{"id":11119,"date":"2021-02-05T04:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-02-05T10:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2693"},"modified":"2021-02-05T08:30:51","modified_gmt":"2021-02-05T14:30:51","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-261","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-261\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cI think the Secession Movement has reached its climax and a re-action will now take place..,\u201d\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY 5<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Unionists<\/span> carried the State Virginia yesterday by a large majority and everyone has felt better today. I think the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Secession<\/span> Movement has reached its climax and a re-action will now take place, but perhaps the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">wish<\/span> is Father to the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">thought<\/span>. The Chief Engineer of U.S. Navy was with me an hour or two today in the office, had long conversation upon <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Steam<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Steam<\/span> Engines. He is a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">knowing<\/span> man. Bot H N Jr suit of clothes tonight. Was in at Willards and saw numerous friends and almost <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">innumerable<\/span> strangers. Weather pleasant.<\/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>TUESDAY 5 The Unionists carried the State Virginia yesterday by a large majority and everyone has felt better today. I think the Secession Movement has reached its climax and a re-action will now take place, but perhaps the wish is Father to the thought. The Chief Engineer of U.S. Navy was with me an hour [&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-11119","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\/11119","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=11119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11119\/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=11119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}