CAMP NEAR FALMOUTH, VA.,
March 12, 1863.
You will see by the papers that we have all been confirmed,
with the dates of our appointment.
You have never mentioned Reynolds in your letters. He has
been off on ten-days’ leave, and I presumed he would be in Philadelphia. Did
you hear of his being there? I have not seen him since his return to ask. I was
invited to his headquarters yesterday to dine, it being the anniversary of the
organization of the First Corps; and as I had for a time commanded the corps,
and also a division in it, I was honored with an invitation. The dinner was
given by the staff.
This evening Captain Magaw, of the navy, with his mother,
wife and a young lady friend, made their appearance at headquarters, and asked
hospitality. He commands the gun-boat flotilla in the Potomac. His wife is
quite a sweet, pretty woman, is the daughter of a navy officer, and was born at
Pensacola when my sister, Mrs. Dallas, was there, and is named after her and
Margaret. The young men on the staff turned out with alacrity and fitted up a
tent in which they are quite comfortable.
SOURCE: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George
Gordon Meade, Vol. 1, p. 357
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