Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, December 4, 1864.
I send you a telegram from the Secretary and my reply, which
will show you the vexed question is at last settled. Much of the gratification
that ought justly to accompany such a reward has been destroyed by the manner
of doing it; so that what might have been a graceful compliment became reduced
to a simple act of justice. Well, let us be satisfied with this, and believe it
was more a want of knowledge how to do such things than any unfriendly feeling
which caused it.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 249
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