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I ran across this in Three Years in the Bloody Eleventh (p. 217):
"That day the Pennsylvania Reserves' field officers rode to Meade's headquarters. Their mission, [Colonel] Jackson later recalled, was "to pay our respects to our old commander, a to congratulate him on his distinguished position." They found the grizzled general "in close conference with Generals Reynolds, Hancock, Sedgwick and others."
Tom Huntington also references this in his book, although he places it on June 30 at Taneytown.
I've never read anything else regarding a meeting of generals and it seems unlikely to have happened. Yet the account is based on Colonel Jackson's recollections. I find it hard to believe such a meeting took place, and perhaps Jackson mistook staff officers for Hancock and Sedgwick. However, it seems hard to believe that a member of the Reserves could misidentify Reynolds. Perhaps the story is all made up.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
"That day the Pennsylvania Reserves' field officers rode to Meade's headquarters. Their mission, [Colonel] Jackson later recalled, was "to pay our respects to our old commander, a to congratulate him on his distinguished position." They found the grizzled general "in close conference with Generals Reynolds, Hancock, Sedgwick and others."
Tom Huntington also references this in his book, although he places it on June 30 at Taneytown.
I've never read anything else regarding a meeting of generals and it seems unlikely to have happened. Yet the account is based on Colonel Jackson's recollections. I find it hard to believe such a meeting took place, and perhaps Jackson mistook staff officers for Hancock and Sedgwick. However, it seems hard to believe that a member of the Reserves could misidentify Reynolds. Perhaps the story is all made up.
Does anyone else have any thoughts on this?
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