1862 September 2 "Clifton," Fauquier County, Va.

[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]

Mr. L[ackland] heard this morning that Jackson
had been cut all to pieces---severely
whipped--that an officer had
come from our army & said so & that
he was the only man left of his
regiment.  Patty & Emma said they
would not believe it from that
 authority, but Mr. L. & I were apprehensive
it might be so, as the battle was
said to have been thought last Wed-
 Thursday & Friday & it seems so
strange that we should be a
week hearing it if we had gained
a great victory--But we did not
have long to feel gloomy  a gentleman
came, whose son had been in the fight &
had come home to get a horse, & he
said we had gained a complete
victory-- gotten numerous stores, &
the field was in our possession-
 though we had lost severely  the enemies'
loss had been ten to our one,  told us of
many friends that we wounded.  Mr. Botts,
Mr. Moore, General Ewell, Barnch Brown.
--we felt sad to think of them==
 but rejoiced over the victory.

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