Headquarters Army Of The Potomac, March 2, 1865.
Lyman1 has returned without waiting for my
summons, he becoming nervous for fear some movement of Lee's might precipitate
matters before he could get notice, and if the army should move, it might be a
difficult matter to join it.
I see by the papers Howard and Schofield have been made
brigadier generals in the regular army. This I think injustice to General
Warren, whom I recommended some time ago to General Grant for this position.
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1 Theodore Lyman, aide-de-camp to General Meade.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 265
