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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.
' 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, Iowa....
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 .
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.
Major General Grenville Mellen Dodge—it is a name that is indelibly linked to the opening of the West as a result of Dodge's work on the Union Pacific creating the continent’s first transcontinental railroad. Grenville M. Dodge was born on April 12, 1831, in Danvers, Massachusetts.
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.
