Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1914-01-30
MAJ.-GEN. GEORGE G. MEADE
Remarkable Lifelike Statue on Monu-
ment at Gettysburs-Masnificent
Picture of Commander.

The statue of Maj.-Gen. George G
sylvania monument at Gettysburg, is
a strikingly impressive representa-
ton of the grand old commander OF
the army of the Potomac. 1t has the
pose and look of a soldier of the very
highest class, such as Gen. Meade was
says the National Tribune. Every
thing about the statue breathes cour
age, %inyincible determination and sol
dierly feeling 1t looks the man OF
blood and iron hat Gen. Meade was,
and makes a magnificent idealization
of the American commander. Gen
Meade has high claims to being thus
remembered to posterity.
Maj.-Gen. George G. Meade was
BORN at Cadiz, Spain, Dec. 81, 1915
His father was then American consul
that that place. He graduated from
West Point in 1885, nineteenth in a
class headed by George w. Morrell
and in which Gems. Martindale, Rob
erts, Brooks, Stokes, Naglee, Prince,
Haupt, Patrick and Grier. Next to
Gen. Meade in the class was Mont
gomery Blair, who soon resigned. and
was afterwards postmaster-general OF
the United States under President Lin
coin. Cadet Meade was assigned to
the artillery, but resigned Oct. rs
1886. He was re%appointed six years
later as a second lieutenant of topo'
graphical engineers, and from tina
time until the beginning of the wal
was employed in surveying, building
lighthouses, ETC., with the exception
of a years service in the Mexican
war, where he received a brevet for
gallant conduct at Monterey. The
opening of the war found him a cap
tain Of engineers. He was appointed
a brigadier-general of volunteers Aug,
81, 1861, and assigned to a brigade in
the Pennsylvania reserve corps. He
handled his brigade with skill and
gallantry, was severely wounded at
Glendale, but returned in time to com,
mand a division of the first corps of
Manassas, South Mountain and Ante
tam. He distinguished himself at
Fredericksburg when his division
broke through the enemy's lines. If
it had been properly supported, the
Confederate right flank would have
been turned, and the battle of Fred
ericksburg made a brilliant victory in
stead of a disastrous defeat. Dec. 25,
1862, he was promoted to command
the Fifth corps, and June 2S, 1868
succeeded Hooker in command Of the
Army of the Potomac. His selectio n
for that high command was general y
approved by his brother officers aud
the army. During the remaining two
years of the Army of the Potomac's
splendid history he was in command,
and under him the army gained it's
brightest laurels, beginning with the
victory at Gettysburg and ending with
the capture of the Confederate army
at AppomattoX. Aug. IS, 1864, he was
commissioned a major-general in the
United States army, and at the close
of the war was placed in command
of the military division of the Allan
tic. The citizens of Philadelphia pre-
sented him with a fine residence, and
after his death, Nov. 6, 1872, a fund
scription and presented to his family.
Of 100000 was collected by sub
Gen. Huidekoper and the Gettysburg
Battlefield commission and the Van
Ammringe Monument committee are
to be congratulated On the high art.
istic success of their work.