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Title: Facing pages [12-13]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640112-18640113
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Transcription: [written above date] Hospital near Stevensburgh Va. Really beautiful day, feel much better did not rest very well however, received a paper from home visited Dr. Hd. [illegible]. Mrs Harp had the misfortune to fall from her [illegible] while proceeding with the Gen. on a visit to the picket lines. Our Government is about to supply the suffering families in our lives with food and clothing, kept house for the Dr. again today he is absent at the Regt. Write or copied into my last years diary, no news from home, except the paper. "Trust no future, however pleasant lest the dead past bury its dead Act, act in the living present. Heart within and God ahead. Anon" [written above date] Hospital near Stevensburgh Va. Very cold but pleasant day. Feel middling well. Kept house for Dr. Munson again, wrote a long time in my Last Years Diary copying into it, also wrote a big letter to my dear friend and former teacher Miss N. M. Green, Rochester, NY. Also read in Dr. Merler['s] History of the Peninsular Campaign, no news from home, a very interesting book. "Speak gently to the erring; know they most have toiled in vain; Perchance unkindness made them so. "Oh! win them back again. Speak kindly, 'tis a little thing, Dropped in the heart's deep well, The good, the joy which it may bring your dying thought shall tell." "He should consider often who can choose but once." ------------------------------ Jan.12, Tuesday. Really beautiful day- feel much better but did not rest very well. However received a paper from home. Visited Div.HDQrs, Mrs Hays had the misfortune to fall from her horse while proceeding with the Gen. on a visit to the picket lines. Our government is about to supply the suffering families in our lines with food and clothing. Kept house for the Dr. Again, to-day he is absent at the regt. No news from home except the paper. “Trust no future, howe’er pleasant Let the dead Past bury its dead Act – act in the living Present Heart within and God o’erhead.” Anon. [24.] Jan. 13, Wednesday Very cold but beautiful day, feel middling well, kept house for Dr. Munson again. Wrote a long time in my last year’s diary, copying into it, also wrote a big letter to my dear friend & former teacher Miss N.M. Green, Rochester NY, also read in Dr. Mark’s History of the Peninsula Campaign. No news from home. A very interesting book. “He should consider often who can choose but once.” [25.] Note: 24. Taken from “Psalm of Life” stanza 6 (22-25) by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882). 25. The Peninsula Campaign in Virginia, Rev.Dr. James Junius Marks (1809-1899), (Philadelphia: J.B.Lippincott,1863). The quotation was used as an example of a type of epigram in English Composition and Rhetoric, A Manual by Alexander Bain (NY,1867). The quotation is attributed to Hugh Blair (1718-1800), a minister of the Church of Scotland and teacher at the University of Edinburgh. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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