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- GLC#
- GLC01599
- Type
- Letters
- Date
- January 1864
- Author/Creator
- Sickles, Daniel Edgar, 1819-1914
- Title
- to David Birney
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 4 p. : Height: 19 cm, Width: 12 cm
- Language
- English
- Primary time period
- Civil War and Reconstruction, 1861-1877
- Sub-Era
- The American Civil War
Discusses a congressional investigation into General George G. Meade for disciplining officers who testified before the Congressional Committee on the Conduct of the War after Meade let Lee escape after Gettysburg. Tells Major General Birney to give his true opinion to Congress and that he will urge his contacts in the Congress and the Secretary of War to back off. Also mentions having dinner with President Abraham Lincoln and Mary Todd Lincoln, where he also met Henry Halleck and Meade. Meade was later exonerated and received a vote of thanks from Congress.
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