Hussar Yeomanry
Sergeant
- Joined
- Dec 6, 2017
- Location
- UK
Didn't he ask Seth Williams to be his chief-of staff as well? Meade certainly must have rued the day he decided to keep Butterfield on.
Not sure about the first point though I too have heard that suggestion. [Though Humphreys seems to have been Meade's first choice and indeed soon would become Chief of Staff of the AoP for Humphreys objections were more to the timing - he felt he was needed more in the 3rd Corps even though Sickles 'offended his sense of profesionalism' - a prescient comment but also possibly one derived from Humphreys being a West Pointer and Sickles being most assuredly... Not...]
As to the second. Definitely. Especially when immediately Butterfield traduces him to Congress. It should be noted though that someone who does not is the previously mentioned Seth Williams - the AoP's Assistant Adjutant General (who despite being 'a McClellan man' through and through) gave very pro Meade testimony...