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Comte de Paris, History of the Civil War in America. Vol. 3. (ed. Henry Coppee , LL.D.), Book III:—Pennsylvania. (search)
ncy, Gen. Meade was born Dec. 31, 1815, at Cadiz, Spain, where his parents, who were American citizens, temporarily resided. His father, Richard W. Meade, at the time held the appointment of United States Naval Agent at the port of Cadiz, and Gen. Meade was born under the American flag. Whatever question there may be as to what the law might have been at the time of Gen. Meade's birth, the reverse of what is stated in the text seems to have been settled by the Act of Congress of February 10, 1855, the passage of which was brought about by a pamphlet written by the late Horace Binney in 1853, on The Alienigenoe of the United States. That act provides that all children heretofore born . . . . out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States, whose fathers were . . . . at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared to be citizens of the United States; that is, they are declared to be natural-born citizens as contradistinguished from naturalized citizens, and the