1862 October 25 Fauquier County, Va.

[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]

Thursday, September 25, 1862

Said "Good bye" & gone....
The last thing you said to me was
that I didn't care--I know that I
laughed--But it was only a nervous
affection & you should not have noticed
it. After you turned up the lane I
was so sorry that I did not call you
& take the children & go with you as
far as I could.  have regretted it ever
since....
 I was behind hand in my journal-
after takeing a cry all to myself
went to work to catch up & get
straight again
  I didn't tell you hat I wrote
to you every day-I suppose that
I feel some diffidence about it as
you might not care to read it.
  I often feel like not writing, but
I made a vow to keep it up till
Christmas & will keep it --I hope by
that time to have to record that day
that Peace has been declared--
All the soldiers seem tired of the war-
But say they will fight it out.
  Wm Tompkins left to day poor fellow. He
enjoyed his holiday.

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

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