1862 September 18, Fauquier County, Va.

[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]

Thurdsday, September 18, 1862

Nothing by crowds of poor
hungry sick soldiers.  we feed them
from morning till night  cousin Willie
says they do not deserve it
as they would be supplied were they
to keep up with the army  They are
only stragglers

After tea, Cousin Josiah Ryland
came -- asked if Cousin Robert was
here  said they started together & cousin
Robert left him to go to Winchester & when
he got there couldn't find him any
where, so concluded he must have
come on here.

---talk, talk, talk--you & Pa
quarrel so much that we are all
tired of it.  I try to persuade you
to let Pa talk or be quiet &
listen, but you insist on being
 heard--Oh I wish you would
learn that it is not agreeable to
Ma, or any of us to excite Pa, & refrain
from doing it....
If you should see this when I am dead-remember
I told you it whilst living. I am but [?] you

[partially transcribed by her Granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor]

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