HEADQUARTERS FIFTH ARMY
CORPS, February 15, 1863.
I thought this afternoon I would not have to write to you,
for I got a note from Hooker, saying he could spare me for seven days and
telling me to apply. I immediately did so, sending in the same application
which he had twice refused. At the same time I wrote to him, that I did not
desire to go, if there was the slightest reason to believe I should be wanted.
It will be too much happiness to get home for a few days and be with you and
the dear children.
I have had an application from young Jay,1 of New
York, to come upon my staff, as an extra aide. He was appointed an additional
aide-de-camp at the time the law authorized such appointments, and has been
serving with General Morrell. That officer having been deprived of his command,
Captain Jay has applied to me. I told him, if the War Department would assign
him, I should be glad to have him.
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1 William Jay.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 354-5
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