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Tag Archives: George Gordon Meade
still salient
Thirty years after the Battle of Gettysburg, Union General Daniel Sickles’ management of the Third Corps on the second day of the battle was still controversial. From the August 24, 1893 issue of The National Tribune: THIS country is fortunate … Continue reading
General Meade, R.I.P.
The day after his Commander in Chief was re-elected United States President, General George Meade died at his Philadelphia home. From The Chicago Daily Tribune November 8, 1872: IN MEMORIAM. Honors to the Late General Meade. Washington, Nov. 7.—General Sherman … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Veterans
Tagged Battle of Gettysburg, George Gordon Meade, Old Baldy
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Bullets Met at Gettysburg
On the sixth anniversary of Day 1 of the Battle of Gettysburg a monument in the National Cemetery on the battlefield was dedicated. The Soldiers’ National Monument hadn’t been quite completed, but a reported 15,000 people showed up for the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Week, Aftermath, Battle Monuments, Battlefields, Civil War Cemeteries, Monuments and Statues, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction
Tagged Abraham Lincoln, Battle of Gettysburg, Bayard Taylor, Carrara marble, Civil War Monuments, George Gordon Meade, Gettysburg, Gettysburg Address, Henry Ward Beecher, James Goodwin Batterson, Oliver Hazard Perry Morton, Theodore R. Davis
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not in their backyard
In its September 22, 1868 issue the The New-York Times published a report of political violence in southeastern Georgia that occurred on September 19th. A couple of Republican politicians traveled to Camilla for a rally. As they neared the town … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Postbellum Society, Reconstruction, The election of 1868
Tagged Camilla Georgia, Camilla massacre, Francis Preston Blair Jr., George Gordon Meade, Georgia, Horatio Seymour, John B. Gordon, John McAllister Schofield, The election of 1868, Wade Hampton III
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“a secret organization, for no good purpose”
According to Wikipedia George W. Ashburn was born in North Carolina and later moved to Georgia. He opposed the secession of Georgia and was commissioned a Colonel in the Union army. In 1867 Mr. Ashburn called to order the Georgia … Continue reading
unfunded mandate
In November 1867 the state of Georgia conducted an election to choose delegates for a convention that would rewrite the state constitution. The convention convened in early December 1867 in Atlanta; one of the first issues it faced was the … Continue reading
Posted in 150 Years Ago This Month, Aftermath, Postbellum Politics, Reconstruction, Southern Society
Tagged Aaron Alpeoria Bradley, Charles Jones Jenkins, George Gordon Meade, Georgia, John Aaron Rawlins, Reconstruction, Reconstruction Acts, Third Military District (Reconstruction), Thomas Howard Ruger, Ulysses S. Grant
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“compelled to inflict on them”
This commission is worthy of support, for it will relieve their necessities, and assuage the distress which we, in the course of this war, have been compelled to inflict on them. The American Union Commission held a big fundraiser at … Continue reading
“noble devotion”
From The New-York Times June 30, 1865: ARMY OF THE POTOMAC.; Maj.-Gen. Meade’s Farewell Order. WASHINGTON, Thursday, June 29. The farewell order of Gen. MEADE is published. It is as follows: HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY OF THE POTOMAC, June 28, … Continue reading
what’s next?
President Lincoln wasn’t afraid to swap horses midstream of the rebel invasion back in 1863. Thankfully for the Union cause, George Gordon Meade, the new commander of the Army of the Potomac, sure knew how to play defense against the … Continue reading
gallant rebels in another ‘sad defeat’
150 years ago today the Union army defeated the Confederates at the Battle of Sailor’s Creek From Personal Memoirs of U.S. Grant (in chapters 65 and 66): I then started with a few of my staff and a very small … Continue reading
