{"id":31941,"date":"2024-03-20T01:10:00","date_gmt":"2024-03-20T06:10:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dotcw.com\/?p=13598"},"modified":"2020-09-26T07:50:19","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T12:50:19","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-561","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-561\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"

Washington D.C. March 20th<\/sup>\/64<\/p>\n

Not much of importance has transpired in regard to the War since my last date. Genl<\/sup> Grant has been here (He is now Lieut Genl<\/sup>) and has gone back to Tennessee, but soon returns and takes command of the Army of the Potomac in person. Having command at the same time of all the Armies of the U.S. The spring campaigns will open before many weeks and desperate fighting is expected. More desperate probably than any Battles we have yet seen for the Rebels are staking their last chances and are desperate. Our<\/span> Armies are strong and are better officered than ever before as there has been a great \u201cweeding out\u201d going on during the past year of good for nothing \u201cShoulder Straps.\u201d The coming next six months must be decisive of the war or I am much mistaken. It is without doubt assuming a more relentless and cruel character as it progresses, on both sides, but the rebel \u201cpapers\u201d are getting furious and call loudly for vengeance even on the prisoners in their hands, but as we hold many more of theirs than they do of ours they will have to take it out in raving. The rebel leaders are determined to prolong the War until after the next Presidential Election at least in the hope that a \u201cPeace Democrat\u201d will be Elected and then they can make better terms, or even be acknowledged Independant. But from present indications their hopes will not be realized. Most of the leading<\/span> Democrats in the States are \u201cWar<\/span> democrats\u201d and would concede nothing to them until they laid down their arms and submitted to the laws. Mr Lincoln seems to be the favorite candidate of the Republicans, but I should not wonder if there should be a Split<\/span> in the Party.<\/p>\n

On Friday last Julia and myself went on board the Govt<\/sup> Steamer at 3 o’clock P.M. and were landed at Rosiers Bluff or rather Fort<\/span> Foot<\/span> in about an hour after. I remained overnight and returned yesterday, leaving Julia to spend a few days with her Cousins Maj E P Taft and family. There is now about Six hundred men there and the Fort seems to be completed but the guns<\/span> are not all mounted yet. There is one 400 pounder mounted and a number of 200 pounder Parrots. Lieut Col<\/sup> Seward is now in Com[ma]nd<\/sup>. His Lady came up on the Boat with me and I saw her safely landed and through the Street cars to the Secretarys House on 16th<\/sup> St<\/sup>. On my return I found a letter for Julia from her particular friend Capt<\/sup> Mc<\/sup> Leod<\/span> now with the Army of the Cumberland in Tennessee. He is on Genl<\/sup> Garrards Staff. I mailed it to her without delay as I presumed She was anxious to hear from him and I was willing she should, and was not disposed to pry into their secrets by opening it. She has shown me his letters before and I doubt not will show me this if I desire her to do so as she is very open and frank with me in regard to him<\/span> and all others who pay attention to her. Julia is a very discreet girl, very careful of her steps, and of the company she keeps. She will not go on to \u201cthe Avenue\u201d alone, or without a Gentleman with her, after 12 o’clock A.M. for shoping or any other purpose. Consequently I always feel quite confident that she is safe<\/span> whenever I miss her from the house. We shall start for home about the first of next month. I expect her up from the Fort in three or four days but she is enjoying herself riding on horseback and otherwise so much that she may<\/span> stay a little longer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Washington D.C. March 20th\/64 Not much of importance has transpired in regard to the War since my last date. Genl Grant has been here (He is now Lieut Genl) and has gone back to Tennessee, but soon returns and takes command of the Army of the Potomac in person. Having command at the same time […]<\/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-31941","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\/31941","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=31941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31941\/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=31941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}