Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, May 30, 1864.
We are within sixteen miles of Richmond, working our way
along slowly but surely. I expect we shall be a long while getting in, but I
trust through the blessing of God we will at last succeed, and if we do, I
think, from the tone of the Southern press, and the talk of the prisoners, that
they will be sensible enough to give it up. They are now fighting cautiously,
but desperately, disputing every inch of ground, but confining themselves
exclusively to the defensive.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 199
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