. Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ... . GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN. GENERAL GEORGE G. MEADE. General Meade, born in Cadiz, Spain, December 31st, 1815, died inPhiladelphia. Pa., November 6th. 1872, was graduated from the United•States Military Academy in 1835, and began active service in the SeminoleWar in the same year, as second lieutenant; upou the call to arms in1861, be was made brigadier general ; fought valiantly at Mechanicsville,Gainess Mill and at Cross Roads, Va., where be was wounded; at An-tietam he took charge of General Hookers corps upon the latter beingwounded.
. Frank Leslie's scenes and portraits of the Civil War ... . GENERAL JOHN A. LOGAN. GENERAL GEORGE G. MEADE. General Meade, born in Cadiz, Spain, December 31st, 1815, died inPhiladelphia. Pa., November 6th. 1872, was graduated from the United•States Military Academy in 1835, and began active service in the SeminoleWar in the same year, as second lieutenant; upou the call to arms in1861, be was made brigadier general ; fought valiantly at Mechanicsville,Gainess Mill and at Cross Roads, Va., where be was wounded; at An-tietam he took charge of General Hookers corps upon the latter beingwounded. In 1862, he was made major general, and on June 28th, 1862,a message from Washington arrived on the field with orders for Meade torelieve Hooker as commander of the Army of the Potomac. On July 1sthe met Lee at Gettysburg, where the greatest battle of the war wasfought,
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