{"id":12508,"date":"2021-09-10T08:00:32","date_gmt":"2021-09-10T13:00:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=2921"},"modified":"2021-09-09T22:36:34","modified_gmt":"2021-09-10T03:36:34","slug":"from-the-top-of-the-ship-house-we-could-see-the-secession-flag-at-munsons-hill-v-a-with-a-glass-horatio-nelson-taft","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/from-the-top-of-the-ship-house-we-could-see-the-secession-flag-at-munsons-hill-v-a-with-a-glass-horatio-nelson-taft\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;From the top of the Ship House we could see the secession flag at Munsons Hill, V.A., with a glass.&#8221;\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1861.<\/p>\n<p>Went to the Navy Yard today with Doct David and Julia. Chas &amp; Sallie were also along. Quite lively times there but nothing doing excepting preparing war material, shot, cannon, &amp;c. The Steamer Pensecola is nearly completed and was taking on her stores. 400 sailors for her were landed at the yard this morning. From the top of the <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Ship<\/span> <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">House<\/span> we could see the secession flag at Munsons Hill, V.A., with a glass. Got Home to dinner and went down to see the Regulars Dress Parade &amp; hear their music.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">______<\/p>\n<p>The three diary manuscript volumes, <em>Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865,<\/em> are available online at <a href=\"http:\/\/lcweb2.loc.gov\/ammem\/tafthtml\/tafthome.html\">The Library of \u00a0 Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 1861. Went to the Navy Yard today with Doct David and Julia. Chas &amp; Sallie were also along. Quite lively times there but nothing doing excepting preparing war material, shot, cannon, &amp;c. The Steamer Pensecola is nearly completed and was taking on her stores. 400 sailors for her were landed at 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-12508","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":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/horatio-nelson-taft-e1622981709398.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/95680"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}