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Title: Page [113]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650427
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Transcription: Very warm day at work. The Murderer of the President captured. he kills himself. War news of but little account. Toothace very pleasant. received the letters one from my Betrothed and one from Paul [illegible] wrote one letters to Miss Judith-Underdown. ------------------------------ Thursday, April 27. Murderer of the President captured. He kills himself. War news of but little account. [7.] Toothache very pleasant, received two letters, one from my betrothed and one from Paul Goutert, wrote one letter to Miss Judith Underdown. Note: 7. John Wilkes Booth (May 1838-April 1865), Lincoln’s assassin was tracked down and cornered on the Garrett farm on April 26, 1865 but was shot and killed before he could be taken. The suicide report was one of number of accounts (again see Steers). Dr. Cyrus Powers (July 1814-March 1880) was Ass’t Surgeon of the 75th NY, then mustered into the 160th NY as Surgeon and was discharged in Aug. 1864 but also did hospital work in Washington DC. According to his obituary. he was “endearing to his patients” both in and out of the army. Obviously his endearing qualities did not impress Nightingale. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
Parent Item: Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1865
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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