The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade
Author | : George Gordon Meade |
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Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
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Author | : George Gordon Meade |
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Total Pages | : 524 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
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Author | : Bill Hyde |
Publisher | : LSU Press |
Total Pages | : 454 |
Release | : 2003-04-01 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780807125816 |
The Union Generals Speak is the first annotated edition of the 1864 congressional investigation into Major General George Gordon Meade's conduct during the Gettysburg campaign. The transcripts alone, which present eyewitness accounts from sixteen participant officers at Gettysburg, offer a wealth of information about the what and the why of one of the most pivotal battles in American history; but it is the addition of contextual comments and background material by Bill Hyde that unleashes this virtually untapped resource for readers. Laden with ulterior motives, prejudices, faulty recollection, and outright lies, the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War's report is a minefield of inaccuracies. Hyde's comprehensive analysis, informed by recent scholarship, transforms it into an accessible, rewarding aid for students of the Gettysburg chapter in the Civil War. In the course of the volume, Hyde gives thorough examination to the origins and purpose of the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, the political climate and military thinking in Washington at the time of the Meade hearings, and the hidden agendas of the witnesses and seven committee members. He maintains that the JCCW's dissatisfaction with Meade went much deeper than disapproval of the general's hesitancy to pursue and cripple Lee's Army of Northern Virginia on July 4, 1863—a failure that disappointed every northern citizen from Lincoln to the ordinary soldier. The bipartisan body of mostly radical Republicans who favored a ruthless defeat of the South aimed, Hyde shows, to restore power to the committee's favorite, Major General Joseph Hooker, whom Meade had succeeded as commander of the Army of the Potomac only three days before Gettysburg. The unfolding of the Gettysburg campaign, the career of General Meade, and the North's highly politicized method of warmaking all receive new illumination in The Union General's Speak. Hyde's balanced critique of this important primary source reminds us that though Meade is remembered now mainly for his role in defeating the Confederates at Gettysburg, the JCCW hearings confirmed that he was not the leader to win the war.
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Total Pages | : 72 |
Release | : 1864 |
Genre | : United States |
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Author | : Tom Huntington |
Publisher | : Stackpole Books |
Total Pages | : 418 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0811708136 |
A historian's investigation of the life and times of Gen. George Gordon Meade to discover why the hero of Gettysburg has failed to achieve the status accorded to other generals of the conflict.
Author | : George Gordon Meade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 458 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Mexican War, 1846-1848 |
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Author | : George Gordon MEADE (the Elder.) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 70 |
Release | : 1864 |
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Author | : United States. Army. Department of the South |
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Total Pages | : 122 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Reconstruction |
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Author | : Kent Masterson Brown, Esq. |
Publisher | : UNC Press Books |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 2021-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1469662000 |
Although he took command of the Army of the Potomac only three days before the first shots were fired at Gettysburg, Union general George G. Meade guided his forces to victory in the Civil War's most pivotal battle. Commentators often dismiss Meade when discussing the great leaders of the Civil War. But in this long-anticipated book, Kent Masterson Brown draws on an expansive archive to reappraise Meade's leadership during the Battle of Gettysburg. Using Meade's published and unpublished papers alongside diaries, letters, and memoirs of fellow officers and enlisted men, Brown highlights how Meade's rapid advance of the army to Gettysburg on July 1, his tactical control and coordination of the army in the desperate fighting on July 2, and his determination to hold his positions on July 3 insured victory. Brown argues that supply deficiencies, brought about by the army's unexpected need to advance to Gettysburg, were crippling. In spite of that, Meade pursued Lee's retreating army rapidly, and his decision not to blindly attack Lee's formidable defenses near Williamsport on July 13 was entirely correct in spite of subsequent harsh criticism. Combining compelling narrative with incisive analysis, this finely rendered work of military history deepens our understanding of the Army of the Potomac as well as the machinations of the Gettysburg Campaign, restoring Meade to his rightful place in the Gettysburg narrative.
Author | : George Gordon Meade |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 152 |
Release | : 1868 |
Genre | : Georgia |
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George W. Ashburn was a Georgia politician assassinated by the Ku Klux Klan in Columbus, Georgia for his pro-African-American sentiments. He was the first murder victim of the Klan in Georgia.
Author | : Charles Devens |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 48 |
Release | : 1873 |
Genre | : Gettysburg, Battle of, Gettysburg, Pa., 1863 |
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