Excerpt from With the Army of the PotomacThe year 1862 was a year of humiliation to The Army of the Potomac. The soldiers fought bravely, but owing to poor generalship, jealousy among the officers, and interference from Washington, suffered disastrous defeats.During this period our boy scouts keep, up their reputation for daring, and this daring leads them into numerous adventures.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.