Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, 10 P. M., July 20,
1864.
I am a good deal amused at your fear that I will become
entangled with politicians. You may make your mind easy on that point, as, with
the exception of what you write, I have never heard a word breathed on the
subject. I rather fancy I should be considered too independent and too
intractable for the purposes of any of these gentlemen.
Much excitement was created to-day by the announcement that
General W. F. Smith, who returned last evening from his sick leave, was this
morning relieved from his command of the Eighteenth Corps and ordered to New
York. It was only the other day he was assigned by the President to this
command, and Butler sent to Fortress Monroe. It appears now the tables are
turned — Butler remains and Smith goes.
We have had a little rain, which has added greatly to our
comfort and allayed somewhat the dust which has been such an annoyance. We are
waiting the return of the Sixth Corps, sent to relieve Washington, after which
I suppose we shall begin anew.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 214-5
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