Tuesday 4th
This is Julias Birth day. I must try and make her some little present. There is talk about town the the [sic] Illumination “goes off” tonight but I think it will not. It has been dry today but the Weather does not appear to be settled yet. No news that I have heard of.
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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.
