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On May 10, 1869, the Union Pacific and the Central Pacific railroad met at Promontory Point, Utah, 1186 miles from its starting point at the Missouri River. In Andrew J. Russell’s iconic image of the event, “East and West Shaking Hands at Laying of Last Rail,” Grenville Dodge is at the center, shaking hands, the figure to the right. His ...
Grenville Dodge: Architect of the iron road, man of intrigue — Part 1 of 2. Grenville Dodge moved west to Illinois following graduation from Norwich University. He was passionate about building a transcontinental railroad. Photo courtesy of U.S. National Archives.
In 1859 young engineer Grenville Dodge met Abraham Lincoln by chance in Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dodge assured the future president that the Platte Valley would one day be the route of the...
24 maj 2022 · Here are five things you didn’t know about Dodge: 1-General Ulysses S. Grant made General Dodge his intelligence chief during the Civil War’s Vicksburg Campaign. Dodge also led various expeditions and performed valuable work repairing and rebuilding railroads, bridges, and telegraph lines.
Grenville Mellen Dodge [2] (April 12, 1831 – January 3, 1916) was a Union Army officer on the frontier and a pioneering figure in military intelligence during the Civil War, who served as Ulysses S. Grant 's intelligence chief in the Western Theater.
Grenville Mellen Dodge (born April 12, 1831, Danvers, Mass., U.S.—died Jan. 3, 1916, Council Bluffs, Iowa) was an American civil engineer who was responsible for much of the railroad construction in the western and southwestern United States during the 19th century.
Grenville Dodge was one Iowan who was well known to most people living in the last half of the 19th century. He was a war hero, a politician and a railroad builder who led a very exciting life.
