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Title: Facing pages [58-59]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640227-18640228
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Transcription: Cold but pleasant, feel first note. No news from home the Army is ordered to the ready to move the 2nd Corps. is ordered to be in readiness to move at a moments notice. Expressed 60 dolls for A.H. William, to S. William [Oveil Seneca Co.] N.Y. Peter Anger Dr. of [illegible] .91 Returned and Pho. Another beautiful day. Rumor has it that the Rebels have re-started the 6th Corps and [have] crossed the Rapidan with but slight opposition. No doubt they are of some devil [illegible]. No news from home wrote to Aunt Mercy; feel fully well. ------------------------------ Feb. 27, Saturday. Cold but pleasant, feel first rate, no news from home. The army is ordered to be ready to move, the 2nd Corps is ordered to be in readiness to move at a moment’s notice. Expressed 60 dolls for A.H. William to T.William, Ovid, Seneca Co. NY. [8.] Peter Anger to cash .91 returned 8 pho. Feb.28, Sunday. Another beautiful day. Rumor has it that the rebels have retreated, the 6th Corps and Cavalry crossed the Rapidan with but slight opposition, no doubt they are at some deviltry. No news from home, wrote to Aunt Mercy, feel pretty well. [Glued over some of his financial reckonings is a printed poem On Dreaming of My Mother –the poem must have been added later – he had a habit of revising his old diaries. The poem can be read in the online diary. ] [9.] Note: 8. Frank A. Dudley was the surgeon of the 14th Connecticut. Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade (1815-1872) was the commander of the Army of the Potomac. Hannibal Hamlin (1809-1891) was Lincoln’s Vice President. The Grand Ball of the 2nd Corps was as noted on Feb. 22,1864. Nightingale’s mention of a ball 3 days later at the 2nd Division HQ. is odd. There is no record of such an event- also 2 balls in one week would have been a bit much. There is no record anywhere in the Soldiers and Sailors database for a Nathan Brinckley. 9. The poem was written by Henry Francis Lyte (1792-1847), an English divine who found himself motherless at the age of nine. His reference to an advance across the Rapidan is probably referring the commencement of the ill-fated Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid to Richmond - another disastrous effort. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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