He married Catherine Meade on November 23, 1761 and formed a business partnership with her brother George.

Meade stands at the far right with Generals John Sedgwick and Alfred Torbert, along with staff officers.

Generals George G. Meade, Andrew A. Humphreys and staff in Culpeper, Virginia outside Meade's headquarters, 1863.

Probably as a result of this staff duty and his proximity to the influential Meade, Ames was promoted to brigadier general in the Union Army on May 20, 1863, two weeks following the Battle of Chancellorsville.

Meade distrusted Butterfield, but elected to retain him as chief of staff.

Meade removed him as chief of staff on July 14, 1863.

Butterfield's chief evidence for this assertion was the Pipe Creek Circular that Meade had his staff prepare before it became apparent that there would be a battle at Gettysburg.

Governor Dennis Daugaard ordered that flags across the state be flown at half staff He is buried in Fort Meade National Cemetery, Sturgis, South Dakota.

Sedgwick stands at the far right between Generals George G. Meade and Alfred Torbert, along with staff officers.

Steve Meade, known as radio personality " Willie B " in Denver, and Clay Millican, NHRA Full Throttle Top Fuel driver, join the Pinks staff in 2009 as technical advisers.

Generals Andrew A. Humphreys, George G. Meade and staff in Culpeper, Virginia outside Meade's headquarters, 1863.

When Meade assumed command of the Army of the Potomac just before the Battle of Gettysburg, he asked Humphreys to be his chief of staff, replacing Maj. Gen. Daniel Butterfield, who was considered to be too close politically to the previous commander, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker.

Such a meeting was held on July 2, 1863, during the Battle of Gettysburg, in which Major General George G. Meade, commanding the Union Army of the Potomac, convened his Corps commanders and staff to discuss whether they should withdraw from the battlefield or, if not, whether they should attack Robert E. Lee's Confederate army or await his attack.

In January 1863 he was again assigned to the V Corps, now commanded by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, and served again as chief of staff.

Meade may have also ordered the change of plans because he lacked confidence in black soldiers ' abilities in combat-even after over a year that black men had proven their ability to fight, and fight well.

The Compton estates grew over generations, and by the late 19th century their lands " stretched from the Belle Meade plantation on the west to the Lealand estate on the east.

Meade was criticized by President Lincoln and others for not aggressively pursuing the Confederates during their retreat.

At one point, the Army of Northern Virginia was extremely vulnerable with their backs to the rain-swollen, almost impassable Potomac River, but they were able to erect strong defensive positions before Meade could organize an effective attack.

During the Battle of Cold Harbor, Meade inadequately supervised his corps commanders and did not insist they perform reconnaissance before their disastrous frontal assault.

" Although the neighboring states of Arkansas, Louisiana, and Missouri would also produce boogie-woogie players and their boogie-woogie tunes, and despite the fact that Chicago would become known as the center for this music through such pianists as Jimmy Yancey, Albert Ammons, and Meade " Lux " Lewis, Texas was home to an environment that fostered creation of boogie-style: the lumber, cattle, turpentine, and oil industries, all served by an expanding railway system from the northern corner of East Texas to the Gulf Coast and from the Louisiana border to Dallas and West Texas.

He was jointly awarded the Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences in 1977 together with the British economist James Meade " for their pathbreaking contribution to the theory of international trade and international capital movements ".

" He criticized their handling of cavalry and likened their practices to the manner in which Meade had attempted to supervise him.

" Brussels was indeed a superb place for the observation of half-pay officers, such as Major Monsoon ( Commissioner Meade ), Captain Bubbleton and the like, who terrorized the taverns of the place with their endless peninsular stories, and of English society a little damaged, which it became the specialty of Lever to depict.

Meade Instruments and other manufacturers began to introduce their variation on this design by the late 1990s.

This embarrassing incident might have damaged his reputation except for two factors: the part of the battle he was supposed to march to join had ended, so he wasn't really needed ; and, because of a dispute between army commander Maj. Gen. George G. Meade and Slocum over the filing of their official reports, little public notice ensued.

All three of these men were heirs to the world famous Belle Meade Plantation near Nashville, Tennessee, during their life times.

Charlie bails him out, same as Meade did when Charlie's wife wanted half of their bankroll to divorce him a few years earlier.

Low on funds, and with his and Charlie's business hurting because of low turnout, Meade decides to go to Chicago and run a series of amusements while Charlie continues to run their spots in San Diego.

Realizing they need to make a clean break, a few months later Meade takes his half of the money in their business, and moves his family to Reno to try to make it on his own.

Meade and Gari notice David's physiological and psychological deterioration, and decide to try to find out what is wrong, even going so far as to become friends as a result of their concern over him.

Meade has a long history of litigation with other companies over infringement of their patents, particularly with its once bitter rival Celestron.

In August 2008, Meade modified their line of schmidt-cassegrain telescopes with changes to the optical surfaces in design they call " Advanced Coma-Free optics " ( ACF Optics ).

Meade currently produces a line of Maksutov telescopes under their ETX series ( Everybody's Telescope ).

The complaint was against Meade advertising their RCX400 and LX200R models as " Ritchey-Chrétien.

On June 13, 2008, Meade sold their last non-telescope brand Simmons to Bushnell for $ 7. 25 million.

During the summer of 2009, Meade announced a 20: 1 reverse stock split in hopes of raising the value of their stock.

To gather material for his new magazine, Harrison established an organization called Hollywood Research Inc. in Los Angeles, operated by his niece Marjorie Meade, which has been described as " a spy network of hack journalists, private investigators, waiters, call girls, and 75-dollars-a-week starlets who were on the rosters of the major studios and were going nowhere except to bed with anyone who might boost their careers.

R. C. Goldworthy, C. B. Mayhorn and A. W. Meade, dealt with the hazard mitigation, including warning development, validation, and dissemination as an important aspect of product safety and workplace and consumer protection in their article " Warnings in Manufacturing: Improving Hazard-Mitigation Messaging through Audience Analysis.

Despite this careful planning and intensive training ( by Civil War standards ), the day before the attack, Meade, who lacked confidence in the operation, ordered Burnside not to use the black troops in the lead assault, claiming that if the attack failed black soldiers would be killed needlessly, creating political repercussions in the North.

He was replaced by George Meade, who followed Lee into Pennsylvania for the Gettysburg Campaign, which was a victory for the Union, though Lee's army avoided capture.

Gettysburg was his finest hour, but his relief by Maj. Gen. George G. Meade caused lasting enmity between the two men.

The ostensible reason was a report by XI Corps commander Maj. Gen. Oliver O. Howard that Doubleday's corps broke first, causing the entire Union line to collapse, but Meade also had a long history of disdain for Doubleday's combat effectiveness, dating back to South Mountain.

Doubleday was humiliated by this snub and held a lasting grudge against Meade, but he returned to division command and fought well for the remainder of the battle.

Prodded by President Abraham Lincoln, Maj. Gen. Joseph Hooker moved his army in pursuit, but was relieved just three days before the battle and replaced by Meade.

The book was written by Jim Davis, with music and lyrics by Michael Dansicker and Bill Meade, and it was booked by AWA Touring Services.

Moonfleet is a tale of smuggling by the English novelist J. Meade Falkner, first published in 1898.

* 1863 – American Civil War: Battle of Mine Run – Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee.

Maj. Gen. Sherman would attack Atlanta and Georgia, while the Army of the Potomac, led by Maj. Gen. George Meade with Grant in camp, would attack Robert E. Lee's Army of Virginia.

* July 1 – 3 – American Civil War: Union forces under George G. Meade turn back a Confederate invasion by Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg, the largest battle of the war ( 28, 000 Confederate casualties, 23, 000 Union ).

* November 26 – American Civil War – Mine Run: Union forces under General George Meade position against troops led by Confederate General Robert E. Lee ( Meade's forces can not find any weaknesses in the Confederate lines and give up trying after 5 days ).

A classic definition influenced by Kenneth Arrow and James Meade is provided by Heller and Starrett ( 1976 ), who define an externality as “ a situation in which the private economy lacks sufficient incentives to create a potential market in some good and the nonexistence of this market results in losses of Pareto efficiency .” In economic terminology, externalities are examples of market failures, in which the unfettered market does not lead to an efficient outcome.

Under similar circumstances, previous Union commanders had chosen to withdraw behind the Rappahannock, but Grant instead ordered Meade to move around Lee's right flank and seize the important crossroads at Spotsylvania Court House to the southeast, hoping that by interposing his army between Lee and Richmond, he could lure the Confederates into another battle on a more favorable field.

Meeting with Lee, Longstreet was concerned about the strength of the Union defensive position and advocated a strategic movement around the left flank of the enemy, to " secure good ground between him and his capital ," which would presumably compel the Union commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, to attack defensive positions erected by the Confederates.

" Military historians Herman Hattaway and Archer Jones wrote, " Unenthusiastic about the attack, Longstreet consumed so much time in properly assembling and aligning the corps that the assault did not commence until 4 p. m. During all the time that passed, Meade continued to move in troops to bring about a more and more complete concentration ; by 6 p. m. he had achieved numerical superiority and had his left well covered.

It took place on July 30, 1864, between the Confederate Army of Northern Virginia, commanded by General Robert E. Lee and the Union Army of the Potomac, commanded by Major General George G. Meade ( under the direct supervision of the general-in-chief, Lt. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant ).

As part of the Base Realignment and Closure, DISA is planning to move from Arlington, Virginia to Fort Meade, Maryland by September 2011.

It is, in area, the second largest county in South Dakota, its size being exceeded only by Meade County.

Although the Kansas Constitution was amended in 1986 to allow the sale of alcoholic liquor by the individual drink with the approval of voters, Meade County has remained a prohibition, or " dry ", county.