[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]
Tuesday, September 23, 1862
Made one of the soldiers shirts--finished
it all but shrinking in the sleeves & putting the
collar--
Still the soldiers come, sick &
needy--Ma has great loaves of bread baked
& they vanish immediately--poor fellows.
We can only help a few---what must
such an army suffer. Some tell us
they went two or three days in Md-without
a mouthful & for a day had no water-
Oh! why is it they can not make peace
& send these poor weary men home
I feel now that I know something
of the horrors of war
[as transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor]
MSS 15406
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