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Title: Page [31]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650131
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Transcription: [written above date] Stanton Gen'l Hospital Washington D.C. A good day for our country. Slavery forever abolished was present at the session of Congress today. Never felt happier than today. At work as usual in the office. 15 patients admitted, some of them very sick. One poor fellow died a few moments after he was admitted. Quite warm and thawing. Feel unwell my wound troubling me. I wrote two letters one to my Betrothed and another home to Miss M.I. [illegible] Rochester NY. War news very good. Tuesday - do what good you can; live in peace with God and man; Remember life is but a span. ------------------------------ Tuesday, January 31. A grand day for our country, slavery forever abolished, was present at the session of Congress today, never felt happier that today. At work as usual in the office, 15 patients admitted some of them very sick, one poor fellow died a few moments after he was admitted. Quite warm and thawing, feel unwell, my wound troubling me. Wrote two letters, one to my betrothed and one other home to Miss. M. L. Foster, Rochester NY. War news very good. “Tuesday do what you can / Live in peace with God and man/ Remember life is but a span.” [17.] Note: 17. The report was wrong. Charleston was not evacuated until two weeks later. The daily homilies are collectively called “A Week’s Work” from the Family Christian Almanac, 1851, published by the American Tract Society. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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