Union General George Gordon Meade graduated from West Point in 1835. Meade ranked 19th in a graduating class of 56 cadets. Meade is best known for his victory at the Battle of Gettysburg.
West point graduate George G. Meade fought at the Battle of Antietam. He was a brigadier general under the command of Corps commander Joseph Hooker. Meade led the Third Division of Hooker's First Corps.
the Union general, General Meade
Major General George Gordon Meade was a general of the Union Army.
George Meade
Union General Joseph Hooker graduated from West Point in 1837. He ranked 29th in his graduating class of 50 cadets. Hooker became a well known general and reached his peak when Lincoln appointed him to command the Army of the Potomac. Sadly for him, he lost the key Battle of Chancellorsville in May of 1863. He was replaced as the commander of the Army of the Potomac by General George Meade.
West point graduate George G. Meade fought at the Battle of Antietam. He was a brigadier general under the command of Corps commander Joseph Hooker. Meade led the Third Division of Hooker's First Corps.
the Union general, General Meade
Major General George Gordon Meade was a general of the Union Army.
Union General John Sedgwick graduated from West Point in 1837. Among his 50 graduating classmates he ranked 24th. Sedgwick was a Corps commander at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was in charge of the VI Corps, reporting to General Meade who headed the entire Army of the Potomac.
Union General John F. Reynolds graduated from West point in 1841. Among the 52 graduates that year, Reynolds ranked 26th. General Reynolds led the I Corps under General Meade at the Battle of Gettysburg. He was killed in battle at Gettysburg.Prior to that he was in the Battle of Chancellorsville.
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General George Meade
Union General George Gordon Meade graduated from West Point in 1835. He was ranked 19th among his class of 56 graduating cadets. Meade is most famous for his victory in the Battle of Gettysburg. Some historians believe that Meade was under rated by President Lincoln because Meade was not able to totally destroy the Army of Northern Virginia when it had a chance to do so. The victory at Gettysburg was vital to the defeat of the South. Perhaps better said is that if Meade had lost that battle, it's clear the North would have perhaps been forced to disengage the war.
George Meade
George Meade
General Mead assumed the Union command from Hooker on his way to Gettysburg.
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