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Maj. Jed. Hotchkiss, Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 3, Virginia (ed. Clement Anselm Evans) 171 1 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 33. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 77 1 Browse Search
George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade) 71 3 Browse Search
Southern Historical Society Papers, Volume 6. (ed. Reverend J. William Jones) 63 1 Browse Search
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3. 46 4 Browse Search
Colonel Theodore Lyman, With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox (ed. George R. Agassiz) 28 0 Browse Search
The Photographic History of The Civil War: in ten volumes, Thousands of Scenes Photographed 1861-65, with Text by many Special Authorities, Volume 8: Soldier Life and Secret Service. (ed. Francis Trevelyan Miller) 4 0 Browse Search
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Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.43 (search)
was shown in Philadelphia, by General Meade's son [Colonel George Meade], a paper found amongst General Meade's effects aftGeneral Meade's effects after his death. It was folded, and on the outside of one end was written, in his well-known handwriting, in ink, Minutes of col examination of the original document deposited by Colonel George Meade with the Penn. Hist. Society.--editors. to mass fol examination of the original document deposited by Colonel George Meade with the Penn. Hist. Society.--editors. Effective ring the sitting of the council reports were brought to General Meade, and now and then we could hear heavy firing going on o of our line. I took occasion before leaving to say to General Meade that his staff-officer had regularly summoned me as a c. In referring to the matter, just as the council broke up, Meade said to me, If Lee attacks to-morrow, it will be in your frour center. I expressed the hope that he would, and told General Meade, with confidence, that if he did we would defeat him.
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The breastworks at Culp's Hill. (search)
thened their work with earth. By 10 o'clock it was finished. At 6 o'clock in the evening General Meade, finding himself hard pressed on the left, and deeming an attack on the right wing improbablsmall regiments borrowed for the emergency from General Wadsworth, and placed in echelon. General Meade hardly mentioned this affair at the breastworks in his original report of the battle, and th were there think justice has never been done in the case, On the 25th of February, 1864, General Meade made the following substitution in his official report: The detachment of so large a pdge him. Also, on the same day, in reply to a letter from General Slocum on the subject, General Meade wrote in part: I am willing to admit that, if my attention had been called to the sere at first held by the entire corps and afterward by my single brigade was this: Map. When Meade ordered the whole of the Twelfth Corps from Culp's Hill to reenforce his left, Slocum ordered my
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.47 (search)
It was now past 4 o'clock in the afternoon and our troops were in position for the attack. The flank movement by which they came into position is referred to in the following dispatch from the Federal signal station on Little Round Top: To General Meade--4 o'clock P. M. The only infantry of the enemy visible is on the extreme [Federal] left; it has been moving toward Emmitsburg. It will thus be seen that the movement, in spite of our precautions, was not unobserved. The Confederate line upport on its left. General Kershaw requested me to designate the point on which his right flank should be directed, and promptly moved to the attack, the movement being taken up by the whole division. When Hood's division first attacked, General Meade, alarmed for the safety of his left wing, and doubtless fully alive to the importance of holding so vital a point as Round Top and its adjacent spurs, commenced sending reenforcements to the threatened points. We encountered some of these in
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., The cavalry battle near Gettysburg. (search)
e army from before Gettysburg. At a later date, General Howard wrote to Colonel George Meade, I did not hear your father utter a word which made me think that he then favored a withdrawal of his troops. Certainly, if General Meade had such a momentary feeling as General Slocum understood him to express, it was in direct contrmuch fighting on equal terms. Whatever opinion men may hold as to the grade of Meade's generalship, those do him a gross injustice who represent him as ever, in anyburg had been fought and won for the Union arms. Into the questions, whether Meade should not have followed up the repulse of Pickett with a general advance of hicked Lee at Falling Waters, on the 13th of July, we have no call to enter. General Meade was here entirely within his competence as the commander of an army. Any o responsibility of success or failure; yet in fact, in both these decisions General Meade was supported by a preponderance of authoritative opinion among his corps c
Robert Underwood Johnson, Clarence Clough Buell, Battles and Leaders of the Civil War. Volume 3., chapter 4.58 (search)
The Meade-Sickles controversy. see also the preceding article.--editors. I. A letter from General Meade. headquarters, military division of the Atlantic, Philadelphia, March 16th, 1870. [Private.] [Colonel] G. G. Benedict, Burlington,General Meade. headquarters, military division of the Atlantic, Philadelphia, March 16th, 1870. [Private.] [Colonel] G. G. Benedict, Burlington, Vt. dear Sir: I am in receipt of your letter of the 13th inst., as also the copies of the Free press, with editorials and comments on the address of Colonel [W. W.] Grout before the Officers' Society and Legislature of the State. The substancm from that position. According to General A. A. Humphreys's statement to the Committee on the Conduct of the War, General Meade, on assuming command of the army at Frederick, expressed his desire to appoint General Humphreys his chief-of-staff, at when I could have done so with perfect ease at any moment. Longstreet's advice to Lee [to move from his right upon General Meade's communications] was sound military sense; it was the step I feared Lee would take, and to meet which and be prepare