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18640310-18640311
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A very disagreeble wet day. After mail as usual Gen Grant visited the Army today no news from home feel very well. Another very cold wet day a heavy thunderstorm in the afternoon Nothing of much importance today, received a Special Order from Army [illegible] in regulating the disposal and recepting of mail, feel very well. Hours of Sleep Nature requires five; Custom gives seven. Laziness take nine And wickedness eleven. ------------------------------ March 10, Thursday. A very disagreeable wet day, after mail as usual. Gen. Grant visited the army today. [3.] No news from home, feel very well. March 11, Friday. Another cold wet day, a heavy thunderstorm in the afternoon. Nothing of much importance today. Received a special order from army hdqrs. in regulating the disposal and reception of mail, feel very well. Hours of Sleep Nature requires five Custom gives seven Laziness takes nine And wickedness eleven. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.

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Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864
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UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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Henry O. Nightingale diaries

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