Following the American Civil War Sesquicentennial with day by day writings of the time, currently 1863.

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“The City is now very full of strangers, mostly I presume connected in some way with the Army.”—Horatio Nelson Taft

October 29, 2011

Diary of US patent clerk Horatio Nelson Taft.

TUESDAY 29

This has been a most delightful day. I have travelled a good deal about the City mostly on business for other people. I was at the Private qrs of Genl McClellan. Saw the Genl, also my old friend John Cochran of NY, now “Col Cochran.” I was at the office of the Sec’y of the Interior on my own business, was assured that I was to have an appointment very soon. The City is now very full of strangers, mostly I presume connected in some way with the Army.

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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.

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