The General Meade Society was especially busy in 2015, the Bicentennial Year of General George Gordon Meade, the oft-slighted victor against Lee at Gettysburg, heroic leader in numerous other Civil War campaigns, loyal servant of the Union and honored Philadelphian. The Society celebrated its 20th anniversary in 2016.

Here are some of the past year’s events sponsored by the Meade Society:

• Gravesite Flag Placement of veterans’ Flags, May 20, 2018
• Annual Meade Society Spring Trip, May 5, 2018
• Visit to the General George G. Meade School, April 30, 2018
• Leister House Spring Cleanup at Gettysburg, April 22, 2018
• Meade Society Symposium, April 8, 2018
• Octavius V. Catto Ceremony, February 17, 2018
• Annual Meade Society Brunch, January 21st, 2018
• Annual Ceremony Celebrating the Birthday of the Great General at Laurel Hill Cemetery, December 31st, 2017
• Marine Corps Celebration, Nov 10, 2017
• Meade Society Annual Fall Excursion, Oct 7-9, 2017
• Leister House Fall Cleanup at Gettysburg, Oct 1, 2017
• Meade Society at the O.V. Catto Ceremony, Sept 26, 2017
• GARM&L and Meade Society Open House, September 10, 2017
• Meade Society Picnic, September 9, 2017
• Meade Society Trip to the Ball Park, August 10, 2017
  
• Meade Society Spring Planting at Meade’s HQ in Gettysburg, June 4, 2017
• Annual Memorial Day Service of Meade Post 1, GAR, at Laurel Hill Cemetery, May 28, 2017
• Austin Bjac Graduates from VMI, May 14, 2017