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There is a large dance house and pleasure garden a bout 1/ 4 from here they are fixing it up for the
Commanding Co 1, 1st Regt Excelsior Brigade, 2nd Division, 3rd Corps, Army of the Potomac Andrew J.
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.
Boyd to Walt Whitman, 1 June 1864
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.
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
The other $1 is from John D. Martin.
little almost daily to Major Hapgood's, cor 15th & F st., 5th floor, am apt to be there about 12 or 1.
now I go about pretty much the same as usual—I keep pretty old-fashioned hours, rise early, dine at 1,