...e soldiery have rarely been surpassed, are given in the report of Major-General Meade and the subordinate reports accompanying it. During the campaign of forty-three days, from the Rapidan to the James River , the army had to be supplied from an ever-shifting base, by wagons, over narrow roads, through a densely wooded country, with a lack of wharves at each new base from which to conveniently discharge v...