{"id":16353,"date":"2023-03-13T12:52:00","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T17:52:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13570"},"modified":"2020-09-24T08:39:55","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T13:39:55","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-534","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-534\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Friday March 13<sup>th<\/sup> 1863.<\/p>\n<p>It has been quite a cold day with Snow in the middle of it and freezing hard tonight. News by the papers that there has been a battle at Yazoo City Miss and that we have taken 7000 Rebels prisoners. I think the Report needs confirmation. No other news of any particular importance today. Most of my time in the office has been occupied with my friends who have called, among whom were Co<sup>l<\/sup> So<sup>l<\/sup> Bulkley, [L or S?] Short of Buffalo (formerly) now of Phil<sup>a<\/sup> and Seelye, formerly of [Sodus?], now Syracuse. I have been down to the \u201cNational\u201d this evening writing a Specification for Short for a Patent for his \u201cGreek fire.\u201d He seems to be making something out of it by furnishing it for filling \u201cShells\u201d for the Gov<sup>t<\/sup>. Called today to see Mrs Burch, the owner of the House I am in. She is one of the F.F.V<sup>s<\/sup> and of course \u201csecesh\u201d and was somewhat frightened when I enquired about the property thinking no doubt of the awful \u201cconfiscation\u201d act and other penalties which the disloyal have to fear. She did not \u201clet out\u201d any of her rebel Sentiments to me. I called at Charleys also a few minutes. Met <span class=\"underscore\">Co<sup>l<\/sup> <\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Close<\/span> of Fort M<sup>c<\/sup>Dowell at the National. <span class=\"underscore\">He<\/span> invited me over to see him at the Fort. I should think him a pretty wide awake officer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Friday March 13th 1863. It has been quite a cold day with Snow in the middle of it and freezing hard tonight. News by the papers that there has been a battle at Yazoo City Miss and that we have taken 7000 Rebels prisoners. I think the Report needs confirmation. No other news of [&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-16353","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\/16353","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=16353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16353\/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=16353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}