Four Years With the Army of the Potomac (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from Four Years With the Army of the Potomac<br><br>IN preparing this version of General de Trobriand''s Four Years with the Army of the Potomac the ''translator has endeavored so far as possible faithfully to preserve the sentiments of the author and the very force of the French idioms themselves.<br><br>The story was written soon after the war from notes and a diary and the lifelike manner in which are therein told incidents of army life of the bivouac and of the battle of the camp and of the field renews to an old soldier of the East the many weary marches in the time of rain and in the time of hot sun through the mud and dust of Virginia.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.