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Title: Page [108]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650422
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Transcription: Beautiful day, but a shower of rain in the afternoon, writing in my [illegible] place book. Feel well, war news dull. Hope noon to see the end. 9th Corps coming to this Aug 19th already here many drunk. No letter recieved or written. ----------------------------- Saturday, April 22. Beautiful day but a shower of rain in the afternoon. Writing in my commonplace book. Feel well. War news dull, hope soon to see the end. 9th Corps coming to the city, 19th already here, many drunk. [6.] No letter re3ceived or written. Note: 6. The “poet” mentioned was James Montgomery (Nov.1771-April 1854) a British editor and poet. The 9th Army Corps was attached as almost an independent command to the Army of the Potomac. It was commanded by Maj. Gen. Ambrose Everett Burnside (May 1824-Sept.1881) but the unit answered to Grant as the overall commander not to Meade the commander of the Army of the Potomac. As a Son of Temperance, Nightingale’s comment re: the drinking is understandable. Grant being sent to NC has been dealt with earlier. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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