{"id":31770,"date":"2023-12-20T02:51:00","date_gmt":"2023-12-20T07:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13586"},"modified":"2020-09-24T10:51:44","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T15:51:44","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-550","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-550\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Dec. 20<sup>th<\/sup> 1863.<\/p>\n<p>Went to the Capitol this morning at 11 o&#8217;ck and heard Rev John Lord (the Lecturer) preach, subject the \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Sorrows<\/span> of <span class=\"underscore\">Knowledge<\/span>,\u201d took his text from Solomon, or Ecclesiastes, 1 chapter last verse, \u201cFor in much wisdom is much grief and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.\u201d He dwelt upon the imperfections of men <span class=\"underscore\">dissecting<\/span> every Class, laying bare their motives of action, their pride, Selfishness, dishonesty, ingratitude, hypocracy, &amp;c, remarking that he who pandered to popular sentiment without reference to principle would be most popular. That the meanest and most dishonest men made the most money. And showing that the more knowledge a man got of the world the more he became disgusted with it. What we call science was but unsettled opinions, and the deeper we got the more we saw our own ignorance and discovered how unsatisfactory were our deepest studies. Knowing all this of the world and its pursuits, knowing its sorrows, its bereavements, its disappointments, the inference was that nothing but a higher life, a <span class=\"underscore\">higher<\/span> aim, could satisfy the mind. A knowledge of the world led to sorrow of the heart. A knowledge of God only led to happiness. I do not quote his language. The discourse was the most <span class=\"underscore\">powerful<\/span> I ever heard. Gen<sup>l<\/sup> John Buford US Cavalry was buried today, he died of Typhoid fever in this City. His funeral was largely attended and was a great Military display reaching at least \u00bd mile on the Avenue with 12 men in abreast. Six Major Gen<sup>ls<\/sup> were pall bearers, Gen<sup>ls<\/sup> Casey, Sickels, Augur, Hancock, Heintzelman, and Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Schofield. The coffin was bourne to the Hearse by Six cavalry men. His Horse with boots in the Stirrups was let behind the Hearse by two Soldiers. His mullato waiter or bodyservant walked directly behind his dead master and seemed to grieve very much. Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Buford was considered the best Cavalry Gen<sup>l<\/sup> we had. He was a Kentuckyan, thirty eight years of age and graduated at West Point in 1848. We have Tea sundays at Doctor Munsons at six o&#8217;clock. I called at Cha<sup>s<\/sup> and staid an hour, then came to my room, wrote a letter to my wife. Tomorrow I must send some books to the Boys for Christmas presents. Julia went yesterday up to Co<sup>l<\/sup> Wellings Camp, 9<sup>th<\/sup> Artillery, Fort Sumner. Mrs W. sent for her, she will stay a week or so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday Dec. 20th 1863. Went to the Capitol this morning at 11 o&#8217;ck and heard Rev John Lord (the Lecturer) preach, subject the \u201cSorrows of Knowledge,\u201d took his text from Solomon, or Ecclesiastes, 1 chapter last verse, \u201cFor in much wisdom is much grief and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.\u201d He dwelt upon 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-31770","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\/31770","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=31770"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31770\/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=31770"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31770"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31770"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}