{"id":11098,"date":"2021-01-30T04:00:29","date_gmt":"2021-01-30T10:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2687"},"modified":"2020-12-15T14:13:24","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T20:13:24","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-255","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-255\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThe southerners here are greatly offended and pretend innocence.\u201d\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY 30<\/p>\n<p>A pleasant cold day, freezing in the shade, Streets muddy. Another Company of Flying Artillery arrived last night\u201490 men &amp; four &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">pieces<\/span>.&#8221; They are quartered in the old Wm Wirt House where Mrs Smith had her Young Ladies Select School or &#8220;Institute,&#8221; something of a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">change<\/span> on <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">those<\/span> premises. The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">southerners<\/span> here are greatly offended and pretend innocence. But in truth these preparations thwart their plans for seizing the City. No <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">news<\/span> of importance today, but some compromise seems more likely to be made <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">now<\/span> than heretofore. Did not go down to the Ave tonight.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>The three diary manuscript volumes, <em>Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865,<\/em> are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/ammem\/tafthtml\/tafthome.html\">The Library of \u00a0 Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY 30 A pleasant cold day, freezing in the shade, Streets muddy. Another Company of Flying Artillery arrived last night\u201490 men &amp; four &#8220;pieces.&#8221; They are quartered in the old Wm Wirt House where Mrs Smith had her Young Ladies Select School or &#8220;Institute,&#8221; something of a change on those premises. The southerners here are [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":95680,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[45],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-11098","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-the-diary-of-horatio-nelson-taft"},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/horatio-nelson-taft-e1622981709398.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11098"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11098\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11098"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11098"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11098"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}