{"id":16147,"date":"2023-02-19T14:57:00","date_gmt":"2023-02-19T19:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13548"},"modified":"2020-09-23T13:35:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T18:35:10","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-512","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-512\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Thursday Feb. 19<sup>th<\/sup> 1863.<\/p>\n<p>Another of the most unpleasant days of the season, rain or mist all day and plenty of mud in the streets. I have had but little to do in the office today. I have read a part of the time, and written a letter to Julia sending her also by mail T Buchanan Reads new Poem, \u201cThe Wagoner of the Alleghanys\u201d (postage 13 cents). I went on to the Av<sup>e<\/sup> after leaving the office. Called at <span class=\"underscore\">Thompsons<\/span> on 15<sup>th<\/sup> s<sup>t<\/sup>, dealer in old Books Jewelry &amp;c. I found him a rank <span class=\"underscore\">Rebel<\/span> and think his shop a sort of rendezvous for that class of men. <span class=\"underscore\">He<\/span> is an Englishman. I attended the Lodge of the Union League. It is increasing in numbers rapidly <span class=\"underscore\">here<\/span> and all over the U.S. The \u201cpapers\u201d contain no news tonight of any importance. The falling rain and the melting snows at the West will raise the Rivers so that our Gun Boats will be able to go nearly all over the South and it will also greatly favor Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Grant in his efforts to capture Vicksburgh. That is the great point of interest just now. The high water will help the Canal project which is to cut off Vicksburgh and leave it some four miles inland. We are looking also to Charleston and Savannah for news. Our \u201cIron Clads\u201d are gathering at Port Royal, and we shall soon hear from them. Gold is today quoted 164, the highest yet. It is said the Currency Bill is in doubt in the \u201cHouse.\u201d The <span class=\"underscore\">Bank<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Nabobs<\/span> are too strong for the <span class=\"underscore\">peoples<\/span> interest.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Thursday Feb. 19th 1863. Another of the most unpleasant days of the season, rain or mist all day and plenty of mud in the streets. I have had but little to do in the office today. I have read a part of the time, and written a letter to Julia sending her also by [&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-16147","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\/16147","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=16147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16147\/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=16147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}