在其存在的四年中，波托马克的军队不得不弥补其将军在许多苦难领域的错误。发生了很多次，这是如此正常，这是这支不幸的军队的常规顺序 - 几乎不可能采取损害各种战斗并按照他们的灾难性愚蠢的数量级排名的失误。
(In the four years of its existence the Army of the Potomac had to atone for the errors of its generals on many a bitter field. This happened so many times-it was so normal, so much the regular order of things for this unlucky army-that it is hardly possible to take the blunders which marred its various battles and rank them in the order of magnitude of their calamitous stupidity.)