CAMP NEAR LEESBORO', MD.,
September 8, 1862.
After writing to you on the 6th,
I went to Williards', where I met Willie1 and his wife. I dined with
them, and returned to camp, where I found orders to march. We marched all night
and most of the next day, reaching this point, some ten miles north of
Washington, yesterday afternoon. We have been here one day, and are to move
again to-morrow, and will be, I suppose, kept moving now until something
decisive is done with the enemy, who have invaded Maryland. Hooker has been
placed in command of McDowell's corps, to which we belong, and Burnside has
been placed in Pope's position as commander of an army.
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1 William Sergeant, brother of Mrs. Meade.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 309
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