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Calvin Coolidge: “The records more and more reveal General Meade as a gallant soldier and a Christian gentleman.”

On the recordOctober 18, 1927
The records more and more reveal General Meade as a gallant soldier and a Christian gentleman.
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Calvin Coolidge
Republican · Vermont

Editor's note · Context

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

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