About this time the very troops whose coming I had predicted, had arrived or were coming in.

Pickett with a full division from Richmond was up; Hoke from North Carolina had come with a brigade; and Breckinridge was there: in all probably not less than fifteen thousand men.

But he did not attempt to drive us from the field.
On the 22d or 23d I received dispatches from Washington saying that Sherman had taken Kingston, crossed the Etowah River and was advancing into Georgia.
I was seated at the time on the porch of a fine plantation house waiting for Burnside's corps to pass.

Meade and his staff, besides my own staff, were with me.

The lady of the house, a Mrs.Tyler, and an elderly lady, were present.