This letter, to General Dix, is addressed several months after the legendary dedication of the National Cemetery at Gettysburg (November 19, 1863). Before President Lincoln delivered what may be the most famous speech given by an American, Everett gave a 2-hour speech mourning the dead and giving a history of the Civil War up to that time. Apparently, Everett inadvertently made a factual error, as per Dix' "Cashier." In this letter, Everett states that he got the information directly from the Union commander at Gettysburg, General Gordon Meade. "Your note of yesterday is just received. You are right in supposing, that I did not express a wish to your Cashier, that any Statement should be made, on the subject of the charge, brought against me by Your Correspondent at Bridgeport. I did, however, tell the Cashier, that the Sentence  in my address, containing the alleged "mis-statement," was take from a memorandum kindly furnished to me, by direction of Genl. Meade, + confirmed by his official report. I own I thought, that this fact, mentioned by me in person to the gentleman in charge of the office, would lead the "Journal" to acgent [?] me of the charge made by your correspondent; who, it seems, thinks, that, after obtaining information of the detail of the bettle, from the Commander-in-Chief, I ought to have written to the Subordinate Commanders, to know if it would be defended on. But I did not, and do not ask that this should be done. - On the contrary, I myst beg, if you think it best to say anything on the subject, that it may be thought [?] to be unsolicited on  my part. M. Coffin [probably George W. Coffin (1784-1864), an acquaintance of Everett's] and your Cashier thought that your correspondent's letter had shipped into the paper, through inadventure. You intimate that you felt yourself bound to publish it, because it bore the writer's name. I differ from you on that point, but having learned, by long experience, that a person in my situation has "no rights" + still has feelings, which the Press "is bound to respect," I will not trouble you with any further remark on the subject. Thanking you for the courtesy of your note, I remain, dear Sir, respectfully yours, Edward Everett." An interesting (and characteristically long-winded) letter from one of the main participants at the Gettysburg dedication. As an aside, the eloquent and verbose Everett greatly admired Lincoln's brief speech at the dedication at Gettysburg.