Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, December 12, 1861

CAMP PIERPONT, VA., December 12, 1861.

We have nothing new in the army. Congress and its doings I suppose you see in the papers. It appears Cameron¹ has come out on the Abolition side, but honest old Abe² made him suppress the principal part of his report. I see Congress refused to pass a vote of censure on General Halleck³ for his order about slaves, which indicates the ultras are not yet to have it all their own way.

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¹ Simon Cameron, Secretary of War of the United States.

² Abraham Lincoln, President of the United States.

³ Major-General Henry W. Halleck, U. S. A., in command of the Department of the Missouri.

SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 236