{"id":97824,"date":"2024-06-02T02:21:07","date_gmt":"2024-06-02T07:21:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=97824"},"modified":"2020-09-26T14:40:06","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:40:06","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-578","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-578\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington June 2<sup>nd<\/sup> 1864<\/p>\n<p>No very great addition has been made to our stock of information in reference to army movements since my last date. Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Grant had a pretty severe fight on Monday last (30<sup>th<\/sup> ult) but no particulars as yet. His army is near Mechanicsville some five or six miles north of Richmond. A portion of Butlers Army formed a Junction or Joined Grants army last week (under Gen<sup>l<\/sup> \u201cBaldy\u201d Smith). It is now said that Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Lee is inside of the entrenchments of Richmond. I imagine <span class=\"underscore\">that<\/span> it is where Grant <span class=\"underscore\">wants<\/span> him. I think he will cut off supplies from the City and compell Lee to evacuate or Surrender. Grants army is now supplied from the \u201cWhite House\u201d on the <span class=\"underscore\">Pamunky<\/span> River, Gen<sup>l<\/sup> M<sup>c<\/sup>Clellans old Depot, during the \u201cPeninsula Campaign.\u201d Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Sherman was driving \u201cJoe\u201d Johnson before him through Georgia and was not far from Atlanta at last accounts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington June 2nd 1864 No very great addition has been made to our stock of information in reference to army movements since my last date. Genl Grant had a pretty severe fight on Monday last (30th ult) but no particulars as yet. His army is near Mechanicsville some five or six miles north of Richmond. [&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-97824","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\/97824","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=97824"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97824\/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=97824"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97824"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97824"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}