CAMP PIERPONT, VA., November
7, 1861.
I ought to have written to you before, but I have been very
busy, having been put on a court-martial as president, and it being the first
time in my military service of thirty years that I ever had anything whatever
to do with a court, I have to spend much time in booking myself up.
McCall showed me to-day a very severe letter from McClellan,
commenting on the state of discipline of his division. I think the report of
the officers who inspected us unfair and illiberal. Whilst I am aware our
discipline is much below what it ought to be, yet I deny the assertion that we
are worse than the rest of the army. McCall was very much mortified, and I am
afraid McClellan has been prejudiced against him by the talking of others.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 226
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