Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - George Meade (1815<unk>1872) wani jami'in soja ne daga Pennsylvania wanda aka fi sani da matsayinsa na Janar na Union a lokacin yakin basasa. Ya sauke karatu daga Jami'ar Sojojin Amurka a West Point a 1835 kuma ya yi aiki a cikin rundunar soja a lokacin yakin Seminole na biyu.
Ka yi haƙuri. Ya fara aiki a matsayin injiniyan injiniya ga kamfanonin jirgin kasa da kuma Ma'aikatar War har sai ya sake shiga soja a 1842. Meade ya yi yaƙi a cikin Yakin Mexico da Amurka kuma an ba shi mukamin Laftanar na farko don ayyukansa na jaruntaka a Yaƙin Monterrey. Daga shekarun 1850 har zuwa lokacin yakin basasa a 1861, Meade ya shiga cikin binciken da aka yi a bakin teku da kuma tsara hasumiyoyi, musamman ga Ma'aikatan Injiniya na Topographical. An ci gaba da shi zuwa brigadier janar a farkon yakin, amma ya ji rauni sosai a yakin Glendale a 1862. Ya dawo da kuma jagorancin dakarun a lokacin manyan fadace-fadace, ciki har da Antietam da Fredericksburg. A watan Yunin 1863, Meade ya maye gurbin Janar Joseph Hooker a matsayin kwamandan rundunar sojojin Potomac, kuma ya yi yaƙin da ya fi girma kwanaki kadan bayan haka a Gettysburg, yaƙin da ya fi zubar da jini a yaƙin. Ya yi nasara wajen kayar da Janar Robert E. Lee da sojojin Confederate, amma Shugaba Abraham Lincoln ya soki shi saboda barin sojojin Confederate su koma Virginia. Meade ya ci gaba da aiki a matsayin kwamandan rundunar sojojin Potomac har zuwa karshen yakin, ko da yake Ulysses S. Grant ya zama babban janar-in-chief na dukan sojojin Union, ya maye gurbin ikon Meade.