It is intended that your movements shall be co-operative with movements elsewhere, and you cannot now start too soon.

All I would now add is, that you commence the concentration of your forces at once.

Preserve a profound secrecy of what you intend doing, and start at the earliest possible moment.
"U.

S.GRANT, Lieutenant-General.
"MAJOR-GENERAL N.P.

BANKS." Major-General Meade was instructed that Lee's army would be his objective point; that wherever Lee went he would go also.