Excerpt from Last Days of the Army of Northern Virginia: An Address Delivered Before the Virginia Division of the Association of the Army of Northern Virginia at the Annual Meeting, Richmond, Va., October 12th, 1893 Washington and Richmond are about 120 miles apart and in assault or defense of these cities each section put forth its might iest effort. The first army marched out from Washington for Rich mond in 1861, and the Army of Northern Virginia routed it at Manassas. 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.