Excerpt from Memoirs of General William T. Sherman, Vol. 1<br><br>A further and far-reaching change arose in the nineteenth century from the growth of population and the trend toward centralization that were products of industrialization. They brought increasing dependence on manufactured and imported supplies, on manufactured weapons, and on means of com munication - including newspapers as well as transport and telegraph. The sum effect was to increase the economic target, and also the moral target, while making both more vulner able. This in turn increased the incentive to strike at the sources of the Opponent's armed power, instead of attacking its shield - the armed forces.<br><br>About the Publisher<br><br>Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com<br><br>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.