"Victor of Gettysburg: George Gordon Meade, America's most Underrated General"

By: Ralph Peters

"Major General George Gordon Meade decisively won the greatest battle fought in theWestern Hemisphere.
If any general in blue may be credited with saving the Union at a crucial point, it wasMeade.
Thrust into the command of a scattered army a mere three days before a fateful battle, he grasped
the reins and made one correct decision after another while his storied opponent, Robert E. Lee,
lost control of his own army and blundered catastrophically. Meade's contemporaries recognized his achievement."

Permision to reprint graciously given by Armchair General, September 2011.

Meade's Reprise

By: John Duke Merriam

Meade's Reprise enables us to consider the implications of a military victory that would have had unforeseen political consequences. Just how Meade managed not only to defeat Lee but to drag him off the battlefield, figuratively, in shackles is a fascinating story replete with black spies, nightriders, a journalist who gives Meade a lesson in public relations, the duplicitous Major General Dan Sickles, and a resourceful Union major who captures Confederate generals and runs off with a hooker-with-a-heart-of-gold. Merriam gets the political and military subtexts right. It's an entirely fresh approach, and a book well worth reading and contemplating. Published by Posterity Press in 2002.

Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade

By: Brevet Lieutenant Colonel George Gordon Meade

This two volume set is the primary source for General Meade's view of his role in both the Mexican and Civil Wars. Originially published by Charles Scribner's Sons in 1913, the collection was reprinted by Butternut and Blue in 1994.

Meade of Gettysburg

By: Freeman Cleaves
The best one-volume study of General Meade's life and military career, with an emphasis on Meade's conduct of the Battle of Gettysburg. Published by the University of Oklahoma Press in 1960.

Meade's Headquarters

Edited by: George R Agassiz

Based on the diary of Colonel Theodore Lyman, an aide on General Meade's staff. Colonel Lyman's descriptions of the Army of the Potomac's military leadership are fascinating. Originally published in 1922, the book was recently reprinted under the title With Grant and Meade from the Wilderness to Appomattox.

A Caspian Sea of Ink: The Meade-Sickles Controversy

By: Dr. Richard A Sauers

This unprecedented study of General Sickles' move to the Peach Orchard line largely vindicates General Meade's actions on July 2, 1863. Published by Butternut and Blue in 1989.

General Meade

By: Isaac R. Pennypacker

This one volume biography of General Meade is part of the "Great Commanders" series published by D. Appleton and Company in 1901. Recently reprinted by Olde Soldier Books, Inc. In 1987.

Life of General George Gordon Meade

By: Richard Meade Bache

One of the oldest biographies of General Meade, written by his brother-in-law's son. The author provides readers with several vignettes of Meade's private life. Published by Henry T Coates and Co., Philadelphia, 1897.

We would like to thank Joe Campi for the use of this list from his site at: General George Gordon Meade 1815-1872

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