Dispatch
Ambrose E. Burnside to George G. Meade, July 30, 1864
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS,
Battery Morton, July 30, 1864.
General MEADE:
Your dispatch by Captain Jay received. The main body of General Potter’s division is beyond the crater. Ido not mean to say that my officers and men will not obey my orders to advance. I mean to say that it is very hard to advance to thecrest. I have never in any report said anything different from what I conceived to be the truth. Were it not insubordinate I would say that the latter remark of your note was unofficer-like and ungentlemanly.
Respectfully, yours,
A. E. BURNSIDE,
Major-General.
eye in the action before Fetersburg, Va., on the 30th day of J uly,
Major-General.
eye in the action before Fetersburg, Va., on the 30th day of J uly,
Editor's Notes
From: Operations in Northern Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania, Pt. 1. Location: Battery Morton. Summary: A. E. Burnside defends his troops' difficulty advancing beyond the crater at Petersburg and rebukes Meade's disparaging remark as unofficer-like and ungentlemanly.
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The War of the Rebellion: Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 40, Part 1
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