CAMP NEAR ALEXANDRIA, Monday
Evening, March 31, 1862.
To-day has been clear and quite spring-like. Reynolds and myself
rode over to inspect some of the larger forts that have been erected in this
neighborhood. The rumor now is that we are to get off on day after to-morrow,
the whole of the First Corps (forty-five thousand men) together, and that we
are to be landed at the same time, at some point where we may expect our
landing to be resisted, or to encounter the enemy very soon after landing. For
my part, I hope it will prove true, for this suspense and uncertainty is very
disagreeable, and as we have to fight, the sooner we get at it and settle it
the better. Nothing but the grossest mismanagement will prevent our success,
for we have a really fine army and the troops in the best of spirits.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 255
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