text:  All right, on this date in history, in 1863, General George C. Meade assumed command of the Union forces from General Fighting Joe Hooker near Prospect Hall. George Custer, an 1861 graduate of the Military Academy in West Point, promoted the rank of Brigadier General at the room of the City Hotel on West Patrick Street in Frederick. That action was taken on the direct orders from the War Department. Of course, he was killed at the Battle of Little Bighorn.