CAMP NEAR ACQUIA CREEK,
November 25, 1862.
I have received your letters of the 20th and 22d inst.,
giving an account of George's1 departure for his regiment. We have
had one or two very fine days; the railroad is repaired some seven miles of the
fifteen. A wharf at the landing has been constructed, and trains are carrying
supplies as far as the road is open. In the meantime, the enemy are said to be
concentrating at Fredericksburg, and the impression gains ground that our
passage of the river will be disputed, and that they will give us battle here.
Our course is plain — to go ahead — and as we shall have to fight them
somewhere, the less distance we have to go the better for us. I am still,
however, of the opinion that they will only try to check us at the river, and
will not risk a general battle.
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1 Son of General Meade.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 333
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