{"id":31857,"date":"2024-02-09T01:57:00","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T06:57:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13590"},"modified":"2020-09-24T17:25:10","modified_gmt":"2020-09-24T22:25:10","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-554","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-554\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>February 9<sup>th<\/sup> 1864 Monday<\/p>\n<p>Julia and myself took the Gov<sup>t<\/sup> Steam Tug \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Lookout<\/span>\u201d at 3 o&#8217;clock P.M. on Saturday and went down to Rosiers Bluff or to \u201cFort Foot\u201d three miles below Alexandria on the Maryland side on a visit to Maj E. P. Taft who is at present in command. We returned last evening. While there we enjoyed ourselves much. We visited M<sup>t<\/sup> Vernon with a select company and in a special steamer which is employed for the Fort. The Company consisted of Maj Taft &amp; Lady, Cap<sup>t<\/sup> Lyon &amp; Lady, Surgeon Sabin &amp; Lady, Cap<sup>t<\/sup> &amp; Lady, Surgeon Chamberlin of the 9<sup>th<\/sup>, Cap<sup>t<\/sup> Winchester, Commissary of the 9<sup>th<\/sup> at Fort Foot, Lieut Wellington, and ourselves. Cap<sup>t<\/sup> Roeselle at the Fort was quite attentive to Julia. He was officer of the day and did not go on the trip. Surge[o]n Chamberlin did the <span class=\"underscore\">polite<\/span> to her on the trip.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>February 9th 1864 Monday Julia and myself took the Govt Steam Tug \u201cLookout\u201d at 3 o&#8217;clock P.M. on Saturday and went down to Rosiers Bluff or to \u201cFort Foot\u201d three miles below Alexandria on the Maryland side on a visit to Maj E. P. Taft who is at present in command. We returned last evening. [&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-31857","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\/31857","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=31857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31857\/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=31857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}