. War diary and letters of Stephen Minot Weld, 1861-1865 . liamsport, where we established our headquarters at a house owned by Mr. Findlay. Headquarters ist Army Corps,Camp near Williamsport, July 14. Dear Hannah, — Johnny Reb has got away from usagain, I am sorry to say. They left our front last night,and crossed the river in safety. It is too bad, but I dontwell see how it could have been helped, as it would havebeen utterly useless for us to have attacked their positionwith the few men we had. I suppose now that we shallwait here until we get our conscripts, and then move onthem again, and
. War diary and letters of Stephen Minot Weld, 1861-1865 . liamsport, where we established our headquarters at a house owned by Mr. Findlay. Headquarters ist Army Corps,Camp near Williamsport, July 14. Dear Hannah, — Johnny Reb has got away from usagain, I am sorry to say. They left our front last night,and crossed the river in safety. It is too bad, but I dontwell see how it could have been helped, as it would havebeen utterly useless for us to have attacked their positionwith the few men we had. I suppose now that we shallwait here until we get our conscripts, and then move onthem again, and have another campaign in that god-forsaken, desolated country of Virginia. It is rather dis-couraging, but I think we ought to be satisfied with hav-ing driven them successfully out of Pennsylvania. Gen-eral Meade has certainly done all that a man could dowith the few men under his command. The enemy occu-pied a strong natural position here, made almost impreg-nable to our small force by fortifications. Without disparaging General Meade, one cant help.
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