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Population of the United States for 1860 [iv]

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Title: Page [129]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650513
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Transcription: Wet showery [Illegible] day. War news meagre. Surrender of [Illegible] of [Illegible] Army. Interesting account of the fighting in [Illegible] and the death of President Lincoln. No letters received wrote one to [Benton] + Andrews of Rochester, aslo one to my friend Miss [Libbie] E Hodges. No work done today. Feel very well. Also wrote long letter to my betrothed. -------------------------------- Saturday, May 13. Another beautiful day. In the morning before breakfast finished letter to Gertie T, after breakfast printed 50 large inventories for wards. In the afternoon visited with some friends the Navy yard, went aboard three monitors and gave each a thorough inspection, was surprised at the immense force with which some missles were sent against the monitor Montauk. She is very much scarred, procured some filings from her turret as mementoes. Have felt quite well all day, no letters received. Capture of Jeff Davis in women’s clothes by the 4th Michigan Calvary. [3.] Note: 3. Since the fall of Richmond in early April, Jefferson Finis Davis and his government were on the move. However the surrender of Lee and the murder of Lincoln and assumed compliance in the crime, turned Davis into a hunted fugitive. He was taken on May 10,1865 wearing his wife’s shawl which led to the erroneous report that he was captured in women’s clothing ( See James Swanson, Bloody Crimes: The Funeral of Abraham Lincoln and the Chase for Jefferson Davis). Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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