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Meade's horse, like many of the other statues, is in a natural pose, a steady forward stride. The code claims that all four hoves on the platform mean Meade lived through battle, and did not suffer any wounds.
Meade survived the Battle of Gettysburg without a scratch. That, like the other statues, is not the whole story. Meade was wounded in three places during the Battle of Glendale and suffered another wound in the thigh at Antietam. Furthermore, Meade died from complications of these wounds in combination with pneumonia.
The horse code stands as far as Gettysburg is concerned, but this means another officer who's "purple hearts" are not represented in his statue's pose because of that one detail.
Cadet U.S.M.A. Sept 1,1831; Brevet Second Lieut. 3d U.S. Artillery July 1, 1835; Second Lieut. December 31, 1835; Resigned and honorably discharged October 26, 1836; Second Lieut. Topographical Engineers May 19, 1842; First Lieut. August 4, 1851; Captain May 19, 1856; "For fourteen years continuous service" Major July 18, 1862 (Merged into Corps of Engineers March 3, 1863); Vacated commission July 3, 1863 Brig.-General U.S. Army July 3, 1863; Major General August 18, 1864. Brevetted First Lieut. U.S. Army September 23, 1846, "For Gallant Conduct in the Several Conflicts at Monterey, Mexico," Brig.-General U.S. Volunteers August 31, 1861; Major-General November 29, 1862; Vacated commission in volunteer service December 6, 1864. The Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled resolved (joint resolution approved January 28, 1864) "That the gratitude of the American people and the thanks of their representatives in Congress are due, and are hereby tendered ** To Major-General George G. Meade ** and the officers and soldiers of that army (Army of the Potomac) for the skill and heroic valor which at Gettysburg repulsed, defeated, and drove back, broken and dispirited, beyond the Rappahannock, the veteran army of the rebellion."