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The author of a number books on the Civil War, Kent Masterson Brown here undertakes the first comprehensive analysis of George Meade’s generalship as commander of the Army of the Potomac during the ...

Gen. George Meade grave site at Laurel Hill Cemetery in Philadelphia. This is a daily series telling the story of the tombstones of people who are historically important and interesting as they relate ...

One hundred and fifty years ago tomorrow morning, two great armies slammed into each other outside a crossroads town in Pennsylvania. Neither army’s commander intended to fight at Gettysburg, but the ...

If Union Gen. George Gordon Meade had had his way, the battle that changed the course of the Civil War would have taken place on Maryland soil. A fight in a Pennsylvania crossroads town called ...

George Meade George Gordon Meade (Dec. 31, 1815-Nov. 6, 1872) was a U.S. Army officer and civil engineer best known for decisively defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of ...

WILKES-BARRE — On the eve of the one of the most critical events in the nation’s history, General George Gordon Meade was ordered to assume command of the Army and move against the Confederates, who ...

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More than 1,300 monuments, markers and plaques are housed at the park to memorialize the historic Battle of Gettysburg, which lasted three days in July 1863 -- 155 years ago. New York has the most of ...

How a brilliant Union plan at the Siege of Petersburg turned into a disaster — and why black troops bore the worst of it. By Richard Slotkin In a Virginia field, some 7,000 Union soldiers were killed ...