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. 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.
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, Battery Morton, July 30, 1864. General MEADE: Your dispatch by Captain Jay received. The main body of General Potter’s division is beyond the crater. Ido not…
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, July 30, 1864. July 30, 1864—9 a.m. General MEADE : The attack made on right of mine has been repulsed. A great many men are coming…
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, July 30, 1864. July 30, 1864—8 a. m. General MEADE: General Turner, in my front, reports that the only place I can get out of the…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, July 30, 1864. July 30, 1864—6.50 a. m. General GEORGE G. MEADE: The brigade next to General Burnside’s attempted an advance of a skirmish line just…
HEADQUARTERS NINTH ARMY CORPS, March 20, 1865. March 20, 1865—7.50 p. m. General MEADE: Since the storm we have had a fine opportunity to observe the enemy’s line. I have…
HEADQUARTERS SECOND ARMY CORPS, March 25, 1865. March 25, 1865—10.30 a.m. (Received 11.15 a. m.) Major-General MEADE, Commanding Army of the Potomac: We have taken the enemy’s picket-line in Watkins’-house…
HEADQUARTERS SIXTH CORPS, March 25, 1865. March 25, 1865—2.50 p.m. General Meade desires you to.keep up a threatening attitude until night. He leaves it to you entirely to decide whether…
Washington Washington, May 17, 1865. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, Commanding Army of the Potomac: The Secretary of War directs that all volunteer organizations of white troops in your command…
Washington Washington, May 18, 1865. Gen. George G. Meade, Commanding Army of the Potomac: In connection with the telegram order of yesterday, relative to the discharge ol troops whose terms…
Washington Washington, July 17, 1865. Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, Eighteenth and Delaney Place: Send staff officers to each, Virginia, North Carolina, and South Cart lina, and direct the muster…
‘ HEADQUARTERS MIDDLE MILITARY DEPARTMENT, Baltimore, Md., September 21, 1865. GENERAL: I have the honor to forward my report of the operations of the Second Army Corps from June 13…