{"id":11115,"date":"2021-02-01T12:00:52","date_gmt":"2021-02-01T17:00:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2689"},"modified":"2020-07-25T11:42:18","modified_gmt":"2020-07-25T16:42:18","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-257","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-257\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cThere are many \u2018Secessionists\u2019 or Disunionists among the Citizens here.\u201d\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1<\/p>\n<p>Fine cool morning, M: 24 &#8212; warmer and misty the latter part of day. Got measured for new black coat. Paid some Bills &amp; small note at Bank. Willie has been quite ill. I came home from the office at 1&#8217;o&#8217;ck. He is much better tonight. The day has passed off much as yesterday. Two more companys of U.S. Soldiers came today. One is quartered on E St. near pat &amp; post offices. The other in west part of the City. There are many &#8220;Secessionists&#8221; or Disunionists among the Citizens here. It is my opinion that the District Militia would prove, in case of need, a poor support for the Govt to <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">rely<\/span> upon. Have spent the evening at home with the boys in various amusements.<\/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>FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1 Fine cool morning, M: 24 &#8212; warmer and misty the latter part of day. Got measured for new black coat. Paid some Bills &amp; small note at Bank. Willie has been quite ill. I came home from the office at 1&#8217;o&#8217;ck. He is much better tonight. The day has passed off much [&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-11115","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\/11115","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=11115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11115\/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=11115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}