Culpeper Court House, Va., September 27, 1863.
We are having lovely
weather at present; our camps are beautifully situated at the foot of the Blue
Ridge, with the mountains in view, with pure air and plenty of good water; the
best country in Virginia we have yet been in.
I had a visit
yesterday from the Rev. Mr. Coles, Episcopal minister at the village, who told
me he had seen Mr. Wilmer some few weeks since, and he had talked a great deal
of me, and told him I had been his parishioner. He says Mr. Wilmer is not
connected with the army, and has no church, but occupies himself in works of
charity, and when he saw him he was on his way to visit the sick and wounded of
the Confederate army, after its return from Pennsylvania.
I have tried, but
unsuccessfully, to get some news of the Wises.1 Mr. Wise’s command
undoubtedly went with Longstreet to Tennessee, but whether he went I am not
able to ascertain.
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1 General Henry A. Wise and son, brother-in-law
and nephew of Mrs. Meade.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 151
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