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Title: Page [21]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650121
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Transcription: [written above date] Stanton Gen'l Hospital Washington D.C. A very disagreeable day raining and freezing, making the walks very dangerous for Pedestrains. War news good. Threatened rupture in the Rebel government. Gold down to 20 1/3. feel quite unwell. Have a very severe headache. No news from home nor from any [illegible] one. At work as usual in the Office. Pay rolls received. in the afteroon wrote to my old friend and school mate Miss Libbie E. Hedges. and also to my little friend in Rochester Thomas Cornell. Nothing of any importance today. -------------------------------- Saturday, January 21. A very disagreeable day raining and freezing, making the walks very dangerous for pedestrians. War news good, threatened rupture of the rebel government, gold down to 20½. Feel quite unwell, have a severe headache, no news from home nor from any loved one. At work as usual in the office, pay rolls received, in the afternoon wrote to my old friend and schoolmate Miss Libbie B. Hedges & also my little friend in Rochester, Thomas Cornell, nothing of any importance today. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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