Title:

Facing pages [264-265]

Date:

18640920-18640921

Serenely beautiful day. This morning signed pay [illegible] wrote to Lieut. Col. Price 108th also to Col. O.H. [Palmer] of Rochester. Also to E.R. Anderson some place. [illegible] to about $20. Received two months pay wrote to Judie my bethrothed a long letter, no news from anybody. This enemy we have near of a ground. Visited by General Sheridan, in the Shenandoah Valley. A very beautiful day, in the morning procured a pass to Alexandria was aboard the [illegible] by 10 a.m. beautiful scenery to Alexandria. At 11 arrived in this city. hired a hack and had a pleasant drive to [illegible] Hospital. To find a friend, he was not there then visited [Rendezvous] for [illegible] and from there [illegible] of [illegible] then Arlington returned to Alexandria at 5 P.M. visited the Marshal House where [Elsworth] fell. then the several Hospital in the city at 1 p.m. was once more aboard the steamer for home. expense of trip $7.50

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Collection:

Henry O. Nightingale diaries