{"id":97819,"date":"2024-05-16T02:20:50","date_gmt":"2024-05-16T07:20:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=97819"},"modified":"2020-09-26T14:32:47","modified_gmt":"2020-09-26T19:32:47","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-573","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-573\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Monday May 16<sup>th<\/sup> 1864<\/p>\n<p>It has been rather a still and quiet day. No exciting news has been circulated and it is understood that not much fighting has been done for the past two or three days. <span class=\"underscore\">Lee<\/span> is said to be now occupying a strong position south of Spotsylvania C. H. and I think is not so much <span class=\"underscore\">weakened<\/span> as we were hoping he was, his supplies cannot be cut off entirely or he would be compelled to retreat much farther than he probably has. Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Butler is investing Fort Darling and fighting Beauregard. A great many troops have been sent to re-Inforce Grant. Thirty or forty thousand it is said. A <span class=\"underscore\">Battery<\/span> came today from Fairfax C.H., <span class=\"underscore\">it is said<\/span> in some haste. Do our military rulers <span class=\"underscore\">here<\/span> fear a \u201craid\u201d by the Rebels? The Defenses have been greatly weakened by sending off the old Garrisons the past week.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Monday May 16th 1864 It has been rather a still and quiet day. No exciting news has been circulated and it is understood that not much fighting has been done for the past two or three days. Lee is said to be now occupying a strong position south of Spotsylvania C. H. and I think [&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-97819","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\/97819","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=97819"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97819\/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=97819"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97819"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97819"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}