Sunday, July 6, 2014

Major-General Henry Halleck to Major-General George G. Meade, July 7, 1863 – 3 p.m.

WASHINGTON, D.C., July 7, 1863 3 p.m.
Maj. Gen. GEORGE G. MEADE,
Army of the Potomac:

It gives me great pleasure to inform you that you have been appointed a brigadier-general in the Regular Army, to rank from July 3, the date of your brilliant victory at Gettysburg.

H. W. HALLECK,
General-in-Chief.

SOURCES: George Meade, The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade, Vol. 2, p. 307; The War of the Rebellion: A Compilation of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Armies, Series I, Volume 27, Part 1 (Serial No. 43), p. 82

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