Excerpt from Recollections of a Prisoner of War These three brigade commanders rose to high command: General Meade to the com mand of the Army of the Potomac; Gen eral Reynolds to the command of the First Corps in the Army of the Potomac (he was killed in the Battle of Gettysburg, July 1, General Ord to the command of a corps in the Army of the Potomac. The presence of the Pennsylvania Reserves in Washington, the day after the first battle of Bull Run, saved the capital from being captured by the enemy. The division was in eighteen battles. Of the -forty - seven regiments which sustained the greatest losses in battle, during the war. 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.