FRIDAY 19
A day of great excitement in the City, all looking for news from the Army. A thousand reports flying about, but nothing to be relied on when I left Willards at 9 o’clock tonight. I shall make an effort today to be re-instated in office as the Times are not at all promising for any one out of business. The sun has been hot today but there has been a good air or breeze all day. H N Jr in his sleep last night got out of a three story window on to the roof of the back wing two stories high. I got him in without accident.
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The three diary manuscript volumes, Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865, are available online at The Library of Congress.