George Meade

George Meade

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United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872)

About George Meade

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.

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Did General Meade desire to retreat at the battle of Gettysburg?

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