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Title: Facing pages [276-277]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18641002-18641003
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Transcription: No news from home no letter from anybody. Feel quite lonely sent two papers to Judie attended services in Ward 4. [Many] letters for this [illegible] today cool and pleasant wrote to friend [illegible] of [2nd] Div. [2nd] Corp. also sent paper and envelopes to my Judie. ------------------------------ October 2, Sunday. No news from home, no letter from anybody, feel quite bad, sent two papers to Judie, attended services in Ward 4. October 3, Monday. Nary letter for this chile [1.] today. Cool and pleasant, wrote to Lieut.Howell at HdQrs 2nd Div.2nd Corps, also sent paper and envelopes to my Judie. Note: 1. The use of the word ‘chile’ (child) as a self-reference appears to be typical in this era. Of course he is imitating the slave dialect of the black people yet it is quite likely, given his English background, that his attitude to the race was no different than most of the North. Perhaps the black race was a source of amusement but it is certainly a given that Henry Nightingale would have no desire to really be a ‘chile’ He is not alone since other writers from the regiment use the same self-reference. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
Parent Item: Henry O. Nightingale diary, 1864
Contributing Institution: UC Merced, Library and Special Collections
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