{"id":13282,"date":"2021-12-06T16:00:45","date_gmt":"2021-12-06T21:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=3009"},"modified":"2020-09-05T19:01:54","modified_gmt":"2020-09-06T00:01:54","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-336","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-336\/","title":{"rendered":"“Great crowds at all the Hotels.”\u2014Horatio Nelson Taft"},"content":{"rendered":"

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1861.<\/p>\n

Pleasant day, fine as could be. The City all alive with people. Penn Ave is thronged from morning till late at night. I was in the office all day. At night went down to the Hotels. Called upon Judge Granger at the “Washington House.” At the “National” met W F Aldrich from Palmyra. Great crowds at all the Hotels. Miss Hartly spent the evening with Julia, her Father called for her at 9 o’clock. No news of importance afloat. Congress adjourned till Monday.<\/p>\n

______<\/p>\n

The three diary manuscript volumes, Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865,<\/em> are available online at The Library of \u00a0 Congress<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, 1861. Pleasant day, fine as could be. The City all alive with people. Penn Ave is thronged from morning till late at night. I was in the office all day. At night went down to the Hotels. Called upon Judge Granger at the “Washington House.” At the “National” met W F Aldrich […]<\/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-13282","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\/13282","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=13282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13282\/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=13282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}