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presume that this will have some effect on Scott.

I understand that Upton's tactics have been approved by this wonderful Board at West Point and that they are now giving in to permit it. Whether that settles the matter for the whole Army or not I don't know. From the best information I can get about this [??] of affairs I understand it to be an application of Cavalry tactics to infantry soldiers.

Now I don't know but this may all be right but if so I should have thought that some of those grey headed fellows in the old armies of Europe would have seen the advantages of drilling infantry like cavalry and would have put it practice long before Upton was born.

I am a little curious to see the look and form, the character of the men. Black, Clitz and Ayres would not be [?] to [?] some big blunders.

Emma joins me in love to all,

Yr affec son Thos Lincoln