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Title: Facing pages [18-19]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640118-18640119
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Transcription: [written above date]: Hospital near Stevensburgh Va. A cold rainy and very disagreeable day, poured several inches deep, do not feel very well today. Time seems to go very slow. No news from home. Lieut. Kennedy of Leo B. has just returned from Furlough, he reports that the trains were colided near Washington with a train from Brandy Station. Had a good long conversation with Dr. Munson, read several [illegible] in Byron's [Childe] Harold, [it] is a sublime book. Very cold windy day kept house for the Dr. most all day, felt much better than usual. Spent my time in reading and finishing Byron's Childe Harold. Wish I had his other works if they are as good as this also read and copied into my old Diary must send it home. soon two rebels deserted and came over to our lines last night no news from any place home mother or any other relative all seem to have forgotten me. Wrote a letter for one of the sickest men in our hospital he was too weak himself. ------------------------------ Jan. 18, Monday. A cold rainy and disagreeable day, mud several inches deep, do not feel very well today.Time seems to go very slow, no news from home. Lieut. Kennedy [31.] of Co. B has just returned from furlough, he reports that the trains were collided near Washington with a train from Brandy Station. Had a good long conversation with Dr. Munson, read several cantos in Byron’s Childe Harold, it is a sublime book. [Here follows a paste in from a newspaper – a comical collections of “Noshuns” from Josh Billings – the original can be easily read in the on-line diary entry for this date] [32.] Jan.19, Tuesday. Very cold windy day, kept house for the doctor most all day, feel much better than usual. Spent my time in reading & finishing Byron’s Childe Harold, wish I had his other works if they are as good as this one, also read and copied into my old diary, must send it home soon. Two rebels deserted and came over to our lines last night. No news from any place, home, mother or any other relative, all seem to have forgotten me. Wrote letter for one of the sickest men in our hospital, he was too weak himself. [Attached is a copy of The Patriot Maiden’s Prayer taken and pasted from a published work –probably newsprint – the poem can be read in the online diary ,no background of the poem can be found.] Note: 31. John B. Kennedy, age 21, mustered in as Sgt. Co. B, 108th NY, promoted 2nd Lt. on Sept. 17,1862, 1st Lt, July,1863 then Captain on June 9, 1864. 32. ‘Josh Billings’ was the pen name of 19th century American humorist Henry Wheeler Shaw (April 1818-Oct.1885). In terms of popularity at the times, he rivalled fellow humorist Mark Twain. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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