Titel: Diary entries
Skrivet av: Charles LaVine skrivet 2006-08-08, 02:03
To All:
I need your help - but I may be asking too much.
I have puzzled over and over again on a word my good friend Carl Roos has written. It makes no sense in either Swedish or English. The word, from what I see, reads ALTALJRÄEL Here is the context in which it appears:
”Dess hela AlTALJRÄEL äro af det bästa och artiklsarne bastamta och ändmålsenslig.”
He is talking about the refurnishing of the kitchen and its mess hall in the hospital where he has now been for over a month following his collapse on the march to Little Rock.
In this 16th section of his diary, he now states that he has finally been diagnosed as having malaria, a very common affliction at that time in the South and undoubtedly acquired during his regiment's position in the siege of Nashville where it occupied positions in the swamps surrounding Nashville.
Any suggestions will be most appreciated.
Charles
PS: I thought Section 16 was the last of Roos' diary, but peeking at its last page, it went on. The question now is, what has happened or where is the rest. We are making inquiries.