Major General George Gordon Meade

George Gordon Meade was the victorious general at the Battle of Gettysburg and commander of the Army of the Potomac during the Civil War. He was also an engineer and an early park commissioner who helped design portions of Fairmount Park. Meade and his horse, "Baldy," are shown gazing across the park landscape toward Laurel Hill Cemetery, where Meade is buried. The work was the first large-scale bronze by artist Alexander Milne Calder, sculptor of William Penn and numerous other sculptures adorning Philadelphia's City Hall. In 1887, more than thirty thousand people watched Meade's grandsons unveil it as the first major commission project of the Fairmount Park Art Association.

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania · United States