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George G. Meade

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  • Civil War: Gettysburg
    Civil War: Gettysburg

    12 Photos

    Explore the historic Civil War battle of Gettysburg through photographs of the battlefield, the soldiers, and the memorials.

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  • Civil War: Antietam
    Civil War: Antietam

    12 Photos

    Explore the Battle of Antietam--one of the bloodiest of the Civil War-- through photographs of soldiers, the battlefield and monuments.

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  • Civil War: Artifacts
    Civil War: Artifacts

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    Explore Civil War artifacts, from medical kits and personal hygiene items, to carbines and currency.

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  • Civil War: Union Military Leaders
    Civil War: Union Military Leaders

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    View images of Union leaders from the Civil War, like Abraham Linoln and Ulysses S. Grant, and learn more about the roles they played in this bloody engagment.

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  • Faces of the Civil War
    Faces of the Civil War

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    The Library of Congress recently acquired a rare collection of nearly 700 Civil War-era ambrotype and tintype photographs, donated by the Liljenquist family.

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Videos (16)

  • Chamberlain at Gettysburg
    Chamberlain at Gettysburg

    Video Clip (1:26)

    Find out how the actions of a former Maine professor helped the Union win at Gettysburg, the deadliest battle of the Civil War.

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  • Abraham Lincoln
    Abraham Lincoln

    Video Clip (3:48)

    Today he is known as one of the greatest American presidents, but at the time of his election no one would have predicted Lincoln's success.

    Video Clip (3:48)
  • Confederate vs. Union Soldiers
    Confederate vs. Union Soldiers

    Video Clip (2:39)

    Find out what divided the men of the Civil War, and how in many ways they were more alike than different.

    Video Clip (2:39)
  • Grant or Lee?
    Grant or Lee?

    Video Clip (2:19)

    Which of the admired Civil War generals would you want to lead your country?

    Video Clip (2:19)
  • America and the Civil War
    America and the Civil War

    Video Clip (4:04)

    Discover how the bloodiest war in American history transformed the face of the nation.

    Video Clip (4:04)
  • Civil War Tech
    Civil War Tech

    Video Clip (2:17)

    The Civil War saw the rise of major technological advances in warfare.

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  • The Gettysburg Address
    The Gettysburg Address

    Video Clip (1:36)

    Abraham Lincoln's Gettysburg Address is regarded as one of the most powerful and poignant speeches in American history.

    Video Clip (1:36)
  • Civil War in One Word
    Civil War in One Word

    Video Clip (1:13)

    If you had just one word to describe the Civil War, what would it be?

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  • Legacy of the Civil War
    Legacy of the Civil War

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    One hundred and fifty years after it began, the Civil War is still an important component of our national character.

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  • Civil War's Greatest Myth
    Civil War's Greatest Myth

    Video Clip (2:41)

    What you think you know about the Civil War may not be the whole truth.

    Video Clip (2:41)
  • Civil War Turning Point
    Civil War Turning Point

    Video Clip (3:08)

    Find out what event turned the tide of the Civil War.

    Video Clip (3:08)
  • The Original Gettysburg Address
    The Original Gettysburg Address

    Video Clip (2:58)

    Original or facsimile? The original Gettysburg Address bears creases in it it from when Abraham Lincoln placed it in his pocket.

    Video Clip (2:58)
  • The Battle of Gettysburg
    The Battle of Gettysburg

    Video Clip (2:38)

    For three days in July 1863, Union and Confederate forces clash at Gettysburg in one of the most pivotal battles of the Civil War.

    Video Clip (2:38)
  • Battle of Fredericksburg
    Battle of Fredericksburg

    Video Clip (2:26)

    General Burnside takes Fredericksburg but experiences a disastrous defeat when attacking Confederate forces entrenched in the high ground above the town.

    Video Clip (2:26)
  • Battle of Chancellorsville
    Battle of Chancellorsville

    Video Clip (2:30)

    General Robert E. Lee defies military convention to defeat the Union at Chancellorsville, but was the price of victory too high?

    Video Clip (2:30)
  • Surrender at Appomattox
    Surrender at Appomattox

    Video Clip (2:38)

    Cut off from supply lines, General Robert E. Lee surrenders to General Ulysses S. Grant in April, 1865 after four long years of Civil War.

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George Meade was a U.S. Army general and civil engineer who served as commander of the Union Army of the Potomac during the Civil War.

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