, and by September 8, 1862, was mustered into 'B' Company of the 20th Connecticut Volunteers, serving with them until he was mustered out on June 13, 1865, at Fort Lincoln, Washington, D.C. The first four months of Brown's 1864 diary cover camp life and duties in Stevenson, Alabama and Cowan, Tennessee. On January 4 he writes: "Tonight finds me in the 20th Conn Vols Hospital. We are at Stevenson, Ala., have been here two months. Left the Potomac Army 26th September 1863, arriving at Bridgeport, Ala., Octr 3d 1863. Remained there two nights, then went to Dechard, Tenn., from there to Cowan [Tennessee]. From Cowan we went to Normandy [Tenn.], then to Shelbyville, Bell Buckle [Tenn.], Wartrous, Duck Creek and back to Dechard & Cowan. Remained at the latter place until we came here.first snow last night." By the end of the month, Brown was ordered back to Tennessee to check in on conditions there, departing for Cowan on January 22: "This morning early I started for Cowan, get there before breakfast, find them all there and have a hospital established and operating. Hear that David Rowell [of Brown's town of Derby, Ct.] was wounded in the attack and died of his wounds last night. Capt Upson is no better. His recovery is exceedingly doubtful." At the beginning of March, Brown was ordered to "go to Cowan with a sick man. Received orders fr.

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• Titre: [MANUSCRIPT CIVIL WAR DIARY OF PELEG T. BROWN, A UNION ORDERLY IN THE 20th CONNECTICUT VOLUNTEER INFANTRY, PROVIDING AN EYEWITNESS ACCOUNT OF THE MILITARY CAMPAIGNS IN ALABAMA, TENNESSEE AND GEORGIA DURING 1864, INCLUDING THE SIEGE OF ATLANTA AND SHERMAN'S MARCH TO THE SEA].
• Éditeur: [Various places in Tennessee, Alabama, and Georgia, as described below. 1864].