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040 _aDLC
_beng
_edacs
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100 1 _aTaft, Horatio Nelson,
_d1806-1888.
245 0 0 _aHoratio Nelson Taft diary,
_f1861-1865.
300 _a4
_fitems.
506 0 _aOpen to research.
520 8 _aThree 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.
530 _aAvailable through the Library of Congress Web site.
545 0 _aExaminer for the U.S. Patent Office.
546 _aCollection material in English.
600 1 0 _aLincoln, Abraham,
_d1809-1865.
600 1 0 _aLincoln, Abraham,
_d1809-1865
_xAssassination.
600 3 0 _aLincoln family.
600 3 0 _aTaft family
_vGenealogy.
651 0 _aUnited States
_xPolitics and government
_y1861-1865.
651 0 _aWashington (D.C.)
_xHistory
_yCivil War, 1861-1865.
656 7 _aExaminers, U.S. Patent Office.
_2itoamc
700 1 _aBrady, Mathew B.,
_dapproximately 1823-1896,
_ephotographer.
740 0 _aWashington During the Civil War: the Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865.
856 4 1 _3Washington During the Civil War: the Diary of Horatio Nelson Taft, 1861-1865
_uhttp://hdl.loc.gov/loc.mss/collmss.ms000015
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