The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1916-01-04
A DISTINGUISHED
N. II. GRADUATE
Gen. Grenville M Dodge, Soldier and
Railroad Builder, Died at Council
Bluffs Ia.-Had Adventurous
Career.

vile NJ, Dodge, distinguished soldier ant
railroad builder, died at his home her
yesterday afternoon.
Funeral services on Thursday will b,
in charge of the Iowa National Guart
in accordance with Gen. Dodge's wishes
expressed shortly before his death. Two
battalions OF Iowa and Nebraska guards
men viii act as escort. Gen. Dodge''
Ethree daughters win attend the funeral
but his widow, who is in New York, has
announced that she is too i'll to make
the trip.
Two notable services to his country
assure Major General Granville Mellen
Dodge a place among the history makers
RODS.
As a soldier his valor is attested by
the fact that four horses were shot from
under him in the battle of Pea Ridge,
and that he himself received wounds in
several battles.
As a pioneer in western railroad build
ing he has the Union Pacific railroad
whose line he located A. ID whose, con-
struetion he superintended, standing to-
day as monument to his memory.
In the midst of the undertaking the
Civil war broke, Dodge, born at Dam
yers, Mass, in 1891, was just 20 years
old. He had had some military training
at Norwich university, in Vermont, and
some experience fighting Indians. Secur-
ing a eolonel's commission from his old
friend, President Lincoln, he raised
drilled and equipped at his own expense
he T,,fa
Within two weeks Col Dodge was
leading his command against the rebels
in northern Missouri. H:s gallantry soon
afterward at the battle of Pea Ridge
won almost instant promotion to the
rank of brigadier general. He lost one
fourth of his entire command but he
saved the day for the federal army. He
again distinguished himself in the de-
cisiye battle of the Atlanta campaign
on July %, 1864, when he defeated Gen.
Hoods desperate movement to the rear
Of the Army of the Tennessee.
Later while standing in trench be-
fore Atlanta, Gen. Dodge was shot and
seriously wounded in the head.
After the fall OF Vicksburg, he received
recognition from Gen.
irant, being promoted TO major general |
md given command of the 10th army |
'orps.
The hanging of Sam" Davis, the CON
ederate spy who was captured in Ten
lessee, was one Of the incidents of Gen.
lodges career. On Davis we're found I
omplete plans of the fortifieation at
Nashville, which, evidently. he had re-
eiyed from some federal officer high in
Gen. Dodge offered the young
py his freedom If he would reveal the
anne of his informant, but the accused
nan refused. Half a dozen times be-
ore sending the man to the gallows,
zen. Dodge offered him immunity. The
py went to his death with his lips /
losed. lie was the brayest man that
yer died, said Gen. Dodge.
In addition to his military service and I
is engineering success, Gen. Dodge re-
lained up to late in life an active and {
itiuential man. He was elected to Con-
ress the first year after the war, and I
was said that promising political
fe was before him. but he declined re- \
in favor of the railway pro- I
ct. He was later delegate to the
epublican national conventions of 1868 !
ld 1876. In 1898 he was chairman of I
le presidents commission to inquire
to the management of the war with (
pain. He was for time commander
chief of the military order OF the 10y 6
Legion and an officer OF numerous ]
ltriotic organizations.