{"id":13062,"date":"2021-11-11T16:00:26","date_gmt":"2021-11-11T21:00:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2984"},"modified":"2020-08-01T00:49:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-01T05:49:30","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-312\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;News rcd tonight of the taking of Charleston S.C. by our &#8216;Expedition&#8217; and fire works blazed for two hours.&#8221;\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MONDAY 11<\/p>\n<p>A windy morning with a storm threatened. <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Tent<\/span> rather airy but slept pretty well. Went round and bade my friends good bye and started for home with Lieut Gaul about one o&#8217;clock in a hack which took us to Alexandria where we took the Boat for Washington. Got home about 3 o&#8217;clock. The Lieut stops with us a short time. News rcd tonight of the taking of Charleston S.C. by our &#8220;Expedition&#8221; and fire works blazed for two hours. Julia has been quite sick and still <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">coughs<\/span> badly.<\/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>MONDAY 11 A windy morning with a storm threatened. Tent rather airy but slept pretty well. Went round and bade my friends good bye and started for home with Lieut Gaul about one o&#8217;clock in a hack which took us to Alexandria where we took the Boat for Washington. Got home about 3 o&#8217;clock. The [&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-13062","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\/13062","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=13062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/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=13062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}