CENTREVILLE, August 31,1862.
I write to advise you that after three days' continuous
fighting I am all safe and well.1 Old Baldy was hit in the leg, but
not badly hurt. Willie (your brother) I saw this morning, all safe — Willie
Watmough also. All your friends, I believe, are safe. I have had several
officers and many men killed and wounded, but no one that you know particularly.
We have been obliged to fall back from the old Bull Run battle-field, where we
fought. The enemy are superior in force and flushed with their success. We are
in a critical position, but I trust will get out of it. This result is no more
than might have been known by any one who looked upon things in their proper
light.
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1 Second Battle of Bull Run, Va., August 28-30, 1862.
Federal loss, killed, wounded, and missing, 14,462 (O. R.).
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 306
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