With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to AppomattoxThe letters of Theodore Lyman, an aide de camp to General George Meade, offer a witty and penetrating inside view of the Civil War. Scholar and Boston Brahmin, Lyman volunteered for service following the battle at Gettysburg. From September 1863 to the end of the war, he wrote letters almost daily to his wife. Colonel Lymans early letters describe life in winter quarters. Those written after General Grant assumes command chronicle the Army of the