Title:

Page [3]

Date:

18650103

A very beautiful day as usual at work in the office setting up [clothing] [accounts]. The War news today is very meagre. [report] says the enemy is preparing to make a movement which will be their last attepmt to invade the North and force a [peace] or give [up] all in the attempt; was quite [amused] reading some extracts from the Southern [papers] in which they contemptuously [speak] of General Sherman's [late] march through their country as nothing [&] [that] the fall of Savanah Ga. was no loss to [them], who can tell what a loss [is] if Savanah & Atlanta were not taking advantage of few [leisure] moments. I [wrote] a [line] to the [illegible] [H.H.] [Sperry], sent it by a freind in the evening [invited] my friend Dr. Owen Munson formerly Surgeon of the 108th, his daughter sang several beautiful pieces, the Dr. invited me to dnner and supper. Never enjoyed myself so well for a long time this eveing we were paired by an old gentleman with a [lecture] on temperance a very good attempt; have not recieved a letter from home for a very long time [begin] to think it time I should have one, this evening much snow fell, [illegible] today.

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Collection:

Henry O. Nightingale diaries