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Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz), I. First months (search)
e glad to roll ourselves in our blankets in the same camp we had the night of the 26th. And so ends what I think I shall call the Great Seven-days' Flank. If you ask what were the causes of failure, they lie in a nutshell--Slowness and want of Detail. We have fought for two years and a half, but it takes no wiseacre to see that we yet have much to learn. Were it not for the remarkable intelligence of the men, we could not do even as well as we do. . . . Headquarters Army of Potomac December 10, 1863 All the officers are inclined to be petulant and touchy, for they think that winter quarters are coming and are all stretching out for leaves, which they know only a part can get. Major Biddle becomes quite irate over the subject. Now there is General Webb has a ten-day leave, says B. petulantly; every corps is to give one general a ten-day leave. I don't want any little ten-day leave; I want a decent leave; a sixty-day leave. I have been two years and a half in this army, and ne