TY  - GEN
AU  - Taft,Horatio Nelson
AU  - Brady,Mathew B.
TI  - Horatio Nelson Taft diary,
KW  - Lincoln, Abraham,
KW  - Lincoln family.
KW  - Taft family
KW  - United States
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - Washington (D.C.)
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Examiners, U.S. Patent Office
KW  - itoamc
N1  - Open to research; Available through the Library of Congress Web site
N2  - Three volume diary kept by Taft during Abraham Lincoln's administration in which Taft details events in Washington, D.C., during the Civil War years, including his connection with Abraham Lincoln and the Lincoln family.  Of special interest is Taft's description of Lincoln's assassination, based on accounts of Taft's friends and his son, who was one of the attending physicians at Ford's Theatre the night Lincoln was shot.  The diary contains a genealogy of the Taft family dated 1860.  Includes an undated photograph of Taft by Mathew Brady
UR  - http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000015
ER  -