CAMP PIERPONT, VA., October
21, 1861 — 9 P. M.
We returned this evening from our expedition, which, so far
as my brigade was concerned, was very peaceful. The First Brigade, under
Reynolds,3 advanced some fifteen miles, and encountered the enemy's
pickets, one of whom was killed; nobody hurt on our side. I advanced some ten
miles and saw nothing of them. We remained out three days, getting an accurate
knowledge of the country, and then returned to this camp. No sooner are we back
than orders come to be ready at a moment's notice to go again, and all is now
excitement and bustle, though it is night-time. I do not know the meaning,
except that something is being done on some other part of the line and we are
wanted to support the movement.
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3 John F. Reynolds, afterward commanding the left
wing of the Army of the Potomac, killed at the battle of Gettysburg, July 1,
1863.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 224-5
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