From Washington: General Meade Positively to be Superseded – 2
Proceedings of Congress – 2-3
From Port Royal: Arrival of the Transport Daniel Webster – 3
Our Jacksonville Correspondence: Occupation of Pilatka – 3
Department of the Gulf: The Approaching State Convention – 3-4
Southern News: Recent Military Operations in Virginia – 4-5
The War on the Mississippi: Sharp Fight at Waterproof, La. – 5
Rebel Treatment of our Prisoners – 5
The Enlistment of Slaves in Kentucky: Address of Gov. Bramlette – 5-6
Editorial: Kentucky Slaves and the Draft – 6
Editorial: North Carolina – 6-7
Meade kept his command of the Army of the Potomac until the end of the war, with Grant looking over his shoulder. Halleck thought that the Army of the Potomac should have pursued Lee after Gettysburg, but the 60,000 soldiers and 30,000 horses had not been fed in three days. It was easy for someone reading dispatches in Washington to order a pursuit, but Meade, like Jellicoe in the Battle of Jutland, was the only man who could lose the War in an afternoon.
Meade was an odd choice, when he was chosen he leapfrogged three of his newly subordinate generals, who all outranked him, but pledged loyalty, and kept their word. When awakened by a courier to learn of his appointment, he thought he was going to be arrested in the confused Army politics of 1863.