George Meade

George Gordon Meade was a career U.S. Army officer and engineer involved in coastal construction. During the American Civil War he served as a Union general, and is best known for defeating Robert E. Lee at the Battle of Gettysburg.

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• War is very uncertain in its results, and often when affairs look most desperate they suddenly assume a more hopeful state.
  • Letter to his wife Margaretta (11 June 1863); published in The Life and Letters of George Gordon Meade (1913)

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• The ferocity of a man can't be stopped, but withheld with firm command.

• Never fear your enemies, fear your actions.