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The Daily Dispatch: July 9, 1863., [Electronic resource], Progress of the War. (search)
.] It is with no ordinary feelings of gratification that we announce to our readers this morning the retirement of Gen. Hooker and the appointment of Major General George G Meade, late of the 5th army corps, to the command of the Army of the Potinsula, and Maryland campaigns of Gen. McClellan, and in the late eventful Rappahannock campaigns of Gen. Burnside and Gen. Hooker, has still added to his high reputation as a brave, skillful, and capable military leader. His merits are approved by. Meade is very high; and we may now state that after the late battle of Chancellorsville his appointment to supercede Gen. Hooker was urged by every corps commander, with, perhaps, one exception.--There is no doubt he will be loyally and warmly supe army, as he was certainly the one whom they generally designated as their first choice. The next officer in rank to Gen. Hooker was himself desirous that Gen. Meade should be his chief. His intellectual characteristics are sagacity, decision, an