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