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Title: Page [84]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650325
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Transcription: [written above date] Stanton General Hospital Washington D.C. Cloudy and very chilly with a few dashes of rain. Evening, gold rose again to $1.57. Great Panic in clothes and dr good dealer. War news very meager. sherman still reported at Goldsbor's army of the Potomac group. Felt much better today but did no work. No letters received or written Reading an epic poem on the War of 1812 quite interesting. ----------------------------- Saturday, March 25. Cloudy and very chilly with a few dashes of rain in evening. Gold rose again to $1.57. Great panic in clothes and dry goods dealers. War news very meagre, Sherman still reported at Goldsboro, Army of the Potomac quiet. Felt much better today but did no work, no letters received or written, reading an epic poem on the war of 1812, quite interesting. [7.] Note: 7. The poem referred to is The Freedoniad or Independence Preserved A Epick Poem on the Late War of 1812, 4 volumes by Richard Emmons, M.D. (1788-1834), published 1827. Crooks, Terence G. âTranscribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.â Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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