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18640918-18640919
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A beautiful fine day with [illegible] of [illegible] travels evening wrote to Judie. Nothing from home. Attended meeting in Ward 2, good discourse from Dr. Channing Chaplain of the House of Representatives Very beautiful day out on a Pass called upon the State Agent and also my friend P.B. [illegible] at the Dept. in the Evening was visited by [illegible] McDonald of Corp 6.108. navy. Letter from anyone am a forsaken 'chile' -------------------------------- September 18, Sunday. A beautiful fine day with a touch of rain towards evening. Wrote to Judie, nothing from home. Attended meeting in Ward 2, good discourse from Dr. Channing, Chaplain of the House of Representatives . [4.] September 19, Monday. Very beautiful day. Out on a pass, called upon the state agent and also my friend P.B. Locke at his dept. In the evening was visited by Lieut. McDonald of Comy C, 108 . [5.] Nary a letter from anyone, am a forsaken ‘chile’. Note: 4. William Henry Channing (1810-1884), American clergyman, writer and philosopher, for a short while was minister of the Unitarian Church in Rochester NY in 1853 but left for England in 1855. He returned to U.S. during the civil war and preached in Washington DC. At one point he was The Chaplain of Congress and spent time in the hospitals while working with the Sanitary Commission and the Freedman’s Bureau. 5. John A.D. McDonald enlisted in 1862 as 1st Lt. Co.C but was discharged for disability after being wounded and losing his left arm at Gettysburg. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.

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Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864
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UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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Henry O. Nightingale diaries

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