{"id":97816,"date":"2024-05-12T02:20:42","date_gmt":"2024-05-12T07:20:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=97816"},"modified":"2020-09-26T14:26:50","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:26:50","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-565","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-565\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington May 12<sup>th<\/sup> 1864<\/p>\n<p>The news from the Army continues favorable. Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Grant most pertinaciously sticks to Lee driving him from one position to another and making steady progress onward towards Richmond. We have no news from the forces near Richmond today, but it is thought that all the R Roads leading there have been out and communication betwen R. and Lee<sup>s<\/sup> Army destroyed. Grants Army has been much depleted. He has lost heavily in wounded and in <span class=\"underscore\">runaways<\/span> \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">Skedadlers<\/span>\u201d as they are called. It is thought that nearly one half of those arriving here as \u201cwounded\u201d before today had no sufficient reason for leaving the Army. Many of them cannot show a scratch. Today patrols are going round and picking them up and they will be sent back. Many wounded have arrived today in Steam Boats from Aquia Creek. But surgeons are immediately sent on Board as soon as the Boat arrives who examine every man before he is allowed to go on shore. The <span class=\"underscore\">runaways<\/span> are mostly the raw recruits who have but recently joined the Army, the \u201c<span class=\"underscore\">high<\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">bounty<\/span> men\u201d as they are called. I met D<sup>r<\/sup> Mark Hopkins of W<sup>ms<\/sup> College this evening at \u201cWillards,\u201d he has a son wounded who he intends taking home with him. He (the Son) is Cap<sup>t<\/sup> of Cavalry, 1<sup>st<\/sup> Mass. The Hotels are much crowded, these battles have called many people here to see about their friends in the army. Rc<sup>d<\/sup> letter from my wife today and answered it. It has rained the most of the day and is thundering and raining now, 10 P.M.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington May 12th 1864 The news from the Army continues favorable. Genl Grant most pertinaciously sticks to Lee driving him from one position to another and making steady progress onward towards Richmond. We have no news from the forces near Richmond today, but it is thought that all the R Roads leading there have been [&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-97816","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\/97816","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=97816"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97816\/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=97816"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97816"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97816"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}