Henry Meigs Meade, USN

[John Hartwell]

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This nephew of Gen. Meade, enlisted in the Navy on January 31, 1862, as Acting Assistant Paymaster. During the war, he served in the North Atlantic Blockading Squadron, aboard USS Mattabessett. He continued in service postwar. This cdv was made in Lima, Peru, probably 1868/9, when he was Paymaster aboard USS Kearsage, in the US South Pacific Squadron.

photo used with permission, from Ron Coddington.

 

[AndyHall]

Gotta love Ron Coddington's approach to history, developing mini-biographies based on old CDVs. Microhistory at its best.

 

[ErnieMac]

Henry's mother, Clara Forsyth Meigs Meade, was first cousin to US Army Quartermaster General Montgomery Meigs.

 

[AndyHall]

With connections like that, no wonder he found a slot in the de-mobbed USN.

 

[Mark F. Jenkins]

Just got my copy of Ronald S. Coddington's Faces of the Civil War Navies: An Album of Union and Confederate Sailors (Baltimore: John Hopkins Univ. Press, 2016. 440 pp) today. I haven't had time for more than a quick thumb-through, but I can tell I'm really going to enjoy it--- with a few exceptions, the entire book is filled with mid- and low-rankers and sailors, the ones who never merit much of a note in the history books but were right there nonetheless, accompanied by about 2-4 pages each of their stories. (At least one Marine and one infantryman, too, who is there in the context of having served aboard a riverboat.) Probably the most famous one of the lot is Roswell Hawks Lamson, who had a collection of letters published by James M. McPherson and his wife a few years ago.

 

[Yankeedave]

I didn't know they were related. the whole family seemed to be more than just sycophant.