CAMP PIERPONT, [VA.], October
24, 1861 — 5 A. M.
I have only time to write you a few lines, to say that late
last night orders came to start early this morning. The direction of our march
is not known, but I suppose it to be in co-operation with Banks and Stone, on
the river above us.1 Indeed,
the general impression among outsiders is that we ought not to have been
withdrawn from Dranesville, as at that place we were within ten miles of the
force that attacked Stone. For myself, I ask no questions and don't speculate.
I know how impossible it is for outsiders to understand everything. Therefore
all I can now say is, that we march.
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1 Engagement at Ball's Bluff, Va., October 21, 1861.
Federal loss, killed, wounded, and missing, 921 (O. R.).
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 225
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