Archive Record
Metadata
Catalog Number |
1805.003.053 |
Collection |
General Manuscript Collection |
Object Name |
Book, Account |
Title |
Meade Memorial Fund Subscription Book |
Scope & Content |
The Meade Memorial Fund Subscription Book includes a list of subscribers pledging from $100 to $5,000 for a trust for General George Gordon Meade's family. According to the book, $76,550 in subscriptions was raised. |
Date |
November 1872 |
Notes |
Transcription of printed note at beginning of book: [Strictly Private] Philadelphia, Nov. 11, 1872. The priceless value of the services rendered by General Meade to our country can never be fully compensated. They were partially rewarded during his lifetime by the honorable regard of his countrymen, and by his salary as Major General. this latter compensation, inadequate as it was, dies with him, leaving his widow a pension of thirty dollars a month. Philadelphia and her people owe a special debt of gratitude to General Meade. He was not only our citizen, but the savior of the City from the fearful spoliations committed by Lee's army elsewhere in this State in 1863. In remembrance of this invaluable service, and of the merits of General Meade, giving him peculiar claims on his fellow townsmen, the undersigned subscribe the sums set opposite their names respectively, to a fund to be invested in trust for his family. |
Extent of Description |
1 volume |
Condition |
Good |
Condition Notes |
One loose page in front |
Legal Status |
On loan from The Civil War Museum of Philadelphia. |
People |
Meade, George Gordon |