{"id":16338,"date":"2023-03-10T12:49:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T17:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13567"},"modified":"2020-09-24T08:39:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T13:39:06","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-531","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-531\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday March 10<sup>th<\/sup> 1863<\/p>\n<p>It has snowed and rained the most of the day and been as unpleasant as ever. Maj E P T[aft] came down from the Fort today and called upon me at the office. Staid till near three o&#8217;clock and I went down to the Hotel with him where I met \u201cCarrie\u201d Knowles who has been down to visit her husband. Lieut Co<sup>l<\/sup> Seward was also there. The news boys were crying the evening papers vociferously, \u201cLatest News Capture of Vandorns Rebel Army.\u201d Well there is such a <span class=\"underscore\">report<\/span> in the papers tonight, but <span class=\"underscore\">only<\/span> a report. We shall know more in a day or two about it. At Vicksburgh Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Grant is fighting the Rebels with <span class=\"underscore\">Water<\/span> and threatening to deluge the whole Country by turning the Waters of the Miss River. The papers say that the inhabitants are much alarmed. Outrages in this City are becoming quite frequent. Last night there was one man murdered on P.A. Av<sup>e<\/sup> and two roberies in frequented parts of the City in the evening. Men were knocked down in the street &amp; robed. I think I will stay <span class=\"underscore\">in<\/span> as I have this evening, but the <span class=\"underscore\">mud<\/span> kept me in tonight. I sent off the soldiers money this afternoon and enclosed a good deal more and directed for soldiers while at the Express office. Wrote home &amp; <span class=\"underscore\">may<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">go<\/span> home the last of the week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tuesday March 10th 1863 It has snowed and rained the most of the day and been as unpleasant as ever. Maj E P T[aft] came down from the Fort today and called upon me at the office. Staid till near three o&#8217;clock and I went down to the Hotel with him where I met \u201cCarrie\u201d [&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-16338","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\/16338","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=16338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16338\/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=16338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}