THURSDAY 13
It has been cooler today and quite comfortable. We are relieved today in reference to the “Bethel affair.” Our loss not more than first reported 25 or 30. Nothing stirring in the way of news of importance, but important events expected every day and people are on the “qui vive” all the time. Went out into the fields with wife & Juliet to see the 12th in their skirmish drill. H N Jr. has spent the day with Willie Lincoln at the “White House” and dined there with the Prest. Holly has been to the N[avy] Y[ar]d with his Sunday School teacher & took tea with him.
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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.
