George Meade Character Traits

out.” These words were written by George Meade himself during the uncompromising differences among the free and slave states. In the first few days of the Battle of Gettysburg, he won a decisive victory over the south and turned the tide of the war in the east. During the Civil War, Meade showed great character traits throughout his experience, but two of his most important traits that he continuously displayed were leadership and empathy. In Meade’s lifetime, there were many opportunities where he demonstrated compassion and guidance to others. Born on December 31, 1815, Meade was a merchant born in Cádiz, Spain who served as a U.S. naval agent until he received a request from West Point at the age of sixteen. That is where he graduated

One way of how I showed leadership was when my teacher placed me with a group of students that I never worked with before. We didn’t want to work with each other so we sat silently. That was where I had two choices to choose from, do nothing and just sit or get up and start a conversation. I stood up and asked my teammates what they preferred to do for the project. A way of how I displayed empathy was when me and my friends were hanging out. We thought that she took it as a joke so we left her behind. I looked back and I found her mad so I went back and apologized. In his lifetime, Meade never got credited for his work nor his leadership skills, same as me, when I do projects, I spend more than five hours on them. When I ask my friends how long it took them, they would say less than twenty minutes and they would get the same grade as me. After the civil war, Meade finally received some resignation for leadership skills from an old pier at the Willard Hotel, “ As I walked I fell to pondering why a subordinate commander at Chancellorsville and Gettysburg should obtain the honor of having a university named after him and a good position within a presidential administration, while another and more significant leader, Meade, who shone at those same battles may receive no more recognition than a saying of a “damned old goggled-eyed snapping