THURSDAY 24
This has been a bright cool day with a bracing north wind. The Event of the day has been the funeral of Col Baker. There was a great display of Military and a long procession reaching a mile or more. Wife and all the family went. I walked down to the Ave and saw the procession pass from the “Kirkwood House.” I was an hour or so at the Pat office. Rcd a letter from Lieut Swan dated at the Camp near Alexandria. No important news from up the River, down it is closed by Batteries.
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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.