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Title: Page [33]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650202
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Transcription: [written above date] Stanton Gen'l Hospital Washington D.C. A drizly rainy day. Quite cold and freezing in the Even-ing. War news quite dull. no-thing of any excitement from any of our Armies. Was mistaken in the idea that Peace [Commissions] had arrived 'twas a sensation. They have however arrived at Gen'l Grants Hd. Qrs. and will [proceed] from thence to Fort Monroe. when President Lincoln and Sec'y Seward are [supposed] to have [gone]. Received a letter to day from my little friends in Rochester (2). F. [illegible] + M. L. [illegible]. No word from my Betrothed, nor from my Mother. Thursday - build our house upon Christ, the mighty corner-stone, Whom God helps, his work is done. --------------------------------- Thursday, February 2. A drizzly rainy day, quite cold and freezing in the evening. War news quite dull, nothing of account from any of our armies. Was mistaken in the idea that peace commissioners had arrived, twas a sensation story. They have however arrived at Genl. Grant’s HdQtrs and will proceed from thence to Fort Monroe where President Lincoln and Sec’y Seward are supposed to have gone. Received a letter today from my little friends in Rochester L. Cornell & M. Lauren. No word from my beloved nor from my mother. “Thursday build your house upon/ Christ, the mighty cornerstone/ Whom God helps, his work is done.” Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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