The Final Years of General George Gordon Meade

Please join us on Friday, January 22, as National Park Service Ranger John D. Hoptak movingly recounts the final years of General George Gordon Meade. For General George Gordon Meade, service to the country did not end at Appomattox. Instead, it continued until his dying day, which occurred on November 6, 1872, just seven-and-a-half years following the end of the Civil War and less than ten years after his triumph at the Battle of Gettysburg. Ranger Hoptak will address the often glossed-over post-Civil War career of General Meade, which, among other things, included his efforts to deter the Fenian Brotherhood from invasions of Canada, his role in Reconstruction, and his July 1869 return visit to Gettysburg to help dedicate the recently-constructed Soldiers' National Monument in the National Cemetery.