{"id":15924,"date":"2023-01-25T01:32:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T06:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=12521"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:19:13","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:19:13","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-486","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-486\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Jan&#8217;y 25<sup>th<\/sup> 1863<\/p>\n<p>Attended religious Service in the Senate Chamber this morning, heard Mr Conway from Cincinnati. His Sermon was most excellent till he began to treat upon the subject of Slavery. On <span class=\"underscore\">that<\/span> he was most <span class=\"underscore\">ultra<\/span>. Altho a Virginian he was fairly driven out of Washington a few years ago for preaching Anti Slavery sermons in the Unitarian Church. He makes Slavery his \u201chobby,\u201d and <span class=\"underscore\">vies<\/span> with Wendal Phillips in his extravagant views. We dine at <span class=\"underscore\">two<\/span> on Sundays after which I spent a couple of hours in the Ascension Hospital, and then called upon Mr &amp; Mrs Bemis at the \u201cHerndon House\u201d where I spent an hour. Cap<sup>t<\/sup> Denison and Judge Phelps from Canandagua were there. From there I went down to \u201cWillards\u201d to hear any news which might be stirring. It is <span class=\"underscore\">reported<\/span> there tonight that Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Burnside has resigned the command of the \u201cArmy of the Potomac.\u201d If it is <span class=\"underscore\">true<\/span>, it is well. I do not think he has <span class=\"underscore\">confidence<\/span> enough in <span class=\"underscore\">himself<\/span>, and I doubt whether the other officers have enough confidence in him. Who is to follow? Joseph Hooker, <span class=\"underscore\">I<\/span> think. Conversed awhile with Mr Hatch who has two sons (officers in the Army). <span class=\"underscore\">He<\/span> thinks they are the <span class=\"underscore\">smartest<\/span> and the <span class=\"underscore\">bravest<\/span> in the Army. Saw and talked awhile with Doct Sheldon, of the Medical Directors office. He understands that Doct Taft (Charley) has made out all of <span class=\"underscore\">Doct<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Dorr<sup>s<\/sup> <\/span> reports. Dr D is the Surgeon superintending the \u201cAscension Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Hospital,\u201d 4 churches formerly, <span class=\"underscore\">now<\/span> only two. No War news at all today. We are expecting to hear from our army in N.C. every day now, and also from the south western armies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Jan&#8217;y 25th 1863 Attended religious Service in the Senate Chamber this morning, heard Mr Conway from Cincinnati. His Sermon was most excellent till he began to treat upon the subject of Slavery. On that he was most ultra. Altho a Virginian he was fairly driven out of Washington a few years ago for preaching [&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-15924","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\/15924","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=15924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15924\/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=15924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}