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Title: Page [36]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650205
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Transcription: [written above date] Stanton Gen'l Hospital Washington D.C. A very cold day. Feel very well. War news good. President Lincoln returned, the enemy demanded recognition which was refused. At work as usual in the office all the forenoon. Received a letter from Cousin [Illegible] with one enclosed from (9) my Betrothed. A good cheering letter. [Illegible] in the evening wrote two letters, one to my Judith enclosing note from [France], also wrote my little friend Thomas [Illegible] of Rochester. Services in the evening in Ward 8 by Dr. Channing. -------------------------------- Sunday, February 5. A very cold day, feel very well. War news good, President Lincoln returned the enemy demand for recognition which was refused. [1.] At work as usual in the office all the forenoon, received a letter from cousin Jenna with one enclosed from my betrothed, a good cheery letter dated January 9. In the evening wrote two letters, one to my Judith enclosing a note from Jenna also wrote to my little friend Thomas Cornell of Rochester. Services in the evening in Ward 8 by Dr. Channing. Note: 1. In Jan. 1865, Francis Preston Blair (April 1791-Oct. 1876) with Lincoln’s approval approached Jefferson Davis (June 1807/8-Dec.1889) CSA President, with a plan to end the war. Davis appointed 3 commissioners, Alexander Stephens (Feb. 1812-March 1883) CSA Vice-president, CSA Senator Robert Mercer Taliaferro Hunter (Apr.1809-July 1897) and John Archibald Campbell (June 1811-March 1889) CSA Ass’t Secretary of War. These men under a flag of truce on Jan.29 passed through the Union lines. The conference took place on the River Queen steamboat at Hampton Roads on Feb. 3, 1865. Abraham Lincoln (Feb.1809-April 1865) and William Henry Seward (May 1801-Oct.1872) represented the Union. The conference failed but ironically Lincoln was willing to be flexible on the 13th Amendment and its implementation if the south rejoined the Union. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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