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Title: Facing pages [358-359]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18641223-18641224
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Transcription: On duty all day, at work on Master and Pay rolls also in descriptive limits. In the evening wrote to Mrs. Edgar grey of Rochester, also wrote long letter to Judie. Christmas eve had to work on Master and Pay rolls. The [illegible] [illegible] Hospital was bound to the ground but might, wrote this letter sent to Prof. [illegible] also to Miss [illegible] Myers of Maryland, and one to my friend, [illegible] Clarke also sent paper to Aunt. ------------------------------ December 23, Friday. On duty all day at work on muster rolls also on desertion lists. In the evening wrote to Mrs. Edgar Gray of Rochester, also wrote long letter to Judie. December 24, Saturday. Christmas Eve had to work on muster and pay rolls. The [illegible] hospital was burned to the ground last night [5.], wrote letter to Prf. Northrup, one to Mrs. Ephraim Myers of Maryland and one to my friend Miss Clare Cable, also sent paper to Aunt. Note: 5. He mentions the destruction of a hospital – which his handwriting has rendered indecipherable- yet any reference or details to such an occurrence could not be found. From the records of the Hospitals in Civil War Washington DC site there is nothing about a hospital burning on the night before Christmas Eve 1864. Nightingale has the annoying habit of throwing in these events with no details and then goes on with his own mundane cares about writing to the beloved. 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 Unpublished manuscript, 2014.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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