George Meade, Union general's descendant
George Gordon Mead 3d, 61, great-grandson of Gen. George Gordon Meade, the officer who commanded the Union forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, died Wednesday at his home in Penllyn.
Mr. Meade 3d relationship to the officer who had taken command of the Army of the Potomac only days before the July 1863 battle was the cause of the national attention he found a century after the battle.
Mr. Meade and Robert E. Lee 4th, direct descendants of the opposing commanders in the Civil War's most memorable battle, were summoned to Gettysburg by Dwight D. Eisenhower to participate in the 1963 centennial commemoration of the three-day fight. The commemoration ended with a re-enactment of Pickett's climactic charge at Cemetery Ridge and a presentation of commemorative medals to Meade and Lee.
Active in civic affairs, Mr. Meade was a member of the First Troop of the Philadelphia City Cavalry, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
He is survived by a sister.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh Township. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
George Gordon Mead 3d, 61, great-grandson of Gen. George Gordon Meade, the officer who commanded the Union forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, died Wednesday at his home in Penllyn.
Mr. Meade 3d relationship to the officer who had taken command of the Army of the Potomac only days before the July 1863 battle was the cause of the national attention he found a century after the battle.
Mr. Meade and Robert E. Lee 4th, direct descendants of the opposing commanders in the Civil War's most memorable battle, were summoned to Gettysburg by Dwight D. Eisenhower to participate in the 1963 centennial commemoration of the three-day fight. The commemoration ended with a re-enactment of Pickett's climactic charge at Cemetery Ridge and a presentation of commemorative medals to Meade and Lee.
Active in civic affairs, Mr. Meade was a member of the First Troop of the Philadelphia City Cavalry, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
He is survived by a sister.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh Township. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
George Meade, Union general's descendant
George Gordon Mead 3d, 61, great-grandson of Gen. George Gordon Meade, the officer who commanded the Union forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, died Wednesday at his home in Penllyn.
Mr. Meade 3d relationship to the officer who had taken command of the Army of the Potomac only days before the July 1863 battle was the cause of the national attention he found a century after the battle.
Mr. Meade and Robert E. Lee 4th, direct descendants of the opposing commanders in the Civil War's most memorable battle, were summoned to Gettysburg by Dwight D. Eisenhower to participate in the 1963 centennial commemoration of the three-day fight. The commemoration ended with a re-enactment of Pickett's climactic charge at Cemetery Ridge and a presentation of commemorative medals to Meade and Lee.
Active in civic affairs, Mr. Meade was a member of the First Troop of the Philadelphia City Cavalry, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
He is survived by a sister.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh Township. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
George Gordon Mead 3d, 61, great-grandson of Gen. George Gordon Meade, the officer who commanded the Union forces in the Battle of Gettysburg, died Wednesday at his home in Penllyn.
Mr. Meade 3d relationship to the officer who had taken command of the Army of the Potomac only days before the July 1863 battle was the cause of the national attention he found a century after the battle.
Mr. Meade and Robert E. Lee 4th, direct descendants of the opposing commanders in the Civil War's most memorable battle, were summoned to Gettysburg by Dwight D. Eisenhower to participate in the 1963 centennial commemoration of the three-day fight. The commemoration ended with a re-enactment of Pickett's climactic charge at Cemetery Ridge and a presentation of commemorative medals to Meade and Lee.
Active in civic affairs, Mr. Meade was a member of the First Troop of the Philadelphia City Cavalry, the Military Order of the Loyal Legion and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
He is survived by a sister.
Services will be at 4 p.m. Monday at St. Thomas Episcopal Church in Whitemarsh Township. Burial will be in the church cemetery.
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