Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, December 16, 1864
I received this evening your letter of the 14th inst.,
having received day before yesterday the one dated the 12th. I am sorry the
good public should have been disappointed in the result of Warren's expedition,
but the facts are, as I stated them, he accomplished all that he went for, namely,
the destruction of some eighteen miles of the Weldon Railroad.
This passion of believing newspaper and club strategy will I
suppose never be eradicated from the American public mind, notwithstanding the
experience of four years in which they have from day to day seen its plans and
hopes and fears dissipated by facts.
I don't anticipate either Grant or his campaign will be
attacked in Congress. In the first place he has too many friends; in the next
place, Congress having legislated him into his present position, he can only be
removed by their act, and that would be stultifying themselves.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 252
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