Thursday, May 29, 2014

Major General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, June 18, 1863

Green Springs, Va.,1 June 18, 1863.

We reached here last evening, on our way to Leesburg. The enemy, as far as we can learn, are in the Valley of the Shenandoah, occupying the line they did when McClellan crossed the Potomac last fall. We cannot learn that any great force has crossed into Maryland or Pennsylvania. Should this prove true, we shall have to go to the valley after them.
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1 Gum Springs on map.

SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 386

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