{"id":13260,"date":"2021-12-04T08:00:42","date_gmt":"2021-12-04T13:00:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3007"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:01:09","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:01:09","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-339","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-339\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Mr Seward says &#8216;we do not want any more men. The War is nearly over.'&#8221;\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WEDNESDAY 4<\/p>\n<p>Mercury at <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">24<\/span> this morning, the air pure and bracing, in the office as usual all day. Bought some wood and coal this morning, enough I think to last till &#8220;New Years.&#8221; By that time I think the Potomac will be open or clear of Batterys, but it <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">may<\/span> be closed with ice. Some indications of a <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">movement<\/span> over the River. According to the Report of the Sec&#8217;y of War, we have 600,000 men now in the field. Mr Seward says &#8220;we do not want any more men. The War is nearly over.&#8221; Spent an hour with Alex Williams at &#8220;Browns.&#8221;<\/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>WEDNESDAY 4 Mercury at 24 this morning, the air pure and bracing, in the office as usual all day. Bought some wood and coal this morning, enough I think to last till &#8220;New Years.&#8221; By that time I think the Potomac will be open or clear of Batterys, but it may be closed with ice. [&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-13260","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\/13260","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=13260"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13260\/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=13260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}