CAMP PIERPONT, VA., November
26, 1861.
The weather continues quite cold. We had a slight fall of
snow, and every night a heavy frost. No indications that I can see of a
movement, and every one is beginning to be tired of inactivity, and to wonder
when something will be done. The court martial still continues to occupy my
time from 9 to 3 o'clock each day, but I hope to get through with it now in a
day or two.
Charley Biddle has left his regiment and gone to Philadelphia,
preparatory to taking his seat in Congress. He is really a great loss to this
division. The command of his regiment devolves upon Lieutenant Colonel Thomas
L. Kane.
Did you see Colonel Willcox was among those selected to be
put to death, in case our Government hung any of the privateersmen condemned? I
have no doubt they will carry out their threat and hang man for man, if we
persist in the folly of denying them rights which we have always claimed for
ourselves.
SOURCE: George Meade, The
Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 231-2
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