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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