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The Army Of The Potomac: Mr. Lincoln's Army
The Army Of The Potomac Mr Lincoln's Army Author:Bruce Catton The books which make up this trilogy began, very simply, as an attempt to understand the men who fought in the Army of the Potomac. As a small boy I had known a number of these men in their old age; they were grave, dignified, and thoughtful, with long white beards and a general air of being pillars of the community. They lived in rural Michigan... more » the pre-automobile age, and for the most part they had never been fifty miles away from the farm or the dusty village streets; yet once, ages ago, they had been everywhere and had seen every thing, and nothing that happened to them thereafter meat anything much. All that was real had taken place when they were young; everything after that had simply been a process of waiting for death, which did not frigten them muc-they had seen it inflicted in the worst possible way on boys who had not bargained for it, and they had enough of the old-fashioned religion to believe with out any question that when they passed over they would simply be rejoining men and ways of living which they had known long ago.« less