Book excerpt: Excerpt from Army Information Digest, Vol. 16: The Official U. S. Army Magazine; August, 1961 We see the most frequent, and the'it was relatively easy for Lincoln and Grant (here meeting with his staff) to grasp new methods of war, install centralism in the Northern war effort. 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.