The President seemed in a specially good humor to-day, as he
had pretty good evidence that the enemy were still on the north side of the
Potomac, and Meade had announced his intention of attacking them in the
morning. The President seemed very happy in the prospect of a brilliant
success. He had been rather impatient with Gen'l Meade’s slow movements since
Gettysburg, but concluded to-day that Meade would yet show sufficient activity
to inflict the coup de grace upon the flying rebels.
SOURCES: Clara B. Hay, Letters of John Hay and Extracts
from Diary, Volume 1, p. 84; Tyler Dennett, Editor, Lincoln and the Civil War in the Diaries and
letters of John Hay, p. 66
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