THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1861.
The weather has been fine today and nothing in particular has occured to vary the past routine in the office. My health is excellent this spring. I have made use of cherry bitters occasionaly and perhaps it has kept off my usual billious attack at this season of the year. Attended the Parade on Franklin Square this evening. Called down to Willards for an hour, bot the NY papers, and came home about 9, read the “Times,” bed at 11.
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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.
