Headquarters Army Of Potomac
November 25,
1863
I write a line, merely to say that the entire army is under
marching orders, for daylight to-morrow; the men in high spirits. As to the
officers, you would suppose they were all going on a merrymaking, to hear them
when the order was issued. Our object is to fight the enemy, which I pray we
may do, and with success, but Dieu dispose.
Our stopper has been the weather, which to-night promises to
be set fair, and the roads are passable, though not good. I wish some critics,
who complain of our inactivity, could be compelled to take a soldier's load and
march twenty miles through this mud. Their next article would, I think, clearly
set forth the necessity of doing nothing till the driest of weather.
SOURCE: George R. Agassiz, Editor, Meade’s
Headquarters, 1863-1865: Letters of Colonel Theodore Lyman from the Wilderness
to Appomattox, p. 50-1
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