CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, April
11, 1863.
The President has now reviewed the whole army, and expresses
himself highly delighted with all he has seen. Since our review, I have
attended the other reviews and have been making myself (or at least trying so
to do) very agreeable to Mrs. Lincoln, who seems an amiable sort of personage.
In view also of the vacant brigadiership in the regular army, I have ventured
to tell the President one or two stories, and I think I have made decided
progress in his affections. By-the-by, talking of this vacancy, I have been
very much gratified at the congratulations I have received from several
distinguished general officers on the prominence that has been given my name in
connection with this appointment. The other day, Major General Stoneman came up
to me and said he was very glad to hear I was so much talked of in connection
with this vacancy; that he hoped I would get it, and that he believed the voice
of the army would be in my favor. Coming as this does from those who are
cognizant of my services, some of whom are themselves candidates, I cannot but
regard it as most complimentary and gratifying, and I am sure it will please
you. Stoneman also told me that, hearing I had a boy in the Lancers, he had
sent for him and introduced him to Mrs. Stoneman. Stoneman also spoke very
handsomely of the Lancers, and said he intended they should have full chance to
show what they were made of.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 364-5
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