{"id":16044,"date":"2023-02-07T10:27:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-07T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13529"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:06:21","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:06:21","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-500","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-500\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Saturday Feb&#8217;y 7<sup>th<\/sup> 1863.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a bright and beautiful day overhead, some <span class=\"underscore\">mud<\/span> under foot. I was quite surprised to receive a visit at the office today from Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Havelock dressed in full uniform. He came into the Hall and enquired for me and his presence created quite a stir as he was not known. I escorted him about the building and showed him the Libraries, and in the upper Hall or \u201cMuseum\u201d explained to him the operation of the Revolving Fort (Timby<sup>s<\/sup>) with which he was much pleased. His brilliant English Uniform (of a Cavalry officer) attracted much attention in the office and many were the questions of \u201cwho was he?\u201d after he had left. After office hours I went on to the Av<sup>e<\/sup> and visited the Book Stores, Taylors &amp; <span class=\"underscore\">Philps<\/span>, where they know me. I frequently sit there and read for hours in any book I please to take up. It is not a bad place to pick up information at a cheap rate. <span class=\"underscore\">Books<\/span> are so <span class=\"underscore\">awful<\/span> dear that I cannot afford to purchase. I was at Willards awhile, talked an hour with Mr Sweatland, the N.Y. State Agent for the Soldiers. Saw <span class=\"underscore\">Bouge<\/span>, he wanted to borrow a dollar, did not get it. He appeared to be nearly <span class=\"underscore\">sober<\/span>, feared he wanted to get drunk. Called at A B Williams. Mrs <span class=\"underscore\">W<\/span> is <span class=\"underscore\">very<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">sick<\/span>, do not think she can recover. Saw Mrs <span class=\"underscore\">Tice<\/span> there from Palmyra, had seen her in Lyons before. She <span class=\"underscore\">was<\/span> Miss <span class=\"underscore\">Armington<\/span>. Got back to my room before 9 o&#8217;clock.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Saturday Feb&#8217;y 7th 1863. This has been a bright and beautiful day overhead, some mud under foot. I was quite surprised to receive a visit at the office today from Genl Havelock dressed in full uniform. He came into the Hall and enquired for me and his presence created quite a stir as he [&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-16044","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\/16044","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=16044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16044\/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=16044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}