[from the diary of Anne MadisonWillis Ambler]

Friday August 29,  1862

From the Northern papers we
are all inclined to think
some fighting has been done &
we are victorious, though they can
not be honest enough to come
out & say so.  We are most
anxious to hear the truth, talk
of nothing else.

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

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