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Hospitals
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Tuesday, June 16, 2026
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, Friday, February 6, 1863
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The days are so much alike I have given up noting the doings of each as it comes. Since February 1st our meeting-house tent has been repaire...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, February 16, 1863
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In the hospital after all. Dr. Andrus came last night to our tent and ordered me into the house I spoke of. I had a warm, dry bed and a good...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, February 20, 1863
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Captain Bostwick came to see me to-day. Two men died last night, one in the hospital and the other in his tent. I don't feel as well to-...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, February 21, 1863
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Think I am really better to-day. If I keep on I'll soon be out of this and with the boys again. But they all come in to see the sick as ...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, March 5, 1863
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Am very weak yet. A little tires me out. A letter from Herman just a month old. Coon died last night, but we none of us knew it till we saw ...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, March 7, 1863
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Was carried back into the house to-day and put among the convalescents. I must be getting well, but it is slow. Most all the time I was wors...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, March 8, 1863
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Had a wash and a shave and am tired out. The regiment has marching orders. Wish I was out of this to go with them. SOURCE: Lawrence Van A...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, March 16, 1863
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Ben Crowther is awful sick. He is a fine fellow and we hate to lose him. He is of better stuff than the average of us. I wish I could kill h...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, March 18, 1863
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Too much excitement yesterday and I feel like two weeks ago. The doctor says I will have these setbacks though and it is only a part of the ...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, March 20, 1863
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Orderly Holmes is very sick. His discharge is under his pillow (or knapsack). He lies in a room next to this and I can hear him talk, giving...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, Saturday, March 21, 1863
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This is a hard spot to get well in. Two poor fellows are near their end to all appearances, and it is trying to hear them rave about home an...
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, March 28, 1863
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Another fine day, and another trip downstairs. My legs behaved better this time. Am not near so tired. Now that I can write without getting ...
Sunday, May 24, 2026
Diary of Lucy Larcom, October 22, 1861
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I heard Charles Sumner on the Rebellion: my first sight and hearing of the great anti-slavery statesman. He was greeted with tremendous appl...
Saturday, May 23, 2026
Diary of Elvira J. Powers, Wednesday, April 13, 1864
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Entered upon my duties to-day, as lady nurse of two divisions of tents at Small Pox Hospital. Not obliged to come here, but have accepted ...
Diary of Elvira J. Powers, Tuesday, April 19, 1864
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Another change. I am to leave this hospital to-day, as a Miss P. from Chicago, who had been engaged for the place, and expected some three w...
Diary of Elvira J. Powers, Wednesday, April 20, 1864
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Back in town again. I've done something but havn't the least idea what, to displease somebody and havn't the least idea who. Per...
Sunday, May 17, 2026
Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, January 2, 1862
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I think my hospital can boast, just now, the happiest set of sick men I ever saw. I have now twenty-seven of them. This morning, as I was pr...
Diary of Dr. Alfred L. Castleman, January 5, 1862
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I am very hard worked just now. The Brigade Surgeon is sick, and I being the ranking Surgeon in the Brigade, have his duties to perform. In ...
Thursday, April 16, 2026
Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, Monday, January 5, 1863
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CHALMETTE. Said to be just below the city of New Orleans. We left quarantine about 11 P. M. and reached here about 8 this morning. Many we...
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Diary of 5th Sergeant Lawrence Van Alstyne, January 17, 1863
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On account of my cough, which is worse when I lie down, I have walked about evenings or sat and chatted with others about the camp fire unti...
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