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	George Meade
		George Gordon Meade, (1815-1872) was a Major General for the United States during the American Civil War.
		Meade was born December 31, 1815, in Cadiz, Spain, the son of an American merchant.
		Meade replaced Hooker as commander of the Army of the Potomac 3 days before the Battle of Gettysburg where he succeeded in driving Robert E. Lee's army back into Virginia, but was criticized for not actively pursuing the Confederates during their retreat.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ge/George_Meade.html (206 words)

	Biography of General George Gordon Meade
		Meade was assigned to command a brigade of Pennsylvania volunteers and it was during this time that he began a friendship with John Reynolds who was from Lancaster, Pennsylvania.
		Meade was placed in command of a division of the "Pennsylvania Reserves" and led them at the Battle of South Mountain and then at the Battle of Antietam on September 17, 1862.
		Meade's promotion came while the army was embroiled in the siege of Petersburg and Richmond, which lasted through the fall of 1864 until April 1865 when Lee ordered the defenses abandoned and his army to retreat to Danville.
	www.nps.gov /gett/getttour/sidebar/meadebio.htm (1561 words)

	George Gordon Meade - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		GEORGE GORDON MEADE (1815-1872), American soldier, was born of American parentage at Cadiz, Spain, on the 31st of December 1815.
		At Fredericksburg he and his division won great distinction by their attack on the position held by Jackson's corps, and Meade was promoted majorgeneral of volunteers, to date from the 29th of November.
		After the war Meade commanded successively the military division of the Atlantic, the department of the east, the third military district (Georgia and Alabama) and the department of the south.
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /George_Gordon_Meade (482 words)

	Topographical Engineers -- George Gordon Meade
		Major General George Gordon Meade was born, Dec. 31, 1815, under the American flag, at Cadiz, in Spain, his father being the United :States Consul at that port.
		Meade was fourteen miles away, bringing.order out of confusion, and arranging his defensive lines at Pipe Creek for the ultimate struggle, when, at one o'clock that afternoon, hearing.of Howard's perilous position, he immediately sent forward Hancock to assume the command, and soon after hastened himself to Gettysburg.
		After the war, Meade, with headquarters at Philadelphia, commanded, successively the Department of the East, the Third Military District, the Department of the South, and the Military Division of the Atlantic, embracing the Coast States from Maine to South Carolina inclusive, and was also at the head of several important Army Boards.
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	George Gordon Meade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Meade was born in Cadiz, Spain on December 31, 1815.
		Meade was considered the victor of the battle of Gettysburg, considered by many the turning point of the war.
		Meade was a capable commander under Grant, and after the war headed several military departments.
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	Meet General Meade
		Meade became ill with fever while in Florida and was reassigned to the Watertown Arsenal in Massachusetts for administrative duties and to recover his health.
		Lieutenant Meade was eventually promoted to captain and for the next ten years spent time in surveying and design work for lighthouses and participating in the 1850's Campaign against the Seminole Indians in Florida.
		A dry-throated Meade rode to the scene and uttered a hoarse "Hurrah!" at the news of the Confederate repulse.
	www.nps.gov /gett/gettkidz/gkbios/meade.htm (1137 words)

	Wikinfo \| George Meade
		George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 - November 6, 1872) was an American military officer during the American Civil War.
		Meade was born in Cadiz, Spain to an American family.
		Meade was appointed a brigadier general of Volunteers a few months after the start of the Civil War.
	www.wikinfo.org /wiki.php?title=George_Meade (729 words)

	Major General George Gordon Meade
		George Gordon Meade, the victor of Gettysburg, was born of American parents in Cadiz, Spain.
		Meade recovered in time to rejoin his brigade for the Federal loss at 2nd Bull Run, and commanded a division at South Mountain and Antietam.
		After Lee launched his invasion of Pennsylvania, Meade was chosen to succeed Hooker in command of the army a scant three days before the Battle of Gettysburg, after Major General John Reynolds declined the post.
	www.swcivilwar.com /meade.html (623 words)

	Meade, George Gordon - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		MEADE, GEORGE GORDON [Meade, George Gordon] 1815-72, Union general in the American Civil War, b.
		Meade took command of the Army of the Potomac on June 28, 1863.
		Meade commanded the Army of the Potomac until the end of the war, but Ulysses S. Grant really directed his army in the Wilderness campaign and subsequent operations.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-meade-g1e.html (396 words)

	meade george
		General George Gordon Meade was the born in Cadiz, Spain on December 31, 1815.
		McClellan was shy and left George Meade and his troops to fight, which led to the Union defeat.
		George Gordon Meade died in 1866 of Pneumonia.
	www.tqnyc.org /NYC040791/meade_george.html (418 words)

	George Gordon Meade (1815-1872)
		Meade was criticized by President Abraham Lincoln and others for not aggressively pursuing the Confederates during their retreat.
		Meade's short temper earned him notoriety, and while he was respected by most of his peers, he was not well-loved by his army.
		Meade died in Philadelphia on November 6, 1872, due to complications from his old wounds, combined with pneumonia, and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
	www.thelatinlibrary.com /chron/civilwarnotes/meade.html (1540 words)

	George Gordon Meade (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Promoted to brigadier general, Meade was given command of a Pennsylvania brigade and participated in the battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines' Mill, and White Oak Swamp.
		Meade commanded the V Corps at Chancellorsville, and on June 28, 1862, while the Army of the Potomac was tracking the Confederate movement into Pennsylvania, Meade was surprised to be appointed to command the Army of the Potomac.
		After the war, Meade was given a series of difficult Southern commands in which he tried to administer reconstruction policies with fairness and sensitivity.
	www.us-civilwar.com /meade.htm (357 words)

	Meade
		Richard Worsam Meade was appointed midshipman 2 October 1850, and prior to the Civil War served in the Mediterranean, West Indian, Pacific, and African Squadrons.
		Meade’s final barrage forced Japanese submarine I‑35 to surface, and both destroyers directed “a devastating fire upon the target with all batteries.” Five minutes later Meade checked her fire and at 1751 Frazier rammed the sub, hitting her port quarter abaft the conning tower.
		One was killed during a brief exchange of gunfire; as Meade’s boat returned with a second, seriously wounded prisoner, an American dive bomber mistook it for a submarine conning tower and bombed it with a 500‑pound delayed fuze bomb.
	www.history.navy.mil /danfs/m8/meade-ii.htm (1486 words)

	BelleBoyd1
		Meade was so surprised by the visit that when he first awoke to find the man in his tent, his first thought was that he was being placed under arrest, and he tried foggily to remember what he could have possibly done to deserve it.
		Meade's only negligence on July 1 consisted in believing Slocum would be governed by events and move his Twelfth Corps forward the short distance to Gettysburg to reinforce the embattled defenders--this Slocum had, as it turned out, refused to do until after the fighting was over.
		Although Meade was expecting an attack on his right where the enemy was visible, he had trouble on his left in the form of General Sickles, who in the early afternoon had expressed agitation about where, exactly, he should put his corps.
	www.gbpa.org /meade1.htm (3132 words)

	George Gordon Meade Biography \| Encyclopedia of World Biography
		George Gordon Meade (1815-1872), American Civil War general, is best remembered as the victor of the Battle of Gettysburg and as the last commander of the Army of the Potomac.
		The son of an American merchant, George Gordon Meade was born on Dec. 31, 1815, in Cadiz, Spain.
		Meade was genuinely surprised when, on June 28, 1863, he was named to head the Army of the Potomac.
	www.bookrags.com /biography/george-gordon-meade (402 words)

	Gen. George Meade
		Meade would later be criticized for his failure to follow up his victory at Gettysburg with a knockout blow to Lee’s beleaguered army.
		Meade"s leadership at the Battle of Gettysburg was characteristic of his exemplary service to his country.
		In this portrait of Meade I tried to evoke the strong character of the General and his air of dignity, which was described by so many of his peers.
	www.paulmartinart.com /GenGeorgeMeade.html (1261 words)

	Battle of Gettysburg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Meade commanded a division at Antietam and the V Corps at Chancellorsville.
		Meade was criticized for not pursuing the Rebel forces after the battle, but that didn't shake Lincoln's faith in Meade.
		Meade held command of the Army of the Potomac until the end of the war and became the most successful and longest serving Union commander.
	www.collectorsnet.com /cwtimes/gettysbu.htm (618 words)

	THE CIVIL WAR AND UNDERGROUND RAILROAD MUSEUM OF PHILADELPHIA - THE MEADE COLLECTION ROOM
		George Gordon Meade was born in Cadiz, Spain on December 31st, 1815.
		Meade was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on August 31st, 1861 at the insistence of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin, and given a brigade of Pennsylvania infantry.
		Meade was rewarded with the rank of major general in the Regular Army only after William T. Sherman and Philip Sheridan, the latter Meade's subordinate, had been appointed.
	www.cwurmuseum.org /pages/collections_pages/Meade_Room.htm (532 words)

	George Gordon Meade
		The American soldier George Gordon Meade was born of American parentage at Cadiz, Spain, on the 31st of December 1815.
		At Fredericksburg he and his division won great distinction by their attack on the position held by Stonewall Jackson's corps, and Meade was promoted major-general of volunteers, to date from the 29th of November.
		The choice was unexpected, but Meade justified it by his conduct of the operations, and in the famous three days' battle he inflicted a complete defeat on General Robert E. Lee's army.
	www.nndb.com /people/589/000050439 (450 words)

	George Meade - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Meade served in the Mexican-American War, assigned to the staffs of Generals Zachary Taylor, William J. Worth, and Robert Patterson, and was brevetted to first lieutenant for gallant conduct at the Battle of Monterrey.
		Meade was led into the battle almost by accident, by a chance meeting engagement between Confederate infantry and Union cavalry in Gettysburg on July 1.
		Meade died in Philadelphia from complications of his old wounds, combined with pneumonia, and is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/George_Gordon_Meade (3162 words)

	GEORGEGORDONMEADE, USA
		George Gordon Meade was born on December 31, 1815, in Cádiz, Spain, while his father was working as a naval agent for the US.
		The resulting financial difficulties required young George Meade to withdraw from school in Philadelphia and attend a school in Washington, D.C. Salmon P. Chase, later a Union politician, led the school.
		Meade was awarded a Thanks of Congress for his efforts to repel the Army of Northern Virginia.
	www.multied.com /Bio/UGENS/USAMeade.html (675 words)

	Civil War Generals (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		At Fredericksburg Reynolds commanded the I Corps and Meade its 3rd Division in Franklin's "Left Grand Division." A few days later Meade was appointed to the command of the V Corps which he led at Chancellorsville.
		Meade was given command of the Army of the Potomac on June 28, 1863, after Reynolds had taken himself out of competition for the position, Darius N. Couch had been transferred at his own request, and John Sedgwick and Henry W. Slocum had agreed that they would willingly serve under their junior.
		Meade was immediately confronted with Robert E. Lee's ragged and hungry' legions who were fanned out over the Pennsylvania countryside.
	www.icss.net /~joann/generals/meade.htm (1284 words)

	George Meade
		George Meade, re-armed and re-supplied, crosses the Rappahannock and begins advancing on the Army of Northern Virginia.
		At Antietam, Meade was in the front of Hooker's Corps as it marched down the Hagerstown Pike towards Sharpsburg late in the day on September 16.
		Joe Hooker was gone and George Meade, his able lieutenant from Pennsylvania stood ready to impose his army between Lee and Washington while trying to save his state from the Rebel invasion.
	blueandgraytrail.com /event/George_Meade (561 words)

	General George Gordon Meade
		Meade was promoted to brigadier general of volunteers on 31 August 1861 at the insistence of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin, and was given a brigade of Pennsylvania infantry.
		Meade and his brigade joined the Army of the Potomac in the spring of 1862 during the Peninsula campaign, where he was severely wounded twice during the battle of Glendale.
		Meade was rewarded with the rank of major general in the Regular Army, only after William T. Sherman and Phillip Sheridan, the latter Meade's subordinate, had been appointed.
	www.netreach.net /~cwlm/aug97.html (478 words)

	George Meade
		Each of General George Meade's accomplishments had one major effect on how life is today.
		Secondly, Meade's defeat of Lee at the accidental Gettysburg.
		There are many things that would be different if George Meade had never lived.
	www.studyworld.com /george_meade.htm (587 words)

	Major-General George Gordon Meade, U.S.A.
		General Meade was appointed major-general of volunteers, and in December, 1862, led the attack which broke through the right of Lee's line at Fredericksburg, but, not being supported, was obliged to fall back.
		In the spring of 1864, Lieutenant-General Grant being placed in command of all the Union armies, General Meade entered the field with the Army of the Potomac.
		General Meade was subsequently placed in command of the military district comprising Georgia, Florida, and Alabama, with head-quarters at Atlanta.
	www.all-biographies.com /soldiers/george_gordon_meade.htm (866 words)

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