TitleDid General Meade desire to retreat at the Battle of Gettysburg?
PublisherPorter & Coates
Date Created1883
DescriptionThis book examined discrepancies in the testimony and historical writings by Generals Pleasanton, Butterfield and Doubleday in which General Meade (1815-1872) is accused of desiring a retreat on July 2nd,1883, the second day of battle at Gettysburg. The author, Gen. Meade's son and a commmanding officer himself, implied the motivation for the "gossip" about Meade's position was created when Meade ordered Doubleday, acting senior officer, First Corps, to be replaced after his commanding officer General Reynolds fell in battle. General Newton, of the Sixth Corps, replaced Doubleday. Twenty years later, after the death of General Meade, Doubleday wrote in his commissioned historical account of Gettysburg that Meade requested a retreat. This treatise attempted to disprove these allegations citing a judge's ruling that Meade acted in the best interests of his men.