Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-04
Specta. 10 TtmesS Republican.

Special 20 Times Re publican.
Council Bluffs, Jan. Gen. Grenviile
NJ Dodge, VINO die1 late yesterday al.
1ernoon at his home here, will be bur
led, with military honors, One Of his
las: wishes was tina; ne should be bur
led in Walnut Hi cemetery beside his
friends His wartime record and high
army rank entitled him TO burial in Ar
lington cemetery, the resting place OF
the nations honored dead
His funeral Thursday afternoon.
however, vii! be military in charac-
ler \ guard OF honor viii he chosen
trum among The Dodge Light guards
u Council B!UfTs. orders received
his evening by Col. NJ. \. FINLEY. OF
Council Bluffs from the war depart
ment 81 Washington placed anything
needed al the disposal OF the local
officers.
4 battalion each Of the Iowa and
Nebraska National guard will act as
escort for the body at the funeral
Adjutant General Hall, OF Nebraska,
vii! have charge OF the battalion
from tina; state. 4 number of SOL
die-s and the few surviving officers
Of che Army % The Tennessee are ex-
peC;ed 10 be present.
Dr. A O. A Buxton. rector Of St.
PauIs Episcopa! church and DR.. J,
T. Jones, pastor Of the First Congrs-
EatioIal church, Will oTIciaIe al the
! services al thu Dodge home al /
S'ciolh ! thursday afternoon The. G.
A r viii have charge " the services
at the grave.
General Dodge's three daughters VII!
attend Lhs funeral. but his widow. now
in New York. y TOO IL to MAKE the
trip hare,
Built Union Pacific.
TWO notable services 10 his country
assure Nai-CSen. Granville Neusn
Dodge q place among ne history max
e-s Of the civil war and reconsIrp ction
periods,
As soldier his valor Is at-esta6 by
the fast thai four horses were sho,
from under him in the battle OF Pea
Ridge, ana that lie himself received
wounds in several battles
AS & pioneer IN western railroad
building he mas the Union Pacific rail-
road whose line ne located and whose
construction he super:o tended stand
ing today as e monument 10 lis Nam
Dry.
Some sixty years a-o. the them
young Dodge. who had moved, rom
New England where he had studied
civil engineering, 10 Council Bluffs. en-
tered the employ % the Illinois Cen
trail railroad Abraham Lincoln. who
had done legal WORK Tor the same cou
paly, met the young Yankee They
talked OF building a railroad over The
world had been Laughing al the project
Lincoln and Dodge agreed hat Il 1as
feasible
The federal government shortly az
terward decided to begin surveying for
the proposed line. Dodge jumped a:
the chance Of leading the party. S=v-
eral tips were made as far as the
Rocky mountains searching for the
most feasible route. the men under
Dodge plungIng into many wiIderr ass
10 meet stubborn resistance OF the part
Of the Indians.
RAISED iowa Regiment.
IN the midst Of ne undertaking the
civil war broke Dodge, born a. Dan
verx. Mass. in 1881. was just 80 years
Old He had some nili;ary training a;
Norwich University in Vermont. and
| !
curing 2 cc!ozE!'s commission from
MS old friend. President Lincoln, ne
raised drilled and equipped al his Own
expense the Fourth Iowa infantry regi-
men-
| Within two weeks Colonel Dodge was
leading his command against the rebels
IN northern Missouri His gsIlantry
soon afterwaEd at the battle Of Pea
; Il al iy= ?
the rank Of br3gadisr general He lost
one fourth OF his entire command but
he saved the day FOR the federal army
He again 6isting uished himself in tins
| decisive battle Of the Atlanta cam
| paign. July %. 1854, when 5e defeated
| General Hoods desperate movement u
the rear Of the Army OF the Ten
| I Ressee.
| Later while standing in a trench be-
| fore Atlanta General Dodge was sho
| and severely wounded in the head.
| Promotion Comes Quickly.
! After the fall Of Vicksburg he re-
ceiyed appreciative recognition from
| General Grant. being promoted 10 ma
jor general and given command Of tht
Sixteenth army corps
| The hanging of Sam" Davis. a CON
| federate spy who was captured in Ten
! nessee was one Of the incidents o
L General Dodge's career. On Davis wer'
| found complete plans Of the fortified
) lions at Nashville, which, evidently
: he had received from some federal Of
tEcer high In authority. General Dodg'
toffered the young spy his freedom i
he would reveal the name OF mis- in
forrnant. but the accused man refused
Half a dozen times before sending TIL
man to the gallows. General Dodge of
fered MIN immunity. The spy went L
his death WITH his lips closed II
was the bravest man that ever died,
said General Dodge.
When General Dodge retired in 1864
il was to go back to railroad building
Once. in the meantime, Lincoln ha
summoned Dodge to Washington for
conference on the route. Dodge sug
gested Omaha as the eastern ternin
\ us of the railway and it was at hi
l suggestion that this decision was mad,
| Work had progressed but slowly. how
ever, up to 1866. when Dodge too
! charge again. BY May, 1877. he ma
12,eGo men along the river Platte an
] ne kept them steadily moving west
| ward Within three years the last spik
was driven.
Active in Late Life.
In addition TO his military servic