. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. 1861 and inAugust of that yearwas commissionedbrigadier-general ofvolunteers. He servedprominently throughthe Peninsula Cam-paign, and was alsopresent at the secondBattle of Bull Run;in command of acorps at Antietam hewas wounded. For his gallantry Meade wascommissioned major-general of volunteers. He performed notable service at Freder-icksburg and Chancellorsville, in coveringthe retreat of the Federal army, and in June,1863, succeede
. The American educator; completely remodelled and rewritten from original text of the New practical reference library, with new plans and additional material. 1861 and inAugust of that yearwas commissionedbrigadier-general ofvolunteers. He servedprominently throughthe Peninsula Cam-paign, and was alsopresent at the secondBattle of Bull Run;in command of acorps at Antietam hewas wounded. For his gallantry Meade wascommissioned major-general of volunteers. He performed notable service at Freder-icksburg and Chancellorsville, in coveringthe retreat of the Federal army, and in June,1863, succeeded Hooker in command of theArmy of the Potomac, just at the crucialpoint in Lees second invasion of Pennsyl-vania, and fought at Gettysburg (see Get-tysburg, Battle op) . Though winning a no-table victory, he failed to pursue the Confed-erates promptly and thus incurred the cen-sure of some military critics. Meade com-manded the Army of the Potomac in GrantsVirginia campaign of 1864-1865, as a major-general in the regular army. After the warhe commanded one of the military districtsof the South, during reconstruction days andthen retired to private ¥,i^,ih GEORGE GORDONMEADE MEADOW LARK, an American bird,called a lark because of its pleasing song,but it is not a lark. It belongs to the is a medium-size bird, with a bronzemottled plumage above and a bright yellowbelly, with a rich, black, crescent-shapedcollar across its breast. Its home is in thedamp meadows, where it builds an oven-likenest in a hole in the ground. There are fourto six eggs. It is one of the earliest of springbirds in the north. MEADVILLE, meedvil, Pa., the countyseat of Crawford County, 105 miles north ofPittsburgh, on the French Creek and on theErie, the Northwestern Pennsylvania and theBessemer & Lake Erie railroads. The cityis in a fertile region and contains railroadshops, iron works, planing mills, silk mills,chemical works and manufactories of auto-matic tanks, cans, corsets and vises.
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