‘Long Sol’: The Pugnacious 6-foot-7 Solomon Meredith Cast a Long Shadow Over the Iron Brigade

resident Abraham Lincoln’s grand review of the Army of the Potomac on April 9, 1863, would be remembered fondly by both awed onlookers and the regiments that paraded before him at Belle Plaine, Va. In many ways, the occasion marked the end of what had been a very troubled winter following the Battle of Fredericksburg—what …

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