1862 August 28 "Clifton," Fauquier County, Va.

[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]

Thursday, August 28, 1862

Willie read aloud after we got our [?]
but we were all occupied thinking
of the great fight & no one seemed
very attentive.  he reads too slowly.
Pa thinks that unless Jackson whips
he is in a tight place--
I think he will surely whip-
though I reel afraid too--no one
knows what the end may be.

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

MSS 15406