March 28, 1865
You must let me off with a few lines to-night, because I
have some little packing yet to do and would like a good modicum of slumber;
for to-morrow we are up and moving betimes in light order. I do not look for
any grand action from this (taking the liberty of guessing where I am in the
dark). I fancy a heavy infantry force will move to our left and rear, to mask
and protect a great movement of cavalry with Sheridan at its head, directed at
the South Side R. R. and other communications; all of which the enemy must be
fully aware of; but I don't think he can have one half our force in cavalry.
The amount of fighting will depend on the moves of the enemy; but I do not ever
expect to see more than one such field-day as we used to have in the ever
memorable campaign of the Wilderness and Spotsylvania — perhaps not even one.
Meantime I will not recklessly run against bullets. It isn't my style; not
exactly. Yesterday I rode about with the General, who confabbed with Wright,
Warren, and the gay Humphreys. The latter is confirmed as the commander of the
2d Corps, at which we are glad, for he was only its commander ad interim before.
SOURCE: George R. Agassiz, Editor, Meade’s
Headquarters, 1863-1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness
to Appomattox, p. 326
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