Saturday, 23d Pleasant but cool and windy. This morning I appointed Francis Pothaste a corpl. Took my coat to the tailors. Spent the evening at Lieut. Britt's. Had some oysters, played sweet with some young ladies. The officers had a jubilee on account of Lieut. Voeler's birthday.
[orders and circulars Loren would, or should, have seen concurrent with his diary entries...]
Brigade Order No 19, Head Quarters 1st Brigade US Forces, Paducah, Ky, Nov 23rd, 1861
1st - In obedience to the foregoing orders, the Field, Staff and Company officers of the 9th and 12th Regiments will assemble at these Head Quarters at ½ past 10 o'clock A.M. on Mondays. Wednesdays, and Fridays and the 40th and 41st Regiments on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays for the purposes of recitation and instruction in the Tactics and Army Regulations.
2nd - The Commanding Officers of the Regiments will organize schools of daily instruction for the non-commissioned officers of the Regiments respectively.
3rd - On each Sunday Morning previous to Company inspection, the several Regimental Commaders will instruct their Regiments respectively in the review as laid down in the Army Regulations.
By order of Brig Genl E. A. Paine
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