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Excerpt from Report of the Survey of the North and Northwest Lakes: Being Appendix I, of the Report of the Chief Topographical Engineer, Accompanying Annual Report of the Secretary of War, 1858 Sir: In compliance with the General Regulations of the Army of June 1, 1857, par. I have the honor to submit the following report of the progress during the past year, of the survey of the north and northwest lakes, together with an estimate of the amount required for the further prosecution of the work. 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.
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George Gordon Meade was born on December 31, 1815 in Cadiz, Spain, where his father Richard Worsam Meade, 1778-1828, was naval agent for the United States. His mother, Margaret Coates (Butler) Meade, was the daughter of Anthony Butler, of Perth Amboy, N. J. His grandfather, George Meade, a merchant of Philadelphia, contributed generously to the American cause in the Revolution.
Meade's father, after having lived in affluence in Spain, died in Washington, D. C. , in poverty, through the failure of the government to pay a just debt. Because of this financial loss, young Meade had to be withdrawn from Mt. Airy School near Philadelphia and sent to one conducted by Salmon P. Chase in Washington. Afterward he attended a Mt. Hope school in Baltimore. Though his tastes pointed toward a collegiate education, lack of funds turned his attention toward West Point, where he became a cadet, September 1, 1831, having received an appointment upon his second application. While at the Academy he was not a particular admirer of the course, and determined to resign from the military service as soon as he could properly do so. He was graduated number nineteen among the fifty-six members of the class of 1835. During his graduation leave he helped with the survey of the Long Island Railroad.
As brevet second lieutenant of the 3rd Artillery, Meade was ordered to Florida. Though he was advised not to go to that climate because of the weakness of his health, he arrived at the outbreak of the Seminole War. After serving a year in southern Florida, where he was stricken with fever which rendered him unfit for duty, he was ordered to Watertown Arsenal, Massachussets, on ordnance work. There he resigned from the army, October 26, 1836, along with many others who foresaw little promotion in the service. He at once became assistant engineer of the Alabama, Florida, & Georgia Railroad. In 1839 he acted as principal assistant engineer on a survey of the mouths of the Mississippi. In 1840 he was one of the assistants to the joint commission for establishing the boundary between the United States and Texas. At work now as one of the civil assistants of the survey of the northeastern boundary, he determined with the new responsibilities of matrimony to apply for reinstatement in the army. Accordingly, on May 19, 1842, he was appointed a second lieutenant of Topographical Engineers, his classmates already having attained the rank of captain. As a military engineer he was continued on the northeastern boundary survey until the end of 1843, when he was transferred to Philadelphia in the work of designing and constructing lighthouses in the Delaware Bay. He was on this duty when, in August 1845, he was ordered to Aransay Bay, Texas, with Taylor's army of occupation. He arrived at Corpus Christi September 14, 1845, a young man in robust health, tall, gaunt, with a hatchet face and prominent aquiline nose. During the Mexican War he was engaged in the battles of Palo Alto and Resaca de la Palma, and was brevetted a first lieutenant (September 23, 1846) at Monterey for performing daring reconnaissances.
He was then transferred to Scott's column, participating in the siege of Vera Cruz, whence, because of the superfluity of topographical engineers and the lack of opportunity for further active service, he was returned to Philadelphia. There he was presented by a body of citizens with a sword for his services in the war. From 1847 to 1849 he was employed in the construction of lighthouses in Delaware Bay and in making surveys and maps of the Florida reefs. In 1849 and 1850 he was in Florida in active service against the Seminoles. In 1850 and 1851 he was again in the Delaware Bay at work upon lighthouses and the Delaware breakwater. On August 4, 1851, he was promoted a first lieutenant of Topographical Engineers. In 1851 and 1852 he was in Florida at work upon the Iron Screw Pile Lighthouse on Corysfort Reef; and from 1852 to 1856 at Sand Key. He was promoted a captain of Topographical Engineers, May 17, 1856. He was then ordered to Detroit, Mich. , on the geodetic survey of the Great Lakes, his report of which was of such value as to place him in charge of the Northern Lake Surveys from 1857 to 1861. When the Civil War broke out, Meade, through the efforts of Gov. Andrew G. Curtin of Pennsylvania, was made a brigadier-general of volunteers, August 31, 1861, and given one of the three Pennsylvania brigades with Reynolds and Ord. It was at this time that the close friendship between Reynolds and Meade began, to end only when Reynolds was killed early in the battle of Gettysburg. Meade's first active service in command of his brigade was in the defenses of Washington, D. C. , where he assisted in the construction of Fort Pennsylvania, near Tennallytown. In March 1862, he was transferred with his command to McDowell's army, and after the evacuation of Manassas went into the Department of the Shenandoah. In June 1862 he was ordered to the Peninsula under McClellan, when (June 18) he was promoted to major in the Topographical Engineers of the regular army. His brigade took part in the battles of Mechanicsville, Gaines's Mill, and Glendale. At Glendale he received the wound which was to trouble him the remainder of his career and which was to be the indirect cause of his death. The ball entered just above the hip joint, indented his liver, and passed out near his spine. Simultaneously another ball hit his arm. In spite of these wounds he stuck to his horse, directed his subordinates in the action, and was forced to quit the field only through loss of blood. Though afterward his hat was riddled with bullets, his mounts were killed, and his leg was numbed by a shell, he was never again actually wounded. Before he was fully recovered at Philadelphia, he rejoined his command and participated in the Second Bull Run, August 29-30, 1862. When Reynolds' division at South Mountain, September 14, 1862, was without its leader, Meade was placed in temporary command. His successful and skilful advance elicited written praise from his superiors. At Antietam, on September 16-17, he again pressed forward with intrepidity until the ammunition of his troops was exhausted. When Hooker was carried off the field, Meade was placed in temporary command of the I Corps, which he led for the remainder of the battle.
George Gordon was then engaged under McClellan in the pursuit of Lee to Falmouth, Va. , in October and November 1862, during which time he was given the old division of Reynolds, who succeeded by rank to the command of Hooker's Corps. On November 29 Meade was made a major-general of volunteers, and on December 25 was given the regular command of the V Corps, after the disastrous battle of Fredericksburg. On January 26, 1863, he was placed in command of the Center Grand Division, composed of the III and VI Corps. On February 5, when Hooker abolished the grand divisions, Meade reverted to the command of the V Corps, which in the battle of Chancellorsville, May 24, 1863, gave an excellent account of itself in so far as Hooker used it. It was because of Meade's insight and advice in this battle that Couch and Reynolds both recommended him to Washington as the next commander of the Army of the Potomac, though this act may not have affected the appointment. While leading his corps northward paralleling Lee, he was awakened in the early morning of June 28 by a messenger from the President, who delivered a letter placing him in command of the Army of the Potomac. Thoroughly surprised and displeased, he protested against his selection. Nevertheless, even with his handicaps and his unfamiliarity with Hooker's plans, he quickly adjusted himself to his new office and began at once to carry out his sudden and complicated mission. He at once issued orders for taking up a position on the line, Emmitsburg-Hanover, for the protection of Baltimore and Washington, thus concentrating his forces but making no attempt to destroy Lee's army. The Gettysburg position was an accident induced by a meeting engagement of advance elements. Though Meade generally handled his troops well, he has been criticized for not strengthening his flanks, for holding out no reserve, and for failure on July 2-3 to counter-attack and to pursue in exploitation of his success. His was no Napoleonic victory, nor did he display doubtless because of the same heckling that had beset all early commanders of the Army of the Potomac the aggressiveness that he had urged at Chancellorsville. But it must be remembered he had been given the command only five days before, that his troops were exhausted, and that the topography of the country favored an orderly retirement by the master soldier, Lee. On January 28, 1864, he received the thanks of Congress "for the skill and heroic valor which, at Gettysburg, repelled, defeated and drove back, broken and dispirited, beyond the Rappahanock, the veteran army of the Rebellion"; and after the battle he was promoted a brigadier-general in the regular army to rank from July 3, 1863.
He was continued in sole command of the Army of the Potomac through the Rapidan campaign and the Mine Run operations. However, when Grant who had been made a lieutenant-general in command of all the Union forces, March 12, 1864, decided to accompany the main army in Virginia, Meade's powers were mechanically curtailed. It was an anomalous situation for both Grant and Meade, which, even with the deference Grant displayed, relegated Meade's work to the tactical rather than the strategical realm. But notwithstanding tense moments, when Meade's highstrung, scholarly nature grew irascible and petulant, he was unswervingly loyal to his superior and carried out the orders given him with skill and fidelity. He was retained in command of the Army of the Potomac Continuously from Gettysburg to Appomattox, during which time he was promoted a major-general in the regular army, August 18, 1864. At the close of the war he was placed successively in command of the Military Division of the Atlantic, and the Department of the East with headquarters at Philadelphia. On January 2, 1868, he was transferred to Atlanta, Ga. , in command of the third military district of the Department of the South, comprising the states of Georgia, Alabama, and Florida. He served there until March 12, 1869, when he was transferred to the command of the Military Division of the Atlantic with headquarters in Philadelphia. His work in the South was unusually trying and responsible, because of the almost impossible task of administering the unjust reconstruction laws. His uncompromising attitude and sense of fairness were able to make tolerable a most difficult situation. From 1866 until his death he acted as commissioner of Fairmount Park, Philadelphia, the plan and beautification of which are ascribed to his energies more than to those of any other. On October 31, 1872, while taking his daily walk from his office with his wife, he was attacked with a violent pain on the side of his old wound. It was the second time since the war that pneumonia had overtaken him. He died November 6, 1872.
Meade is known universally for being the victor of the Battle of Gettysburg, being in command of the Union's Army of the Potomac during the engagement. There are statues memorializing Meade throughout Pennsylvania, including statues at Gettysburg National Military Park, the George Gordon Meade Memorial statue by Charles Grafly, in Washington DC, and one in Fairmount Park in Philadelphia by Alexander Milne Calder. The United States Army's Fort George G. Meade in Fort Meade, Maryland, is named for him, as are Meade County, Kansas, and Meade County, South Dakota. The Old Baldy Civil War Round Table in Philadelphia is named in honor of Meade's horse during the war. In World War II, the United States liberty ship SS George G. Meade was named in his honor. One-thousand-dollar Treasury notes, also called Coin notes, of the Series 1890 and 1891, feature portraits of Meade on the obverse. The 1890 Series note is called the Grand Watermelon Note by collectors, because the large zeroes on the reverse resemble the pattern on a watermelon. In 2015 General Meade was elected posthumously as a companion of the Pennsylvania Commandery of the Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States (MOLLUS). During his life, Meade was invited to join MOLLUS but refused.
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Quotations:
"War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state. "
"Never fear your enemies, fear your actions. "
"General Sickles, this is in some respects higher ground than that to the rear, but there is still higher in front of you, and if you keep on advancing you will find constantly higher ground all the way to the mountains. "
"Be assured, he is not an ordinary man. "
"I have been tried and condemned without a hearing, and I suppose I shall have to go to the execution. "
Meade's outstanding qualities were soundness and steadfastness. His mind was scientific, and his convictions were deep-seated. These traits, coupled with an intense honesty and unswerving adherence to what he believed to be the truth, often brought him into heated contentions with inferiors and superiors, regardless of person or place. He was not a popular type, but in the field of efficiency his rugged, lofty character outweighed any possible defects of tact.
In 1840 Meade was married on his twenty-fifth birthday to Margaretta Sergeant, daughter of John Sergeant. There had been six children from his marriage, four sons and two daughters.
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