Friday, January 17, 2014

Brigadier General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Meade, September 4, 1862

HEADQUARTERS WHIPPLE'S DIVISION, RESERVE ARMY CORPS,
ARLINGTON, VA., September 4, 1862.

I wrote you yesterday, informing you of my arrival at this place. We came here under orders from McDowell (in whose corps we are), who directed us to march from Fairfax Court House to Arlington. Since reaching here we have had no orders of any kind, and we cannot tell where we are going, though I presume we will take post somewhere in the vicinity of the city, for its defense. I hardly think the enemy will make an attack on the city, but believe he will cross a column above into Maryland. Our division, the Reserves, is pretty well used up, and ought, strictly speaking, to be withdrawn, reorganized, filled up with recruits, and put in efficient condition.

SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 308

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