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Title: Facing pages [270-271]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640926-18640927
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Transcription: Fine, warm day in the forenoon was visited by a members of my Company. Attended him home to the Finly Hospital there I had the pleasure of seeing several of the 108th In the afternoon was also visited by John [illegible] of [illegible] he has just recieved his discharge in the evening and was visited by my friend P.B. Foster from the A.G.M. Dept. in the evening received a letter full of fun from my Judith. Two photographs enclosed. I lived to be the recipient of a godly letter. and especially from a dear friend. Fine day, wrote to my Judie in the evening no news from home. ----------------------------- September 26, Monday. Fine warm day. In the forenoon was visited by a member of my company, attended him home to the Finley Hospital. There I had the pleasure of seeing several of the 108th. In the afternoon was also visited by John Goodyer [9.] of Corning and he has just received his discharge. In the evening was visited by my friend P.B. Loder from the A.G.M Dept. In the evening received a letter full of fun from Judith, two photographs enclosed, I love to be the recipient of a jolly letter and especially from a dear friend. September 27, Tuesday. Fine day, wrote to my Judie in the evening, no news from home. {As became his custom, especially now that he had his beloved Judith, Nightingale has pasted a printed copy of a translation by C.T. Brooks entitled Blue Eyes, which can be read online] Note: 9. John H. Goodyer, age 21,enlisted pvt. Co.F, WIA at Morton’s Ford and discharged for disability on Sept.20,1864. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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