. The battle of Gettysburg, from the History of the civil war in America . s, temporarily resided. His father, Richard W. Meade,at the time held the appointment of United States Naval Agent at the port ofCadiz, and Gen. Meade was born under the American flag. Whatever question there may be as to what tlie law might have been at thetime of Gen. Mendes birth, the reverse of what is stated in the text seems tohave bten settled by the Act of Congress of February 10, 1855, the passage ofwhich was brougiit about by a pamphlet written by the late Horace Binney in1853, on The AUtnigenos. of the United
. The battle of Gettysburg, from the History of the civil war in America . s, temporarily resided. His father, Richard W. Meade,at the time held the appointment of United States Naval Agent at the port ofCadiz, and Gen. Meade was born under the American flag. Whatever question there may be as to what tlie law might have been at thetime of Gen. Mendes birth, the reverse of what is stated in the text seems tohave bten settled by the Act of Congress of February 10, 1855, the passage ofwhich was brougiit about by a pamphlet written by the late Horace Binney in1853, on The AUtnigenos. of the United States. That act provides that all chil-dren heretofore born .... out of the limits and jurisdiction of the United States,whose fathers were .... at the time of their birth citizens thereof, are declared tobe citizens of tlie United States; that is, they are declared to be naturnl-born citi-zens as contradistinguished from naturalized citizens, and the Constitution pro-vides that no person except a natural-born citizen shall be eligible to the officeof President.— GETTYSBURG. 239 they gave him the most devoted support. If success, however,covered the faults committed by Meade, which may be palliatedon account of his recent appointment, that is no reason Mhy weshould ignore them. On the 1st of July he should have gone toGettysburg himself, instead of sending Hancock there: the con-centration of the army would have been effected with more speed ;on the morning of the 2d he indicated in too vague terms theposition which Sickles was to occupy, and on finding that thisgeneral considered that position bad he should have gone toexamine it in person, without waiting to be summoned there bythe combat; at a later period he should not have deprived theright wing of Geary and his two brigades; on the 3d, when hesaw Pickett advancing, he had a quarter of an hours time to pre-pare for his reception: he does not appear to have had the slight-est idea of the point where his line would b
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