“It is very important now,” said Stuart; “it indicates Grant’s programme—his wish to get out of the Wilderness. He is at Old Wilderness Tavern?”
“He was this morning, general, with Meade and Sedgwick.”
“You were there?”
“I was, general.”
“What did you gather, Nighthawk?”
“Little or nothing, general. True, I heard one or two amusing things as I loitered among the couriers near.”
“What?”
“General Grant came out talking with Meade, Sedgwick, and Warren. General Meade said, ‘They have left a division to fool us here, while they concentrate, and prepare a position toward the North Anna,—and what I want is to prevent these fellows from getting back to Mine Run.’”{1}
{Footnote 1: His words.}
Stuart laughed.