Please join us for a Chambersburg Civil War Seminars & Tours Lecture Series! Our next lecture will be: "The Longest and Clearest Head of Any General Officer": George Meade as Corps Commander by Chris Stowe. Cost is $6 per person. Zoom Login details will be sent with your email registration confirmation.

Synopsis

A brigadier within the Army of the Potomac as September 1862 dawned, George Gordon Meade by June 1863 found himself appointed its commander. His rise within the army's leadership structure can justly be considered meteoric. Stowe's presentation looks at Meade's six-month tenure in command of the famed Fifth Corps, examining the cultural, political, and military factors that enabled the bespectacled general to gain esteem from most of his peers and, more critically, the trust of his government. In so doing, Stowe will deconstruct the aspirations of a career-minded professional military officer--one whose abiding quest for recognition was perhaps…