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George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 1 (search)
one for the sons of the principal families of Philadelphia, and many pupils came from distant parts of the country, especially the South. There were there representatives of the Biddles, Willings, Ingersolls, Coxes, Hewsons, and Bories of Philadelphia; of the Middletons, Andrewses, Herberts, Draytons, Duvals, and others, from various States. Some of these he was destined to meet again as fellow-students at West Point, and some, as Edmund Schriver, Henry DuPont, Percival Drayton, and James S. Biddle, in the army or the navy. Young Meade was still attending this school when intelligence of his father's serious illness was brought to him. Although hastening to Washington as rapidly as the means of travel in those days admitted, he failed to arrive before his father's death, on the 25th of June, 1828. Mr. Meade's bitter and constant disappointment in the prosecution of his claim under the Treaty of Florida had had much to do with the termination of his career at the comparativel
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
e United States is reasonable in its demands, it need not look for peace. Mexico must be much more roughly handled than she has been, or is likely to be, before she will accede to such exorbitant demands. But enough of public matters. I have given you all the news, and told you of all our preparations. In a few days we shall be engaged in bombarding and battering the town, and with the blessing of God I will give you a long account of it. I saw on board the Raritan, flag-ship, Lieutenant Biddle, who told me that he had seen you late in January, a month after your last letter, and that you were well. He had been at a party at your mother's, he said. And from Tom Turner, on board the Albany, I had information that my dear mother, who had been seriously ill, was out of all danger and getting well. So that I feel confident that all whom I love are safe and in good health. I have also met here Henry Bohlen, who is volunteer aide to General Worth, and his letters say all their
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
, I, 213. Belton, Col., I, 168. Benedict, G. G., II, 350, 351. Benham, H. W., II, 281. Benning, Henry L., II, 81. Berdan, Col., II, 69, 75. Berkeley, I, 387. Bernard, General, I, 8. Berry, Lieut., I, 25. Berry, Hiram G., I, 293, 296, 334, 352, 378. Biddle, Lieut., I, 190. Biddle, Chapman, I, 339; II, 47, 50, 52, 168. Biddle, Charles J., I, 224, 232, 237. Biddle, Craig, I, 241. Biddle, James C., II, 162, 209, 249, 254, 263, 268, 269; 313, 378. Biddle, James S., I, 9. Biddle, Nicholas, I, 8. Biddle, Will, I, 279. Biddies, I, 9. Bigelow, John, II, 80, 85, 88. Bingham, Major, II, 108. Binney, Horace, I, 316. Birney, David B., I, 362, 363, 385; II, 56, 59, 73, 77-79, 84, 86, 95, 127, 128, 130, 176,188-190,209,215, 235, 326-328, 333, 339, 399, 409, 410, 417. Birney, Mrs. David B., II, 235. Blair, Austin, I, 216. Blair, Montgomery, I, 12, 381. Blake, J. E., I, 51, 81, 144. Bliss, W. S., I, 131. Bliss, Z. R., I