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Chapters: George Meade, Thomas L. Kane, John F. Reynolds, Edward Ord, Samuel W. Crawford, Truman Seymour, Conrad Feger Jackson, Horatio G. Sickel, Roy Stone, Joseph W. Fisher, 142nd Pennsylvania Infantry, William Mccandless, George A. Mccall, 8th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, 141st Pennsylvania Infantry, 4th Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, Adoniram J. Warner, Charles Memorial Hamilton, Charles Shambaugh, 3rd Pennsylvania Reserve Regiment, Charles John Biddle, James T. Kirk, Theodore Frelinghuysen Singiser, Lemuel Todd, Joseph Grant Beale, John Walker Ryon, Edward Scofield, George Washington Fleeger. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 132. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: George Gordon Meade (December 31, 1815 November 6, 1872) was a career United States Army officer and civil engineer involved in coastal construction, including several lighthouses. He fought with distinction in the Seminole War and 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. In 186465, 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. Meade was born in Cádiz, Spain, eighth of eleven children of Richard Worsam Meade and Margaret Coats Butler Meade. His family were Pennsylvanians of Catholic Irish descent. His brother, Richard Worsam Meade II, was a future naval officer. His father, a wealthy Philadelphia merchant serving in Spain as a naval agent for the U.S. government, was ruined financially because of his support of Spain in...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=146580 ... Read more

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Originally published in 1877, this 1,000+ page Bible contains the Old & New Testaments, translated out of the original tongues, Cruden's Complete Concordance, embracing every passage of scripture in the largest editions. It also includes a comprehensive Bible dictionary, in which every important scriptual word is fully explained; a complete history of each book of the Bible, beautifully illustrated; cities of the Bible, with descriptive scenes and events in Palestine; Jewish and Egytian antiquities; Biblical scenery, manners and customs of the ancients, natural history; Bible aids for social prayer, a history of Jewish worship; Biblical antiquities; recent explorations in Bible lands; history of Herod; Apocryphia & psalms, a concise history of all religious demoninations, and much more, all embellished by 2,200 illustrative engravings. ... Read more