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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)
anto Domingo. Although absent for only three years, he yet succeeded, at the early age of twenty-two, by his talents and industry, in achieving an independence, and, returning to Philadelphia in 1800, in the following year married Margaret Coats Butler, a daughter of Anthony Butler, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and granddaughter of Colonel William Coats, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Philadelphia. Like his father and grandfather, he was a zealous Roman Catholic and very influential in thAnthony Butler, of Perth Amboy, New Jersey, and granddaughter of Colonel William Coats, a wealthy and prominent citizen of Philadelphia. Like his father and grandfather, he was a zealous Roman Catholic and very influential in the church, and also, like his father, he found his wife in the ranks of the Episcopalians. He had resumed business on his return to Philadelphia, at the same time taking charge of his father's affairs, which, unfortunately, had become seriously complicated. George Meade, the father, who had hitherto been extremely fortunate in his operations, and had amassed what in those days was considered a very handsome fortune, had, with other moneyed men of Philadelphia, entered extensively into the pur
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), chapter 2 (search)
housand; then, if they are going to retire, they must do it before we reach there, or else all their artillery and public stores will fall into our hands; therefore I believe they are evacuating the town at this moment, and we shall march in without firing a gun—that is to say, provided our information proves correct, that they have no larger reinforcements. However, conte qui conte, or as old Rough and Ready says, Nolus volus, we have to go in on the 20th instant. We wait to-day for General Butler, Major-General William O. Butler, U. S. Vols. with the Volunteer Division, to come up, and to-morrow we move en masse upon the town. It will, I presume, take us two days to reach its vicinity, and on the third we will try their mettle. But I believe sincerely, as I told you before, that they will not resist our entrance, unless it be some skirmishing between our advance and their rear. And should we take Monterey quietly, and Saltillo, peace may be made before the two armies can m
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade), Index. (search)
9. Bull Run, first battle of, July 21, 1861, I, 232, 248, 259, 260. Bull Run, second battle of, Aug. 28-30, 1862, I, 306, 307, 323. Burling, Geo. C., II, 73, 77, 84. Burns, Gen., I, 289, 293, 294, 296. Burnside, Ambrose E., I, 196, 242, 243, 245, 303, 304, 309, 322, 323, 325-329, 331-335, 338-342, 344-352, 354, 358-362, 365-367, 384; II, 161, 163, 217-222, 234, 253, 254, 261, 262, 266, 267, 322, 344-349. Burnside, Mrs. Ambrose E., I, 358. Bustamente, Gen., I, 88. Butler, Anthony, I, 4. Butler, Benjamin F., II, 196, 204, 214, 226, 231-233,239-241,247, 248, 253,255, 256, 342, 343. Butler, Margaret Coats, I, 4. Butler, W. O., I, 130, 153, 165, 168, 173, 233. Butterfield, Daniel, I, 329, 332, 339, 341, 342, 351, 352, 354; II, 37, 38, 40, 71, 108, 123, 125, 164, 181-183, 185-188, 249, 318-320, 326, 337, 340, 352, 361, 389, 390-395, 397, 398, 403, 408, 409, 416-420, 422. C Cadwalader, Gen., I, 8, 355, 376, 378, 381. Cadwalader, Charles E., I, 220