Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, January 22, 1865.
There is very little going on here. We have had a violent
storm of rain. Grant is still away, and I have heard nothing from Markoe Bache,
so that I am ignorant of what turn affairs are taking in Washington. I received
a letter yesterday from Cram, enclosing me one from a correspondent in
Washington, who advises him (Cram) that he has been reliably informed that I am
likely to be rejected. Still, this may be a street rumor, circulated by those
who want this result.
To-day Bishop Lee, of Delaware, held service in the chapel
tent at these headquarters, and gave us a very good sermon. He came here with
Bishop Janeway, of the Methodist Church, and a Mr. Jones, a lawyer from
Philadelphia, who were a commission asking admission into the rebel lines, to
visit our poor prisoners in their hands to relieve their spiritual wants; but I
believe the Confederate authorities declined.
The Richmond papers are very severe on Davis, and there is
every indication of discord among them. I hope to Heaven this will incline them
to peace, and that there may be some truth in the many reports in the papers
that something is going on!1
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1 General Meade left head-quarters for
Philadelphia where he arrived January 28. He left Philadelphia on the 30th.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 257-8
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