CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, VA.,
May 26, 1863.
George's1 appointment as Aide-de-Camp and Captain
arrived yesterday.
We have nothing new; everything is quiet on our side. I am
looking for a movement on the part of the enemy that will stir us up pretty
soon. Stoneman is off on leave, and I don't think will return here again. He
does not want to, and Hooker does not want him back. Hooker is very severe on
him, and says his raid amounted to nothing at all; that he was eight days going
and only two coming back, and many other things of this kind tending to
disparage Stoneman.
Only one officer (Reynolds) has as yet answered my circular
letter, and he says: “Your opinion was decided and emphatic for an advance at
daylight.” The attempt to fasten on me the responsibility of withdrawing
the army is one of the shallowest inventions that Hooker could have devised,
which, if he ever brings to a public issue, must recoil on him.
There are many things I would like to tell you, but cannot
at present; but I have no doubt in due time they will all be made public. I
have no doubt the Administration has determined to sustain Hooker, and to this
I do not object, as I really believe he will do better next time, and still
think there is a great deal of merit in him.
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1
Son of General Meade.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 381-2
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