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Title: Page [78]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18650319
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Transcription: [written above date] Stanton General Hospital Washington D.C. A beautiful sunny day. great numbers wandering their way to their different houses of Worship. Did not go out of the Hospital all day. As I was feeling too unwell. war news good. Finished reading a beautiful story called "Rosendale" a story of self-denial. In the forenoon wrote to Prof. Northrop and in the Evening a long letter to my deer and loved friend Judith-U. Also read several poems of Tennysons. No letters received. Have felt-quite unwell. much pain in my wound. Many sick and wounded brought to the City from City Point. -------------------------------- Sunday, March 19. A beautiful sunny day, great numbers wending their way to their different house of worship. Did not go out of the hospital today as I was feeling to unwell. War news good. Finished reading a beautiful story called Rosedale : A Story of Self-Denial. [6.] In the forenoon wrote to Prof. Northrup and in the evening a long letter to my dear and loved friend Judith U. also sent several poems of Tennyson. No letters received, have felt quite unwell, much pain in my wound, many sick and wounded brought to the city from City Point. Note: 6. Rosedale: A Story of Self-Denial, by Mrs.H.C.Gardner, Cincinnati, 1864. Crooks, Terence G. âTranscribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.â Unpublished manuscript, 2014.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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