SATURDAY 13
A cool rainy day, woolen clothes comfortable. In the office all day as usual, a crowd of soldiers in the office every day. Troops are pushing over the River now rapidly, and a crisis appears to be approaching. We have just been looking at the signal lights at the camps over the river and answered at the Camps back of the City. It is the Calcium light apparently, and very brilliant. Saw the Dress parade of the 27th. Capt Adams came home and took tea with us. I sent the “Lyons boys” a basket of onions this evening to eat with their bacon, they were much pleased with the present. The “boys” are all well.
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The three diary manuscript volumes, Washington during the Civil War: The Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865, are available online at The Library of Congress.
