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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 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 M. Dodge: Soldier, Politician, Railroad Pioneer. By Stanley P. Hirshson. (Bloomington: Indiana University Press. 1967. Pp. xiv, 334. $10.oo.) When noticed by history, Grenville Dodge has been recalled mostly as the chief engineer who directed the construction of the first transcontinental railroad. He was more than that, as this biog-
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His lifelong passion was the great iron road — building a rail system across the western half of the United States. It was this “small, very ordinary man” who was the driving force behind the transatlantic railroad.
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.
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