. 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,. GENERAL JAMES B. McPHERSON. General McPherson. born in Sandusky, Ohio, November 14th, near Atlanta, Ga., July 22d, 1864, was graduated at the United StatesMilitary Academy in 1853. At the beginning of the Civil War he appliedfor active duty with the army in the field, where his promotion was veryrapid. When active operations began in the spring of 1862 he was trans-ferred to the staff of General Grant, with whom he served as chief engi-neer at Fort Henry, Fort Donelson, Shiloh and the siege of Corinth. Herepulsed the Confederates at Canton, Miss. ; second in command to GeneralSherman in the expedition to Meridian in 1864; and commanded theSeventeenth Armv Corps in the great four months campaign of 1864 thatended in the capture of Atlanta, near where he wras killed. General Logan, born in Jackson County, 111., February 9th, 1826, diedin Washington, D. C, December 26th, 1886. In July, 1861, he fought inthe ranks of Colonel Richardsons regiment in the battle of Bull Augu
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