HEADQUARTERS SECOND
BRIGADE, MCCALL'S DIVISION,
TEN ALLY-TOWN, September
24, 1861.
Nothing of importance has transpired since I last wrote to
you. I am getting pretty familiar with my duties, which thus far have been
principally paper work. You would be astonished to see the amount of writing
and papering required of a general in the field. A good deal of it is regular
circumlocution, or “How not to do it.” Nevertheless, being regulations, one has
to comply with the requirements, however foolish they may seem. Our mess is
very comfortable. Dr. Stocker is caterer, and I have a young man from one of
the regiments acting as my adjutant general, till the arrival of Captain Baird.
Captain Ringwalt, a Chester County farmer, has been assigned to me as
quartermaster. He is said to be a most respectable and wealthy farmer of
Chester County.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 220
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