Camp Above Falmouth, June 13, 1863.
Everything continues very quiet, and two corps having been
moved above me on the river, I feel quite secure and comfortable. Reynolds
moved up yesterday, and stopped to see me as he passed. He told me that being
informed by a friend in Washington, that he was talked of for the command of
this army, he immediately went to the President and told him he did not want
the command and would not take it. He spoke, he says, very freely to the
President about Hooker, but the President said he was not disposed to throw
away a gun because it missed fire once; that he would pick the lock and try it
again. To-day I hear Hooker is going to place Reynolds in command of the right
wing of the army — that is, his corps, Birney's and mine.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 385
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