{"id":12393,"date":"2021-08-26T07:00:08","date_gmt":"2021-08-26T12:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2906"},"modified":"2021-08-03T07:48:05","modified_gmt":"2021-08-03T12:48:05","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-171","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-171\/","title":{"rendered":"Visit to troops at Alexandria\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>Went to the Provost Marshalls with Julia this morning and after much trouble got a &#8220;Pass&#8221; to go on the Boat to Alexandria. Took the Boat with Julia at 1 o&#8217;clock. Went directly to the Camp of the NY 27th 3\/4ths of a mile back of the City and near Fort Ellsworth East of &#8220;Shooters Hill.&#8221; Walked over to the Fort with Surgeon Barnes and Lieut Swan, found Lieut Link of Newark &amp; Col Lansing and went through the Fort. Saw Brigade Drill afterwards and back to the Camp. Soldiers in good health.<\/p>\n<p>______<\/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>MONDAY, AUGUST 26, 1861. Went to the Provost Marshalls with Julia this morning and after much trouble got a &#8220;Pass&#8221; to go on the Boat to Alexandria. Took the Boat with Julia at 1 o&#8217;clock. Went directly to the Camp of the NY 27th 3\/4ths of a mile back of the City and near Fort [&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-12393","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\/12393","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=12393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12393\/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=12393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}