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Rebellion Record: a Diary of American Events: Documents and Narratives, Volume 9. (ed. Frank Moore), chapter 83 (search)
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21.-operations in Virginia.
Major-General Meade's reports.
headquarters army of the Potomac, December 6, 1863. Adjutant-General of the Army:
I have the honor to submit for the information of the General-in-Chief the following report of the operations of this army since the date (July thirty-first) at which the report of the Gettysburgh campaign was concluded.
At that date the army was in position on the north bank of the Rappahannock, the enemy being in position about Culpeper Court-House, and between the Rapidan and Rappahannock rivers.
The instructions of the General-in-Chief required the army should maintain this position, assuming a threatening attitude toward the enemy.
On the first of August, Brigadier-General Buford, in command of a division of cavalry, advanced from Rappahannock Station, and drove the enemy's cavalry to the vicinity of Culpeper Court-House, where a strong force of infantry being met, Buford was obliged to retire.
This reconnoissance, it