A NEW LOOK AT MEADE
Meade: The Price of Command, 1863-1865
By John G. Selby
The Kent State University Press, 2018, $49.95
after Maj. Gen. George Gordon Meade assumed command of the Army of the Potomac, he defeated Robert E. Lee and the Army of Northern Virginia at Gettysburg. Then Meade’s reputation was finally published. The general perception of Meade remains that of an overly cautious general who could have crushed Lee’s army had he possessed enough backbone, and afterward merely followed Grant’s orders.
