George Meade
United States Army general and civil engineer (1815-1872) · United States · On the map · Scientists · Died at 56
George Gordon Meade was an American military officer who served in the United States Army and the Union army as a major general in command of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War from 1863 to 1865.
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General Meade's horse, Old Baldy
Engraving by James E. Kelly of Meade and the Council of War - July 2, 1863
General Meade's headquarters, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
Generals George G. Meade, Andrew A. Humphreys and staff in Culpeper, Virginia, outside Meade's headquarters, 1863
Commanders of the Army of the Potomac, Gouverneur K. Warren, William H. French, George G. Meade, Henry J. Hunt, Andrew A. Humphreys, and George Sykes in September 1863
Horse artillery headquarters in Brandy Station, Virginia, February 1864.
General Meade and other generals of Army of the Potomac in Washington, D.C., June 1865About this person
He fought in many of the key battles of the eastern theater and defeated the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia led by General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg.
