{"id":16045,"date":"2023-02-08T10:02:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T15:02:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13534"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:06:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:06:50","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-501","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-501\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Sunday Feb&#8217;y 8<sup>th<\/sup> 1863.<\/p>\n<p>A most delightful bright and warm day but wet and muddy crossings. I attended divine service at the Capitol again this morning, heard D<sup>r<\/sup> Stockton. He was not as tedious as usual. There was a very good congregation present, a large portion Strangers. They go to the Capitol for the <span class=\"underscore\">novelty<\/span> of the thing. An elegant piece of Sculpture, a full length life size Washington in beautiful marble, stands fronting Leutzes picture of the Emigrants. It is by Powers and as a work of art it seems could hardly be excelled. The <span class=\"underscore\">chiseling<\/span> is most exquisite. Went up to the \u201cStone Hospital\u201d again today after dinner. Robert White who I saw last Sunday has had his foot taken off just above the ancle. He appears to be doing well. Another NY Soldier, Rufus Chandler from Livingston Co. NY, with whom I talked that day some time <span class=\"underscore\">died<\/span> the next day. <span class=\"underscore\">Rogers<\/span> from Conn. 27<sup>th<\/sup> Reg<sup>t<\/sup>, a Student at Yale, was in the fight at Fredericksburgh, got hit four times by bullets, twice wounded severely and twice slightly. I was there about two hours talking with the \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">boys<\/span>.\u201d I walked up there and back making a walk of near six miles altogether today. Met Ed<sup>d<\/sup> Dickerson this morning. Alex Tower is still a prisoner in Richmond but will be back soon as arrangements have been made for the Exchange of the Sutlers. I have been over to Charleys an hour or two this evening. They all seem very well and very fond of each other and of the <span class=\"underscore\">baby<\/span> which is very pretty. The weather is warm enough to sit without a fire. It is past eleven and I must to <span class=\"underscore\">bed<\/span>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Sunday Feb&#8217;y 8th 1863. A most delightful bright and warm day but wet and muddy crossings. I attended divine service at the Capitol again this morning, heard Dr Stockton. He was not as tedious as usual. There was a very good congregation present, a large portion Strangers. They go to the Capitol for 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-16045","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\/16045","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=16045"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16045\/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=16045"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16045"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16045"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}