Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, March 4, 1865.
To-day's Chronicle has part of the opinion of the
court of inquiry, which I suppose will be published in the Philadelphia papers.
It has made quite a sensation in the army, as it censures Burnside, Willcox,
Ferrero and a Colonel Bliss. But few persons understand the allusion in the
last sentence.
Senator Harris told me that, after I was confirmed, he
received a letter from Burnside, saying he was glad of it, and that I deserved
it. I told Senator Harris I had no personal feeling against Burnside, and no
desire to injure him.
Deserters still continue to come in, there being
seventy-five yesterday, forty with arms. There are, however, no indications of
an immediate evacuation either of Petersburg or Richmond, and the great fight
may yet be fought out in this vicinity. There is nothing new in the camp,
except you may tell George1 the Third Infantry has reported, and is
doing guard duty at headquarters in place of the “red legs.”
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1 Son of General Meade.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 266
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