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Most students of the American Civil War
know the name George Gordon Meade, but few can tell you about the
man. With this new addition to Brassey’s Military Profiles series,
historian Richard Sauers examines the life of one of the Union
Army’s most notable generals. Rising from the Union officer corps
to lead the previously ill-fated Army of the Potomac, Meade took
command only hours before his forces stumbled upon Robert E. Lee’s
Confederates at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, in 1863. He led his men
to victory in one of the most famous battles in history, but Meade
was soon embroiled in political battles with fellow generals and
Washington politicians. Despite detractors’ efforts to question
Meade’s judgment and smear his reputation—efforts often exacerbated
by the general’s own volatile temper and undiplomatic behavior—he
continued to put duty to his country and his men first. When
Ulysses S. Grant was named lieutenant general in charge of all
Union forces, Grant made his headquarters with the Army of the
Potomac and soon overshadowed Meade. Sauers chronicles the tense
relationship that developed between the two men and the effect it
had on the crucial last days of the war. Sauers’s concise but
authoritative biography sheds new light on one of the Civil War’s
most significant leaders. His book, the only new biography of Meade
to appear in over thirty years, should spark renewed study of this
brave but overlooked general. |
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