Gettysburg Monuments 014 - Civil War General Meade statue
Gettysburg Monuments 014 - Monument to General George Gordon Meade on horseback at the location of Pickett's Charge. Meade (whose horse was named Old Baldy) was the commander of the Union forces at Gettysburg, where they faced off against the Confederate army commanded by General Lee. Pickett's Charge and The Angle are considered the high water mark of the Confederacy. It stands honoring those who served in the American Civil War from July 1st-3rd, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg. Statue is at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
This series of b-roll footage from the Civil War Minutes documentary series (on DVD) is like a virtual battlefield tour of this historic American national park.
Shots filmed by Mark Bussler, producer of the Civil War Minutes Union & Confederate documentary series, Horses of Gettysburg and writer and director of Westinghouse, a film about industrialist and Civil War veteran, George Westinghouse.
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Gettysburg Monuments 015 - General Meade Pickett's Charge
Gettysburg Monuments 015 - Monument to General George Gordon Meade on horseback at the location of Pickett's Charge. Meade (whose horse was named Old Baldy) was the commander of the Union forces at Gettysburg, where they faced off against the Confederate army commanded by General Lee. Pickett's Charge and The Angle are considered the high water mark of the Confederacy. It stands honoring those who served in the American Civil War from July 1st-3rd, 1863 during the Battle of Gettysburg. Statue is at the Gettysburg National Military Park in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
This series of b-roll footage from the Civil War Minutes documentary series (on DVD) is like a virtual battlefield tour of this historic American national park.
Shots filmed by Mark Bussler, producer of the Civil War Minutes Union & Confederate documentary series, Horses of Gettysburg and writer and director of Westinghouse, a film about industrialist and Civil War veteran, George Westinghouse.
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American History: July 1-3 1863 The Battle of Gettysburg | PENNSYLVANIA
The Battle of Gettysburg, fought from July 1 to July 3, 1863, is considered the most important engagement of the American Civil War. After a great victory over Union forces at Chancellorsville, General Robert E. Lee marched his Army of Northern Virginia into Pennsylvania in late June 1863. On July 1, the advancing Confederates clashed with the Union’s Army of the Potomac, commanded by General George G. Meade, at the crossroads town of Gettysburg. The next day saw even heavier fighting, as the Confederates attacked the Federals on both left and right. On July 3, Lee ordered an attack by fewer than 15,000 troops on the enemy’s center at Cemetery Ridge. The assault, known as “Pickett’s Charge,” managed to pierce the Union lines but eventually failed, at the cost of thousands of rebel casualties, and Lee was forced to withdraw his battered army toward Virginia on July 4.
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Major General George Gordon Meade by artist Alexander Milne Calder - Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO
Major General George Gordon Meade (1887)
Artist Alexander Milne Calder
Voices heard in the program:
James Mundy is the Director of Library and Historical Collections for The Union League of Philadelphia, a civic organization that was founded during the Civil War to preserve the Union. Rob Armstrong is the Preservation and Capital Projects Manager for Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, where he works on projects related to historic preservation and park improvements. Michael Panhorst is the Curator of Art at Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts in Alabama. He is the former Director of Chesterwood, the studio of Daniel Chester French, now a National Trust Historic Site.
Segment Producer: Marit Haahr
The Association for Public Art (formerly the Fairmount Park Art Association) presents Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO, an interpretive audio program for Philadelphia's outdoor sculptures. Museum Without Walls™: AUDIO is presented in partnership with Philadelphia Parks & Recreation, and has been supported by The Pew Center for Arts & Heritage, the William Penn Foundation, and the National Endowment for the Humanities.
2018 Winter Lecture Series - God knows my conscious is clear George Gordon Meade's Legacy
The leadership of Gen. George Gordon Meade, from the Battle of Gettysburg, through the conclusion of the Civil War, and beyond into the post-war years is examined. Meade, the longest tenured commanding general of the Army of the Potomac, who's army defeats Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Gettysburg, is often overlooked by Generals U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and others after the Civil War. His shifting reputation is examined in this lecture.
Laurel Hill Cemetery, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Laurel Hill Cemetery, overlooking the Schuylkill River, founded by John Jay Smith (June 27, 1798-Sept. 25, 1881) with partners Nathan Dunn, Benjamin W. Richards and Frederick Brown in 1836, it was the second Garden or Rural cemetery in the United States (after Cambridge, Massachusetts' Mount Auburn Cemetery). John Jay Smith also founded West Laurel Hill Cemetery, over City Line in Montgomery Township, where he is buried. Selected as designer for Laurel Hill was architect John Notman (1810--1865), born in Scotland and educated at the Royal Scottish Academy. Notman conceived of the Cemetery as an estate garden, based in part on English ideas of planned landscapes as transitions between art and nature. Many early visitors and funeral-goers traveled to Laurel Hill via steamboat on the Schuylkill River. The graves of several Revolutionary War heroes were moved to Laurel Hill from other cemeteries in Philadelphia. A famous one was that of Hugh Mercer born on January 17, 1726, Roseharty, Scotland. At the beginning of the1745, Mercer became an assistant surgeon in the Jacobite Army under Charles Edward Stuart. In the aftermath of Culloden, Mercer was forced to flee, emigrating to America in 1747. After 8 years of practicing medicine, Mercer was drawn back into the military and was commissioned as a captain in a Pennsylvania, and had risen to the rank of colonel by the end of the French & Indian War. In 1757, Mercer became a member of the St. Andrews Society of Philadelphia. Promoted to brigadier general by the Continental Congress, General Mercer was mortally wounded during the Battle of Princeton, and though attended to by the famed patriot Dr. Benjamin Rush, he died on January 12, 1777.
Laurel Hill Cemetery is noted for many Civil War figures who were buried here during and after the war, including over 40 generals, and other officers, such as Horace Binney Faust, Civil War Union Army Officer. Born Oct. 15, 1843, he died in the service of his country on December 18, 1863 at Bealton Station, Virginia. His parents, David Faust (b.October 27, 1814 in Lehigh County-d. May 9, 1907) and Jane Dungan Faust (b.Aug. 30, 1817 in Bucks County- d.May 7, 1892) are buried here next to him, but their grave markers are no longer standing. Philadelphia Mayor Reyburn was one of the Honorary Pall-Bearers at the funeral of David Faust a widely known business man and financier, President Emeritus of Union National Bank of 39 years.
Many thousands of monuments, mausoleums, statues, lavish sculptures, unusual carvings, and every type of gravestone are in Laurel Hill, The ostentatious and interspersed with the practical and plain, such as that of Dr. David Colin Urquhart, born at Pennicuick, Scotland, May 4, 1812. That thrifty Scotsman, who died January 6, 1884, chose a sturdy, unoramented gravestone for all those buried in the plot, (similar to that of Owen Jones) including his wife, Anna Carroll Urquhart, (great-granddaughter of Captain David Weatherby of Revolutionary War fame), and two sons, a daughter-in-law, infant grandson, and daughter.
Some of the famous people whose graves are shown:
• Owen Jones, b. December 29, 1819 - d. December 25, 1878. US Congressman, Civil War Union Army Officer.
•Sarah Josepha Hale, Oct. 24, 1788 - April 30, 1879 Journalist, Poet, Founder of the Thanksgiving Holiday. She wrote and edited Godey's Lady's Book from 1837 to 1877.
•Thomas McKean, b. March 19, 1734 - d. June 24, 1817 Signer of Declaration of Independence and Articles of Confederation. Served as a member of the Constitutional Convention in 1787. Elected 2nd Governor of Pennsylvania, serving from 1799 to 1808.
•Elisha Kent Kane, b. Feb. 3, 1820 -- d. Feb. 16, 1857 Explorer and part of the Grinnell Expedition of 1850 to the Arctic Circle to find the remains of the 1845-1846 Sir John Franklin expedition.
•George Gordon Meade, b. December 31, 1815 Cadiz, Spain - d. November 6, 1872.Civil War Union Major General. Known universally for being the victor of the Battle of Gettysburg and his famous, faithful horse Old Baldy.
•Joshua Thomas Owen, Born in Caermarthen, Wales March 29, 1821-- d. Nov. 7, 1887. Civil War Union Brigadier General.
•Thomas Buchanan Read was born in Chester County March 12, 1822 died May 11, 1872. Poet, Artist, Sculptor.
•Joseph Reed, b. August 27, 1741 d. March 5, 1785 Revolutionary War Army Officer, Continental Congressman; military secretary to George Washington.
• Clark Henry Wells, b. September 22, 1822 - d. January 28, 1888 Civil War Union Naval Officer
2018 Winter Lecture Series - “A Great Weight at My Heart”: The Army of the Potomac after Gettysburg
This presentation, “A Great Weight at My Heart”: The Army of the Potomac after Gettysburg, describes what happened to the Army of the Potomac after the three day battle in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania.
George Meade
George Gordon Meade was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer involved in the coastal construction of several lighthouses. He fought with distinction in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican-American War. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to the Army of the Potomac. He is best known for defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863.
Meade's Civil War combat experience started as a brigade commander in the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles, including the Battle of Glendale, where he was wounded severely. As a division commander, he had notable success at the Battle of South Mountain and assumed temporary corps command at the Battle of Antietam. His division was arguably the most successful during the assaults at the Battle of Fredericksburg.
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The Grand Review and Demobilization of the Armies (Lecture)
The American Civil War ended in April of 1865 ... or did it? Ranger John Hoptak takes us through the war's final months, looking at the politics of the Grand Review parade, the experiences of prisoners of war on both sides, and what the final moments of the war were like for soldiers of both Union and Confederate armies.
The Congressional Hearings on Meade at Gettysburg in 1864 (Lecture)
General George Meade had to appear before a congressional subcommittee in Washington in the Spring of 1864 to answer several questions seemingly aimed at diminishing his performance at Gettysburg. The several loaded questions leveled at him, and his corps' commanders, who also testified, appear in retrospect to be unfair at best, and a witch hunt at worst. What were the intentions of the Committee on the Conduct of War? Did they simply ask questions that needed to be asked, or did they hope to raise doubts about the administration's ability to prosecute the war? Why burden the memory of a great Union victory with innuendo's that Meade could have done more? Ranger Troy Harman tackles these questions and more in this lecture, featured as a part of Gettysburg National Military Park's 2014 Winter Lecture Series.
The Confederate Approach on Harrisburg by Mr. Cooper H. Wingert
The Confederate Approach on Harrisburg: The Gettysburg Campaign’s Northernmost Reaches
The Gettysburg Campaign and the resulting battle is among the most studied topics in military history. As General Robert E. Lee’s army coalesced around the tiny crossroads town, a significant yet lesser-known skirmish, 38 miles to northeast, had a distinct impact on the larger battle: the June 1863 Battle of Sporting Hill, Harrisburg. The fight resulted from Lee’s larger goal for an invasion of Pennsylvania, a takeover of the capital, and a forcing of the state, and possibly the Union, to capitulate. Lee sent Brigadier General Albert Jenkins to Harrisburg to confirm the city’s vulnerability and to increase the number of rebel troops in the area. A Harrisburg militia out on a reconnaissance mission met and forced Jenkins’ cavalry back at Sporting Hill into Carlisle. This lead to a fight, which left the area ablaze as another of Lee’s cavalry brigades shelled Carlisle and the Union general defending the city refused repeated demands for surrender. The Confederates set the entirety of the U.S. Army’s Carlisle Barracks aflame before moving, resigned, towards Gettysburg, leaving Harrisburg and the surrounding country under Union control. An overview of this interval, as well as its role in the Gettysburg Campaign, is presented in detail in Mr. Cooper H. Wingert’s 2012 book, The Confederate Approach on Harrisburg: The Gettysburg Campaign’s Northernmost Reaches. Wingert lectured about his book and the extensive research that informed it, some of which he conducted at the U.S. Army Heritage and Education Center.
Lecture Date: June 17, 2015
Length: 62 Minutes
George Meade Birthday Celebration 2010 Part 1: Meade's Mother
This is the first video in the series pertaining to the George Gordon Meade Birthday Celebration held on December 31, 2010. This first part features readings by a descendant of the Union General, Major Chuck Meade, as well as a wreath-laying ceremony in honor of and to dedicate a gravestone for the General's mother, Margaret Coats Butler Meade. She was previously in an unmarked grave.
Chuck Meade is reading from the Biblical Book Of Proverbs (Chapter 31).
My blog has many photographs of the Birthday Anniversary:
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George Meade | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
George Meade
00:02:47 1 Early life and education
00:04:39 2 Early career
00:06:26 3 American Civil War
00:06:35 3.1 Early commands
00:09:37 3.2 Army of the Potomac and Gettysburg
00:15:02 3.3 Meade and Grant
00:19:39 3.4 Command decisions
00:20:51 4 Later life and death
00:22:11 5 Legacy
00:23:29 5.1 Notable descendants
00:23:49 6 In popular culture
00:24:59 7 See also
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George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 – November 6, 1872) was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer best known for defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg in the American Civil War. He previously fought with distinction in the Second Seminole War and the Mexican–American War. During the Civil War, he served as a Union general, rising from command of a brigade to command of the Army of the Potomac. Earlier in his career, he was an engineer and was involved in the coastal construction of several lighthouses.
Meade's Civil War combat experience started as a brigade commander in the Peninsula Campaign and the Seven Days Battles. He was severely wounded while leading his brigade at the Battle of Glendale. As a division commander, he had notable success at the Battle of South Mountain and assumed temporary corps command at the Battle of Antietam. Meade's division was arguably the most successful of any at the Battle of Fredericksburg in December. It was part of a force charged with driving the Confederate troops under Stonewall Jackson back from their position on Prospect Hill. The division made it further than any other, but was forced to turn back due to a lack of reinforcements. Meade was promoted to commander of the V Corps, which he led during the Battle of Chancellorsville.
During the Gettysburg Campaign, he was appointed to command the Army of the Potomac just three days before the Battle of Gettysburg. Arriving on the field after the first day's action on July 1, Meade organized his army on favorable ground to fight an effective defensive battle against Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia, repelling a series of massive assaults throughout the next two days. Lee was forced to retreat to Virginia, ending his hope of winning the war through a successful invasion of the North. This victory was marred by Meade's ineffective pursuit during the retreat, allowing Lee and his army to escape instead of completely destroying them. The Union Army also failed to follow up on its success during the Bristoe Campaign and Battle of Mine Run that fall, which ended inconclusively. Meade suffered from intense political rivalries within the Army, notably with Daniel Sickles, who tried to discredit his role in the victory at Gettysburg.
In 1864–65, Meade continued to command the Army of the Potomac through the Overland Campaign, the Richmond-Petersburg Campaign, and the Appomattox Campaign, but he was overshadowed by the direct supervision of the general-in-chief, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant, who accompanied him throughout these campaigns. Grant conducted most of the strategy during these campaigns, leaving Meade with significantly less influence than before. His image was harmed by his notoriously short temper and disdain for the press. After the war, he commanded several important departments during Reconstruction.
Monuments, Memory, and Reconstruction at the High Water Mark (Lecture)
Few places on the Gettysburg battlefield are as highly visited or as symbolic as the High Water Mark. That something important and significant happened here is apparent to even the most casual visitor. Why else would this little knot of trees be enclosed by an iron fence, and an imposing bronze monument of an open book with the words High Water Mark, flanked by cannons, stand in front of them? Monuments and National Park Service wayside exhibits cluster densely here as well. For Union veterans it was a place to remind the nation of their great victory and sacrifice through monuments, a process sometimes fiercely contested. It was also a place of great pain for veterans of both armies and it served some as a point to find peace and reconciliation with former enemies. Historian D. Scott Hartwig explores the major events up through the battle's 50th anniversary that transformed this simple landscape into one of America's most symbolic spaces.
2018 Winter Lecture Series - “The movement was south.” General Grant and the Overland Campaign
Ulysses S. Grant was chosen by President Abraham Lincoln to lead all military forces in 1864 to finally put an end to the fighting during the Civil War. Grant's Overland Campaign against Robert E. Lee would be a turning point in the war and one that Lee could not ultimately match.
2018 Winter Lecture Series - Early at the Gates: The Battle of Fort Stevens
The role of the fortifications around Washington, D.C. and how they were instrumental in the defense of the capital city in 1864 during the raid of Confederate Gen. Jubal Early are examined in this winter lecture.
The Cannonade - Ranger Bert Barnett
On July 3rd, 1863 over 150 Confederate artillery pieces began a two hour bombardment of the Union position on Cemetery Ridge, filling the air with a deafning roar and sending shot and shell screaming across the battlefield. Join Ranger Bert Barnett as he describes the prelude of Pickett's Charge - the great cannonade of July 3rd, 1863.
Gettysburg Artifacts If These Things Could Talk (Lecture)
Gettysburg National Military Park Ranger Tom Holbrook puts on his white gloves and tells the story of a number of Civil War artifacts circa 1865. Descendants of the owner of one particular artifact, a canteen with a note attached, are present in the audience for this winter lecture at the Gettysburg Museum and Visitors Center.
Diary of Oliver O. Howard - APUSH Project
This video takes us through the hectic life of Oliver O. Howard, an overworked Freedmen's Bureau agent.
What Gettysburg Meant to its Veterans (Lecture)
What did the veterans really think about the cause of the American Civil War? Were the reunions all about unification and reconciliation, or were there other stories being told? Watch Gettysburg National Military Park Ranger Christopher Gwinn as he examines the post-war experiences and words of the veterans who returned to Gettysburg.