Excerpt from Short Sketch of the Services of Major-General Grenville Mellen Dodge About this time President Lincoln called General Dodge to Washington to consult with him about the location of the Eastern terminus of the Pacific Railroad, the result of which was that it was located at Council Bluffs, Iowa. 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.