WEDNESDAY 8
Another fine bright day. Have been bothered some with ladies at the Pat office calling upon me. I might perhaps better say interupted. They all want to see Gov Sprague of R.I. I took in five and introduced them. Then into the quarters upstairs, then into the Surgeon Genls quarters, then into the Hospital. Juliet renewed the Govs Boquet of flowers. Went after dinner to the Presidents grounds with wife, Juliet & H N Jr. Went from there to the Pat office to see the RI Regt parade. Avee full of people, mostly soldiers. Troops marching and parading all over the City every night. Music heard all over.
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.