Excerpt from The Invasion of the City of Washington: A Disagreeable Study in and of Military Unpreparedness But the welfare of the living is beyond and above even the good repute of the dead. The second reason, and the better reason, for the writing of this book is that The Invasion of the City of Washington fur nishes the best example in the history of the United States of the inevitable results of the unmitigated foolishness and positive national crime of military un preparedness. Sad to say, it is only slightly the best among a humiliating number of such examples. 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.