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Title: Page [127]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650511
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Transcription: [Answers] of the day I received very wounded in Battle of the Wilderness. [Limbs] have altered much since. The War [Illegible] one year ago it [Illegible] dark now [Illegible] her friendly [Illegible] is safe. A very beautiful warm day. Had a very pleasant ramble in the [bright] green woods where nature [Illegible] everywhere to [Illegible] God and his omnipotence. Received two good letters one from dear [Illegible] and one from her whom I love best of all [Illegible]. No letters written. Feel very well. ------------------------------ Thursday, May 11. A very rainy day. War news very meagre. Trial of the conspirators against the government, they all plead ‘not guilty’. My hopes of being discharged dashed, another disappointment not discouraged yet. In the morning finished letter to my dear friend Miss Helen Sweet. At work printed envelopes and 300 copies of a report for the linen room. In the evening received a short letter from my cousin Johnathon, have felt quite well, spirits good notwithstanding being disappointed. Today is one year from my admission to this hospital, how events have changed the aspect of affairs. 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 Unpublished manuscript, 2014.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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