1862 July 26 Fauquier County, Va.

[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]

Saturday, July 26, 1862
Feel week & badly had no idea that I
could [assert?] my self at all--But Carrie
told me that Mr. Ryland had come &
I dressed as quickly as possible to go out
& see him, as I know he had come from
home, & perhaps to make arrangements to
get us home- which was the truth.  Pa
had sent him to fix a day  in future to send
us, & he would meet us at the river. But your
unreasonable father wouldn't hear to it. got
it into his head that Willie had come on his
own hook & said we must wait til Pa sent after
getting our letter & his message by bro. C: But we were
determined not to yield this time as we knew
Pa would be worried & had no one to send,
so he said we would  go with Willie Tuesday if
father wouldn't let us appoint a day.  "go then
I will have nothing to do with its, go on your
own responsibility"  & so we decided to go
though it was disagreeable to act in
opposition to his wishes.
I wrote you & enclosed it in this letter
written to go by Frank Brooke--telling
you of our arrangements & bidding good
bye to you from Fauquier

[as partially transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor]

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