George Meade, American general and engineer (died 1872)

George Meade

United States Army general and civil engineer (1815–1872)

George Gordon Meade was an American military officer who served in the United States Army and the Union army as Major General in command of the Army of the Potomac during the American Civil War from 1863 to 1865. He fought in many of the key battles of the Eastern theater and…