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Date Created and/or Issued: 18650101
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Transcription: [written above date]:Stanton Hospital, Washington. City D.C. The old year has gone, gone forever with all its joys, sorrows, and cares, a New Year is just began, our hearts beat high with thankfulness and of hope for the future, and we begin the New Year with a merry greeting to all, especially to our absent comrads in the field, may the God of Battles protect all of them and ere another New Years day resore them again to our waiting anxious friends. - a greeting to our bereaved ones with tender sympathy. Those who mourn the loss of these gone forth-to-battle never to return, - to our country in I all levels of Freedom a greeting with the wish that soon the Angel of Peace will find its wings and rush over our beloved country. This had been a cold but beautiful day in the morning was very busy on office work. recieved a letter from [illegible], answered the same, in the evening. also wrote short letter to my cousin with the mount pleasant hospital, in the afternoon was visited by my friend Mr. Mom and two members of my Regt. was not out of the hospital today. sent this morning Chronicle to Aunt Mercy. --------------------------------- Sunday, January 1. The old year has gone, gone forever all its joys, sorrows and cares. A new year is just begun, our hearts beat high with thankfulness and hope for the future and we begin the new year with a merry greeting to all especially to our absent comrades in the field, may the god of battles protect all of them and ere another new year’s day restore them again to our waiting anxious friends- a greeting to our bereaved ones with tender sympathy, those who mourn the loss of those gone forth to battle never to return – to our country and all lovers of freedom a greeting ,with the wish that the angel of peace will furl its wings and rest over our beloved country. This had been a very cold but beautiful day, in the morning was very busy on office work, received a letter from [here he has written an obvious type of code made up of various symbols which need not be reproduced here] answered the same in the evening, also wrote to my cousin in the Mount Pleasant Hospital. In the afternoon was visited by my friend Mr.Moon and two members of my regt, was not out of the hospital today sent this morning’s Chronicle to Aunt Mercy. [1.] Note: 1. The “code” he devised probably means Judith Underdown, his ‘betrothed’. His cousin is Johnathon Underdown of the 179th NY (see earlier entry), Mercy Underdown is Johnathon’s mother. The paper was “The Daily Morning Chronicle” published in Washington DC from 1862-1874 when it became “The Washington Chronicle”. Mount Pleasant Hospital along with Judiciary Square Hospital were constructed in the winter of 1861-62, designed on the pavilion principle and located on Meridian Hill on the east side of the 14th St, Road. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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