Posted on 08/13/2023 6:47:22 AM PDT by Homer_J_Simpson
WASHINGTON, Wednesday, Aug. 12.
The following dispatch has been received at the Headquarters of the Army here:
HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, Aug. 9, 1863.
Major-Gen. Halleck, General-in-Chief, Washington:
My attention has been called to what purports to be an official dispatch of Gen. R.E. LEE, commanding the Confederate army, to Gen. S. COOPER, Adjutant and Inspector-General, denying the accuracy of my telegram to you of July 14, announcing the result of the cavalry affair at Falling Waters.
I have delayed taking any notice of Gen. LEE's report until the return of Brig.-Gen. KILPATRICK, absent on leave, who commanded the cavalry on the occasion referred to, and on whose report from the field my telegram was based. I now inclose the official report of Brig.-Gen. KILPATRICK, made after his attention had been called to Gen. LEE's report. You will see that he reiterates and confirms all that my dispatch averred, and proves most conclusively that Gen. LEE has been deceived by his subordinates, or he would never, in the face of the facts now alleged, have made the assertions his report contains.
It appears that I was in error in stating that the body of Gen. PETTIGREW was left in our hands, although I did not communicate that fact until an officer from the field reported to me he had seen the body.
It is now ascertained from the Richmond papers that Gen. PETTIGREW, though mortally wounded in the affair, was taken to Winchester, where he subsequently died.
The three battle-flags captured on this occasion, and sent to Washington, belonged to the Fortieth, Forty-seventh and Fifty-fifth Virginia regiments of infantry. Gen. LEE will surely acknowledge these were not left in the hands of stragglers "asleep in barns."
Respectfully yours, GEORGE G. MEADE, Major-General Commanding.
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