{"id":15968,"date":"2023-01-30T20:37:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-31T01:37:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=12526"},"modified":"2020-09-23T11:21:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-23T16:21:19","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-491","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-491\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Friday January 30<sup>th<\/sup> 1863<\/p>\n<p>Not an unpleasant day over head but the Streets are in an <span class=\"underscore\">awful<\/span> condition, being unpaved they are almost impassible. Assisted Mrs Reed in the \u201cN York Soldiers Relief association\u201d Room in packing a Box to send to one of the Reg<sup>ts<\/sup> over the River. The room is in the basement of the Pa<sup>t<\/sup> office and is cramed with all sorts of things which have been sent from NY State for the Soldiers from NY. Some member of the association visits each Hospital and ascertains what is needed and gives his order to some Soldier who goes with it to the room where it is honored. Sometimes the Visitor takes the articles himself to the Hospital and distributes them. But frequent impositions are practiced by the soldiers and playing \u201cdestitute\u201d is quite a \u201cgame.\u201d There are plenty of jews here to buy the articles of clothing and the money brings whiskey and the <span class=\"underscore\">guard<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">house<\/span> also. Spent an hour at the Ascension Hospital talking with the boys. They are generaly cheerful and contented. There are many there badly wounded but doing well. Called at Doct Munsons. He joins the Army tomorrow much against the <span class=\"underscore\">will<\/span> of himself and family, but he is ordered away. Was in at Willards awhile, talked with the celebrated Gift Enterprize Man, <span class=\"underscore\">Gen<sup>l<\/sup> <\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Perham<\/span>. He has <span class=\"underscore\">his<\/span> plan for subdueing the Rebels. I have his pamphlet. He goes for an armed occupation by <span class=\"underscore\">Sutlers<\/span> from the North. He will provide <span class=\"underscore\">Excursion<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Tickets<\/span> for them on all Rail Roads!! Got back to my room about eight o&#8217;clock. Wrote an article for a morning paper &amp; <span class=\"underscore\">this<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">page<\/span>, 11 o&#8217;clk.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Friday January 30th 1863 Not an unpleasant day over head but the Streets are in an awful condition, being unpaved they are almost impassible. Assisted Mrs Reed in the \u201cN York Soldiers Relief association\u201d Room in packing a Box to send to one of the Regts over the River. The room is in 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-15968","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\/15968","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=15968"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15968\/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=15968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}