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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 4 (search)
has yet been received (a large number of my men are barefooted) and it is the same thing with blankets, overcoats, etc., also with ammunition and forage. What the cause of this unpardonable delay is I can not say, but certain it is, that some one is to blame, and that it is hard the army should be censured for inaction, when the most necessary supplies for their movement are withheld, or at least not promptly forwarded when called for. To Mrs. George G. Meade: camp near Berlin, Md., October 28, 1862. Day before yesterday we received orders to move to this place. We immediately started in a pouring rain, and marched some nine miles before nightfall. The next day the weather fortunately changed and we reached here in good time. This place is opposite Leesburg, already several corps have crossed the river, and we hear our people are in Leesburg. It is also reported that we have occupied Winchester with our cavalry, without opposition, but this is not very reliable. At any rate