Monday, May 15, 1865

The 77th, along with other regiments, received orders to be ready to move at an hour's notice.  All of their surplus baggage was to be stored at Mobile.  They were to draw rations for five days and fifty rounds of ammunition.

William Fleming recalled:

we held ourselves ready for any emergency that might present itself

but we was not without camp rhumors and fals reports.  we would here that the order was countermanded and that we was not to go and then we would here that we was a going, so we in this way kept in suspense.