{"id":12706,"date":"2021-10-04T05:30:10","date_gmt":"2021-10-04T10:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2945"},"modified":"2020-07-30T08:33:09","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T13:33:09","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-211","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-211\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Prof Lows Balloon was high up over &#8216;Dixey&#8217; this evening. Heavy guns have been frequently heard over the River.&#8221;\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>Another hot day. Much as yesterday &#8220;danced attendance&#8221; at the Treasury most of the day without seeing the Sec&#8217;y. It has been <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Cabinet<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">day<\/span> and <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">he<\/span> much engaged. Think some of getting a room for compounding various medicines and articles for sale with the assistance of Chas &#8212; <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Must<\/span> do something to make some money, if possible. Julia has been out to the Camp of the &#8220;Anderson Zouaves&#8221; with Capt Mew. Prof Low[e]s Balloon was high up over &#8220;Dixey&#8221; this evening. Heavy guns have been frequently heard over the River.<\/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>FRIDAY, OCTOBER 4, 1861. Another hot day. Much as yesterday &#8220;danced attendance&#8221; at the Treasury most of the day without seeing the Sec&#8217;y. It has been Cabinet day and he much engaged. Think some of getting a room for compounding various medicines and articles for sale with the assistance of Chas &#8212; Must do something [&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-12706","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\/12706","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=12706"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12706\/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=12706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}