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

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“Famine stares us in the face unless the routes are kept open. Where are the expected troops?”—Horatio Nelson Taft

April 21, 2011

Diary of US patent clerk Horatio Nelson Taft.

SUNDAY 21

This has been a pleasant but anxious day. We seem to be surrounded by enimies, and enimies in our midst. No troop have yet arrived since the Mass. Regt. How anxiously have we looked for the 7th Regt of NY today. I left the National tonight at 11 o’clock but could get no reliable information. We may be in the midst of bloodshed any hour, and I am looking for an outbreak or attack all the time. Famine stares us in the face unless the routes are kept open. Where are the expected troops?

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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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