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George Meade Headquarters at Gettysburg

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Meade chose Mrs. Leister's home as his headquarters.  During the artillery fire on July 3rd before Picket's charge, the house (with Meade in it) was one of the hardest hit areas primarily because many of the artillery rounds were not exploding over the Union lines along the front due to faulty fuses. 

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George Meade

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 Second Seminole War and the 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.

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