HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY
CORPS, February 13, 1863.
I have not seen General Hooker for several days, indeed his
course towards me is so inexplicable in refusing me leave of absence, and not
vouchsafing any reason for it, that I feel indisposed to see him. Besides, I do
not like his entourage. Such gentlemen as Dan Sickles and Dan
Butterfield are not the persons I should select as my intimates, however worthy
and superior they may be. I rode over to George's1 camp to-day and
paid him a short visit. The regiment, since the breaking up of the grand
divisions, has been placed under Stoneman, who has command of all the cavalry.
This will give them a much better chance of seeing service than when attached
to Headquarters, which is a lazy, loafing sort of duty. Have you read General
Pope's famous report? I see he says I did my duty in all fidelity to the
Government, for which, of course, I am truly grateful.
__________
2 Son of General Meade.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 354
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