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Title: Almanac for 1864 [xvi] - Page [1]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640101
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Transcription: [a clipping is above written text] A cold windy day, this New Years day finds me sick in the Hospital. One year ago today I was aboard the car speeding away from home but I wish it might be so new. We had a good New Years dinner considering our circumstances, the Christian Commission furnished us with Turkey Chicken for the Regt. Is in camp about 5 miles from us it seems very dull. I have many new resolutions before me and hope I may spend this new year wiser and better than the last. ------------------------------ Jan.1, Friday. Hospital near Stevensburg Va. [1.] A cold windy day. This New Year’s Day finds me sick in the hospital. One year ago I was aboard the car speeding away for our home but I wish it might be so now. We had a good New Year’s dinner considering our circumstances. The Christian Commission [2.] furnishes us with turkey,chicken etc. The reg’t is in camp about 5 miles from us. It seems very dull. I have many new resolutions before me and hope I may spend the New Year wiser and better than the last. Notes: 1. After the fruitless Mine Run Campaign of Nov 27 –Dec.2,1863, the Army of the Potomac moved back across the Rapidan River and went into winter quarters on a line north of the river. Stevensburg Va. Is about 7 miles east of Culpepper, Va. 2. The Christian Commission was an organization to supply Union troops with medical aid, supplies and religious literature (protestant) and was created to answer the needs of the troops right after the debacle of 1st Bull Run in 1861 and should not be confused with the U.S. Sanitary Commission created on June 21,1861, a month before Bull Run. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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