{"id":97860,"date":"2024-12-01T02:46:42","date_gmt":"2024-12-01T07:46:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/?p=97860"},"modified":"2020-09-27T15:54:16","modified_gmt":"2020-09-27T20:54:16","slug":"horatio-nelson-taft-590","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cw-chronicles.com\/blog\/horatio-nelson-taft-590\/","title":{"rendered":"Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Dec 1<sup>st<\/sup> 1864<\/p>\n<p>Since my last date the Presidential Election has passed off quietly and Mr Lincoln is re-Elected, every non Slave holding State but one (New Jersey) going for him. No very great Battles have been fought lately. Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Grant made an unsuccessful attack upon the Rebel works in Oct. Since which time there has not been much fighting with the \u201cArmy of the Potomac.\u201d Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Sheridan defeated the Rebels under <span class=\"underscore\">Gen<sup>l<\/sup> <\/span> <span class=\"underscore\">Early<\/span> three times within Thirty days, the last Battle \u201cCedar Creek\u201d about the time of my last date. He has been made a Major Gen<sup>l<\/sup> in the Regular Army for it. Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Sherman left Atlanta on the 12<sup>th<\/sup> Nov. and Struck boldly out for the Atlantic coast through the centre of Georgia. It is the boldest move of the War. He severed himself from all communication with his former base of supplies from Chattanooga or any other \u201cbase\u201d as well as from all intercourse with Washington. We now only hear from him through Rebel papers. When last heard from he had been out about two weeks from Atlanta and was said to be forty miles south of A[u]gusta. He has a powerful Army of Veterans, probably fifty thousand men, ten thousand being Cavalry. The Rebels of course are in a state of great excitement and threaten to <span class=\"underscore\">destroy<\/span> him <span class=\"underscore\">totaly<\/span> but they have not the power to do it, and we shall soon hear of him and his Army from Savannah or Charleston. He is smashing up Rail Roads and all rebel Gov<sup>t<\/sup> property as he goes and living off the Country. What Towns or Cities he has taken we do not know with the exception of Milledgeville the Capital of Georgia, where he distroyed the public Buildings, so the Rebels say. Tonight we learn that Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Thomas has gained an important Victory over the rebel Army under Gen<sup>l<\/sup> Hood at Franklin Tennessee. I went home to L[ong] I[sland] to attend the Election, was gone two weeks. I returned to Washington on the 18<sup>th<\/sup> Nov. On my return I visited Williamstow[n] Mass. Staid there two days. I left Julia there with her uncle C R Taft. She expects to spend a few weeks there and then go to Lyons. Washington is again filling up (it has <span class=\"underscore\">seemed<\/span> full all the time). Congress meets next Monday and the members are appearing on the Avenue now quite plenty. I have changed <span class=\"underscore\">my<\/span> \u201cbase\u201d since my last date. I am now in 488\u00bd on 7<sup>th<\/sup> Betwen D &amp; E Streets, have a large front room on third floor. There are six rooms on this floor, all occupied by very quiet lodgers. Mr Edward Shaw rents the whole floor and sublets the rooms keeping one himself, which he has occupied for eleven years past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thursday Dec 1st 1864 Since my last date the Presidential Election has passed off quietly and Mr Lincoln is re-Elected, every non Slave holding State but one (New Jersey) going for him. No very great Battles have been fought lately. Genl Grant made an unsuccessful attack upon the Rebel works in Oct. 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