The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1881-03-31

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and board at a New Hampshire
academy, where he received such
instruction as fitted him to enter the
Norwich Military University Of
Vermont. AT the conclusion of his
studies in 1851 Granville came west
and located at Peru, Ills.
Entering here upon his life work
as civil engineer, he participated
in the surveys of the Illinois Central
Railroad and the Chicago and Rock
Island Railroad. In 1858 he was
appointed assistant engineer of the
Mississippi and Missouri Railroad
NOW Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific and made the preliminary
survey across Iowa from Davenport
to Council Bluffs, and on the
arrival Of his party at this
place then called Kanesville)
the young engineer extended his
survey over into the Indian country
us far as the Platte Valley, having
in view Gas ali the old settlers of
that country also had) the ultimate
construction of a Pacific road over
that route. This was in 1873 or 1854.
In the month of May, 1854, Gren-
vile, returning to Peru, formed a
matrimonial alliance with Miss An
ME Brown, and with her removed in
the latter part of the same year to
Nebraska, where he took up claim
on the ElkhOrn River, at which place
he was joined the following year by
his father, mother and brother, but
owing to the hostility of the Indi-
ans they, with many other settlers
IN that new country, were forced to
retreat to Omaha, where the Dodge
family were domiciled for the win
ter in log cabin.
The next year Granville NJ, in
partnership with John T. Baldwin,
opened banking and real estate
Office in Council Bluffs, but during
the years 1856 and 1857 he continued
in the employment of the NJ. & NJ.
r. r. in surveys and construction,
and thencefOrward up to the
breaking out of the war of
1861 he gave his attention to
his business in Council Bluffs.
When, in 1861, the war commenced,
Granville turned his banking and
real estate business over to his
brother, Nathan P. Dodge, and
rendered his services to the gov
eTnOr of Iowa, and was sent to
Washington to procure arms and
for Iowa troops. In
this he was successful, and while in
Washington the secretary Of war Of
fered him a regiment. On returning
to Iowa, with the Governors con-
sent, he raised the Fourth Iowa In
fantry, and received the appoint
ment of colonel. He also raised the
Second Iowa Dodge's) Battery.
Reporting, with his regiment and
battery, to Gen. Fremont, at st.
Louis, Granville was assigned to
brigade in the army of the south
west, under Gen. S. r. Curtis. In
command of his brigade, Granville
took an active part in the battle of
Pea Ridge, during which he had
three horses shot under him, and
was himself badly wounded, after
which, upon the recommendation of
Major General Halleck, Granville
was made a brigadier-general. "
On recovering from his wounds,
the subject of this sketch, now Gen.
Dodge, was assigned to the COM
mand of the District of Columbia.
After the battle of Corinth, in 1862,
Gen. Dodge was assigned to the
command of the Second Division,
Army of Tennessee, then COM
manded by Gen. Grant.
In July, 1858, he was assigned to
the command of the left wing of the
Army Corps, with head
quarters at Corinth, Mississippi.
He spent the winter of this year
along the line of the Nashville and
Decatur Railroad, and in the spring
of 1864 joined Gen. Sherman in the
Atlanta campaign. The corps COM
manded by Gen. Dodge took an ac-
tive part in the battles which Oc-
CURED in the march from Chatta-
nOoga to Atlanta. In recognition of
the marked ability displayed by
Gen. Dodge IN this campaign. he
was made majOr-general.
Referring to the services of Gen.
Dodge and his command in this
campaign, l quote from another:
His corps bore the brunt of that
fierce battle of the 22d Of July, in
front of Atlanta, when Gen. Hood
made the desperate attempt to turn
Sherman's left and get into his rear.
His corps lost more men in killed
and wounded in proportion to its
strength than any other In General
Sherman's army"
On the 10th August, 1864, during
the siege of Atlanta, while in rifle
pit on q skirmish line, Gen. Dodge
received a severe gunshOt wound in
his forehead, and was sent north for
treatment. When being able to re-
port for duty, be was assigned to the
command of the department of Mis-
lSOuri, by President Lincoln, thus
succeeding Gen. ROSecranZ. When
the war was over, his command was
so changed as to include the Indian
country Of the west and northwest.
In June, 1>66, Gen. Dodge retired
from the army and was appointed
chief engineer of the Union Pacific
Railroad, and entered with his usual
energy upon the discharge of the
duties appertaining to his new posi-
ton, personally examining and Sc
curing the most practicable route
for the great railway over the
mountains to its connection with
the Central Pacific.
In the fall of 1866, having received
the nomination by republican con-
vention, as a candidate for repre-
sentative for the Fifth Iowa District
General Dodge was duly elected tC
that Office, and served his consti-
Ituents for two years; at the termi-
nation of his term he declined re.
nomination, and returned to his
duties as chief engineer of u. 2
Railroad. where he remained until
Its completion, when he became
ldirector in the company.