“Brandy Station, Va. Two men “discussing the probabilities of the next advance” (LOC)
Things had been pretty quiet in Northern Virginia. 150 years ago today (pages 166-167) General Meade, the North’s commander in the theater, wrote a letter to his wife explaining that “I returned from Washington to-day, very much fatigued and worn out with two days passed in that place”. Among other things on his busy schedule, he had met with General Halleck, “stopped at the President’s, where Mrs. Lincoln was holding a levee”, and attended a reception which wore him out because everyone wanted to meet the “great lion.” His army was “overrun with women” because the Second Corps was going to have a grand ball in honor of Washington’s birthday. He did not think he was going to attend because the bash was five miles away.
