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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)
n you glowing accounts of the Grand Review. I should have been delighted for you to have seen it, as I expect, to an outsider, who could go where he pleased and take in all the views, the sight must have been very grand, particularly when the troops began to march past the reviewing officer. You will see from my account to your mother that we who took part in it, like the frogs in the fable, had but little appreciation of the fun we were affording others. I got a letter to-day from old Potter. He is quartermaster in Chicago, up to his eyes in business, spending, he says, sometimes over a hundred thousand dollars a day. He begs to be remembered to your mother and yourself, and says that Detroit is no longer the same place, and that he never expects to have such nice times again as he had on the survey under me. Altogether, his letter exhibits quite a gratifying amount of feeling. To Mrs. George G. Meade: camp Pierpont, Va., November 24, 1861. There is but little new here.
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 27 (search)
nown as Cemetery Hill. Brigadier General Wilcox was to move his division forward as soon as possible after General Ledlie's bearing off to the left, and Brigadier General Potter was to move his (colored) division next, and pass over the same ground that General Ledlie did. Five minutes after the explosion of the mine, General Ledlie's division went forward, and it was followed by those of Generals Wilcox and Potter, though it is in evidence that the latter did not move in the prescribed order, and that they were not formed in a manner to do the duty assigned them. General Ledlie's division, instead of complying with the order, halted in the crater mside reported to General Meade that he was doing all in his power to push forward the troops and, if possible, carry the crest, and also that the main body of General Potter's division was beyond the crater. It does not appear in evidence, however, that they ever got any considerable distance, not exceeding two hundred yards, bey
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
M., I, 212, 271, 324. Polk, James K., I, 61, 65, 102, 103, 109, 111, 114, 115, 123, 124, 181. Pope, John, I, 111,147, 166, 196, 258, 303-308, 321, 323, 335, 354; II, 136, 149, 234, 291, 322, 365. Porter, Admiral. II, 234, 241. Porter, Com., I, 67, 73, 301. Porter, Andrew, I, 355. Porter, Fitz-John, I, 276, 281, 282, 284, 297, 302, 308, 312, 327, 328, 344. Porter, T. H., I, 66, 68, 69. Port Royal, battle of, Nov. 7, 1861, I, 227. Potter, Joseph A., I, 230. Potter, Robert B., II, 346. Powell, Senator, II, 165. Prendergast, Catherine Gordon, I, 7. Prince, Harry, I, 244. Pryor, Roger A., I, 287, 290, 292. Puebla, battle of, 1847, I, 196. Puleston, Col., II, 149. Pyne, Rev. Dr., II, 235. Q Quitman, John A., I, 166, 170, 172, 174. R Ramsay, Geo. D., I, 30, 43, 95, 378. Ramseur, Stephen D., II, 48, 50. Randall, Alexander, I, 21, 35, 286, 290, 292, 293, 295-298. Randolph, Geo. E., II, 66, 67, 79. Raymond, Mr., I, 358,