2827 x 4256 px | 23,9 x 36 cm | 9,4 x 14,2 inches | 300dpi
Data acquisizione:
23 ottobre 2007
Ubicazione:
Gettysburg National Military Park, Pennsylvania. USA.
Altre informazioni:
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 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. The monument to Major General George Meade is south of Gettysburg on Cemetery Ridge. The monument of General Meade seated on his horse, Old Baldy, was created by Henry K. Bush-Brown, who also created the equestrian statues of Generals Reynolds and Sedgwick at Gettysburg as well as the bust of Lincoln on the Lincoln Speech Memorial. The Battle of Gettysburg was a turning point in the Civil War, the Union victory that ended General Robert E. Lee's second and most ambitious invasion of the North in 1863. Often referred to as the "High Water Mark of the Rebellion", it was the war's bloodiest battle with 51, 000 casualties and the setting for President Abraham Lincoln's "Gettysburg Address". Begin your visit at the Gettysburg National Military Park Museum and Visitor Center at 1195 Baltimore Pike, Gettysburg, where the park offers free information, an extensive museum about Gettysburg and the Civil War, the fully restored Gettysburg Cyclorama that dramatically depicts "Pickett's Charge", and the film "A New Birth of Freedom", narrated by Morgan Freeman, which focuses on the significance of Gettysburg.
