On June 28, 1863, George Gordon Meade was ordered to take command of the Army of Potomac. Just three days later, he had to face Robert E. Lee’s Army of Northern Virginia, which was riding a wave of victory after victory.  In this first-person narrative, Dr. Waskie, in uniform, will use Meade’s own words to describe how he managed, almost miraculously, to defeat Lee at Gettysburg.  The class will also follow Meade’s career to the end of the Civil War … and beyond.