Friday July 11 1862
Today we got a Baltimore paper. July 4th,
- It is plain to see that McClellan is beaten
at Richmond- but I fear they are going to
make another strong stand there. They speak
of his being reinforced & advancing on Richmond
under protection of their gunboats. Oh- will
they never be satisfied that they can not
conquer us? Why can not reason have some
voice with them,- Passion alone seems to
reign,--Fannie & I
returned. I never go that I don't regret that we hadn't staid
there, - You will never know know much
better it would have been for us, -
A very disagreeable thing happened at the table to day,-
Fannie said she thought something was polite, & I said,
yes, certainly, that is right, in an emphatic tone, Mary
coming in at the time without hearing any more
than what I said, remarked with great pique that she
hoped "we would teach them something after a while",
Fannie, in astonishment, explained what she meant & after a few
words we stopped talking--But F. being very much mortified,
asked Mary what she meant after dinner as she did not
like to think she had set up to mistreat M & sis B-or been thought to do it
--Fanny said she meant it for me, as I was always finding fault with
her manners. I think to find out when I had been guilty- but
it was only a general assertion & could not be proved. We had
many words--Mary said she was sorry & the matter was
hushed up--But it is most disagreeable to me to be
told in such terms when I am a guest that I am not agreeable
or rather meddlesome--I will try not to offend again. Guilty conscience
[transcription done in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor]
MSS 15406
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