CAMP NEAR NEW BRIDGE,
VA., June 22, 1862.
I yesterday rode over to headquarters and saw McClellan.
While with him Franklin and Baldy Smith came in, and I had a very pleasant
visit. McClellan has been a little under the weather, but is now well and looks
very well and is in good spirits. He talked very freely of the way in which he
had been treated, and said positively that had not McDowell's corps been
withdrawn, he would long before now have been in Richmond. Last night we heard
from a deserter that we were to be attacked to-day. We were all under arms before
daybreak, but everything has been quiet up to this moment, (9 A. M.). I suppose
you have heard of William Palmer's death. They seemed to be quite shocked at it
at headquarters, as he had left only about a week ago, sick, but not considered
dangerously so. Poor fellow! his death makes me a Major of Topogs.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 277-8
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