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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 6 (search)
a review for them. In the evening General Grant was presented at City Point with the gold medal voted him by Congress, and I went to City Point to the presentation. To-day Pendleton Watmough and young Parker (Cortlandt's nephew), both of whom command gunboats in the James, came to see me, and I took them around the lines. Your brother Willie came in whilst they were here, looking very well and in good spirits. We are quiet and nothing going on. Headquarters army of the Potomac, March 13, 1865. I wish you would think favorably of my proposition to take a trip to the army. I think it would arouse you and distract your mind. You do not do justice quite to the court of inquiry. The finding is a complete vindication of my part in the operation. I enclose a slip from the Army and Navy Journal, which gives in full the Finding of the Court, the papers having only published that portion in which individual officers are censured by name. For article mentioned, see Appendix
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 27 (search)
Appendix T: newspaper article, Findings of the Court of inquiry in the investigation of the Petersburg mine explosion, mentioned in letter of March 13, 1865. see page 267, Vol. II (army and navy journal, of March 11, 1865） The Petersburgh explosion: decision of the Court of inquiry into the cause of its failure The following is the finding and opinion of the court ordered to investigate the circumstances attending the failure of the explosion of the mine before Petersburgh:— Finding After mature deliberation of the testimony adduced, the court find the following facts and circumstances attending the unsuccessful assault on the 30th July: The mine, quite an important feature in the attack, was commenced by Major General Burnside, soon after the occupation of his present lines, without any directions obtained from the headquarters of the Army of the Potomac. Although its location—and in this the engineers of the army concur—was not considered by Major General Meade