Thursday, September 18, 2014

Major-General George G. Meade to Margaretta Sergeant Mead, March 22, 1864

Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, March 22, 1864.

Grant is emphatically an executive man, whose only place is in the field. One object in coming here is to avoid Washington and its entourage. I intend to give him heartiest co-operation, and so far as I am able do just the same when he is present that I would do were he absent.

Hancock is in Washington and will be down to-morrow. He was before the committee to-day. Humphreys has returned, having been before the committee, where he gave testimony about Gettysburg. Have you seen the article in the Herald, signed "Staff Officer, Fifth Corps,"1 and one in Monday's (yesterday's) paper signed by General Barnes?2 I think Historicus after awhile will be sick of his only true and authentic account of the battle.
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1 For article mentioned, see Appendix K.
2 For article mentioned, see Appendix L.

SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 182

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