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Title: Facing pages [4-5]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640104-18640105
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Transcription: [written above date] Hospital near Stevensburgh Va. Cold and quite a fall of snow. Do not feel as well as usual. Have taken a great quantity of medicine and it does not seem to have a proper effect upon me. Was visited by Kimball a mounted orderly, from Dr. H d Ors, Gen. Alex Harp returned today accompanied by his wife. No news from home. Tomorrow the draft comes off. Hope soon to see the day when it will be unnecessary to draft when peace will once more be over the [Illegible]. Took 50 grams of rhubarb today. "Hope and dispair never can agree" [written above date]: Hospital near Stevensburgh Va. Very pleasant day. Snow fast disappearing. Quite cold in the evening. Did not feel so very well to day as I did yesterday. Albert Emmell a friend of mine came over to visit me in the forenoon. Wrote a letter to my mother. She is in leanader West at present. No news from home. We have cheering news from Charleston. I hope soon to hear that that rebel nest is level with the ground. A poor fellow was buried today in the 14th Ind. "Oh many a shaft at random sent finds a mark the Archer never meant And many a word at Random spoken may soothe or wound the heart thats broken." ------------------------------ Jan. 4, Monday ( same) Cold and quite a fall of snow. Do not feel as well as usual, have taken a great quantity of medicine & it does not seem to have a proper effect upon me, was visited by Kimball, a mounted orderly from Div.HDQrs. Gen. Alex Hays [6.] returned today accompanied by his wife. No news from home. Tomorrow the draft comes off, hope to see the day when it will be unnecessary to draft, when peace will once more be over the south. Took 50 grams of rhubarb today. [7.] “Hope & Disdain never can agree” Jan. 5, Tuesday 9 (same) Very pleasant day, snow just disappearing, quite cold in the evening. Did not feel very well today as I did yesterday. Albert Emmell, [8.] a friend of mine, came over to visit me in the forenoon. Wrote a letter to my mother. She is in Canada West at present. [9.] No news from home. We have cheering news from Charleston. [10.] I hope soon to hear that the rebel nest is level within the ground. A fine fellow was buried today in the 14th Ind. “Oh many a shaft at random sent, finds Mark the archer little meant! And many a word at random spoken may Soothe or wound the [a] heart that’s broken.” [11.] Note: 6. Brigadier General Alexander Hays (July, 1819 – May, 1864) commanded the 3rd Division of the 2nd Corps, Army of the Potomac. In Feb, 1846, he married Annie Adams McFadden (1826-1890). Hays died from a battle wound on May 5,1864 at the Battle of the Wilderness. 7. Rhubarb as a herbal medicine has a positive and balancing effect on the digestive system. Depending on the dosage, it can be used as a laxative or treatment of diarrhea, liver and gall bladder complaints, chronic constipation, even hemorrhoids or menstrual problems. 8. Albert S. Emmell, 12th NJ Infantry, Co. H. 9. Today “Canada West” is the province Ontario. 10. The reference here must be to the continuing but frustrating effort to re-take Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor. 11. “Lord of the Isles”, canto V, stanza 18, by Sit Walter Scott Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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