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1 Name of article
2 West Point
3 With Grant
4 updated -- lighthouse refs?
5 Happy Birthday

[edit] Name of article

General Meade's full name is George Gordon Meade.

And that's what it says at the beginning of the article. [[George Gordon Meade]] redirects to [[George Meade]]. Ideally, the article should be under his full name, but it would need an administrator to do that, as we would want to move George Meade to George Gordon Meade, which already exists as the redirect. -- Dalbury^(Talk) 19:20, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

The issue is not what his full name is, but what he is best known as. I would agree that he is probably best known by his full name as George Gordon Meade, and will move if there seems to be a general consensus to do so. john k 20:24, 29 January 2006 (UTC)

[edit] West Point

I wonder how he could have been graduated at the age of 19. Were the age-requirements lower at that time?--Anglius 23:35, 21 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] With Grant

Under the paragraph heading ‘With Grant’. There is a statement that says: (and that Sheridan, his junior, was promoted to permanent major general before he was).

I checked with the reference Eicher & Eicher, Civil War High Commands and it states that Meade’s commission was dated 23 Sept 1864 while Sheridan’s was dated 8 Nov 1864. Meade always outranked Sheridan. This line should be removed. Dmercado 03:40, 30 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] updated -- lighthouse refs?

I have done a significant upgrade on this article. If the person who originally added the two books on lighthouses would like to adjust footnotes appropriately and move those back into the References section, that would be fine with me. I have access to neither of those books, so could not use citations from them in this edit. Hal Jespersen 00:54, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

I can take care of the florida lighthouse references, although I think I just returned one possible source to the library yesterday. -- Donald Albury 02:00, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

Thanks, but as you can see from all of the other footnotes in the article, the way I have it organized is the bibliographic information on the book is covered in the References section and the footnotes themselves carry only the author's name and the page numbers. Can you please update accordingly? Thanks. By the way, since this is such a small part of the article, if one of those references covers the subject, two footnotes will not be necessary. Hal Jespersen 14:31, 18 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Happy Birthday

Happy Birthday to George Gordon Meade, born on this day in 1815! Hal Jespersen 18:03, 31 December 2006 (UTC)

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