Calvin Coolidge actually said...

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.'

Context

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

10/18/1927

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