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Paying My Respects to George Gordon Meade
The paths and driveways through Philadelphia’s Laurel Hill Cemetery remind me of an ant farm I had when I was a kid. The ways twist and scurry across the landscape unpredictably in three dimensions. The map makes it all seem … Continue reading
Civil War in Paradise
In mid-January I spent a long weekend in Key West. I enjoyed the food, music, and atmosphere of a truly great town, and also saw some of the place’s interesting historic sites. What really surprised me was the Civil War … Continue reading
Posted in Antebellum South, Battlefields & Historic Places, Leadership--Confederate, Leadership--Federal, Monuments, Navies, Ties to the War, Western Theater
Tagged Army of the Cumberland, Asa Tift, British Empire, Confederate Navy, East Gulf Blockading Squadron, Ernest Hemingway, Florida, George G. Meade, George Gordon Meade, ironclads, John Brannan, key west, Key West Lighthouse, Stephen Mallory, Trent Affair, Union Blockade, Union Navy, USS San Jacinto
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Meade’s Account of Mine Run
One of my favorite pieces of correspondence from the war is a Dec. 2, 2863, letter that George Gordon Meade wrote to his wife in the wake of the Mine Run campaign. The commander of the Army of the Potomac, … Continue reading
A Little Wedding, A Little History
We’re getting ready for a wedding this afternoon here at Stevenson Ridge. Teal, peach, and off-white pom-poms festoon the fireplace in the chapel, and spider-thin curly-que candelabras, also teal, sit at the center of each table. A sign in the … Continue reading
On Meade’s Mind, 152 Years Ago
George Gordon Meade had much on his mind as he waited for the train from Washington to arrive. Onboard, the general-in-chief of all Union armies, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, was coming from Washington to take his place with the … Continue reading
At the Center of Nothing, Meade’s Greatest Moment
If all had gone according to plan, the men of the Federal II Corps would have marched across this field on the morning of November 30, 1863. They would have advanced from the far treeline toward the spot where the … Continue reading
Posted in Battlefields & Historic Places, Battles, Leadership--Federal
Tagged George Gordon Meade, II Corps, Mine Run, November 1863
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Mount Carmel Church
On May 24, Grant and Meade made their headquarters at Mt. Carmel Church. Founded in 1773, the church was described by one observer as “a church for religion, not for show.”
Lee’s Ill-Timed Rest
Historians often say that one of Lee’s greatest talents as a commander was his ability to read his opponents and divine their intentions. I call it “Lee’s superpower.” While evidence supports that idea through 1863, Grant’s appearance in the spring … Continue reading
More to Read on Meade
On the heels of his recent post on Army of the Potomac commander Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade, we asked Rob Orrison for some reading suggestions that might shed some light on Meade’s stormy winter of command in 1863-64. Rob … Continue reading
Posted in Books & Authors, Leadership--Federal
Tagged From Gettysburg to the Rapidan, George Gordon Meade, George Meade, Meade's Army, Road to Bristoe Station, Rob Orrison, Searching for George Gordon Meade, The Bristoe Campaign, The Maps of Bristoe Station and Mine Run Campaigns, Theodore Lyman
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“If You Have Any Orders to Give Me, I am Prepared to Receive and Obey Them”: The Command Struggles of Gen. George Meade, September 1863-March 1864 (part II)
The second in a two-part series During the Bristoe Station Campaign, George Gordon Meade believed that Lee had been the superior general. “I am free to admit that in the playing of it he has got the advantage of me,” … Continue reading
Posted in Armies, Leadership--Federal
Tagged Abner Doubleday, Abraham Lincoln, Army of the Potomac, Bristoe Station, Culpepper, Dan Butterfield, Daniel Sickles, Edwin Stanton, George Gordon Meade, Gideon Welles, Gouverneur K. Warren, Henry Halleck, Joe Hooker, Joint Committee, Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, Kilpatrick-Dahlgren Raid, Lincoln, meade, meade-orders-to-give-me, Mine Run, Rappahannock Station
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