Excerpt from The Army of the Potomac, and Its Mismanagement: Respectfully Addressed to Congress They are exhibited, too - these sad and humiliating results in the consequent repulse and deplorable loss of half the gal lant men who were thus placed in peril and led on to destruo tion, with their General's knowledge and in pursuance of his own plans, if not by his immediate orders, and almost under his own eyes. They are exhibited, moreover, in the national gimme due to the prolonged and undisturbed presence of a defiant rebel army, in the face of a quarter of a million of loyal bayonets, of which the irresistible power is paralyzed by the impotence of their Commander. 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.