Searching for George Gordon Meade: The Forgotten Victor of Gettysburg

by Tom Huntington

Book Overview

Despite his great victory at Gettysburg and his command of the army that forced Lee's surrender at Appomattox, George Meade saw his fame eclipsed by that of Lee, Grant, and other Civil War generals. This book does a great deal to redress that historical injustice. Tom Huntington has invented a new genre of biography that shifts between past and present as he tells the story of Meade's life and describes his own pilgrimage to the key sites of that...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811708136
• ISBN13: 9780811708135
• Release Date: February 2013
• Publisher: Stackpole Books
• Length: 416 Pages
• Weight: 1.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"