Brown, Peleg T.:

$15,000 · Offered by William Reese Company

[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 ... 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, Pe

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