hide
Named Entity Searches
hide
Sorting
You can sort these results in two ways:
- By entity (current method)
- Chronological order for dates, alphabetical order for places and people.
- By position
- As the entities appear in the document.
You are currently sorting in descending order. Sort in ascending order.
hide
Most Frequent Entities
The entities that appear most frequently in this document are shown below.
Entity | Max. Freq | Min. Freq | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
George G. Meade | 1,542 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) | 641 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Ulysses S. Grant | 498 | 4 | Browse | Search |
Zachary Taylor | 476 | 2 | Browse | Search |
George B. McClellan | 357 | 1 | Browse | Search |
Joe Hooker | 325 | 1 | Browse | Search |
John F. Reynolds | 309 | 3 | Browse | Search |
Ambrose E. Burnside | 306 | 2 | Browse | Search |
George Gordon Meade | 303 | 39 | Browse | Search |
Daniel E. Sickles | 296 | 6 | Browse | Search |
View all entities in this document... |
Browsing named entities in a specific section of George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Major-General United States Army (ed. George Gordon Meade). Search the whole document.
Found 2,608 total hits in 665 results.
Farmville (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Gettysburg (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
[13 more...]
Middletown (Connecticut, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Part 6.
civil War letters, 1863-1865
To Mrs. George G. Meade: Headquarters army of the Potomac, Frederick, July 8, 1863.
I arrived here yesterday; the army is assembling at Middletown.
I think we shall have another battle before Lee can cross the river, though from all accounts he is making great efforts to do so. For my part, as I have to follow and fight him, I would rather do it at once and in Maryland than to follow into Virginia.
I received last evening your letters of the 3d and 5th inst., and am truly rejoiced that you are treated with such distinction on account of my humble services.
I see also that the papers are making a great deal too much fuss about me. I claim no extraordinary merit for this last battle, and would prefer waiting a little while to see what my career is to be before making any pretensions.
I did and shall continue to do my duty to the best of my abilities, but knowing as I do that battles are often decided by accidents, and that no man of
Lynchburg (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Richmond (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Washington (United States) (search for this): chapter 6
West Virginia (West Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Providence, R. I. (Rhode Island, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Fredericksburg, Va. (Virginia, United States) (search for this): chapter 6
Pittsburgh (Pennsylvania, United States) (search for this): chapter 6