Description: Carte de visite of General George G. Meade, who served in the Union Army during the Civil War. Meade, born in Cadiz, Spain to a Pennsylvania family, fought at South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, and Gettysburg. He is best known for Gettysburg, having assumed command of the Army of the Potomac only a few days before. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AV200_b03_f33_28
Subjects: Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Pictorial works; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Photographs; United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Military officers--Union
Places: Ohio; Cadiz (Spain); Philadelphia (Pennsylvania)
 

Description: Illustration of conversation between General George Meade and General Ulysses S. Grant during the Battle of the Wilderness in May 1864. Published in "The American Soldier in the Civil War" by Frank Leslie. The Battle of the Wilderness was the opening battle of Ulysses S. Grant's Overland Campaign against the army of the Confederate States of America. Ulysses S. Grant was born Hiram Ulysses Grant in Point Pleasant, Ohio. During the U. S. Civil War, Grant was promoted to the rank of General and granted command of the Union army by President Abraham Lincoln. After the victory of the Union over the Confederacy, Grant's popularity led to his election as the 18th President of the United States in 1868. General George Meade was born in Cadiz, Spain, and later in his life immigrated to the United States where he was appointed to the United States Military Academy. During the Civil War, he commanded the Army of the Potomac until Ulysses S. Grant was put in charge of the Union army. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04592
Subjects: Grant, Ulysses S., 1822-1885; Ohio--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Ohio--History, Military; Presidents--United States; Generals--United States
 

Description: Carte de visite photograph of Major General George Meade, from the William T. Sherman Photograph Album, ca. 1865-1880. Meade was born on December 31, 1815, in Cadiz, Spain, where his father, a merchant, was serving as a naval agent with the United States government. Meade attended Mount Hope Institution in Baltimore, Maryland, before entering the United States Military School in 1821 and graduated 19th in a class of 56 cadets in 1835. His main interest was civil engineering, but after marrying, he found it difficult to find civilian jobs, so he returned the to the Army. He is best know for defeating Confederate General Robert E. Lee in the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. He died on November 6, 1872 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where he is buried in Laurel Hill Cemetery. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: AL04341
Subjects: United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865; Military officers; Generals--United States
 

Description: Document of commemoration listing the principal events of the Spanish American War and the members of the 9th Battalion of the Ohio Volunteer Infantry of which Charles Young was the commanding officer. Charles Young was the first African American to reach the rank of Colonel in the U.S. Army and, at the time of his death in 1922, was the highest-ranking African American officer in the Army. He is known for having been forced into retirement due to health concerns before the start of World War I and later riding from Wilberforce, Ohio, to Washington, D.C. to prove his physical fitness for duty. ALTERNATE TEXT: A large off-white sheet of paper with colorful artwork and portraits of military members. The top left of the paper has a colorful artwork of a battle scene, with men in blue uniforms in a field of grass. Their guns aim at a white building in the distance and there are mountains behind the home. The grassy field includes a palm tree. The artwork at the top right of the paper depicts a naval scene with a white boat at the front. One of the boats in the distance is on fire. The water has a greenish blue hue. The top middle of the paper has artwork of a woman in a plain white dress, with her arms outstretched at her sides. She holds two wreaths and is wearing a small red cap. Behind her head is a shield with an American parotitic theme. In front of her legs is a grey bald eagle with its wings stretch out sideways. The eagle's mouth holds a blue sash with "E Pluribus Unum" written on it. The eagle stands on two American flags crossed over each other. There is a green branch with leaves in the eagle's left talon. There are weapons and a shield under the eagle. Behind the woman and the eagle are soldiers in blue uniforms. Some soldiers have backpacks, guns, and injured arms in slings. The scene is surrounded by a stone arch behind the woman's head, and stone columns leading towards the bottom of the page. The left and right edges of the paper have military officer's busts surrounded by green wreaths, with seven men on either side of the vertical stone columns. The middle of the paper has two officers surrounded by green wreaths. They are in front of two white sheets with one golden tassel hanging on each sheet. the sheets hang down and end at the middle of the stone columns. Green branches are coming out of the white sheets and wrap around the stone columns twice. The two branches have two different types of leaves, with the left being a rounded oak leaf complete with sparse acorns, and the right being a more pointed leaf with red berries. The branches intertwine with themselves at the middle of the stone columns. Towards the bottom middle of the page are two thin red, white, and blue poles that lead to the bottom of the page. Two American flags drape over the bottom of the stone columns. View on Ohio Memory.
Image ID: NAM_OVS_32
Subjects: Spanish American War; African American soldiers; African American men; Military officers; Young, Charles, 1864-1922.