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Title: Facing pages [14-15]
Date Created and/or Issued: 18640114-18640115
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Transcription: [written above date] Hospital near Stevensburg Va. Really beautiful day, feeling unwell in the forenoon but better in the evening [copied] all most all day in my old diary. Dr. Dougherty & Med inspector of the Corp was on a tour of inspection today he seemed quite pleased with our Hospital. [illegible] [illegible] was also on a visit here. No news from home, read a chapter of Dr. Marks Book. In the evening wrote to my friend Thomas [Gliddon] of Rochester. News from the front is that Lee has been reinforced by Longstreet. "Better a poor, but peacfull life than wealth and treasure brought with strife." [written above date] Hospital near Stevensburg Va. One of the finest days we have had felt very weak and played out all the day. Was out of the tent all day it seemed so very pleasant did considerable work for the steward in cleaning up. Wrote a good bit in my old Dairy. Received a letter from my friend M. A. Haver of Levingston Co. NY. Also wrote a letter in answer to same. Read several chapters in Dr. Marks work. Very cold this evening with an appearance of snow a poor fellow died on the 12 N.J. Hospital also a Lieut. in the 3rd brigade he was buried this afternoon. [a clipping is placed below written text] ------------------------------ Jan. 14, Thursday. Really beautiful day. Felt very unwell in the forenoon but much better in the evening. Copied almost all day in my old diary. Dr. Dougherty and Med. Inspector of the Corps was on tour of inspection today He seemed quite pleased with our hospital. Lieut. Locke was also on a visit here. No news from home. Read a chapter of Dr. Mark’s book. In the evening wrote to my friend Thomas Glidden of Rochester. [26.] . News from the front is that Lee has been reinforced by Longstreet. “Better a poor but peaceful life/ than wealth and treasure bought with strife.” [27.] Jan.15, Friday One of the finest days we have had. Felt very weak and played out all the day. Was out of the tent all day, it seemed so very pleasant. Did considerable work for the steward in cleaning up. Wrote a good bit in my old diary. Received a letter from my friend M.A. Haver of Livingston Co. NY, also wrote a letter in answer to same. Read several chapters in Dr. Marks work. Very cold this evening with an appearance of snow. A poor fellow died in the 12th NJ hospital also a Lieut. in the 3rd brigade, he was buried this afternoon. “They never fail who die In a great cause; the block may soak their gore; Their heads may be sodden in the sun, their limbs Be strung to city gates and castle walls; But still their spirit walks abroad. Though years Elapse and others share as dark a doom, They but augment the deep and sweeping thoughts Which overpower all others and conduct The world at last to freedom.” [28.] [cut out from a paper and stuck on the bottom of the entry] Note: 26. Dr.Alexander N. Dougherty (1822-1882) was the Medical Director of the 2nd Corps and Dr. Charles Smart (1841-1905), Ass’t Surgeon was the Medical Inspector. Lieut. Andrew J. Locke, 21, mustered in as Corporal Co. F, promoted to Sgt, at the time of this entry he was a 2nd Lt. but would be promoted to Lt. In June 1864. Thomas Gliddon or Glidden could be Thomas Bolívar Gliddon (1833?-1890?). He was born in Guernsey, England and was a printer by trade and (if the correct man) became a major participant in the Masonic Lodge in Rochester. He was the editor of “The Casket, Rochester’s Journal for Undertakers” (1876). His connection to the print trade and his English birth would suggest a natural bond with Nightingale. 27. The source of this homily could not be found. It appeared in various newspapers in the 1850’s also in “The Dayspring” Vol. III, p.103, 1874. 28. Lines from “Marino Faliero, Doge of Venice, a five act tragedy in blank verse by Lord Byron (George Gordon Byron , 1788-1824), published in 1821. The lines are spoken by Israel Bertuccio, II,ii. Crooks, Terence G. “Transcribed and Annotated Diaries of Henry Oliver Nightingale.” Unpublished manuscript, 2014. Microsoft Word file.
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