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Title: Page [12]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650112
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Transcription: [written above date]: Stanton General Hospital, Washington D.C. A beautiful cold day, at work as usual in the office. War news from the Potomac army all quiet. General Bulter Farewell address to the army of the James rivaling Napoleans address to his army after defeating the Russian and Austrian armys. Good news from Sherman he is doing well ere long we will hear of another grand march from Thommas all is well. Inspection of this hospital by Col. Willson Chief inspector of Hospital. A class in Algebra and Mathematics studied by some guy [teaching] here [joined] the class in the forenoon recieved communication from [illegible]from [illegible] relating to Printing Press. In the afternoon wrote letter to an old schoolmate and friend Miss Debbie B. Hedges of Rochestor, NY. Read several chapters in Hitchcocks Geology. in the evening commenced letter for Sunday to Miss Judie U. my betrothed. Have been feeling very well all day. No letter from home recieved. ------------------------------- Thursday, January 12. A beautiful cold day, at work as usual in the office, war news from the Potomac army all quiet. Gen.Butler farewell address to the Army of the James rivalling Napoleon’s address to his army after defeating the Russian and Austrian armys. Good news from Sherman, he is doing well ere long we will hear of another grand march, from Thomas all is well. Inspection of this hospital by Colonel Willson Chief Inspector of Hospitals. A class in Algebra and Mathematics started by some young ladies, have joined the class. In the forenoon received communication from Boston relating to printing press. In the afternoon wrote letter to an old schoolmate friend Miss Libbie B. Hedges of Rochester NY. Read several chapters of Hitchcock’s Geology. In the evening commenced letter for Sunday to Miss Judie U, my betrothed. Have been feeling very well all day, no letters from home received. [9.] Note: 9. Hitchcock’s Geology was actually titled Elementary Geology and was written by Edward Hitchcock in 1840. He was a famed geologist and president of Amherst College from 1845 -1854. His son Charles Henry Hitchcock (Aug. 1836- Nov.1919) revised the 1840 edition with his father in 1861. The failure at Wilmington refers to the attempt by Butler to take Fort Fisher from Dec 18, 1864 to Dec. 24, 1864. After the failure, there was the expected finger pointing and such with the final result being the dismissal of Butler. Maj. Gen. Benjamin Franklin Butler (Nov.1818- Jan. 1893) was relieved of command of the Army of the James for his inept handling and failure at Petersburg and Fort Fisher. In his farewell, he claims that it was his refusal “to order useless sacrifice of the lives” of his soldiers that cost him his job (NY Times Jan. 12, 1865). As far as can be determined there was no “Colonel Willson” Chief Inspector of Hospitals but there was a Col. Thomas Wilson, Chief of Commissary who left the army on April 27, 1865 due to illness and “the shattered condition of his health” (O.R. 46, pt.3,p.970). Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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