Cleveland morning leader. [volume] (Cleveland [Ohio]) 1854-1865, 1863-07-10
Tne Commander Of the Union Army.

From the New YORK Herald
General Meade's military history has
already been given to the world in tbs
columns of this paper. His private and
personal biography (which now belongs
to the country that he has served SO well
is briefly this:
He was born at Cadiz, the commercial
metropolis of Spain, in 1916. His father,
Richard Worsam Meade, was then Consul
of the United States and Navy Agent at
that port, having been appointed to those
Offices under President Thomas Jefferson
in 1906, and continued in them under
Presidents Madison and Monroe. Near
the close Of Monroe's Administration, he
returned to the United States with his
family. During the twenty years Of his
residence in Spain, Richard W. Meade be-
came IL the father of eightliving children, y
as he describes himself in a document
now within our reach as we write. Among
those eight children was George Gordon
Meade, now commanding the Army Of the
Potomac.
Consul Meade figured largely in the
momentous events Of theperiOd of his resi-
dence in Spain. He maintained possession
Of the confidence (not only Of successive
administrations at home, butt Of all the
various governments, which, at fitful inter
walls, took possession Of Madrid.
His services in aiding the reestsblish-
ment Of the Independence Of Spain, were
gratefully acknowledged mot only by the
King, the Regency and the Cortes Of the
kingdom, but by the Duke of Wellington,
who, when known only by the title Of Sir
/ ALL, Wa11ao1aTv and Of II RoE0u
Wellington, was personal friend and oc-
cssional visitor Of Mr.. Meade. The con-
queror on the bloody battlefield near Get
/ tysburg, has been often "borne on the
arms and dandled on the knees" Of the
Ed BFdpifRe pfe saf9 Sf ehff EfGtor waterloo
The readers Of the Herald are already
aware that Major George Gordon Meade
was educated at West Point, graduated
with honor, and, by virtue of graduation,
in due course. took rank as Lieutenant in
the Engineer Corps. A reference to the
files of this paper, will furnish any in
quirer with all the information wanted on
this subject.
Under the statutes of the United States
he is "native" citizen of this country
though born abroad, his parents having
"nelther gained nor lost a residence by
his fathers absence from the United
States on official duty. Every lawyer
and every person able to read the laws Of
the United States will confirm this
/ statement.
Hundreds, perhaps thousands, of the
citizens Of New York have seen General
Meade without recognizing in that quiet
young man the future savior Of the
/ Union.
He is badly caricatured in some of the
" pictorial weeklies. He is a man Of
middling stature, and does not change
color suddenly, on any excitement or sud-
den proYocation. In 1916 he boarded in
one of the hotels of this city (nOw demOl-
ished) for some months, and was a room
mate of Pemberton, now, or lately, COM
manding the rebel forces in Vicksburg
The two young men we're intimate-daily
and nightly compsnions-exemplsry in
that numerous crowd commonly designa-
ted as the rising generation"
No one can regard their mutual position
and relations now without q confession Of
the fact that
Truth strange-stranger than fiction.