Perkins unseated Meade and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his death.

" 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.

The Meade family descends from John Meade, who represented Dublin University and County Tipperary in the Irish House of Commons and served as Attorney-General for Ireland.

Meade has served as the Deputy Division Chief of the Crew and Thermal Systems Division and as the Chief of the Flight Support Branch of the Astronaut Office.

During the war, he served as an aide to no less than 4 generals, including Daniel Butterfield, George Meade, Joseph Hooker and Gouverneur K. Warren.

Perkins unseated Meade and was elected as a Democrat to the Eighty-first and to the seventeen succeeding Congresses and served from January 3, 1949, until his death.

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.

Also while in Washington, Doubleday testified against George Meade at the United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War, criticizing him harshly over his conduct of the Battle of Gettysburg.

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

* 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 ).

* November 6 – George Meade, American Civil War general ( b. 1815 )

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.

However, in early 1865, the Congressional Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War exonerated Burnside and condemned Meade for changing the plan of attack ( which did little good for Burnside, whose reputation was ruined ).

The county is named for Captain James M. Meade of the 17th U. S. Infantry Regiment, who was killed in action at the Battle of River Raisin during the War of 1812.

In 1917, at the advent of World War I, Odenton ’ s growth was spurred by the establishment of Fort Meade.

Taneytown was the headquarters of Union Army General George Meade for a period during the American Civil War.

Meade stayed with the Lakes Survey until the 1861 outbreak of the Civil War.

Meade was promoted from captain to brigadier general of volunteers on August 31, 1861, a few months after the start of the Civil War, based on the strong recommendation of Pennsylvania Governor Andrew Curtin.

) Radical Republicans in the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War suspected that Meade was a Copperhead and tried in vain to relieve him from command.

Engraving by James E. Kelly ( artist ) | James E. Kelly of George G. Meade and the Council of War at Gettysburg, July 2, 1863.

In a telegram to Secretary of War Edwin Stanton on May 13, 1864, Grant stated that " Meade has more than met my most sanguine expectations.

The United States Congress Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War exonerated Burnside, and placed the blame for the Union defeat at the Crater on General Meade for requiring the black troops to be withdrawn.

Although the battle was a great Union victory, Sickles and Butterfield testified to the Joint Committee on the Conduct of the War that Meade vacillated and planned as early as July 1 to retreat from Gettysburg, damaging his reputation.

The eldest daughter, Selene Harding ( 1846 – 1892 ), married Jackson County, TN resident General William Hicks Jackson on December 15, 1868 after the Civil War ended, and they moved to Belle Meade where Red Jackson co-managed the business affairs of the Belle Meade Estate with his new father-in-law, General William Giles Harding ; the two men expanded the estate into a world class thoroughbred horse farm.

After World War II, First Army headquarters was located on Governor ’ s Island, N. Y. On January 1, 1966, First and Second Armies merged and First Army headquarters moved to Fort Meade, Md.

The son of Richard Kidder Meade ( 1746-1805 ), one of George Washington's aides during the War of Independence, he was born near Millwood, in what is now Clarke County, Virginia.

His wife remained there while Fairfax was away fighting in the American Civil War ; it was visited by General George G. Meade of the Union Army on the invitation of Mrs. Fairfax about a week prior to the Battle of Gettysburg.

** Old Baldy ( horse ), belonged to General George G. Meade in the American Civil War

Allegheny campus features a blend of modern and historic architecture set on in a neighborhood once known as Pittsburgh ’ s Millionaires ’ Row and extending to the once posh " Monument Hill " area ( that rises above and behind modern day Heinz Field ) so named for a Civil War monument dedicated on May 30, 1871 by General George G. Meade and Governor John W. Geary.

Following an incident in June 1864, in which Meade disciplined reporter Edward Cropsey from The Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper for an unfavorable article, all of the press assigned to his army agreed to mention Meade only in conjunction with setbacks.

The IX Corps fought in the Overland Campaign of May 1864 as an independent command, reporting initially to Grant ; his corps was not assigned to the Army of the Potomac because Burnside outranked its commander, Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, who had been a division commander under Burnside at Fredericksburg.

He was named Chief of the Chaplains Reserve Pool, in Ft. Benjamin Harrison, Indiana, and in June 1942, he was assigned to the 76th Infantry Division in Ft. George Meade, Maryland.

In 1977, Meade was assigned to the 363rd Tactical Reconnaissance Wing at Shaw Air Force Base, South Carolina, where he flew the RF-4C.

Meade was then assigned to the F-16 Combined Test Force where he flew performance, loads and flutter, flying qualities, and weapon systems tests in both the F-16A and F-16C aircraft.

While he, George G. Meade, Benjamin Butler, Franz Sigel, George Crook, and William W. Averell advanced in Virginia against Robert E. Lee, and Nathaniel Banks attempted to capture Mobile, Alabama, Sherman was assigned the mission of defeating Johnston's army, capturing Atlanta, and striking through Georgia and the Confederate heartland.

In 1864, General Grant assigned himself as direct commander of Meade and the Army of the Potomac, and placed General William Sherman in command of the Western Theatre.

His Cavalry Corps was assigned to the Army of the Potomac, under Maj. Gen. George G. Meade, who reported to Grant.

The original name requested for the community by the residents was Lamontagne but Ottawa assigned the present name to honour Richard Meade, 4th Earl of Clanwilliam.

The Union Generals Speak: The Meade Hearings on the Battle of Gettysburg.

Some of these men were Union Generals George McClellan, Henry Halleck, George Meade, and Confederate generals Robert E. Lee, Joseph Johnston, and P. G. T.

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.

The Union Generals Speak: The Meade Hearings on the Battle of Gettysburg.

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

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

* Hyde, Bill, The Union Generals Speak: The Meade Hearings on the Battle of Gettysburg, Louisiana State University Press, 2003, ISBN 978-0-8071-2581-6.