Meadville

Meadville is the county seat of Crawford County, Pennsylvania. The city is generally considered part of the Pittsburgh Tri-State and is within 40 miles of Erie, Pennsylvania. It was the first permanent settlement in northwest Pennsylvania. The population was recorded as 13,685 in the 2000 census.

Meadville in Southern Victory
In 1942 Brigadier General Irving Morrell launched a major attack against the Confederate flank from Meadville Pennsylvania (Southern Victory). A second force attacked the other flank simultaneously from Parkersburg West Virginia. On the first day, the U.S. forces met stiff but ineffectual resistance from the Mexican Army defending the Confederate center. After breaking through this "crust" the U.S. met little further resistance and the two forces linked up in Lafayette Ohio and thus surrounded the main Confederate Army in Pittsburgh.