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CAMPS FOR PENNSYLVANIA TROOPS
NAMED AFTER FAMOUS WAR HEROES
General John A. Dix, of New York, Honored at virgins
town. While Annapolis Junction Cantonment Will Bear
Name of General George G. Meade, of Philadelphia

Der 81. 1915. where his father. Philadel-
nbia merchant. had established himself In
mercantile and shipping business and was
also the United states naval agent.
The family returned to Philadelphia the
following year and young Meade attended
school first in Philadelphia and subse-
quently in Washington. ID, {,
Later he was appointed to the West
Point Military Academy, from which he
graduated as second lieutenant in 1888.
lie was assigned to the Third Artillery
went to Florida and served i'm the war
against the Seminoles. and was then trans
ferred to the arsenal at Waterfowl lie
was appointed by the War Department In
1897 to the astronomical branch of the
survey " the boundary between the United
STATES and Texas In .1Si5 he Joined the
staff Of General Zachary Taylor in the war
with Mexico. was in the battle Of Palo Alto,
was brevetted for brilliant conduct at Mon
teroy to first lieutenant, and at the siege
of Vera cruz was aid to General Robert
Patterson. of Pennsylvania. Tie was MADE
captain In 1856.
At the outbreak Of the Civil War, in 1861,
he was made brEadier general of vOun-
teers and assigned to the command Of the
Third Pennsylvania Reserves lie was in
command at the battles Of Mechancsvile,
Gaines Mills and New Market Crossroads.
where he was wounded and taken home
to Philadelphia
He rejoined the army and was present at
the second battle of Bull Run and com
mauded the Pennsylvania Reserves at the
battle Of South Mountain.
when General Hooker was wounded at
Antietam General Mcclellan placed General
Meade in command of the First Corps.
In 1862 he had two horses shot under
him, when with his division, he broke
through Stonewall Jackson's line. As
major general he was gwen command Of the
Fifth Army Corps on December IS 1862
Promotion was rapid through his gift for
strategy and army tactics
COMMANDED AT GETTYSBURG
At Gettysburg came the famous battle.
when General Pickett's division made the
memorable attack on Meade's center The
loss of General Reynolds at the beginning
Of the action and Of General Hancock at
the most critical moment being serious mis-
fortunes Meade received universal praise
for his handling of men and the taking Of
$4,000 prisoners As a reward. he was
commissioned a brlgadier general In the
regular army
As a special honor, he was appointed in
command of the grand review at Washing
ton at the close of the war. He was sub
sequently placed in command Of the Depart
mcnt of the East.
Brigadier General eMade was member
Of the American Philosophical Society the
Pennsylvania Historical Society and the
Philadelphia Academy of Natural Sciences.
He received the honorary degree of LII d.
from Harvard University and was one of the
Commissioners Of Fairmount Park.
He died in Philadelphia November g.
1872, of pneumonia, complicated by the
wound received at the battle Of New Mar
ket Crossroads
superb equestrian statue of General
Meade adorns Fairmount Park