I met the President and Seward at the War Department this
morning. A dispatch from General Meade, dated 3 P.M. yesterday, is in very good
tone. The Sixth Army Corps, he says, was just arriving entire but exhausted,
having been on the march from 9 P.M. of the preceding evening. In order that
they may rest and recruit, he will not attack, but is momentarily expecting an
onset from the Rebels.
They were concentrating for a fight, and, unless Meade is
greatly deceived, there will be a battle in the neighborhood of Gettysburg. I
hope our friends are not deceived so that the Rebel trains with their plunder
can escape through the valley.
SOURCE: Gideon Welles, Diary of Gideon Welles,
Secretary of the Navy Under Lincoln and Johnson, Vol. 1: 1861 – March 30,
1864, p. 356-7
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