Banquet Given By The Historical Society Of Pennsylvania Dec 31 1810 Birth Of Major General George Gordon Meade

Author : John Gibbon
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ISBN 13 : 9781331147381
Total Pages : 28 pages
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Download or read book An Address on the Unveiling of the Statue of Major-General George G. Meade (Classic Reprint) written by John Gibbon and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-11 with total page 28 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from An Address on the Unveiling of the Statue of Major-General George G. Meade Nearly forty years ago the Seminole Indians broke out and commenced murdering the settlers in Florida. Troops were sent into the country and a line of camps was established across the Peninsula. Into one of these camps, late one afternoon, rode a horseman attended by a single orderly. He was a gaunt, thin man, with a hatchet face and a prominent aquiline nose. He introduced himself as Lieutenant Meade, Topographical Engineers, just from a reconnaissance on the hostile border. He was wet, tired, and hungry. It was my good fortune to be able to offer dry clothes, food, and a bed of blankets to one whose name was destined fourteen years later to render famous the little town of Gettysburg, in the southern part of Pennsylvania. It was the first time I had met him. He was then about thirty-four years of age, had accompanied our army into Mexico, served in the war with that country in a subordinate position and without any especial notice. The next time we met he was a Brigadier-General of volunteers, commanding a brigade of the Pennsylvania Reserves in front of Washington in the fall of 1861. Up to that time Meade had never commanded even a company of soldiers. Hence he entered upon his military duties totally unused personally to active command, and dependent for success upon the basis of his military education and his good judgment and tact in governing men. Although, therefore, an officer of the regular army, General Meade was essentially a volunteer, commanding volunteers. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.