SUNDAY 2
This has been rather a hot day. M: 84. I did not go out to church, all the rest of the family went. The 12th Regt returned to their quarters on Franklin Square today. We attended their dress parade at 6 o’clock. I went down to Willards afterwards, many officers there of Army and Navy. Among the rest, I saw Comodore Hudson, Genl Mansfield, Genl Stone, Col Butterfield, and Lieutenant Slemmer. Col DeUttasy of the Garabaldi Guard has quarters there and his guard were at the East entrance on duty. Home at 9 o’clk.
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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.