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Title: Page [93]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650403
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Transcription: [written above date]: Stanton General Hospital. A beautiful day. Glorious welcome news. The long wished for tidings. Rich-mond and Petersburgh are fallen. All honor to our noble boys. 12,000 prisoners and 50 pices of artillery. The greatest excitement ever witnessed. Received a good letter full of love from my Judith (20). In the evening went out and heard speeches from the Vice President Gen'l [Butler] and [many] others feel [joyful] and very well. Also letter enclosed from Aunt in Judie's [letter]. ------------------------------- Monday, April 3. A beautiful day. Glorious welcome news, the long wished for tidings, Richmond and Petersburgh are fallen, all honor to our noble boys, 12,000 prisoners and 50 pieces of artillery, the greatest excitement ever witnessed. Received a good letter full of love from my Judith. In the evening went out and heard speeches from the Vice-President, Genl. Butler and many others, feel joyful and very well also letter enclosed from Aunt in Judith’s letter. [1.] Note: 1. The war news in these early days of April was as follows: a. Grant kept extending his siege lines westward in order to overextend Lee and acquire the Southside RR., Lee’s last direct link to the lower south. On April 1st Sheridan attacked Maj. Gen. George Pickett’s force at Five Forks and decisively defeated the confederate troops. b. The success at Five Forks was followed the next day by the breakthrough of Wright’s 6th Corps at Petersburg when Grant ordered a general assault along the entire Union line.. c. Petersburg was surrendered on April 3, 1865 and later that morning Richmond fell. Lee had pulled his troops out of Petersburg and Richmond on April 2. His reference to H. Smith 108th NY could be: Harlbert B. Smith Co.D or Harrison Smith,Co. C or Henry B. Smith of Co. H. The first and third were discharged for disability in 1864; the second one was still active with the regiment – so who knows? Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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