[from the diary of Matthella Page Harrison as transcribed at a later date]
Saturday, July 26th
The families of Saratoga, Longwood and Briars dined here today. Cousin Mary
Randolph came in the evening. There is a report that Ewell's forces had a victorious
engagement at Front Royal yesterday, which accounts for the strictures on intercourse
with Winchester on Thursday and yesterday. The Nashville has run the blockade with
guns and ammunition as a present from England to the Southern Confederacy. I feel
proud when I write these two words and think of the desperate struggles of our brave
men for the freedom our forefathers died for and northern tyrants have tried to wrest
from us. Mr. Pope of the Federal congregation of the valley has issued a manifesto
that all men over the age of eighteen that will not take the oath are to be arrested.
Breakers ahead for stayers at home.
MSS 9759
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