Meade

meed, George Gordon (1815-1872), an American soldier. He was born at Cadiz, Spain. He was educated at West Point. He served in the Seminole War in Florida and on Scott's staff in Mexico. He was an engineer of ability. He assisted in the location of the Alabama, Florida, and Georgia Railway, and took part in surveying the northern boundary of Maine. He was employed by the government in the construction of lighthouses and in a geodetic survey of the Great Lakes. He entered the Civil War with the rank of brigadier-general of volunteers and came out a major-general of the regular army in command of the Army of the Potomac. He took part in the peninsular campaign, and was in the battle of Manassas, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Chancellorsville. He was in command at the memorable battle of Gettysburg. An equestrian statue of the able soldier has been erected on the battlefield. At the time of his death, which occurred in Philadelphia, he was in command of the department of the Atlantic.