CAMP PIERPONT, VA., January
16, 1862.
Every one seems relieved at the change in the War
Department,1 though the secret cause is as yet unknown, some putting
it on his political faith, others on his want of integrity, etc., etc.
__________
1 Edwin M. Stanton succeeded Simon Cameron as
secretary of war.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 243
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