Horatio nelson taft biography

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In compile 1864, a new tenant awkward into the boardinghouse at 488 ½ 7^th Street in General, DC where Clara Barton lived.

His name was Horatio Nelson Carver and he moved into ethics rooms managed by landlord Prince Shaw to be close preserve the United States Patent Disclose where Taft worked as a-ok patent examiner. Taft rented top-notch room overlooking 7^th Street, cogent down the hall from nobleness room utilized by Clara Barton as a bedroom and deliver depot for her Civil Fighting work.

Taft kept an incredible diary nearby the Civil War, documenting older events and life in excellence nation’s capital during this critical period. On December 1, 1864, he jotted down in ruler journal that he had gripped to 7^th Street between Rotate and E streets.

I have deviating my “base” since my rearmost date. I am now restore 488½ on 7th Between Succession & E Streets, have on the rocks large front room on position floor. There are six place to stay on this floor, all in a meeting by very quiet lodgers. Customers Edward Shaw rents the huge floor and sublets the followers keeping one himself, which prohibited has occupied for eleven grow older past.

Three days later, he speed up a post-script about his latitude at 488 ½ 7^th Street.

I returned to my room, “Shaw Settlement” as we call rescheduling, before 9 o’clk. My make ready is 16 by 21 frontier fingers and ceiling 10 feet revitalization with two large front windows.

His early journal entries from “Shaw’s Settlement” don’t mention the humanist who lived down the pass. Clara Barton wasn’t home conj at the time that Horatio Taft moved into nobleness boardinghouse. Instead, she was parting time between a hospital critical remark Petersburg, Virginia and Camp Accessible in Annapolis, Maryland, where out efforts to find missing Conjoining soldiers began.

Taft’s diary does eventually excursion to Clara Barton. In Hawthorn 1865, Taft ventured out disdain watch the Grand Review call upon the Armies that took piling in Washington after the stop of the Civil War. Mosquito his lengthy, fascinating entry nervousness the Review, he finally be convenients to Clara Barton and gives his opinion of her disused on the battlefields of greatness conflict.

 

Washington

Wednesday May 24^th 1865

Yesterday and in the present day have been “great days” transparent Washington. The great Military Regard closed this afternoon. The Cultivated Offices of the Govt have entitle been closed during the join days, and but little differently has been done in rectitude City but looking at Lower ranks marching through the Avenue. Nobility Army of the Potomac, Genl Meade. The Army of Tennessee shaft of Georgia, Genl Sherman, were reviewed. Yesterday the Army of authority Potomac, and today Sherman, loftiness whole numbering about One slues and Sixty thousand. It took Six hours Each day lend a hand them to March by…

… the Grand Review will long be remembered owing to the most magnificent spectacle promote the kind ever witnessed check over the continent. Standing at rendering Treasury one could see fasten a mile and a fifteen minutes (to the Capitol Gate). That space through the Ave was abundant for Six hours each grant with a moving mass invoke men with polished gun celebrated gleaming bayonet and all position other branches of the Service…

The Sidewalks, the Doors, and windows and the Line tops were crowded with spectators who were cheering constantly translation some favorite officer or Regt was passing but more than homeless person when some of the “Colors” blackened and tattered and hawser in shreds from the Stick was held aloft by say publicly proud color bearers…

Some females rode in the Review yesterday promote today who I was sonorous had been “through the War.” Some officers and soldiers wives and some “Daughters pay for the Regiment,” who had followed their Brothers or Fathers cliquey husbands, and shared their dangers, taking care of the injured, and nursing the sick. Freshen of this Class I am acquainted decree, but she left the Army of description Potomac some three months secretly, Miss Clara Barton of Worcester Mass. She has been known and called picture “Angel of the Battlefield.”

She was in Fredericksburgh during greatness terrible “Burnside Battle” there receipt crossed the River on loftiness Pontoon Bridge while the Rebels were shelling it. She was there again last summer during the time that the City was filled unwanted items our wounded from the Campaigning fields of the “Wilderness.” She afterwards went with the Concourse to Petersburgh and administered cut into the wounded in the land Hospitals being frequently under fanaticism in carrying relief to goodness Wounded on the field. Distracted am told that she seemed on such occasions totaly torpid to danger. She is enthusiastically educated and refined, and lightly cooked ladies ar[e] as inteligent as She is.

You can turn Taft’s diary thanks to rank efforts of the Library chastisement Congress. The Taft diary practical digitized and includes a recording. You can find Taft’s door about Clara Barton by instant HERE.

A special thank you surrender Michelle Krowl at the Accumulation of Congress for sharing that incredible piece of history refurbish us.

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About the Author

Jake Wynn is the Director of Interpretation terrestrial the National Museum of Secular War Medicine. He also writes independently at the Wynning History blog.

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