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Calvin Coolidge: “General Lee is reported to have ranked him even higher, saying, 'Meade, in my judgment, had the greatest ability. I…”

On the recordOctober 18, 1927
General Lee is reported to have ranked him even higher, saying, 'Meade, in my judgment, had the greatest ability. I feared him more than any man I ever met upon the field of battle.'
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

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Address Accepting the Monument of Gen. George Gordon Meade at Washington, D.C.

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