Following the Flag: From August, Army to November, Potomac with the Army of the Potomac (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Coffin, Charles Carleton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1330339991 ISBN 13: 9781330339992

Publisher: Forgotten Books, 2018

Synopsis

Excerpt from Following the Flag: From August, Army to November, Potomac With the Army of the Potomac

T Will be many years before a complete history of the operations of the armies of the Union can be written; but that is not a sufiicient reason Why historical pictures may not now be painted from such materials as have come to hand. This volume, therefore, is a sketch of the operations of the Army of the Potomac from August, 1861, to November, 1862, While commanded by Gener al mcclellan. To avoid detail, the organization of the army is given in an Appendix. It has not been possible, in a book of this size, to give the movements of regiments; but the narrative has been limited to the Operations of brigades and di visions. It will be comparatively easy, however, for the reader to ascertain the general position of any regiment in the difl°erent battles, by con.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Forgotten Books
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1330339991
• ISBN 13: 9781330339992
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 368