Wednesday, June 25, 2014

Searching for George Meade - The Forgotten Victor of Gettysburg, Tom Huntington.

Searching for George Meade - The Forgotten Victor of Gettysburg, Tom Huntington.

An interesting two-pronged book, combining a biography of General Meade with an attempt to discover how he is remembered on the battlefields of the Civil War. Meade emerges as a capable, ambitious man with something of a temper, who deserves to be better known than he is, but who does make a reasonable appearance on many Civil War memorials.
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