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Mad Dan, Allen C. Guelzo
Mad Dan, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
Did Daniel Sickles, the Union's most notorious general, save the day for the Army of the Potomac at Gettysburg? That's exactly what he wanted you to believe.
George Meade’S Mixed Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo
George Meade’S Mixed Legacy, Allen C. Guelzo
Civil War Era Studies Faculty Publications
George Gordon Meade was 47 years old the morning of June 28, 1863, when command of the Army of the Potomac was unceremoniously dumped into his lap by General in Chief Henry Hallcck, and there is no reason to doubt Meade's protest that the move rendered him the most surprised man in the entire Union Army. Meade had never wanted to be a soldier in the first place, much less take direction of an army that at that moment was facing perhaps its most daunting challenge. But compared to his immediate predecessors, Maj. Gens. Ambrose Burnside and Joseph Hooker, what …