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Title: Page [125]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650509
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Transcription: Pleasant shower. Very refreshing. War news [Illegible]. No letters received or written. Took another [rambler] in the woods. Feel very well. One year ago today the Army started on its [Illegible] which has [resulted] in [Illegible] to the [Illegible] who have suffered that [Illegible]; maybe ------------------------- Tuesday, May 9. Wet showery dismal day. War news meagre, surrender of portions of Price’s army. [2.] Interesting account of the feeling in Europe over our successes and the death of President Lincoln. No letter received, wrote one to Benton and Andrews of Rochester also one to my friend Miss Libbie E. Hedges. No work done today, feel very well also wrote a long letter to my betrothed. Note: 2. Lt. Gen. Richard Taylor (Jan.1826-April 1879) surrendered the last of the Confederate forces east of the Mississippi on May 4, 1865. Sterling “Old Pap” Price (Sept.1809-Sept. 1867) never surrendered his command as an entity but instead he took off to Mexico to enter the service of the puppet emperor Maximillian (July 1832-June 1867). 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 Unpublished manuscript, 2014.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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