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Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), General Meade 's temper. (search)
General Meade's temper.
Its peculiarities made him an enigma.
What Dana wrote about It—a note from Mr. Lincoln—General Halleck and the Testy Commander—Took his own course.
The late Federal General Meade's peculiarities of temper, to draw it mildly, were such as to make him something of an enigma, even to his closest a ies in the army.
It is generally understood that at one period personal dislike of General Meade was almost universal among the officers of higher rank.
Hon. Charles A. Dana, who as Assistant-Secretary of War was with the army during the early days at Petersburg, in one of his reports to Secretary Stanton, made the following vi or curses.
The latter, however, I have never heard him indulge in very violently, but he is said to apply them often without occasion and without reason. * * * C. A. Dana.
Toward the end there is a discernible modification of the better feeling against Meade; nevertheless, it is certain that he never became a popular command<
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 23. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones), Joseph Jones , M. D., Ll.D. (search)