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[1] ALS, IHi. Halleck forwarded a copy of this communication to Meade, who replied the same day, ``I have to acknowledge the receipt of your communication . . . by the hands of Colonel [Richard D.] Cutts, aide-de-camp, inclosing one from the President, and have to say in reply, that it has been my intention to attack the enemy, if I can find him on a field no more than equal for
us, and that I have only delayed doing so from the difficulty of ascertaining his exact position, and the fear that in endeavoring to do so my communications might be jeopardized.'' (OR, I, XXIX, II, 333).