{"id":11849,"date":"2021-06-13T09:00:51","date_gmt":"2021-06-13T14:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2826"},"modified":"2021-06-10T20:22:00","modified_gmt":"2021-06-11T01:22:00","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-98","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-98\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;H N Jr. has spent the day with Willie Lincoln at the &#8220;White House&#8221; and dined there with the Prest.&#8221;\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THURSDAY 13<\/p>\n<p>It has been cooler today and quite comfortable. We are relieved today in reference to the &#8220;Bethel affair.&#8221; Our loss not more than first reported 25 or 30. Nothing stirring in the way of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">news<\/span> of importance, but important events <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">expected<\/span> every day and people are on the &#8220;<span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">qui vive<\/span>&#8221; all the time. Went out into the fields with wife &amp; Juliet to see the 12th in their skirmish drill. H N Jr. has spent the day with Willie Lincoln at the &#8220;White House&#8221; and dined there with the Prest. Holly has been to the N[avy] Y[ar]d with his Sunday School teacher &amp; took tea with him.<\/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>THURSDAY 13 It has been cooler today and quite comfortable. We are relieved today in reference to the &#8220;Bethel affair.&#8221; Our loss not more than first reported 25 or 30. Nothing stirring in the way of news of importance, but important events expected every day and people are on the &#8220;qui vive&#8221; all the time. [&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-11849","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\/11849","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=11849"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11849\/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=11849"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11849"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11849"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}