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Enclosure: "My Bible"; "Evening brings us home" [17]

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Title: Facing pages [8-9]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640108-18640109
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Transcription: (written above date) Hospital near Stevensburgh Va. My mother's birthday. God grant she may live to see many more birthdays and happier is the prayer of her only Son. Cold [raw] day with considerable snow in the night. Feel much better, no news from home. It is rather strange I do not hear from home. Did not move about much today. Nothing of importance. Am much pleased with the cheering prospect of a speedy close of the war. This is the anniversary of the Battle of New Orleans although I am an Englishman yet I feel so thoroughly Americanized that "I can rejoice with Americans in anything which has done good to the common cause of Freedom." [written above date] Hospital near Stevensburgh Va. Very cold day, feel very well today. No better. Wrote a letter to my cousin J. U. Tompkins C.o N.Y. Also read considerable of Prof. [Agassi's] lectures on the [Glaziers]. Also read an interesting book called the "Way of Salvation." No news from home, this is the end of the first week in the New Year. I have not felt right this week have not been grateful for the goodness of God. May I have the grace and be made to realize the goodness of my Maker through the coming week. "Who knows if Heaven with ever [bountious] power, Shall add tomorow to the [present] hour." ------------------------------ Jan.8, Friday. My mother’s birthday, God grant she may live to see many more birthdays and happiness is the prayer of her only son. Cold raw day with considerable snow in the night. Feel much better. No news from home, it is rather strange I do not hear from home. Did not move about today, nothing of importance. Am much pleased with the cheering prospect of a speedy close to the war. This is the anniversary of the battle of New Orleans, although I am an Englishman yet I feel so thoroughly Americanized that I can rejoice with Americans in anything which has done goodto the common cause of freedom. [16.] Jan. 9, Saturday. Very cold day. Feel weak today, no better. Wrote a letter to my cousin J. U. [17.] Tomkins Co. N.Y.- also read Prof. Agassis’ Lectures on the Glaciers, [18] also read an interesting little book called ”The Way of Salvation.” No news from home. This is the ends of the first week in the New Year, I have not felt right this week, have been grateful for the goodness of God, may I have the grace and be made to realize the goodness of my maker through the coming week. “Who knows if Heaven with ever bounteous power/ Shall add to-morrow to the present hour?” [19.] Note: 16. The battle of New Orleans was fought on Jan. 8, 1815and was the final major battle of the war of 1812. The American forces commanded by Andrew Jackson defeated the attempted seizure by the British forces. Nightingale’s optimism is commendable but really unfounded. 17. Johnathon Underdown. 18. Louis Agassiz (1807- 1873) was a Swiss born and European trained biologist and geologist. Nightingale is probably referring to his lectures “Glaciers and the Ice Period” (1864-65). “The Way of Salvation” was written by John Charles Ryle (1816- 1900) and was the first Anglican Bishop of Liverpool. 19. A translation of Horace’s Ode VII, To Torquatus. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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