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Title: Page [38]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650207
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Transcription: [written above date] Stanton Gen'l Hospital Washington D.C. A rainy, snowy very disagreeable day. Applied for and served as [a] [press] to Alexandria to [Illegible] a sick lady friend. Took the 10-20 a.m. A. M. train and arrived in Alexandria at 11 a.m. Hired a [Illegible] procured a pass [Illegible] the lines and arrived at my friends home by 12. M found her quite sick. About 3 p.m. the [Illegible] was frightened at a report that Guerillas were near, and started for Alexandria. [Coming] to work back through the rain at 5 p.m. returned to Alexandria afoot, visited a friend [Illegible] at the soldiers barracks. Found him badly wounded, returned to Washington at 7 p.m. went out [Illegible] [wet] to the skin. Spent about an hour with some lady friends of Mr. McLaughlin's House then retired to bed. -------------------------------- Tuesday, February 7. A rainy snowy very disagreeable day. Applied for and secured a pass to Alexandria to visit a sick lady friend, took the 10:20 am. Train and arrived in Alexandria at 11 am. Hired a hack, procured a pass to go outside the lines and arrived at my friend’s house by 12 M. Found her quite sick, about 3 pm. The hackman was frightened at a report that guerillas were near and started for Alexandria, leaving me to walk back through the snow. At 5pm returned to Alexandria afoot, visited a friend Nicol F. J---- at the Sickles Barracks, found him badly wounded, returned to Washington at 7pm was almost wet to the skin, spent about an hour with some lady friends at Mr.McLaughlin’s house then retired to bed. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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