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Title: Page [89]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650330
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Transcription: [written above date]: Stanton General Hospital A rainy disagreeable day. War news good. Gen. Sherman at [Porril] City in [illegible] with Gen'l Grant and the President. 131 Patriots received today all wounded. Many very severly. Printing 300 Ward Did Reports. My shoulder very painful and swollen. Received letter from Miss Libbie E Hodges and also from N. F. Jones and are all good but about letters from my most trusted and best friend Ell. Answered letter from Ell in the Evening have felt very ill all day. wound very painful. --------------------------------- Thursday, March 30. A rainy disagreeable day. War news good, Genl Sherman at Point City in consultation with Genl Grant and the President. [9.] 131 patients received today all wounded, very many severely. Printing 300 Ward Diet Reports. My shoulder very painful and swollen. Received latter from Miss Libbie E. Hedges and also from N.F. Jones and a real good but short letter from my most loved and best friend J.U., answered letter from J.U. in the evening. Have felt very ill all day, wound very painful. Note: 9. On March 28,1865, Lincoln, Sherman, Grant and Admiral David Dixon Porter gathered on The River Queen, anchored at City Point to discuss the end of the war and what policy should be adopted for the defeated south. Crooks, Terence G. âTranscribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.â Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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