SATURDAY 7
Another very delightful day. But it was a foggy morning, busy in the office all day. There has been heavy firing heard all day over the River. There has been no Battle and they are only practicing at the Forts. The force over the River is now said to be 200,000 men. There are many on this side, probably not less than Fifty Thousand. They keep coming all the time. I have not been on to the Ave tonight. The boys go to bed at 8, the rest of us about 1/2 past 10. We get up about 1/2 past 6. Breakfast at 8.
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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.