George G. Meade
George Gordon Meade (December 31st 1815 - November 6th 1872), the winner of Gettysburg, was born American parents with Cadiz, in Spain. It was with West Point and graduate in 1835. It served one year in artillery before resigning to become civil Engineer. Thereafter, having difficulty in finding an employment suitable in its field, it joined the army in 1842 and was used for the Mexico.
It was useful as captain of the topographic engineers, a rank which it kept until in 1856, and was responsible for a research on the Big lakes when the American Civil War began in 1861.
It was promoted general sergeant during the first summer of the war and was used with division of reserve as Pennsylvania. After control in formation near Washington and in the north of the Virginia, him and its brigade were dispatched to join the army of the Potomac on the peninsula. He saw the combat with Beaver Dam Creek and Gaines Millet and was wounded with Glendale.
Meade recovered just in time to join its brigade for the federal defeat with the second Bull Run and ordered a division with South Mountain and Antietam. There, it succeeded wounded Hooker, as commander of the first body.
With Fredericksburg, its division broke the line of the confederated lines, but was stopped and possibly had to move back when the troops of support were not able to support its initial success. To Chancellorsville, it led its bodies well, but was held behind by the indecision of Hooker.
After Lee launched its invasion of Pennsylvania, Meade was selected to succeed Hooker with the command of the army, three days before the Bataille of Gettysburg, after the general major John Reynolds declined the station. He thought of the beginning of defending a position behind Pipe Creek, but accepted the recommendation of Winfield Scott Hancock to rather concentrate the army with Gettysburg. Dealing with the offensive strapping of Lee with Gettysburg, it shifted its troops with the various parts threatened of the line in time to avoid each of thorough of the rebellious chief. After three days desperate and bloody combat Meade murderer succeeds in gaining one of the swivelling battles of the war, an achievement for which it received the thanks of the congress.
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