[from the diary of Anne Madison Willis Ambler]
Saw no company! Staid at home
all day. Read & sewed.
Heard the Yankees were coming around
by Smithfield & were going in to the Ferry.
Encamped on Mr. Aldridges land &
destroyed all of his fences, & pulled
down two stacks of wheat to sleep
on, & when they left set fire to it &
burnt it all up: O, it is sad to
think of the waste & destruction.
[as transcribed in 1972 by her granddaughter Anne Madison Wright Baylor]
MSS 15406
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