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Title: Facing pages [2-3]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640102-18640103
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Transcription: [written above date] Hospital near Stevensburgh Va. A bitter cold day. The wind blowing almost a hurricane, had to keep pretty close all the day, we will probably stay home for a long time no news from home wrote to Prof. N. in the afternoon. Was very badly disappointed in not receiving my mail it being sent to the Regt. My sickness does not seem to get much better but I feel contented, had quite a talk with Dr. Munson. He is a good Christian man one who loves to do what is right "God is very good to us." [Written above date] Hospital near Stevensburgh Va. Cold but pleasant day. Felt somewhat better today wrote to my friend Mrs. S.S. Gieldins of Washington City she has ever been like a mother to me. Dr. Munson had a good long talk with me today. In the Evening received a letter from my mother, a long and anxiously expected letter she has been very sick. Furloughs have been stopped and therefore I do not expect to get home. Feel quite home sick, yet I feel grateful for the Goodness of the kind Father. Rainy and snow in the Evening. [Illegible] ------------------------------ Jan. 2, Saturday (same location) A bitter cold day, the wind blowing, almost a hurricane, had to keep pretty close all the day. We will probably stay for a long time. No news from home. Wrote to Prof. N [3.] in the afternoon, was very badly disappointed in not receiving my mail, it being sent to the reg’t. My sickness does not seem to get much better but I feel contented. Had quite a talk with Dr. Munson [4.], he is a good Christian man, who loves to do what is right “God’s very good we ask”. Jan.3, Sunday (same location) Cold but pleasant day. Felt somewhat better to day. Wrote my friend Mrs.S.S. Gidding of Washington City. She has ever been like a mother to me. Dr. Munson had a good long talk with me today. In the evening received a letter from my mother, a loving and anxiously expected letter, she has been very sick. Furloughs have been stopped and therefore I do not expect to get home, feel quite homesick. [5.] Yet I feel grateful for the goodness of the kind doctor. Rainy and snow in the evening. Note: 3. George Washington Northrup (1826 – 1900), educator, preacher and theologian was born in Antwerp, Jefferson Co. N.Y. and graduated with a Doctor of Divinity from Rochester Theological Seminary in 1864. He became a professor of history at Rochester in 1867. 4. Owen Munson, age 53, enrolled in Washington DC, mustered in as Surgeon, 108th NY on Feb.17 1863 but was discharged for disability on April 5, 1864, died in Washington on May 19,1868. 5. In 1864, the three year enlistments would run out and potentially the Union Army could experience a significant loss of manpower, so in order to stimulate re-enlistments any regiment, the majority of which re-enlisted would be given a one month furlough to go home. As a result, regular furloughs were suspended. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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