...nel James A. Hardie, of General Halleck's staff, who entered General Meade's tent and executed his mission. What this mission might have been was the occasion of agitated comment among several of General Meade 's aides, who, their tents being in the immediate vicinity, were awakened by the stir in camp at that hour. That it had been executed in the dead of night, by an officer direct from the general-in-...