{"id":15732,"date":"2023-01-05T21:36:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-06T02:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=12501"},"modified":"2020-09-23T01:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T06:40:31","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-400","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-400\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Monday Jan&#8217;y 5<sup>th<\/sup> 1863<\/p>\n<p>Great excitement in the City tonight. We are <span class=\"underscore\">Victorious<\/span> at Murfreesboro. A dispatch has been rc<sup>d<\/sup> from Rosecrans setting the matter at rest and I breathe easier again. And we also hear that in all probability Vicksburgh is in our possession. All our news from the South West is highly favorable. There is no doubt but the Rebels were largely re-inforced in Tennessee during the five or six days fight from Richmond or rather from the Army before Fredericksburgh. The Rebels make the most of their system of Rail Roads and their facilities for <span class=\"underscore\">massing<\/span> troops at any given point has given them a great advantage. Repeatedly have they been able to re-inforce their armies during battle. <span class=\"underscore\">Especialy<\/span> were they able to do so at the first battle of \u201cBull Run\u201d &amp; which won <span class=\"underscore\">them<\/span> a Victory and <span class=\"underscore\">us<\/span> lasting dishonor. It has been contended that their system of R Roads was designed and the Roads constructed with this very state of things in view <span class=\"underscore\">years<\/span> before the Rebellion broke out. But the chief conspirators were silently preparing for it. The worst of it is, they were built (to a great extent) with Northern Capital. At the commencement of the War it is said that the southern States were indebted to the North <span class=\"underscore\">two<\/span> hundred millions dollars, much of which was due on Mercantile transactions. We got news today of the loss of the gallant little <span class=\"underscore\">Monitor<\/span> off Cape Hatteras. She foundered during a heavy sea and some twenty men went down with her or were lost at the time. The \u201cRhode Island\u201d had her in tow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Monday Jan&#8217;y 5th 1863 Great excitement in the City tonight. We are Victorious at Murfreesboro. A dispatch has been rcd from Rosecrans setting the matter at rest and I breathe easier again. And we also hear that in all probability Vicksburgh is in our possession. All our news from the South West is highly [&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-15732","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\/15732","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=15732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15732\/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=15732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}