{"id":11807,"date":"2021-06-08T06:00:22","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2821"},"modified":"2021-06-06T18:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-06-06T23:13:12","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-93","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-93\/","title":{"rendered":"Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SATURDAY 8<\/p>\n<p>Left the office today at 12 and went down to the Navy Yard with E P and Capt Welling, saw all the sights there. Went on board the &#8220;Freeborn&#8221; and saw the effect of the shot &amp;c, she was in four engagements within a week. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Capt<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ward<\/span> is evidently a &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">fighting<\/span> Cock,&#8221; had attended all the &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">balls<\/span>&#8221; so far. Came home at 3 o&#8217;clock. At 5 went to market and while there one of the most tremendous showers occured that I ever witnessed, lasting about an hour.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">______<\/p>\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>SATURDAY 8 Left the office today at 12 and went down to the Navy Yard with E P and Capt Welling, saw all the sights there. Went on board the &#8220;Freeborn&#8221; and saw the effect of the shot &amp;c, she was in four engagements within a week. Capt Ward is evidently a &#8220;fighting Cock,&#8221; had [&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-11807","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\/11807","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=11807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11807\/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=11807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}