Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, March 16, 1864.
My Gettysburg fight is at present in statu quo, except
that I have enclosed to the War Department the letter from the New York Herald,
of the 12th, signed Historicus, saying I believed it was written, or dictated,
by General Sickles, and that I desire he may be called on to state whether he
authorized it, or endorses it; and should he reply in the affirmative, I then
ask for a court of inquiry. If the department is not disposed to accede to
this, I then ask permission to make public such official documents as I deem
necessary to my defense.
George1 has gone to a ball to-night, given in the
Fifth Corps. I thought I had better keep quiet at home, and not expose myself,
as my cold, though better, still hangs about me. These balls were always
against my judgment, and I see they are beginning to be animadverted on by
those who are unfriendly to this army, and who are ready to catch at anything
to find fault with.
As I told you, I was much pleased with Grant, and most
agreeably disappointed in his evidence of mind and character. You may rest
assured he is not an ordinary man.
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1 Son of General Meade.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 180-1
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