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The other $1 is from John D. Martin.
Commanding Co 1, 1st Regt Excelsior Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac Andrew J.
There is a large dance house and pleasure garden a bout 1/ 4 from here they are fixing it up for the
Travis that I would pay $18 a month for the rooms that Mother and I had—that would leave them to pay 15 1/
3 a month increasing our rent $3 and theirs $1 1/3 or if they would not agree to that, that I would take
little almost daily to Major Hapgood's, cor 15th & F st., 5th floor, am apt to be there about 12 or 1.
Boyd to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1864
now I go about pretty much the same as usual—I keep pretty old-fashioned hours, rise early, dine at 1,
The Battle of Chantilly (also the Battle of Ox Hill; Virginia, September 1, 1862), fought between Union
Several efforts to get the bridge had proved futile, when about 1 o'clock, according to orders, Col.
Afternoon and till 9 in the evening, visited Campbell Hospital; attended specially to one case in Ward 1;
; in the bed above, also amputation of the left leg; gave him part of a jar of raspberries; bed No. 1,
These wards are either lettered alphabetically, Ward G, Ward K, or else numerically, 1, 2, 3, &c.