Martin Tansey Diary, 1864
Martin Tansey
Nashville
Tennessee
Co H 79th regt
O.V.I.
January 1st
1864.
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Friday, January 1, 1864.
Clear and very cold snowed a little yesterday.
Saturday 2
Clear and cold
Sunday 3
Cloudy snowed nearly all day H. M. Mckay was here
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Monday, January 4, 1864.
Cloudy rained some.
Tuesday 5
Clear and cold I went on picket
Wednesday 6
Clear and cold Companies D & K left today
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Thursday, January 7, 1864.
Cloudy snowed some in the evening and night
Friday 8
Clear thawed some
Saturday 9
Clear I was on picket.
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Sunday, January 10, 1864.
Clear part of the day
Monday 11
Clear I went out with the teams for wood.
Tuesday 12
Clear part of of the day
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Wednesday, January 13, 1864.
Clear and warm
Thursday 14
Cloudy. I was on regimental guard rained in the evening
Friday 15
Cloudy.
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Saturday, January 16, 1864.
Cloudy
Sunday 17
Cloudy
Monday 18
Cloudy
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Tuesday, January 19, 1864.
Clear I was on picket
Wednesday 20
Clear
Thursday 21
Clear
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Friday, January 22, 1864.
Clear, I was on picket
Saturday 23
Clear
Sunday 24
Clear H. M. Mckay is here
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Monday, January 25, 1864.
Clear
Tuesday 26
Clear
Wednesday 27
Clear I was on picket
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Thursday, January 28, 1864.
Clear. We turned our wall tents over and drew shelter tents
Friday 29
Clear. We turned our wall tents over and drew shelter tents
Saturday 30
Cloudy rained some
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Sunday, January 31, 1864.
Cloudy rained some I was on guard on the Charlotte pike.
Monday, February 1
Clear
Tuesday 2
Cloudy. rained some in the evening
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Wednesday, February 3, 1864.
Clear
Thursday 4
Clear
Friday 5
Cloudy rained some I was on guard on the Charlotte pike
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Saturday, February 6, 1864.
Cloudy
Sunday 7
Clear
Monday 8
Clear
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Tuesday, February 9, 1864.
Clear. I was on Regimental guard
Wednesday 10
Clear
Thursday 11
Clear we were paid two months pay.
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Friday, February 12, 1864.
Clear
Saturday 13
Cloudy rained some in the night
Sunday 14
Cloudy rained I was on picket on the Harding pike
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Monday, February 15, 1864.
Clear
Tuesday 16
Clear and cold
Wednesday 17
Clear
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Thursday, February 18, 1864.
Clear
Friday 19
Clear I was on picket on the Charlotte pike
Saturday 20
Clear
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Sunday, February 21, 1864.
Clear and pleasant
Monday 22
Clear
Tuesday 23
Clear I was on picket on the Harding pike. Was relieved at 3 oclock next morning
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Wednesday, February 24, 1864.
Clear and pleasant we started from Nashville at seven AM and marched eleven miles 11
Thursday 25
Clear We marched to Stewarts Creek ten miles
10
Friday 26
Clear marched to Murfreesboro 10 miles 10
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Saturday, February 27, 1864.
Clear marched thirteen miles from Murfreesboro
13
Sunday 28
Clear passed through Shelbyville marched fifteen miles 15
Monday 29
Cloudy marched we got to Tullahoma marched 14 miles 14
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Tuesday, March 1, 1864.
Cloudy rained nearly all day we moved our camp
Wednesday 2
Clear We marched ten miles camped near Elkriver 10
Thursday 3
Clear marched ten miles we passed Deckerd camped near Cowan 10
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Friday, March 4, 1864.
Clear we marched nine miles camped at Tantellim We crossed the Cumberland mountain
9
Saturday 5
Clear We marched four miles 4
Sunday 6
Clear we marched thirteen miles. The 79th was in the advance Camped near Stevenson 13
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Monday, March 7,1864.
Clear we marched to Bridgeport a distance of ten miles Rained in the night I was on guard 10
Tuesday 8
Clear we did not march
Wednesday 9
Clear most of the day we marched twelve miles
12
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Thursday, March 10, 1864.
Clear we marched ten miles reached Wauhatchie valley at the foot of Lookout mountain 10
Friday 11
Clear We did not march
Saturday 12
Clear We moved our camp
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Sunday, March 13, 1864.
Clear
Monday 14
Clear I was on guard on the L & N road at Lookout station
Tuesday 15
Clear we moved in to the reserve post
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Wednesday, March 16, 1864.
Clear I worked at fixing our tent
Thursday 17
Clear I worked at our tent
Friday 18
Clear Col Harrison reviewed the 79th
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Saturday, March 19, 1864.
Clear General Howard reviewed the Brigade
Sunday 20
Clear I was on Lookout mountain
Monday 21
Cloudy I worked at the tent
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Tuesday, March 22, 1864.
Cloudy snowed last night and this morning to the depth of about a foot
Wednesday 23
Clear most of the snow melted
Thursday 24
Clear we built our chimney
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Friday, March 25, 1864.
Cloudy rained all day I was on guard on the N & C r.r.
Saturday 26
Cloudy part of the day
Sunday 27
Clear and pleasant the regt was inspected by Col Doan
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Monday, March 28, 1864.
Cloudy rained in the afternoon
Tuesday 29
Cloudy drew light bread
Wednesday 30
Clear
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Thursday, March 31, 1864.
Clear we were on brigade drill
Friday, April 1
Cloudy rained some
Saturday 2
Clear
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Sunday, April 3, 1864.
Clear
Monday 4
C
Tuesday 5
rained some
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Wednesday, April 6, 1864.
Cloudy
Thursday 7
Cloudy rained some last night
Friday 8
Cloudy Captain Smith started home
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Saturday, April 9, 1864.
Cloudy most of the day
Sunday 10
Clear
Monday 11
Cloudy most of the day rained some
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Tuesday, April 12, 1864.
Cloudy rained
Wednesday 13
Clear General Hooker inspected our camp
Thursday 14
Clear we were reviewed by General Thomas
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Friday, April 15, 1864.
Clear
Saturday 16
Clear
Sunday 17
Cloudy rained some
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Monday, April 18, 1864.
Clear
Tuesday 19
Clear I was on guard at the brigade bakery some frost last night. A brigade of Indiana troops passed
Wednesday 20
Clear
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Thursday, April 21, 1864.
Clear. Our brigade Division was drilled by General Butterfield
Friday 22
Clear I did not drill
Saturday 23
Clear most of the time
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Sunday, April 24, 1864.
Cloudy rained some
Monday 25
Clear
Tuesday 26
Clear We did not go on brigade drill
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Wednesday, April 27, 1864.
Clear we had no regimental or brigade drill
Thursday 28
Clear
Friday 29
Clear most of the day rained some last night
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Saturday, April 30, 1864.
Clear We were mustered for pay
Sunday, May 1
Clear
Monday 2
Cloudy part of the day rained some We started from Lookout valley marched 15 miles camped at gordons mills 15
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Tuesday, May 3, 1864.
Clear we did not march
Wednesday 4
Clear marched within two miles of Ringgold. marched 12 miles 12
Thursday 5
Clear we did not march
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Friday, May 6, 1864.
Clear marched 7 miles camped at pine creek 7
Saturday 7
Clear marched 15 miles. the advance of our brigade drove in the reb pickets. camped 6 miles from Dalton 15
Sunday 8
Clear we went on picket but did not stay all night
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Monday, May 9, 1864.
Clear
Tuesday 10
Cloudy rained some
Wednesday 11
Cloudy rained some marched 10 miles camped in Snake Creek Gap 10
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Thursday, May 12, 1864.
Clear marched four miles
Friday 13
Clear our brigade advanced in line of battle but did not fight any. laid in line all night
Saturday 14
Clear most of the day part of our regt skirmished with the enemy
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Sunday, May 15, 1864.
Clear we changed position from the right to the left wing and charged a battery of four guns
Monday 16
Clear marched 10 miles crossed a branch of the Coosa river
Tuesday 17
Cloudy rained some marched 5 miles
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Wednesday, May 18, 1864.
Clear marched about fifteen miles we reached the rear of the reb army at night 15
Thursday 19
Clear we engaged the enemy all day
Friday 20
Clear we moved camp
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Saturday, May 21, 1864.
Clear laid in camp
Sunday 22
Clear very warm
Monday 23
Clear crossed the river marched nine miles I was on picket
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Tuesday, May 24, 1864.
Clear marched 10 miles
Wednesday 25
Cloudy part of the day rained some at night. We engaged the enemy in the afternoon heavy fighting marched ten miles 10
Thursday 26
Clear changed our position more to the left
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Friday, May 27, 1864.
Clear heavy firing most of the day. We built a new line of breast works
Saturday 28
Clear we were relieved from the front line at eleven oclock
Sunday 29
Clear heavy firing about midnight I was on guard
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Monday, May 30, 1864.
Clear
Tuesday 31
Clear
Wednesday, June 1
Clear we were relieved by the 15th Corps about noon marched four miles to the left and camped
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Thursday, June 2, 1864.
Cloudy rained We marched about two miles to the left
Friday 3
Cloudy marched three miles to the left rained
Saturday 4
Cloudy rained we were stationed along the breast works in the afternoon
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Sunday, June 5, 1864.
Cloudy rained some
Monday 6
Cloudy marched about five miles.
Tuesday 7
Cloudy rained some C E F H & K were on picket
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Wednesday, June 8, 1864.
Clear most of the day we were reviewed
Thursday 9
Cloud rained some
Friday 10
Cloudy rained very hard
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Saturday, June 11, 1864.
Cloudy rained
Sunday 12
Cloudy rained all day
Monday 13
Cloudy rained
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Tuesday, June 14, 1864.
Clear most of the day
Wednesday 15
Clear We advanced on the enemy in the afternoon and drove them about a mile and half J Carr was wounded
Thursday 16
Clear there was heavy cannonading on the line with our brigade very heavy cannonading on the left of the line in the evening
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Friday, June 17, 1864.
Clear part of the time The rebs left their works in the night We advanced our lines about a mile
Saturday 18
Cloudy rained all day there was very heavy cannonading all day
Sunday 19
Cloudy rained we advanced our lines about two miles we built breastworks nearly all night
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Monday, June 20, 1864.
Cloudy rained Our brigade advanced from our breastworks in the evening but went back again I was detailed for picket The brigade advanced again about ten oclock
Tuesday 21
Cloudy we were relieved by the 33 Ind
Wednesday 22
Cloudy we supported the 2nd brigade while they charged then moved on the front line Ralph Hunt was shot
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Thursday, June 23, 1864.
Clear part of the time we moved to the right
Friday 24
Clear Milton Ward was shot in the hand
Saturday 25
Clear
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Sunday, June 26, 1864.
Clear our brigade moved on the front line I was detailed for picket Jos Wolfe joined the Company
Monday 27
Clear we were relieved. The 4th Corps charged the enemys works.
Tuesday 28
Clear most of the day
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Wednesday, June 29, 1864.
Clear we were relieved by the 3rd brigade and occupied the where they were camped
Thursday 30
Cloudy rained some
Friday, July 1
Clear we moved to the 2nd line in the evening
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Saturday, July 2, 1864.
Cloudy rained some the enemy evacuated their works in the last in the night we started in pursuit
Sunday 3
Clear and very warm the enemy evacuated their works last night we started in pursuit captured a great many deserters Went on picket in the evening
Monday 4
Clear the 79th was on picket
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Tuesday, July 5, 1864.
Clear marched we formed the 2nd line
Wednesday 6
Clear
Thursday 7
Clear
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Friday, July 8, 1864.
Clear we fixed up our camp
Saturday 9
Clear the enemy evacutated their works last in the night and crossed the river
Sunday 10
Clear
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Monday, July 11, 1864.
Clear
Tuesday 12
Clear
Wednesday 13
Clear
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Thursday, July 14, 1864
Cloudy rained some
Friday 15
Clear
Saturday 16
Cloudy rained in the evening
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Sunday, July 17, 1864.
Clear marched we crossed the Chattahoochee river in the evening
Monday 18
Clear
Tuesday 19
Clear I went on picket in the evening
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Wednesday, July 20, 1864.
Clear we engaged the enemy in the afternoon Geo Brinker P.F. Stumph were killed. Jos Wolfe Wm Watkinson Jno Prater A. Chandler were wounded
Thursday 21
Cloudy part of the day rained some
Friday 22
Clear
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Saturday, July 23, 1864.
Clear
Sunday 24
Clear I returned to the regiment
Monday 25
Clear I was detailed to help build a new line of works
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Tuesday, July 26, 1864.
Wednesday 27
Cloudy rained some
Thursday 28
Clear
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Friday, July 29, 1864.
Clear the 3rd Division moved about five miles to the right
Saturday 30
Clear we moved to the right about three miles
Sunday 31
Cloudy rained
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Monday, August 1, 1864.
Clear
Tuesday 2
Cloudy rained some We were relieved by the 23d Corps and moved to the left near the r.r.
Wednesday 3
Cloudy rained some We occupied the front line in the morning
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Thursday, August 4, 1864.
Clear We built a new line of works and occupied them about one oclock p.m.
Friday 5
Cloudy rained some
Saturday 6
Clear I was detailed for guard in the evening
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Sunday, August 7, 1864.
Clear most of the time
Monday 8
Cloudy
Tuesday 9
Cloudy rained I was detailed for picket in the evening
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Wednesday, August 10, 1864.
Cloudy rained
Thursday 11
Cloudy rained
Friday 12
Clear we commenced to build a new line of works
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Saturday, August 13, 1864.
Clear we finished our works I was detailed for camp guard in the evening
Sunday 14
Cloudy rained some
Monday 15
Clear
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Tuesday, August 16, 1864.
Clear
Wednesday 17
Clear I was detailed for camp guard in the evening
Thursday 18
Clear
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Friday, August 19, 1864.
Cloudy rained some
Saturday 20
Cloudy rained
Sunday 21
Cloudy rained William Watkinson joined the Company
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Monday, August 22, 1864.
Clear
Tuesday 23
Clear I was detailed for picket in the evening
Wednesday 24
Clear
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Thursday, August 25, 1864.
Clear our regiment left the front about noon and marched back to the river near the bridge
Friday 26
Clear
Saturday 27
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Sunday, August 28, 1864.
Clear
Monday 29
Clear
Tuesday 30
Clear I was detailed for camp guard in the evening
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Wendesday, August 31, 1864.
Clear
Thursday, September 1
Clear
Friday 2
Clear Atlanta was taken
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Saturday, September 3, 1864.
Cloudy rained
Sunday 4
Clear most of the time I was detailed for picket
Monday 5
Cloudy rained some
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Tuesday, September 6, 1864.
Cloudy rained
Wednesday 7
Cloudy I was detailed on picket in the evening
Thursday 8
Clear
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Friday, September 9, 1864.
Clear
Saturday 10
Clear
Sunday 11
Clear I was detailed for picket in the evening
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Monday, September 12, 1864.
Clear
Tuesday 13
Clear
Wednesday 14
Clear I was detailed for picket
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Thursday, September 15, 1864.
Clear
Friday 16
Clear We crossed the river again and encamped on the south side of Atlanta
Saturday 17
Clear
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Sunday, September 18, 1864.
Clear
Monday 19
Clear
Tuesday 20
Cloudy rained some
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Wednesday, September 21, 1864.
Cloudy rained I went on regimental guard in the evening
Thursday 22
Cloudy rained
Friday 23
Cloudy rained
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Saturday, September 24, 1864.
Clear
Sunday 25
Clear
Monday 26
Clear the 1st 3rd Division was reviewed by General Slocum
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Tuesday, September 27, 2864.
Clear
Wednesday 28
Cloudy rained a little
Thursday 29
Clear I was detailed for fatigue duty
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Friday, September 30, 1864.
Clear
Saturday, October 1
Cloudy rained The 1st Brigade marched to the north side of the river and encamped for the night
Sunday 2
Cloudy rained
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Monday, October 3, 1864.
Cloudy
Tuesday 4
Clear part of the time The 1st brigade moved to the south side of the river. I was detailed for guard
Wednesday 5
Clear most of the day
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Thursday, October 6, 1864.
Friday 7
Clear
Saturday 8
Clear and cool
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Sunday, October 9, 1864.
Clear
Monday 10
Clear and some frost I was detailed for fatigue duty
Tuesday 11
Clear
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Wednesday, October 12, 1864.
Clear
Thursday 13
Clear
Friday 14
Clear Thomas Watkinson joined the Company
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Saturday, October 15, 1864.
Clear
Sunday 16
Clear the 79th went out on a scout about ten miles and returned
Monday 17
Clear
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Tuesday, October 18, 1864.
Clear
Wednesday 19
Clear I was detailed for guard
Thursday 20
Clear I remained on guard all day
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Friday, October 21, 1864.
Clear I was relieved off guard.
Saturday 22
Clear
Sunday 23
Clear about two hundred of the 79th went foraging
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Monday, October 24, 1864.
Clear About to hundred of the 79th went foraging
Tuesday 25
Clear
Wednesday 26
Clear I was detailed for bridge guard
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Thursday, October 27, 1864.
Cloudy rained
Friday 28
Clear
Saturday 29
Clear we were paid eight months pay I got $142.30cts
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Sunday, October 30, 1864.
Clear I went out foraging we went out about 25 miles camped near Boswell
Monday 31
Clear
Tuesday, November 1
Clear we returned from foraging
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Wednesday, November 2, 1864.
Cloudy rained
Thursday 3
Cloudy rained
Friday 4
Clear
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Saturday November 5, 1864.
Clear drew clothing
Sunday 6
Cloudy rained some I went on picket
Monday 7
Cloudy rained some John Prater joined the Co
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Tuesday, November 8, 1864.
Clear
Wednesday 9
Clear part of the time
Thursday 10
Clear
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Friday, November 11, 1864.
Clear
Saturday 12
Clear
Sunday 13
Clear I was detailed for picket
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Monday, November 14, 1864.
Clear we started from Chattahoochee river about nine A.M. Camped in our old camp at Atlanta
Tuesday 15
Clear most of the time started from Atlanta at 11 AM marched about 12 miles marched all night
Wednesday 16
Clear marched about 8 miles crossed the Yellow river in the evening
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Thursday, November 17, 1864.
Clear marched 17 miles
Friday 18
Cloudy rained some at night passed through Social circle and Butlege marched 15 miles
Saturday 19
Cloudy rained some marched about 15 miles We passed through Madison
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Sunday, November 20, 1864.
Cloudy rained 17 miles
Monday 21
Cloudy rained all day very bad roads we passed through Eglington marched about 12 miles
Tuesday 22
Clear marched 9 miles entered Milledgeville in the evening
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Wednesday, November 23, 1864.
Clear laid in camp all day
Thursday 24
Clear marched 12 miles marched nearly all night
Friday 25
Clear marched five miles crossed Gum Creek into the camp on the south bank
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Saturday, November 26, 1864.
Clear marched 10 miles crossed bigalow creek camped near Sandersville
Sunday 27
Clear marched 13 miles crossed Swamp creek camped near Davisboro. Some skirmishing with cavalry
Monday 28
Clear marched to the river Ogeechee river 13
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Tuesday, November 29, 1864.
Clear crossed the Ogeechee river the bridges were burned we passed through Louisville marched 5 miles
Wednesday 30
Clear laid in camp
Thursday, December 1
Clear marched 7 miles
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Friday, December 2, 1864.
Clear marched about 13 miles marched about until 10 P.M. camped near____ creek
Saturday 3
Clear marched about 20 miles we burned about a mile of the Millen & Augusta R.R. Crossed Buckhead creek in the morning
Sunday 4
Clear marched 10 miles crossed horse creek
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Monday, December 5, 1864.
Clear marched 10 miles the 3rd Div in advance I went on picket in the evening
Tuesday 6
Clear marched 15 miles
Wednesday 7
Cloudy rained we crossed Jack brook marched 10 miles
PS also fish creek camped at Springfield
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Thursday, December 8, 1864.
Clear started from Springfield in the evening marched all night marched four miles. Roads very bad mules killed
Friday 9
Clear marched 16 miles Got into camp at 12 P.M.
Saturday 10
Cloudy marched 10 miles encamped about five miles from Savannah
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Sunday, December 11, 1864.
Cloudy moved camp a little closer to the enemy
Monday 12
Clear
Tuesday 13
Clear I went foraging crossed two branches of the Savannah
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Wednesday, December 14, 1864.
Clear returned from foraging
Thursday 15
Clear I was detailed for picket
Friday 16
Clear
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Saturday, December 17, 1864.
Clear got our first male
Sunday 18
Clear
Monday 19
Clear
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Tuesday, December 20, 1864.
Clear We left the line in the morning and marched to the Ogeechee river
Wednesday 21
Clear
Thursday 22
Clear
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Friday, December 23, 1864.
Clear
Saturday 24
Clear I was detailed for fatigue
Sunday 25
Clear and cool
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Monday, December 26, 1864.
Cloudy rained
Tuesday 27
Cloudy rained We started from the Ogeechee river in the morning and arrived in Savannah in the evening marched 14 miles
Wednesday 28
Clear
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Thursday, December 29, 1864.
Clear
Friday 30
Clear I was detailed to unload a boat in the evening
Saturday 31
Clear
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Memoranda.
Commenced working for Elisha Cook June 22nd 1865 $30 per month
I loaned Levi 250 two hundred & fifty dollars June 24th 1865
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Co H 72
2 shovels
1 axe
Co B
1 shovel
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[figures]
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[enclosed, envelope]
Reb envelope & paper found Avreysboro
[note]
fall. My teachers
c Lees Mollie
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want you and your
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Tags: Atlanta Campaign, Camp/Lodging, Death (Military), Desertion/Deserters, Drilling, Fatigue/Tiredness, Fighting, Foraging/Theft, Guard/Sentry Duty, Injuries, Joseph Hooker, Marching, Money, Nature, Payment, Picket Duty, Rivers, Scouting, Victory, Weather, Work
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Martin Tansey Diary, 1864, DL0787, Nau Collection
