HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY
CORPS, January 7, 1863.
Your assurances of the exalted position I occupy are very
grateful. I don't think, however, you need worry yourself about my getting much
higher for the present. There are too many ahead of me for my turn to come for
some time. To-morrow General Burnside is to review our corps. I sent Coxe up to
Washington, who has returned with the materials for a collation. I wish you
could be here to see the review. Burnside told me to-day that he had
telegraphed to the President for authority to advance, and that if it was
refused, he should insist on retiring. I have reason to believe great efforts
have been made to displace him, and perhaps this act of his may settle it. At
any rate, so long as this question of an advance is open, I cannot get away. I
have been very unfortunate, as almost every one has managed to get off for a
few days.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 346
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