TUESDAY 4
Cooler today with some rain. In the office nearly alone all day. The Highland Regt arrived early this morning (2 or 3 o’clock). They march through the Ave playing the “The Campbells are Coming.” They have a fine Band of music. No particular demonstration has yet taken place on the other side of the River, but there are frequent alarms over there and some of the Regts are called out sometimes twice in a night. They all sleep on their Arms. I was at Willards, some 250 Govt cavalry horses were driven by.
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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.