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Gilbert Simrall Meem (October 5, 1824 – June 10, 1908) was a Virginia farmer and politician who served in both houses of the Virginia General Assembly, as well as became a brigadier general in the Virginia militia and served along with the Confederate States Army in northwestern Virginia and what became West Virginia during the American Civil War. Meem's men participated in Stonewall Jackson's attacks on the towns of Romney and Bath, later Berkeley Springs, now in West Virginia in early January 1862. After the brigade went into winter quarters in Martinsburg, now West Virginia, Meem resigned his commission on February 1, 1862, then served in the Shenandoah County, Virginia local government during the war and in the Virginia Senate following the war, before moving to Seattle, Washington and becoming its postmaster in the administration of President Grover Cleveland, where he became a prominent citizen before his death.