Excerpt from From Gettysburg to the Rapidan: The Army of the Potomac, July, 1863, to April, 1864 The brevity that characterizes Volume XII. Will also be found in this narrative, for I have had no time to change its character. Properly, its publi cation should have preceded that of Vol. XII. The information needed for the preparation of these chapters was fuller and more readily obtained than that required for Vol. XII. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.