{"id":15908,"date":"2023-01-24T01:31:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-24T06:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=12520"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:18:51","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:18:51","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-485","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-485\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Saturday Jan&#8217;y 24<sup>th<\/sup> 1863<\/p>\n<p>Mild and pleasant today, not much like winter. We have passed a quiet day, no <span class=\"underscore\">Stirring<\/span> news afloat and no startling rumors. Some successes of our Western gun Boats under the gallant <span class=\"underscore\">Porter<\/span> on the White River are published. The news boys <span class=\"underscore\">cry<\/span> it as \u201canother Union Victory.\u201d Let us <span class=\"underscore\">take<\/span> it <span class=\"underscore\">as<\/span> such for we <span class=\"underscore\">need<\/span> them <span class=\"underscore\">badly<\/span> just now. I cannot imagine <span class=\"underscore\">where<\/span> we are drifting to as a Nation. An immense Army and (I may almost say) nobody competent to command it. A country with inexhaustable resources and (I may almost say again) nobody competent to direct and apply its energies. In the present fearful crisis, we have realy no Talented Statesman, no public Men (who are up to the \u201ctimes\u201d) directing the affairs of the Nation, no Military <span class=\"underscore\">genius<\/span> to direct our great \u201cArmy of the Potomac,\u201d and the army itself is now melting away by resignations of officers, and desertions, at a fearful rate. When <span class=\"underscore\">drafting<\/span> in the States has proved a failure, how is it ever to be recruited or preserved from utter ruin unless it soon <span class=\"underscore\">wins<\/span> a victory. I have spent the most of this evening with Vanmaster at his office on the Avenue. <span class=\"underscore\">Bouge<\/span> came in (quite sober). He is the <span class=\"underscore\">pink<\/span> of assurance and self confidence, but poor and needy. Poor Bouge. Twenty years ago he was the (\u201cnice young man\u201d the <span class=\"underscore\">Ladies<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Man<\/span> in Lyons) now geting old, <span class=\"underscore\">living<\/span> as it were by chance, the wreck of his former self, the sad effects of \u201cwine &amp; women.\u201d I have not been interupted by any <span class=\"underscore\">calls<\/span> today, have worked <span class=\"underscore\">some<\/span> &amp; <span class=\"underscore\">read<\/span> a <span class=\"underscore\">good<\/span> deal.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Saturday Jan&#8217;y 24th 1863 Mild and pleasant today, not much like winter. We have passed a quiet day, no Stirring news afloat and no startling rumors. Some successes of our Western gun Boats under the gallant Porter on the White River are published. The news boys cry it as \u201canother Union Victory.\u201d Let us [&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-15908","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\/15908","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=15908"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15908\/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=15908"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15908"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15908"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}