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Figure is great for American Civil War enthusiasts!
As a West Point graduate, Meade fought in both the Second Seminole and
the Mexican–American wars. He then served in the United States Army
Corps of Topographical Engineers where his duties included construction
of coastal fortifications. His Civil War service began by building
defenses around Washington D.C. He fought in several campaigns as a
division commander before being appointed to command the Army of the
Potomac just three days before the Battle of Gettysburg. With a keen
engineer’s eye, he organized his forces on favorable ground and repelled
a series of massive assaults throughout the next two days. It was the
North’s greatest victory and the South’s “high water mark.”