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Title: Facing pages [202-203]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640720-18640721
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Transcription: Started this morning on my journey to Washington bid my dear friends good bye, a long good bye. my cousin Daniel accompanied me 10 miles to [illegible] from which period I walked to [Elmirns] a distance of 16 miles arrived in [Elmirns] at 10 a.m. had to wait 5 hours for the train, in the meantime wrote a letter and mailed a paper to my Judith, took the [cons] at 5 p.m. traveled all night, arrived in [Harinbugh] by 1 a.m. After traveling all night and seeing many signs of recent presence of an enemy, on the [road] arrived in Washington at 11 a.m. reported at the office took a short nap and then sat down and wrote to my Judith, found several letters waiting. Am completely tired [illegible]. ------------------------------- July 20, Wednesday. Started this morning on my journey to Washington, bid my dear friends good-bye, a long good-bye. My cousin David accompanied me 10 miles to Pony Hollow from which I walked to Elmira, a distance of 16 miles. Arrived in Elmira at 11 am, had to wait 5 hours for the train, in the meantime wrote a letter and mailed a transfer to my Judith. Took the cars at 5 pm, travelled all night arrived in Harrisburgh by 1 am. [3.] July 21, Thursday. After travelling all night and seeing many signs of the recent presence of our enemy on the route, arrived in Washington at 11 am, reported at the office, took a short nap and sat down and wrote to my Judith. Found several letters waiting for me, am completely tired out. Note: 3. He walked 18 miles to Newfield on June 25 and walked at least 16 miles on July 20, yet he was declared unfit to travel!!? One must surely wonder about these local doctors and the patients who cashed in on their laxness. Crooks, Terence G. âTranscribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.â Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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