The leadership of Gen. George Gordon Meade, from the Battle of Gettysburg, through the conclusion of the Civil War, and beyond into the post-war years is examined. Meade, the longest tenured commanding general of the Army of the Potomac, who's army defeats Robert E. Lee's Confederate Army of Northern Virginia at the Battle of Gettysburg, is often overlooked by Generals U.S. Grant, William T. Sherman, and others after the Civil War. His shifting reputation is examined in this lecture.