Grenville Mellen Dodge In The Civil War

In 1861, Colonel Grenville Dodge organized the 4th Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment and led them off to war. They had few uniforms or weapons and were more of a mob than a military unit, but Dodge shaped them into a fighting force that won honors on the battlefield and gained respect as one of the best regiments in the Union army. Promoted to the rank of major-general, Dodge became one of the youngest divisional, corps and departmental commanders in the Army. A superb field general, he also organized a network of more than 100 spies to gather military intelligence and built railroads to supply the troops in the Western Theater. This book covers Dodge’s Civil War career and the history of the 4th Iowa, who fought at Pea Ridge, Vicksburg, Chattanooga and Atlanta.

"The Battle of Atlanta" from Grenville Mellen Dodge. Union army officer on the frontier and during the Civil War, a U.S. Congressman, businessman, and railroad executive who helped direct the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad (1831-1916).

"The Battle of Atlanta" from Grenville Mellen Dodge. Union army officer on the frontier and during the Civil War, a U.S. Congressman, businessman, and railroad executive who helped direct the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad (1831-1916).

"The Battle of Atlanta" from Grenville Mellen Dodge. Union army officer on the frontier and during the Civil War, a U.S. Congressman, businessman, and railroad executive who helped direct the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad (1831-1916).

The Battle of Atlanta" from Grenville Mellen Dodge. Union army officer on the frontier and during the Civil War, a U.S. Congressman, businessman, and railroad executive who helped direct the construction of the Transcontinental Railroad (1831-1916).

The Atlanta Campaign was a series of battles fought in the Western Theater of the American Civil War throughout northwest Georgia and the area around Atlanta during the summer of 1864. Union Maj. Gen. William T. Sherman invaded Georgia from the vicinity of Chattanooga, Tennessee, beginning in May 1864, opposed by the Confederate general Joseph E. Johnston. Johnston's Army of Tennessee withdrew toward Atlanta in the face of successive flanking maneuvers by Sherman's group of armies. In July, the Confederate president replaced Johnston with the more aggressive John Bell Hood, who began challenging the Union Army in a series of damaging frontal assaults. Hood's army was eventually besieged in Atlanta and the city fell on September 2, setting the stage for Sherman's March to the Sea and hastening the end of the war.

Grenville Dodge, builder of the Union Pacific Railroad, was a young Union officer serving under Ulysses S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman during the Civil War. He also had interactions with President Abraham Lincoln and he here remembers them all in personal stories.Highly respected and dependable, Dodge was promoted to general. Throughout the war, he socialized and made war plans with Grant and Sherman, and frequently reported to Lincoln.Many of the anecdotes in this volume can be found nowhere else.Intelligent, observant, and fully aware of the history he was part of, Dodge left us this wonderful volume, first published in 1914, of his memories of the great men who saved the Union.Every memoir of the American Civil War provides us with another view of the catastrophe that changed the country forever.

This is a compelling history written concisely, filled with many details and unknown facts. The writer Grenville Mellen Dodge was a Union Army officer on the border and a pioneering figure in military intelligence during the Civil War. He served in many significant assignments, including command of the XVI Corps during the Atlanta Campaign. Contents: The Southwestern Campaign Letter of General Dodge to his Father The Battle of Atlanta Letter to General Raum The Indian Campaigns of 1864-65 The Indian Campaigns of 1865-66 Campaign up the Tennessee River Valley The Army of the Tennessee The Campaign in the West A Talk to Old Comrades General Grant Use of Block-Houses During the Civil War An Incident of the War Gen. G. M. Dodge on the Water Cure Misplaced Sympathy