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Title: Facing pages [278-279]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18641004-18641005
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Transcription: Received pass took a stroll through the City returned to Hospital at 1 a.m. received a good cheerful long letter from my Judie, in the evening answered some and sent [illegible] paper. Waverly and Bridge of [pure]. Beautiful day. A very fine day received a good letter from my mother answered the same. Also wrote cousin Johnathan with 179th N.Y.C. Co. "[I]". ------------------------------- October 4, Tuesday. Received pass, took a drive through the city, returned to hospital at 10 p.m. Received a good cheerful long letter from my Judie, in the evening answered same and sent two papers Newsday and Budget of Fun. Beautiful day. October 5, Wednesday. A very fine day, received a letter from my mother, answered the same also wrote cousin Johnathon in the 179th NY, Co.I. [2.] Note: 2. Lt. Howell could not be clearly identified. There was a Captain Howell at Hancock’s Second Corps Headquarters associated with the Quartermaster Dept. but as usual Nightingale provides little to go on. ‘Budget of Fun’ was an illustrated publication from Frank Leslie (1821-1880), an English born American engraver, illustrator and publisher of family oriented material. Jonathan B. Underdown, born in Kent, England in 1844, enlisted at Newfield NY in Sept. 1864 into the 179th NY for a $600 bounty, returned to Newfield as a farmer, died in 1927. 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 Unpublished manuscript, 2014.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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