Desert Hawk Books

 

Meade of Gettysburg

Freeman Cleaves

Foreword by
Herman Hattaway

 

 

412  pages
Illustrations/Maps
5.5" x 8.5"
Paperback

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   "This study is the first full-length biography of Meade in a generation. Scholarly and judicious, the author confines his attention largely to the headquarters of the army, the men in the ranks, the people behind the lines and the politicians come in for scant treatment. The result is a somewhat narrow view of the war, but a penetrating study of Meade and of the other commanders of the Army of the Potomac. So skillfully is the story written that one experiences with Meade his triumphs and his frustrations." - World Affairs

"In this book Mr. Cleaves does much to give George Gordon Meade his proper niche in history. It is the best book on Gen. Meade yet published. It is well-written, honest, good history and handsomely done up the University of Oklahoma Press." - Army Times

"Meade of Gettysburg is no one-sided brief. Rather, it is a thoroughly researched, well-written, objective study of the man's entire military career, including his part in the Mexican War, his peacetime work with the topographical engineers, and his short postwar role as an army commander in the occupied South." - Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography

Freeman Cleaves was a member of the editorial staff of Financial World, but his avocation for many years was research in American history, especially Civil War history. He was the author of Rock of Chickamauga: The Life of General George H. Thomas.
Herman Hattaway is the author of General Stephen D. Lee and coauthor of How the North Won and of Why the South Lost. Since 1969 he has been on the history faculty in the University of Missouri-Kansas City, and most recently has been Distinguished Visiting Professor of Military History at the U. S. Military Academy, West Point.