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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.
21 maj 2018 · Civil engineer Grenville Mellen Dodge (1831-1916) distinguished himself as a Civil War general and railroad builder. He served as the chief engineer of the Union Pacific leg of the first transcontinental railroad in the United States. An opportunist as well, Dodge amassed a fortune through land speculation and other ventures.
Dodge pointed the way for the first transcontinental railroad that would connect the existing rail networks in the East at Council Bluffs with the Pacific Coast at San Francisco Bay. But Dodge lacked funding and political support.
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.
the chronicles of the nation's most dramatic railroad project, the building of the Union Pacific. The place of Grenville M. Dodge in this enterprise is the subject of a thriving fable, fashionable alike among scholars and popu-lar writers. It invites study as an instance of the kind of history Adams expected of frail mortals.
' The Transcontinental Railroad | Article. Grenville Dodge. Courtesy: Historic General Dodge House. In 1859 young engineer Grenville Dodge met Abraham Lincoln by chance in Council Bluffs,...
