FREDERICKSBURG,1
August 18, 1862.
I enclose you an order recently published by McClellan,
which I wish you to show Dr. Hewson, as it will confirm what I told him, that
the Army of the Potomac had always carried out the new policy in a
proper manner, and that the President's order and Pope's manifestoes were
unnecessary.
Sunday morning at eight o'clock I left in the boat for this
place, arriving here in the evening. I find myself ahead of Reynolds and
Seymour. Burnside is absent, and Parke, recently made major general, is in
command. To-day I have been very busy, seeing Parke and getting myself fixed. I
visited my old regiments and was received with much enthusiasm, and I really
believe the whole command, officers and men, were sincerely glad to see me
back.
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1 Should be opposite Fredericksburg.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 303
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