GENERAL GEORGE GORDON MEADE - LIFE AND LETTERS CIVIL WAR - 1913 REPRINT

Description: THE LIFE AND LETTERS OF GEORGE GORDON MEADE MAJOR-GENERAL UNITED STATES ARMY BY GEORGE MEAD Captain and Aide-de-Camp and Brevet Lieutenant-Colonel United States Army EDITED BY GEORGE GORDON MEADE COMPLETE TWO-VOLUME BOOK SET MINT CONDITION This is a brand new, unread, pristine-condition book set. Attractive, Sharp, Clean, Bright, Solidly Bound, New Book Set Loaded with Wonderful Illustrations and Maps Contains a Rich Photographic Supplement and Color Map Collection ORIGINALLY PUBLISHED IN 1913, THIS IS THE 1994 HANDSOMELY-PUBLISHED FASCILIME SET BY BUTTERNUT AND BLUE This is a facsimile reprint of the original, first edition of The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major General in the Army of Potomac. The book presents a detailed biography with a full account of the life of General George G. Meade, victor of Gettysburg. Born of American parents in Cadiz, Spain in 1815, Meade later graduated West Point and served a year in the artillery before resigning to become a civil engineer. He reentered the army in 1842 and earned a brevet in Mexico. Serving on a survey of the Great Lakes at the outbreak of the Civil War, he received a volunteer brigadier's star in the first summer of the war and was assigned to the division of Pennsylvania Reserves. After training and service near Washington and in northern Virginia, the command joined the Army of the Potomac on the Peninsula where he fought and was wounded at Glendale. He led his brigade at 2nd Bull Run, following his recovery, and the division at South Mountain and Antietam. He succeeded the wounded Hooker in command of the lst Corps and received his second star before Fredericksburg. In that action his division broke through the Confederate right, but was thrown back after his supports failed to arrive. At Chancellorsville he led his corps well but was held back by Hooker's timidity. With the invasion of Pennsylvania, Meade was chosen to relieve Hooker in army command only three days before Gettysburg. He masterfully shifted his troops from one threatened sector to another and earned the thanks of Congress and an appointment as a brigadier in the regulars, although he was heavily criticized for allowing Lee to escape. His handling of the Bristoe and Mine Run campaigns was not shining. In the spring of 1864 newly appointed General-in-Chief U.S. Grant set up his headquarters with Meade's army. This cumbersome arrangement worked out surprisingly well. He fought through the Overland and Petersburg campaigns, earning Grant's respect and being considered for command in the Shenandoah. At Grant's request he was advanced to major general in the regular army. He served in the Appomattox Campaign. Mustered out of the volunteer service, he continued in the regular army, performing Reconstruction duty in the South. In 1866, he became commissioner of Fairmount Park in Philadelphia, a post he held until his death in 1872. THIS BOOK SET IS IN MINT CONDITION This is a brand new, unread, pristine-condition, complete, two-volume book set. The set is attractive, clean, sharp, bright, and solidly bound with no shortcomings. The books are handsomely bound in green cloth covers with black lettering and the image of a major general on the cover. The books have no bumping or rubbing. Sample set show; your set comes in the original, publisher's shrink wrap. The pages are clean, bright white and in excellent condition. The books are loaded with illustrations, photographs and maps. This set contains a photographic supplement with additional portraits not in the original as well as a series of maps in the back of the book with the unit locations of opposing forces of various battles. This is an excellent condition book set. Track Page Views WithAuctiva's Counter

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