Headquarters Army Of The Potomac,
Centreville, October 17, 1863.
Lee made a desperate
effort to get in my rear, but I succeeded in out-manoeuvring him, and got into
position at this place, Centreville, with my back to Washington, and ready for
his attack if he had chosen to make it.1 This is the third day we
have been here and he has not come forward; I am trying to find out where he
now is. If he is near me I shall attack him, but I fear that, failing in his
manoeuvre, he is either going back, or going up into the Valley of the
Shenandoah, where I shall have to follow him.
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1 Bristoe, Va., campaign.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 153-4
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