Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, March 22, 1864.
Grant is emphatically an executive man, whose only place is
in the field. One object in coming here is to avoid Washington and its entourage.
I intend to give him heartiest co-operation, and so far as I am able do
just the same when he is present that I would do were he absent.
Hancock is in Washington and will be down to-morrow. He was
before the committee to-day. Humphreys has returned, having been before the
committee, where he gave testimony about Gettysburg. Have you seen the article
in the Herald, signed "Staff Officer, Fifth Corps,"1
and one in Monday's (yesterday's) paper signed by General Barnes?2 I
think Historicus after awhile will be sick of his only true and authentic
account of the battle.
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1 For article mentioned, see Appendix K.
2 For article mentioned, see Appendix L.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 182
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