CAMP NEAR BROOKS
STATION. VA., December 6, 1862.
I have just sent you a telegram announcing that I had
received from Washington notice by telegraph of my promotion. I am truly glad,
for your sake as well as my own.
I wrote you a
few lines last night, at the end of George's letter. Soon after closing, an
order came countermanding our marching, owing to the storm. The weather is very
cold to-night, everything freezing hard; but with my stove and buffalo robe,
and with the good news of to-day, I bid defiance to the weather.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 336
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