12 20 9126 https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/8796d8f6456da93312bfb898c0936a76.pdf 1a3a0ca2ca5773804d151df05788b08e PDF Text Text i , ./ %)■ DATA Chronologically Arranged For Ready Reference in Preapration of a Biography of GRENVILLE MELLEN DODGE ihjL President of Sundry Railroad and Construction Companies Late Chief Engineer of Union Pacific & Texas Pacific Railroads Member of Congress Major General in War for Preservation of the Union, etc. etc. etc. etc. BOOK XX. History of Norwich University - Grant Monument. Death Capt. Phineas A. Wheeler 4th Iowa Infantry. Criticism of General 0. 0. Howard's Battle of Atlanta. Death of Senator William B. Allison. Sell Control of Colorado & Southern to C. B. & Q. Ry. - Iowa Society appoints Committee to erect Monument to Senator Allison. General T. E. G. Ransom. - Resign from all Railroads and Retire to my home in Council Bluffs. - Tribute to E. H.Harriman. Why the Pacific Ry. was given name of Union Pacific. Death of Major General 0. 0. Howard, Oct. 27, 1909. Gen. John G. Wilders Statement of Rosencrans failure to act on Information that Gen. Longstreet was enroute to reenforce Gen.Bragg General Dodges statement of same, Nov. 10, 1909. 1908 - 1909 ■j Isthmian Canal Commission, Washington, D. C. Dear General I send you herewith a clipping from yesterday's post of the new policy to be followed in the construction of the Canal. This is the right policy and will no doubt bring to your mind the paper you submitted to the Presidentabout two years ago. General; There seems to be a lack of definite ideas and grasp of this work on the part of the men at the head. They are honest in their efforts and in their intentions but there is still a shifting disjointed kind of an organization and I cannot see any great bettering of affairs under present management. Wallace left practically no organization of the Engineering Department. This is a fact, and will no doubt surprise you. '^'Tr. Ghonts is a keen, splendid business man, but between us I honestly do not be'ieve that he is the superior of Admiral V/alker in any sense. The Admiral always had control of big affairs and has great natural breadth of mind. Mr. Shonts is smart, alert and energetic but is handicapped by a lack of initiative due, I believe to a fear that he will butt in to Government methods or some statute. He is new in public affairs and probably fears criticism, that an older hand like the Admiral would not mind. The longer a man lives the more it ^becomes apparent that big men are rare. Sincerely yours, Hugh J. Gallagher. U. S. A. 84131 () ' 1 I j January, 1908, northfield, Vt., January 2, 1908. General G. .'-t. Dodge, ' New York City, N. Dear General Dodge Your letter in regard to the publishing of the University History is received, and I should have answered it sooner, but have been waiting until I could get some matters attended to with the Board of Trustees. I am sending with this a letter that I sent to the Board of Trusteed in regard to the publishing of the History. I note what you say in regard to my drumming students and also the printing of the History. Of course it is a matter for the authorities of the University to decide in regard to the student work. I am not at all anxious to do this student work, but am alwasy ready to do what I am called upon to do. I feel that this work should be attended to. Because.we have got a good class this 'ear, it is no sign that it is going to continue. It is like any business, it has got to be looked after. Now in regard to the publishing of the History. I have given the matter a very careful study, and I find that I van get very little support from the cadets pervious to '66. I have got to work hard in order to get 300 to 400 subscribers from the recent men. You can easily see how it is. The sketches of the old cadets appeared in the first book, and they do not seem inclined to help out in the book giving the sketches of the younger men. The History, itself, will cost aver ^1500.00 and if I sell 300 books at ^^3.50 apiece, there isn't money enough to get the book out. The letter.I wrote to the Trustees will tell you exactly how I came out in publishing the first.book. As you know, I have practically put in six years work on the History. I have made a careful estimate of the time that I have put in diiring my four years at the University, and I find that $150 a year is a low estimate, making "*600 in all. Then I put in ail of one year after graduating, and I estimate this year to be work at least $800 to me. This brings the cost tp.lto $1400 for labor; then I lost $600.cash, so that the actual cost to me on the publishing of the first History was $2000.00. Then, since I published the first History, I have put in a good deal of time keeping the addresses revised, and the material corrected. The University has a very good mailing-list, and it was givem them entirely from my work before I came here. Since I came back to the University in 1902 I have put in a good deal of time continuing the work. There seems to be a feeling that this work was done on University hours. This is not true. All of the historical work has been carried on out side of my work at the University. I have put in my evenings, Saturdays, and Sundays and vacations on the work. If my wife was here, she would tell you that she had had many arguments with me for spending so much time on this book. She felt that I ought to put more time in recreation, and less on historical work. Ye have printed the University roster. This roster has been compiled and edited entirely on my own time with the exception of a little time on the last roster. I remember twice that I have put in all my Christmas vacations getting the copy ready for the printer. I certainly feel that the University has no legal or rightful claim to this work but I have willingly given it to the college with the understanding that they give proper acknowledgement tothe "Norwich University History 1819-1898." I have always been willing to give my services for the good of the University, and I have done this to ra y financial loss. I feel exactly as you do that this History should be printed, and the copy gotten into shape before anything happens to me. . I have .,j| figured it out and if the University or friends-of the institution " can raise fUOO toward a guarantee for the publication, I can go ahead with it feeling that there will be do direct loss to me except that time I put into it. The ^600 that I have, dsked the University to give is merely to pay for the time that I have already put into it. Facts have shown that the University History is the most valuable advertising means for the University. The college has spent hundred of dollars for advertising, but hhere have they ever got a cent for it? On" the other hand. Miss Perkins of Concord, N.H. gave the University ?3000 and directly through the History. I could quote you a number of instances where direct aid-has come to the college through the History. The University Trustees at a meeting held Tuesday appointed a Committee to consult with me in-regard to the sale of the first copy right, and the getting out of a second edition. I have had a little talk with one member of the Committee, and he tells me that he thinks that the University would not consider the publishing the book themselves but thinks somewhat favorable of the first proposition. I have presented this matter to you as accurately as it is possible at this time, and you can easily see how I stand. I am willing to go ahead, as I said before, with the publishing of the book, and get the copy to the printer by July 1908, provided I can see where I come out even. I would like very much to see you personally and talk this matter over. It would■greatly facilitate the work if the New York Alumni Association would also send out a letter, signed by you as a President of the Association, endorsing this proposition, and urging \ the young men to give the book their active support. I am getting fair returns now, but it is slow.work. I think that we can do quite a little at the New York dinner.this year in regard to the cuts of the men. The jrounger men are beginning to take hold of that. If we get out a History, it should be gotten out to compare with the Histories sent out from other colleges. The fact of it is we are giving our Alumni a bound book and illustrated for $3.50 while most of the institutions charge anywhere from $2 to *3. for just the roster with veyy little detail. What I meant in referring this matter to Mr. Adams was for him to see just where the History proposition stood, and I do feel that if this matter was presented to Mr. Adams, that he would be willing to give this proposition his active support, and he would readily see that the History is a perpetual advertisement to .the college, and there is very little good in compiling data and filing it away. I shall be very glad to help in any way that I can in furthering the passage of the bill before Congress. • I am very anxious indeed to have a photogravure of yourself that I can put in the front of this History, and I appreciate your willingness to supply it. " In order to really make this History a success, it will be necessary for me to go to New York, and see -some of the men personallv. Thanking you for. your favor in this matter, I remain. Very truly yours, W. A. Ellis, Librarian New York, January 4, 1908. Hon. T7alter T, Smit.., House of Representatives, Washington, D.C. My dear Sir:- Since writing you last we have been very industrious on the tree question. Colonel Patrick, of Wasningtor, who has taken a great interest in the matter, has a large amount of information and will see and talk witli y u, T enclose with this some doctacents that will "be of interest, especially the 1684 report of Richard Law Olmstead on trees moved in the Capitol groTinds, and letters of Mr. Frederick Law Olnstaed, Jr. particularly his last one giving an accoiint of his interview with Mr. McCall, which shows that his position is not taken on account of the tree but to get us out of the Botanic hardens ent'rely and save them for Congress. Also, please note especially letters of Mr. Hicks. Of all the people we have seen ^r heard from Mr. Hicks is the most practical and ablest, and it is probable we w'll make a contract with him for moving the trees as he has very little or no doubt that he can do it successfully. He has had more experience than anybody in the United States, snd has moved hundreds of trees v/la'ch are alive of which he ka s Record, T shall .a e him appear before tl.e committee. You will notic in t .0 letter of Mr. Olmstead referr'ng to his -interview with McCall that McCall has arranged for him to go "before the Committee week after next, which would bring the date between the 12th and 18th. T wish you would arrange it so can notify l!r. Hicks and have him tl.ere at the same t'me. t think v/e have settled tiie tree question beyond a doubt, and have So much data and information on the subject that the Committee will be convinced as to that question, i want to get the matter settled because we will want to move the trees by April. T will go over as aoon as T get notice of the date of the meeting, and vMll try to be ti.ere will be convinced as to that question, i want to get the matter settled because we will want to move the trees by April. T will go over as aoon as T get notice of the date of the meeting, and vMll try to be ti.ere a day or two ahead. From the papers T send you you w'll notice that the injunction has been dissolved, but we will do nothing until after we have appeared before the Congressional Committee. T think it would be well for you to have a talk with Mr. McCall. T wrote Secretary Root to see some other members of t.;e committee, also wrote my friend Senator "?7illiam Alden Smith to say a kind word for us to t e Michigan man on the Conanittee. You may know him yourself. Congressrca Gardner is on your ComnMttee, ant.. T think will do anything he can for us. T do not see wl.at they have to stand on now, unless it be the po'nt made by McCall that Congress does not want to give up the garden but that is a question easily handled, because we are perfectly willing to wait until tiie gardens are turned into a public park, and there is absolutely no use for the botanical part now; it is only held there on account of Mr. Smit;., as Mr. Bromwell or any of the officers connected with Public Buildings and Grounds will tell yo^ they having full charge now with the Agricultural Department of all the hot nouses and distribution of roots, floweis, etc. However tl.'s will all come to you. T also enclose ^ne of the Crittendei: resolut'ons, and oltlier data that will interest you when you go through it, T hope you had a good visit to the West and a pleasant Christmas amd New York. When 1 get over there T will talk with you about other matters. Truly, G. M. Dodge. New York, Jaunay 6, 1908. Hon. William H. Taft, Secretary of War, , Washington, D. C. My dear Mr. Secretary: I have not communicated with you in relation to the Grant Memorial since your return, knowing you are busy and probably would not have time to devote to it -"S it did not need immediate attent'ori. You will learn from General Bell and Colonel Brorawell the action that has been taken in the matter, which is now before the Library Gomraittee of Congress "on a resolut'.on offered by "McCall, Chairman of that Committee asking the postponement of a,ny work on the memorial unt'1 first" of May. We will probably have a hearing befor-e that Committee next week, at which T will be present. I think we will be able to successfully solve the question of 'the removal of the trees,- from the testimony of parties who have had great exper'ence in tree moving, and who have decided the three histor ical trees can be "successfully moved. T have riven this matter a good deal of at-tent'on and have gone 'nto it very tl,roughly, but the trees question l.as .simply been used to drive us out of "the Botanic Gardens. That is the intent"on of the McCall resolution, his idea being that they wanted to preserve that garden- for Congress, but, as you a're aware, its usefulness for t-he purposes it has heretofore" been used "for is gone. Tlie Agricultural Department and Department" of Public Buildings and Grounds have taken up th t work, and t think the only reason the Botanic Gardens are maintained ^s on account of Superintendent Smith. The injunction ti.at held us up in the court has been dissolved, and we now have only to" meet the question in Congress. During your absence T consulted very freely with Colonel Bromwell, also General Bell and the Assistant Secretary; also Secretary Root, who has taken a great interest in the matter, and, no doubt, talked with you about it. There is no question in my mind as to the proper location for the memorial, and if we are driven out of the Botanical Gardens X have no idea wBnere we could find grounds suitalle for such an historical memorial. Tn the house 'Valter T. Smith, who had charge of the appropriation at the last session, is in charge of the matter for us; he is a member of the Appropriation Committee. As soon as I reach V/ashington T will endeavor to see you. T hope your long, trip iias been beneficial to you, and that you are in good healt!;. Wishing you a Happy New Year, t am. us ; he is a member y/ashington T will Truly and cordially yours, GrenV lie M. Dodge. New York, January 7, 190' Hon. Theodore Roosevelt, , . • . ■ . President of the United States, , 77ash*ngton, D.C. . . ■ • My dear Mr. President: T have read your letter to the Secretary of the Navy fn relation to the comniand of the hosp'tal sh-ips, also Aorairal Brownson's letter .in which he decl'-nes to obey the order of his superior officer, and resigning' h"s pos^fon. If you will pardon me. T wish to. say T th'r.k you made a mistake "in accepting Admiral Br.ov/nson s resignation. In my op'nion, you should have insisted upon ;iis obeying the order, and in case of refusal he would have been court-martialed. One of the cardinal principles of dis cipline is to obey an order from the proper a.uthority. Tf one does not desire to remain in the service under the officer who issrues the order. then after obeying it is the time to res'gn.. i setting up of one' ndividual wishes against the rules, .regulations and order-/ of an organ ization is becom'ng altogether .too frequent, amd in case of the army and navy is becoming an absolute detrlme. t to the se; vice. The influence upon your officers of the service is demoralizing. They would naturally assume that if they did not like an order all they .have to do Is not to .obey it and resign. T have heard some criticisms because you did not publish Admiral Brownson's letter, but T think any person who has at hear the interest of the service would say that it would have- d been a great favor fo Admiral Brownson if hi s letter had never seen .the llgdt. ' Respectfully and sincerely, i. , ' ? Your obddient servant, i ' ;: c'l '.■J/V Grenville M. Dodge, i' " ,Jcr«o a- . »;i .1. Ir. n 4 i jj ;• .tr" II i ilv. V'.'i'l' I > dJ li 'i(J I * f oft*. *ai -a.' ' 0 o'v nyit-nir, M '-■JX 1 ' ' " - January, 1908, Washington, The White House, January 8, 1908. My dear General I have your letter of the 7th instant. It is very possible that I ought to have taken the stand you suggest. I did not for two reasons. In the first place, because Brownson has in the past rendered very admirable service; and, in the next place, becavise he was already a retired officer and the public inclines to look at the action of a retired officer as on a different plane from one on the active list. It was an inadvertence that his letter was not made public at the time of my letter to the Secretary of the Navy, but it was published six hours later. With great regard, believe me, . h. Faithfully yours. Theodore Roosevelt. General Grenville M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York, M, Y. New York, January 8, 1908, M. D. Smith, Northfleld, Vermont. Dear Sir:- ^ Yours of January 4th received today.- t have also received a letter from Ellis enclosing his propositTon to the Trustees, I can see from all the letters T have received that there ^s a good deal of feel^'ng against Ellis in this matter. One th^.nr, however, you must cons-'der- that ■'s that Ellis' history has been of incalculable benefit to Norwich V'niversity. T knov,' thl s not from anything t-rld me but from my own personal use of it. I have no doubt there are mistakes in it; there is no college history without mistakes, especially when the data Jiad to be compiled after most of the people were dead, and that is the reason why T am anxious to get the history vp to date while people whose record will go to make it up are alive. I am not particular whether the book is published or not, but T do want to secure the data, and believe that the data whicl, has been accumulated by Elli s in these many years cannot be picked up by anyone else. If anyone thinks he can do the work let him try it. As to Ellis' proposition t think we should take into consideration the fact that we have I.ad the use of the orig'nal history without the expenditure of one cent by the University, while T have no doubt that th-^ book was issued at a financial loss to Ellis. If the University had money T do not suppose it would hesitate one moment to pay Ellis for his work and for hi s loss. I think his offer of $1,000 is a fair one, and do not think BiBs offer of $600 for the material on hand when put into a book is unreason able, but the University may r.ot be able to buy it, and probably your plan of paying him $1,C00 for the work he has done and giving h^'m until July 1908 to compile what he has, relieving h'm from duty as Librarian is as well as can be done, but T understand at the same time it is proposed to pay him salary; is this your proposition? If your plan is adopted, when that time comes we can determine what is best to be done about the publication of the book. Yo I.now it is very easy to criticise after a thing has been done, but the question is who could have compiled the history and done any better, and if Ihere was anyone who could would he have done it? I don't understand how Ellis could have made the errors in the threelists for Cliapman, because in his history he shows the different ranks in the civii war. As to the roll of honor for 1907, if my recollection is right, Ellis told mo it was not a complete one, on account of being very hastily compiled, or something of that, kind, but it is a good idea to bring these mistakes to his attention and let us see what his expla nation is. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge, i iK ^ ,,. -1/ . » 1 New York, January 16, 1908. To the ..'a') , . 'uaf ri IT 61^ Editor of■the Rome Sentinel: I I .'>( X Dear Slr:- My attention has "been called by my Secretary, Mr. W. N. Jones, a native of your Cty, to the death of Captain Phineas A.'^ Wheeler. . . Some time before the Civil War, I organized the Council Bluffs Guards, in which company Mr."Wheeler was a Lieutenant. , This company was the first one in.Towa to offer its services when war came. It was mustered into the service as Company B of the 4th lowa Infantry regiment, wiiich T raised, and was its first Colonle, Lieut. Wheeler was made Quartermaster of the regiment, and discharged, the duties of that difficult position with-marked, ability and deyot'on. .He was a quiet^ unostentatious man, but a, brave and fearl'^;ss soldier, and won the respect and confidence of all with Whom he was associated. As his old commander, it is a great pleasure for me to add my word-of, appreciation of the services he performed under me, and the life-long frftendsi.ip^ which existed between us. " Very truly yours. i ' i'li i G. M. Dodge. New York, January 17, 1908. Miss B. G. Shry, 416 Plum St., Cincinnati, oOhlo. My dear Miss Shry: I am send'nc you three of the orir-?nal copies of my biography also returning the one you send me with ti.e duplicates xf the change:; T am also sending my record 'n ra^'lroad corapanies, etc (which did not go in) together with my military record, which should g-O: at the end, or after page 85. T am sending these by express, and as you go throug them carefully if you fi.nd any changes in the copies, T send you that are not in your copy pleasse add them to your copy. In other words, T want these three additional copies,! am s end^* ng to'agree with yours, and if you find anything not in yours to interline it in the copy which you have made. I am retaining one copy here, and as.soon as you have those I am sending you corrected as obove send me all but one copy'and T will then forward you the one t nov; have'v/ich you can make conform v/ith the others and T will have them all right finally. I want, one copy" here in safety in case the others migjit become lost. T have received your letter of January 12t, . T have interlined nn page 62 what should go there. ' On page 37 T have noted that-Gen. Dana's initials are "NJT." I note what you say about the book case. There wi. 11 be at least four hundred (volumes, so you will have to get another case equally as large to hold the balance of the books. Perh.aps you could^P get the kind of cases you refer to as being sectional. You ask about the Grant Memorial matter. I-was before the Committee in Washington for fb ur days, and thirk we made a good impression, ane hope tlie Committee will be with us. lb shows how little interest the people of Nash'ngton take when there was not a citizen-present at the meeting and v/hen Mr. Bherly, C-ngressmah f rom Louisville, to present the other side of the question was only there a short time. . ' The Superintendent, Smith, who has made such a fuss, testified that but two of the one hundred and fifty trees transplanted on the capitap 1 grounds were alive. Ne brought in the Superihtendent and Gardener of the Capitol grounds, with a map showing that all of ti.e trees transplanted by Olmstead were alive, and some of them grown to be imiaens- trees, except fifteen, and none of these were lost on account of transplanting, but were broken dovm by wind, strosm, etc. making a compl t erfutation of the old Scotchman. This, was rather an eye-opener to the Committee. « Very truly yours. G. M. Dodge. . hun ,11 'rtpitffiftt V New York, January 18, 1908. General J. Franklin Bell, «'IMil* *1" ' .ii Chief of Staff U.S.Army," . »nU ' ol^ Washington, D.C. . -V ,[)Xr • My dear General:- I know the interest you take in the military colleges of the country that are endeavoring to comply fully wjth the orders and regulations of the War Department. You sent to us for Norwich University a splend^ d yoiong officer. The Alumni of that university hold their annual banquet in New York City on February 15th. It would be a great pleasure to the University, and a much greater one to me, if you could be with us on that evening as the guest of the New York Alumni Asso ciation. We have the banquet on Saturday evening, which makes it easy for people to get here. There will be about 20 of our cadets there in uniform., with the officers, anfl many distinguished people, because it has become quite an event among the friencs of the Uni versity, and T ti.ink will give you quite an idea of the class of young men we are tur ling out there. We will have with us on that wvening Generals Porter, Grant, Howard and Johnston, Colonels Scott and Howze from West Point, Col. W. C. Church, of the Army and Navy Jour nal, Governor Proctor of Vermont and others. There are usually about 100 in attenda'-ce. Nothing would pi ase us more than-to have you with us. We all appreciate the great work you are doing helping these institutions. Truly and cordially. Grenvi lie M. Dodge. .H )Oi xtrunmir ,l{ltiY ii"" New York, January 18, 1908, Charles H. Spooner, Esq., n» ' Jiftan"'! ,l XA'f«*r(aD President Norwich University, . Northfield, Vermont.- Dear Sir:- Uhile all we can do to change the General Staff on the question of the bill will help, still there is no possibility of passing it in this Congress, because the Uar Department will not report it back with approval to this Congress, and even General Bell cannot do this, as the Assistant Secretary of War has the matter in charge and is absolutely opposed to it. We will have to do a great deal of work before it is passed. The trouble is Congress"is not willing to make a large appropriation as the Army is struggling for pay win* oh they greatly need, and 1 told General Bell, that T, myself, would not do anything that would delay legislation, for the younger officers are really in distress under the cond .,ions that prevail now under the new rate bill. They cannot get any concessions or reductions from railroads in travel ling from post to post, and suffer from the great"extra cost in living expenses. The War Department does not want anything to go from that Department asking for money until after this bill hos become a law. When you and Chapman get there and General Bell shows you the report of t.e General Staff, you w'll ee the difficulties in the way much pla'ner than T can put them on paper. ^ One of the po'nts is that the. military colleges have not ^ shown themselves to be of much benefit to the army in raising volun teers, and feference is made to the Spanish War. They do not go back to the Civil War. Their report can easily be answered, because it is "full of statistics but they do not in any way answer the real merits of the bill. T think the matter should be presented to General Bell and get him to answer it, and also go before the Assistant Secretary of War and change his views. I thirk he made his report simply on the report before him without givin' it. thought, but Gene rS.1 Bell has given it thought, and if you could arrange and if you could arrange to get him and the Assistant Secretary of War together after you have been before the General Staff, I think it would go a long way. T will be glad to see you in New York and go.over the matter. T did not bring this matter up before the Committee because T did not want to have it up in Congress untll-we are prepared, but T did get the bill.recalled from the War Department by Senator Proctor, and asked Foster to have Haskins, who was not present, have it recalled iimmediately by the Military Committee of the House, so they would have nothing to report on. . ■ Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. btiM n 1' Jiftin"'! .1 /A'fertwD ^ hlXWiMnf New York, January 18, 1908, General John C.Klack, Civil Service Commi on, Washington, D.G. My dear General I received your letter today. I was in Washington and before the Library Committee four days on these matters, and we proved to them beyond quest''on that these trees could be moved and saved. I think the Committee is convinced of that, and T think v/e also convinced them that the location is a proper one for the statue. There appears to be but little interest in the matter in Washington as no one from the city appeared against us. The only person who appeared was Representative Sherley of Kentucky, who was there on account of two of his constituents, Crittenden anc Beck, beiii!:^ interested, Super^'ntendent Smith was also sent for but I do not think his testimony had much weight, because he swored to the committee that of the 150 trees tha t were moved by Frederick Law Olmstead into the Capitol grounds all but two were dead, whereas Super'ntendent Woods and the Gardener of the Cap itol who was there when the trees were moved, brought in a map and showed that of the 155 trees moved all but 15 were al^ve, and only one of these died from moving; the other 14 were broken down by w'nd, etc. The map they brought showed the location of the trees, nd we went and looked at them, and found that some of them have grown to immense slase, I saw Cannon when I was ti.ere, and think when he knows the testimony we put before the committee he will find we are taking no par. in the Burnham plan, and that the location is a proper one for Grant no matter what is done with the Bumham plan, I did not have a moment while in Washington to see anyone; was at viork day and night, and was called away duddenly, or should have seen you, I will be over again in a short Lime, and will see you. Truly and cordially, G, M, Dodge. ^ . / I ^Ax New York, January 27, 1908. eharles H. Spooner, Esq., President Norwich University, Northf^eld, Vermont. My dear Sir:- ,.pcj' ,n»f'£'T .7 t9»fijfrr 't r-» r'! eotV ti r ^ r i Yours of Dec. 27, 1907 was duly received. T take it your state ment compiled from the roster of the cadets who attended the institution and entered the service' includes only the tlexican and CivH War, the total number being 717 including the militia. You state there had been in attendance since 1819 a totl of 2866 men. "Have you any way of showing what the attendance was up to the close of the Civil War, so we can ihake a comparison of the nmer of cadets that attended the institu tion from 1819 up to say 1870 with the number that entered the service up to that date. It is not fair to make the comparison up to present date, because there has been no war since the CiV1 War, except the Spanish War, to give them an opportunity of entering the service, and they were virtually prohibited from getting into the sfervice in the Spanish War because the War Department took in only the militia, and in officering the regiments that went to the Philippines they took most of the officers from the militia that has been mustered into the service in Cuba, whose service had expired, so there was no opportunity for men outside the militia to get ^nto the service under the rules and regulations of the War Department unless they were members of the State militia. Please answer this as promptly as pobbible. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. lOWI 41 York, January 29, 1908, « » V ''Z 4'' i^' WI- * «' tX^tr-rvvtiV:. liofvtoM. wnilamT. T'lden, Esd.. .T- t-V Vice President, Un-" on League Club, -nl« Y#«l) ^ -®J" • Philadelphia, . Pa iijpi fOtl ,990 ^.1o iiiuoY rtr,f » My dear Sir:- . . 'o tri^noi Hji.' ' . I am in receipt of yours of 28tii inst. requesting me to give a talk on General Sherman before the Un^'on Leaugue Club of Philadelphia M some time in February. , . I should be very pleased to do this, but I am engaged to be in ' f Philadelphia on the evening of the 12th of February, and have to be qu q: 'here in New Yrk on the 15th. The next week I have to leave for the South and West, so .1 doubt if there will be an opportunity for me to ♦ get to h ladelphia again.during that month. I am not a public speaker like General Howard, and would have to ,|,;read-what I had. to say, which, perahs, would not be acceptable to the club . %. I appreciate, the complement paid me, the invitation coming, as it does, from so noted and distinguished a club as the Union League of Philadelphia, and will be pleased to comply wltn it at such a time as , will mutually accommodate the club and myself. ' 1 ehJ lehjui vinn mom .a Very truly yours. 9tU te nwilM mm »•#;/«/ G. M. Dodge. 9il4 ' • M 114 iflU levpoa MwiiXei ••Moi ittni ntv ,'4 ,0 Jan. 1908. Northfield, Vt., 23 Jan. 28, 1908. General C, H. Dod/^e, New York, Citv, N.Y. Dear General Dodse:- Yonr letter of January 27th duly to hand. I have computed the number of men enrolled at Norwich from 1835-1864. This of course includes men who would have graduated later than 1864 had they remained, and practically all who saw service in the Civil War. The total thus found is 956. 29 of these are recorded as dead prior to 1860. Doubtless a great many more died, but there is no record to show it. 427 of these then have recorded war service during the intervall. This is 46^ of the total enrollment. If we count 60 who were present for drills during the early part of the war, but were not enrolled as regular students, and on that account h-^d not their names in the catalog, the total is 487, or 49 and 3/lOths % Since reading your letter, - I have foiind the number of men from 1819-1835 who have recorded service in the Arrav or Navv. This number 50 added to the 487 gives 537; but to the 987 there must be added the enrollment from *19- *35. Referring to the History I find names of 843 recorded with an estimate of 500 more names not known, or a total of 1343. This added to the 987 would give a total of 2430, which would very much lower the percentage; and for that reason, if no other would not help our cause. Thus is seems to me that the process of compilation adopted is preferable; that is, of the actually recorded names 46^ or with the 60 "summer" men 49 and 3/lOths per cent of all inaattendance from 1835-1864. Of course in some of the southern states where these schools succeed in maintaining an existence through the war, their students entered the Army at a date later than 1864; but from Norwich I do not find any others who entered in season to have any part in the Civil War. I have In hand the statement from Va. Military Institute. Their total enrollment from foundation in 1839-1865 is"1430. Their total number of students having war service is 986; commissioned officers with war service 563. You will notice that these last two numbers Include men who have seen war service since the close of the Civil War. This total enrollment, and total number with war service Rives a percentage of 68 and Q/lOth percent; higher than for Norwich, but not more so than might reasonably be expected, all things considered. If upon consideration, you think it would be wise to make these compilations up to 1870, I shall be pleased to do it. Verv respectfully yours, C. H. Spooner, February, 1908, February 10, 1908, Copy • General 0. 0. Howard, * ' * ' Burlington, Vermont. • - . . My dear General:- I have gone over your description of the battle of Atlanta very carefully. I enclose you my description of the battle of Atlanta, also my letter to General Green B. Baum, criticising his account of this battle as published in the National Tribune. By reading these two you will see where it is necessary to correct your account far better than I can by writing in detail. My description of the battle and may letter to Raum give the data from the War Records, also from Strong's report, which you will note is pointed in the Army of the Tennessee records. It is very full and interesting, and it would be well for you to read it. On page 4 volume 2 of your work. Referring to ray forces in the battle. Fuller had only two brigades, one (Bprangue's) at Decatur, the other with Fuller, which was sent to Blair on the evening of July 21st by order of McPherson, because Blair's left was exposed and there was no cavalry. From ray report you will see that Blair instead of putting it into line camped the brigade about a quarter of a mile in rear of his left in an open field, and they formed right where they were camped when they went into the fight. See page 4, Dodge's Rattle of Atlanta. P^ge 5- Howard. McPherson did not send for Wagelin's brigade until he arrived on the ground and we were fighting. See Strong's report in Array of Tennessee record, volume 11 to IS, page 242. Also page 13- Dodge. Page 6. Howard. Dodge was sitting down to lunch just as firing commenced. He ordered Fuller to get into line, and sent an order to Sweeney, who cent no man to reconnoiter, as stated by Howard. See page 13- Dodge. Page 7. Howard. McPherson when he got on the field stood in rear of Fuller's right upon a knoikl upon which Fuller's tent was pitched and his ammunition trains were parked. He did not notify me, and I received no order from him and did not know he was there. See extract from Strong's report- Page 7- Dodge. P-ge 9.- Howard. It was Cleburne that struck Blair's flank and right. Manney did not get around to the rear of Blair until near 4 P.M., when Blair had formed Giles A. Smith's division at right angles to Leggett's and refused it so with Wangelin's brigade had nearly connected with my line, but some distance in the rear of my right. Here it was the last desperate attack was made on this part of Blair's line. See pages 9, 10, 19- Dodge. Page 13- Howard. You say Sherman sent a brigade to Decatur. That is a mistake. See Sprague's report. The only help he got was Swayne's regiment and some cavalry that were coming from Roswell with a portion of our trains. They got within reach of Decatur late in the afternoon, and hearing the firing, Swayne left his train and went to the aid of Sprague. He reached there just in time for Sprague to hold 'ffheeler, who had pressed him through the town, and save our trains. One b was over, and Decatur, as I and I did not One rigade came from Schofield left after my fighting I suppose that is the brigade which was intended for had sent word to Sherman that Sprague was hard pressed knew- have a man to send him, and asked him to rend help to Sprague. Cox says in his report that he cme to my relief at my request. As I made no request I think there was a mix of orders- he should have gone to Sprague instead of to my left. Pages 13-14, Howard. See statement of Captain, Jonas, my A. D. C. on page 11- Dodge. Page 24- ITowatfd, The two regiments brought up by Ceneral Strong at the battle of Ezra Church, with breech-loading rifles were the 64th Illinois and 66th Indiana, from the 16th Army Corps. Very truly yours, (Signed) G. M. Dodge. . 't. '• . ' " a,-' I 1 I </ J ' di (;». ,1^ Panora, Iowa, February, 11, 1908. General--8ir:- I give you one of my rides last winter. 1 will tby and give you another . I left last Apri-i-and went west. . I was gbne all summer ^ I come through -our town last,September but didn't see any thing like Iowa v/hile I '.vas gone. Now for the ride. Yoia wanted my rrost dangerous rides. I will give you one when I road.right-into hell that is what I call this ride. It is the ba tie of the 22nd of July the day that Gener^J? McPherson fell. Thai mornirg when it was reported that Atlanta was evacuated I'road Out towards Dccatur that morning; going out i heard a noise to my right in the timber, i whirled my horse in to the timber, i looked to my right and saw a skirmish line scattered out a good way a part . I saw that they were rebs but what in thunder they was doing there i had road clean by them. They hadn't seen me nor I pern. There was a good many brush right along the"road that prevented me seeing them , of course you remember Palweye v;ore the bn^ternut so I whirled my horse aroxmd and road up in the rear to .ascertain what this meant. I road up to the fellow on extreme right as I road up I remarked where is all of our men. Why in hell don't over that raise there. 4!?'' remarked. Then I knew Well, What General was up. Pnrdee I then is snokrto coming up here In fron" but n'o°t inside of their lines. I made few words do for I knew there wasn't a ^ d 4!"^4 that sure. After for x reoorted I knew there to vnn was T goin'- to be \ a bloodv Dioody fight r^^hi■ thfrr"" s«rLo?rflred!-TwLL°r whartSt'lr The hell you ray", . "Yes <^ir" "Whv rn/j li come in from therei* Dodge?". "I did your honor"" Whal report it to General He listened to me but maS^nn and. where did he go?" headquarters ^ nie u made no remark ai:d road off toward McPherson's « Shots .as about four or five andthey were movlnc It. The Penorol then ord?r?d^me to rid? Ihere, there and ascertain what that firing meant u t started what the rebels were f-ininrr a4 wu him before 1 moving their hospital but neverthele-s'out and down through that old delapitated field I went I^'knL^ left wheel • was going to meet life or death but I would rnth2j:*H4 ^ said I was a coward. 1 crossed the ravine and up the^embaSkSe^t > ipJt" ^ crossed the ravine I come into heavy timber. I then and o 5 all ?? at once 1 looking to my right along ride mountain, turned my eyes in front of me; a quick gerk of the rein ; I stopped my horse;there stood three rebel lines right in front of me and 1 nm positive they weren't over a hundred and twenty feet from me;the first line stood at trail armes; the other-two at right shoulder. The were standing at foot of a small hill down on ^ level. I looked at them and they at me. I looked all along their line. 1 seen it extending (^uite a ways to my rig]it. To my left it e?:terded about three hundred feet, would be my guess. Now why I it was I didn't know, I didn't feela bit afraid, while i was standing there looking at them and they never moved nor nade a motion for any kxnu. but when I whirled my horse then fun commenced in earnest and dovm the hill I"went shot after shot went, other words volley after volley. It was already reported to Sweeney . Into battle lire he run; ordered his men to open fire but be careful not to shoot the scout. The rebels jumped the ravine and on they co;re till our men shot them down. When I come up to our lines the General give the command"open the lines and let the'scout in," So commenced the battle of the 22nd . Now, General that was the closest place ever I was in and come out with my hide whole. i often think of that ride. I don't see how they didn't ketch me when I was coming upthat hill when my horse scaled the ravine. I then layed right beside my horse. There is a man living here by the name of hilly Kapale. Jle was a recruit in the secon ' lowa inf antry. He was elected leasurer here in our bounty for sever-1 years. He was right .in ranks there where i com in. ^illy would tell it as a daring ride one of Gen. Dodge's scouts made. I got acquainted with him . He found out that i was one rode- Ye.-,, I can ^ describe- th horse all describe right." the i told horse him that thenscout I was the larkey that m^de that ride. About eight years or ten ago someone sent me a washirrrtnyi truth I rode .down and the first thing I knew I rode ri-ht thine and cent to the Trlbnne, but the ckunJ^L?;? "nMLhedl?! Well this is all of this ride. J.A.Hensal. 1 ■ ■ . f i - ■ 1. - .'f - ili.r ;;.t .-t. .At3 ■ b i-A Well, I will try^and give you another ride. It was the time they offered five hundred dollars for mjr scalp. i was lying at Decattir. I took some of my men and road down towards Gadson and I captured a rebei mnil. I took it from a -^boy that had rickets in his back. He had a wagon partly loaded with salt and some other truck. He was close to home when I met him. I turned and come with him home, i'then took his muies and three other span, they,had at home on the"farm. He had a brother in the rebel army. He was a Major, When 1 come in i sent the mail to you at Athens. You remember I sent you a nev/spaper that was printed at Gadson. There was a piece in .it where Randy Band payed Dixy ar^d the editor wished him luck and God Speed. Speed that he -might be successful in driving the "^anks at Decatur back over the river. You sent for me to come up. You told me you would like to see that boy and have a talk with him. I sent him up. Wlien he come back you .wrote a letter to .me. You signed it Hensal, uhicf of Scouts. Then he knew who I was.In the first place that scou.-dral should never been allowed inside.for he was a tool for the Eebs. He made a date when to meet me on the rlint River, down ba'ck of Defords, field. 1 was positive it was a trap to catch me. The boys all thought the same but when the day come, I went but not as he expected for I was to com alone, i took three men with me tha-t I knew were all right, we armed ourselves for the fray and out we rode, trur picket was doubled for we knew that Randy wasn't far off when I went out i talked to the picket and tolJi^them all about it and what I expected and for them to assist me if needed in close quarters. The Sargent said all right. It wasn't over two miles from where ± left outpost to where j. was going. Away we went up past rords house wg went; made a left wheel down to i-lint River where i was to meet him but no sign of him. l<'inally one of the bovs seen him stick his head out'from behind a tree. There was a doc; raft Tim Doley to dismount and get on the raft and go over. He did. The rebles was afraid to come un Tim Tim told told him if he was didn't molested know on anything that side nor he have would any tear rebel h-tc, mail. vrtdo Sut be moL"ed oi me IlS" l6rt Tim i!" ho C broKo ? ond njn wierwim mounted his horse. When ' the rsbol rph^i something up but couldnGt tell'in what shape but'it"® we fo-nd it out. we slapped the snur^ - III' wasn't long till Defords house. This familv was cAn t® towards Deford ron out and caught one of ihr \ as we rode up Mrs. exclaimed exclaimed "My God,. menWren what. do you Lar'^'^iL'ff bridle bit and just rode down the lane and rode in thn+ * k u ^ your number has upon that hill there aLng tha? tJSer ?Lrf 3 lane when we would ride in." iVe turned aS f mouth of the was about 25 or 30 horaa harU look.at_ thorn.. Th.Y ytSr-L1rr^t^r-l^S?,^-d^ mrLl iTLltll IZ and away to the next fence the same wa^ Then wf L 4 When the rebels seen the move they hastened down thl^ lill foined^th others in ambush and took the road to head us off ; when wi iould have to make a square left wheel for Decatur. We had our horses under the spur but kept quiet while the Jonnies were spurring ard holl ering "You Yankies, sons of bitches you are our meat/ " Some of the boys remarked they remind me of some starved cyotes. I remarkeu "Wait till the time comes. They will get it", ^ome of the boy s wanted to ride the horses i to the Tennesee River . I told them no. That ■ would'n't do. They would shoot us off our horses like dogs. I remarked "We must face the music if they do number us ten to one. our infantry will help us for I know they hear them holler. " w'en the Jonnies come to where we had to tur^n they lined themselves right across the road. T.iere was a field commencedthere on the left running down towards Decatur. I give the coraman(is"left wheel 15 paces apart . We wouldn't be so apt to get shot if we would be close tQgether. Drop your reins; revolvers in each hand. They lay flat to the horse,put the spur into the horse under full run; " The skirmish opened with the rebels hollering when we opened fire Our dire-tionwe were coming. If you remember there is a ^trip of woods to your right coming down the "river. The infanttimber in the rear of the hebels. Thej^ poured ^ oheir backs. Ifu God ^^mighty had sent a big bolt of lightening down among them it .vouldn't have scared them worse T ley imagined all they had to contend with was us four". Thev goi'iG to run in a worse trap than the trao thev he?i'oouldna"h;.ve th™ J.A. Hensal. 1908. Army .Corps who under Sherman marched from Ghat.tanooga to Knoxvllle; they had marched from Itemphis to Chattanooga living off fif .the tountry. They were short of^overcoats and bTankets and shoes and on tnis march to Knoxvllle "to Gen. Longstreet who had it surrounded^ they struck a country that was sa-i.d to be Un'on and full of the good things they needed and when they rounded up in front of Knoxvllle.and made Long'street retreat they were well clothed and well fed, and there have been a great many ctltic isms against Gen. Sherman on that march from the fact that his troops foraged on Un'on men and at a dinner in Nashville in Dec. 1863 that was given by Gen. Granger who commanded that post to Gen. Grant, Sheridan, Rawl'ns and others were present also Gen. Granger's mother, an old lady who had been brought up in the army, her husband had been an officer and she had thoroughly imbibed in her system the old theory that a soldier should never trespass upon a private citizen no matter ^f he was an enemy, and at tile's dinner s]:e called Gen. Sherman very aggressively to account. All of us around the table were watch-'ng to hear from Sherman who being a guest did not l^ke to antagonize ti.i s old lady but she poured the hot shot into liim, calling his attention to the customs of the old army until he could stand it no longer, and he answered her in about this language; he said that h"s soldiers had marched four or five hundred miles to reach Chattanooga that he had to go to Knoxvllle because Gen. Gordon Granger was so slow that he would not reach tliere before Longstreet would capture the place that if these people whom his soldiers had foraged upon were Union people they certainly would have been very glad to feed and cloth them. That ^f they were rebels he had a perfect r^'ght to take their food and clothing but he said, "Madam, T thought you knew me well enough to know that if my soldiers were march^'ng through a dountry and were suffering for the want of food or clothing and it was to be found that the Question whether the citizen or the soldier should have it would not take me long to determine." Prom that t'me on to the end that dinner was a very cold -ne. Now what the chapter of the Daughters of American Revolution can find here relating to the Rebolut*onary War to commemorate T do not know but this Missouri Valley has got a ..istory ndt quite as old as that of the Revolut'on but just as ^'mportant and it seems to me that if they would turn their attention to commemorating the events that have happened in it and file their data with tl-e Historical Society of the city, they would be doing a great and valuable work. This Missour" Valley as far back as we know or have read of it was a great highway to reach the whole northwest, the Indians used it with their canoes and their trails up and dov/n the valley from the mouth to its head were great broad roads. Le.vis and Clark immortalized it and following tiiem came the furtraders and the settlements. When T first came into it there were noted men living here sue as 3 rpee. Eapentur, Charley Lombard and many others. Captain Henry Chttenaon has written a very interesting book upon tie American fur-trader which gives the early history of the Missouri Valley. He has also written upon the early steamboating on the Missouri. BlialO 1908. ^ Thwaites in h^i s hi story s of early travels in the west has immortali zed it while in your publ^'c library there are over 300 volumes giving the history of the work of the Jesuit missionaries, which is a complete history of all this country west of the lakes. 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V ''laojar ♦X.O ■' ' xT i/.d - J , • , ilr-Mv fh i.r. .' • ■"0fcC''I ' ' ♦.( .•r av'-.u. '..n :'iiJ :j iir, '* ," ■ ] ^7 ? 7'^. • '' February, 1908, Treasury Department. Washington, D. C. February 28, 1908, General Grenville M. Dodge, ITo.l Broadway, , New York City, N. Y. Dear Sir and Comrade:- With reference to our conversation at Senator Allison's on the 21st inst., I enclose herewith a copy of the Special Act under which a soldier was granted the Medal of Honor. I do not know the circumstances but am inclined to believe it a case probably lacking of record in the V/ar Department. As regards the requested correction of my record, I was seventeen years of age when I enlisted August 12, 1862 having been born May 27, 1845 in Pittsburgh, Pa., and was a clerk in Woolworth's Book Store at St. Joseph, mo., at that time, and not eighteen years of age and a railroad man as noted on the record. I desire very much to have these discrepancies corrected and have included reference to enlistment and age in my sworn statement which you had recently in your keeping. A As to the Commission on the Retired List under Special Acts of Congress, I do not find the entrj^ of any except (so far as I know) those retired with pay. I thought perhaps if the case were presented I might secure by special act the appointment without pay, and so be made eligible, in spite of failures in the past to receive a Commission, for the societies and privileges I mentioned. It means so much to me and all my loved ones. Let roe again thank you for your great kindness. Fraternally yours, Lucius D. Alden, Late "F" 33rd Missouri Infty Vols., 3rd Brigade 1st Division, 16th Army Corps. (Copy of enclosure) DIGEST OP OPINIONS, JUDGE ADVOCATE GENERAL OF THE ARMY, 1901. Latter part of Par. 416 • however, may, as has been done in several Congress, cases, bv a special enactment, authorize the President to appoint an officer and place him on the retired list." XLlll, 130 Jan. 1880. See Army Register for Retired List under Special Acts of Congress. (Copy of second enclosure). RESOLVED BY THE SENATE AND HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OP THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICAN IN CONGRESS ASSEMBLED, That the Secretary of ^ar be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to award the Congressional medal of honor to Roe Reisinger, alias J. Monroe Reisinger, late - Corporal, Company H, one hundred and fiftieth Regiment Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantrj?-, <for specially brave and meritorous conduct in the face of the enemy at the battle of Gettysburg July first, eighteen hundred and sixty-three. Approved January 25, 1907, (34 Stat., 1420) ■ V- .v.- V-l— f ■" V(': : ■ 1 ; ' ■ ; U San Francisco, Feb. 28, 1908, Dear General: I have just fo\ind one of the landmarks that hemind us we are pretty old. For m.any years I never kept track of the date of entry into this wicked world but now my friends are doing it. The prettiest and most artistic dj(>^ner I have attended of late years was given me a week ago and I send youa a brief notice of it, knowing how much interest you take in the men you commanded, and how your tig heart always beats in sympathy with theirs. There were twenty--all personal friends, and the diiiner host was the most public spirited and generous of the merchants of this c > t"". As an instance of his character I may mention that after one bia fire o? of about v35,000. But he is apparel even better to the known destitute here as women a bon at vivant a cost and man of taste. The decoration were most simple, beina the snrav b ranches and blossoms of almond, which is Just now in bloom. i * wish my old Commander could have been present. VI n®".psparlng for the advent of the Bettle ship these wishes. le was at the banquet. Very sincerely yours. Alex G. Hawes New York, February 29, 1908. Col. J. A. T. Hull, Chairman Military Committee, House of Representatives, Washing on. My dear Colonel Referring to the hill that is before your committee for the retirement of General 0. 0. Howard as Lieutenant General, I desire to say in behalf of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, of which Gen. Howard is a member, and which army he commanded from the time of the death of General McPherson unfl the review in "?rashin~ton, that we earnestly desire that this honor be paid General Howard. He is the only living army commander who has no had this honor conferred upon him, and it seems to us that liis long service in the army, rising, as he did, to the highest rank and command In the army, justifies the unanimou ■; passage of the bill. It passed the Senate unanimously and we believe should receive as favorable consideration from your committee and the House. T cannot see how the applications of these who have never commanded an army should interfere with his promotion. Since the War General Howard has devoted his services to building up the education al institutions of the country, and to charity, and have been of as much value to the country as those performed in the civil war. I know that in asking this I speak the sentiment of the survivors of that grand old army of the Tennessee. Truly and cordially. Grenville M. Dodge. Garner lov/a, Mar. 3d, 1908. Gen'l. G, M. Dodge, Dear Sir and Comrade I do not suppose you will remember me as I was only a 2d Lieut, in Co. G. 52nd 111. inft. but as the years go by my mind goes back to those days when so many of us were giving thbesd days of our lives to sustain the union, and the remembrance of those with whorwe associated with in those days come up vividly befo:e us. I have often seen your name mentioned in connection with various gatherings and finally concluded to write you . I was with my Regi ment all through the various campaigns from 61 to 65. was wounded at Pittsburg landing and at Corinth Miss. Was all through the Atlanta Campaign. My Company G. was on the skermish line the day you were wounded and I directed the conveyance of your body to the rear. And one of my company, W. e. Jayne helped convey you to the rear. I was much interested in your article published in the National Tribune two or more y^ars ago. Your account of the execution of the spy Davis particularly interested me. As at that time I had charge of the Provost Guard and''under my care was all the prisoners. There were some 30 or 35 Commissioned Officers quartered in the Court House and some in the jail. They were a bad lot and I had to watch them closely. The morning Davis was executed I helped the Provost Marshall take him from the jail and put him into the wagon to go to the execution. I remained with my guard in the Court House over these officers as thev were uneasy and I did not know what might take place in my absence. I tied Davis hancfe behind him before we took him from the iail. He was game clear through. I was mustered out of service at Port McAlster by reason of youngest son is working of the American Sabbath ochool union as a Missionary. Some time ago he was at Council ii brother. My son told him his father was u ^ Dodge s command in the army and he sent me one of vour photographs which I appreciate very much. I have another of your photographs thken at Corinth, Miss. The last one represents a much older man than the first one. And soon we all will have passed into t]e great beyond, ^^t it matters not if we are prepared to po If prepared it will be an endless rest. P^eparea lo go. If fall and isited like the r st of typewriter works ^isited I would very much like to receive a letter from vou Hone T ooi. j. s. Wilcox. J He was well but growing oldlast I- worSs badlyl Yours truly, G. Robinson. • ..QCI 'New York, March 3, 1908. Major C. A. Stanton, Vicksburg, Miss. My dear Major: ewAti .0 .xeCA «/ol) ,,3bXS 4tBnT no#nO .In? jOp.^fonjril an" I am in receipt of yours of the 29th e: clo"Sing copy of your letter to Van Dyke, all of which is very satisfactory. We had a splendid time at Vicksburg, Everybody speaks of it as being well-handled, and the attention we received -.yas a great deal more than we expected. The Governor was also very gracious to us, and took us to Jackson and all over that c^ty, so we all returned from Vicksburg with a warm place in our hearts for it. Our going there ■ has brought a good deal of attent^'on to it from otiier cities in the south, and T see that Atlanta is going to try Cor the G.a.R. encampment next year, T7e have had two or three applications to go to other Southern cities, but unless we go to some dty where there is a prominen battlefield, T think for the present we w-'ll have to stay lii the north. Our next reunion is at St. Louis, Thanking you for your attention to the matter, and ettend^ng my compliments to the many friends T met in Vicksburg, i an :i Truly and cordially yours^ «»>uoJ •iS is ,n»9x Mia tXvtT , • l>o'T ,11 ,0 Gren^^ille M. Dodge.'* ^ 'j':. " i .dMi ,e ^A iOX ■ ^^^8- Col. Alex. G. Hawes, Unfton Trust Bldg., San Francisco, Cal. ,nioifUiiQ .A .0 loliU ,i.Rl« «yualtiio^v SlOlAll My dear Comrade:- i ««juot !• nt uiti f I have yours of February 28th enclosing slip on your 75.tjb«r jbirtl day, and the dinner given you at the Bohemian Club. -It pleases , me very much to see the attention g-'ven the old veterans; there seems to be a revival of interest in them, I have had a great many invitations this year, and on my 75th birthday T had a splendid dinner given me and a very fine loving cup from people connected with me in business. . I notice on your list one Council Bluffs boy - Hugh M. Burk. ffffg- used to know nim and all his family. ' When you see him please . remember me to him. m - v.' , It is always a great pleasure to hear from the old veterans who , were with me, and who served with me so loyally, bravely and well. I shall never forget the 9th regiment. It was a remarkable regiment ^ and did remarkable service. I congratulate you upon your 75th birthday and the ev'dent good health you enjoy. If you had attended our last reunion at Vicksburg you would have enjoyed it greatly. I hope you will be able to attend pur next reunion at St. Louis, » Truly and cordially yours, G. M. Dodge. March, 1908 Council Bluffs, Iowa., March 5, 1908, General G. M. Dodge, No.l B'way, Nev/ York. My dear General I have yours of recent date with reference to entprtainnient of Secretary Taf.t, and we will proceed to arrange for a reception at the Elks Club in the afternoon of the day he gets here. Congressman Smith has advised us that the Secretary will be here on April 7^^ and we are making arrangements accordingly. I will keep you advised of the details as we proceed with them. As to your presiding at the banquet, we are, of aourse, a unit in the desire that you do so, but it will be our privelege to make this banquet an affair of comfort and pleasure to you, and if it is your desire that someone else officiate in that capacity, your wishes will, of course, be respected. YOU probably see from the public press, that the Allison campaign in Iowa is moving on apace. We are now practically assured of the control of the March 18 convention and that will give us trem.endous prestige in the cam,paign later. It looks now as if there would be no divided delegation to the National convention, but that all the delegates will be Allison republicans. Sincerely yours, Victor E. Bender. . r»T '-■'Tw.v,,.'' New York, March. 5, 1908 Hon. Fletcher D. Proctor, Proctor, Vermont. My dear Governor; The death of your father comes to me as a personal bereveement. For many y^ars we hav«r been warm personal friends, and have had occasion to work together many times, and long ago T came to have the highest respect for his high character and great ability. His long, distinguished and practical services in the Senate were recogn-'zed throughout the country. I did not know that he was 111, and the news of his passing away is a great shock to me. As we grow older we learn to appreciate our friends better tiian in our younger days. His great interest in Norv;ich University brought us into close touch, and that institution has lost one of its very befit supporters and friends. He was never too busy to advise and assist any of the graduates of thai university who came to him, and it was his custom when young men were looking for commissions in Washington to personally go with them and see that they had very opportunity given them. Tn your great loss I tender to you, and the members of your family, my heart-felt sympathy. T wish it were possible for me to attend the fineral services, but I cannot take the trip to Vermont at this time. Truly and cordially, Grenville M. Dodge. ;'S March, 1908. Omaha, Nebraska, March 6, 1908. Gen. G, i'!. Bodge, No.l Broadway, N. Y. Dear General Enclosed please find letters from Mr, Sargent which father gave me to read and to forward to you. I have today written him in regard to the matter mentioned in his letter and T enclose to you a copy of my letter to him. In spite of t'ne rumors of financial depression in the east, business locally seems to hold up very well. The building permits, for the first two months of this year exceed those of last year and as far as I can observe I see promise of an excellent business year. Our business seems to be as good as susual and I personally have no complaint. I was talking yesterday with a directory man who just came from Minneapolis, St.Paul and the Dakotas. He said there was no sign of depression and hard times in that country and as far as he could observe, that the depression had hit the south more than the middle west. At the same time the trains cannot hold the number of people that want to take advantage of the low rates going south and west. Bather had to wait four days before he could get a berth for Texas. I may be wrong but it seems to me that a year from nov the business people in the west and the railroads will all admit that there was a good deal of hysteria and noise over a very small burn financially. Of course, I have no reference to conditions in the east, and T know that we in the west have no conception of the amount of money that has been lost by the well to do. We hope to see you out here soon and that you will make a long visit with us. Laura is well and we are looking forward to getting out in the country and getting our horses back with us. Very truly yours. N. P. Dodge, Jr. (Enc.) March, 1908. Omaha, Nebr., March 7, 1908, C. 7,. r^argeht, 3127 T St., Lincoln, Nebr, Dear Mr, Sargent:- . I read j^our letters and clippings feent to father, with great interest- and. I have forwarded them today to Gen. Dodge in New York. I am hardly in accord with the work you are trying to start for the erection of a monument to Abraham Lincoln. It seems to me that the people and the press of Lincoln and of the state of Nebraska ought to take up this matter at once and start a permanent organization for the collection of the contributions from the people of the state for this purpose. Possibly if it were brought to the attention of the Governor by the proper party in Lincoln, he would appoint a state commission to carry out your idea. If the city of Lincoln and the students of the university wonld start the fund by a wide spread and popular contrbution from all the citizens and the school children of Lincoln there would be no difficulty in then calling upon the people of the state and city of Omaha to complete the fund. The children particularly shoiild be inspired to contribute their pennies to this fund and r.othing would so lead to the study of the character and life of Lincoln as the inciting of their interest by asking for contributions to this statue. We can hardly expect the people of the state to take a great interest in the monument unless the city that is to be the most benefited by its erection lead in the contribution. Lincoln^ unfortunately, has had the reputation, however unjustified, it may be, of resorting to legislative appropriation for municipal improvement. If the city of I,incoln will start this monument by contributing a substantial sum and then asking the Governor to appoint a state wide committee to complete the funds, I am sure that the people of the state and the city of Omaha will heartily respond. This statue would be the tribute from the people such as it would not be were the city of Lincoln to ask the legislature to make an appropriation for the erection of the statue. One word further. It seems to me approprate that when this statud is to be executed, that Solon and Gutzon Porglum the most famous sculptors Nebraska has ever had the honor of being the birth place of, be invited to submit designs in competition with all American scul|)tors that have been selected to execute the most famous statuds for the past two yearg, and it seems to me most appropriate that the tribute of the Nebraska people to the "great emancipator" be executed by one of her famous artists. Very truly yours, N. P. Dodge. Boston Mass. 1908 , March 8. My dear General: On my way up from the south I saw Granger in Washington seme weeks ago and thru' him heard of your residence in the Bluffs. I have had, during the past year, some correspondence with McCartney, and some news from him about the Western Pacific, Has Harriman got his claws on that road or is ^uld still an independent man and manager? Possibly you saw in the March Outlook a long article about E H Harriman. T'lere are two items of information I want very much. Can you aid me in obtaining them? One is the geight of the roadbed at the east end and at the west end of the cros s ing of Great Salt Lake. I was out there 16 months ago and did not think the grade was more than 6 feet or 7 fret above the surface of the water. With great regard, I am, >'ery truly, P. S. Hodges. New York, March 9, 1908. W. Frank Pearsons, Esq., Secretary The Charity Organization Society, 105 East 22d Street, New York, Dear S-'r:- I am in receipt of yours of March 5th inquiring as to Mr, Atwell and his connection with a donation of $50,000 to Norwich University, Mr, Atwell never had anything, whatever, go do with that donation; T know that Mr. Carnegie nrver heard of him in connection with it. The donation was made by Mr. Carnegie to Norwich University on his own motion. It was his intent'on to give it in my name and honor, from the fact that we were young men together in the seventies and have been close friends since, but wiien he made the ondation he found that I had erected a building known as Dodge Hall, therefore the donation could not be accepted in my name and my honor, but on account of his fr^'endship for me he made the donation to the University, I was the only person Mr. Carnegie talked with in relation to this matter. I know that Mr. Atwell had nothing wljatever to do with it. T do not know about the contracts that you speak of, but am told by the trusteew of the University that he hadno basis for his claim. It was an Aftert; ought, and, in my op^nio^i, was not creditable to him, and his work for the ijniversity in the Dewey Hall matter I am told by the trsutees was not satisfactory to them, I have never heard of any suit against the university in Vermont, I am a trustee of the Univer sity, Of course, I do not wish to enter Ihto any controversy with Mr, Atwell, or anyone else, in relation to these matters, but send you the facts, trusting they will be treated as you say perfectly confidential. Very truly yours, G. M, Dodge, Military Order of the Loyal Legion of the United States, Comraandery of the State of Iowa. Des Moi nes, Iowa. Mar. 12, 1908, Washington, D. C. Dear Sir:- At a meeting of the Commandery of the State of Iowa, Military Order of the Loyal Legion, held on the 10th inst, a motion was unanimously adopted re guesting the members of the Iowa delegation in Congress to support and use their influence for the bill proposing to confer the rank of Lieutenant General upon General 0.0. Howard as a fit and well deserved recognition of his eminent services to the Government. Yours repsectfully, signed, J.W. Muffly, Recorder. A copy of the above resolution went to each member of the Iowa Delegation in congress. The original just received by me. O.O.H. Extract from the Official Field Returns of the armies uder command of General wm. T. Sherman, March to the sea. War of the Rebellion Records, vol. aLIV page 590, Army of the Tenn. Right wirg (Howard) Nov. 30, 1864 Kilpatrick':s Cav. reported to Howard when on right Present for Duty 28,786 5,324 ■34,110 Aggregate present. 32,847 6,810 39,057 Dec. 31, 1864 Kilpatricks Cavalr; 27,808 4,880 32,6 86 31,719 5,800 37,519 March through the Oarolinas. war of the Rebellion Records. VoI.aLVLL , part 11 page 73. March 31, 1865 April 30, 1865 29,451 34,468 33,762 38,231 The figures represent the total number of officers and men under command of General 0.0. Howard, Savannah and Carolina campaign of Gen Sherman's. Burlington, Vt. iviarl4, 1908. Dear General uodge. The figures are as above, "hen j. went to Ainsworth, and dound that in my p apers in the army of the Tennessee in my inspection. There were upwards of 140,000 men of all arras but we had in part after the consolidation 7 grand Di isions, haiitually reck ned and reported as about 33,000 men, infantry and artillery. Kilparticks Cavalry were about half of the time reporting to me and the rest of tlie time to Slocum . It appears to me now that it would be better for all my comrades who are ambitious for promotion to let my bill go through.the house. The killing of my bill will help nobody (?) Affectionateljr yours, 0.0. Howard V ^ ^ r.Iarch, 1908. Burlington, Vt.,' March 17th, 1908, Gen. G. M. Dodge, . . . 1 Broadway, • ' New York, N. Y. Dear Gen. Dodge Will you kindly turn to page 4, Volume 2, of my Autobiography I propose to omit "of the center", 8th line from top, so that it will read 'was in camp >vell back in the rear of the Army of the Tennessee." Page 5, 10th line from top, introduce after "moment" the words" after the battle began", so that the sentence will read "except that McPherson at the last moment after the battle began had sent Wangelin's small Brigade to watch that space. Also the 5th line from bottom change the "were' to "had been", so that the phrase will read "where he and Fuller had b^enn together'.' 10th line from top, page 6, omit the phrase "what about 12 m." and substitute "later in the day", arid have the first complete sentence stop just before this phrase, so that it will read, "Later in the day he heard that there had been an attack upon his hospitals, "etc. 15th line from top, same page substitute "Dodge" for "Sweeney". 18th line, same page, omit "on Sweeney's report". Page 8, 3rd line from top, put in after "Hardee": "after Dodge had twice repulsed his right with great loss", so that the line will read, "Hardee, after Dodge had twice repulsed his right with great loss, faced a forest." Same page, 6th line, strike out whole sentence: "On he came for over two miles." Also strike out in 11th line another sentence, "^is caused the first firing heard." In the 12th line, same page, strike out the word "interview and substitute "delay", so that the sentence will read "After the briefest delAy with Dodge". Page 9, 6th line, substitute "Cleburne's" for "Maney'd".Page 10, 19th line from top, substitute "Iowa" for "Ohio", so that the sentence will read, "0ol. Belknap of the 15th Iowa." I thought of putting a note at the foot of page 13, referring to the 6th line: "Only one regiment, Swayne's with some cavalry, reached Sprague. Cox's help intended by Dodge for Decatur, came to him later in the dayT" Page 14, 12th line from bottom, after the words "aTded by" introduce this phrase, "Swayne's regiment, and ", so that the sentence will read, "aided by Swayne's regiment and Kuhn's battalion of mounted infantry," etc. I see plainly that I was led astray by Gen. Sherman's report and statements in his book, and perhaps by my own report which I drew upon information and not on personal knowledge. It was my conviction, which I now know was erroneous, that the battle began just in the rear of Blair near his hospitals, instead of with you. Will you kindly notice if the changes that I suggest will make my account reasonably clear? Of course I would prefer to rewrite or recast the whole, but cannot do It verj'- well, without great cost. When T speak of the reconnaissance between Plain's left and your command, it will answer just as well to put Dodge for Sweeney as you did send an officer and probably men, to look over that ground. Kindly write me how Sweeney and Fuller stood with reference to each ekde other when in battle. Was Fuller's force to the right and .'Weeney s to the left as they faced the enem", or v/as Sweenev's force to the right and Fullers to the left as they faced the enemy? or Hoping you will have a pleasant journey to the west^ I remain, Sincerely yours, 0. C. Howard. , . . . 1 Cincinnati, Ohio, March 19th, 1908. General Grenville M, Dodge, Cornmander-in-chief, Nev/ York ^ity, N.Y . Dear Sir and Companion:- On behalf of the Ohio '-'omraandery of the Military Order of the Loyal -L-egion of th United States, a cordial invitation is extended to you to be present as an honguest of the Commandery, at the Annual Banquet to be serv ed at the St. Nicholas Hotel, Cincinnati, Ohio, May 6th, 1908. A warm welcome awaits you from the members of the Com mandery who will be present on that occarion. The Committee further expresses a wish that you respond in a brief speech to a toast, the selection of which is left to your decision. Awaiting an early and favorable reply, I am, very sincerely yours, James L, Poley, Chaii'man of the Banquet Committee. New York^f; March 19, 1908. Dear Nate: I do not know whether this w^'ll find you at the ranch or not. Tf it does you will see by the letter T am writing Friday that I expect to be in Uvalde the last of April. My plans are to go with Mr, Truinbull about the middle df April over our lines in Colorado and Texas, and after I get through to go west to Uvalde and look after matters there; then to El Paso, then back along the Texas & Pacific and look after my lands, then slowly up the Fort Worth and Denver, stopping at each po'nt there. I f-"nd that T have to give these matters personal attent^'on. Jennings left them in such shape we cannot unravel them pxcept I am on the ground at each place. Hope you are having a pleasant visit. I shall arrange to have Friday meet me at Uvalde. X think your proposition of selling 3 and 5 and leasing 7, 9 and 37 is all right. You have not written me anything about Bandera County - whether Friday could g o ovei' there but T will see him about it when I get down there. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. 1908. The third ban<jUefof the Iowa Society of New York was held at the Plaza Hotel on March 22. It was the last banquet that I attended as President of the Society. There was a large attendance and Gov. Hughes of Iowa, Gov. A. B. Cvunniins of Iowa, Congressman Frank 0. Lowden, a native of Iowa, but a citizen of Illinois, took part in the banquet. Some two hundred twenty-five Hawkeyes and guests werd in attendnace and the spedches of Hughes and Cxiramins were given very close attent^'on. They both expressed the^'r views politically and socially; they were both considered progressives. Governor Cumm^'ns said: "Remembering the awful retirubtion wh^ch so swiftly followed the "Fairbanks cocktail, " I ask you to r^se and dr'nk with me in water if there is such a fluid here--to t]:e health and prosperity of Charles E. Hughes, Governor of the State of New York. He then proposed another toast to the commander of armies, the constructor of railwasy, the patriotic citizen, the president of your Society, General Grenville M. Dodge." When I introduced Ifovernor Hughes the welcome was so tumultuous that it was several minutes before he could speak. March, 1908. Des Moines, March 26, 1908, Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa." My Dear General;- I herewith hand you the brief historical sketch of your old regiment which you read at the historical building this morning, and which T wish to have you go over more at your leisure. I am placing this manuscript in your hands with the request that you will make such additions and alterations as may suggest themselves to you after a more careful reading. It is the purpose of the Board to have the manuscript for the first Volume in the hands of the printer not later than the 1st of May- *08. So I will be greatly obliged to you if you will return the enclosed copy with whatever changes 3rou may wish made as above indicated, not later than the 20th of April. I am very anxious to have this historical sketch as complete as it is possible to make it under the act, and had purposely left a margin for at least 12 pages more than the manuscript now contains, so do not hesitate to freely suggest such alterations and additions as i^ou may think desirable. In so far as it is possible for me to do, I am submitting the historical sketch of each Iowa regiment and organi zation to one of its survivors, who I consider most capable of passing a judgment upon it, before publication. The first volume will contain the histories and revised rosters of the 1st to the 10th Infantry, inclusive. We may be able to get out one or two more volumes before the meeting of the next General Assembly. At all events, whether it be one or more Volumes, it will show the scope and plan of the whole work and enable us to get the necessary additional appropriatio to complete it. The Volumes will be convenient size for handling, well printed and bound containing about 1000 pages each, the entire set to consist of six volumes, with possibly one more volume of about 400 pages devoted' exclusively to the early military history of the State. Yours very truly. G. W. Crosley, Secretary. April, 1908. Des Moines, April 1, 1908, General G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, lov/a. My Dear General Yours of March 28th, with newspaper clipping and the manuscript "Sketch of the 4th Iowa Infty." was duly received. I' thank you for the three additions you suggest, and will incorporate them in their proper place in the body of the work. I have never seen the biographical sketch of yourself by Mr. Granger, or the sketch in the Pottawattamie County history, and would like very much to have them, will greatly appreciate the favor if you will send them to me. I will be glad to comply with your request to have Col. Nichols examine my sketch of the 4th Inf. I will tell him it is sent at your request and ask him to make such suggestions as may occur to him. I hope to have all the material for the first Volume in the hands of the Pinter by the Ist of June at the latest, and to have the Volume out in August or September. Of course there may be delays not now anticipated, but the book will be published just as soon as careful proof reading can be completed, as the sheets come back to me. I want it to be satisfactory in every way. Yours very truly, G. W. Crosley. '141 \ Chicago April 10, 1908, My dear General Dodge: I am much gratified to receive your personal letter of the 9th inst. I quite agi'ee with, your conclusions respecting the effect of the recent panic on the agricultural districts of the country in comparison with the manufacturing sections. It is evident they have suffered less. The high prices obtained by agriculturists for the products of the farm, inclusive of live stock, during the past year have placed that interest on a firm financial basis, a condition that is shared by the merchants and other classes of business directly related to agriculture. The large falling off in Gross Earnings of this Company( and we are suffering severely) is due mainly to a recession in the volume of merchandise, manufactures and minerals, although there is less tonnage in grain especially corn. The gih prices of th-t cereal indicate a short cropand poor quality. I think all carriers are confronted with losses from now until Autumn in Gross, and of course in Net There is a limit in the reducuion in numbers of employes, as well as curtailment in expenditures on account of physical improvements and maintenance. It is fairly due the carriers, in view of all the conditions, that charges should be increased for t e service they render the public, and I am firmly of the opinio. that the ublic is willing to pay a fair price for ®^"ficient transprotation service. How to accomplish an increase which v/ould at the same time recognise competitive conditions between carriers, as well as between locations, is an intricate doubtless aware th-t in three western states where the out o, + thejdirect consent operates of the R its ilrord lines 'commissioners we cannot make of such advances stateswith een all th^lines! effective would need to be a simultanioue as betw enjoyable visit in your old home and that I may have the opportunity of seeing you either on vourw-^v to New York or there sometime in the near future. ^ yourway This is of course an entirely personal lettor. Yours with great respect and very sincerely. Marvin Hughitt, G. M. Uodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Des Moines, Iowa , April 11, 1908. Gen. Grenville M. ^odge, Council i^luffs, Iowa, Dear General: our kind letter of April 10th at hand. The other night when we were referring to the Shiloh -^-nniversary, we forgot that vye were within two days of the r^nniversary of the surrneder of Lee, but I have no doubt that you thought of it. I enjoyed myself at your home. In fact I enjoyed my entire Council Bluffc, trip. I am glad to find you so pleasantly situated. The people of iowa will improve every opportunity to show their appre ciation for you. 1 shall preserve your letter. By the way, we must all go to work for Am son, I have written to Mr. Admas suggesting a great, big Allison caucus in Des Moines of 1,000 or 2,000 delegates, with Dolliver, Bridsall and others to make speeches. In that way we could arouse new enthusiasm, with my sincerest best wishes, I remain. Sincerely yours. Lafayette Young, ' v,'- '' 'i,'' ■ Aptil, 1908, 172 Norwood Ave., Buffalo, N. Y., April 12, 1908. Gen. G. M. Dodce, r New York City. My dear General Not everyone is permitted to celebrate his 77th birthday and enjoy the health, strength and vigor that you enjoy, and from the very depth of my heart I think our good heavenly father for this blessing. When I recall the active and ever fearless part, you, my dear General, have always taken in any important matter, in time of peace as well as time of war,- at least since I have had the pleasure and honor of knowing you- I cannot help but consider you a perfect marvel. This country has had the good fortme to number you among their generals; many of them brave and truly noble men; yet, my dear General, permit me to say, that to judge by my own personal exper ience ( and I think that I know everyone of them), none deserves morehonor and credit than my honored friend. Gen. Grenville M, Dodge. May your strength, health and vigor remain the same for many, many years to come, is my most sincere and heartfelt wish. With much respect and esteem, I beg to remain. Very truly yours, A. F R. Arndt. April, 1908. 79 • Port of New York. April 14th, 1908, My dear General;- Your letter of April 9th has just reached me, finding me at home, where I have been for nearly two weeks laid up with a pretty serious illness which has required absolute quiet, and from which I have not yet recovered. I have just spent an hour to-day with Dr. Delafield, the most eminent medical authority in this city, as you know, and he has advised me to go to Hot Springs, Virginia, starting about next Tuesday, to remain two or three weeks. So not much can be expected from me, except that I can get Coker, ra y son, and others to help in the matter. I have been trying all day to get the Tariff people by telephone, but the principal man is not in and is not expected until tonight or tomorrow morning; so I will send the letter ahead and send any further news from him as soon as I shall have received it. I think these peo pie will do something, but when they will do it I cannot tell any more than any one else. They seem extremely friendly to A. and as unfriendly to the other man, and they know the value of A. as well as anybody in the world knows it. I will keep at them and I think something can be relied upon from them if anything can be from anybody in these peculiar financial times. ' The G.'slthought were going to come to time week before last, but they ventured upon the Yukon Gold stock deal, as you know, as it was in the papers, under the help of Lawson, and instead of the matter bringing misfortune, it went the other way; so now they say they will have to depend on something else. As soon as I can get some one to talk to them, I will immediately write you. in ir. Iowa, Tr. I should say ^ have it is seen first of rate; the organization but about the of the only Allison information people I get from it is through the Register .-ind Leader, which seems to concede that the Allison fight is being made with both vigor and discretion. The Cummins people striking into the Reservation with the automobile crowds, which is quite a sensational and effective feature pS 1"° r ! impression unless they are counteracted. I think Headquarters organization which seems to have been adopted wnr-iroH at close ® range with the townships for and by county that everything seat. There can isbe n thing like getting the individual voter to work and then havinr the reserve organization to get out the votes. That and artiMprii^S i to the voter and hie pride ae a cltitln ?s mo^e^''" effective than surface work of any kind. The old opn+imoK>+ more and gratitude to Allison, If It oL bS reaSed " if in?lno?b?e othlng in the "orld is so strong as sentiment. Civilization itself la only sentiment. This Is the key to Allison's suocesg af f irffh? Will keep ' "111 sending 'P"® letters to soon you as at I your can address learn any at furthf Council ne.s Rincco af? ^ you can leave word what to do with them. (council Bluffs, and General G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Sincerely yours, J. S. Clarks( Des Molnes, Iowa, April 16, 1908, Gen. G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dear Sir:- I have this morning a letter from Mr. J. E. House, in which he states that yourself, Mr. Peter A. Dey, Mr. G. . House, and himself crossed the T;!ississippi at Daven ort in May 1853, These gentlemen have all expressed a desire to he here at the reunion May 26th and 27th and I trust that you may be able to also, as this would be, surely a pioneer quartette andbe one of the finest and mostinteresting getting together of the pioneers in the history of Iowa railroading. Yours very respectfully, w. B. Harrison, Secretary , 1908. On April 17, 1908, the railroad men of the early days held a reunion at Des ^oines and there was gathered there many of the noted railway men of the country. Among them was Peter A. Dey, George C. House, J. C. House, and h^s brother J. B. House. We four were in the first engineering party that crossed the Mississippi River at Danveport, Willie I intended to be present at th's meeting, unfortunately T was laid up at home, but addressed the gatliering in the following letter: , liardship and privations that raiiroad men jg impracticable and has been found by General Grenvii e . o ge s e er o - class had to contend witii ant the courts impossible. That of it which _ M G W T p- I 'i""' different our work in those days )tas been put in force has been acquiesced "May 2o, 1908.—^ r. . . les - compared with what it is under the jjj py the railroads and they are working dent Iowa Moines, la present modern conditions. Still I claim tvlth the interstate commerce and My Dear Sir. a w eepes legic performed our work as efflclently gtate commissions in harmony and en- , flmt I find myself unabe on account of interest in it and esprit de corps jgavoring to comply with the laws and! --p-auvely with the fe:ig,ons not only'in the letter but in the entTt' t^he reunion of the old-time >'all- ^ave T'''^°^th f'f^ew experience j way men of Iowa, for It was my good- , ha\ e seen th^e railroads of a few j,, ^hese matters. 1 have no doubt, myself, I torume early in 1855 to cross the Missis- ^row untd in the legislation will be made practical sippi river and be one of a party under ' *; nearly. benetlt to the roads and to the, m' Peter A. Dey. one of the most dis- ^"<1 state wo pggp,g tinguished railroad engineers and citizens. "uiit a network of them tha. „ ^ „ that made the first survey across the ^ t^^^ers almost every county in Roads Not Overcapitalized. state of Iowa from the Mississippi river ®'ving our state as ..j,j.pg,.,g,jgg g ^3 they at Davenport to Council Bluffs on the f""' no better, transportation seic- tiiat the raiiroad Missouri river, and to take part in the loes than that of any other state problem is a very hard one to solve and building of that line to Iowa City. I our union, although we are simp y an experience to frame think it was the first raiiroad built in agricultural state and it is this fact that accomplish the objects they ' the state of Iowa. I take great pleasure has made our state so prominent a fac- | and great satisfaction in extending my tor in all matters of national importance regreetings to my railroad comrades of that and that has given it such universal and ^g ,.a„roads of this country is l day. individual prosperity. ri,g statement often made by officials - "It has also been ^ Railroad Problem of Today. ^"<3 through the press that the railroads licivc continuGd my rflUrocid work from tlils coimtTv fir^ ovpi* naniiiiivGd tliot that day to this, even including the civil "The raiiroad problem of today is a Jr torwar. for in my duties Uiare I had to de- '.g^r [i?;.^"Th°en%hT whorilm Tnd et- Set that since the roads we're first built Ftroy and rebuild man> miles of road, fo country was to obtain the that out of their earnings millions upon r sr.;;.,™ ..m ssr.. -» »■ r• "ss? and in all these years I have seen tiio stock were given to capital that would improvernent and betterment, for u work of you men that has developed and lnvh®t in them; it was the only methoD irougiit such prosperity to this that of other products and Industries Their Work an Enduring Monument, day which now are considered of such ; our countiy. They forget that re "The men of the early day who risked great worth, added very little in the ne- life ot the railroad now Is only a ou tlieir fortunes and their credit to develop gotiations of the securities that built the twe ve jears an rat t ras d I his great country are not only entitled .pgd I that during our time mo®t of to our thanks, but monuments should be ' the roads of the United States have been laieed to tlie work wliicli they accom- "T^e growth of the coimtry. its bust- rebuilt three times and the rebuilding of pllshed. for most of them waited many nass. its population has brought about them has one-half of it come out of its many years before they received any re- an entirely different state of affairs. Leg- es-rnmgs and all this has been added to turns from the vast Investments whiciv islatlon of today for the police and con- capital without the issue of bonds or they made. The railroads of tills conn- trol of railroads ail tends to prevent the try were most 3ar ahead ^luiding of new roads and to enhance Great improvements Made, of the populations demand and were the , pioneers In the development and settle- ' of o d ones, so that now "When you go back to our day and re- ment of tlie country. Tliese men have transportation of the country is organ- ^-ere iron and | never received the credit tliat is due tliem, ized in great systems instead of as in an only about forty or fifty pounds to tiie but some day wlien tlie liistory of the early day wliere every road was running yard in weight, our cars were of twenty railroads of the United States Is written, in its own interest and independent of tons, our locomotives of thirty tons, and the risk they took, tiie work they ac- every one of its connections. It is a sin- that now our rails are steel and run eomplislied will equal that of any other guiar fact in this modern legislation that; from seventy-five to 105 pounds to the performance in our or any other country, the people best equipped for forming it! yard, our cars from forty to sixty tons. To you who were in the beginning it is and carrying it out have been very lit- ' our locomotives sixty to 100 tons on the "21,. relate the exposure, tie considered. Therefore, much of it drivers, and that most of our roads in their bridges, in their shops, and all of Its improvements have had to be recon structed in the same way and are only. today being made permanent; when you I consider than in an early day the ques tion of terminals was never a factor, while today the terminals of some roads passing through some cities cost more than the road itself; when you see such roads as the Pennsylvania spending >iOO,- 000,000 to get Its passenger trains only into New York city, and the New York Central spending an equal amount to en large its passenger facilities in New York; when you see such great systems in the west as the Union Pacific and the Southern Pacific having spent in the last five years over $200,000,000 to reduce their curvatures and grades and to see the immense sums that hqve to be spent all over the United States to develop the capacity of the properties, you can then' begin to comprehend the fact which staticians who have examined the question thoroughlj'- say that the railroads of the United States today are not over capital ized. In other words, there has been more actual money put into them than their stock and the bonds represent. Thl.s has been attested to by the president of the United States, who probably has given it closer attention than any one else out side of the railroads, and by the inter state commerce commission, who have also given it great study, and they have both given the opinion that the roads today of the United States are not over capitalized, and that fact is becoming patent to the people of the United States, for the great increase in stockholders in the roads of the United States today shows that instead of these properties be ing in the hands of a few wealthy men, as is often asserted, they are owned most in this country by a vast number of stockholders, which Is increasing daily. People Should See the Truth. "It is the duty of us who have been long connected with the roads, or who were connected with them in an early, day. to do what we can to educate the people of the United States as to the real facts In connection with railroading. In my opinion where the railroad people, have been lacking In their duties Is in not educating the people as the years went by, and setting forth more clearly to them the railroad interests and their intentions, Tlie fact Is that every rail-' read man lias been so busy looking afterj the proper administration of liis property that he has very seldom or ever gone into a defense or explanation of his work. As a proof of this I have been a railroad man continuously since I was 19 years oldi and this is the first letter that I have' ever written that in any way went to a defense of the railroads of the country. I have been in favor from the beginning with a great many other railroad men of the country who were among the first to bring the necessity to the government's attention of proper legislation for bring ing about uniformity, in all service, rea sonable and fixed rales without rebates with proper control of the railroads of the United States. Tiie necessity for this' has only come In the last few years, and It Is recognized now almost universally by railroad men, and your association can do a great deal to continue it in a sen sible, and profitable way, and I trust at this meeting a permanent organization of the roalrcad men will be formed for Proud of Record Made. "Every one of you should be proud of! the fact that you have been a part of and did your duty in the great railroad field that numbers many of our ablest men and officials of our country, that you have been a part of that great system which employs over a million and a half of our population, and as one of you, the highest compliment that can be paid me when I am gone is that I was over fifty years one of the railroad fra ternity of the United States and did my duty tQ the best of my ability. "It is a great disappointment to me that I cannot be present with you, to first grasp by the hand my old chief • peter A. Day, whom I hold to be one of the ablest of the railroad men of our. country, one of the squarest, fairest and most just of all the men I ever met, and the two Houses, J. E. and George, who were In our little party that crossed the Mississippi river in 1853. "Truly and cordially your comrade, "GRENVILLE M. DODGE." ! J J':; I H ./f nO i.oT J' f ■'o "KV/ffj" ■ fl" 'a .to (ju r.«*r ■ f ,85 1908 .0001 Mr. John N. Baldwin died in Omaha on April 16, 1908. He had been sick for two years. He was one of the strong men of Iowa and the friendship of his fathej*, Judge Caleb Baldwin had come^ down through h^"m f ^ to me and his death caused a great sorrow. P.or twenty-nine years he had been connected with the legal department of the Un-'on Pacifc and for two years was its general Solicitor. H's rise was remarkable —starting in CounCl Bluffs thirty years ago from a local attorney in that city he- rose by steps to the •head of his profession as the leader in politics; in fadt,' was looked upon as t, e controler of the Republican, politics of Nebraska. The Democratic paper, the "World Herald," in speaking of him says: "iBy the election of November 4, in Nebi:;aska the sceptor was transferred anew to an uncrowned k^ng, s name did not appear upon the official ballot, nor w-11 the official canvassing board proclaim the ascendancy of John N. Baldwin's pol^t^cal star, yet the campaign that has just closed has witnessed th- establishment of'a new influence In the politics of th^ estate. Without so much as a-deprecatory "By your leav^,"■Jo;n N. Baldwin, product of another state Imported without payment of tariff duty across the Missouri, has been installed as the head of government "under the d'rect^O!: and by the authority of the railroads of Nebraska." This new star In the pol'tlcal firmament is today the most talked about men in the state. There, seems to be a great and pardonab.le-curi oslty regarding the political progenitor of "Our man Mickey," and a feeling of mild amazement at the graceful skill with which he has vaulted into the saddle of railroad politics and assumed the reins. Be it understood that the vault is a figurative one, and ti.at it does less violence to rhetorical license than tne literal vault would do to Mr, Baldwin's 260 pounds on which ad valcrem ciiarges as aforesiad were not prepaid. It is a mktter of general knowledge that Mr. Baldwin inadvert ently took the ublic into his confidence through the columns of the Omaha Bee, wherein he was reported last June, ten"days before the republican state convention, to have saidthat the railroads were not worrying any more about the republican gubernatorial nomination, as they had "agreed on Mickey" as th ir man. It '3 not to be supposed that Mr. Baldwin was talking for publication when he made that state ment. On the contrary, it was at a private little luncheon at tiae Henshaw Cafe, at iihich another prom nent lawyer, Frarcis A. Brogan; a prominent doctor of tl is city. Dr. J. E. Summers^ and E. W. Simeral a legal protege of Edward Rosewater, were present. Owing to the fact that Mr. Baldwin was not on the stump ho told the truth freely, even recklessly, not dreaming that h was building for the future. He was aware that in Iowa and some parts of Nebraska he nPght privately impart 1908. confidences without reserve, and on th* s occas-ion he assumed that the^P survey -iiad heen properly made, but he' neglected .to call for an abstract. Thus it was that on a memorable mom^'ng there appeared in the Bee, under a Lincoln datel'ne and purporting to be a news dispatch from the capital, the famouH Baldwin nterview," It is unnecessary' to state that the important bit of news did not come from Lincoln, -either by telegraph or slow fre-'gbt, but was expeditiously transported from the Henshaw to the Bee bu'lding by Mr. Simeral, and poured with almost indecent haste into ears specially adjusted to receive it. It was not altogether pleasant, but Mr. Baldwin never denied making the statement although it was printed and reprinted durin* the campaign wh'ch follow ed the nomination that was made after the ra'lroads had "agreed on Mickey" as their mian. ~ . ' In view of all the circumstances, it was not strange that Baldwin became a central figure of the campaign. He had more to do witli it than any other one fliidividual in Nebraska. In a large measure he directed the campaign, and to all 'nt'ents and purposes he was the' campaign. He became t^.e new hub of the ra^'Iroad-political wheel, shouldering aside- the old-fraers in directing railroad politics, and himself becoming the whole fron . and center. This is the position he occupies today and it is quite natural ,that keen public interest has been aroused in the man who has so quickly achieved an admitted leadership in Influential circles, and who will undoub':/edly have more to do with shaping legislation by the brutal majority of the republican legislature at Lincoln this winter than any other one individual or influence. Fortunately for Mr. Baldwin, he'vvill bear inspection. His is a most agreeable and interesting personality. Nature cut him out to .mingle with his fellow men. He is a big-whole-souled, jolly fellow, "a finished scholar, an eloquent orator, an able lawyer, a polished gentleman. He is a born diplomat, and he can make more mistakes and have fewer people find it out 4han any man who has ever monkeyed with the political buzz saw. In the many manipulations of railroad politics, John N. Baldwin is pre-em'nent, but not in the way•that his predecessors and confreres have been. He has not depended alone or. the. distribution of railroad passes and free transportation, but has devoted himself to the details of campaign work and evolved system and success out of disorder and disorganization. Baldwin has a genius for organization, and in'the campaign just, closed he planned and directed, somet.lmes in con-function with the managers of the campaign committee, but just, as often* goin.-;: ahead on his own hook. When the republica committee was disheartened and discouraged, Baldwin was seem'ngly most confident. He never lost his nerve, ^ut plwwed along as if he had the normal Iowa majority to rely on Instead of the uncertainty of a close state like Nebraska. He is probably the most potential factor in Nebraska politics today, and if he can succeed in transmitting some of h's infectious gooj3 nature to the operating departments, it will be'but a short time until peopl will go out of their way to get on th^ track hnd be run over by passing trains, John N. i^aldwin is a young man, though old enough to know W better. He was born in Council Bluffs forty-five years ngo. His father was Caleb Baldwin, one of the ablest lawyers in Iowa and a man of national reputatio . The son is a graduate of the law school of the Iowa State university and has always made his home in his 1908. native city. He was married in 1878 to Miss Lilly G. Holcomb of Cedar Rapids. They have two ch'ldren, a daughter who is a graduate of Vassar, and a son, 15 years old, who s attenci^'ng St. Paul's School, Concord, N.'!. Although he has never held public office, Mr. Baldw-'n has always managed to drive politics and h^'s profession as a double team. He is a rampant republican, having always been identified with the Gear faction in Iowa politics, and taken an active part both t'mes when Senator Gear was elected, and incidentally he is almost exclusively a corporation attorney. The firm of Wright and Baldwin are attorneys in Council Bluffs for -he Milwaukee and Burlington railroad companies, and also for all the franchised public utility cor orations, including the gas and electric light company, the water caompany and the street railway company. Twenty-five years ago Mr. Baldwin entered the employ of the Union Pacific as its local attorney at Council Bluffs, and has remained with it continuously ever since. His territory anc jurisdiction gradually expanded, until three years ago he was made general attorney of that road for Nebraka and Iowa, and in conjunction v;ith Judge W.r. Kelly, general solicitor, he has joint supervision of the work of the legal department for th- entire system, covering seven states. As an orator Mr. Baldwin has achived a national reput ti on. He first attracted outside attention through his speech as temporary chairman ^n the Iowa state republican convention 1894. In 1896 he presented the name of Senator Allison at the repi.blican national convention at St. Louis. He was nominate d as an elector-at-large on the Iowa ticket In 1900, and he stumped Iowa and other western states for McKinley in 1896 and 1900." It was my good fortune to have been thrown first with Jwln# John T. Baldwin, his uncle, and after with Judge Caleb Baldwin, his fat.ier, so that tl.e whole family, all the way down, even to the present day, are my close personal friends. There has been no one who has paid me more tributes ana been a better friend than John N. Baldwin. April, 1908. The Cairo, Washington, D.C., April 18th, '08. My Dear General Many years ago jrou made a trip with Gen. Auger and Genl. Rawlins to Salt Lake City, and on your return camped near me on the bank of the North Platte belowcthe point at which the U.P. Ry, afterwards crossed. I was at that time in charge of a party of your engineers. The day before your arrival I had killed a fine buck Elk and the head was in front of my tent. You took a great fancy to it and I promised if your parties did not bring you a good one yoii should have it. Along in Jany. I received a letter from you, then being a Member of Congress in which you said "all my Engineer parties in and not a good one." I very reluctantly fulfilled my promise by sending the head to your home in Council Bluffs. I now write to say that I have a son just of age and if you could transfer it to him he could point to it as a trophy of his father's skill as a nimrod. Very truly. E. M. Coates. Brig. Gen. Rt. IP ■ i'. April, 1908. 120 Nassau St., Mew- York April 21, 1908 Genl. G. M. Dodge, Nevf York City. My dear General At the request of Messrs. Shubert and Anderson, I beg to extend to you and party a cordial invitation to visit the N.Y. Hippodrome as their guests on Saturday afternoon, May 2, and witness the Battle of Port Arthur. Gen. Bred D. Grant with Mrs. Grant and their friends, will be there, as will many veteran officers of the Civil i^ar, as the date has been made a special Military Invitation Day. You may remember me as an acquaintance of many years ago when I was head of the American Exchange in Europe and had the pleasur of meeting you, as far back, I think, as 1874-76. Kindly advise nie of the number of your party, so that due reservation of box seats may be made and the tickets forwarded. With best wishes. Yours truly, Henry F. Gillig • 1. ' ■ ' ,. I . ' 4 ' "■I' i 0. May, 1908. Off Coast of Palestine, May 8, 1908. Dear Genl.;- I am on my way to Alexandria to take steamer for Greece which is on my route back to Naples. Expect to reach Athens in about four days and get my mail, having ordered it there. Date of last letter from home was March 20th. I shall leave this coast without any regrets. The Arab has no attraction for me, reminds me of our Indians. They are well trained to pluck the tourist and not leave a pin feather. Judea, which includes the southern part of Palestine is a barren looking country, mountainous and rocky and no forest trees and not many fruit trees. Small tracts of land between the stone ledges are cultivated, in some valleys groves of Olive trees, but not enough of them to change aspect of country; The landing at Jaffa is bad and cannot be made in rough weather, from there to Jerusalem 50 miles is Navoon gauge R. R. which runs about 15 miles per hour, for about 20 miles out of Jaffa, across plains Sharon it is nice farming country. I could imagine myself back in Towa. Then you begin winding through the valleys ar gorges between these rocky Mts. which is character of country. Balance of the way to Jerusalem and beyong close aro)nd that city there are gardens and orchards, also around Bethlehem but going East to the Jordan Valley it grows rougher and rore barren. It must have changed, deteriorated, since Christ s time. Jerusalem makes a good appearance from Mt. of Ollive. The new fort outside of the walls is modern and good stbstantial stone buildings, churches. Hospices, etc., bvit the city within the walls especially where the Jews and Arabs live is in very unsanitary condition, beggard everywhere, holding out their hands for bak-shust and yet no city in the world has so many churches, hospices, hospitals and missions but the average Arab dont like to live indoors and be cared for, he prefers the street or road side where he can see what is going on and solicit alms. We were two weeks in and around Jerusalem visiting Bethlehem, Jerico, Jordan Valley and Dead Sea. Then came back to Jaffa and went up the coast to Haifa where there is a thrifty German Colony, but another bad landing, weather making sea rough. Prom there we drove through Galilee, visiting Nazareth and Lake Queberias(?) Here we found a different country from Judea, beautiful valleys of growing grain, wheat and barley, and where land was not under cultivation it\as carpeted with wild flowers, some of them like poppy made it brilliant with flowers in places, no fences or farm houses to mar the beauty of the landscape, the people all live in stone villiages with mud roofs, no floors, no furniture, in fact live about as the Indians did forty years ago. The women do all the hard, that which a fammer in our country would expect a pair mules to do, pack great heavy jugs of water on their heads, bring great bundles of brush long distances for fire wood and do the road repairing. The men also work in the fields and their fields look clean and they have promise of big crons having had about 40 inches rain past winter. We had same dragoman with us in Galilee that Dr. and Mrs. Stewart had who were with Clarks party. This boat is crowded with priests and Pilgrims who journey from different countries to the Holy land at Easter time each year, now returning to their homes by way of Egypt. We are now at Port Said and I hear that England has sent an ultimatum to Russia, she must release her claim to Manchuria and is sending war vessels to far East. It is onl^ occasionall we get any news. I am anxious to get back where I can be more in touch with the world. I am weary of sight seeing and all the dis comforts that'attend it and they are many in the Arab Count±ies. It makes one appreciate the advantages and comforts of his own country to travel in these semi-civilized countries. While I have been favored with good health, I am anxious to get backand_be where I can give ra y personal attention to my affairs, and if the way opens so I can leave Carrie with some one I think I shall return earlier than I planned. We have good weather, only rain storm we have seen was on Lake Cueberias. That is a beautiful sheet of water, 13 m. by 6 m. surrounded by high hillls. Our sea vojrages have also been i^leasant, this boat runs from point to point in night and lays by day 'times to load and unload freight. We lay here at Port Said today and this P. M. go to Alexandria arriving tomorrow morning taking boat same P. M. for Pierus, sea port of Athens. Better address me hereafter care Munroe S- Co., Bankers, Paris, Prance. We can then have mail sent us by them whereever we are. I presume we will be about a week in Greece. Then go to Naples stay few days, then to Rome and Florence. I hope you keep well. Very truly,. .N. P. Dodge. < 'i' f I ,. ' M vF r. : -," . ••ri yj /copy. A. W. Wills Postmaster Nashville, Term. May 9th, 1908. ]^s John A. Logan, Washington, B.C. My dear Mrs. Logan: As a comrade and warm friend, great admirer of Gen. Logan,I "beg to enclose herewith clippings from the Confederate "Veteran published af Nashville in its issue of January 1908 and March 1808, which explain themselves, and I took the liberty of writing to the Postmaster at Mount Vernon, Illinois, enclosing clippings and asked for information on the subject, in order that I might answer the articles, and I enclose herewith letters from John R. Moss, who was Captain of Company C, 60th Illinois. He is a very old man and appears to have been a resident of Mo\int Vemon Illinpis all of his life. I thought it proper to submit these matters to you, and if you thou^t well, to answer same, and I would be ^ad to have your letters published in the Confederate Veteran in reply to the charges referred to . I think it unfortunate that these matters should be brou^t up at this late day after the death of the individuals concerned. Kindly return the enclosures with Jrour reply. Very respectfully, A.W.WILLS. ..97 COPY. Confederate VeteraA, March, 1908 JOHN A. LOGAN—AN OPEN LETTER. There comes to the Veteran from South Haven, Kans.,,the following clipping yellow with age and hea<ied as above. Mt. Vemon, 111., August 8, I88I, To the Hon.Ben Hill, Atlanta , Ge).. ; n-i My dear Sir; The smoke of battle having cleared away, it is perhaps not in appropriate to notice the acts and conduct of the participants. In the Sen ate of the United States last winter I noticed a discussion between you and the Hon. John A. Logan, from this State, in vhich that Honorable Senator ^took occasion to make a broad denial of the charges long laid at his dior of his disloyalty at the Breaking out of the way. While I do not desire to re open a matter that may be so annoying to the honorable Senator, yet I think it but fair and right that the other side of the "history" should be wtitten. I have known Mr. Logan for many years; often met him in polit ical meetings before and at the beginning of the war. At that time he was a mamber of the House from the Thirteenth District of this State. I was publishing a Democratic paper at this place. I well remember Mr. Logan of that day as the most ultra man in politics then in the State, it being gen erally understood that he was in favor of Southern Illinois seceding and Joining the Confederacy. In I86I, near James a. Fitzgerald's, in this county, he made a speech filled with the most vindictive epithets upon the adinimistration--infact, language seemed to fail him in denovincing the "unholy war" land among the mild (?) sentences he used, I well remember the following, made by Mr. Logan the day referred to: 'May my tongue cleave to the roof of my mouth and my right arm wither should I take up aciis against my breth- ern of the South *. m This speech v/as made in the presence of hundreds of men hesid-^P^ es myself who are today living and vvirll hear testimony to the fact* In.McLeanshoro, Hamilton County, 111., on Tuesday, the 2Ist, of May, I86I, Mr. Logan drew his howie knife and threatened in the most abusive,language to cut .down the stars and stripes which was then over the courthouse because he said it was placed there as an insult to him as a member of the Democratic party in Southern Illinois. These remarks v/ers made in the presefiPe of many good citizens, whose names will be produced if required. These treasonable actions and utterances were continued by Mr. Logan until he received a visit from a messenger of Governor Yates, who at the time was a regularly appointed special deputy United States marshal. This officer called upon Mr. Logan at his home, in Jackson county, armed with two weapons only—a. commission to recruit and organize a regiment for the Federal army, the other an orfier duly signed for the arrest of John a/ Logan as a Kebel sympathizer. Mr. Logan was given his choice— the . world knows which^he took. I am prepared to furnish the order of arrest, which is still in existence and at command vdien circumstances require. I have no reason for making the statsinents other tnan a desire to see the- facts go into history as they really existed at the time—before he was presented with the alternative of a commission or an arrest. He was compelled oto leave Centralia, in this State, on a special engine to pre vent a session of Judge Lynch's court, which was convening for the purpose , of trying My.Logan for treasonable utterances. I have withheld the names of individuals in this coniinunication, thinking it better to produce thenm in a future article in case a denial is made, for the honorable gentleman's benefit and that the true facts may go into history. I hand you this throufilj^ the press. For any information you may desire in reference to me-, I refer you to the Hon. R.W.Townsend, member of the House from this Districe, the - • 2" •• Hon. Sam S. Marshall, former member and the Hon. Thomas S. Casey, one of the judges of the Appellate Court of this State. Very respectfully, Edward V. Satterfield. ' I ■ ^ *11 • *. V.'< . * ■ copy. ioi Confederate Veteran, «^anuary, 1908. 9 WORD FROM TEE OTHER SIDE. By Capt. S.F.Horrall, Washington,Ind. Herewith find clipping from local paper here, editorial page. I told Mr. Boyd, the editor who reviewed your magazine, that "I hope to get p.p a cir culation for the Veteran here". Hence these tears . You say in relation to Captain DeRosset'a letter; "It is currently hdlieved that the distinguished John A. L&gan was really organising a command in Southern Illinois to fight #for State rights with the South, etc." This no doubt, grew out of the fact that a brother-in-law of General Logan's and of Shawneetovm, 111., did raise a company "to figiLt",etc. 7/hen General Logan was a mamber of the Illinois State Legislature, this writer was principal of the Benton (111) Academy of learning, and personally well knew him. He was ^^a Democrat of the Stephen A. Douglas school; and vhen the ear broke out, Mr. Douglas, who had been defeated by Mr. Lincoln, but was a United States Sen ator, at once made it plain to Mr. Lincoln that he (Douglas) would stand for a vigorous prosecution of the way by the United States government. His votes as a Senator show this. When the firdt battle of Bull Run w as being fou^t. Gen. John A. Logan placed hinself in the ranks of the Union Army and fou^t all day as a private. This is easily verified.He was than a member of the United States House of Representatives. On returning to Washington City, he tendered his resignation of a seat in Congress, asked a commission to raise a regiment of troops of President Lincoln, got it, raised a regiment, and rose rapidly in rakk to major-general. His speeches, yet of record (newspaper) stand as proofs that in South Illinois, as in South Indiana, there was storng aecess- ^,on sentiiient, and which speeches silenced all talk favorable to secession; and as compared to the middle and north of Illinois by population. Southern Illinois furnished more than its quota for the Union Army, chiefly officered . 102 "by Mr. |iOgan's warm Douglas Democaratic friends. The "War Records" are proof. When at the battle of Fort Donelson, he was severely v^ounded, a delegation of Southern Illinois people asked Logan to resign and be elected Representative to Congress again. His answer was akin to that of Patrick Henry on the Declaration of Ameriaan Independence--viz., that his 'heart was in the cause to preserve the Union. "Live or die, survive or perish, I am for the Declaration." The proof of this will be found in speeches or orations delivered on the United States Senate floor by members of that body of both sides politically. And as to South Indiana, the same means—speeches made by Hon.Charles Denby and James M.Shanklin—turned the tide or undercurrent of secession steadily for the Union cause, and both of these men were field offioers*- Denby, lieutenant colonel, and Shanklin, major of the 42nd Indiana Veteran Voli^teer Infantry. Each was a Democrat politically, and each had a horse ^ killed under him; Denby at Perryville, Ky., and Shanklin at Murfreesboro, Tenn. The latter was captured and conveyed to Libby Prisdn. . * i ... . f .i i 1 ll .V •;l; ■ Vs: j-htr i'". . - 7 ■ ', 1 ..■I " • •; no i.: 1 .ifli'i . .1" ir , I ..j i ' I ■ .' .'.I May, 1908, 1124 Vt. Ave., Washington, D. C, May 10, 1908, Uy Dear Genl:- I am glad to hear through Granger th^t you are home again. I hope you had an agreeable trip in the far S.W, and that jrou are well. The matter of the Monument is now finally settled to your satisfaction. Genl. Grant gave the opposition a final quietus. It now looks to me as if we would not get --way from here before the 25th. My health has been improving all the time. I hear little of the details of what is going on in Iowa, in general. I see the Gov. and his special friends are very active and aggressive. Mr. Adams write me hopefully all the time. I wish you would give him such encouragement as your information warrants. Dolliver, I am told has made recently some fine speeches he tells me he will make others last of May. Birdsell has gone to Iowa and will speak frequently beginning the 15th and I think Cousins will also speak. Granger tells me you will spend a month in Iowa. I hope you will come to see me "t Dubuque after my return last of r-lay. I rend kind greetings to you and your household in which Mrs. Brayton says she wishes to join and also wants to see you.Drop me a line when you have time. Sincerely yours, W. B. Allison. 'I ^ v.-'". V v' . ? I, ■ "? Q"' ^ , ' 'i- May, 1908. Burlington, Vt., May 19th, 1908, Gen. G. M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, New York, M.Y. Dear General Dodge:- I do not know that you are back in New York. As I explained to you, it would be of the greatest advantage to our University if you could possibly pay in the fSOOO right away. You thought you might be able to do so very soon when I saw you. We had a glorious Comniencement and Mr. Carnegie helped me out again this year with running expenses, so that no teacher went anxious - Mrs. Howard is very weak and ailing and I am greatly « to going with you. Hoping this may find you in the best 6f health and spirits. I remain. Sincerely yours, 0. 0. Howard. Ues f.foines, iowa. May 25, 1908. General Grenvile M. ^odge, Council liluffs, Iowa. ' x'- Dear General:- »jS' You have had a grand career of achievement. You have the ability to have made - good president of the United states. As a mattr of fact you are today the greatest citizen of Iowa. These assertions are preliminary to v/hat I want to say. There are some things you ought to have done Some ^ood writer ought to come to Council Bluffs and stay for a year, more or less, preparing a history of the building of the Union Pacific Railroad and he ought to at the sametime be preparing a history of your career as a soldier. This work ought to be in two volumns. One I'dume ou"-ht to be devoocd to the UnionPa ific Railroad and oiie volume to your ° military career. As matters are now drifting, there will be no suificient permaneiit record made of your life v/ork as a railroad build er and as a solkier. So much for that part of it. There ought to be some memorirl of you in Des Moines. This Is the oapltol of the state for fifty years your home. It will remain the Capitol so long as the state exists. Our old friend Drake, wouldalmost be forgotten were it not for Drake Universitv. + nothing to be compared with yours—his abilitv nothing to be compared to your either, although we all lived Drake, Uould it be too much to suggest and would it savor to o much of selfishness to say that we ought to have down town mo^nmpnt°r monument to the Iowa soldiers with a statue of ^^ere Crocker, would with be the a understanding that those who survive you shall nut therein a worthy monument and statue of -odge? ^ou mirS bro??ond«H fn have that done while you wore living. ^ off-nded to I have tLuSt o?'It"e?en?l°uL'ria?eir®®Sf cou'' and oa.eer will stand as a monument Sur?i;errou°hrto''brsfUKU^'- more particularlv done .f, io be something containing -.e ZlT no^ loir narr"f= with Iowa and there are some mnmimont.. » ^ name is forever connected Council Bluffs, The significant ?h?ng sSou^rbfat'^Dee SoiL^L'"™' over Wit?. """^hs sider the mattlv, meantime, I want you to begin to conGincerely yours, Lafayette Young. Ill May 27, 1908. 71 Broadway, New ^ork. Dear General: -New ^onstruotionYours of the twenty-fifth has Just reached me. I am sorry'to know that you are syill laid up. I am sending copy of your letter to Messrs. Hawley, Yoakum and Winterfeldy, and 1 am sure they also will he sorry to heal? that your trouble does not let go . I am sotry that neither Mr. Mohler nor Mr. Holdrege was at home ndien I called at their offices in Omaha, and am glad that you are expecting to see Mohler. I think perhaps there is one thing you can say to him a little better perhaps than either Mr. Parker or I could, viz.. Doesn't he think the Union Pacific had better protect the Greeley territory say with spurs in an easterly and northeasterly direction; also with t spur in a south westerly direction toward Hillsboro on the Sugar ^oad. The country east and northeast of Greeley is, I believe, very fine territory and is very tempting to outsiders. It is also rather tempting to us as we do a good business in and out of Greeley, hut ^ w4ah to advoid anything which mi^t seem like an invasion of U.P. territory. If they were to build southwest erly toward Hillsboro there would be no excusre for the Sugar Company going into Greeley thereby bringing into the Greeley District a competitor for both the Union Pacific and ourselves by possible connections with the Bur lington. I think we should develop the Fort Collins territory thoroughly and it ought hot to be difficult for the Union Pacific and ourselves to reach an understanding. I left with Mr. Orr when I was in Omaha, a verbal messzge for Mr. Mohler, apd day before yesterday I h ad a little talk with Judge Cornish here, but it is hard to loeate authority on the Union Pacific I may have a brief talk a little later with Mr. Harriman, but I believe the best way to approach it is for each of us, as we have opportunity, to talk first with Mr. Mohler. I think nothing of any moment .could ^ he accom plished hy t'Iking first with Mr. Kruttschnitt ot Mr. Stuhhs in Chicago. ^hey would have to refer the matter to Omaha and later to New York. I can, of course, go out to Chidago at any time to see the Burlington people, hut I helieve we vdll make better progress if Mr. Parker will try first to get a friendly understanding with Mr. Holdrefee and let it work up in an orderly way. Mr. H.D.Thacher, of Puehlo, who is interested in the Sugar Company is here and I am going to try to have a little informal talk with him about outr relations with the Sugar road. Mr. and Mrs. Thatcher aee to dine with us Friday evening. Mr. Morey is the deciding authority in all these matters, hut there is. no reason why we should not talk in a friendly way with Mr. Thatcher about it. I am sending copy of the Jones report on the San Angelo-Ahilene coun try to Messrs. Hawley,Yoakum and Winterfeldt and saying to each of them ^ I will talk with them the first time. I see them. I thou^t best to let them have an opportunity to look it over first. With kindest regards, I am as ever Sincerely yours, Frank Trumbull. ■ li i' General G.M.Dodge. Council Bluffs,Iowa. President. P.S. I enclose copies of circulars concerning R.& P.G. 6^ notes and Bur lington bonds. I thou^t you mi^t like to see them. I w. s told .yesterday that the Burlington bond subscription Idist w as closed as soon as opened being subscribed two or three times over. F.F. ■ ;i J -'i ;U I • .*i "V p} ' y-,. - •• May, 1908. 113 Washington, May 27, 1908, General G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General Dodge I received your letter several days ago and have tried to answer it from day to day, but was actually so occupied that I have omitted to write until now. We are likely to adjourn in a few days, having agreed finally today upon a curre ncy measure. I will send you a copy of the agreement so that you will see what has been agreed upon on the siibject of currency. I have kept as close watch as I could of the situation in Iowa, considering the many things I have had to attend to. It seems at this distance to be in good condition, but on next Tuesday it will all be decided. I hope you will still be in Iowa on my return. I think now that I shall leave here on Saturday and probably reach home Sunday night, and shall want very much to see you before you go East, and we must arrange in some way for you to spend a night and a day with me if you can. Very truly yours, W.B. Allison -M May, 1908. At Kansas City, May 28, 1908, My dear General I had a distinct disappointment and a great pleasure Tuesday night. I attended the gathering of old time raitcoaders at Des Hoines, and my disappointment was in finding that you were not well enough to be there. I am sure you would have enjoyed it, as it was an unusual occasion. My great pleasure was in hearing your splendid letter read— and it was well read by one of the officers f the Iowa Club. The letter ought to be re-produced. I hope steps to that end will be taken, and so expressed myself to the Des Hoines officials before leaving there. You put the whole matter so plainly as to not only appeal to the intellect of the brightest men, but alsol stated the case so ps to be comprehended by those who are not given a great surplus of mentality. I hope you are on the high road to recovery, that you will be entirely yourself again in the near future, and that I may have the pleasure of seeing you once more before long. Cen. Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, la. Yours very cordially, B. L. Winchell 117 June 5, i908. 71 Broadway, Hev/ York'. Bear General; We are glad that Senator Allis.cn won out on Tuesday, hut sorry that you are still condined to your room. I talked with Mr. Yoakum Wednesday ahout Mr. Jones's report on the country hetv/een San Angelo and Abilene. I pointed out to him that the construction of such a line by Mr. Jones v/ould probably open up addit ional territory to our Wichita Valley Lines and to the Frisco throou^ Quanah and Vernon or through Wichita Falls if the Frisco should build from Ardmore to the Missouri Fiver. You know Mr. Yoakum takes more interest in this kind of thing than any of our people here. Eowevrr, all of us, includ ing Mr. Yoakum, I am sure, feel that if anyone builds adiUtional railroads in Texas befrre they get some of their laws straightened out, it will large nullify the good work which has made such favorable progress in that state. President Ripley, of the Santa Fe, lunched with me one day this week and although he is not optimistic about the general outlook, he spoke very fav orably of the reaction in Texas and added something to the effect that he thou^t none of us should build any raad there \mtil Texas has shown its faith by its works. I have not written you at great length about matters; First, because I didn't want to trouble you with too many details when you are in disposed, Second, becuase I kwew you were busy in the Allison campaign, and Third, because I hope that you will soon be so well recovered that we may see you here, at least for a day or two. With kindest regards and best wishes to all, I am as ever Sincerely yours Prank Trumbull. Gen. G.M.Podge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. President. June, 1908. 119 Dubuque, Iowr, e/s/lOGB General Grenville M. Dodge, Council Blviffs, la. My dear Mr. Dodge:- I have your very kind letter of the 4th, and I thank you most heartily for your congratulations. I am receiving reports from all over the state that the Democrats voted quite freely at the primary, and I am inclined to believe that, if the contest had been confined to Republicans and a full vote had been polled, the Senator's majority would have been 30000 or more. However, considering everything, we have reason to feel thankful fiver the outcome. Senator Allison is just as happy as a school boy could possibly be over the result. I don't know how we could have managed the campaign without your valuable asistance. I sincerely regret that you have been confined to your home, and ho pe that this summer weather will enable you to fully recover your health in the immediate future. I am. With cordial personal regards and best wishes. Yours truly, J. T. Adams. 121 June lOtb, 1908. Washington D.C.June lOth 1908 My dear General: I am over in Washington for a few days business, and your letter of the 6th inst. has been forwarded to me. As you request I answer in haste. I am hi^ly complimented,and honored by the invitation to deliv- ( er the oration at the meeting of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee in St. Louis in October; and I should like to do so, particularly as it is your v/ish. I must however ask you to let me decline. It is impossible for me to explain in a letter fully and specifically the reasons, to me serious, that will probably prevent my coming to the meeting this October at all and which make it unadvisable for me to assume to prepare an address. But I may explain briefly that my business affaiCs are in bad shape, and that all my work add engagements are now concentrating on or being adjour ned over until October. I have now so long neglected my business for pub lic or semi public matters that 1 have now come- to the point vdiere I can not make ends meet except by sticking strictly to business for a vdiile or at least allowing nothing to interfere with it as a bisit to St.Louis in October would. I have moreover sent my papers to firepuoof storage for the summer and am so fixecji that I cannbt get at -them to prepare anythiijg of historical Value by October. I hope therefore you will select some one else. Why not my brother Tmm? He speaks better than I, and has more friends and is better known in St. Louis than I. His name and address are Rev. Thos. E. Sherman 3X46 Evanston Ave. Chicago,Ills. I am sorr-y to learn that your gout conditions continue to troub le you, and hope that you will soon be better. With regret and as always with aflectionate respect. Very sincerely yours P.T.Sherman. June Ilth 1908. 123 Apt. 802, Stonleigh Court, Washington, D.C.June Ilth 1908. General G.M.Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, Iowa. lly dear General Dodge:- I am in receipt of your note of June 8th and appreciate everything that you say in reg rd to the stupendmuH effort it v/ill require to carry out Captain Righy's ambition for the Vickshurg National Park. I sent him Mr. Simon's letter and he v/rote hack to me stating that he thought the price quoted hy Mr. Simons v/as very excessive and calling attention to what had been offered by Schrady in regard to the replica of General Grant's statue. This letter I have florv/arded to Mr. Simons and as he expects to come to the United States in August, I supposi the matter had better rest until he comes here, looks the groimd over and makes his own proposition. Whatever is done about the matter, I would guarantee a thousand dollars toward thiS' ata,tue of the General, as I have said before. I came so hear being killed the other night by being throvm from a street car that I be gin th think that my direetie v/ork in every directio n is almost over. I have no doubt you sympathize with me in the feeling that we who are left of those who bore the heat and burden of the day have v/ell .nigh finished our work, but I shall keep on trying as long as I live. You speak truly as to the dispodition to criticise every hero 4f the Civil War. To belittle his service and magnify the importance 0 of the Spanish War "Yetera!)fliJ' wounds one deeply. That old old story to which you allude^ in your letter as th the General having raised a Rebel Regiment at the beginning of the War, came up dn every campaign as Id^ig as he lived. In I88I, he rose to a personal explanation in the Senate and put on record a perfect vindication od himself by filing copies of letters of Senator Lai!ar and a great many others. I have copies of part of the record contain 124 . ing this explanation which I v/'ill send to you as soon as I am able to gu up to the house and.get them. At present I can only walk on crutches, and am therefore, not'equal to going to the boxes v;here they are filed away. I reilly wanjf you to put this matter on file in the record^ of the Army of the Tennesseee. I sent a copy of the Congressional Record containing the General's speech, and a letter replying to an attack which v/as recent ly made fey a Rebel in Tennessee, to vjhich my attention had been called, to Colonel Llathhev/s to have him incorporate them in the records at a meeting of the Department of the Grand Army in the State of Illinois, but he did nojr receive same until after he had left home to attend the encappment and still has the papers in his possession. I shall ask him to put them on file inthe national records of the Grand Army of the Republic v/hen they meet at Toledo this summer. One realizes how hard it is to preseu've the name and | fame of these men who sacrificed so much .to save bhe Union because ignor ance and vindictiveness are plentiful in .the land, but when public men like Secretary Taft are thoughtless enough to strengthen these assaults, it is a very painful thing and proves to me that he was so -absorbed with his own importance, and so egotistical that he felt himself superion even to Gener al Grant. I think Foraker said the truest thing about the man when he gave expression to the thought that i'r.Taft was not without weaknesses himself. One thing you and I know--General Grant would never have allowed any such daring political manipulation and attempts at perverting the will of the people as ITr.Taft has allowe.d. • - Give my regards to your family,and be assured,my des# General,that I am always. Sincerely yours. Mrs. John A.Logan. Since writing the abcve Ifind that I have copies of the correspondence re ferred to and enclose same herewith. y 125 As the President of the Sooiety of the Army of the•Tennessee, I ^ have been honored in being selected to preside over this disting-uished as semblage, and in behalf of that Society, the Grand Army of the Republic and the Congress of the United States, to whom we owe the erection of this artistic and beautiful statue, I welcome you to its unveiling. . The President of the United States and distinguished statesmen will apeak to you of General logan as an eminent citizen, gallant soldier and great statesman. I simply desite to pay my tribute to him as his com rade and friend from the time we met in the civil war until his death, and one who since those days has had the close friendship of his family, and that son, who, following the example of his father, entered the service of his country in the Spanish War, serving faithfully to the benefit of his country and to his own great credit and honor, finally in the line of his ^duty filing in battle in the Phillipines. General'Logan's seri^ice in the civil war was as a part of the Army of the Tennessee. He entered it as the Colonel of a regiment, and filled all the grades until he became its commander, and under his command it and dir ection it was mustered out and disbanded at the end of the war. He took part in all its campaigns and battles, and to us of that army who knew him so well, and saw him so often in camp,on the mardh and in battle, is given the knowledge necessary to appreciate more than others his great services to his country. To us he was the ideal soldier who always led. He was by nature ardent,enthusiastic,vehement in action,-(jualities which command the admiration of the soldier. He was at his best in battle, ever forward,ever onward, his motto was to conquer or die. He infused his spirit into his regiment, his brigade, his division, his corps, and finally into that grand ^Hl^ld Army of the Tennessee. After the war General Logan devoted his time teand energies in the halls of Congress to measures that were for the benefit of his comrades. To him we are indebted for the establishment of the national holiday known as •• 126 Decoration Day, and no soldier evdr appealed to him without receiving a ready response and prompt command of his services. I can speak of this from^l^ my own knowledge. General Logan often said to me,"The demands of my old comrades have been so great that it takes most of my time, but hov/ can I refuse them"; and he never did. On behalf of the Army of the Tennessee, and those who have been instrumental in erecting inthe capital of the nation this tribute to Genv eral Logan, I wish to thank the sculptor, Ffanklin Simmons, for the satis factory, artistic and life-like statue he has given us. If ' a- Vtit ^ '■ ./■ >h' ' June, 1908. 127 Dodge, Iowa, 6/l2/l908, Gen. G. K. Dodge, • , Council Bluffs, Iowa. My Dear General Dodge After the campaign was ovei' I went to the country for a few days of complete rest and recreation, and so your letter of June 5th, has not reached me until today. I thank you for your kind words personal to nie in connection with the campaign. But if I were called upon to name the man most responsible for the Senator's success, I would pick you out of the crowd, and next to you, our friend of Dubuque, when it comes to the political proposition. I wish you would have him to manage Secretary Taft's campaign. Now, I note what you say about the vice presidencj'-. I have no taste, incliniation or ambition in that direction, and I have asked Lafe Young and T'r. Perkins to take the necessary steps at Chicago to side track any movement in ny behalf. My own impression is, that Fairbanks ought to be re-nominated. The office is a thank less one, and nobody could have discharged his duties any better than he has. I thank you for your letter, and authorize you to say anything or do anything that may seem necessary to prevent the vice-presidency movement heading my direction. Mrs. Dolliver joins me in friendly greetings to you. Yours very truly, J. P. Dolliver. 129 Des Moines, lovva, June 12, 1908, My dear General:- I thank you for calling my attention to the Kearney journal. We receive the public tion and I shall make use of that part alluding to Iowa in editorial in the Annals, as soon as the Journal is fully published. The controversy of whether the buffalo ever inhabited Iowa has been settled some time, but the Kearney evidence is the most valuau]e of any descriptive matter of which we know. But since the question arose we have received skulls, horns and other parts of buffalo skeletons from several different counties. Only today we have an offer of a ' large skull exposed by freshets in Boone County, I would like to have an adequate biographical account of George C. Tichener, and of course, a portrait of him for the gallery, who, in your opinion, would be the best person on whom to call for the sketch. Would you not prepare it yourself? I could furnish dates, nerhaps, but beyong these there is not a great deal at hand. As to the portrait, would advise me whether his relatives could supply it, and.if so where If you have, or wil 1 prepare, any historical manuscript or know of any person who should provide any in duty to the future, please give me the benefit of your help, in their accumulation for use in the Annals. Yours sincerely, K. R. Harlan. Hon. G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa, June, 1908. Ko.l Broadway, New York. June 19, 1908. My Dear Mr, Secretary:- I want to congratulate you not on"y on your nomination as I have been certain of that ever since you were a candidate, but upon the sensible and able manner in which the whole campaign has been handled and the results at Chicago. The ticket and platform eould not be stronger and you will see the people coming to its support ignoring party ties. Everyone recognizes it as a fitting regard for your great work thise past years, also as a compliment and endorsement to President Roosevelt's administration of which you have been so prominent a factor. We can all go into the fight now with all our hearts^ knowing we are to win," for the Democratic Press already acknowledges that. I am east now and better and hope ere long to see you. Truly and cordially. Grenville M. Dodge. Hon. W. H. Taft, Becty. of War, 133 New. York ^ity, June 22, 1908. Uy der-r General: I thank you for sending me the enclosed letter from Mr. Harlan. I h 'Ve written him and called his attention to the very fine and complete biographical account of father written ty our ^-ood friend Hon. J. S. Clarkson and published in the Oes Moines Register, Aug. 3, 1902. I have also offered to furnish him any additional data he may desire, etc. as I have all his Tariff recommendations, letters from Dingly, Ilobart Allison and others asking his -nsistance, etc. in the Tariff, proving' to what extent the uingley Tariff was really the Tichenor Tariff. This is all known to Senators Allison , Aldrich ,Dolliver, Spooner, Plstt, and many others but it is a great disappointment that the great service he performed for the Repbulican parts'- the great industries of this country at the greatest personal sacrifice of health, etc. should t r" general public and been more highly appriciated. ii- Senator Spooner intended makin.- fathers services in this regaixi the basis for a tariff speech last year but evidentlv over looked it, or had too much of greater importance to handle. It has occured to me that the Allison i^olliver faction in Iowa might make good use of their own and father's tariff work in the campaign this Protectionists they were opposed to extreme protection and tried to letters to father, also prove that he«ti ajjosed tf^en a protection as given by the HoKlnley B.ll. Much of the extreme contained in the Woolen Schediffe arS w«p Hiio + tariff is Growers (as i sual) The extremelv hirrh h, +, demands of the Wool with it a compensatory hi^ duty on products^of^^ool^ second wool brought irens nnd womens dress goods runnir- over inn^ m i' On the other hand most^of the SutJe^s orTJu^^mnd^ moderate. No duty on crude oil c^-n + goods are fairly on refined sugar and yet a good protection'TrthrT protection raw sugar. The steel and iron schrrini^ + sugar growers on Dem. Wilson Tariff. in fact thp nr^o almost exactly the samt as the is lower than the Wilson Bill i belwS structural steel can make a good winning fight . {'-Hison, Dolliver faction what Iowa's record has^eefL TaJjff le^^^T^f'f" and father have always taken for nronpr ^ stand they I oongratilate you and all Iowa on Senator Allison's re-elecHon I was very sorry to learn from Mr. Pusey that you had blen 111 I ?™a?' l«proved by this time.. With best wishes and i^rm rer^L Sincerely yours, H.u.Tichenor June, 1908. Bodton, Mass., June 25, 1908. Gen. Dodge, New York City, N. Y. My dear General Your most welcome personal letter of the C4th is one of those little notes that mean a great deal to a young fellow. Your words of encouragement are most gratefully appreciated. I do hope that we may have the pleasure of having you here to see our plant and equipment some time. The June magazine has been very popular, and I woixld like to know what you think of my Convention Story to be published in the July issue. The G. A. R. number will be published in August and I am going to use picture of the Grant Memorial for frontispiece. n ^ received a very warm cordial letter from Judge Yalter I omith and am going to run a sketch concerning him in the August issue. I hope I did not annoy you by sending my brother, Bennett, to you on the financial Commission yesterday. May I not hope to come and see you when I am in New York and talk over matters with you on the Lincoln day Memorial? When you go West in the fall, I surely want to go with you and prepare a story with pictures on the story of the Building of the Union Pacific which surely was the overtiire of snlendld modern development in this country. With cordial best wishes, and ever appreciative of your kindly interest, believe me. Sincerely yours, Joe Mitchell Chappie. "1 'i' June, 1908. 131- Des Moines, la., June 25, 1908, General Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, la. My Dear General I had expected to make a call on you before this time, and thank you for the kind remembrance that was sent me from j'^our New York office, being several publications covering the life of General Crocker, General Swaine, Recollections of Wm. T. Sherman, James Bridger, and miscellaneous papers relative to the Civil and Spanish war. I was very much pleased to receive these, and have taken the liberty to place them in my library, I also want to tell you that our Reunion of the Old Time Railroaders has been a s grand a success as we could have .expected. The boys all had a good time, and it was certainly beneficial to all. I presume you heard from it through the press, and otherwise, but I was mainly impressed with the thought of the good feeling that existed among the men, and the very creditable manner in which they conducted themselves. To my mind it has done a world of good, and there is a strong influence being brought that we shall hppeat this. I am very much in hopes if we have another meeting this coming year, we will be able to have you with us, as there was a strong demand from the rank and file, the boys that have followed the path that was laid out by others, to hear from the "Oldest of the Old Timers" and get a good many of the early day historical matters straight. Again thanking you for your interest, I am. Most sincerely yours, W. H. Given. " yiVwc/' . --Vr" 139 New Y^rk, June 26, 1908, General Eli Torrancem « New York Life Build"'ng. Minneapolis, Minn, My dear Comrade Yourd of June 8th reached me here. I .have been sick, Tirtiich is th cause for delay in answering same. J • I really do not know what to say in answer to your letter, but it seems to me it would be a good idea for the Grand Army to meet on that lOOth anniversary, say in Washington, as a memorial day, and there organize and start a move ..ent by the Grand Army of the Republic for the erection of a proper memorial to Lincoln in Washington, going, to the United States Government for the proper approrprlation. Unless the Grand Army or some other society, will take this up, like the Society of the Army of the Tennessee has for its Generals, there • never will be-a proper memorial of Lincoln ^n '.Yashn'ngton. They have now and then a movement there of'some"speculative character, such as a bridgej or'some other thing that is local and to be erected especallly for the benefit of the district. What we should do is to erect a memorial in Wash'ngton-that would cost $500,000, This has been delayed too long already. If the Grand Army would take it up and go before Congress with a well devised idea dnd scheme there is no doubt that the appropriation would be made and the Grand Army would get the credit, I do not intend b this that we should go to begging from the Grand Army for donations towards it, but should go to Congress for the appropriation, backed by the effort of every Post of the Grand Army of the Republic in the a,S. and have it erected tinder their auspices, and this will w'n. I send you a copy of an address T made to the Loyal Legion at Philadel hia, which may be of interest to you. Truly, G. M. ^odge. . 140 MHii rc ': New York, June 26, 1908.H , «11J lI'icY inHI •mt^U ll^hiTWOO ftf lU r 'Marshall D. Smith, Esq., .#im| m tetiOMrf tUB M«i lo IWOT Northfield, Vermont. iu-.fMy deer Smith: 1 oantwvtM nf faM lot ri'.i j->ii or> I rjn I am in receipt of your telegram ihforming me of the death-of Colonql Barrett ana-stating that he l.ad willed the university $100,000. o*""! very much regret to le?irn of Colonel Barrett's deaths but am v ery nn'glad that he has remembered his alma mater so generously, and hope rn his examjjle will prove an incentive for other wealthy alumni to follow his course. Have you any infomation as to the conditions under which the money was bequeathed? 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You doubtless have already received a copy of the text of the will. It runs about as follows: that to the Board of Trustees of Norwich University there shall be paid the sum of fl00,000.00 within a year of his death to be used as they see fit. The executor, ''!r. Bacon, has given us to understand that this will be available in the fall, which we hope is correct. As bequests ranging from !|p2500 to ^25,000, has been made to each of some twenty-five of his relatives there is little liklihood of a contest. This will be followed by a circular letter to the members of the Board. (This letter sent yesterday). From your note I do not understand whether Chapman has failed to reply to your letters or not. I shall be glad if jjou will tell me. So nearly as I can make it, our number of certain candidates on June 25th was 47, as against 26 a year ago that date, computed in the same way. If the business goes forward at the same date that it did a year ago, we should have our barracks full, and some to turn away. It may not go that way, as nothing is ever absolutely certain in some matters. So far as I can learn Mr. Flint is exceedingly satisfactory to all concerned. From my standpoint he is doing ex cellently, for he keeps careful record of all his visitations, and make regular and systematic reports of what he is doij.g and what the prospects are, so that information is easily available at all times. I am very sorry to hear that your health is not quite what it should be, but glad that you have found a change of climate helpful. In a letter recer;tly to hand there is a suggestion that John Hayes Hammond mights perhaps be interested in our work, and help us either in endowment or in buildings. Perhaps you know something of this man, or at least know the way to reach him. On my last trip through New York I called on the ROCKEFELLER ENDOWMENT COMMITTEE, using the letter which you gaye me as addressed to Dr. Bhaw. I did not find him in but presented it at the office on Rector Bt. They were inclined to turn the proposition down very allowed that they would be glad to hear all the evidence. This ,100,000 will help mightily with them, for they evidently believe that to them that have shall be given, and to those only will thev p-ive T found that their inclination was to give aid only to those institu tions that make much of the Classical Department. I had a long and rather spirited conversation with them, but left with the feeliW that when the time came they would be glad to discuss the matter ffurther7 Very respectfully yours, C. H. Spooner. 143 Seattle, '.vashington, July 6, 1908, Gen. Grenville M, Dodge, No 1 nroadv/ay. New York, N.Y. My dear 8ir: I am in receipt of your favor of June 26th, and appreciate very highly the many kind things you are good enough to say in relation to the case of uodge vs. IVaterhouse. I felt you had a good case from the beginning, and it is satisf"ctory to knov/ that you got what was rightly due you. Should you come to Seattle again, 1 would be very glad to see you. Althojigh I have never met you, I ^ can still claim a. long acquaintance for in 1873-1874 , whena young man, I was under the late William. Milnor i^oberts on the Engineer Corps of the Northern Pacific Railway , and with Mr. Roberts at that time were a number of- the men who had been under you on the Union Pacific R-ilway, then recently completed. Prom them I learned of the high estim tion in which they held General Dodge. You may he interested to learn that Mrs.. Roberts is living in Seattle with Lher son and daughter; and that it was my good fortune, when President of the Board of Regents of the State University, to be instrumental in obtaining for young Milnor Roberts a professorand^aMllty has won an enviable reputation for scholarship Thanking you again for your kind letter, I am. Yours very sincerely, Geo. R. King. 145 New York, July 9, 1908. N. P. Dodge, Jr., Esq., 1614 Parnam St., Oniaha, Neb. Dear Phil:- I am in receipt of yours of July 2nd returning the papers in relation to the Ainscow property, excepting the transfer of the mort gage to me by the Penn Mutual Company, which you say you w^'ll return as soon as recorded. I note what you say about matters in Omaha. Business in the 3ast is picking ug, and with the railroads generally, slowly but pretty surely. It is a question yet what we will have to do to cut our expenses. There is evidently a great change here in the East towards Railroads and the^r rates. Everyone says that the roads should put up their rates, by this T mean business people, or wages will come down, and they prefer the former, but the roads are holding off to see what the crops will bring us. I have no doubt there is a good deal of Bryan sentiment in Nebraska. There is a g-^od deal here but when you ask people who talk about him and like him -f they w*ll vote for him they says "no". They think more of Bryan than they do of his party and principles, T ere is no doubt that the East is drifting all the time towards Taft. The more they see of him the safer and more secure tliey feel. You saw «hen he was in the Viest that he is a good mixer and brings peace and harmony wherever he goes, and no doubt wi11 use his great ability for bringing people together during the campaign. The selection of the Chairman and Treasurer could not be better. The stock market has been go'ng up here right along on the assurance that Bryan will be nominated, and the belief that he will be defeated. I do not see where he is to get any Eastern State if they carry out the program they propose in Denver. Very truly yours, G. M. Dodge. ■W f hrS' > ■ fc i'iJ July, 1908. 147 Council Bluffs, Iowa., July 10, 1908. De'^r Genl:- I enclose letter from Coijsin liiziie giving some account their visit to Colorado. You have been giving to Henry De Long five dollars per month toward his work among the poor and the industrial school for poor children. Changed conditions have made changes in his work so he does rot need this assistance from you any longer as he informed me a day or '.wo ago. The inauguration of mannal labor by Public Schools takes the place of his industrial school and he is now paid a salary by the State as probation officer which enables him to do a splendid work among the children, those who committ petty misdeamenors. There are referred to him and no publicity made. He sees the boy or girl (generally boy' and their parents and get pledges from them that the boy shall report to him once in so often. He has in this way turned hundreds into tbrnitg over new leag and seldom has a second complaint. Then his office being in Court House and he being an ordained minister he marries a good many couples and his fees amount to quite a sum. I had quite a talk with him, he now wa;ts to save up an amount equal to what has been given him, mostly by you and myself and was interested in his end Mission in which he lives except front room reserved for meeting and leave it on his death to the charitable organizations in city, such as Associated Charities which cares for the homeless babies and general charity work of city and to which Mr. Shugart contributed ^5000. Carrie is now at the head of it and if you have no objection I would like to turn over this per month beginning July 1st to them. That is amount I am contributing to them in addition to ^500 I gave toward their Home,- the Foreman Place. aFours, N. P. Dodge. July, 1908. 149 Cincinnatti, Ohio, July Twenty-first, 1908, Gen'l, G. M. Dodge, #1 Broadway, Mew York City, De«r Sir:- The Taft Notification Day Citizens Committee invites you to attend the ceremonies incident to the notification of William Howard Taft of his nomination for the office of President of the United States, to take place at Cincinnatti, July twenty-eighth. Nineteen Hundred and Eight, Yours very truly, Robert R. Reynolds, Chairman, , ,,, J'-.i. , " ,, ■ , VI ■ - , ''V " ' 'V August, 1908. 155 Rowley, Aug. 2, 1908. Genl. G. M. Dodge, Dear Cousin:- I should have written you before this, had I not been waiting to have copied a pictdre of the house built by your grandfather Phil lips, near the time of his marriage, and the birthplace of your mother, the house was burned a few years ago, but the family (the owners of the house) was so fortunate as to have a photograph of the old home. I hope you may be pleased with the view, as you will remember it, as one of the pleasant memories of your childhood, which will ever brighten your pathway as you pass on in lifes' fitful journey. Mv visit among ray Western cousins was very enjoyable, the kindly greeting and generous hospitality with which we were met everv where together with beautiful homes, extensive views, bright green fields, with the grandeur of the mountains, the bold cliffs, deep lovely valleys will not soon fade from my vision, so plain and clear to me now. We arrived safely home although we were delayed somewhat by many washouts, as we started from Denver, a fearful electric shower just burst upon us, continuing through the night, a pouring rain stopped us several hours at Belleville Kansas, and farther on at wait about ''f eight »ere miles obliged from to Lincoln. find lodgings After leaving at a hotil Lincoln and yet we another proceeded without any further interruption, was home Friday July 10th feeling very well and not a bit tired but have later taken a hard cold which hcas seemed to quite unfit me from all social duties, have partially recovered. * hich V, she V. ^ was intend anxious soon to to learn write of to her Lettie ancestry. and tell Wishinp" her something to thankof you both for the kindest care and attention, cintrlSwL an the comforts and hospitalities of your beautiful home, I am Yours very sincerely, Betsie P. Dodge. Rowley, Mass. AuR. 1908• 157 TELEGRAM. E354CHS0 12 2 EX In slg. Dubuque, la Au^ 4-08 Gen. G. M. Dodge, 1 Broadway NEW YORK Senator Allison died at one thirty—three o'clock this afternoon Lee McNeeley Private Secy 161 Auc:ust, 1908^ Washington, D. C., Au;5:ust 6, 1908. Genernl Grenville M. Dodse, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear General Dodee:- It /^ives nie p:rent pleasure to advise you,I suppose you know it already -- that the work on the site of the Monument is showing greet progress, and I believe they are substantially ready now for the laying of the tablet of granite. I thought I would like to call your attention to this one question: How are you going to have the Grant Monument face? The statue of John Marshall faces toward the Washington Monument. It is the hope and belief of those who are back of you In the final establishment of this site that the great avenue will be open from the Gaoitol to the Monument. I have no doubt that such will be the case; and might not the street at the foot of and running around Ganitol Hill well be a dividing line toward which Grant's statue would face the Capitol and Marshall? I suggest these things simply con amore. I am coming to Bedford, Iowa, on the 13th to address a Ghautaqua. ffy theme will be"'Che Evolution of a Leader, or How Grant Game," unless the Chautaqua authorities should ask me to deliver an address upon "American Destiny." In either event of course General Grant figures very extensively. My coming will be saddened by the knowledge of the passing of Allison. I had butalimited acquaintance with him, but he impressed me during that acquaintance very sincerely. The first time I ever met him was when he came to my office in regard to General Tuttle and the claim which Tuttle was prosecuting against the diovernment for a pension It will be interesting some time to tell you the little details of that business. Trusting that you are well, I am. Sincerely your friend, John G. Black. 1908. (5-^. C :< i63 No.l Broadway, New York ^ ^ ^ ^ . tf""" Lee McNealy, Secretary, Dubuque, Iowa. Senator Allison's death so unexpectedly brings home to me his long close friendship and his great loss. Time only can measure and appreciate his great service to our State and Country, so pr'dminent in the history of both, since 1860 makes his death a world wide sorrow. Please extend to his relatives and friends my heartfelt sympathy and my regrets that I cannot be present to pay a last tribute when he goes to his final resting place. Grenville M. Dodge. August, 1908, 165 (COPY OP TELEGRAM) New York City, August 6, 1908, Joseph Morgan, Office of Times-.Journal, Dubuque, Iowa. I had intended to come to Senator Allison's funeral, but temporary illness and extreme heat will prevent, much to my regret Iowa has sustained in the Senator's death its greatest possible loss. Not in hundreds of years will the grace of his life, the charm of his personality and the greatness and usefulness of his career be dimmed in the affections and gratitude and pride of the people of Iowa. JAMES. S. GLARKSON. .vi-; . ' 1 ',,'1 ■ <>' '' m: August, 1908. 167 Port of New York. August 6th, 1908, My dear General:- Mrs. Glarkson and I got the news of the death of Senator Allison as we were at breakfast yesterday morning, and it came to us with much greater shock and force than we had even supposed it would. It was something to-be looked"for any day, and yet one is never ready, no difference how old a loved friend is, when the final end really comes. I know what it means to you, and that was the first thing that occurred to Mrs. Glarkson and me both after we received the news of the death, for we both knew of"the lifelong friendship between you and Senator Allison, how you had been close or closer than brothers for forty years or more, and what a beautiful frlenship it was,- one of the most beautiful I have known in my life. I received a request from the Dubuque Times-Journal for a dispatch on Senator Allison's life and death, and I enclose you a copy of the dispatch I sent. Joe Morgan, who was so long the Senator's private secretary, is now the editor and owner of this paper. I also sent him a private dispatch, a copy of which I enclose. In my dispatch to the Times-Journal, I especially referred to the grief brought to the members of the Iowa Society by the Senator's death, as you will see. Coker has thought that we should call a meeting of the Iowa Society or the Board of Governors or Trustees, and prepare a statement or a brief set of resolutions and telegraph it tomorrow afternoon or Saturday, morning. I see the funeral is to be at 4 o'clock Saturday afternoon and that Vice-President Fairbanks and fifteen or twenty Senators are to be present. I deem it better we should have some thing in the papers then and before the Senator's funeral as an ex pression of the sorrow of our Iowa Society than tl let it go until next week or later. Coker and Hazard are to arrange for a^meeting of the Trustees at my office at 10:30 tomorrow. I am going out on the tug in my official duty to-day, and will prepare something to present tomorrow. If you can be here we will all be very glad. If not, whey we would like your suggestions and directions and will do precisely as you wish. (Just here I received your call by telephone). The death of this strong and splendid man, whom you knew perhaps more intimately and more closely than any one else, and whom I knew very intimately also, admonishes you and me, of how rapidly the friends we started out with in life are vanishing,- which is part of human life,- and as our time comes we much go the way with phil osophy and happiness as our great friend Senator Allison has so conspicuously done. To me his life was beautiful and noble in all human respects. Iowa j.ever knew until he was dead his value to the State and its people, and as the years shall increase the estimate of him and his greatness, the service he has rendered, the affection for him and the ndnlration will only increase and grow stronger and more permanent. I am glad to hear you are much better, and I hope you will take care of yourself during this hot weather, because as we grow older extreme heat becomes more and more dangerous. I had a very ill spell about the time you were ill at Council Bluffs, which affected my heart and gave me the closest call I have ever had. I am vettlnfr out of it now and feel much better. 168 I will send you, after our meeting tomorrow, whatever we decide to send to Dubuque. We will send it, of course, in yovir name as President. We will try and make it what you would most like to have it. Sincerely yours. General G. M. Dodge, Patchogue, Long Island, N.Y. James S. Clarkson. 2 enclosures. M .Va r'i'* ..4'* K " V \> ■6* ' "r !>"' ■' ). ■. 1 . iiif I / ■ r' ,:-: m Olivet Michigan August 6 1908. General James S. Clarkson, New York. i My dear General Clarkson: Iowa's most eminent citizen, a most distinguished figure in national life, an able statesman, a genuine man left us v/hen William hoyd Allison's earthly life ceased its tireless activi ties. lilvery loyal lowan, every true American citizen, every per sonal friend will deeply mourn his loss. Senator Allison was the personification of the Pauline prin ciple, "this one thing I do" Without any reservation whatsoever he devoted his great energies to the interests of his state and country Prom first to last he was the consistent champion of the American protective system under whose fostering care orr great American industi?les have been built up and great fortunes accumu lated. Almost the entire nation, and especially the maufacturer and the laborer, whether skilled or unskilled, in those factories, are under obligations to Iowa's "Grand Old Man", as he was aff ectionate] y called. Moreover, as chairman of the Senate's Commit tee on Appropriations, by far the most important committee in Con gress, he rendered inestimable services in safe-guarding public expenditures; his sense of trusteeship and official responsibility was great. Again, in all his long pu blic career no whisper of unriaht- vb - ness was ever heard against him. Ohter men er.Lered congress ooor and retired rich; er tered with a bright name and left wi:.h a tarnished reputation. Not thus was it in the case of Senator Allison. The many years of his public service left but a modest residuiam ofpersonal property; his peerless personality shone brighter each oassing year. He has left behind him something vastly more valuable and precious than any colossal fortuen he might have heaped up or brilliant reputation he might temporarilly have achieved, the embodipatriotism exhibited, p ssibly, less'in thrb^ight publicity than in the sane, calm guidance citizen in every statio! in of n-p I'fTo a genuine f character mai: and cf true a tj^pic-^1 friend ever American depen worthy able. of imitation bv by a a^l*1, It oueht°t°''be heM up'^beforo tL''® valuable; and rl.tlne m?def. Se elt iS thr^LToroJ\^' an lnspiration sorrow ar.d contemnlnte the manv r great and common thoucht must aMsf Jn the mSs 0^0^?^ Lrd f the Allison's name, public service lif^^nH of' ^f^^^or "illiam Eoyd ed to be forgotten; they afford too'valuab p allow- ican youth. In so^e manLr a suitSbirmemSiLl'nifnf ITesTlTn''''''' uniieS^L°iJl the perpe^Lti^nirtie endowment in Tabor College of a nrofcssorshla of^AL?! EconoraiCB; it is probable that ?n these two'particularB^linll°?^e'''" -2- 171 Senator's influence has been v/idest an.' most effective upon our na tional li'fe. You are one of the four gentlemen before whom I laid my plan, with all of whom it receiveawarm commendation. I ought alro to add that in the winter of 1907, in Washington, I laid the mat ter before Senator Allison and received his consent to the plan. It seems to me that now is the time to act, to push this idea to completion while our thoughts are upon him his life and charact er. P^Ty idea is to establish at Tabor the ALLlSOh MKLfuRiAL PRuFESSuRSHiP OF AMERICAN HISTORY A.'"D ECvNUMlCS. 1, William Eoyd Allison was Iowa's foremost citizen and within her boundries ought ithe memorial to be reared. 2. Senator Allison was interested in education and was especi ally interested in the welfare of Tabor College, with all his mul tiplicity of duties for the nation, he yet accepted a trusteeship at Tabor with the view of being instrumental in advancing its inter ests. He wrote many let ers in its behalf. He alone brough about a personal interview between Dr. Carnegie an some of the trustees which m-'terially aided the pi^esident in securing a pledge of twenty-five thousand dollars conditioned upon seventy-five thousand dollars additional being raised. thousand +V, ^ Senator Allison belonged to the nation as well as to IowaSof the opportunity ought to thus be come to honor public-spirited his name. citizens who will be ^gla" • I have thought of these plans which I beg leavr to subnit +r. you for suggestion and critism. ^ submit to for the s;eolal'"purpoL''of establjLl'Y''?M subeorlptlon to Tabor Mr. Carnerle tSoSght ?hc wortd of le^^ior prcfessorohlp. wanted to see him president. The suggestioi i^ lA I'fA already done; in Maine he has endowed +ho S in linr of what he has the Hanna professorship; and I think theno Professorship, in uhio course the matter muat be rot at in ^ "f think you and General Dodge are the oJ q to manner; and I I am inclined to think thf? ?ou wJll ?ind r ^he plan to him. sympathy with the plan and a good allj^ ^^^neral Dodge in fullest admirer of the .SLJS? Sd"whronce'^o??ered°M®%T«' ® Sreat lars for preliminary expenses If he thousand dol- ^ou .111 find Mr. Ired s^Jl^^and^^-J owe their fortunes''to''lowa^"sLator'^'^e*^"''®th at least. Of the protective system under'SMc^o^rrndustMefh' prospered. inaustries have so greatly % thi^prSfessiiship^win ^n^hlTlL^i thousand dol- '.,100,000 so imperatively needed. trustees to secure the flolflly cor.nect»d°with^thL^lnetUutlon-*'buv''^ l°ncer of- not an gone, and I want to see the collego^^^r^^^eT'l res^rt'eaL.., 172 as professor of Latin in Berea tJollege, Kentucky. Please write me: at Olivet, Mich. Very cordially yours, George Norton, i^^llis. August, 1908. Copy, 173 New York August 7, 1908, Special to the Times-Journal, Bubuque, Iowa. The Iowa Society of New York held a meeting to-day, under the call of its President, General G. M. Dodge, to take action in regard to the death of Senator Allison, as General Dodge was,-adide from his kinsmen and the people of his own home, probably the nearest, most intimate and trusted friend of the Senator for over forty years, and as almost every member of the Society was his acquaintance and friend, this action was deemed peculiarly fitting and appropriate. The affection and pride in which this Society has always held the Senator was shown by its action, three years ago, in electing.him as its one and only honorary member. After full expression by all the members, which comprised all who could be reached on short notice, the following tribute to the Senator and his life and work and expression of sorrow over his death was offered by Mr. Clarkson and unanimously adopted and ordered sent by telegraph to the papers of Dubuque. A wreath was also ordered to be sent from Chicago to the funeral, in the name of the Society. The paper follows: The Iowa Society of New York, made up in membership of over three hundred former residents of Iowa, representing nearly every country in the State, has learned of the death of Senator Allison with much of personal grief to each member and with that sense of general sorrow which never befalls any people or any community except from unusual and irreparable loss. His long life in the service of the State, his Nation and his fellow men, his great works and the many achievements of his public life had covered so many years that his name had become synonymous in power and apparently in permanence with that of his State, and finally of the.Nation, until it had seemed to become the actual entity of an established and enduring institution. So long continued and so powerful and beneficial was his oeriod of useful and influential sway in all the larger public affairs covering the long stretch of momentous American history for nearly fifty years, or from liincoln to Roosevelt, that nearly all of us among the Iowa people, and later the people of every state, had come to look upon him and turn to hirn in every time of public or private, stress as the one sure and main source of guidance, protection and deliverance. As the State and peonle of Iowa in their earlier years found largely through his leadership the open course to unsurnassed eminence in the ran^ks of the greater and older commonwealths of" the Republic, so did the Nation later, in its long years of severe trials and tests fluring the struggles over the successful establishment of the American policv of Protection, during the efforts over the years of more than a reneration to establish sound business financial systems for the Government and later, for the proper control and regulation of corporation power' phases, find in him the wiser counselor and the sufficient guide to the final ways of wisdom and safety and to such i?hl3tory''h°s''knoiL''^ Thus we as former citizens of Iowa,'still loving the State as always a State to be loved, and still proud of its great and unique personality as one of the greater forces in present-day government and civilization, desire to join the Iowa people in the mrief which thpv feel in this greatest loss that could kave come to tHe State. We feel 174 that we are entitled to share in the pride of all Iowa people will ever eherish as one of the State's greater treasures and its greatest title to the respect of mankind, in having given to the public service of his country this man who was among the dozen mort useful men in his century, and who by his modest and yet great and sufficient merits fairly won the triple distinction of being the first citizen of his U State, the accepted counselor of his Party and of the business ^ interests of his country for his period and for more than a generation, and the most useful and. therefore, the greatest national senator of his time.. The span of his useful work was the span of his long life. A member of the convention that saved the Republic from destruction by discovering, nominating and electing Abrahaim Lincoln to. the Presidency he himself entered the lower house of Congress during the war and received the anointment and inspiration of Lincoln's friendship, and learned much of the remarkable wisdom and patience that always marked his after career at the feet of this greatest of Americans. He also quickly won the confidence of his Party and the greater leaders in Congress, such as Thaddeus Stevens in the House and Senators Merrill and Sumner in the Senate, and there began on the ways and Means Cofflmi.ttee of the lower body of Congress that wonderful and unequalled career of influence until, on his accession to the Senate, he became the accepted counselor of Congress on all such questions, and as much accepted as such.counselor by the opposition party as by his own. Nature gave to him not only the superior wisdom for counsel in these greater affairs of the Nation, but the superior ability also to lead not only his own party into the ways of wisdom and patriotism, but also often to bring peace, for the sake of the Nation and it^ vital interests in times of peril and storm, between the angry and differing political parties in Congress, and between the equally angry and divided people ^ in the different great sections of the country. He had not the ■ brilliant oratory of some of the Repi-jblic's other greater ^^enatora, but he had instead that better oratory, or that better and greater gift than oratory, that gave him the unfailing power to persuade and convince and unify the wavering majority of Congress and the wavering opinions of Presidents and their Cabinets. For nearly or quite a generation of,time the Penate and the Nation also looked to him for the final solution of the most vexed and dangerous problems in public affairs, and in this popular faith and dependence he never once failed or disappointed them. As he grew in stature and in power, temptations came to him in the form of proffered positions and honors almost universally supposed to be greater than the honors and the powers of senatorship. He proved himself possessed of such love and devotion for his State and the people of his own home as no other public man in American has shown, declining them all. He could have been the Secretary of the Treasury of three Presidents and the Secretary of State of a fourth He steadfastly kept his faith with his people as^their Senator, and* brought further honor on them and on himself by striving to show and flnany by proving that to a United States .Senator -ho Is Lm'lentlv great a senatorship has in its greater power and greater usefulness that is even in the possibilities of a Cabinet minister. He could if he SoS had President used his own if he power had in had the the Nation real ambition and his own to great be President abilitvand to accomplish it. But he never had the real ambition for ?he higher place,^and never enen really encouraged his State or his friends in M every . tate to secure to him this highest of honors which can be V given among men. ^ radical, that he seldom orirrinated great measures of his own. It is to be said in reply, that while always conservative and while he was for years the accepted counselor 175 (paper on Senator Allison)cont. 1908. and main reliance of all the great business interests and all the conservative elements of the country, he was yet always progressive and always found supporting all the really progressive measures. Again, while never ambitious in originating radical measures himself, it is still to be said that for nearly fifty years every act created by Congress passed under the hands of his revision, and also that there is scarcely one of the greater statutes passed in his time which does not bear the mark of his hand in toning down its radical or doubtful features and in strengthening it in its weaker places. So early and widespread had become the confidence of all the larger elements of our national life and business in him that early in his career in the Senate he became practically a Senator for every State as well as for Iowa; and for years no State or great city or great commercial body or important interest of any kind sent a delegation to Washington for hearing before Congress without instructing it to seek the aid and counsel of Allison. Indeed, it may still be said of him that he wrought his great work for nearly fifty years so wisely and so faithfully that he dies permier in nearly all the titles of party and public power and influence. This was the Allison that we of Iowa knew and loved, that Allison that Iowa and its people will love more and more as the years and the centuries shallpass, and the Allison that the Nation, as time shall test the greatness of his service, will also come to know and to love equally with the people of his own Ctate. Springing from the ranks of those who lincoln loved to call the common people, rising until no one in the Nation outmeasure him in ability to do or influence to control in all the country's more important affairs, he never was else than the people's faithful and sufficient representative. Probably none of our public men as a Nation, and certainly rone for so long a time as he, served as many individuals and special elements in their needs and their ambitions as this '-an of such peculiar patience and power gladly and yet so quietly served. In another way, peculiar to him, he was unique in the modest and yet never ceasing way in which he made himself the constant friend and defender of the larger groups of different elements among the people of the Republic, such as the Union soldiers, the adopted citizens of all nationalities, the patient and suffering Negroes now the most pathetic and yet the most deserving of consideration and help of all the elements in our American citizenship, the Indians and their cry and need of help between the years 1860 and 1900, and mapy other large elements, religious and otherwise. Among the other great profifs of his statesmanship and hishuman fidelity to all the nobler ideals of life was the proof that he gave each recurring year for nearly fifty years in the public service th-t partisanship never in fluenced him against the realities of the public good, that flattery never affected or influenced him, and temptation never gained even his consideration. In history it will be almost the larger grace and glory of his long public career that with such alluring opportunities to amass wealth that no other American has had with accepting of them, and his constant opportunities to become weAlthy or among the first of all business men in America or elsewhere, he profited by none of the, remained in the service of the people of his '^tate and his country, and without riches lived and died in the higher walks of life such a contented and happy life as to be an example to all Americans to come. August, 1908. 177 Port of New York. August 7th, 1908, My dear General We had a meeting ofi our Iowa Society to-day, with Colonel Swords, Colonel Peavey, Mr. Stedham, Mr. Huntington, Samuel Strauss, and Mr. Hazard present. There was general regret that you could not be present, and every member desired me in writing to you to express his warmest personal compliments to you. There was an hour's talk such as Iowa men alone could have over the life and death of Senator Allison, in all of which you prominently figured as his main friend, and in all of which there was as much of loving tribute expressed to you as to the Senator. It would have done your heart good to have been present, although it would probably have been a pretty severe experience to you, as it was to all of us. I enclose you a copy of the telegram and tribute adopted,, as sent to the Dubuque Times-Journal. We also gave the order for a wreath, to be purchased at Chicago, and made up of myrtle and palms if they can be had, and sent to the funeral as from the Iowa Society. Hoping to see you soon, I am. General G. M. Dodge, Patchogue, L. I. Sincerely yours, J. S. Clarkson, August 8th, 1908, 179 Port of New York, August 8th, 1908. My dear General I have your letter this morning, and it simply confirms what Mrs. Clarkson and I felt,- that the death of this belAved and remarkable friend of a life time was a hard thing to come to you. In only a less way than yours I felt the blow also. Allison had come to be so much a source of power and had lasted so many years and had become a source to which we all turned when in need, sorcompletely and so generall;^, that we had almost forgotten that he was but human and that- his life must sooner or later, and pretty soon at the best, come to an end. But we are never ready to give up the people we love, however old they become or however ill they may be. I sent you yesterday a report of what we did yesterday and a copy of- the expression of tribute and sorrow which we telegraphed to Dubuque papers. I think Sammy Strauss also had it sent as a special dispatch to the Des r^oines Register and Leader. If the Register and Leader had any heart of any memory of the day when people had hearts, it would not have waited to have this kind of thing offered to it; it would have asked men like you and me, who had been so long near Allison and who had been with him in all his contests, to have said something to the people of the State of Allison's life and death. The trouble now in holding the State away from Cumkiins and the near republicans is the weakness of the newspaper situation at Des Moines. Cummins has control of the old paper, and Young and his paper do not have much sway in the State as Young's own political c^'reer is too well known to the people at large and his loyalty too much questioned. He has not the continuing courage to help hold permanent power in the State. I hardly know what our people are going to do. Indeed, I think sometimes that it would be better for the sake of the party in the State and the Party in the Nation to make some compromise with Cummins. He has shown great ability, he has won his gights, and he is there tostay. You cannot turn down a roan who has made good and who has such attremehdoue follow'ng as he has in our old State. I am not among those who see nothing in Cummins to admire, and I do not see how you and I or any men outside (although you are still a resident of Iowa yourself and have more liberty than I have) can now interfere in this contest. We had the undying right to stand by Allison, and for that reason I was willing to go to the extent of my power in his behalf, for I felt that it was not only due to him after his great and illustrious career, but also due to the State. I have felt like writing Dolliver, and yet I do not know what I should write him. He is in a very critical situa tion. He did what not one man in a million will ever do; he put aside the chance to make a combination with Cummins and stay in the Senate for life, and followed friendship by going to the defense of Allison, nearly eighty years old, who at the best could have been of no further active benefit to Dolliver. If he had failed to carry the primaries he would have gone down with Allison. It was an examnle of heroic friendship and possible self-sacrifice such as I have'seen no other man make. So it is on my conscience what I should say to him, for I have a feeling of affection for him nearly as warm as I have for my own sons for, as you know, I helped put him in politics, and he has alwavs kept very close to me and has always remembered the early kindnesses"I was able to show to him. So I feel that he and his future are much concerned in what shall be done now that I am not yet able to decide what to advise him to do, and I dare not give him wrong advice. 18^ •-';3 I fear now that the Antl-Cummins people will vote against the Cummins candidates for the Legislature and throw the senatorship to the" democrats. Two Iowa men were in my office yesterday who have been loyal republicans, to my knowledge, all their lives, and | they both said they would not vote for any member of the Legislature who would suaport Cummins for the Senate. One man said he had fourteen votes in his family,- sons and sons-in-law and grandsons,- and every one would vote against any man who would vote for Cummins. It is enough to make us all think intensely when we come to see Iowa on the brink of becoming a democratic State. I agree with you that if a fight is to be made against Cummins, all the anti- Cummins people must center on a single candidate; and I also agree with you that 'Valter I Smith is the best man. Lacy is too old and his reputation is too much confined to the 6th District. George Perkind appeals to you and me verj*^ strongly, but he too, is among the old people and would not draw anything from the young men, the men of today, who want to support men who will last through their time in politics. I see Hull is talking about being a candidate. He, too, is too old to set up as the new man and the successor of Allison. It must be a younger man, and lir. Smith comes nearer that and also has as much or more qualification than any of the others in ability, and therefore I think he is the better man. What his standing is throughout the State, how much he has the affection of the Partj'- and the confidence of the business interests and the respect of the farmers, etc., I do rot know. I would be glad to see you and talk to you about this ma'tter generally. I enclose, herewith, a letter from President Ellis of Taber College, who, as you know, is a member of our Iowa Socity and a great friend and admirer of yours. I have replied to him that I would show you this letter and let him know Ipter what you thought of it. I think this would be a good thing to do to aid in perpetuating the name of Allison, yet I would not be free to say in what institution it should be done. For my part, personally I admire Taber College more than any other in Iowa, but is is a small institution and in a corner of the State and off of the main road. Whether it would be fitting to establish the Allison memorial in that is a matter to be discussed. I should be glad to confer with you about this when we meet next week, as I understand you are coming lo the city then. Sincerely yours. J. S. Clarkson General G. M. Dodge, Patchogue, L. I., N. Y. Aug. 1908. 181 Denver, Aug. 10, A.D. 1908. Gen. G. M. Dodge, New York. Dear General;- I have just read your very interesting address before the Loyal Legion here in April last, which I had not the happiness to hear. The address is almost as valuable as the valuable service which it records, and it makes me think of an expression of Myron Reed in some funeral sermon, at the burial of an old soldier. "Every survivor of the Civil War," he said " is a historian." What a splendid epigram was that dispatfch' of Graighton to Gen. Grant, where the latter Inquired for your whereabouts 1 I want to congratulate you on this efficient service and your happy manner of telling it. It reads like a chapter out of Caesari Commentaries. Truly Your friend. E. T. Wells. ■,i, 'f t.-''" , . I- , '• -.viy .V" . * r"' l' ' /IT ' ■ ■f wv " ■MW 185 Dubuque, Iowa, August 13, 1908. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, New York, N.Y. My dear General Although I was certain that you would be promptly wired the d-^y our mutual fhiend Senator AiHson died, I sent a telegram to your Council Bluffs address, thinking you were home, and ascertained afterwai'ds that you we e in New York. Also was planning to mail to you the several papers containing an account of the death, funeral, etc., but did not do so as Mr. Lee McNeeley told me he was attending to you in that line. We cannot realize that Senator Allison has gone and his standing was so high; his ability so great; his record so broad and complete, and he so highly esteemed by you that it would be useless for me to attempt to say anything about him. Probably you have the "Century War Book" complete, and if so, presume you will be glad to keep the copy anyway that I send you, being #17 mailed to you Lhis d-^y, which has in it to me a splendid account of yourself and troops on July 22nd. at Atlan ta. 1 had the impression always in som;S manner that --^ou were ridinr along at the head of your troops when they attcacked camp, but find am mistaken according to the account of Major Chamberlain. Tlie ar ticle speaks of you so splendidly in every way that I am deeply inter ested and trust the copy will reach you all right. , The battle picture you sent me is being framed and will be in our Post Rooms in a few dnys. iramea and regards. Trusting you are well, remain, with many kind Yours truly, Peter Kiene. Uf'. 187 Dubuque, Iowa, August 15, 1908. Gen. G. M, . J^odge, . , " , Ho. l'Broadway, New York. . Dear General Dodge: ^ I have your letter of August 12th. I seit, you each day the Dubuque newspapers with account of Mr. Allison's death, the funeral arrangements, and the funeral, which I presume you received, and I have also sent you the Times-Journal of Tuesday last with copy of Mr. Allison's will. You will note that there is no reference in the will to the Washington house, about which you inquire. You will also see that Judge-Benjamin w, L cy is made *executor, I think this is all the information you ask for except as to Mr. Allison's condition for some time before his" death. He seemed to get .along very well for a while before he left Washington, the latter part of May. I think he was just about the same as he was the last time you were in Washington,' not very strong , but still able to be about and go to the Capitol and attend to work more or less. He worked rather actively in the last days of Congress, attending meetings of the Committee and of the conference committee.on the sundry civil bill. He made arrangements to leave Washington on May 30th at noon. At that time Senator La l-ollette s filibuster was still "oing on, but Mr. thought there would be an abrupt wind-up And that he leave. The next morning (Sunday) just before we ?«+ Saturday night, and he learned he was very that much Congress pleased had that adjourned it had late ended / so Jno. McDonald, of Lhibuone ^ party, and Mr. and ca.e to a^bnque sun'I'y over thrman nnvthfL'"?' attention. On Monday Mr Anion^ lything requiring immediate see ''r. Adan,s and o?herrthere anH? ^ "''edquarters, to °"/"feda,-, June 34^ t^e day of the o^lLMeo h,''®"' ""ihutes there ^at night, but we telephoned the returns fi h.- Headqu-rtcrs. He did not remain nn we got 'them at think about ten o'clock. Prom Tnnp ph late, but went to bed I he soemed to be much Improved, that Is he was evidently hapov that +ii 7-.r^^ ' spirits seemed buoyant, had been favorable t^him a^^hoS^^ it ' opinion on way or the other as to whethor^fh express an .him, or his view ofthe detailed re^n^to ^he majority pleased often in conversation with me and otb(=>«o I however chuckle to the general results, and l think was made over the vote. I left left for for ri/ Chi ago . to ® attend ^together the National pleasedConvention 188 ■ '■ on Friday June 12 h, leaving him very much improved over what he was when he left '^^ashington. About that time we had a season of hot weather. whether this had anything to do with his condition i do not know, but at any rate, 1 retu rned to Dubuque on June 19th and >7 him next morning, Saturday. He was then not at all as well as when I left. He seemed to have lost stringth. He was listless and apparantly fatigued. -He spoke rather as if-he had missed me while I was at Chicago, bocause he had not kept up his correspondence and there was much of it piled up for me to attend to. Hor did he seem to want to know the details of the convention, being content v/ith wliat he had read in the newspapers while I was away. He indicated that, he was not. going to put too much time and energy on the work, but would take a rest for a while. I went to his house as usual on-Sunday morning, and we looked over the mail he handing it to me then to attend to. He also told me ' then that -e had expected to go to Chi ago that day, bnt had postponed It until tbe next day. He was goirg over to see Dr. -Elliott, s i urd erstand it, he was to go over to have an examination made, tWed^jv tried by D?'r. Jilliott. Just r what that was I have not learned; experiment At any rate, Monaay, the day he left for Chicago, was about as hot and oppressive a day as we have had this year. He left on the noon train and traveled all afLernoon, reaching the Annex about supper "rayton a companied him. l have since < at thei Annex, ''tha?"?"® that he was friend very who much naw fetigued him just by after th Journey. his arrival He had the examination on Tuesday, and instead of returning to ' on Wednesday as he expected, he did not come until the following Saturday, June 27th. My understanding is that his trip to Chicago, and his treatment there were so fatiguing that he was In bed most of_ the time he was over tliere. I saw him at the trainthe night he returned and he walked as if he were not at all strong. After three or four days he seemed to pick up strength, an: on the Fourth of July he and r worke^in his library most of the forenoon. He dictated two or tl.'ee llttera and made out some checks to pay Washington bills, for which 1 was to write the letters. Soon after the Fourth, he went to Mrs. Stout's country home and remained there until the evening of Jul? 30th He did not gain during his stay in the country, "i went tosee him every three or four days to get the mall Ld conlSlt ' al^ut matters of iraportcnoe, but thei'e was littlo hp' wno v. t v, ^ with aid he did practlcally'no work whilrtiere-^cSly ?o keen® a general nui of the corres londence. Durinp' the timpxs i v.4 was was '".r rather disposed to Itt .all have work mioh wait energy until Ind later st?Lgtr"'buJ'° f dirt not brM«! "Ts hfrtid nn,®""'- ^n that she might get .hei rest. He wert to Brayton so and was never up after that V o .J? returned, his condition was after he cnmr hn t tell you just what he died. 1 went tf Ihe tausranS -ot®the mau" h®f7 idea that he was so weak, or else I would hai^lnsL^lrSnlLj^J.hlm. 189 I knew tbot he had a bad nicht, Monday the 3d of August, by Mrs. Bray ton did not say th.-^t it was dangerous, so I did not remain at the house after I got the mail about ten o'clock Tureday morning. The next I knew was when Mr. Adams telephone me shortl:^- after the death. My -understanding is that shortly after 9 o clock Monday night ??r'. Allison had some choking in this throat and was distrubed all night, being unable to raise the phlegm, or whatever it was. This was an indication.that the heart was weak and there was a disposition of the lungs to choke up. The called the Doctor (Dr. Hancock) about 4' o'clock Tuesday morning, and he relieved^him to some extent, and called about 9 o'clock that morning, also about 11, and was with .him for about an hour before he died. He had a sinking spell about noon and gradually grew weaker ur.til he died at 1.33 F.M, Dr. H ncock, Mrs. "^rayton, Mr. McDonald and the nurse were with him when he died. Mr. McDonald thinks he was . conscious prac icallynll of the tim. The nurse told me she thought he was unconscious for an hour before he died. He seems to have been without pain and to have died peacefully, according to the stories of those present. My only theory is that Mr. Allison was weaker than we thought he was, and because of his disposition not to comniain andto say little about himself; we did not know his exact condition. Dr. HancocJi told me the Sunday before he died that he thought that with a good long rest he would improve, but that it would take lots of timt . He raid that he had not had the rest after his January sickness that he should have had and he wanted him to remain in bed for some tim- and have a comiplete rest fromwork and worry. I r; ther thahk that for some weeks before his death he was losing strength and we did not know it—at least ever since- his trip to Chicago, Of course his death was unexpected to me and was a, great shock. I was not at all prepared for it. i had seen him pull through that very severe sickness in January and felt sure that vitality to get through this summer and hat with the cooler weather, and a complete rest, he would be restored ^ that his demi: e would be a matter for the indefinite future. v,^ ^ it is I a was great plunged sorrow into to work you immediately andthat you will on account of the funeral arrangements, but now I begin to realise that seem rlcht for « not to be roinfun ?o his hoUoC every morning tO£pover the mail with hiin mvio ^ ^ i E :£s';„r £ ; - :s'„, addition to those who were thk-e pai SkeJe®''' ""t scene at the cemeteVwas verv sweJf' the The^e were not .any/becauce Ihlrr.k I ?eSSst"th:r?lSwe?s^'''"^* b( omitted, but I disregarded that so far as your request was concerned, and there were several other who did, s^that thera were 0 number of set pi ces. I had a plotui-e ?ken of L lot, 190 and will send you a copy as soon as I can Your piece wr -. a wreath about tl:u?ee et very well. T . think you would have been not suggest any particular design. I had but'there was a flag sent by the Allison The piece sent by the Iowa Congressional and lyre--was the most beautiful of all, from the Cenate, and another pretty piece Central Committee of iowa, a duplicate of to the '^cKinley services. yet one, in diameter, and looked satisfied with it. i did . thought of a flag, relatives so i omitted it. delegation--a crescent there was a beautiful wreath : from the Republican State ' the design iov/a sent I have written you a good deal but I have tried to tell you in detail , as i take it you will wish it. I wish very much th-t you could have been here for the services. Many sopke of you, and appreciated your .message# I enclose herewith the florists' bill. ""ith regards and best wishes. Very sincerely. Lee McNeoly, P.S. Mr Allison never spoke to me about his death, and so far as I far as I can judge fromanything he said to me, he did not A realize that the end-was near. As I look back i can see that he f realized that he was not strong. Mr. Mdrgan says that from a remark made to him about a week before he went to the coiintry he thinks that Mr. Allison felt that he would not live long, that he did not have much strength and could not keep up the struggle long. But he never spoke to me in that vein. He simply used to say, when I asked him how he was that he did not feel very well, and he was not very enthusiastic about his condition. L.J . McN. . I , Aug. 1908. 191 NO.1227 N. Vermilion Street, Danville, Ills., Aug. 19, 1908. My dear Oeneral:- Thanks for your kind letter of the 13th inst. Dlckason is a good fellow and a worthy soldier. If your great influence can be used to bring "lov/a" into line with her sister state "Illinois" in this matter, the noble record of the "G.A.R." will not be marred by his energetic usefulness and the "rank and file" the "man behind the guns" will be ennobled by the recognition of a worth representative of their humbler efforts, the greater men of that "Grand Army" cannot pay a kinder compliment to their decreasing but loved and honored loyal followers. As"your kinsman" I cordially thank you for your valued time to contemplate my appeal for an old frtend. With every kind wish for you and yours. Very sincerely yours. Anson, Phelps Dodge. General Grenville M. Dodge, Mew York. Dictated. Sept. 1908. 153 New York, Sept. 2, 19C8. General G. I*'!. Dodge, My dear General:- I want to thank you for those manuscript works you sent me. I have read them each one with a vast deal of interest and pleasui'e I can assure you. The Indian Campaign, the Grant Memorial, The Iowa G. A. R., your various addresses. The Society of the Army of the Tennessee, the sketch of General Swayne and the Biography of James Bridger- they all afforded me splendid reading and then much historical data of which I was not aware,after reading the Campaign around Vicksburg- I was. Thinking of those two Confederate Commanders,Generals Lee and A. P. Stewart, who have so recently passed on. I remember of your speabing of them both. I suppose you will soon be speeding Westward to the G. A. R. Encampment. Only wish I could be tith the dear old boys this year. Don't forget General, that you have promised fee access to your library in New York at some future date. I thank you again for your kindness and with every well wish for your continued good health, I remain Most sincerely, Ulric B. Collins. 195 Mason uity, jlowa, Sept. 7, 1908, Ggneral G. M. Dodse, Council Bluffs la. My dear sir & comrade It is with sincere pleasure that i have the honor to inform you that at the recent annual meeting of the board of Regents of Memorial University held at the same tome and in the same place as the meeting of the command• ry-in-(5hief of the Sons of Veterans U.S.A. it was unanimously ordered that the degree of Doctor of Law bo conferred upon you, and that 1 be instructed to con vey to you the information. Should you be. in the vicinity of ?«!ason City in the near future, it would be an added pleasureto us to present it to you in person, otherwise, we shall forward the parchment to you as soon as our instructor in penmanship returns for the beginning of the new year and has time to fill in the proper record. It was agreat disappointment to me not to be able ;o meet you at Toledo, but I was so busily occupied and had so short a time that i could remain there that I had very little opportunity for social enjoyment. Trusting that you are in the enjoyment of good health and wishing you many '.appy years in our midst, I beg to remain. Fraternally yours, *• J. Patton, President. 197 Kew York, September 8, 1908» Gen. C. Irvine ^alkter, Charleston, S.C, I^gar General;- ^ WlinH I am in receipt of yours of August 31st,and when I received your dispatch at Toledo, I recalled the fact that you were with the Army of th- Tennessee at Vicksburg, and took great pleasure in telegraphing the Secretary of War. T did not keep a copy of the telegram, tut the purport of 1t was that T cordially anc earnestly recommended you for the appointment to f^ll the vacancy in the Chickamauga Commission and that you were peculiarly fitted to fill the place. I also had a talk with Secretary Taft, and told him what I was doing. He said that he also would or hadwwritten a letter to "Secretary Wright, and he considered you as the best equipped officer ho knew of in the south for the position I hope that you will receive the appdntmont. T could not endorse you for the Society of the Army of the Tennessee because T had not their authority, but I worded the dispatch so that you w^ll get the be efit, and Secretary Wright will know that I am at the head of that Society. If I can do anything more in the matter for you I w^ll be pleased to do 1 was greatly shocked when I heard of the death of my friend Lt. General Lee. Our Society immediately sent their regrets?; as T did personally, and the Society also sent a floral tribute. I trust that I shall have the pleasure of see'ng you in Washington When I go there. Truly yours. G. M. Dodge. Sept. 1908. 189 172 Norwood Ave., Bujgfalo, New York. September 9th, 1908. General Grenville M. Dodge, New York, N.Y. My dear General:- If I would say that I thank you from the very depth of my heart for the booklets or pamphlets you so kindly sent me, It would not at all express what I really wish to say. It makes me very happy, and I more than appreciate the honor, as it assures ihh that you have not forgotten me. I (and my family) very carefully read your address or speech, which you made at Council Bluffs, on the occasion of the dedication of the Carnegie Library, and enjoyed it very much. If I ever would have a gentleman like Gen'l. Dodge, speak of me, as you, my dear General, spoke of your friend Carnegie, I would consider myself one of the riches and noblest of men on earth. Again thanking you for remembering me, I am. Very truly yours, A. P. R. Arndt. 20t ■ - , Brooklyn^ Sept.- 9th, 1908. ,. - ' . Maj. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge: My dear General and Gomrade: At our Post meeting last night, uomrade nenry n. Knight, whowas a delegate to the National Encampment gave us an interesting synopsis of the proceedings of that body. In cidental thereto, the Post expressed an earnest desire that you should be invited to pay us a visit at an early day. The wish has been my ov/n, personally, for a long time, out of your association so long with my own old Army of the Tennessee; your intimate acquaintance with our uld Gommander; and your official con nection with the Tomb where his Post annually meets in honor of his memory, Could you find iInconsonant with you cngagoments and desires to so honor us, the Post w uld be grateful, and none so much so as my self. Si-.ould you favor us, we will make such arrm^p^ents as would be entirely gratifying to yourself, we have a magnificent hall our our, containing many relics of uur Great Commander . Our regular meeting nights, on any of which we would be glad to greet you,- are second and fourth Tuesdays in each month. Sincerely and with high esteem, E. Y. Hedley, Commander Member society Army of the Tennessee U. S. Gra t Post No . 327. 203 St Joseph, Mo, Sept. 9, 1908, My dear General I received the Reville this morning and the first picture my eyes met was of yourself and I tell you it made my heart beat faster than usual. When 1 saw you last I told you I thought I would never get to see you any more, and sure enough here comes the very likness of yourself and looks to good that I have credited my self with having m et you. Do you ever come through St Joseph? I would so much like iby family to see you and will -sk that if you do that you send word by wire so that we can come to the cars and take you home with us. I v/ant my folks to see the man that was the General oi* ^11 western Generals, Hoping that the time will come v/hen I will got to see you again. Respectfully yours, L, W, Porgrave, Dodge's Band. 16th A.c »/■ 9 05V *> Lenox, Mass, Sept. 12, 1908. General Grenville M. Dodge, 1 Broadway, N.Y. Dear Gen. uodge: I have a note from Clarkson saying that you are re turning to Gouncil iJluffs, to make your home and that you do not feel that youcan continue as our president. I am sure every m>.mber of the society will learn of this with great regret, it was an inspiring thing for the beginning of the society that we could have at its head one of the great war figures and indeed the last of them. I think we might make you, if you's let us, kind of honorary president or president emeritus, for life, for ■even if j'^ou go bcac^' to your old home we s" ouldn't want to lose you altogether. It was on my mind last spring to write you a little birtjiday letter, when i was out in California, my father brought up one day a magazine containing suchan interesting sketch of your work, we all read it with the deepest interest and I couldn't helpthinking then what a rich, crowded and splendid life it has been, and how worth while and en iable is such: a career, and 1 wanted to tell you about it then, but I was very much under the weather and finally came back to New York to go into a hospital for brief reoairs, and I somehow never got ot it , Its ray way. I saw Mr. Truinbull by chance here on day a week or so ago and he told me that you were feeling veir^' much better, I am so glad to know it. i?'or he told me that in the spring you were not very well. I have to thank you very much for his acquaintance, what a fin: solid type he is I I like to yoSr^lini^^note^^^ extremely kind to me, thanks olorado oouthern c Ju was telling all my friends that I thourht the cheapest thing on the list, and I bought some for my people and also for myself, and have done handsomely with it, ' Wy father will be on from California the last of the month and I know he w ould enjoy so much even the briefest meeting with you. He was in the 13th Illinois and I believe cksburg--ne i ^ was Missouri Campaig.i and later at ta^en prisoner there , in that long fight. With warmest regards and all good wishes, believe me. Sincerely yours, Carl Snyder, w) "■ ■ '207 jngram, Pa. Sept. 17th, 1908. Maj . Gen'l, G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Io7/a. My dear General i:our emphatic endorsement of Judge Taft's high qualifications for the office of President of the United States in a letter to me several months ago, and what I have read of the man since has elicited such a deep interest in the Presidential struggU^ that I feel it my duty to throw myself body nd soul into the fight in some manner all through the month of October to help secure Judge Taft's election. I live in a county which the immortal Lincoln in a joking way asked in looking over the returns what State that was which gave him 10,000 majority. I would like to have Allegheny County give Judge Taft a similar surprise or what would be better go into some doubtful diestrict and work in a quiet way against that old fossil of a Democratic Party who in their malignity .-nd falsehood in the dark day of the Rebellion called us soldiers of the Union "Lincoln Hirelings" and done e -erything they could to bring discredit on the Government. And, now after a generation and nearly a half has passedthat old fossiliferous stum;ling block to the Nation's prosperity and quietude comes up again in its blindness and bigotry offering its dead and exploded arguments against a man like Taft who represents so fullv and perfectly our American form of Governqieent tried and purified in that dreadful furnace of afflict on from 1861 to '5. 1 + 0 ^ Democratic narty and iol, beloved Cour.try. I am not In any manner a Smin 1 " ® evere -nd indignant suffer from a war which ion Of th? man on ^hese lmoirLnroo?nts o° aoquainted with him and in'^^00111 o"to ?ive would be glad to have and the llhew" Ir ? ! ? I If for nothin:; elsHhl^ to br"r S-L f "tf"® In my own quiet way of my friends who have been falaeXv led into ®°°'° their sympathy for the Demooratlo nominee wm T S expressing to the Presidency looks to me to be suicWarani Sis!''""® ®1®p1 °" Iowa Regiment^ ^very inquiring comrade cf the 4th I remain. Yours truly, J.C.Jamison. Seven Pines, National Cemeterj', R.R. #3 Riclimond, Va, Sept. 17th, 1908 General G. M. Dodge, New York City, Dear General and ex Col, of the 4th Iowa Inftj^.:- I beg permission to write you in the interest of Lieut. P. C. King, formerly a member of Co. K. of your regiment. Lieut King was with the 4th Iowa Inft. in every battle and skirmish in which the regiment was engaged in its four years of service, a boy of 16 years when he enlisted in 1861 and as good a soldier as there was in the Reg't. Since he was discharged from the army, he has met with misfortunes, nd now in his declining years he finds himself without a competency, and as a matter almost of necessity asks for an aonointraent as Supt. of National Cemetery." If Col. Williamson were alive, he would endorse Peter King as he knew him personally. Col. willL^son! brothers were admirers of General ^odge and Will you please write the Secretary of War and Ouartprmnct General and urge an immediate appointment as probationer in the fir.t vacancy that occurs In that class, -a the acJrSI CongJels limit the number of probationers to four. congress Praternall'- ^o. K. V 4th /H.-L. Iowa T Valentine Infty, King, ex-member I am at present Supt. of Seven Pines National Cemetery, Sept. 1G08, 211 Monrovia, Calif,, Sept. 18, 1908. My dear General Dodge I have read with a great deal of interest your pamphlet on The Indian Campaign of the winter of 1864-'65 which you kindly sent me in care of the Missouri Historical Society at St. Louis, and I am now sending it on to the Society to he placed with the other pamphlets you sent me early in the summer. The Civil War period was so taken up with the struggle between North and South that few realize the Government had any other troubles on its hands during that time. Your article was a revelation to me. I regret very much that I am obliged by ill health to be away from St. Louis during your approaching visit in'connection with the Army of the Tennessee. I had promised myself the pleasure of meeting you and taking you to see the interesting things at the Historical Societj'. I hope you will send word to Judge w. B. Douglass, in the Laclide Bldg (4th and Olive Sts). as to how he may find you. He is the most active official of our Society with a large knowledge of early western and pioneer history, and will take great delight in showing you our collection, if you should have time to visit it. With best wishes and esteem, I am Very truly yours, V. M. Porter. 213 Sans Sanci, waikiki, Honolulu. Sept. 19, 1908. My dear General I don't know whether or not you ever received t'e little pamphlet which I send you under separate cover. I found it amopg some old papers the other day, and it was sent me by Lou bowman ( my old 1st Lieut) of Bellville, Illinois. The account was written by Jimmey Gates, who was 1st Serg. of Company K. at the time of the fight . The facts as to losses are correct, and from official sources Col. Pox in his volume gives the regiment as having lost more men in the battle of Shiloh than any other infantry regiment in any one battle during the Cavil War. I think this is incontestibly ture, though several regiments had larger percentage of loss in killed and wounded. was as familiar Tn? iJ^.that in its field topographical three or four features years as ago though and only the place a raight have .elapsed so completely was the terrain phot. - gr^phed on my memory. I was Captain of Co. E. , the color comnanv a and was wooded just before we began to retreat. However, I did ' leave the regiment, except to have the wound dressed which was done after dark, and was with them all next day. Regarding the controversy about the "hornets nest" it ia clear to my mind that the rebels named the ravine where we fought and is Gen Albert Sidney Johnson was morlSlirwoSd Another hot place was named by llta of™u? least oin tharfiefd that field. I,.y r"® own impression is "P there hornets's were a nests, dozen.at Will do"o'harf:ndiryi"i ve'n " ihfVi' the 9th still living, there ar? if a so half-di^i I do not know Tr ^^0^10^^^ who tierare! I am enjoying life down here in these enchnn+PH i I speed about half my time, the rest in Sa^ ^ranSso^! ' I send you my dear General my kindest wishes. ^ish I could be w ith you at St Louis, but I fear it is impossible. Yours very faithfully, Alex G. Hgiv/es. Sept. 1908. 215 537 American Ave ., Long Beach, Calig, Sept. 23, 1908. G. M. Dodge, No.l Broadway, N.Y. Dear Old General Thanks for the phamplets about the old school where you acquired the rudiments of the military profession. Your picture in the Army and Navy Journal I shall frame and hang up in my Cobblers shop, which is also my home, along with Lincoln, iffrant and Roosevelt. But don't entertain the idea from the list of my wall pictures, that I am for the G.O)P. candidate for President this time. The political firm of Teddy and Taft is not to my liking. I hung up Roosevelt at a time when he was making good, according to my idea, but now I think I see that much of his reform work is of the character of that done, to get popular favor, bv the Napoleans, first and third, immediately before the overthrow of republican governments in France. My conception of his constant talk about good and bad trusts is that none of these so called predatory associations of capital are particularly bad if they put up coin liberally in elections in which he is concerned. He had the misfortune to be born rich and is still wealthy. Never done a days work, professional or manual, in his life. "Thereupon it seems to me that he is fearfully handicapped by heredity and environment. It also appears to me that his brief military service has accentuated erroneous ideas of that, got from much reading of biographies of the old conquerors, else he would not have gave countenance to McClay's slanders of Admiral Schley relative to the naval engagement at Santiago. Of his protege, Taft, all I will say here is that he could have been better engaged than in hunting through the records of his office for data, for publication, of an unfortunate oeriod of Genl. Grant's military service. I came to California two years ago. Am getting better of the rheumatism which afflicted me in Denver. If you go over to Governors Island ask Genl. Grant for to show you some letters of mine regarding Sherman at Vicksburg. Hoping you will be with us yet manj^ years, as ever Truly, Felix T. Gandy. 217 Dubuque, Iowa, Sept. 23, 1908, Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, #1 Bropdway, New York, N.Y. My dear General:- Dislike to trouble you again with some corres pondence, especially feeling that you are so busy all the time with so many matters. Had that picture of the Battle of Atlanta nicely framed an ] same has been on display in the shov; window of an Art and picture Pr,^me Store for several weeks and dozens of people stop there every day, I am infromed, to look at the picture, and all greatly interested, A reporter of the "Times" called the other day and stated he wished to have a fi 11 and complete account covering that part of the July 22nd Battle accroding to the picture, ragarding your self and your command, so he can make a nice article for some Siuiday morning's paper for the "Times Journal". Have an account in Major Beyer's Book "Iowa in War Times," which is quite good, but unless you h-^vo a better one it seems to me that the account In the Gentry ^ook 1 sent you Is the best. If convenient and you sill send .e such account as you consider accurate. interesting and complete, I will give the news-p.per a copy and then return it to you. Trusting that you are well I remain, with very many kind regards. Yours very truly. Peter Kiene. September, 1908, 219 City of New York, Office of the Mayor, September 28, 1908. Dear SirrThe 100th anniversary of the birth of Abraham Lincoln will be February 12, 1909. The City of New York should commemorate the event in a manner worth of Lincoln and of itself. To that end I have the honor to request you to serve as a member of the Lincoln Centenary Committee. The Committee will meet in the Reception Room of the Mayor's office at 3 P.M. on Thursday, October 8, 1908.,> Respectfully, Geo. S. McCall. Mayojb, General Grenville M. Dodge, U.S.V., 1 Broadway, New York City. 221 1908, The Statue of MoClillan was unveiled in Washington "by the Society of the Army of the Potomac on October 1908. Jihad 'accepted the invitation to be present and.make an address for the occasion but was taken sick and sent ny address to Col. Horatio was read by him and was • K. King, the Recorder, .vhioh^/as as follov/s: "It was my good fortune to first become acquainted with General McCleilan when he was a civil eng^'neer in Illinois. I was a young engineer for a short time on the-Ill'no1s Central Railroad and met him there. His courtesy and the manner in.which he treated me captured me, and when.he went to ti.e head" of our armies at Jjifashington I was anx'ous to get ui der his command. I never served under him or had any opportunity to see him until after the Civil War, when interests he was at the head -of iii the Southwest again brought-us together,.and we often met and.were friends a slong as kte lived; and it is a great pleasure and honor.for me to be present at the recognition that thd Army of t.:e'Potomac and govern ment are deservedly'g'ving him by raising to his memory.this beautiful monument in the capital of our nation, which.he did so much to' defend and serve. I have been asked by thbArmy of the Potomac.to.speak.of the "".Yestern Armies in the Civil TZar. My time is'so I'mited that T can only refer to the policy inaugurated by General McClellan ^'n the beginning of the_war, what in my opinion would have been the result if it had been continued, and what, a detriment t was to our TVestem armies that it was'suspended. At the beginning of the Civil War the policy addpted of placing at the head of the Union armies orie Commander-in-chief to control■their ampaigns and movomdnts in the field was a sound and practical ,one. '"'ereral McClell > saw the r.ecessity of having one head for the grand movements of all the armies, and.if his policy had been continued, of* if there had been one head'for all the Western armies, and one head for all the Eastern armies, i t would have shown far different and more effective results than was accomplished with independent coimnanders a t the head of each army, carrying out t..eir own ideas as to the movements of their armies, as to the time when battles should be fought, etc. The result of this policy in the Western armies was that wl.i le the^battles and independent campaigns wore generally successful, we suffered far more than thd Eastern armies in having no s'ngle commander over them all to continue the movements.of these arm-'es and accommodate SttBh. them tomeac^^thfir and reap the benefits of the victories won by ine armies Tennessee, Couth vest, Mississippi, and Cumberland organized at the beginning of the"war, and the 0, io organized in the second yeah of the. war; and fighting separately, each ©ne of these armies won great victories, but each of the T can the result ■, .>w • f-. r - . . vuai Ov i ' ' ' ■ .'Ui' Mf ■! MX-vJea nrw ■ (rrif.foiafv i'* ' 1908. one failed to reap the results of these victories by lacking the co-operation of the other armies in movements and time. TThen these armies were combined mder one head they n't only v/on every battle, but were enabled to vontinue their campaigns and reap great advantages over the enemy by their continued homogeneous plans, and campaigns and bring about the speedy end of the war. My time is too short to go into details, but the recital of what.occurred after each campaign will demonstrate hte correctness of these views. General Grant says that at the time he was ordered.to demonstrate on Columbus, Kentucky, to cover other movements of our forces, he started out with no idea that he would attack the enemy, but as he moved toward that place he saw that hi s troops would be greatly disappointed if he did not make an attack, and that it would be a great detriment to his command and disturb their confidence in him, so he decided that as soon as he came up with the enemy he would attack, although his troops were not disciplined or under such control as to successfully hold them to their work; but he discovered,.and always afterward acted upon it, that the force under him was always eager for battle whenever and wherever opportunity offered. It was only the officers who advised delays and were timid, '.Then Grant, under Halleck, made the campaign up the Tennessee Valley and Donelson.resulted, when Buel moved at the sa.e time to the Cumberland and Nashville fell. Giant said that the two armies combined, the Tennessee and Cumberland, at that time could have marched successfully, without much opposit'on, to the Mississippi River, and opened it from Vicksburg north, and probably south, so that in the second year of.the.war it would have gone unvexed to the sea. If you read the War Records and see bow anx'ous McClellan was that Halleck and Buel should.co-operate and combine and reap the results of their two movements, you can realize what we lost, McClellan, a younger officer, out of respect to the older and more expeirenced, and.bfting in WaslJngton looking more parti cularly after his own command, the Army of the Potomac, did not enfprce his views upon these two co:.imanders, as he would have done .could.he have been on the spot and raAlized what-Grant did. Again, after the battle of Shiloh, when the two armies of the Tennessee and Cumberland, reinforced by the Army of the Mississ ippi uhder Pope, failed to reap any benefits from that great victory because there was no comraander-in-chief of all the armies, the pressure upon the War Department divided that,army into three parts, sending them to different fields, where for a long, time they accomplished'nothing. The Army of the Cumberland, the largest unit of that army, by the superior strategy of the enemy v;as forced back to the Cumberland and almost to the Ohio, and the others for several months held territory and fought battles to maintain the field it had won; while if tiie united army had moved promptly from Corintli south, no Uiin.'^' could have prevented the opening "of the Mississippi In sixty days after the fall of Corinth. Here we again see the necessity of one head, and the failure to carry out the original policy of McClellan so often advised and asserted by Grant. ^1^ ■ After Vicksburg Grant had with him twice the force i.e had when he entered upon that masterly campaign, an as soon as V-'cksbur^ fell, aaked to move with this force across the country and capture Mobile, and by utilizing the Alabama River reach the heart of the rebellion In Georgia, but again the fatal policy of resting was pur sued, and that victorious army was divided up, a portion going to 1908. . East Tennessee arid a portion marching east from Memphis and up the Tennessee Valley with no real object-^ve po^nt unt^'l after Chi ckamauga. As the Western armies concentrated at Chatlanooga there seemed to be a disposition to change the policy, and when Grant for his great vlctoyy there was made the commander-in-Ghief, his first demand was a free hand as to the armies in the field; and he asserted there wqs but one way to end the war, which was that every organization in his force should move on the enemy at the same time, and prevent the enemy from carrying out the^r former tactics of concentrating on each one of our armies a superior or equal force, h.-iving the interior lines, while the rest of our armies were idel; and it was McClellan's belief when he was made Commander-in-chief that this could be accomplsiehd, but perhaps it was too early in the war and ].e was too short a time in supreme command when he had the opportunity for him to put this policy in force, When General Grant returned from his visit to Washington, he told us of the splendid Army of the Potomac that McClellan had o ganized, equipped, and disciplined, and said to us that on the first day of A^ay, 1864, he proposed to move every organized force against the enemy on each of their fronts, and that they must keep the enemy so busy that they could not detach any of their force to any other one of the^r armies. He said to General Sherman: "T expect you to hold Johnston in your front and not allow liira to send any aid to Lee, and if Lee detaciies any of his force from the front of the Army of the Potomac, T will send you two men to his one"; and these orders were carried out, and brought the war to a close within one year, each one of the armies. East and West, in unison doing fully its part. The three Western armies that had fought so successfully individually were brought together under one head, Sherman, in the Atlanta campaign, and workedtogether like clockwork. There was no friction, no Jealousy, each one was not only ready but always anxious where the necessity occurred to help the other, and when any one of the units won a victory, or took any part commendable to it, it received the praise and approbation of all the rest. There was a comradeship, a love, a pride, and determination that cannot be successfully described; you harve to see and feel it to appreciate it, T remember that the Armies o f the Tennessee and Chio, the two smaller ones, were kept on the flanks during most of the Atlanta campaign, and naturally got the most raps and longest marches and least rest, Wlien the commander of one of tliese armies suggested to General Sherman that tlie Army of the Cumberland, which was equal in numbers to the other two, shou Id occasionally have a flank posit'on, Sherman replied that he had considered that, but you know if the enemy would wipe you two out (McPherson and Schofield) T would have Thomas left, and they could not budge him. In my opinion the great work of General ttcClellan in organizing, equipping and disciplining the Army of the Potomac has never been fully appreciated, it is an easy matter to hold an army together and continually fight it when it is constantly victorious, but the test of an army can only be made by its action in defeat; and when you consider how often the Army of the Potomac fought great battles with Umaatisfactory results and held together without pannio or great loss of prisoners, and again and again immediately went into battle and 224 "fj s'' ■ i 1908, lined up ■ith the same bravery and determ'nation, stamped it, as Grant said, the best organized, equipped, drilled and disciplined s ' Army of the Civ'1 T^ar; and to General McClellan is due the great credit for the continued efficiency of the Army of the Potomac, which under the lead of Meade-and Sheridan and the direction of Grant made those desp erate, determined, :-nd victorious campaigns from the Wilderness to Appomattox." , . c ' ■ ' ■y 'J .u'l 't''.- ■ • itO ii' y . i- 1 ' i < •dJ , n . iO 'lO'ifMiifn n mriinn ^ii/o "lo i;."' .ior/" n-- 3M hii ■ 4lf>b' Piw*- bi ;h two la ^rfv rf'ilw fp'ieJrf* rjf li 4nAi lofdo*niN»i«l»fr«i(4io9 yafr ari nativ lA*Ia# i * ' I F'-tXOo'' bfvi %mt tU ^"uia oo4 if itil f<.«ooo/^ al M;K.d Xi *nititonqa f*Ai ba i baflotaao nmnqijn n* t<r.is n i^iada ooJ nav a i r Juq aj hm lol •d '.fiiajvr ai itriv rfn aa*!! bomuin Jrunn laniaoaO itadV bad rbXlalOoif ommic^ bA.j lo xnA b^bnalqa adi ta uu bfa.! 0.(4 ir i»tiJ •u oj btAr bna fbanflq'aafb b«a ^aqqfnia ,boxnii% o aoiol baafiiasto bJ Maoqoiq ad «^M| lo v'<b iantl qaad 4r«« ixa.# Joai oiM uWll v> daaa ito 'cnana a..4 jrirTN^a o4 acmol i^aiU la ^na dMia^ ion bXvo vadl Xndi %9ui on vtoiwijw t* I iiwiailt faiatfao o4 bfaa ai: «aalflia niadi la ano nau^io xrta aaactJ bne | eno 9*a oi aim aaj oat bnaa iifa Y laaaoJa^ a.t4 fa tidnA ohj OAO nfd4f« aaale a a4 aaa aaJ Xhawaid bat ^Joa baHpu# aaaa aiabno '^i<tb naafow mf «iadt baa Htfr atU la aiw daaa «ia«x Xi-l^vlneaosL« aa idanal bad 4a.f4 aaFaaa ff«a4adV ipwil atft #4iiiq ail adi nf ,ri»»»ed6 ,baad ano tabMH faddaAOi ii^taaad anaa ^ fxrr eaa tioiff >i'>olo ad'l aarUataila#ioa btta a.t lft<}Aao -Jmr/M afaala iutf Tbaan flaa Jon aaa ana itaaa on ,nnrtoHl nadla (Np ^lan'Ya aiti %lad mi batiaaaa x4<^aaaaan t;ij aaaita nva^tno r>/ oldabnaawloe 4nan xna tfaad ta «x^oieYf a now nj^mi ad4 la ana xna »ntn mii xia lA w^iadotq'rA bna aalanq orf.i barUam il «4t • 1 Jo '.iiuo iorfi fia»4An*ariaXfii Ma ,ab>«a(i a «aaol a «q^iaa.vatcsoo a nan .if njraf9»*iv|q» oJ 41 raal brta aaa a4 nM tfOf {ba(l*i'ii.at .Ifolaaaoowa ami mtU 09td bna aaaaanoaT adi 1 a aarcnA aril 4aii4 'ieda<«'9a T , r,»anflMio «4,tal4A ad/ to 4t<Mi 7*11 >TtA ajln^ll ad4 no /qai »>'ioa *aano .1 '^1 inaai biai aadaiaa 4aa?\iio| ^na as an 4a(Ni fmJ io- ziXm-tviMi boa t la-iAiiaO ai tmif io^xia aaatJ lo atto la nabn^:jar>f< #41 iiaift ni, oj titrnmm a I Imrpm aa« dor it ^ 'nAlnwfuafO 0,14 to vmnA 114 4,^4.4 'I'loi nr.*i#iir ftna*4*aa« ibiaXt a aoax til''"»^'«atoo bX aodo ,o«4 101140 wi («,»w Mooa qaana odi If uax 4'aI ,4t .4 bonoblniioo ad 4wl4 Xo.U brf^ ,41»I aanotiy ataX bXirov Y (biono a£ brrt noaioiftaiC) iaa ow' *.i a2ji»u:f ian Miwo ,'m^»»naffo 'lailaiOdI Xanana*^ to Xiao /a#i;^ a.(4 no» fqo au at iii ':ea5!?;aiif«s J«a4 ada /v^ «• tio»^o»ir tX4M*noo e» JTnaio 4f iiia*! \,il««rtflaaa nox i/ox <Wiiw bo'' (/aailab ijmfna nf n* naY/oa aaY4oa UJ* #4' va vd a(baa aaan ad ad xino xino nae nae Mna mnm r»» r»a lala .4fw aal44aif -^aan.^ Ht^jon aaaia/at cai la tinA *»aJ mi/lo aaXfob'rnoo to ^'*•^1,^ iwailfw ia4iaM4 bXoct mm ajXuaai xio/aata^iaaait 1.« er/4Aif a4n» iflMHr xXaiifbaaaf nf^o bs^ nfaan bnn ^aaanaafT.; in h;/:. ' October, 1908. 225 St.Louis, October 9, 1908. Gen. Grenville M. Dod£|;e, Oouncil Bluffs, Iowa. Dear General:- A committee of fflembers of the Society of the Army of the ""ennessee, and of such as are eligible to that organisation, has been formed and has held meetings to prepare for the entertainment of the 5ociet3'' on the 11th and 12th prox. Arrangements have been made with the Southern Hotel, whereby it will he the headquarters of the Society, and both the banquet and general exercises will take place in its large dining hall. In making our arrangements, it has been decided to make the pilgrimage to General Sherman's grave on the first day, going there and returning in electric cars, v/hich will take us to the gate of the cemetery, from which the grave is distant only about two city blocks, and the Rev. Dr. Kiccolls, of Ransom Post, one of the finest orators of our city, has been mentioned as a desirable speaker to express a few of the prominent thoughts that would naturalljr arise on such an occasion, the remarks to be expressed in about fifteen minutes. 'le have also concluded to accept an invitation of our Commandery of the loyal Legion to partake of a lunch on the second day. Before definitely fixing the programme, it was thought best to lay the matter before you and ascertain what time will'^suit you best for the holdings of the meetir.gs of the Society, and what length of time, in your opinion, will be occupied by the two meetings. If the first meeting is held in the morning, otir pilgrimage to Calvary Cemetary, which will probably take two hours and a half, may have to be nut in the afternoon. "Ve desire, of course, to so arr-ange matters that there may be no hurry in doing what may have to be done, and in order that the members may have some little time to be spent with friends whom thejr may wish to see. With reference to the public exercises, the thought has been expressed and found favor, that they should not last beyond eleven o'clock, at the lateat, and hence it will be well to know if th"t idea is adopted, what length of time the speech of the evening (namely "r. Sherman's) will consume, inasmuch as there can be no limitation of time upon that. Could you ascertain this for us? With reference to the banquet, it was thoiight that we would arrange to begin promptly at an early hour, and also conclude the same about eleven o'clocl;. The Committee would thank you very much to have an expression from you with reference to the foregoing matters, so that our arrange ments may not interfere with your wishes in the premises. Hoping to hear from you at your convenience, and if possible, before 'Wednesday afternoon when the next meeting takes place, l" remain Yours very sincerely', !'• Leo Rassieur. October, 1908. Z21 New York, N. Y., October 14, 1908 General Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa, My dear General Dodge Not until I received notification of the coming meeting of the Iowa Gociety in my mail today did I know that you were leaving New York. Will you permit one of your more recent friends to express his regret that you are not to be of the circle here, and his con gratulations to the old state that you will be among your friends there? I had quite counted on the call at your office with which I threatened you some months ago, just as you were going West on your annual inspection trip, but as it is I shall have to look forward to a call on you some day in Council Bluffs. It occurs to me that you can give me a bit of information that I have vainly sought from other sources. Do you know if the Government ever published and distributed the report of the Commission for Investigating the Conduct of the War, of which you were Chairman, after the Cpanish-American war? If the report was ever published, I am ansious to obtain a copy of it, and up to this time, I have failed to accomplish anything in that direction. Trusting that you are well, and that the Iowa winter will be kind to you, I am. Yours with great respect, Trurabull White. AA Editor. October, 1908. 537 American Ave., 2'i9 Long 'Beach Calif. '' Octi -20, 1908. G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Towa. My Dear Old Colonel:- Yours of the 15th inst., received. The climate here has been benificial to my health in a general way but really the improvement of my bodily condition, as to Rheumatism, is due principally if not wholly to dieting, with perhaps some aid from the excellent drinking watter with which our little city is at present supplied. Our water comes from artesian wells; is soft and has trace of some kind of mineral or combination of mineral. At first this water was unpalatable to me but I soon becaiae accustomed to it. For years my system had been clogged up and was burdened with too much flesh; weighing 210 lbs, normal being about 170. Have long been convinced that such condition could only be cured by dieting but being habituated to eating restaurants and boarding houses could rot carry out ny plans until about four months ago when I commenced baching. Was fortunate in being near to a good bakery where I could getwhole wheat bread which is the basis of my dietory system. I have cut out all drinks except hydrant water and that without ice and use it very sparingly at meals. My present bill of fare will explain better. Breakfast: Some fried bacon and two eggs also fried. Large,firm, ripe tomatoes sliced and as much whole wheat bread as I relish. That's all, no condiment of any sort. Lunch:- A generous slice of bread and a large bunch of grapes and that is all of that too. Supper, as the * persist in calling the last meal of the day, same as for the breakfast. Occasionally I eat a canteloupe, but without any kind of condiments. This has been my food without variation since I started in to do my own cooking. Now as to result. The bowels began to move freely and regularly sometimes would feel weakness after evacuation, but did nothing for that but sit awhile in my arm chair and smoke my pipe. The first beneficial change I noticed was that my swollen feet were getting down to normal and that a very troublesome corn was going. Also noticed that the bay window was becoming less prominent. Then rheumatism pains in night shoulder disappeared. So three days ago I weighed and found that my system of diet had eliminated ten pounds of worse than useless matter. During all this period I have worked daily, but not fatiguingly so. The tomatoe season is long here but will be over soon as also for grapes and then I will try the canned article for tomatoes and raisins for grapes, but will stay with staples of whole wheat bread and 230 bacon and eggs. To get right on these matters is more important to us than "the election of Bryan or Teddy's man. With best wishes, Truly yours, Felix T. Gandy, . . : .. .. I .. ? ■ I t ,' a •' I'r. - •' in ■».! i .j.. •r.)j ' y. 1.' ' r'.fi ■ iAi V I a .1 »). ' -t - -I ~ : ' j,l ; '••ja- ■ •; ) <vu; . ) ' • > (' ■ j ii. ' .• i • • Tl . . ■ : v:.,s, ^' t -, 1 nti • ' ' 1 ' ■ ' ^ 'I ; -fja ' In . . • : , V. ' 11\< (t, '» ■*t ' . ■ ■ ') ' ' x" >' ' : u ' 'i ' ■ r'.'li'.. ■ ■ ■ . October, 1908. 231 Port of New York. October Twent3''-second, 1908. My dear General:- I have your dispatch of yesterday asking as to political prospects. You seem to be pretty nervous out West, .I'udging from your telegram. We are not nervous in the East at the present time, for we are perfectly satisfied that New York is absolutely sure arid by a pretty large majority for Taft, and as we know that Bryan cannot win without New York we are confident of Taft's certain election. We also believe that Hughes, while he will run behind Taft, will be elected. He is making a splendid campaign. His action in going to help the Party in the West, leaving his own field in danger behind him, won him the support of many voters and especially of zealous republicans who before did not intend to vote for him. He made good ina splendid way and is now stronger than he ever was. The race track people and gamblers, the school teachers, whom he would not support for more pay, the doctors, whom he offended by signing the Osteopathic bill, the brewers and distillers are all against him, but thousands and tens of thousands of democrats are for him on his moral issues; the bankers and corporations and trust people, who were afraid if he shall be re-elected he will do to them as he did to the insurance companies, are also changing over. It has been called to their attention that if he is defeated for Governor Taft would be bound by all the requisites of honor to put him in his Cabinet, and they begin to think they would rather have him two years as Governor than four years as Attorney-General. Everybody here is feeling much better than at any time in the campaign, including the National Committee. Wbile saying this I do not mean to say that there are not danger spots in the national situation. Ohio is worst of all, according to the inside view, but during the present week the National Committee has taken the campaign there out of the hands of Vorys and the State Committee, and are running it entirely and supplying it with all the speakers it needs and with everything else that can be furnished. Indiana was democratic a few days ago, but is fast being made republican, It is the inside calculation here that Taft will carry all the Northern States except Nevada, Colorado and Montana and possibly Nebraska. Of course, there may come some cataclysm of scandal or forgery between now and election, but that is no longer probably, although possible. Any explosion on the Panama matter, the Philippines or anything else as to things which occurred years or months ago is now barred out; the people would not be fooled by such a recourse. As to money, I think the situation has been solved by having the contributions made to the State and not the National Committee. We are to have the annual meeting of the Iowa Society tonight to name a committee to nominate officers for the next year. We had a little caucus at George Parker's office yesterday to try and agree on a ticket, It would have warmed your heart and made you a boy an-ain if you could have heard the united expressions of affection for you and the sorrow over your departure from New York. You have made us all feel like orphans, those of us who are left behind. If love and good wishes will - ake your days and nights happy, there are enough of these in New York along to insure you such a happy state. We are going to start a movement tonight to build a monument 232 to Allison in Iowa and another in Washington. Our action will pro bably be sent to the Iowa papers. I think he deserves both, and both can certainly be carried out. I am, With affectionate good wishes to you and all old friends. General G. M. Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Sincerely yours, s. James X* Clarkson '.ji i- -i.", ' -mV y''. , iL 11^- I V ' tv.; , • • u ' r-: • I > U ' ' f'■» v.l''*-:«•? . Iff : /I ' ■ : *■ r.///," . ' y/^t , .» • !: ^r»., ytii ' ' • - -t. • ■ 233 October, 1908 San Francisco, California, Oct.-27, 1908. Gen. G . N'. Dodge, 1 Broadway, N. y. Dear Sir: I have gotten into a controversy about Captain Bonnesville and the mention of his name remids me thattyou spoke of him when I last sew you in New York in 1903 and showed me a ,.icture of your staff (dated I think 1862) in which he appeared. I write to ask if you can give me some data as to his service in the Civil War. Is it possible for riie to get a copy of ttie photo graph with Captain Bonneville mari<ed so I can tell which one he is. I remember your saying that you lost track of hi;n after the cose of the war. I find thai he retired to a good sized plantation which he purchased near Fort Sniith, Arkansas, and died there June 12, 1878. The Western Tacific Railway is going ahead slowly but steadily, we have about 700 miles of grading finished and 440 miles of track laid, ♦ about half on each end. The track froir; Salt hake is a short distance west of Ilumbolt '.''ells, Nevada. It will take about a year to complete th.e whole 927 miles. We are not doing any cou.mercial business yet. Ur. Bogue is still in charge oi the construction niatters and sends his regards. Sincei'ely yours, H. ^•cCartney. October, 1908. 2^5 October 30, 1908. Lieut. Colonel John F. Nicholson,- Recorder-in-Chief, U.S. M.O.L.L., Philadelphia, Pa. If.y dear Colonel and Companion: Referring to yours of October 5th, I hand you as nearly as I can remember what I said in answer to the complimentary resolutions at Burlington. "Companions,-- your complimentary resolutions came unexpectedly to mie. I fully appreciate and heartily thank you for tliem. This is my first mieeting with you since I was selected as your comrnander-inChief. Com.ing to mie as it did, unsolicited and unexpected, as I was then in the far west and did not even icnow that you were in session, I fully appreciate the great compliment you paid me and prom.ptly accepted, and I extend to you niy most grateful thanks, as I consider it as great an honor as it would be possible to pay me. I look upon this organization as the most distinguished and useful of all patriotic societies. In its constitution and actions it has shown the greatest patriotism and interest above and beyond any selfish or personal motives in the welfare of our country. Since its organization it has been ran so successfully that it is looked upon the world over as a great honor to become one of its niembers, and for this successful administration the credit is due, as you all know, to our Recorder-in-Chief, Colonel Nicholson, who for thirty-three years has devoted his time and his ability to its management. Truly and cordially, Grenville . Dodge. 237 Washington, D. C. Nov. 1, 1908, Esar General I hear Sheridan's monument is to be dedicated on the 25th inst and that you will be present, which is the most cheerful part of it so far as my household is concerned, altho' I'm a military worshiper at Sheridan's shrine. HcCoy came up the house the other night to verify a suggestion he had made to the President for his address on the above occasion, viz. to say a work of the effective way, original with Sheridan, of making winter campaigns against the Indians. I told him that while Sheridan and his subordinates had done this effective work you had originated this action in a most effective manner throughout a longer area in the winter of '65 and '66 ar.ti that the President on that occasion could do nothing better than honor both Sheridan and yourself. Your reminiscences infer that the "/ar Dep't. had ordered Curtis to do this, that he declined and you took the Job. If that is trize who in the 'Var Dept. originated the ideaV Had vou recommended it? We would like very much to take care of you while you are here and you can be free to go and come as you choose, and have my office in the house to transact business. With love from us all. Sincerely , John A. Joluiston, Gen. G. M. Dodge Council Bluffs, Iowa. Room 64 Baldwin Block. November, 1908. New York, November 2nd. 1908. Gen. G. M. Dodse, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General I have your letter of October 30th in re/^ard to the dividend upon the "Stamped" Stock. I remember that the Trust Company has raised some point in regard to the question because it was called interest, and that the Company decided to be bound by our circular and I still think that it is a matter that if it were taken into court would have to be decided in equity, and, if so, that the views set forth in my memorandum, copy of which I sent you, would prevail. I note what you think about Jones and his road. I have not the least idea where the road he is going to build is located. He tole me something about it, but it did not make a fixed impression upon my mind, but I told him I would take an interest with him. I note what you say about Mr. Trumbull being in favor of building North from Stamford, and that you think we should build to a connection up to Plainview in Hale County. Also, note what the Swensons say they are willing to do. I suppose this would depend somewhat upon what the road was going to cost and how many bonds would have to be issued. I have not gotteh used to the idea of your having retired from New York, and taking it easy at your old home. I hope I will be able sometimes soon to run out in your neighborhood and drop in upon you and bfeathe some of the atmosphere you find so good. This is the eve of election and I am sorry to say I have not been able to feel as optimistic as some of my friends. I still fear a little that the election m±y go to Bryan. I do not believe we have ever had such a big unknown vote as there is this year, the unem ployed and the people who are tired of "my policies." Yours very truly, H. Walters. Nov. 1908. 241 Danville, 111., Nov. 7, 1908. Dear General:- The outcome of the election was a source of much grati fication to me, but I have had quite as much satisfaction from the messages I have received from good friends like you. Their congratulations and expressions of confidence and good will mean much to me. So I thank .you sincerely for your kind favor of 4th inst., and send vou every good wish. I am as ever, with respect, etc.. Yours truly. Gen. G. M.Dodge, CouncTil Bluffs, Iowa. Joe Cannon " ■■ '■ ■ ' 245 .-■■nuni X»a. i New York, Nowember 8, 1908, Gen, John J. Johnstain, 2111 Massachusetts Ave., Washinrjton, D.C, My dear Johnston:- ,»i/3oa .0 ,v . III J.nn «oo«fan«^ nut. I have yours of November Ist. Tt will be impossible for me to attend the Sherida unveiling. I would like very much to have done so, as you know Sheridan first reported to.me for duty in this country as quartermaster at Rolla. Mo,, where he organ^'zed the forces that made th southwestern campaign, and we were very warm personal friends as long as he lived, ad he spoke of me in h"s memotrs in the highest terms. T send you under separate cover two copies of an address T made upon the Indian campaigns on the plains in the winter of '64 and '65, one of which you can give to McCoy. This campaign came about in this way. I was in command of the Department of the Missouri witi; headquarters at St. Louis and supposed t was comfortably fixed for the winter , T think U «a3 in December I received a d^'snatch from Gen. Grant asking me if a campaign could be made against the Indians on the plains in the winter. I answered "Yes, if proper preparation was made for •»t." The War Department immediately consolidated t:.e Department of Kansas, and the territories, into the Department of the Missouri, rel-'eving Gen. Curtis who was in command of the Department of Kansas, and T received an order to go immedia ely to Port Leavenworth where I would receive instructions. Hhen I arrived there I found the .officers in the department of Kansas had declared notning could be done with the Fndians until spring, in other words, until the grass came, and I found my instructions there from Gen. Grant to go ahead and open the stage and telegraph lines across the continent as soon as I couLd make preparations for it. The little pamphlet T sond you gives you a better hiratory of the matter. Of cotirse we had lived on th.e plains In the winter in making our surveys and reconnoissances and I had that experience, . The winter of 1865 was the su'dest one T ever saw. On March 2nd of that winter there was over two feet of snow fell, so you see what I.ind of a snap T got into by my answer to the telegram of Gen. Grant, Please ask McCoy .to ascertain for me if he can if Midshipman R. L. Montgomery, who is now on the Nebraska, is one of those who are detailed to e xchange places at Manila instead of going on with his ship. We understand that four Midshiemen from each of the fleet are to be left in Manila or that vicinity and relieve Midshipmen who have been on duty there a year or tww, Montgomery's mothfekr, who, you know, is my daughter, is anxious to know as she wants to send Christmas things to her son and some of her friends on board the ship. I have given up my private officers in New York and am here at my home for good, and T want you and Mrs. Johnston to come out and vifeit me sometime. "When you come We6t let me know and T will give you a goocl time out here in the wild and wooly west. Truly and cordially, G. M. Dodge, ,r<Oai , ' r v Mr. V. G. Bogue, San Francisco, Cal. My dear Bogue:- Kouncil Bluffs, November 7, 1908. .*tC .O.Q gfieJsnhttJir " * aiiol nmil yC When T received the letter from McCartney T ^s on the point of ^ r- writing you for a map of yo- r line. I never could ascertain from any one enactly v/here it lay. T had a pretty general idea, and today came forwarded to me from New York, a map enelos-'ng profile and your letfedr. There 19 no doubt bdt that you have a splendid line over the Sierra Nevadas and also between Salt Lake ad Humboldt Lake. T do not se 6 how you got over those independent ranges on the desert witl: .• one percent grade. We made a thorough examinat'on of that line south of jr the lake, and my impression is that we had to use muchj higher grades. ' • Perh?ips you took the work. I am glad to know you are so near complet'on. There is one question that has arisen in my mind, what your business is to be unless y u rea-^h out in a different portion of the Pacific -coast. Will t he line reaching San Francisco only pay? Also what is the population no 7 .of San Francisco and how fully has it overcome the effects of the ^ fire" ^ I have moved my private ofices from Mew York and am here at my home trying to take it easy. T still retain my connection w'th the ^ roads but I do noL intend to do any work, or very little, leaving that to the younger p ople. I hope if you come through here at any time you will stop over and make me a visit. I will be pleased to s&e you and balk with you about your work. T would go out over your line sometime .but a Chan e of climate now brings on my old trouble, the rheumatic gout and I' avoid" 't as much as' possible. T shall be very glad to hear from you at any time. . ■ ., ii- ^ - 1 OS- i h r; . or , 'el 'it« lo Truly, vo t»w: Jtnixi m ♦ io mU ai i»' ii o«'n' ' " T qtMns M to bnf OS It m$ od t* m i' J-,- m. tcl i)odge.'n« 9—n •in o/tw mnoOi 1ft tf ,A«ftftWlft| ft.X woh . ' • rd m biftlliftf »ifmm «ft afftftXl egn^r oK # ft^ hoif»ibh oi ft^ft Jft»lt 1ft liftftft ftftfl fM vHft^NI imJ ftftftJftiftMi •• •q'tie nood ftvftft odw oftftrtritebti treflfi bm nl td lii at .worsi ifftt .ftda Mmtrn a*ri<Maaq|lM la iftav a fttftd# Voft no t>S ainliil ftiftiiaHda ftnaa ftX aioft* afta aa wonH x aia>*sna at •qtda MUX bteetf no rtuie t«f<| itid to ftftoa tMia rir«a iftrt na4 m btm 3I10Y wfti rrl nftftmft aiinrtiq %m to oftft'^a otmd T aflifto o4 ir ienrtol .inM hiia wot X*""" ^ ^ ***"» V ftion o uox tifft f tfift voinl m ieJT Iftftl omo iiftt AftdV m •^ftftv \i90m latft b|i^ nt Jrto (MRlX ^ fttia \iiaiT iftiiM'' .k 249 Washington, D. ,0. Nov. 11, 1908, Gen. G. M. Dodge, Bal'dv/in Block, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dear General I ha\ e yours of Nov. 4th and also the two copies or pamphlets describing yourlcampaign against the Plains Indians in the winter of 65 and '66. If have just finished reading this most interesting bit of plains; history and you would have heard from me earlier but that Mrs. Johnston and I have just returned from Philadelphai. Now first as to Montgomery. McCoy has Aone to his regiment withnthe past few days . At the Navy Dept.' I was advised that being of the class of 1907 he was eligible for transfer but that the matter was wholly in th-e hands of Admiral Sperry and it would not be definitely known at the department until the latter part of the month. Elsewhere, I was informed that it was the intention of the Dep't. to transfer all of the midshipmen of the class of 1907. If such be the case it can be definitely confirmed at the end of this month keeping in mind that a transport sails for the ""hilippines' on the 5th of every month unless it falls on Sunday andthen on the 6th. This year it falls on the 5th which would give time to get the Christmas box aboard. I will send*one of these pamphlets to the President either by mail or one of the officers on his staff. Now General myfirst reading of this pamphlet-with a Century Dictionary Atlas on my knee 1 ads m to believe it would be well for you when you h-^ve a moment to go over it again and for-the benefit of readers who love to-read of the old times and men's great deeds to pencil in definite locations of places named, by Atlas index does not give Mud Springs, nor Port Rankin for i; ; tance .and for the moment I have not been able to find them tho' trey may be with the map. Then too, there are several Big Sandy stre-ms 6n one of which Coe hivington had h-is fight. The pamphlet came just at a time when I was reading Parkman s Oregon Trail, in which he forshadwed trouble, oi ® expedition to old Pt. Laramie I think in '46 Sr having 4 J begun the I'll ^^'I'V^nworth. slaughter of The whites. Indians, He sent especially for then the to Araphoes coL into the fort and impressed them by a display of force. Pired a lot of rockets at night and did execution with a howitser tharastor°Led and ^1"+^ white man them he with would awe. come He and told destroy the Araphoes their nation;after that if they a killed year ananother horses arid X the whole Araphce ^ couple nation of were white in men con<-torrT^t, for their .in arms and' 4 to Old I'ort Laranle wlth^resents Sf ho?aeS anSi"?e?o tL murderer Which the Trader (Bordeau) acting for old Papln refuses whlc was foolish as to the murderer for he could have been sent to^Leavenworth or tal^en out and shot and Eearney's supposed anger thus appea^ea r.aintaiiiied,-but as it was Kfarney was ninfhin dred miles or so away and in no position to make his threat good and you can imagine how impudent, bold and unrestrained these arapahoes became when the true situation began to dawn upon them, ^en followed 250 the Mixican War and Kearney had his hands full in another' direction. As a 'mattef of fact' your energetic, concentrated and aggressive campaign broke up for the time an Indian conspiracy as widespread and effective as Pontiac's in 1760, so graphically describedbj'- Parkman who clearly shows up the treachery of the Indian Character in war precisely as you yourself learned to know him from your■ plains experience. Practically every pre revolutionary ■^'ort westof the Allegheny Mts, and north of the Ohio River and west of Niagr to the Illinois River except Detfoit and Pt. Pitt was captured by the permitted entry of professedly friendly Indians who at signal butchered everybody at hand. When I look back upon it all, i't seems strange to me that in all the y ars of the Array's struggle v;ith the Indians that there should not have been at west Point a course of study of the Indian Character in his peace and ./ar habit and customs against one another as well as in war with the whiltes. Such as could well have been briefly compiled from Parlcman who had ransacked the world for his works, instead, of leaving it fo'r each officer to learn by cruel experience, for the In'dian of 1865 -06 was the same savage that he was 1760-65 and from the immemorial past. Our reason for it was the overwhelming dominance of tiie purely .irM.i,. would 1 a} send you my pamphlet back EOme day marked where ^ like to have you locate a spot absolutely. wisely aSay" here ut know you choose to take aJ?'nt'a1ro'r;o^^"i^^?ta?L":"®^ Sincerely and affectionately yours. John A. Johrston, ^ i * I' 251 1908. . The Society of the Army of the Tennessee held i ts thirtyeighth meeting at St. Louis, Missouri, on November llthand 12th 1908. At the opening of the meeting on the morn^'n^- of the 11th,. T made the < following remarksl "Comrades and Ladles of.the Society of the Army of the Tennessee: It Is a great pleasure to see so goodly a number at this reunion. T have received letters from almost all the members of our Society, and especially from those who could rot attend, and It Is a great satisfaction to me, and T know It Is to you, that most of them are still In the harness looking forward to a great many more useful days. • You will remember that a year ago at Vicksburg we held our reunion ^n a time of the-greatest flnanCal panic that ti;ls country perhaps has experienced,•but it is a great satisfaction now for us to meet one year afterwards and find the greater portion of our country almost as prosperous as it has bee'n at any t^me In Its history. We have just passed through an election that has been conducted upon a high plane, and T tlInk T can say that the successful candidate Is peculiarly fitted to fill the h-* gh posit-'.on that, he has been called to, and It Is the duty of all veterans and of all good citizens to stand by him, and we hope that dur'ng his administration we will have peace and a continuance of prosperity. We all remember that at the meeting in Vicksburg, we were entertained especially by Lieutenant General Lee, who was at that time at the head of the United Veterans and he took great pains to make our stay there pleasant. He took us out to the battle field and showed us where on his front an Towa brigade carried the only redoubt which was carried, T believe, in the Vicksburg campaign. He asked that brigade to come do-wn to tlie^ r reunion at Vicksburg, and that Invitation was accepted. Through the labor of entortaln'ng the;;, he contracted a disease that carried him away. Upon hearing of his death t sent the regrets and tiio condolence of myself and of this Society, and for the Society tliere was placed upon his coffin a floral tribute. I think all of us who met General Lee at that reunion were chamred with his perso'-allty and greatly regret his passing away. I have here a letter from Father Sherman, who Is out In Oregon. It Is rather personal to me, but as 1t Interests all of you, t will read It: Baker City, Oregon, Octo. 22, 1908. My dear General:--As soon as we have a President-elect, t want you to be so kind as to ask him to appoint to West Po'nt, Anthony F. Bacon, son of General-John M. Bacon (now-of Portland, Oregon) grandson of General Anthony Forsythe and great-grandson of Governor Dennlson of Ohio. Genewal Bacon, the boy's father, was for thirteen years on my father's personal staff. The boy ia the stuff that soldiers are made of. T ask the favor, General, In my father's name, and T trust to your Influence to get the appo'ntment as a Presidential one. The boy Is now 17. I want him to enter In 1910. Please accept my regrets for oiir next meeting. T am sorry that I can not hear Gump's oration. I am with you In spirit, as always and only regret that T can not meet you all at the genial board.' 9^59 u O /V 1908. ^ Of course T shall personally make th^* s appeal to the President elect, and with the permission of the Society T will also add their request, •' ' . ' • 1 , I have a greeting here from the Pacific Coast. This Is dated Seattle, ■ Was}.Ington, November 4, 1908: General Grenville Dodge, Council Bluffs, Towa, : Dear General: we, the six members of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee living in Seattle, Wash., beg to sedn our special greetings to you, and our kind thougiits to all the membership; and -.ve express our sincere regret that v/e are unable to attend at St. LquIs. Yours fraternally, _ • to o' ''' ' • , 9 , ' ' . R* Chase, - «i e'lOifl yu.. .'.-oi vt b'lrwiol Joseph Dlckerson. . J. '.7. Pumsey. . firt#*!/ ntwo ft.f'ui iw 0»V orj" ***'•» Lyman Banks. ■ , YaJniroo ' .f J>»rlJ i/r Jen.' H* C. Force. ciJ i:tt to** -• Jn■ 1.. .1—i" fl ' ' H.,L. Gray. ■ " J 11 1 ■ 1 ("litt . , At the'morning meeting on .the 11th, the death of General^.. .'•ij' • kj.' "Stephen D. Lee of the Confederate Army was brouglit to the notice of \r'' . . tlie Society by Major Raasieur. General Lee passed away and was burle^ at his home In Columbus, Mississippi on Memorial Day. A large ' ■*.! number of Union gnd Confederate soldiers were present and they proposed ir- ' . e. . •ii; to place a statue of General Lee on the Confederate front in the . t, , ' - f ^ , Vicksburg Nat1 onal" Parkr* • ^ ^ M , ' • , ' ■ , iv I read a ver^y long and interesting letter from General E. F. ■ • . ' • . ' , • ' . Winslow pt this meeting. ^ , • I , - . ■ • ' t .. . . ... . ■ . At 11;00 we took tl";e oars to v'sit General Sherman's grave at , ;ii the Calvary cemetery After assembling at ti.e grave, T addressed the Society as follows: * , • "Many members of the Society iiere will remember how seventeen years ago the Army of the Tennessee followed General Sherman from the railroad station to this, his resting place. T accompanied General Sherman's body from his home In New York, and t can remember vividly the scene In Now York as tl.e funeral cortege moved tlirough that city to the Pennsylvania Railroad to take the funeral train. T call to mlnd tl.At In the'carriage with me following the A body were General Joseph E. Jolinstnn, General Schofleld and others, nnd T remember well the tribute that General Johnston paid to General Sherman and the'fffectlon he had for him. As we'pfeissed" across the continent, at every station crowds fathered, nnd the emblems of mourning decorated all tiie towns, showing 253 1908. what the people thoucht of.General Sherman. 'In this city the Army of the Tennessee marched -immediately in the rear of .the caisson upon which the remains were carr^'ed from the station up to this place. The streets on both sides were crowded with people, and we saw evidences that impressed every one of us of the love and affection.of the people for General Sherman. Prom the sidewalk'colored and .vhite people would run out, and, as the caisson passed by, would fall on their knees and offer a prayer." Here at this grave Thomas Sherman, the son of General Sherman, redd the full buriai service \i'ithout a termor, giving the order for the _ volleys • wlm" ch -.-ere fired over the grave. General Schofield, who stood by my side, spoke to me with the tears running down his checks and asked me, "How long could you do that?" I-answered, "Not for oi^e moment." ? It was a scene that impressed everyone present. When the ■ service was through and we had returned to the cars T asked Father Sherman, "Ho-w could you go through that -wervice as you did without showing any emotion, not even a tremor?" Father Sherman answered, "Because it was my duty," and T discovered in the son one of the qualities that was so prom'nent in General Sherman. .We all k.-ow how he lived up to every duty and made all of us perform ou;- dut'es, ^ It is a great blessing to us that so'many of us are alive today and can be present here to-pay our tribute to our old commander v;hom we.followed so confidently and whom we held in such love and esteem." I was'followed by the Rev. 3. J. Niccoll3,'of St. Louis. At the evening meeting Governor Joseph W. Folk received the Society in behalf of the stAte of Uissouri and the address of welcome for the city was by Col. D. P. Dyer. I answered as follows; "On behalf of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee t accept your cordial welc me and.extend to you their grateful thanks. This Is our fifth meeting in'your city. All of them have been noted by the distinguifehed officers and citizens who ha-ve taken part, and of their great historical in.terest. We remember well that your city began the first great effort tha settled the West. Perliaps no one is better acquainted with the develop ment of the country West of the llississ^ppi River that followed the explorations of Lewis and Clark, of Asldey and Bridger, of Bent and Borinevllle, of the Chotaus, the Campbells and their comrades than Their trails T followed'for saw the first pony express, next the telegraph, then the stage and finally the ra"Iroad, which took possession of the paths across this continent these pioneers had made by their energy and courage. St. Loul.s also was naturally the pion-^er of the West' in the Civil War. Lgon, Bla'r, Slegel, Ostei'haus and many others of your citizens st'nick the blow that saved to the Union your own State and 0- 254 1908. aroused the Northwest to the necessity of quick and decided action. Generals Crant, Sherraan, Sheridan Scl.ofield, A. J. mith and many others performed ti-eir first duty and made their frrst campaigns in tl;is State. When. T. reported here with my .regiment General Sherman was in coran;and'of fienton Barracks. Captain Sheridan reported to me at Rollr , luissouri, -as -iuartermaster of the forces,that were to form the Army of the Southwest. Schofield was a Lieutenant just returning from his i/ilson Greek fight; Grant a Colonel in crmmand of a regiment serving in your State, and here, virtually, was created the Army of the Tennessee. Sherman tellB us of its f ox''raat''on and how it obtained its name, and in a characteristic description that we who served under him fully appreciate. He says: "'Vhilst our parlor knights, bold in words but not in deeds, were crying aloud, 'On to Richmond,'. Break the backbpne of the rebellion,' 'Crush the monster in the bud' and other harmless, general expressions of more sound than.fury, quietly, v/ithout no" se or confusion, without boasting or bluseter, without wound of the trumpet or the press, an army mostly of Testern men had assembled at Cairo and Paducah under the leadership of him whom we still delight to ^call our chief, embarked upon.their frail steamboats and, convoyed by the gallant navy under Commordore Foote, turned their course up the Tennessee River and assumed the proud title of the Urray of the Tennessee.'" From this beginning that army, all the distinguished officers^^ I have named and many others, rose to great deeds and greater results. Finally, its first leaders and many of its subordinates rose to.the highest rank.and command in our service. When St. Louis looks back on these two great events in the history of our pountry, well may she-be proud of her strategic location, her foresightedness and her energy in conquering and dev eloping an emprel, and secondly, her patriotism and loyalty in the pa>t she took in saving the Nation. Tt is a singular fact that th<- Army of the Tennessee was blessed with success wlxerever it faced the enemy; her officers ste&dily advanced in rank and command; in no instance did they fail; thus.followed a subordination to authority;■ an esprit du corps, a fellowship and comradeship which existed throughout its ent're life, and every one of its survivors look back upon this with'the greatest pleasure, satisfaction and 'pride. Nothing marred its life, and we of that army look back upon our services with It an'd consider them the most honorable of our lives. . .. ... . . Yearly this old army is going to rest with its illustr-'ous leaders, three of whom lie burled in thts city, but we are leaving behind a record, and we hope to be followed by the younger genera tion, our sons and our daughters, who are taking our- places and who will attend these reunions, bringing to them increasing interest, and we are certain in their hands oUr old army will forev-r be revered, and honored as one of the great units that saved the We fully appreciate the reception we have received hereand the interest, nearly half a century after our deeds, that is taken ^ In us. We assure you it strikes deeply in all our hearts; it will never be forgotten, and w-^ return to yon our thanks and our heartiest Appreciation of your many ind words and your pnerous treatment. T convey to you with all my heart the best wishes of th-s Society fa the sucLss, the happiness and the greatness of your c^ty and people. She rman and in a rou '.vi th aii my nearu une ucoo v. - the happiness and the greatness of your city and people. 255 1908. The oration was delivered by P. Tecuraseh Sherman, son of General Sherman and was devoted to his father's campaign from Atlanta to Washington and to the negotiations with Jonnston, a very able and interesting oration. Following Mr. Sherman was General John W. Noble of St. Louis who gave many reminiscences of his acquaintance with Sherman. At hthe business meeting on the second day the President made a report on the progress of the building of the Grant Monument. The banquet was held in the evening at the Southern Hotel and the following toasts were given: "The President of the United States." Response by Gen. John W. Noble. "The Army" „ ^ ^ j Response by Maj. Gen. 0. 0. Howard. "The Army of the Tennessee, from Belmont to Bentonville." Response by Captain Henry King. "Patriotism." Response by Mrs. J. Leroy Bennett. "Our Country." , , n Response by Chaplain Samuel J. Niccolls. "The Navy." ^ Response by General John C. Black. "Tho Germans of St. Louis in 1861." Response by Hon. C. G. Burton, past commander-inchief of the G.A.R. 257 November IE, I9C8. New York, November IE, 1908. Dear Geaeral: Personal. I am sorry that you were inoonvenieneed in any way about the cipher parts of my telegram. Howe-ver, I hope my telegram of yesterday addressed to rou at St. Louis clarified the dividend matter for you. I read your answer to the Board and have just telegraphed you as follows: "Board just voted two per cent, dividend on common stock payable December fifteenth." Ten members of the Board were present and the action was unanin.ous. I enclose herewith copy of the resolution adopted. As you have no doubt observed, the stock market has been rather complimentary the last few days to our stock and I feel sure we made no mistake in doing what we did today. My other cipher telegram of Novonber ninth should be translated as follows: "We want report on resources country between Orin Junction and Yellowstone showing probable traffic for railroad. Also waht check V/orrall's survey. Cowan suggests A.I.Fonder and thinks you know him. Is he a good locating enginees or will you suggest some one else?" Bronner is quite active in buying bonds and indicates a willing ness to buy ten or tweH^e million dollars. Of course this is only part of the problem of building to the Yelllov/stone Kiver, for I think you and I should be satisfied not only about the resources of the country but also as to the loaation of the line. It looks like we mi^t organize a program for it in 1909. Vi^ C ob I thank you again for your splendid telegran on account of my "birthday. I cannot tell you how much it pleased me and how hi^ly I prize it. I ass\ime you are feeling pretty well or you would not be in St. Louis, and I hope your physical improvement will continue. With kind regards and best wishes, I am as e^ver. Faithfully yours, General G.M.Lodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. j ■ ■ j I Frank Trumbulll. "'.i , , ■iil.. ' 'v ■ 'w'-. ' i/.j ^ 259 Maroa, 111. Hov 13, 1908. Gen. G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, la. Dear f^eneral:- I had expected to stay at St Louis to the Banquet but suddenl y at 12:30 I made up my mind that I had better go hom as my wife might need me. I had but thirty minutes to get my train in East St Louis but I made it with three minutes to spare, l took your advice and got a boy to go with me from the Hotel and put me on my car. 1 reached here last night at 8 P.M. and my wife so happy and glad to see me that I was thankful that I started home when I did. She understands what I tell her and I explained to her how good you had been to me aiid how nic ly I had been cared for by you and the other officers and it pfesed her very much and she remembered years ago when she used to attend the meeting with. You can never realize how grateful I am to you and brother officers for what they did for me. i f el today like a millionare. I have not had so much money at any one time in three years and 1 also feel rich from the kindly interest taken in my case by officers. I wish I could thank personally every officer who contributed to the fund. If I am possibly able I will try and meet you at Columbia at the :reunion next year. Yours very truly and gratefully, • C. p. Em.ery. I have ordered your,album sent to you from Hartford, l can scarcely see to write. , t- ' 261 1908 . On Novemlier 18, 1908, I visited Des Mo-nes and was a guest of the Commercial Club at their luncheon. In address-'ng them T confined my remarks to Des Mo'nes and why it had not met my expec tations and the expectations of bthers in its growth and stated that the cause of it was that the early railr'^ads that were built followed their land grants and did not start from or concentrate at any point ^*n the State except nt Counc'l Bluffs and there She greater Union Paicifc had con?i1Sersil®Smaiia to over-shadow Council Bluffs; that the city of Des Moines being the capital of the State, une would naturally have supposed that the railroads would have made a con centration there and for this reason no great city had been built up in Iowa and in all probability none every would be. The interests of the railroads and of the business of the state were so diversified and that fact that it was purely an agricultural State, would prevent any concentration at any center. In the evening I attended the banquet of the Loyal Legion and delivered ray address on the secretji^ service in the army wh^ch was something new to everyone. I presented many facts in relation to the secret service that had never before been given out as follows: ijLi: Nov. 1908. 263 Northfield, Vt., Nov. 18, 1908. Gen. G. M. Dod/^e, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My Denr General:- I regret very mizch to inform you that Ma.i. Hovey died very suddenly Saturday night of heart failure. About 11 p.m.. he told Mrs. Hovey that he felt very b.-^dly and asked her to call a doctor. Dr. Judkins was in his store and came at once but the Major was dead when he arrived. The fundral was yesterday. We held a meeting of the Board of Trustees last Saturday and at that meeting authorized the deeding of the necessary land to the Government for the weather bureau building. We have not yet secured the title from the A.S.P. Society as they have not the right to deed by their charter. I have had intrxaduc^d in the Legislature a bill that will give them that right. We also decided to purchase as many horses as we have money for and I expect that we shall have at least 10 horses at the opening of the winter term. Would it not be well for me to deed to the University the ]and that I now hold that belongs for you. The grading has been done over a portion of this and I can see no reason for holding it longer. At the meeting of the A.S.P. Society held Nov. 7, it was •decided to procure plans for the building at once and proceed to raise the necessary funds as soon as possible. Construction to begin when we have ^.5000.00 raised. If you will send me your check for the amount you promised to give, ?1000.00, I will at once act on your suggestion and ask Mr. Adams for a similar one. If I am successful with him I shall then be able to say to others that we have over f3000.00 IN THE BANK, and I feel certain that the balance can be raised so that we can begin construction in the spring. Regarding the student aid fund. We have loaned •'^985.00 to 11 men so far this year and have in the bank f430.00 These 11 men will need for the balance of the year at least vlOOO.OO more. We are reasonably sure of collecting ^600.00 more during the college year so we shall have enough to take care of the men we are now helping. There are however, 2 Juniors that have asked for flOO.OO each, 1 Junior wants f150.00 and 1 Sophomore that wants yTS.OO These men will not need the money until the winter term but we have not felt that we could promise them anything unless ^'ou said so. They are all good men and men that I should" like to see stay here but we feel that our first duty is to the men that we are already helping. I hope you will decide to have these men kept here. fulfilled^°^^ profecy regarding Mr. Bryan seems to have been literally Verv truly yours, M. D. Smith November, 1908. 265 Des Moines, Iowa., November 19, 1908, Major General G. M, Dod^e, Council Bluffs, Iowa, My Dear General:- I have your kind le^.ter of yesterday, and am glad to know that you so greatly enjoyed your visit in Des Moines. I thank you for your kindness in sending me the beautiful Sherman Memorial Volume which I received this morning, and which I was very anxious to obtain. I acknowledge the receipt of your check for ^2.50 with instruction to send the two Volumes to Miss B. G. Shry, Baldwin Block, Cour-cil Bluffs, Iowa. We have only the first Volume at this time, but the second will be out about December 1st. Shall we send you the first Volume now or wait until the second is out and send the two together? With the wish that your life may be prolonged many years to enjoy the distinguished and richly deserved honors which you have received, and again thanking you for the kind encouragement you have •given me in my efforts to make the great work in which I am engaged an honor and credit to our State, I am, dear General, Very sincerely yours. G. W. Crosley. t I • ■ sM Nov. 1908. 267 Gen. G. M. Hodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General I write to say that the books you sent me came to hand in due time and let me say to you that they are highly appreciated and allow me to kindly thank you for them, as I can assure you that they are highly interesting to me. As I read my mind goes back to the days of 61 fco 65 when we battled to sustain and defend the flag of our country and our free and independent Government. The books are very entertaining, especially the one relating to your own service in the war and throughout our coimtry as I recall scenes that I passed through when our Regt. was in your command for a short time. How we had been stationed at Paducah, Kv., all through the summer of 63 and about the last of October received orders to go up to the Tennessee River on transports and join your Command at Eastport, Miss., and how we lay packed up for three days and nights waiting for the boats to come on which we were to make the trip to reach you. Then of the march to Pulaski, Tenn., where we remained during the winter. This trip with your command was our first heavy marching so you see we thought it a little tough but I believe we brought our part of it up to your satisfaction. At least. Col. Mercer in whose brigade we were, seemed to think so, as he expressed the opinion that them Paducah soldiers marched like (Hell). He called us Bandbox soldiers because we had been kept on post duty and had seen but little marching up to this time. Now in reading your books all these things are called up afresh in ray memory. I also remember Gen. Swayne who was in your command at that time. I also remember the hanging of the spy at Pulaski, Tenn. and many other incidents that took place at that time, and I can scarcely realize that 45 years have passed since the occurances of which I speak, but such is the fact. Now in conclusion let me say that I was glad to meet you in St. Louis and have the pleasure of speaking to you for a short time and regretted that I could not remain with you longer than I did. And now if it was not for one thing that stands in the way I would invite you to visit our town on next Memorial day. May 30th, 1909 and deliver an address for us on that occasion. Our G.A.R. Post (of which I am the Commander) being small is not financially able to bear the expenses of the R.R. fare from your town and back but let me assure you that it would be one of the greatest pleasures of my life to introduce you to the comrades and to an audience of our people who take a great interest in our decoration day exercises and can assure you of a large and attentive audience at our Hall where we hold our public exercises before going to hhe Cemetary. Now if I might hope that you would see fit to come I will guarantee to make up whatever the post may fall short of the amount required to defray your expenses. Trusting these few lines will find in good health, I remain. Yours in P. C. &.L.. John A, Wilson. Co. B. 111th 111. Vol. Infty. Marissa, 111. 269 • Council Bluffs, November 21, 1908. ' vi«*oor * -fv. iiTodx il« v.: Ji;.- . . » ' .'n.i ^ ,nitM4npitfV« '•» ' ■ . - '■ f > • ' ;v: »fit OJ OJ 'fvo nfri '.le •lojf General Jms. S. Clarkeoni J »a» r <in#q«q •'nonHfA r or ' ^ , JnMinq Jm iX«» Custom House, New York City, W ^ (I ' My dear Rhet:-' • • • \ f r was over to Des Mo'nes this week, spent two days there. The ci, Cbmmercial Club gave me a luncheon and T dellevered an address before ; the Loyal Leg-'on. Everyone t saw there was in favor of the Allison Monument. T talked with a good many and they all stated they were ready to help. It seems to me now right after liis deat:. is the t'me to press it and there ought to be a committee organized in the' state here. The proper place, it seems to me, for it is in the capitol grounds and we ought to go before the legislature when it meets this winter and get an appropriate*on for the pedestal, the same as congress gives for all the statues in Washington. That would allows us to put all we can raise into the bronze figure and the has reliefs if there are any. I''..'- . I received the letters from the Society of the meeting and T • notice ■'n the papers they have carried out t]ie recommendat^*ons of the committee, at which T am greatly pleased. Before we commence doing anyt ing in the State, we will have to fix the location. T have not heard anything yet from Dubuque, v;hfether they objected to the locat-'on, or not, and T do not know whether it was the intention of the Sowa Society or not to erect the monument in *.7ashihgton or in Des Moines, but it seems to me the proper place f or it is in Des. Mo-'nes, the Capital. If anything is done in Washington, it should be done by Congress. My health is good and I am enjoying myself out at my home. I would like very much to have you and Mrs. Clarkson come out here and make me a vis^t. You would get a royal welcome from all Iowa. I nr^ver see an lowana that does not speak of you. iVhen I was at Des Moines I explained to them why Des Mo'nes had not grown into a great commercial center, which they had never even thought of. It was because the railroads built through the state of Iowa following the land grants, from east to east, and made no concen tration at any po'nt except on the Missouri river at Council Bluffs, and the Bluffs wJiich should have been that commercial center was over shadowed by the better position for a city on the other side of the river at Cmaha and because the Un'on Pac'f^c centered all its ra'lroads end expenditures at that po^nt. It was only up to 1883 or 1884 wlien we commenced bu'lding at Des Mo^nea that we brought in the ra'lroads from the north and south. Of courae, roads now are headed for De Mo'nes • and it will not be long before 't will be a commercial center and get to be a city ^f 150,000 or 2C0,000. Let me hear fbom you and tell me all about what the Society is doing, and be sure thoy send me everythTng. t met Trumbull white here and sent him over to Dubuque to see what he could do with Allison's papers, but they are in a position that they .canno t be gotten at very well at present, and T have not had time to go over any of m-'ne yet, T have been so busy. When I was at Des Ko'nes T had a long talk with Governor Ciimmins. He says he never wanted to run against Allison but circumstances for!ced him 'nto it and he is going to use all his efforts to bring harmony into the party. T think he is in earnest and the press over the state and th.e people are supporting him in it. I .not^'ce Hepburn does;n he was very much opposed to him at one time, but Cummins went Into Hep burn's district before election and did everything he could for him. Cummins told me he did not expect Allison's old friends to support him. He said so far as T was concerned T would have been an 'ngrate if T had not supported Allison so you see he takes a sensible view of those things. I am doing all T can to br'ng harmony to the party, liked we used to have. I told the fovernor that we used to go into the con ventions and fight hard, but when we crossed the threshold to go out, we were all for whoever the nominee v/as, there was no knifing,, and that kept a harmonious party and v/e have got to get back to these conditions. The Governor was very eam-^st in h.is desire to do so and I believe the people generally are accepting his posit'on, though in this last' election many of his friends voted against some of the stand patters, but accom plished nothing, , I am, . ,ev ■ -.c Jtmti ■ v. 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General Granger and many dffleers recommended to Governor Bla^'r the appointment of i^ptain Sheridan for Granger's Place, and Captain Alger took the^'r recommendations to the Governor, who with his adjutant was-at Pittsburg Landing at the time, and appealed to him to appoint Sheridan; a^id, as Alger has told it to me, the Governor sat down upon a dry-goods box at-Pittsburg Landing and-wrote out on a sheet of paper the order to appoint Sheridan as Colonel of the 2nd ilichigan. As Sheridan tells it, he received this commission by telegraph"from the Adjutant General of the State. When he reported his appointment to General II"lleck and asked to be re lieved, Halleck told him that befo.^ e he could accept his commiss^'on, he would have to obtain permission from the Secretary'of■the.War Department, and Sheridan say's t];at h^^ s heart went down, as he was very anx'ous to get *nto the line. He argued with General Halleck until he consented, telling him the regiment had to leave that night. General Gordon Grangei- gave him i.is Colonel's Straps and he put them upon his Captain's jacket and tr-ok command of the fegiment, and the next day Colonel Sheridan, under Col. Elliott of the 2nd Iowa Cavalry, made a raid on a regiment of Confederates near Boonville, Kiss., had a sharp conflict, and scattered the rebels. . He captured the town and many prisoners that were escaping from Corinth; also several trains of cars, which were destroyed. Ti.is was a surprise to our troops as Corinth i.ad been evacuated without their knowing it. They had to abandon their provisions for the rebel army was upon them. Sheridan's command was .^.oon increased to a Brigade and was stationed Booneville, as an outpost of our army stationed at Corinth. Gen. Chalmers, of the Confederate cavalry, came up to attack Booneville with about 6000 or 6000 men. Sheridan had only 1000 in his command, and as he tells it, he did not see any possibility for him to defeat Chalmers with his small force. He developed his great ability as an officer here, and planned to attack Chalmers in rear and front. He gave Captain Alger two companies from the 2nd M'chigan and two from the 2nd Iowa, an gave iiim one hour to march by-a ti mber-road and arrive in the rear of Chalmer's command, his instructions being wlien hd arrived there to charge in column and endeavor to cut through Chalmers' line of battle, while he (Sheridan) would attack in the front with his small fo^pce, and w^ith the combined attacks they hoped-to demor alize and defeat Chalmers. This attack of Alger was successful, and Sheridan, with his thousand men, defeated Chalmers, took a good many prisoners, and drove him out of ihrt country. Upon the recommendation of General Rosecrans and all the general officers then at Corinth, Sheridan was made a Brigadle—General for ti.is battle. When Grant took'command of this District of West Tennessee, upon Halleck's assignment as Chief-of-Staff at Washington, General Hnlleck ordered Buell and his army to Chattanooga, but Bragg headed him off and forced him to retreat to Louisville. Sheridanwas assigned to a Brigade of three regiments of infantry and one, of cavalry and order ed to Louisville to the Army of the Cumberland, He says it.was the first time he met Grant, and T hnVe heard Grant sny several times that 276 Kti 1908. ^ Sher'dan did not want to serve with h'm, but preferred the army of the Cumberland. Grant disliked very much to have Sheridan leave or desire to leave, but never said anything about ^t, and Sheridan went 'to the army of his choice. In referring to the matter General Sher-'dan has this to say: "Before and during the activity wrn'ch followed his reinstalment, General Grant had become famH-'ar with my services through the trans mission to 17a3l;ington of information T had furnished concerning the . enemey's movements and by reading reports.of.my fights and skirmishes in front; and he seemed lotl. to let me go." Sheridan criticizes the delay in not reinforcing McCook, who had.the right on which Bragg concentrated his army at the battle of Stone River, and that fact was known.at midnight before the attack. Sheridan's division was the only one of McC ok's corps that came out of the attack intact, he repulsing,every attack upon him by Hardee's Corps. He lost his four Brigade Commanders and 41^ of his entire forces, this being, he says, the heaviest loss that he experienced during the war, Rosecrans laid in middle Tennessee from March to August while Grant was pound'ng away on the Mississippi, though urged to attack Bragg, He and his generals opposed it, holding that it was not gOdd strategy to attack whifte Grant was fighting; that it was better to hold Brggg's army in their front and keep it from re-nforcing Johnson, who was organizing an army in the rear of Grant, Sheridan upheld these views unt'l Grant adopted the plan of all armies attacking at once, when Sheridan saw to.e logic of Grant's plan, and that it Tfras the better way of keep'ng the enemy from drawing from one army to reinforce another whil^ some our armies were laying idle while others werd fighting. In regard to the movement sout-h of the Tennessee, when Rosecrans believed that Bragg, when he evacuated Chattanooga, was retreating south Sheridan says he became very suspicious of the-movement; that his scout. Card, when he sent him in^o the enemy's line, discovered some days before the b-ttle that Bragg was expecting to fight and was expecting reinforcements, and //as only awaitinr the arrival of Longstreet to strike. After this discovery it was September 13ti; before Rosecrans began to bring together his ti.ree Corps, and Sl;eridan says that "Bragg could have destroyed tliem in detail when he found his army betv/een lucCook's Corps, wJiich was in the liroomtown Valley, and Thomas's corps which was on the pike marching toward Lafayette, On the l9th, Sheridan fought near the widow Glen's House, "There did not seem to be any regular plan of battle," he says,"And when Rosecrans discovered that Longstreet was on the ground and that Bragg's forces outnumbered his, 'he moved to the left to join Thomas," Sheridan says that movement to th l»ft by the'flank in presence of the dhejiy, who at all points were •seeking to peretrate our lines, was fatal, and was a violation of a simple and fundamental military principle. After the attack of Longstreet on our right and t/.e plerdng and breaking up of McCook's and Crittenden's Corps, Sheridan got together what was left of his division, and, with some other troops, went to Rossville and joined Thomas, He says ha found Thomas very much depressed after his great struggle to save the army, and In which he was successful. Two-thirds of the army was ',hen concentrated iinder Thomas and the crippled condition of the bnemy began to show itself that evening, "I have always thought, Sheridan says,"that had General Thomas held on and attacked the 277 1908. • Confederate's right and rear from where I made the junction with him on the hafayette road, the field of Ghickamaugua would have been relin quished," To us the fact that our army was allov/ed all day of September 21 to move ^nto Chattanooga and form an inVncible I'ne shows the condition of the enemy to -have been nearly as bad as ours, for if Bragg had continued his attack wh-'le we were retreating into Chattanooga he would have caught us at a great disadvantage. General Rosecrans, although he had notice of Longstreet's movement from Richmond to Bragg ten days before the battle, T having sent him a telegram notifying him of the fact, pa-'d no attenfon to it. One of our spies (now living) who was in Richmond came out with Longstreet, leaving him in East Tennessee and getting the information to me, which T immediately wired bo Rosecrans, Rosecrans answered me that the information was not in accordance with his own, Sheridan also gave him the information," which he got througl: his scout Carci; and Colonel "Wilder, of Wilder's Brigade, both gave Rosecrans the information. But, as with me, he said he did not believe it, and showed a dispatch from the war department at Washington that no troops had left Lee's army. He did not believe this reinforcement had come until the day before the battle, when Wilder and Atkins both showed him prisoners taken from Longstreet's Corps, then pfesent on the field of battle. Sheridan has settled the mooted question of who gave the order for the troops in the Battle of Chattanooga to climb Missionary Ridge, He said Thomas's orders were to-take the intrenchm ents at the foot of the ridge; that he and his Brigade commanders discussed the condition they would be in under the direct fire of the rebel line "above,-and he gave the order to his-brigade commanders to take the foot of the hill and then go for the main rebel line on the top of the ridge. Before giving this order he had sent ahead to the Corps Commanders for more definite orders. He returned after they were climbing the ricge, with orders to halt at the foot, and his aide had stopped one of his regiments; but when he saw the men climbing the slope he took the responsibility and ordered them-to go on up which shows that the state ment that the men went on up without orders is hot correct. Sheridan on taking the ridge kept on after the enemy,"and after night had fallen he found th t he had.no support. He returned to his Corps Commander an. asked for the Corps to follow him, so that he could reach Chickamauga Station, where all the enemy's stores were packed, and so that they would also be in the rear'-)f that portion of Bragg's army t.at.had confronted Sherman; but he was only promised support in the.event that he met the enemy. He returned and went on to Chickamauga Creek; where, finding he had no support he halted for t. e night, and discovered"that Bragg's army passed the station after daylight. If Gordon Granger with his corps or even a part of it had supported him, they would have captured or destroyed that part of Bragg's Army, As it was Sheridan took some 1700 prisoners, considerable artillery and many wagons. General Granl reached Sheridan the next day and saw what could have been accomplished had Sheridan been supported. It was tnis movement and the ag-resalve action of Sheridan that caled Grant's particular attentio to him, and it. caused his taking him to the Army of the Potomac when he was made General-ln-chief in commfind of all the armies. i> i 'i' 278 1908. - ■ Whan General Grant returned from Washington, in liarch, 1864 after he had received his promotion to the rank of Lieutenant General, he called a number of the officers to meet him in Nashville, and proposed to take some of them East with him. Sherman protested, stating that the officers who were accustomed to that army would do better in it than in any other; and finally Sherman and Grant concluded that he shotild takd Sher'dan. Wih le Grant was at Nashville he outlined to us his plans for the campaign of 1864, stating that every army of the United States was to move on a certain day and ,to attack the army in its front, so that the enemy could not take fro'm one army lying idel to reinforce another army fighting us, as had often been the case; heretofore when we had one army fighting whild the others were lying still, as by our former tactics, the enemy was enabled to place as many fight-ng'men in the field as we could. General Grant took Sheridan with him and placed him in command of the Cavalry Corps of the Army of the Potomac, Sheridan had very distinct views as to how cavalry .should be handled when he got there, and went to see General Meade. He endeaovred to bring Meade to his views. Sheridan found the cavalry there doing picket duty for the whole army, -and stretche out for sixty miles without a confederate cavalryman facing them. General Sheridan thought the cavalry troops should be mobilized and made a fight- .ing Corps, and'he sent out to take care of the enemy's cavalry and go into battle with the rest of the army. That was entirely different ■from the methods theretofore proposed, an-: General I.Ieade.held to the old ^ ideas. - Sheridan could not bring Meade to liis views; therefore he had to do the best he could under the c'rcumstanoes, -He had under him four Divisions commanded by regular army OJfacers, and unt^l after the Battih of t e Wilderness that cavalry force was used in the advance and upon the flanks of the army and did not accomplish much. But when Gran, moved his army to the left, endeavoring to get between Lee and Richmond, he ordered Sheridan tn occupy two strategic positions in advance of the infantry and hold them at all hazards. Meade, not knowiing Grant's orders, saw Sheridan's disposit'on of the command, thougl^t it was too exposed and moved two of his divisions. This enabled Lee \Tithout opposition to occupy the positions that Sheridan had been ordered to hold, and then our army had to f^ght for and retake them. Sheridan considered it a reflection upon him. He went to see Meade and protested against.his action. Meade ifa« quick-tempered, and SJaeridan was also; they had very hot words, and finally the question coming up, Sheridan said he would not give the Cavalry another order unless he cou'd have absolute command of it; that he (Meade) could hereafter handle the cavalry. Meade brought up the work of the Confederate cavalry under Stuart, and Sheridan said to him ,''lf you w» 11 let me loose, T will wt)pe the earth up with Sttart." Meade wentover to aee.General Grant and complained of Sheridan, and told Grant th-at Sheridan had said that if they would give him comm;^nd of his Corps of cavalry he would wipe the earth wHh Stuart. "Did Slcridan say that?" fThen why dpn't yoii let him do it?" said Grant, and on the very next day Sheridan received iiis orders and made his celebrated ^ march to the rear of Lee, destroying his communication, fighting-with ^ Stuart and his entire cavalry c rps, achiev'ing- great victories and killing Stuart, 279 190Q. . i When T went to City Point in Novemlbef ,1864 j to vi sit'General Grant, he told me of Sheridan's great success in command'of the cavalry troops of the Army of the Potomac, and said that Sheridan on the field was the best General he had ever seen. He declared he was equal and fit for the highest coionand. • General Grant also told me of the mistakes and disasters In the Shenandoah Valley, and the use Lee made of Early to scare Washington iintil he (grant) saw that he must select some on'^ of his best officers to make a campaign in the valiey,• When he selected General Sheridan the .President and Secretary Stanton both objected, saying that Sheridan was too young and 'nexperienced; but they gave way to Grant's judgment, and Sheridan s first movement down the valley was so careful and conservative that it showed liim to have,the qual-'ties of a great General. His first movement was against Early, who retreated before his forces and refused • to give battle until he reached Fisher's Hillji a very strong position; his falling back was to meet reinforcements coming from Lee. • -As soon as Sheri dan saw this he showed great prudenee, and fell back himself to H lit-wn, where he took up a posit'or. in which-a smaller force could hold against a larger one, and remaining there unt'l Lee was forced by the action of Grant to send for the forces he had sent Early, ks soon as Sheridan discovered this he maneuvered so that Early had to stand ' and fight, and the battles of Winchester and Fisher's Hill followed, where Sheridan defeated and made-great captures from Early's army. These tattles occurred just before the National elect'on for President. They had a ver;- beneficial effect on the political canvass, and brought great relief to President Lincoln, who sent a very cordial dispatch to Slieridan and promoted him to the rank of Brigadier General in the regular army. Following this came the celebrated Battle of Cedar Creek, where, in the presence of Sheridan, the enemy planned anattack'on the Union army, turning its left-'-nd rear. The enemy met with great success unt'l Sheridan arrived on the ground and took command, rallying'his forces and winning a great victory. 'e,captured many prisoners'and much artillery and transportation. For this great victory he was made a Major General in the regular army. This ended the campaign in the valley unt'l March, 1835. ■When Sheridan with his c valry attacked Early, capturing the forces he had left,only Early and a few others escaped. Early, with a single companion, reached Richmond; they were the last of that celebrated Confederate army of the S..enandoah Valley. Tn March, Slnridan, with his . cavalry forces, jo'ned Grant in front of Petersburg, and was given command of n separate army, reporting directly to Brant. He immediately started out to turn Lee's army on the right, winning the battles oT Dinwiddie, Court House, Five Forks, lettersville, Sa'lor's Creek, and, finally, Appamottox. where, by his bold Energetic maneuvers, he finally got in front of Lee s retreatin" orray and forced 't to final surrender. Grant immedi-?tely sent Sheridan to the command of the south-west, instructing him to place a stron force oh the R'o Grande river, border ing MexicoV Grant beli '-'^ved that the French invasion of Mexico was a part of the rebellion, and that we should dr've Maximillioh and his French army out of Mexico, and Gheridan|s instructions clearly 'ndicated this. The private letters from Grant to Sheridan made it plain to Sheridan what was to be done, and he prepared to.carry out rrant's views; but Secretary of State Seward was oppobed to Grant's plans, fearing 280 1908. complications with foreign povvers, and stopped Grant's plans, and Sheridan's movements for nearly a ye r, when the frenc;> troops were withdra\7n. At this t^me T was in command of the De .artment of the Missouri, and Grant's plan contemplated a movement from New Mexico into the States of Chihualiua and Sonora. This part of the plan that I was to carry out contemplated the occupation of those states and that Mexico would turn them over to us for the part to he taken hy us in adding President Juarez in expelling the French army. General Sherman, in explaining it to me,,said that "V/hlle l would carry out my orders, my idea is that when you get there you had better try to sell them New Mexico than to obtain any of old Mexico." S..eridan's management of the difficult position of trying to help the Liberals of Mexico and not infringing upon the French occupation, and at the same time comply with Secretary Seward's peaceful policy, was very able and successful. He aiided the President wi tl. arms , ammunition, etc.,.so that he recovered from the FBencn all of Nortl: Mexl oo< and organized an amry that soon captured MaximilHon, as Napoleon withdrew the Frencli army, deserting Maxiraillion and leaving hn'm with no army except rebel Mexicans. When Sheridan was sent to New Crleans and a subservient countenance of dishonest methods was required (6f him, in a protest whlc this drew from him with reference to the conduct of rovernor Wells, .he wrote to the Secretary of War, "T say again that he is dishonest, and that dishonesty is more than must be expected of me." Ten ■years afterwards he wrote to General Sherman from Chicago: "I am and always have been faithful In thought and word to my lawful commanders, oven independent of the warm personal friendship and admiratiopi T have for you. T have been repaid for all this by fairness in the exercise of your authority, and by reciprocal friend ship. T have built up my present _di vi si on, and have been o-^nnected •with the great development of the"country west of tne Mississippi River by protecting every interest so far as in my power and in a fair and honorable way, without acquiring a single personal interest to mar or blur myself or my profession." Sheridan spent the years"of 1868 and 1869 in command of the Department of the Missouri, and on ti.e Southern"pla-"ns in campaigns against the Soutliorn Cheyennos, Arappalioes, Apaches and Kiowas and finally located them on reservations in th ■ Indian territory. The very day that Grant was inau'-qirated he appointed Sheridan a Lieutenant General Sheridan received this appointment while inspecting some o. his nortl.ern points in Montana, and upon receiving the telegram of his ppointment he said, after reading the dispatch and turning to the Staff Officers, "Boys, you will have to address me as Lieutenant General now#" Tl.eir hats all went up at once. The Government sent General Slieridan t6 Europe during, the German-French 'Jar as its representative, and he joined the German Army in the field T.d viewed all the great battles of thkt war under the moat favorable conditions. T have never seen any official report from him of this service and his observations, but he has said in comparing their armies with outs: "T am fully satisfied that there is no nation in Europe which has so perfect ;m army system as ourselves; they have more perfect systems fcr raising troops, but T am satisfied their staff systems are not as good as ours. T find that but little can be learned here to ship. T wi bh■the River by fair and report in which 3W1 281 1908. benefit our" service. We are far ahead In skill and campaign organ''zation. Euroep is far ahead of us onl^r ''n the military organization that makes nearly every man a soldier and the facility of that organ ization Is quickly uttlng hundreds of thousands into the field. So far as. organization for reclothing, transportation of supplies, and general comfort.of troops re concerned, we are so far ahead as to make comparison ridiculous," General Sheridan, had no faculty of speakin,:' in public. He was a fine conversationalist, however, and In talking of the Civil War and criticizing our movements. Including his owr, showed a very analytical' mind and a just judgment. He had no use for the military principles that were handed down by some of our strategi3ts--that our armies sh-^^uld not fight two great battles at one t^"me. He thought and acted u on the principle ti;at our campa^"gns "shauld be continuous, and that, every one of our armies should move at the same time, so as to keep the enemy from concentrating upon any one of our armi'es in a' campaign while the other was idle. Of- the private soldier he held the" highest opinion, and it was his devotion to and care fot? them that made them so loyal to him. In a talk to comrades at Creston, Towa, General Sheridan said: "I want to say to y u, comrades, tl:ls: that T am Indebted to the private sold-'er for all of this credit that has come to me. He is the man who did the fighting, and the man who carried the musket is the greatest hero of the war, in my opinion. T was nothing but an agent, T knew how to take care of him; T knew what a soldier was worth; and T knew how to study the country so as to out him in the right. I knew how to put him In a battle when one occurred, but T was simply tie agent to take care of hi:..; he did the work. Now, comrades, these are commonsense t.ilngs, and T can't say them in very flowing language, but they are true nevertheless, and they are true not of me alone, but of everybody else. It is to the common soldier that we are Indebted for any credit that came to us. There are many men here to ay who served in the field with me, and It is a greatpleasure to me to find them out; and they have been very kindly in their remarks to me. Tlhile they were with me T certainly did all T could for them. I often laid awake planning for their welfare, and T never killed a man unnecessarily. You may kill as many men as you choose, if you give them an equivalent for the loss. Men do not like to be killed for nothin;. They do not like to have their heads rammed against a stone wall unless for some good result. Whenever T took men int battle T gave them victory .as the result of the engagement, and that was always satisfactory," Is it any wonder that General Grant wrote of this man: "As a c mmander of troops, as a man capable of doing all that is possible with any nvimber of men, there is no man living greater than Sheridan. I rank }.lm with Ihipoleon, and the rreat captains of History, 'le had n magnetic quality of swa^ In ■ men which T wish T had," Sheridan was looked upon by many officers and citizens simply as an Impetuous, reckless soldier, full of dash, gallant to the extreme of rasliness; in short, simply a splendid specimen of the cavalry officer of the Murat order. There never was a greater mistake made. Impetlous he was, certainly, but it was only impetitous execution of del'berate and well-consldored plans: Tn all his life he did not do any 282 1908. • impetuous act without•careful cons^deration beforehand. Neither in civil administration- ^-n time of peace, nor in the roar and fury of battle, did he'ever act except on-well-defined lines and clearij defined purpose.' . . ^ , .-u HVhet T have written shows you better txan I can descr-be his nrincinal traits of character--the traits that made his military prorress such a continuous success. As T look at^it -today Sheridan simply Brew from experiences. First, he had the instinct and love of a soldier. He was educated for the service, and early learned ohe science of war; the great stratesy-; the lof^^y" sties; the transportation and' commissary departments; and he had the t in him that, when opportunity offered, he developed all of them successfully. He. was a natural leader of men; had a fine eye for topocraphy and. the select ing of strong posit;'ens, and, above all, he kept fully posted what the enemy was do'ng and was remarkable for the information he got and its correctness. He had a great magnetism. Cn the field he never hesitated to-attack, no matter what forces were before him, and above all he had faith 'n himself and a great faith in his men. 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Jon ob riB't .nc oX oitj tot Mfijof; loi o«< fair rx«w 0 4»n>Bn« bomnn h mmd nv ;i oj ojifl -i fOiiJ nviirj ▼ rtJM Jn* rfun jTocJ t looonOidT .•♦XtTO't bo< :• .t»RtB*4a/ Bxa^iXB BOO im ,, otli t Jlurnt onJ :n«A bMJ to bJoio Xoiotton ,jnd4 iot«ow fnn J» nT JntiJ II" t 1 •Xdofoo rfna « to ^t qoou tb iBbmso-n o / nK" • I* fl*v»I rni* oit of to 'iBdiHfn %tm dJfv. r , .' .-.fp -ti J«ni ^ oofoq W m* >1 im .''a:.* t -i: ' I fi»r, laa Bo 'fl' tr, x * nou i boAool Mw r.r.bTiB f - caJBii B., ni initf Xa.!: ,uB»t to rXat , lOfftloB aoo'Xooi ,iiooMin i,r.» no on mo p ndJ to rwai^owf;' b^bMPXcir n Xr;. »? .Jmrir (tf iibw ' c<-l In . f '^'pqaiT tOiBBt* B tftW OPvntl mnhT •♦Bhio i 'H/' Pi|» to . v|an bA» if Jtfl ,xt(t*oion ,r.*w o? of> Mb Bft ot»X , , »rt IXf ii'' ifrf/f ^ fe tti November, 1908. 283 New vork, November 27, 1908, Dear Oeneral:- CONFIDENTIAL I have your letter of twenty-third instant. T am entering into an aggrernent with the Swenson syndicate, and which was approved by the Executive Committee this afternoon. You will see that in lieu of a partnership on the interest, to be settled every six months or every year during a five year period, I succeeded in settling that feature beforehand. It was evident to me, upon reflection, that semi-annual or annual settlements of earnings or expenses might lead to a great many differences of opinion. You know from your recollection, of the (Jault-Tucker award on the Gould lines, and from your long experience otherwise how many differences of opinion may arise about divisions of rates, a division of common expenses, etc., etc. I figure the interest on 75 miles of road as follows C&S R.%E Bonds, say ^1,500,000 face value at per annum, u67,500 per year, equivalent, in five years, to ^337,500 One-half of which would be 168,750 We estimate the cash subsidies at ^40,000, which, added to the .^125,000 to be received from the Swenson syndicate, will make vl65,000. The .f'165,000 cash thus received would itself earn interest for an average period of, say, two and one-half years, which would make its value over *180,000. Besides this, we are to have a 48^ interest in the townsite company. It is impossible to tell beforehand what this is worth but it will be worth something, We haven't yet settled on a program for a more thorough investigation of the country north of Orin Junction but I am working on it. I think it would be a very Important strategic move, but I do not think it probable that we could seil $12,000,000 face value of bonds soon at ninety. They ought to be quoted in the market at a higher figure and I am working on that feature all the time here trying to help create a good impression concerning them, but of course, 12,000,000 more outstanding would not help the price of those which are already out. Business over Trinity ^ Brazos Valley is good. October gross earnings were *240,195.25 and Balance Available for interest was ,,'44,393.89. The interest accrued for the month was $52,575.76. November gross earnings are better than October, and indications are that there will be a surplus over interest this month. I received a letter from ''■Tr. Jones and also from Mr. Keeler concerning the Vernon project and have suggested to both of them that I would like to have Mr. Jones keep close to it. The letters did not indicate what their objective point would be, but if it should be in Dickens country I think it would help us. Mr. Keeler expressed some apprehension about the effect on our interests if it should be acauired by the Frisco, but I do not think there is much menace in that direction I hope this arrangement with the Gwenson syndicate will please you, and with love and affection from both "Irs. Trumbull and myself I am as ever. Sincerely yours. General G. M. Dodge, Frank Trumbull Council Bluffs, Iowa. P.S. We are endeavoring to keep quiet the fact that the C&S will get behind the construction above Stamford. F.T. I hope this a you, and with love and and I am as ever. General G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, I P.S. We are endeavori: behind the construction affection from 285 Council Bluffs, Novem'ber 28, 1908. To the President, Washi.ngton, D. C. My dear Mr. Presldent:- Ci;arles M. Huntington, son of the late Henry D. Huntlngton of the 2nd U. 8. C-i^valry, who died at the age of 36, was graduated from West Point in 1876, served under General Crook in the TndTan campaigns, was v/ell-known in the army and was al.so well-known by the citizens of Iowa, is confined to a wheeled chair and has been for several years, being unable to walk. He is, however, of fine mind and energy and grad uated with credit from the Masschusetts Institute of Technology, two years ago. He is now filling a position as draughtsman in the Architec tural Department ^n the Treasury Bu'lding ^n Washington, pending his taking the civil service examination which he is anx ous to take but on account of his physical infirmaties, which do not fttterfere with his work in the position he is now filling, he is refused the privilege of going before the Board of the Commission, and his fr^" ends are told tliat the only way that he can retain his position is for the President to place him under civil service without examination. If you have that power and are disposed to exercise it, this is a case I think whore It would not only bo a benefit to the y mg man, would not be a detriment to the service, and would be a recognition of his father's service in the army. This yo\ing man T Am told is very bright and could ^ill many other posit'ons besdies the one he is now fill'ng. Representative J.A,T.Hull T think knows of h^m. Respectfully y our obdolent servart, Grenv'lle H. Dodge. ^87 November, 1908. Des Moines, -^owa, Nov. 28, 1908. My dear General: It did me good to read your letter of the 21st inst. I shall work faithfully along the lines of our talk when you .ere here. I cannot, of course, forget my old friends and wren it comes to the distribution of what little patronage may fall to my hands I must give them in many cases the preference, not, however, to the exclusion of other-s who have been honestly and decently oposed to me, I have no doubt but that I will be able to restore harmoney to the party in Iowa. It will not come in a minute because local conditions have been affected and the local struggle for supremacy will continue for sonie time, I earnestly hope that you will take enough interest in me to see me from time to tine to give me the benefit of your ripe experience with respect to the niatters w..ich will come from time to ti.e before Congress. I am not pigheaded, and I hope not big-headed, and I believe that ^ have courage enough to do what I think is right. I am, With my best wishes for your health and happ^iness. Yours cordially. Albert B. Cummins. Hon. G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. November, 1908, Council Bluffs, Iowa, 289 November 08, 1908, My dear Bather Bherman: We had/a fine meeting in Bt.T.ouis, and Oumph's address on his father's l-^st year's campaign is one of the best ever read before our Bociety. Every one there was greatly pleased with it. Oump is so modest and he was absolutely astonished and overwhelmed at the reception it received. There is so much in it that people ought to know. I told him and have written him to have 2000 copies of it printed so it could be sent out. Of course, it will appear in our records, but very few see it there, and it should go to every library and all the patriotic societies. I can send out a great many copies of it myself to persons to whom it will be of great value. At our first business meeting on the 11th I re,ad your letter to me relating to the appointment of Anthony F. Bacon to West Point, and the Society unanimously requested to add their re,quest for the aopointment to mine. Big't after the meeting I wrote a letter to President Taft enclosing your letter to me and the letter of the Society and added ray personal request, and I enclose you President Taft's answer, which after you have read please return to me. When you corae back this way I hope you will stop over and see me. The scr^-ices at the Cemetary were very appropriate and toiiching. The tribute of Dr. Nichols was very fine and greatly pleased every one. The whole Society was out and many others all of which I know will be interesting to you. No doubt Gump has written you by this time. T am. Truly and cordially. Rev. Thos. E. Sherman, 314G Evanston Av., Chicago, 111. Grenville M. Dodge. •• '( '.'Nf,' -a . \ '♦ . si- 1, . "1 . SaiiC' November, 1908. 532 Dearborn Avenue, Nov. 29th, 1908. My Dear General:- It was very kind of you to write and Mrs. Grant and I are delighted to think that we are near you here, where we shall hope to see you often in our home. I regretted extremely not to have been able to attend the Reunion of the Army of the Tennessee in St. Louis, and to hear "Cumppy" Sherman's paper which I am sure was fine, and I am glad you remembered me to the Companions of the Army of the Tennessee. We were touched with the kindness of friends at Governor's Island and in New York City, when we were leaving, but we find many good friends here and have established ourselves in a comfortable and happy home where we hope to see you and yours often. With our warmest regards to you and your family, all, believe me, my dear General, Yours faithfully, Frederick D. Grant. Gen. G. M. Dodge, 283 Quincy, 111. November 30, 1908 . Council niuffs, Iowa. My dear General: I notice by the dispatches that you are to extend the Colorado Southern north to connect with lines running into Canada. 1 have a son, Schuyler u. Piggott, Who , for eleven years was chief clerk in the Central office of the u. & Q- at this city. His health failed and his place was given to his brother who still holds it. having now f lly recovered he desires to go West and requests me to ask you if there is an opening for him on any of your lines? His ages ig forty years; his height six feet one inch ; is single, moral, honest and strictly timperate. Having commenced as a car cour. er in the yards at the age of eighteen years, and worked through each grade in the Freight Department before going to the Central Office he therefore knows the R, R. Business, especially the freight business. Should you favor him with a trial, he, and I, will be grateful to you. A few days before the late meeting ofthe Army of the Tennessee at St. Louis I had an ardent letter from, our friend oolonel Henry Van Sellars of Paris, 111. uring me to be present at tJie meeting. I had just secured tickets, including sleeper to Washington in quest of a maker of artifical limbs who might make a leg on which I could get around with some comfort or I should have been present. I feel grieved when I read of the meetings of the various armysocicties at not being able to take an humble part with my old Comrades ®specially^in the Ar-my of the Te.nnefflee . the Loyal Legion and* instead ^ ^ of being a comfort Washington it leg will but be a 1 fear, punishment. like all Otherwise the othersmy he-lth is very good. I have not had a day's sickness since I left field hospital recovering from thexcepting amputation the of timey leg. I was in the I have noted with pleasure your progress in Civil life and m.ention you to my friends as my old v^ommander, while it in\einJ°anLenri?r''i^ allowed to live long enough disability, to know that Ifeel our labor compensated -nd sufferlnc In the field were not in vain, and that Srwlll Irave to tho the peoples of the world an , inspi?ing powerful example and peaceful in the country, ideals ofand republican government. Hoping that your health is good and that "ou will live Tlf? aotiv. and succeasful comrade f^eneral, with great resp. ct your admiring friend and Mickael Piggott. 1634 Vermon Street, Quincy, 111, 295 Nov. 30, 1908 Gen. Grenvllle M. Dodge, #1 Dowlir.g Green, N.Y. Dity, My dear General: It has been some time since 1 have had the pleasure of seeing you. h'xpect to be in New Mork latter part of this week, and will try and drop round. There are not so many of our grand old corps commanders left ^ that one can afford to miss taking you by the hand now and the^* As a Penns5''lvania manufacturer, largely engaged in trade throughout the world, and a student of political ecomony, I endorse with all my heart what my firend Mr. Carnegie has said upon the tariff. It is indeed, in one sense, the best protection document I have seen of late, since he advocates protection as Hamilton and clay did, where necessary to build up a business, He believes tliat when the business is self-sustaining it should be dropped, believes in only helping to build up such business as is likely to be self-sustaining, and that tariffs should be levied on luxuries, in other words, the rich should aay it. He is right all through. Iron and steel no longer need portection in this coxontry. v»e can make it cheaper here than anywliere else, i had a talk with Mr. Carnegie last spring, Itr t before he went to Europe, in which he outlined this article promising it before oongrcss should meet, i agreed with him than and 1 a- ree with him now. He invited me to visit him at t>kibo when .in Europe last summer. I attended as delegate two inter national conventions in London, but I could not manage ? Possibly if you have tim we together the last of this week, say Saturday, and have a chat. He is always interesting. report of last year's net earnings of our Cuba Railroad Company is very satisfactory. Itlis about the only railroad in the world, so far as I have been able to year! iicreased its net earnings during the panic Very truly youths. A. n. Earquhar, 297 Decem'ber I, 1908. Chicago 111. heoemher 1,1908, Gen.Grenville m/ Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir: The Western society of Engineers will hold its annual meeting and dinner on the evening of January 5, 1909. After discussing the question of a program with the President of the Society and the Board of Directors, it was decided to invite you to address the members on that evening. We were convinced that we could select no representative of the engineering pro fession in this country who could present to us reminiscences of early engineering and railroad construction better than yourself. It was also decided to invite Mr. Frank Trumbull, President of the Colorado and South ern Railroad Co., to talk in the railroad situationoof today. We appreciate that man who has such demand on his energies as your self cannot be secured for such a function unless some very good.reason oan be advanced. Our argument is that the Western Society of Engineers, which comprises one-thousand members, has not been favored in many years with the presence of any of the pioneer railroad builders, and we feel that the time is now opportune to call upon you as representative of those men of strong character and perserving energy, who, almost single-handed, went out upon the plains and amongst the mountains of the west for the pur pose of advancing American civilization and growth of the commerce of our country. We shall greatly appreciate your considering our invitation for you to be our guest on January 5th, and to get your name and reminiscences ♦published in our proceedings. We shall feel highly honored if favored with an acceptance at an early date. Yours respectfully, jjorris K. Trumbull. Chairman Entertainment Committee. Dec. 1908. 289 Des Moines, Iowa. • • Dec. 1, 1908. Gen. G. M. Dodge, ' Council Bluffs, Iowa. My De-T General Mr. D. Christy, a member of the clerical force engaged in transcribing the rosters, received a letter the other day of which the inclosed is a copy. He had heard incidently of the erection of a monument to the memory of this man Davis and wrote Mr. Kenedy about it. It reminded me of the numerous instances of devotion alluded to in your recent address here, wherein brave men on both sides paid the penalty of their lives while seeking information that would be of advantage to the Generals who sent them forth upon the perilous quest. Mr. Christy's regiment was on duty at the time of the execution and as he remembers it, thinks you were in command, of the troops stationed at Pulaski at that time. He tells me it was understood at the time that the young man Davis had upon his person the papers which had been passed to him by another who was the real spy and who was captured shortly afterwards. That young Davis might have saved his own life by stating the facts, but refused to do so. However, that may be, Christy says Davis showed great bravery upon the scaffold. He does not know the details of the capture which Kennedy requests him to give. Yours very truly, G. W. Crosley. (Copy of enclosure) (COPY) November 27, 1908, Mr, W. D. Christy, Campany D, 2nd, Iowa Inf. Vet. Vol., Des Moines, Iowa. My Dear Sir:- You do now know what pleasure your kind letter about Bam Davis gave me. Yes, Sam Davis is the boy that was hanged at Pulaski, Tenn., and I am the one who came from his father's and mother's home| and took the body up and took it to his home, and to whom the Chaplain probably of your regiment, who was with Sam at the gallows and to hwom' Sam gave his little memorandum bood with a written good bye to his mother and the buttons off of his coat to his sisters. The ChanlSkin gfve them to me to take to them, which I did. ' Every body in the Army at Pulaski was kind to me when they found out I was after the body of Sam Davis, and to think that a soldier who was present at his death, now ^5 years ago, should so kindly offer to have his and his comrades names put in the corner stone 3C0 of his nonument by a contribution, its not money we are afte.r so much as the sentiment, that he was an American born boy^ and was ^BxnQ unto death, and every American honors another who is brave, no natter which side he was on, and yot^r quick and kind response shows it. • , _ ^ will sincerely appreciate any recollections of the event, write it to me in full, your memory of what occured, what was said and done. One thing that has never been told is how he was captured, the details, was he asleep or was he betrayed by some one with whom he stayed. ,4 . . .rt ' Yours truly,. John C. Kennedy, Nashville, Tenn. ■ovb. - •f I ? ',(• > 1 \ • ' i' '' ' v.V- • .. • ^A1 V J£- m' : ■ ..r.r mt Decemter 3, 1908. New York, December 3, 1908. Strictly Confidential. Dear General: Mr Hawley and I are selling control of C.& S., "by agreeing to deliver not less than Eoo,ooo shares common-- price to you, If you join as we assume you will ll.-ie to do--55.oo per share Including £.oo Dividend to he paid Dec. I5th. Mr -tiawley has options from others on same basis of realiz ation by them--or rather they option at not less than ,5o.oo and will get 53.00 plus dividend E.oo, unless something very unexpected prevents trade. It Is to be decided and closed If ratlsfled,by Dec. E3 but might take a few days longer. No one but Mr. Hawley and I (In C.& S.) know more about It. I assxime you will be glad to "Gash In". Please sign enclosed and fill In number of shares. F.T. Is being kept very quiet here 303 Council Bluffs, Becember 3, 1908. A. "B. Farquhar, York, Penn. Bear Sir:- Yours of Nov. 3Gth forwarded to me here. T havd moved my private office from New York here to my old home, and spend most of my time here. My railroad office is at 71 Broadway, New York. I have not seen Mr. Carne':^ie for some time. Tf I were in New York it would give me great pleasure to go and visit him with you. I was glad to see his statement on the tariff. T doubt, however if t:.ey take all the tariff off steel. Of course it would be a help to our roads if they did—especially the steel rails. I hope they will make the proper reduction in the tariff, but wl.en T do not meet a single person that is not interested in something that he wants pro tection on, T have my doubts in the ability of congress to "face the music." OOf course, the east wants the tariff off wools and hides and products of the soil generally, but the west is absolutely opposed to it and will make a strong fight against it, and a member of congress is bound to follow the washes of his constitutents. I hope it will bring about a revision that will make a reduction on everything but luxuries, but T doubt it. No matter what they do, I feel sure many will be dissat'sfied, and that we will be in danger of losing the next Congress. It is possible that settling the question early and having it applied for a couple of years before another election that people may see the benefits of it, and it may not do the harm they expect. If you happen to come this way I should be glad to have you make me a visit, "hen you see Mr. Carnegie, extend to him my best wftshes for good health and long life. I do n6t suppose it would do any good for me to try to induce him to come so far west, but he would get a great reception from the people here, ^e is like me, he doa not care to go only where hd is obliged to, and does not like to do that. I am, fruly. G. M. Dodge. December 1908. 3C5 Des Moines, Dec. 4, 1908, Gen, G, M. Dodge, Courcil Bluffs, Iowa, My Dear General;- I thank you for your kind letter giving me the information about the Execution of the Confederate Spy, Sam Davis at Pulaski, I am saving all such matters of military history that I can procure, with a view of utilij;ing them at some future time, when I get through with this work, for publication. In compliance with your request I enclose herewith the certificate of the Adjutant General giving the military record of Capt, Randolph Sry, Co, G, 4th Iowa, as shown by the records in this office. There is no charge. Am glad you have found the History and Roster of Iowa Soldiers of value as a work of reference. The work is now suspended for want of funds, I am going home tomorrow, but hope to return and again take up the work in January if an early appropriation for its completion can be secured. Yours very truly, G, W. Crosley, I December, 1908. Ft. Dodge, Iowa, Dec. 5th, 1908, Gen . G . . Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. iV.y dear General Dodge: I feel perfectly free to write to you as husband's truest friends, and by hin. much loved, desired to become a member of the j--oyal Legion that his membership unto his beloved nephew and namesake Carpenter who is now living in South Dakota. He i and in every way worthy of the name he bears and is D. S. Land Office at Semmon S. Dakota. He is the husband?s youngest sister. There are two brothers Gov. who have sons, but it was one of his fondest w leave his membership to his nainesake who was loved If you could possibly arrange it so that the young you will confer not only a favor on me, but upon yo you were one ol' my The Governor always he might bequeath , Cyrus Clay s a gine young man now Register of the eldest son of my older than the ishes that he might by us as a son. man could join, ur dead comrade. Very respectfully yours. Susan C. Carpenter. frs . C. C. Carpenter, Ft. Dodge, Iowa, -i' ! nil Hcu .1 -.Jk. P Dec. 1908, 3C9 Red Oak, Iowa., Dec. 5th, 1908, General G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General Some one has been kind enough to send me some printed monographs and addresses m.ade by or concerning you and yovir work in the Middle West. Assuming that you are responsible for this favor I am writing this note of thanks for miaterial which I shall prize very highly; not only because it comes from you but because of the historical and biographical merit of the reproductions. Some of this I had not seen before; and it will prove a very valuable ad dition to my lowana Library, which I am trying to make as complete as possible. I shall be glad to have anything else relating to the early history of Iowa or Nebraska which you can command for me. There is a wealth of material awaiting the pen of some scholar with leisure and the necessary passion along these lines to be fashioned into a most stately and interesting epic. I wish my dear general that I might say the worX which would induce you to write an autobidjgraphy of your life. I have had to extract pages from it gather4d in a fragmentary way and I think I know how important it has been. The events thereof should be preserved in permanent form. As one of the Trustees of the Historical Department of the Gtate, I wish to thank you for having sent us your letters and correspondence, and I trust you will not let anv of it escape. I have been through a little of it with Mr, Harlan", and know what a wealth of historical material we have. I shall be glad to meet you at your office some time when we both have a little leisure to go over those plats, and surveys of which you spoke. It was a source of much gratification to find you at the meeting of the Pottawattamie County Historical Society last Saturday evening; and to have your words of commendation. I need only say that in so far as the paper related to you, it was not prepared for that occasion nor did I know that you would be present. It was read just as delivered to the State Historical Society of Nebraska at its meeting last January, Let me say that some of the material was obtained from Dr. Miller of Omaha, who I need scarcely say is a warm friend of yours, and who knows the value of your work. • With all good wishes for you and yours, I remain. Very cordially yours, lfeiL^.1 i H.E.Deemer warm 313 Franklin Square, Nev/ York. Dec. 5, 1908. General Grenvllle M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir:- I am referred to you by Mr. Henry w. Knight, Past Commander U. S, Grant Post, Brooklyn, TI. Y., who told me that I might use yoi'^r name in writing to you. I was sent fc b Mr. Knight by Mr. Nast of Harper & Brothers. Mr. Knight asked me to mention to you a conversation he had held with you at the Boodie House, Toledo, 0., in which you told him of your command of the Secret Service Dept. of Gen. Sherman&s army. It is because of this that I v/rite to you. Some time ago the Editors of Harper's Magazine asked me to prepare a series of articles dealing with the Secret Service durinThe announcement and purpose of this series is given by tne Editors in tne enclosed clipping, which I have taken from the annual announcement made in the IToveraber number of the magazine. stories stories of .ome of these + men whoserved sries; thei to country give the as dramatic did Nathan „ hopes tnat from you who commanded so Imnortant entlJlable .Tif me to prepare s.orae of this series. ^ data that wiU Prom the^f couircer?- e?rpe?LSrnar?"tfvf T" f that their oommandLc office? wo?ld v T 7® detallc ao much to the "colo?" of the s^ry. ' " 1 know ttarmoo? IZoTd oaae I ma^S? T? ?ou1" some of y?u^thinra?e all regiments of of??®Lv''be''?rf°" "'^hln ton? ^ ^ '^hem examine." ® Papers that you would let me What extent.^ ^I know tLt^I^am asklnr^a the-loss I do ask it. ' very great favor, but neverI will very much appreciate your renlv Very respectfully yburs, 'William Gilmore Beymer. 315 St Louis, uec. 5, 1908. General G. M. Dodge, My dear General;— Your letter of approval is very gratifying. Captain i^ing published my paper entire in the Globe-Democrat with display headingSj and 1 have been surprised and of course pleased with the seemingly universal interest shown. 1 have had a great many letters from unexpected sources and all sorts of manifestations of approval. I happened to take a subject in which everyone ic interested. About thirty years ago I was writing for newspapers and magazines, and having to fiarnish copy for an article on the following morning, and having nothing specially digested, out of sheer despera tion I wrote my recollections of the "March to the Sea." Another was at once called for, and another, and finally they Iqjt me grinding out war stories and reminiscences—not my own—for three months, and it started the avalanch of war literature which followed, it happened to be the psychological moment when intere t in the great war had revived. We are glad that the meeting of the Army of the Tennessee was a Eucce: s and that they had a good time. J^incorely yours. w. R. Hodges. 317 Quincy, 111. December 6, 1908. General G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, la. Dear ^eneral:- Your very kind letter of the 4th instant is received. I sincerely thank you for so prompt and favorable a response, also for the interesting printed m-tter that came under a sepa rate cover, which in part describes the splendid success of the numerous public enterprises executed by you sinn the war, Kvery word was read by me to my family and the matter then carefully filed for future reading. General, it affords an old soldier no little pride to say to his family that the man who did such grand thirj? for the Republic was his commanding officer on the ba tlefield. if I am alive and al)le to attend I will be at the next meeting of the Army of the Tennessee, where i hope to have the pleasure of meeting and thanking you in person, Believe me. General, most sincerely your admiring friend and comrade. 1634 Vermont Street. Michael Flggott. 319 y Currie, Nevada, uolly Var-den Mining JJietrict, Dec. 8, 1908. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, New 3^ork Oity. uear General; The September number of the National Magazine containing a copy of your photograph fell into ray posession two days ago, here in my Nevada mining camp. The same issue contains a viev/ of the Grant Memorial and the (to me ) pleasing information that j'-ou are the President of the Commission of Construction. That issue is invaluable to me as it gives the only photograph I have ever been able to secure of yourself since the close of tlie war. Generr;l, I have often wondered v/hether you have forgotten a little incident which occurred at our Rolla- barracks, which to me personally, was one of the most import-nt events of the war. On dress parade that evening it was ray duty to call out ray regular report as to t!:e condition of Company "A". Upon this occasion it was "Company "A" all present or accounted for, except Deland Haines and Benjamin F. Tabor, who are absent without leave." That night they attempted to assassinate me with sling shots after I had retired for the night, i have alway considered that your prompt action was the cause of saving my life afterward, as both of them, after being arrested, had sworn to kill me upon sight and then desert the service. Immediately after this the campaign against Gen. Price commenced and both Haines and Tabor made their threat* prevented me from preferring charges as to their We ai-e all old men now. General, Your life has hp^n mav may hp be your preserved allotment. and I have i hoi^any passed more mv fi7+h years vpnr» of usefulness n * here, (gold, silver, copper tl. and ! lead) but the hard times of tworty years ago has so crippled my development work that I fear the long roll may be sounded before i roach the goal for wMc^ have Icabored here for eighteen years. ^ T am trace the existance of Companv 'A" With my best wishes for your future, I remain, yours very truly, Geo. A. Henry, December 8, 1908. 321 71 Broadway,New York. Dear General: I enclose herewith invitation from my nephew, Mr. Morris K. Trumbull, Chairman of the Entertainment Committee of the Western Society of Engineers, dated December I, 1908, which invitation he asks me to con vey to you. I know yourare beset by many people for this sort of thing. but I very much hope you can feel well enough to run over to Chicago for this particular occasion and can find it in your heart to gratify all the engineers who will be present at the dinner on January fifth. I am practioall committed to make a brief talk but yours would, of coursr, be the event of the evening. And if you feel that you can ; o, you and I can talk over several matters, or any matter concerning which you may want information.! hope you are in excellent health and that I may hear you have accepted this particI ular invitation.! also enclose letter from Morris K. Trumbull dated Decem ber 1st, addressed to myself, which kindly return for my files at your convenience, and oblige Yours sincerely, Frank Trumbull General G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. •i ' " , ': ' t: OX,^r; »o»<l STounoil Bluffs, December 8^ 1908, A. D. Parker, Vice Pres. C. & S., Denver, Colorado, Dear Sir:- ,jfiAiQatXjrat ^Jsisoegt no.'M ••wo' , Jrreiiimr.? o ^ •*ci . The purchase of the Colorado & Southern by the Burlington, T think is going to be very beneficial to both properties and it s^ems to me that if we are to part with the Colorado & Southern it could not go into better hands for its own benefit, for it makes a natural 'to v* extension of their lines, ' ' I have been with hhe property so long and it has bu^lt up so rapidly and everything has always been go pleasant in it to me, and my relations with all the employees have been so beneficial and satisafactory that it seems like parting With a very old and dear friend. I do not suppose tliey will make any changes .in the operating departments. I am certain they could not ii Prove if they did. T have not had an opportunity to talk with Mr. Trumbull but will see him in Chicago on the fifth. , ' . I notice that U.S.Reudction & Refining Co, has asked the stock Exchange to list $1,841,000 of its first mortgage sinking fund 6% bonds, also $3, 945,800 of its 6^ non-cumulative preferred stock and $5,918,800 of its common stock. What are they go^ng to do w^th the oj money that comes from the sale of these securities or what was their idea in issuing them? Can you tell m© how the concern is getting on? I notice it still is unable to earn the interest on its preferred. If you have any Information or can get me any information, T will thank u' you, as T am a large holder of the preferred stock, T wrote W. H. Jones, my former secretary, who is in the* employ of the Colorado fe Souther^, some letters which needed prompt attention, but have received.no answer. If you would call his attention to them you would oblige me, as ^ am awa^t^ng the answers. I trust you are all well and wish you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New. Year, .1 am, Truly, G. M. Dodge, 324 .091 9il ^Cilluli!. irumio'.' Council Bluffs, Dec. 29,1908, Mr. B. P* Tallinghast, Editor Democrat, Davenport, Towa. .CT «A ,.r # ,0 voiT Dear Sir:- (OXoO I think the monument or memorial to nbe erected-to'Senator ^ tAllisdn in this State, should be at its capital, Des Molnes. Prepara0. ,n ■ ■ ■ ■ . . . L-' tIons are belnc made to appeal to the citizens of the state for subscript Ions, which makes it a state affair, and the kind of m nument or o' memorial must be governed by their response." ' -Jn T think that every institution of learning "In the State should .f>rto» 1 : -v' r have a professorship, a scholarship, or something to commemorate his I name and services . and in remembrance . of what he has done — for them, butil^ these,necessarily, are local. Parks are local to c'ties, and are generally provided by "them, and it would he a very proper tribute to Senator Allison to give some of them his name, but, to my m^nd, there • f p' is nothing that a'ttracta the attention of the people and so represents t:tc . . . IT . the success "of a great public benefactor as a "proper mo'nume'nt or distinct memorial at the capital of the state and th'^ nation, and especially is this the" case of Senator Allison who served both his .^tate and the nation so ably and successfully fob fifty years^^ /icoi , ov h it'd , 1 . K. ii , 'o bltitm mox Very truly yours, a b'ta AMatiiiO x*t*uM » irot t."< i :r ..t 7 Grenvilie M. Dodge.' "►'t WQ*'! I i» il December, 1908. ^ 0 cr Omaha, Nebra-ska, December 8, 1906, Gen. G. M. Dod^e, Baldwin Block, Co. Bluffs, Iowa. Dear General Your letter of Dec. 7th received, enclosing a circular letter from Theodore Kharas in regard to the Mobile Car Sign Company. My attention has been called to this thing before, and the invention fts a clever one. As to its adoption by Street Rail.v/ay Companies, I have no knowledge of what the prospect may be, but could verj'- easily ascertain, as Mr. Scott is attorney for the Company that controls most of the street car advertising in the country from TTew York to Frisco. I hardly think the matter is worth investigation however, as I am agraid the owners and promoters are trying to make a fortune out of the sale of stock instead of the profits of the invention. A few weeks ago, I read in the papers that Kharas had been arrested or sued for some deal arising out of the sale of stock. I will try to find the article before mailing this letter and enclose it. I am afraid the outfit is crooked, but I will make further inquiries, and if I am wrong, I will write you. There are a couple of matters here in Omhha that I intended to bring to your notice, if the opportunity offered, but I have written Mr. Whitney fully in regard to them, and cannot put it up to any one else until I hear from>him. Mr. Scott and I put up our Sioux City proposition to him and he took it up, so we felt that we were under obligations to give him first chance at this new proposition here in Omaha. We have been negotiating for two months for 160 acres of land immediately West of Omaha joining Dundee and Benson. Several of the prom.tnient Firms in Omaha and many investors have tried to buy this land for the past five or six years, but we think we have finally got it, or at least a threefourths interest in it, and we will either buy the remaining onefourth interest, or have it subdivided. In my opinion it is a sure think, and will be as profitable as Hpmestead, if not better. If Mr. Whitney is not in a position to swing it for us, I will come and see you, for I feel that it is too good a thing to let go outside the family. Our plan is to put it on the market in the spring on the terms of ^1.00 down and 50 cents a week. I have no doubt that.Mr. Flack, President of the City Savings Bank, and .my partner in the .Homestead deal, will swing it, if I give him the opportunity, but if "ou want to go in, we can swing it Wfcth you, if you have some money to invest. The other thing that I would like to talk to you about is the car line to Papillion. Heretofore, I have not been very confident about this proposition, as I knew what the experience generally had been in these lines, and I knew that if the Omaha and Council Bluffs Street Railway Company, with all its wealth and influence, should fight us, it would make a rough road for 'he line to Papillion. We have been up against the proposition of disposing of our Bonds, and it looks as if it would be necessary for the Construction Company to raise enough money to brild the line and have work actually going on, or the rails laid, before local investors would invest in Bonds. Last week, the President of the Company, who is manager of o; e of the newspspers here, and is a hustling man, with an excellent record. V f* w had an interview with Wattles, President of the Omaha Street Railway. He and Mr. Wattles are close friends, and the la.tter has always advised, hira to his interest. He told Mr. Uhl, President of the Company, that we had an excellent proposition, and would make money; that more over, he would assure him a traffic arrangement on a very equitable basis, so that the cars on the interurban line could run through South Omaha dnd loop in the center of Omaha. He found that we were about to make, a contract wi.th the Electric Light Company for power and light, as we have contracts to furnish light and power in Ralston and Papillion. He asked us not to ma ke a contract with the Electric light Company, as the Street Car company would give us as good, if not better figures, and furnisji'us ::all:*the. power we need to operate our cars, and fulfill our contracts for power and light in Ralston and Papillion. Mr. Wattles' co-operation and indirectly his influence will undoubtedly make this line to Papillion a success, and I believe that if we get the road built, we will not only make, some money in building it, Kn+ "ho "ir*. a + rvKt +r\ foT SXijGnljl. OH S ^ - j W — * sJ WC Jk dU uy but be in a position to float bond issues for extentions of the road to Elkhorn, '''illard. Valley and Fremont. Now two-fffths interest of the Contruction company has not been sold, and the three-fifths that have been sold can probabl-^r be purchased at a very low figure. In other-words, all our franchises, right of way and contracts in Ralston and Papillion can be purchased at a very reasonable figure, and our engineers tell us that we can put the road in op.eration, between South Omaha and Papillion, with one or two cars, for ^50,000. Ve can buy our power to operate from the Street Car Company, and run our cars over their lines through South Omaha and Omaha. I am now so confident that the thing can be made a success merely in building a rood, that I put the matter up to Mr. Whitney to ■ see if he was in a position to come out and look it over and see if there was any money in it. I realize that you are not able to take-ud such matters, but possibly you know some younger man like Morgan Jones, who could come here and work with Mr. Ohl and myself in getting control of this Construction Company, and own the road. The profit on building a road is large enough to make it worth while, and the prospect of still further profit in operating the road and extending it is good. Mr. Wattles has said so, and his judgment is excellent, and his motive is absolutely sincere towards Mr. Uhl. I j will senad you a Prospectus rrospectus of this road. If you know of any one, who could come here and put in some money, I believe there is money to be made in it. I have no ambition to build the road mvself. as I have a good deal of work cut out the coming year in platting ad ditions. I know that business and altho I may not always make a big bunch of money, one cannot lose, as he always has the land left and can at least sell enough lots to pay for it. Please keep t^is matter confidential. Very truly yours, A.R. N. P. Dodge, Jr. 'Kg ■; v'i: , 327 Franklin Square, New York. December 10, 1908. Dear Oeneral Dodge We have your kind letter of December seventh in regard to tne matter of the articles v/hich we are trying to obtain on the work of the Secret Service during the Civil War. We fully ap reciate the position which you take in the matter, yet we are venturing to make another suggestion, we would, of course, not wish to print anything involving persons now living which could possibly reflect to their discredit, or make things unp] easant for them. A'^t the same time, it seems to us possible that there may rbe still living, as you suggest, men who took part in this very important, and to oxu? mind very heroic service who at this late day would have no reason for objection to their stories being made public. You understand, of course, that it is our purpose to present anything rather tlian the ignominious side of the spy's career. We wish, where it can be done consistently with the truth, to pre sent these men as heroes whose deeds have never been made oublic. With tils understanding, would it not be possible for you to give us the names and addresses of some of these men who you say are still living, with the definite understanding that nothing about them shall be published without their consent and absolute agreement, -^nd that in approaching them in regard to the matter, these facts be pu'. clearly before them? Of course, it is quite probablp that men living in the South during the War furnished information to the Northern Armies might still, for very obvious reason, prefer to keep silent ' but there are there not others living in variousrarts of the corntrv who have no reason for similar feeling? Kby asking Incidentally, if it would be might possible we further for you intrude to furnish upon your us with kindness th^ "ho «ro in charge of tS SeSersImcf Of other divisions of the army during the War? letter, ipt + .r, and may we beg to r'ssuro youior you you that kind if reply you would to our prefer earlierto have conversation on this subject rather than corresponLnce ^e -hall CO to Council BiulfHr-e^vou even though you cannot definitely promise to give him onv ^ m-terial assistance before further discussionof the mattL? Very sincerely yours. Editors Harper's Magazine. Have you not yourself, some narratives of heroic deeds of this last which might be told without introducing names? Gcnei^al G. M. Dodge, Baldwin BIock, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 329 December, 190^. New ^ork City, December 11, 1908. Arthur Heurtley, ^sq.. Secretary, The Northern Trust Company, Chicago, 111. Dear Sir: I am in receipt ofyour letter relative to Wichita Valley Railway securities held by Mrs. Pullman. For each bond, with the stock acconi,anying i-t, Mrs. Pullman will receive $900. in cash, or in thebonds of a railroad company whose bonds are seli.ing at near ly par, and which earns and pays dividends upon portions of its stock. Te are not at liberty at this tine to give the nam.e of the smpany because it is under agreement not to issue any additional bonds until 1908. When these bonds are tturned over to them if the company pre fers to give bonds rather than cash we will receive the bonds at the price averaging on the Stock Exchange lor thirty days prior to delivery. If bonds are given Mr.. Pullman can sell them at a price, therefore, which will bring her .-|J900. in cash for bond with stock as stated above, I wish to say to you confidentailly that there is no question about this security, andthe matter will probably be closed up long before 1908. I enclose youa copy of our circular letter. The receipt for the bonds and stock,which will be put in safe deposit, will be signed by the same parties thatsign the cir'cular. Comniencing January 1, 1906, while the securities remain in our hands Mrs. Pullman will receive 4^ interest upon the par value of the bonds. As you are aware, these bonds are now drawing but 5^, and in fact the roaa has never earned more than that. This is a very favor&ble sale of the securities. Very truly yours, Grenville M. Dodge. 331 Coiincil Bluffs, December 12, 1908. Morris K. Trumbull, Chairman Entertai.nment Committee, Monadnock Block, Chicago, 111. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of December 1st, sent to me by Mr. Trumbull a few days ago. I expect to go to Chicago on the 5th to meet Mr, Trumbull, and it will give me great pleasure to attend the d'nner of your society. T an. not an after dinner speaker, but T will try to prepare something in relation t the engineers of an early day, especially those who took part in the survey and the construct"on of the two continental lines that were built on the 32nd and 42nd parallels of latitude and also fof some of their work in the Civ-1 War. Whether I could comdense this so that it would he proper to read or speak as an after dinner occasion, is doubtful. I do not think they want a person to spend much time on such matters, and this is a question that can not he taken up and Justice done it in a few moments. How many people do you have speak on these occasions, and how long a time are they given? Thanking you for your courtesy, and always having had a wish to meet the Western Society, T am pleased to try and he with you on this occasion. I am. Yours truly, G. U* Dodge. mm. C)QQ Oo O Council Bluffs, December 14, 19C8. C. H. Spooner, President, Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont. My dear Sir:- Mr. Ellis has been here and T have had a very long session with him, and T have come to an agreement with him to publish under my own name with h^m as editor and compiler, the second edition of the N.U. history provided the university can settle with him for the old volume. They agreed as T understand, to pay him ono thousand dollars and he willing to take that in notes of $250 each payable yearly, he to turn over to the \iniversity the copyright, etc. I have agreed to put up the m-^ney to publ-'sh another voluem and turn over the University the copyright of the volume on condition that the university will allow me to use its name in obtain'ng much data, etc. as I need and also that it will furnish Mr. Ellsl all the information and all the data which they have that can be used for the second volume and will second his efforts in getting up the public ation and also that they shall take it as the authorized history of the university and advertise it in its publications and recommend it to the alumni and past cadets. My idea is to get it out within a year or at least eighteen months and Ellis will devote his whole time to it. I believe t at with the support of the university and the friencliness of the alumni to me, we can make a success of the volume and that it will pay its way. Won't you take the matter up immediately with the Trustees and get their action on the matter an hav'-^ tl.em give me the authority for the use of the name of the tiniversity in carrying out the work? Let me hear from you on this as soon as possible. T am. Tznily, G. M. Dodge, ConncH Bluffs, Dec. 14, 1908, Gen, James S. Clarkson, Custom House, New York City, Dear S'r:- I am in receipt of your letter appointing the committee for the Allison statue. The committee ■'s all r-'ght so far as the eafet is concerned but it will be impossible for me to do much of anything with t,.at committee. You will have to take that committee as ex-officio member and handle it. I have already started in to make the committee in the state of Iowa, naming one person for each county so as to give it a thorough canvass. This co:mittee T will handle out here. You better appoint a treasurer for your sub-committee, mkaing that sub committee every named in the society committeee, I will write Mr, Carnegie, he is a ver close personal friend of mine, and when I go east T will go and see him so it will not be necessary for any of the committee here to go to him, but raise all the money you can. It will take some 1"ttle time to get this committee started here but we will go before congress this session and get the authority for the selection of the site and also I will go before the legislature here and get the authority for the location of the site and an appropriation for the pedestal. We better call them the Allison Memori 1, In this way we can work without any friction and have the country divided so the committee in the east can get together any time you want them and T can handle the committee out here and between you and T we ought to make it a groat success. There is no question as to where the statue should go in this state under a state subscr'ption, it should be at Des Moines, If Dubuque is anxious to get a statue locally that jre can not help. Truly, Gj M, Dodge, 337 RESOLVED That a dividend of two per cent, he declared out of the surplus earnings of the Company, payable of December 15, 1908, to the holders of the Common Stock of this Company of record on the books of this Company at the close of business on "hursday,December Io,I908. RESOLVED FURTHER That the ^-ransfer books of the Common Stock of this Company be closed at the close of business of December 10,1908, and be opened at the opening of business on December 16, 1908. Dec. 1908. Marshalltown, Iowa., December 17, 1908, Genl. G. M. Dodge, Counci"'. Bluffs, la.. My Dear Genl. and Comrade Your letter and books reached me O.K. Many thanks, believe me, I shall read them v/ith interest. I was a boy when your Regiment the 4th la., was in camp in the Bluffs and tried to gain admission but on account of age could not. I had often visited what I suppose was your ranch on the Box Elder, before that period, have always been and am now a strong admirer of Genl. Dodge and thus was encourage^ ' to send you that poem on Grant, crude as I feel it is, it embodies the character of the man. I am enclosing two little poems. Taps and W. R. C. Taps is good and fine at funerals of comrades where a bugle can take it up at last line of 3rd verse, or to unknown dead on Memorial Day. W. R. C. is a tribute to that splendid organization we so love and admirer for their splendid aid. Truly and fraternally yours. A. M. Clark. y:'iDecember, 1908. 341 ^.oston, Mass., December 18, 1908. Genl. Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa, My dear General:- I am preparing a symposium concerning Lincoln for our centenary number in February. Can you not give me five hundred or a thousand words concerning Lincoln? Of course, you saw him and we are getting expressions from all those who knew him in the flesh. Don't feel any restriction on the amount of matter, as I just suggested that much in case you would not have time to write more but a longer sketch would be very acceptable. Hoping to see you at some of the Iowa Society functions during the winter and with best wishes, believe me, Sincerely yours, Joe Mitchell Chappie. jt;?c/mrp *L ■ .U December, 1908, Des Moines, Iowa., Dec. 18, 1908. Gen'l. Grenvllle M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir, So often men say that the opportunities of the present day are limited and that the young man now hasn't the chance Cor attaining success that he did a generation, ago. You are in position to pass judgment upon this claim. ',Vill you not kindly give us your opinion for a symposium which we hope to publish at an early date? We are asking contributions from other former lowans who have attained success in the business and professional world as well as yourself. The feature promises not only to be in teresting, but valuable, also. Men like yourself ought to have much to say that would be worth while, helpful and stimulating for young men. You may suit your own convenience as to the length of what you send us, although we suggest a maximum of 2oo io 300 words. You are a busy man and perhaps it is asking a great deal to request this kindness to you, but we hope for a favorable reply. A personal word from you and from other successful men to the young men of Iowa will be as good as the best sermon at the beginning of the new year. Awaiting your early reply, I remain. Very truly yours. J. W. Beckman Managing Editor. December I9th, 1908. New York City, Dec. I9th, 1908, General Grenville M.Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General Dodge Thank you very much for your prompt response to my request for the article. It came at exactly the ri^t time and the matetial is precisely what I wqnted. I find it extremely interesting and have every reason to think that it vdll have wide recognition. I think you depreciate too much your own skill in in putting the matter into shape and although I took you at your own word when you asked me to do whatever seemed necessary with it, that amounted only to a few verbal changes, the transposition of a para graph here and there and the introduction of two or three points that you had mentioned in conversation but had not included in the man uscript itself. I am sending you herewith a carbon copy of the article as it was transcribed for the printer.If you can look this through and indicate corrections on it, I will transfer those corrections to the proof when it comes back from the printing office. There are one or two points on which I v;ill ask you to verify the things that I introduced. 'n the first page of the manuscript we called • this journey the westernmost that Lincoln ever made. Do you know if this is the fact? I learn that he once made a speech at Troy, Kansas, but Troy is not as far west as Council Bluffs and as far as I can learn, this assertion is literally true. Was N.B.Judd the General Attorney of the Rock Island? Was Mr. ftatch. Secretary of State of Illinois A. M. or 0. M. Hatch? In your manuscript he is mentioned bothl^ys. You did not include the date of Lincoln's speech at Council Bluffs. Can you indicate that to me? We had a fine reception, opening the season at the Iowa Society at The Aston a few ni^ts ago, and this afternoon the com mittee will meet at General Clarkson's to determone the programu.e for the rest of the year. There are always some expressions of regret at your absence. With best wishes for the holiday season, I am Yours very sincerely. Trumbull White. Editor. December, El, 1908. New York, Dec. El, 1908. A. D. Parker, 711 Cooper Building, Denver, Colorado. I am making following announcement this afternoon concerning purchase of Colorado & Southern stock by the Burlington: "It is one of those agreeable transactions that is good for both parties. It will take the Burlington and affiliated lines to excellent terminals at Galveston, which place is in the longitude of Kansas City and has the ad ditional advantage of being on tidewater. At one stroke Colorado & Southern credit is further improved and it is therefore advantageous to all classes of present security holders. This of itself will help every community on Colorado & Southern lines, from Wyoming to the Gulf of Mexico and they will derive further advantages from the new Possibilities for exchange of commerce. The Chairman of our Board, General Crrenville m/. Dodge, who built the Union Pacific, Texas & Pacific, part of the Colorado & Southern and other lines, has for a long time favored a north and south line along the eastern base of the Rocky Mountains, or form Canada. The affiliations hhich this ar rangement insures can greatly aid the development of the whole Rocky Mountain region; also of Texas, the growth of which is simply well begun. I have just completed fifteen years with the property,- first as receiver and afterward as President, and look forward with satisfaction to an early temporary retirememt from acti"ve business." Frank Trumbull. Same telegram to Messrs. Keeler and Baker. Dec. SI? 1908. New York, Deo. Si, 1908. Mr. D.B. Keeler, Mr. R.H. Baker. A word to our employees and our patrons: A better purchaser than the Burlington for the Colorado ^ Southern could not have bben found. I understand the Colorado and Southern Lines will be operated separately, and as far as our employes'are concerned, the infrequency of changes on the Burlington system is a good index to their general ploicy toward all good men. I believe tliat Colorado & Southern lines will have more employes than ever before. Our Board of Directors and I personally, cordially thank our of ficers and emplojres for all faithful service rendered and we wish and expect for them a Happy New Year. I also wish to thank all patrons of Colorado & Southern Lines for their great friendlyness toward us and I predict for them augmented prosperity if they will continue to cooperate in every wise way for the expansion of Colorado & Southern Lines. I have great satisfaction in feeling that the new financial inter ests which ke have been able to enlist in behalf of this property can do more than ever for Texas and I regard ti as very propitious that this influential dinancial interest enters the field almost simultaneously with the movement inside the state for the developement of Texas. Frank Trumbull. 351 Dec. ai, 1908. New York, Deo. 21, 1908. Mr. Parker, Mr.Keeler, Mr. Baker. Mr. Hawley is just oonfirming sale of Colorado & Southern stock to the Burlington and is making the following announcement in connection with same: "The Colorado & Southern Lines are in snug shape in every respect. I have held continuously for ahout seven years a very considerable inter est in them. During this period there have been various vicissitudes of bus iness and in the mining states, and a severe panic, but the lines have been expanding in a conservative way, in strategic situations, and they serve a growing country, so I have always had faith in them. The net earnings of the properties, to which Mr. Trumbull has giv en his undivided attention, are about ten times what they were thefirst year of his receivership. The property is a gDod one just as it is, but I can see that its future andits usefulness to a large territoey will be much enhanced by this arrangement. From the standpoint of all classes of Colorado & Southern secur ity holders and of every community along the line, as well as from the standpoint of its many employes, there could not have been a better purchaser than the Burlington, particularly because the two systems are so favorably situated toward each other." E. Hawley. Frank Trumbull. December, 1908. 853 New York, December 22, 1908. Dear General:- I received your note of the seventeenth instant and I expect you think I have been rather negligent in the last few days about communicating with you, but as you can easily imagine, the last week has been a very busy one here and the last two days have been quite exciting to a good many people. Everybody on the street is pleased with the Burlington deal and congratulations pour in from all directions. I spent two hours and a half with Mr. Harris this morning and must say that he has been very nice about the whole matter in every way. I believe Mr. Hawley has already delivered all the stock he contracted to but there will be some other lots to go in. Mr. Parker is in Chicago in connection with the extension of the Ganta Pe joint operation contract and I expect him here next Monday. I expect Mr. Keeler and Mr. Cowan onthe following day. Mr. Harris leaves this afternoon for Chicago and goes thence to California to spend a little time with Mrs. Harris. He expects to be back in Chicago by January fifteenth and said he would then come east again and that "We will work out together the question of the Board of Directors and other things." I promised to go oyer the property with him soon thereafter. Mr. Parker can tell me when he gets here where car Arcadia is I think you ought to use it, but we will also look out for the Rock Island pass ys you request. I am looking forward with great pleasure to a good long talk with you in Chicago, and Mrs. Trumbull and all of your associates here wish you a Merry Christmas and a very, very Happy New Year, and many of them. General C. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa Sincerely yours. Prank Trumbull. # Also to ^"rs. Montgomery and all your household. P. T. 255 December 23, I9o8. Fort Des TJoines, Iowa,Dec .23, I9o8, Gen. G M.Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iov/a. My dear General: 1 desire to thank you very much for your courtesy in sending me a copy of the pamphlet entitled "General Sherman in the last year of the Civil War"I shall read it with great interest. If your lecture which I heard on the "Spy dEuring the Civil War" that you recently delivered in Des Moines is ever published, I would be denoted to have a copy. It is a valuable subject for a mil itary man upon which very little has ever been written. To change the subject I see that the "Burlington " has bought yo\ir road, the "Colorado and Southern". I presume the latter will now be extended north or north west to connect with the Burlingta.n either at Sheridan,Wyoming or at Thermopolis in the Big Horn Basin. I should think the latter route preferable in order to open up the vast oil fields in the Big Horn Basin and the latter route would, I think make the short est route to connect with the new line from Great Falls to Billings. Wishing you a very Happy Xmas, I remain. "Very sincerely. Col. 2d Cavalry, F.West. 1908. T was unable to be present at the Christmas exercisesAfor the children In 1908 and sent them the follow^'ng greet^'ng: No, 1 Broadway New York, Dec. 23, 1908. 1^7 dear Brother and Comrades: The Christmas day draws near, when the soldiers, their ch^" Idren and grand&children, will assemble to receive their Christmas greeting, and I hope and trust the occasion will be a very pleasant one. This anniversary day this year is rather a sad one to me,for T have had to lay to rest during the past week a dear friend, the wife of General U. S. Grant, whom I have known ever since 1862. At one time the first lady of the land, not only our country but all parts of the earth mourn her loss and the messages that have come to her family show the respect and love in -.vhich she was held aniversally. ^e laid her beside the body of her distinguished husband in the Grant tomb on Riverside in New York last Sunday. This fall another distinguished friend, comrade and citizen of Iowa, General v;illiamson, who started out with me as adjutant of the Sourth Towa, was laid to rest in Washington. On last Sunday the last sad honors were paid to General Wager Swayne who served under me for nearly three years, and was my personal friend and attorney ever since. You can see as these old comrades pass away that it brings to me a feeling of sadness, but their lives should be a gui de and example to those who are assembled to make merry at this Christmas gathering. I regret very much that T cannot be w1th you to see and greet you, but T extend to you my heartiest greetings anc my best wishes for your good health and future welfare. Truly and cordially yours, G. M. Dodge. Council Bluffs, Dec. 23, 1908. Editor The Register & Leader, Des Mo^nes, Iowa, Dear Sir;- Replying to your inquiry if the opportunities for a young man are equal or better now than fifty years agao, I answer decidedly yes. Our country has grown and developed in fifty years more than it would have done in one hundred years without the experience of the Civil War. The lessons taught us in those five years made every one engaged in the C1v^l War ready to tackel any problem and to grasp and master any enterprise. In an early day there was a surplus of almost everything produced in this country, or in other words, we produced far more than we could sell; a concr"tio that was far reaching in its effects upon the prices of our products and also upon the opportunities for employment. It restrained materially the development of our country and the opportunity for new enterprises. Now we have a market for all we can produce, with remunerative prices for everything we have to sell and this has given opportunetieis for development, for employment and for successful enterprise of every description. Take my own experience as a civil engineer for an example. In the fifties and sixties the civil or t.e mechanical engineer of a railroad had to perform all the duties that came under his profession. In building a railroad he had to make the preliminary survey, perfect the location, plan and build the bridges, the stations, and all structures, build the shops, lay out all terminals and construct and complete the entire road. Today, there is an engineer engaged in everyone of the different works T have mentioned. In an early day our elements of power were wfeter and steam. Today they are water, steam, gas, electricity, and a^d, and these elements are all divided into hundreds of different duties that were never thought of half a century ago, and everyone required an expert to handle it. The every invention opens up new fields of opportunity and everyone is grasped and ives employment physica' or professional that, in my day, was never thought of. The growth of our country in every direction has developed great opportunities to any young man who has industry, honesty, and an Interest in his employer. Any young man to become useful and successful, must learn discipline, obedience, to orders, respect for authority, loyalty and to govern himself. With these and a fair education, he will invariably be a success and a benefit to himself and his country. Respectfully, Grenville M. Dodge, December, 1908, 361 Washington, D. C. December 25, 1908, Christmas Day, My dear General We are spending a very sad and quiet Christmas here; not at all like what it was last Christmas when our dear Bobbie was with us and so much interested in everything which was going on. Yet I feel that I cannot let the day pass without writing a line to you from all of us here to wish for you a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year and to express the wish that you may yet be spared manjr years to enjoy the comfort and dignity which you have so well earned and deserved. My health is better but I do not yet get the strength and energy which I should have. Carra is better and we hope soon after the New Year opens to get away where it is warmer and where we will have a change of scene and air, Elfeanor and "Felix" are settled in their apartment in Fiorina Court, just around the corner from us. They are here today and join with Carra and me in all the good wishes of the season. Ever faithfully yours, J. T. Granger. T ■ : ■ ,■ ,1 ' S. . ' /'3 ■ '.■< ' -Vi L'.fa* m363'*^ • PeoemlDer 26, 1908. New York, December 26, 1908. Dear General: I cannot tell you how much your letter of December twenty-sec ond pleased me.It is such a satisfaction to know that you are pleased with this particular outcome for the Colorado & Southern. Your letter reached me Christmas Eve and Christmas morning I read it over the phone to Mr. Hawley. He, also, felt that it added a great deal to our enjoy ment of this particular Christmas. I shall have much to tell you when I see you in Chicago and therefore hope that you and I can be together most of the day January fifth or part of the following day if that suits you better. Mrs. Trumbull, Roscoe and I also thank you for your Christmas telegram. These telegrams and letters are going to be splendid souven irs for all of us, of a very happy period. Sincerely yours, Frank Trumbull. General G.M.Dodge, Council Bluffs, lov/a. December, 1908. 365 Chicago, Illinois, December 29, 1908, General G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General Yesterday I received a telephone message asking me to attend a meeting of the Association of Engineers, January 5th, 1909, to hear a paper read by you on the development of the' West. I regret very deeply that a dinner given to me by the Society of Foreign Wars will prevent my being with you on that evening. If it had been an ordinary engagement I would break it so as to attend your's, but Colonel Foreman has been after m.e for more than a year to set a date for this dinner and I fixed it for January 5th some six weeks ago and I cannot very well either break the en gagement or have the date changed. The fact that I will not be able to be present when you read your paper does not prevent your staying with me, however, while you are in Chicago, and so I write to ask that you let me knov/ what train you will be on so that I can meet you at the depot and take you to my house. We are very comfortably settled on the north side here and Mrs. Grant and I would be most happy to have the honor of a visit from you. Please let me know as soon as you can the time that you will arrive here and the railroad by which you will come. Mrs. Grant joins me in affectionate regard to you and your's and in wishing you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Yours affectionately and faithfully, Frederick D. Grant. O V c Council Bluffs, Dec. 29, 1908. Mr. B. F. Tallinghast, Editor Democrat, Dear Sir; Davenport, iowa. I think the monument or niemorial to be erected to Senator Allison in this State, should be at its capital, Des Koines. Prepara tions are being made to appeal to the citizens of the state for sub scriptions, which makes it a state affair, and the kind of monument or memorial must be governed by their response. I think that every Institutic i of learning in the State sbould have a professoi-ship, a scholarship, or something to commemorate his name and services and in remembrance of what he has done for them, but these, necessar ily, are local. Parks are local to cities, and are generally provided b them, and it would be a very proper tribute to Senator Allison to give some of them his name, but, to my mind, there is noti.ing that attracts the attentj.on of ti e people and so represents the success of a great public benefactor as a proper monument or distinct memorial at the capital of the state and the nation, and especially is this the case of Senator Allison who served both his state and the nation so ably and successfully for fifty years . rVery truly yours, Grenville M. Dodge. '1' 371 1908. On August 31, 1908, I attended the Nat'onal Encampment of the G. A. R. at TOledo and spent three days w^.th my old comrades, T also attended the reunion of Fuller's Br'gade, the first time T had met them since the Civil War, I made an address to them mostly devoted to the^r own services under me In the campaigns, 1862 to 1864^ A full account of this can be found In scapbook 17, pages 51 to 55, Senator Allison died on August 4, 1908. In many places In this record T have given my views of Senator Allison, but scrap-book 21 Is devoted to him. This book contains the eulogies of everyone over the ent^'re country showing the-'r appreciation of his services. On Marcl. 18, 1908 Mr, B. L, Winchell, President of the Chicago, Rock Island A Pacific Railroad Company, who was in my service as a young man, came to visit me at Counc'l Bluffs and to deliver an address before the Commercial Club, On March 18th I entertained him and the Saturday Noon Club and others at a Luncheon an account of which can be found on page 67 scrap-book 24. ♦7 tJ t O Copy Dear.Gen. You know it but it may interest you. U.O.H. y cf f L , Ir Headquarters, Department ^ and Army of the Tennessee Chatanooga, December 18, 1863 ?,!aj. Gen. 0 O.Howard, Commanding Eleventh Corps: Dear General: As the events of the war brought us together and have as suddenly parted us, I cannot deny muself the pleasure it give me to express to you the deep personal respect i entertain for you. I had known you by reputation, but it needdthe opportunity our short campaign gave me to appreciate one who mingled so gracefully and perfectly the polished Christian gentleman and the prompt, zealous and gallant soldier. I am not in the habit of flattering, but I have deemed it ray duty to express to General Grant and others in.whom I confide not only the satisfaction .but the great pleasure I experienced in being associated with you in our late short but most fruitful campaign. Not only did you do all that circumstances required, but ycu did it in a spirit of cheerfulness, that was reflected in the conduct and behavior of your whole command. Should f( rtune bring us together again in any capacity I will deem myself most fortunate, and should it ever be in my power' to serve you, I beg you will unhesitatingly call on me as a friend. With great respect, your friend. (signed) w.T.Sherman, Major General. over The letteh 6f General Sherman to General Howard da ted-Dec. 18, 1863 was written on parting after their first meeting and campaign together, when Hov/ard cnme under tiherman's' command inthe Battle of Missionary Kidge, and-the March to the relief of Knoxville, Tenn. (Sherman's i^'ifteenth uorps, Howard's 11th Gorps and Davis Division ofthe 14th Corps), and return to Chattanooga. In the spring, 1864, Sherman relieved General Granger and gave Howard the command of the large 4th Corps, whibh Howard took all through the Atlanta Campaign until Gen. McP-ier: ona was killed at the battle of Atlanta July 22, 1864; when Sherman requested that Howard be given the command of the separate Array of the Tennessee. This was done and Gen. Howard marched and fought this army of three Army Corps (consolidated into two) and cavalry from July 22, 1864, to the Sea at Savannah, through the Carolinas, upto the Grand Review at washington May 20th, 1865. Gen. Howard commanded this Army longer in ooint of time t an any commander of it, excepting only Gen. Grant. . General Howard manoeuvered and fought this Army in the Ba ties of Exra Church, Cfn., Jonesboro, Love joys Station, Griswoldville, capture of i^ort McAllister, savannah, Ga. Patties in the uarolinas and especially in the last Battle of Ben-tonville, N. C« In the Battle of Exra chapel, Ga., July 27, 1864 Gen. Howard fought this Army done against the Confederates under Lieut.-Gen. s. D. Lee. 375 The letter of General Sherman to General Howard dated Dec. 18, 1863 was written on parting after their first meeting and campaign together, when Howard came under Sherman's comfnand in the Battle of Missionary Ridge, and the March to the relief of Knoxvil.le, Tenn. (Sherman's Fifte^inth Corps, Howard's 11th Corps and Davis division of the 14th Corps), and return to Chattanooga. ■i-n the spring, 1864, Sherman relieved General Granger and gave Howard the comii.and of the large 4th Corps, which Howard took all through the Atlanta Campaign until Gen. McPherson was killed at the battle of Atlanta July £^2, 1864; when Sherman requested that Howard be given the comia nd of the separate Army of the Tennessee. This was done and Gen. Howard marched and fought this army of three Army Corps (consolidated into two) and cavalry from July 22, 1864, to the Sea at Savannah, through the Carolines, up to the Grand Review at Washing ton May SOtn, 1865. Gen. Howard commanded this Army longer in point of tim.e than any comniander of it, excepting only Gen. Grant. General Howard mianoevered and fought this Army in the Battles of Exra Church, Ga. , Jonesboro, Love joys Station, Griswoldville, capture of Fort McAllister, Savannah, Ga. Battles in the Carolines and especially in the last Battle of Bentonville, N. C, In the Battle of Exra Chapel, Ga., July 27, 1864 Gen. Howard fought this army alone against the Confederates under Lieut-Gen. S . D, Lee . https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/b2a4ff122280d8e6e5fb35fdb1bfdcb2.pdf 31e9bae6725e4a73379e3099bbd7dfc7 https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/a9c0e02382d545ad6c1d1d0afe868503.pdf aad0c673a50851a029350d7fdeb14eaf https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/f48f3eb6ee44cabec1e4c65657803c65.pdf 90603e6db4318b95406e354cb26c1049 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. 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Language A language of the resource English Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections 1908 1909 civil war General Grenville M. Dodge railroads Union Pacific Railroad https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/d425a14fcebfed112b765833f26bee04.pdf f3eeae47cfe52d4bbcdd107be8c92da9 PDF Text Text DATA Chronologically Arranged For Ready Reference in Preparation of a Biography of GRENVILLE MELLEN DODGE President of Sundry Railroad and Construction Companies Late Chief Engineer of Union Pacific & Texas Pacific Railroads I\^ember of Congress. Major General in War for Preservation of the Union. etc . etc . etc . e tc . BOOK XXI. The Secret Service of the Civil War, Address on Walter I.Smith for Congress. Purchase of C. AO. Ry. by How]ey Interests. Publication of How We Built the Union Pacific by the U. S. Senate Capitalization of Railroads. Death of Senator J. P. Dolliver. Address on Gen&ral Grant before Fuller's Brigade 16th A. C. Frank Trumbull on Railways. Death of Nathan P. Dodge, Publication of History of Norwich University. Correspondence relating to Hon. Wm. B. Allison, c; I Lincoln Monument Council Bluffs, I' 80th Birthday Walter I. Smith Address. Reunion of 4th Iowa infantry and Dodges Battery and Band. 1910 - 1911. 1910. On 1910, T made the following address "before the Council Bluffs Order of I.0.0.P. on Early Days In Iowa: • "I have been asked to talk to you ahout my early days In Iowa and Council Bluffs. Such a talk is so personal that I have -hesitated about accepting ^t but I know that the later generations have very little information about the early days, experience and the problems that confronted no* In the first place. Council Bluffs in name goes back to 1804 when Lev,'is and Clark f^ve the name to" it on account of tth^p first great Indian council being l.eld on the western shore of the Llissouri river at a po^'nt near Calhoun Nebraska, and from- that time unt■1 t e location of the gottawattamie Indians here it was the only place known on the maps on"the border of Towa. Francis Guittar camped here in 1827 at the spring north of tovm. In 1838, the Pottawattamie Indians were moved from the Platte River to where this city is now located and the Government established here a military post of two companies and named it Fort Crogan. They bm'lt a block house here which was standing on Pierce Street opposite the present school building, when T came here* The only white settlers here at that time were tne Indian Agent, Martin Hardin, the "Thicks, one of whom married a Pottawattamie, and who were the millers and built the ITicks' mill on" the Mosquito kno-.vn afterwards afe Park's Mill, and some Catholic priefet acting as Missionaries to ti.e Indians, The l'6catloni it the. fort here established this as a stopping place for all the hunters, fur-traders and explorers coming up the Missouri River and they camped, generally north of the town at Mynster's Springs. The Pottawattamies were ■ moved to Kansas in the forties. Following them came the Mormons who left Nauvoo in 1845 and crossed the Mississipp-' RSver at Keokuk and Burlington and spent the winter with the settlers in Eastern lov^a. In the spring of 1856 they moved west from Keokuk and Bur lington, through Garden Grove to Des Moines. At the latter place they were only two or three log houses. They then followed the ■ Boon River, crossed it, took the Turkey Greek divide, passing through Lewis and Macedonia and stimfek the Mosquito, crossed it at the D. W. Clark place where the Green Packing Mouse was built, following down the valley and made their camp where" my brother's residence and orchard now ane. There was another trai1 fcade by the Mormons in the southern pprt of t,.e State, passing through Lamoille and finally reaching ; Council Bluffs. In moving, across the State, Brigham Young with an advance guard, tnarked out the noad for them to follow, the streams to cross, camping places, etc. In ti.is way the Mormons made the first wagon road across the State of Tovv'a, which afterwards became a prominent highway. On their arrival at the camp near the Mosquito river, the Government'called upon tliem for 500 volunteers to enter the service am take- part in the Mexican war. A flag pole was rdised at this camp and the 500 men enlisted and moved south to Kansas- City and then west, under Col. Stepto, going tJarougb New Mexico and Arizona to Cal'fornia. This act of tJie Mormons of enlisting so many men out of their numbers was a very patriotic one. It was said the Government called upon them to test their loyalty. If so, they responded with great ^^^r^ |ir^d credit to themselves iind 1910. . jXOX country. ' •. They moved from their camp on the Llosquito and crossed the liissouri R'iver at what is now J^nown as Florence, theh known as Winter-quarters and whle they were camped there, Father Desmet a noted Catholic Priest, who had spent many years on "the plains with the Indians, visited them, and he, says in his memoirs that they asked him thousands of questions ahout the coxintry and es pecially about Salt Lake and he wonders if what he' told them about Salt Lake induced them to go there. There is no doubt that before Brighara Young in 1847 went to' Salt Lake, that he had had that point in view, though if is cla'med that he said when he reached there that he had a revelation that that was the country they had been looking for and that they were to occupy. The next summer after spending e winter at winter-quarters, most of the Mormons came back to'^th-'a side of the river and located at what was known then as Miller's Hollow, afterwards nam'ed Kanesville, and" here they remained unfl the great exodus to Salt Lake in 1852. In the Census of 1850, it was shown that there was over 7000 of them here. The story is told that either on the first or second" trip of Brighaf Young to Salt Lake, I think it was the second, all the streams on the plains became so high from the enormous rains that he found it necessary to make a new road and head these streams,, and to do this, he i:ad to get the permission of the Indians and he called them together, it is said, in the little liollow just south; of where t l^'ve. He bu'lfa p' atform there on v/hich to'receive them, and there held a council. Under this platforim he had placed a canon," with a view -of astonishing the Indians and showing them the" powers of the white man. During the council this canon was fired. Of course the Indians on the platform, were greatly astonished but the chief, who was an astute man, comprehended, what it meant" and turned on Brigham Young and told him that wh'le that was good for the white man, it was of ho use on the plains with Indiana; however, Brigham Young got the consent of the Indians to pass through their country and overcame the high water by keeping to the north and striking" the Platte south of old Fort Laramie* In. 1849" the overland emigration California began and it was turned towards. Counci1 Bluffs by the brodd road the Mormons had made from the Mississ'ppi River. I had a long acquaintance with the Monnohs, with Brigham Young and all the apostles. They were all of great aid to me in the bu'lding of the Union Pacific railroad and I have nothing but praise for their foresigh , frugality and genius in settling and developing the western" country. I have dined with Bhigham Young and h^ s sixteen wi ves, all seated, in harmony at one table and no matter what we may say of Im* s relig.ion that gave him more tlian one wife, ho was a great man, and did a great work in developing this bo\mtry. Now coming down to my own t^me: In 1852, the interests that had built fehp Rock Island rail road fropa Chicago to Trock Island, Illinois, organized the Mlss^ssipp^^ and Missouri Railroad, now known as the Rock Island road. It was to"^® commence at Davenport and, end at or near Council Bluffs. The Council Bluffs that was named, hero was the only^ Missouri River at that time known and by Lewis and Clark in 1804 or 5 on th^fc{}„evoD odd blefaflw -dtw bebnoqaei *08 Yt 1910. explorations up the Missouri- River to the Pacific Coast and it was on the west s'de of the Missouri River near Galhoun.' Ft. Atkinson was established at th's.s po^nt in an early day. In the spring of 1853, Mr, Peter A. Dey, who had been a Division Engineer on the Rock. Island, organized a party to make the first survey across the State of Iowa, and appointed me his principle Ass'stent to tnke charge of the parties in the field. 'vVe. crossed the Mississippi River in May of that year and commenced bur survey at. Davenport. I. stAated the line near where the present Rock Island ra^" Iroad runs through the city ol Davenport on t ;e Mi.-.sissippi river and immediately entered the farm of Antoine Leclare, who was a noted FrenchmEia who had been connecte.d with that country as a fur trader in an early day. He had a fine orchard and a fine residence on his farm for that day. In running my line through his orchard greatly disturbed him and he sent for me and I went up to his house, which stood on a side h-'ll and he endeavored to get me to change my line and take it off of his ground. I explained to him that it was impossible to do this. He brought out a bottle, of w'ne, and offered every inducement except money to change it. He appealed over my head to the railroad authorities, but the topographical" conditions were such that It was impossible to avoid his property and the depot at Davenport is now on a portion of this farm or near it. We pushed on West with the surveys, finishing our location into Iowa City in August and in September I started west for the survey to the Missouri River. Leaving Iowa City we first ran up Old Man's Creek, but had to abandon: it. At the head of this Creek, there was a farmer living by the name of Williamson, who had a large fam"ly of. girls, one of whom afterwards married my leveler, George House. Mr. House st'll lives we went e st'll lives in that vicin'ty. On abandoning Old Man's Creek, we went into Clear Creek follo'wing that to its head; passing throi.igh Marengo, running up Bear Creek to whore Grinnell now stands, crossing the Coon River, passing through Newton and thence' to Des Moines, some 25 mile's west of Iowa City. There were virtually no settlers in the country. Game was plenty. As we ran up Clear Creek, I came upon a settler who had stopped my party. He stood at his fence which crossed the valley up which we were surveying, rifl in hahd, telling the party that the first one that went into the field would be shot, le did not want any railraods. He said neighbors were too close to him the'n, I was on ahead of the party and they came after me. I went back and endeavored to reason with the settler, he said he knew- of a much better route to the south of us. I gave the wink to Mr. J, h. House who was rxonn^'ng my transit, and the old man took me over on to another branch of the stream,- south of his farm, and showed it to me, but T saw it was impracticable, but I kept .dm there long enough to satisfy myself that my transit, and the old man took me over on to another branch of the stream,- south of his farm, and showed it to me, but T saw it was impracticable, but I kept .dm there long enough to satisfy myself that my party had gotten through his farm and then we returned. When he saw the stakes in his field, he was very angry and threat'ned to shoot me. I told him the party had gone on without orders and that it did not amount to anyt..ing. I told him he could go over there and pull up the stakes, which he did. I fflfld not care for this because my leveler had the profile across his faftn. One would suppose that anyone living as far from civilization as he was would be glad to have a rail^ oad but he was only a sample of the pioneers. 1910. We made our location in Des" 'ioines right v/here the Rock Island station i^ now. It was then a cornfield and they gave me forty acres but a fterwards, unfortunately, the company gave up thlrtyacres for it. . . From Des Moines we run up the Coon River and v/hen out about twelve miles, struck the last settlement." The man living there was Daniel Boone, a relative of the Kentucky Boones. My party, v/hich'had hden out all the summer, many of them, were down with the fever and ague and t was short of men. Living right aiose to Boone was a relative by the name of Lane and as we were runn^'ng the line past his farm, a strapping boy, about sixteen years old, ^ame out to watch us. I asked him how he wnuld 1^'ke to go" along. He sa'd he believed he would like it if h" s. mother would let him go. I immediately saw her and got her consent and t found out afterwards that o"icked up a very valuable man. He had been brought up in the woods and was fi of wood'-craft and. furni shed the ent^'re party, dur'ng the fall, v;ith honey. He could follow a bee fpr miles and locate a" bee-tree wherever we struck .timber. Only a short t^'me ago, I received a letter from him. ■ He is now living s.ome" four or five m"i les East of Des Moines and expressed a great desire to" see me", saying that the happiest and most useful days" of his life were spent while he was with me. From Boone's settlement "iVest, there were no other settlements. We followed up the Coon into what is now known as- Gutiirie County, and near Guthrie Center started west crossing the East Botna north of what was. then known as Ballard's Grove, and" north of what is now know^ as Exira, a beautifuZ country. We crossed the D.ivide into Indian. Creek, following brandies of tha.t over to" the West Botna. As T was out. in advance of my party, go^'ng down into the valley of tlie West Botaa, I was watching closely for game as the party needed meat. 7 thought l saw a deer in the brush at the edge of the timber and was about drawing upon it with my rifle, wlren a man jumped up, having a red bandanna handkerchief on his head. He was crawl'ng on a deer. As he jumped up he said to me, "For God's sake don't shoot ma," and I Immediately asked him who he was and h.e said he was Add Cuppy and was a settler in that grove. This Grove has been known ever since as Cuppy's grove. A minister by the name of Johnson was in the grove, with him, and, as far as I know, they were the-only settlers, in that part of the country. I found that Cuppy was a hunter and thoroughly acqua'ntpd with that country and I employed him and he was very useful to us. IVe had no maps, of the country and had to make all our own explorat.i onp. .While I was canped at Cuppy's Gr^ve, Mr, Peter A. Dey, my Chief, came to me. He had with him a young man by the name of Bacon, the, son of the Rev. Dr. Bacon of New Haven. They had driventhrough from Iowa City with a pair of horses and a wagon, with some pr.ovisiona for us, but after they left the Coon River, they had great difficulty in crossing the streams and we were a great deal farther advanced than Mr. Dey expected, so At one of the crossings of the branches of the "^nd'an Creek, he left his wagon and took his horses and blankets and road horse.-back unt^l he found our campiang place on Tndian Greek where he stopped over night. Young Bacon was ^ a graduate of Yale College, and had no idea of woodcraft, and the rid'ng of a bare-back horse had. used him up and when I.Ir. Dey started out early in the morning. Bacon, not being used to going, said he would follow. LIr. Dey instructed him tn be sure and follow our wagon track or our railroad line as staked out,. Mr. Dey over took us on the West Botna. T was out ahead of the party and did not get in until evening. When I arrived at the camp, Bacon had not reached there anc Mr. Dey was greatly worried. After getting my supper, T told Mr. Dey that I would take my. horse and go back to the Tnd^'an Creek Grove and try to find him. T rode back, JiOllering at the top of my voice on every stream' or break that I crossed but could get no answer. Just before T- reached the Indian Creek Grove, t struck a small* band of Indians who' evidently had . been south into Mi'ssouri stealing hogs. They were as surprised to me'et me in the night as t was to meet them and we both got out. T went on to the grove but found nothing of Bacon. T could not even discover the tracks of his horse, so I returned to camp, knowing that he was lost and took my party and distributed it on the different streams and divides, giV ng them careful instructions not to leave the valley or the divide they were on because whe-n a party is sent out by themselves, if allowed to go at their own motion, three-fourths of them in mo'st cases would be lost. We hunted three days for Bacon. T/e found his horse, vn'th his blanket on, tied to "some bushes on a stream, not far from Indian Grove.. He had had trouble in getting his hor se across the stream, so had left it and started out on foot. In the afternoon of the third day, Mr. Thompson, one of the teamsters of the party, discovered Bac"n on the divide between the Nishnabotnas, some eight or ten miies south of- our line, traveling south and just about used up; unsteady on .his feet and somewhat -surprised to meet Thompson. Thompson gave IM.m something to eat and when Bacon came to, ho said, "Is your name Thompson?'' Thompson said, "Yes," Bacon sai-d, "I have a watch for you." Thompson had left h-" s watch in Iowa City to be repaired and Mr. Dey had given it to Bacon to bring out to him and this shows what was the one thing that was on his mind. They brought Bacon back to the Indian Creek Crove where I met him arid talked -.vith him and found he had lain not very far from w,.ere I hac passed the first night. I asked him if he d*-d not hear me hollering. He said he d^'d and I asked him why he did not answer and he said he did not think it could be possible for anyone to be out there in the night and he d^'d not know whether it was a htiraan voice or what it was and was afraid to answer. Baco said when he s^ept he dreamed of tables set wit. all kinds of eatables that he could not reach. Tl,e .horse I was riding was called Comraissa y as "he had belonged to the'Commissary of the Boundary Commission that had been running the northern boundary of Iowa and as we sat there in Indian Grove, I told one of the boys to take Commissary down and' gi ve • iiim some water. Young Bacon'said, "Well that is a good name f'^r a 1 orse which came "bfter a starving man." Some of the-parties, in following down the streams, ran into immense i.erds of elk. This country was full of deer and elk. Bacon.was a correspondent of the New York Tr'bune. He only stayed with us on this one survey. We lost h'm again on the Missouri River bottom. He became a noted lawyer ln Rochester and I believe is now 191G. We' ran west cross^^g the 7/est Nlshnabotna near where Harlan is now located, ris'^ng the bluff and following the pigeon creek to the Missouri R'ver; thence to Council Bluffs. This was the first railroad line ever run across the State of Towa. When we reaciifed Counc^'l Bluffs', I leai-ned Lhat they had changed the name of the town from Kanesville to Counc-'l Bluffs so as to be the eastern terminal of the I,h'ss-ssippi and Missouri. Railroad as named in their charter and that they had even had* an act of the Legislature passed confirming it. I found a town of considerable population, but not flear as many as had been here before the great movment in Salt Lake. Most -he town where- the Broadway Methodist church now stands.- I stopped at the Ro'binson House, kept by A. Rbbinson. I was surprised when t came out from my brefekfast one morning to see Mr. Rohin.-.'on step out from bei.i.nd the counter in his office and. take the hat from off a mhn's head. The man protested by Robinson walked back with the hat and sald, "T will give you your bat when you pay for your breakfast, I bought from a man v;ho 'had crossed the plains, a horse Uiereaft.er known as Rocky Mountains and which T rode for many year^ crossing the States and plains many t'mes on her lack. Our party camped in the hollow where Rohrer* s Park is tcxday. There was a mill race then running from Taggert's mill along the bluff, enterlrvi he river at Big Lake or distributi iig its water into located near Rbbinson. There was a mill bluff, enterlrvi the low bottom. In coming down Pigeon Creek, T had made connections with the Mccmon :winter quarters, then known as Florence, where supposed the road was to cross. There was a great contest for the road between Cook and Sargent of Davenport and the citizens of Council Bluffs, but my survey determined that the true route was down the Mosquito, whicii line t also ran. Wh'le here T received orders to extend the surveys west into the Platte Valley to determine .fully where a line Iqaving the Missouri River and going west up that valley would have its initial po'nt, I crossed my party on a flat boat qnd immediately entered an encampment of Cmaha Indians, camped on the table land just north of Saddle Creek. After examining the Bluffs and rising on to them, running up Saddle Creek, T left the 'party to continue the line westward towards the Elk orn River, while I examined the country ahead.- I started out alone, follow^'ng up the divide between the Missouri and the Papillion Creeks until I struck the Mormon trail from winter quarters west, which T followed to the Elkhorn river, strik in g it near where tlie Military road Is now located. I had been up for two nights and was very tired. It was about noon when I reached tlie river. I road up to one of the branches of Walnut Creek, lariated out my horse, took my rifle and saddle and laid down there and -went to sleep. About 4 or 5 o'clock, I was awakened by the neighing of my horse. The horse I had purchased at Robertsons' hotel evidently was.afraid of Indians, I looked oit from where I was sleeping towards the Elkhorn Valley and saw an Indian leading off my horse, pvUmg h^m witl. all his might and running, the horse hold'ng back, I was greatly frightened and.hardi^ knew what to do but T grabbed my rifle and started hunn'ng after the Indian, yelling at the top of my voice. The Tnd^'an saw T was 1910. gaining on him, so dropped the horse and started to run and -swam across the r^'ver to the other s^'de. Tn 1865, th^'s Indian was an enlisted man "in the battalion of Pawnees that served imder .me in the Indian campaigns and he told Major Nortri, who was commander of the Battalion, that I hollered so loud and made such a noise that it frightened him and caused him to abandon the horse.- As soon as I got my horse, I turned back and found my camp at the Mormon cccssing of -Papillion Creek full of Indians and the cooks cooking for them; the party were all tenderfeet and were thoroughly .demoralized. I saw prompt action was needed and I told the party to get their arms immediately and then I told the Indiai s to get out. The Indians objected, were surly in their acts and looked as though they were going to give us trouble but they saw that T was determined and they left the camp. I found tiiat the Indians had been following the party all the day bdfore and had robbed the wagons cf everything they could lay the^r hands on and had threatened the party .so that they did not know v/hat to do. This taughte -me a lesson that lasted me all .my life on tl:e plains; never afterwarrs, did .1 allow any Indians to come into the camp without" permission and alv;ays gave my parties such instructions. This was the first survey of the Union Pacific Railroad and I determined in my cfwn mind that the most feasible point in .an engineer ing point of view to leave the Missouri River was at Belle"vue, but Council Bluffs was the only settlement on the Missouri River that a road coming from the East would center at, no .matter wherd it crossed "tJie river, "After these surveys I returned to Iowa City and remained there until the fall of 1854 wiien work was stopped on the Mississippi & Missouri River and I immediatel " came ^est', having made up my mind Sfter 'seeing this country, that T would settle at Council Bluffs. In 1854 I had obtained from our explorati o" s,. from the mountain eers and traders, a very good idea of the routes and camping places all the way from here fo California and I made a map,- a part of wh-'ch I still have in my office, showing the overland route from here to California, the camping places and all oti;er infcrrmation that I could obta'in from the government maps and from the information I got from fur traders and merchants here at CounCl Bluffs, printed that map and circulated it all over th'e east and it drev? an immense emigration this way, so that from 1853 to 1860, the great bulk of the emigration, not only to California but to Utai.,- Colorado and Denver, arossed the Missouri river here, or if they .crossed below here they worked into the Platte "Valley from here West to Ft. Keacney. When I got here, "peoplehad commenced making cla^" ms In Nebraska and I immediately v/ent out and made claims on the ElkwOrn River, near where I had camped and where my father, my brother and myself claimed and entered our homesteads. We rema^'ned there until the fall of 1855. The Indians had been -very troublesome s'nce the spririg of 1855. They nin off the cattle were" impudent to sdttlers, thieving and destroying. A party from Omaha, vinder Sheriff Reeves, came out bo the Ellcorn and •tried to Induce Mr. S. 11. F'field who came west -with my father, who was the only settleii near me, and myself to go with them to the Pawnee village, which was across the Platte river from us 12 miles 1912. ^ but in plain sight from the bluff-beh'nd our cla'ms. I had been out west in the valley before they came and saw that the Tnd'ans were ugly. They had killed some" of these settler's cattle and placed their heads on mounds, fac'ng towards us, a sure ^ nd* cat ion .of defianae, and I tried to'prevail on Reeves and party to turn back but he sa-id "No" that they v/ere going out to have the cattle or blood. They .all crossed the river, T should say there were fifty of them. T took my .transit and set it up on the hill back of my cabin and watched their movements. Wlien they got opposite the village o the north side of the Platte, it seemed as though, a thousand Indians rose up out of the grass around them and they stripped them of nearly everyt.-ing they -ha'd and .Reeves and his party came back as fast as they could come, hollering for the ferry long before they reached the river. "They v/ere a hard looking crowd. Some of them had lost their hats, coats and shoes but glad to get away with their lives. They went back to Omaha much wiser .than when they started away. " . During the winter "of 1854 and 5, the Pawnee Indians .were in the habit of visiting us at our claims and Fifield, who was a classmate of mine in college, and myself, went over to the village. i7e found ■their chief, Ish-got-up, very sick and Fifield, who had some knowledge of medicine, knew what -was the matter with him and wh'le he knew, he could not cure him, he gave him medicine that relieved him and during the whole winter and spring they would come over after the medicine and were very friendly with us. Early in the spring, Mr. Clarl^, a citizen of the Bluffs who then had established 'a liverty stable in Omaha, came out to our place witi a load of goods that he wanted to trade with the Indians. He stopped with us,, waiting fo.r vom.e one who understood the Ind^'ans, to go over to the village with h"m. The second night after he got to our house, messengers came from the Indian village to my cabin, wanting us to go immediately to the village, that the c^ .lef was very. s'ck. We put it off until the next morning, -whei : Fifield and myself and .Clark with his load of goods went over. When we got opposite 'the village, Fifield, who was not feel'ng very well, said he would remain on thrft side.. The water was cold and we had to ford the Platte to reach the village, so Clark arid myself went across. I saw by the looks of. the Indians who met us that there was something wrong but I did not know exactly what," but on arriving at the village I was taken .to the council hoUse and there I found Ish-got-up dead. 'All the squaws were aroiind him, making all kindd of hidesous cries and tearing their hair." I saw th'en that we were in trouble. I spoke to Clark and told him under no circumstances to try to use his arms or .anything of that kind; that the Indians evidently thought we had killed Ish-gtt-up with the medicine; that I "would get out of there as quickly as possibl but I would have to use some policy Iri the matter, and advised Cl'ark to return to Fifield. He sa'd, "No, I will stay wltl you.'* After I had .stayed arovmd there for half an hour or more, trying to Introduce Clark to several of the Indians, but who would not have anything to do with him, I started to return, -when one of the chiefs stepped up to me and toucJ"ied me on the shoulder and ordered me to sta^^ 191C, They took me to a lodge near the, counc'l house where were assembled the head men of that tribe of Pawnees. They did not pass the pipe of peace, but they brought in the Inedicine and asked me to taste it, T did so, as. t knew that it was harmless and then they, went into a discussion and T i.n_ew enough of the language to knov; th"t they, v/ere try^'ng to decide the quesf on as to whether or not v/e had given thie medic'ne to Tsh-got-up with an intention of kill.-'ng h'm. Dur'ng the discussion, T sav; that t had some fr^'ends in the -ribe who took my part. They, were men who had been to my house to see us and. had been fed. The counc'l lasted more than an hour, possibly two hoursp and no matteh how brave a person may be, a body of savages holding a counCl o-ffer him would, make the. cold sweat stand on his face. I tried bo be calm and not show any anxiety. One of the Indians who.could speak a little English spoke, to.me but did not give me much encourage ment, Finally, -^ne of the chiefs came up to me and told me to go, and left tliS counc-1 as rapidly as I could, crossed the r^'ver, Clark with me; he had shown a good deal of coolness and bravery. When we reached the other side, we found F^f--eld very much alarmed. He had ascertained that Tsh-got-up was dead; he knew what they would think and what they would probably fo. This taught me another lesson^ never tp-doctor Indians. l.Tany of these Indians served under'me -i n the bat talion of Pawnees in the Indian campaigns of 1865-6 and whenever they wanted anything, they woiild say to Major North that they were my friend in this counbil and saved my life so that virtually, as far as I could learn, they were all my friends, when it came to wanting anything. Tlr* s battalion of Indians was a remarkable body-of troops. In 1885, when General Grant sent me on to the plains to open the mail, stage and;telegraph Ines, which had been closed for three'or four months, ti;e first request I made was authority to organize'a battalion of Pawnees under Major Nortii, whom t knew. I received this authority. Major North took into the field first two companies and then four companies of Pawnees,- As soon as he got them organized, I ordered him to move immediately up the Loop Fork and strike the Indian villaggs then located, I-supposed, on Powder River. My troops were fighting them on the Platte. Major North got up nearly to Raw Hide creek, which is near old Ft, Laramie and nbout tlie middle of March, he encoun tered one of the heaviest snow storms ever seen on the plains. T-.ere was about two fpet of snow. He had to abandon all his stock and carrie very near los'ng his command from exposure and cold weather. I hemember the storm was so great that it stopped all travel on the plains for nearly two weeks and our troops all suffered greatly. In the Tnh'^in campaign to the Yellowstone in the fall of 1835, these Indians took part in the battle of Tongue River, fougb.t by Gxeneral Conner's comma.-.d. Tliey captured the Arapahoe v'llage on Tongue River, some 1000 I.orwes and the'r entire camp, and if these IndVans had not stopped to pillage, in all probability the entire Indian force would have been captured, with all the warr'ors, women . and ch Idren, General Conneor was very angry at their stopping and when he started to leave that country, he made all the Indians strip their loot, put it In' a pile, and he burned it; which caused a great howl among the Indians and a great many complaints, tut was a good punishment for them, * , , . 1910. Duti.n2 the moveiTient froir. Laramle to TonctiB River, a "band of Northern Cheyennes captured a Mich'san Company, .•paarding a Government train :io^*ng from Denver to' Ft. Halleck, He got news of this and Major North laid his battalion of Ind^'ans on the tra'l that he knew these Indians would take on theTX way to jo'n the Sioux that were fighting Conner and sure enough about twentyOfive of these Indians came up the trail.- Major North surrounded them and when the. leader, an old whiter-haired man sav/. that he was trapped, he marched up. towards Major North telling him that they v/ere ready to die; that their bellies were full of white men up to here, putfng h^_s hand'up to his month, and of course the pawnees killed all of ther;. On' one of these Indians was found a d'fary of one of the I.I'chigan soldiers and the'Indians who had it had described in his own language by signs, their whole trip from the Powder River soutli. to the Halleck road; the killing and burning of the Michigan troops tied to their wagons and their trip back, so that the half breed guide we liad cotild read and tell every movement that band made. I have always regretted that I did hot hold that diary but I sent it into the TJar Department at Washington with my report. In the suamier of 1855, the Indians on the plains became hgatile in every direction; they killed several people near Fontaneil, north of us and all the settlers^ except Fifield and'myself left their claims and moved into Omaha. We wanted to stay there and protect our property, but l came to the conclus'on that-it was not safe and there fore we left our claims and Fifield, my father, my broth.er moved to Omaiia, and t came to Council Bluffs and made this my permanent l;ome. During this time I was engaged in making reconnoissances for the Union Pacific and went back to Iowa City-to work on the Mississ'ppi A Missouri. In my exarninatio s of the country\Dest of Des Mo'nes, I made-a trip up the Boyer. It was late in ti.e fall of 1856 I think in November. I had with-me Edd Cuppy, who knew that country pretty thoroughly. vYhile we were up there, there came a very he-^vy rain-storm, and we were wet through and it turned cold and freezing so that it froze ice strong enough to bear us up. Our clothes, of course, began to freeze and were in great danger. We made for a vrove on one of the head streams of the Nishnabotna and undertook to start a fire but everything was so et that it would not burn and we used up all our matches. The small streamwe were on was frozen over but it was low and made a good protection'from the high wind and the cold. I told Cuppy that we must walk there all night or iintil our xlothes began to get dry so that we would not freeze. I know that a person out in the cold at n'ght always gets sleepy and I.told Cuppy that if he.went to sleep T was going to get a willow stick and whip him until he wokh up and if 1 went to sleep, he was to do the same thing" to me^ A li ttle after midn^'ght, "Cuppy began to get tired and sleepy and when T v/ent to whip him,-he was angry and began to fight bu T kept it up until he was thoroughly a wake. Along about four or five o'clock in the morning, T began to get sleepy, when Cu^py gave me the same dose, "but I had thougiit and bra-'n enoug about'me to help him. As soon as it was daylight, we started out, the. thermometer many ddgroes below, zero. The frost was hot yet out of Our clothes so we walked add led our horses, le reached Mr. Cuppy's home that, night ^ late, nearly exhausted. Dur^'ng this same st'orm, a party from Council 1910. Bluffs were hunblnc elk up on the Boyer and one of them, a prominent citizen here, whose name X have forgotten, was frozen to death. In 1C56, when I returned to Coiinc'l Bluffs there was a good deal of uneasiness about the Indians and t organized here the Council Bluffs Guards for the purpose of protecting this border. Tie State of Iowa had no m^* lit la law then and we hao to buy our own uniforms, equipment and everythlny. We had a company of about 5o citizens and an excellent company for that time and It has a remark able history. It held Its organization here until the Civil War, v;hen they voted unanimously to enter the service on the firing on Sumpter, expecting to join the 1st Iowa Infantry but Governor Kirkwood declined its services because It was the only company on the frontier and he thought he nedded its services here, hut when was authorized to organize the 4th Iowa Infantry and take it into the field, the Council Bluffs Guards entered that regiment and became Co. B. and tobk part during the civil war in some 36 battles, distinguishing itself upon many fields. The loss In battles and sickness and discharges .vere very large. Its 2nd Captain was Colonel Kinsman, commanding the 23rd Iowa,and after the Atlanta campaign, just before going on the march to the sea, forty men were added to the company. It went on through to Washington, taking part In all the engagements cf the 4th Iowa, which are too numerous to mention and were mustered out at Louisville in July, 1 65. I am told by one of the men who was mustered out at that place, Mr. Stiles, now living at Fremont, that tliere were only eight or nine of the original members that entered the service here mustered out. There were more men mustered out at that time but all the others had been recruited during the war. '.Then the company returned to Counc'l Bluffs, there was very little inclination anywhere in the United States to keep up a military force but this company maintained Its organization and when the Spanish '.Tar came It was known as the Dod'^e Light Guard and It entered that service as Co. L of the 55th regiment and went to the Phllllplnes and there performed_the same duties tliou 1. not so many of them, as they did durln'- the Civil War. Upon their return home, they still maintained their organization as the Dodrre Lig:.t Guards and are now Co. L. of the 55tk Iowa Infantry, one of the most efficient in that regiment and our people sliould g^}_flpays support and help continue such an organization Its history is almost the history of the two wars and Its record that of very few companies in the United States they have maintained their organ ization for fifty years and entered the service of the United states twice. After the civil war it was a great effort to maintain its organization but in an early day there was an incentive, being on the frontier, that we do not have now and any young man should consider it a great honor to become a member of such a company. There is no question but what milUary training if a great aid to young men. It teaches them the obedience to orders, discipline and respect for thfase in authority, loyalty to their country, which they can not get in any other way. (Probably 1910 or 1911) When Hon. Walter I. Smith was a candidate for re-election to Congress in Spring of 1906 the Republicans of the 9th District were greatly interested for his success as he was a Leader in Congress and if a Republican Congress was elected was likely to be made speaker but the so called Progressive and Curi.mins element in the District put in Honorable Atty. Gen. Byers. I took a great interest in this contest appealed to the old soldiers who responded almost unnaninously to the support of Judge Smith in the controversy. I dee me dli Judge Smith was entitled to the credit of settling the controversy as to the as to the position and services of the 15th and IGth Iowa Vol. Infantry at the Battle of Shiloh this wasdisputed and the following letters relate to this controversy and to the election of Judge Smith. i^H 1910. During the year 1910, the re-election of vTiilter I. Smith came up and he was opposed by the Attorney General Byors and also by Senator Cummins and what were the progressives of the State. He also had the opposition of President Roosevelt but he was so strong in the district that it was impossible for them to defeat him. I took quite an interest in this campaing, doing what T could to help him, as he had been a very valuable member for our State and our district and for the country. T took up with the old soldiers the question of what he had done to carry out the views of the 15th and 16th Iowa at the battle of Shiloh and my statements were contracted in the Guthrie Center Guthrlan and upon receiving his letter, T v/rote the following letter to the GUthrian: "Your answer to my statement In relafon to the part Judge Smith took in the settlement of the controversy between the 15th and 16th regiments in the War Department appeared in the Counc*l Bluffs Nonpareil but was credited to the ITalvern Loader. I enclose copy of my answer to the article published in the Nonpareil of April 26th, which T will thank you to publish. Tt is evident that you did not have the facts before you about what occurred in Washing ton after the Commission had been turned down three times. You referred to a statement made by Captain Hayes. Captain Hayes was the person who induced Judge Smith to take this matter up after the failure of t];o Comnisslon and as I stated, it was tiirough his attangements that a final decision was obtained from the Secretary of War and ho had to aid him in this matter at this time Senator Allison, Secretayy Shaw and Senator Dolliver. T have no doubt if you would appeal to Captain Hayes, he would verify my statements." mm.- ■■ 4 Marshalltown, Iowa, 1910. Genl, G. M. Dodge. (firstpart of letter missing) accomplish. 6th, because it should stand where the sick in Hospital could look out upon it, the dead be carried by it, the living gather around it, and lastly because for all time it should look down upon and guard through the years the largest number of Iowa soldiers living in their silent bivouac. Genl. it is the only spot in Iowa where it will really perform the mission for which it was erected. Yours is a ready pen- yours is the influence, no better friend had the Iowa soldier; nor has any given you a more loving and obedient loyalty If in your judgment these reasons are substantial will yoii lend jrour influence for the transfer to the Iowa Soldiers Home, if the monument is moved from its present site? Truly yours in F. 0. & L., A. M. Clark. BilSlI KIJWII. January, 1910. New York, January 3, 1910. General G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General Dodge: I was very glad to receive your letter of December 28th and to know that you are well and happy, I took the liberty of sending your letter to Mr. Vail and I am sure he was glad to hear from you. I agree with you that the merger of the telephone and telegraph companies will result in great economies to both companies, as we have parallel lines all over the country. We have more than 500,000 fliiles of copper wire in the United States and every one of those wires can be superimposed so that they can be used for telegraphng and telephoning at the same time. Of course we cannot use all of them in this way, but there is no doubt that a large number of them can be made use of in the joint interest of both companies. Nothing would please me more than to pay you a visit and perhaps some day or other I may do so, but at the present time we are all very busy and it is difficult for me to get away. With kind wishes, I am. Sincerely yours, R. C. Clowry V • . If,'. January, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, Jan. 3, 1910. Fr nk Trumbull, § 71 Broadway, New York. My dear Mr. Trumbull: I received quite a long letter from President Taft. He says that, the Point I make on the routing is changed in the bill; that it only covers routing from the end of your awn line and that the other point that is made he has referred to the Attorney General. I suppose he refers to the point in relation to capitalization. Of course, this is confidential because you know I never allow anything said that comes to me in the way this does. I will say to you that I have no doubt that the President is working hard to get a bill that will express what he wants towithout being drastic, but he knows, as we know, that if he puts in a bill there that does not have the drastic parts in it, it will be put in by the House and Senate. The whole country out here seems to be crazy on the question. They have tried to make a political turn out of it. I have had a talk with several members of Congress and gone into this question of routing. ^ hold that there is plenty in the old bill on routing to allow the shipper to give the connections it should be shipped ovei' after leaving our lines . If they provide that in emergency cases company can change any shipment, if thero is anything happens to detain its movement, congestion, etc. I don(t think we would be hurt Hiuch and I think you ought to scan that clause of the bill so as to amend it. If they hold us to giving this autl'.ority, we should still h ve the right in matter of emergency to change the routing at the connections. I saw it her this fall where they had to do this to get traffic through. Some roads would be con gested while others would have a clear road and could send things, through to Chicago. I received your complimentary pass over the Chesapeake & Ohio. I am getting a great many passes but the trouble is that I have to send them back; they have not discovered tie Abilene & Southern yet and they send them to me over the Colorado & Southern. Some are sending them without naming the road. Do you think that is a violation of the law? They take it for granted that I belong to some road. We are having a splendid winter; a good foot of snow on tne ground, thermometer about zero and good sleighing. I am. Truly and cordially, G. M. Dodge ' ' * I- '' January, 1910, Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 3, 1910. W.. C. B^own, Pres. New York Central Ry., New York City. My dear Sir: I am pass in receipt of yours of Dec. 28th returning the changed I think my letter to the President did some good and got x some changes in the routing clause. He wrote me himself in relation to this matter. The clause that I wanted changed on capitalization he refered to the Attorney General. Of course, this is confidential though I wrote the same thing to Mr. Trurnbull, but as you know, I don't like to have any of these matters get out or be talked about. I am certain of one thing and I suppose you have discovered that yourself. The President is anxious to give us a workable law, but he has a tremendous pressure upon him, especially lately, where they are working up these political questions against him, which in the West are gathering some strength. I don't know what position you take on all of these questions. I believe that you can get a little change in the question of advancing the rate and lot have it as drastic as the Inter-State Commerce Commission and some of them have asked it. Don't you think we could give the Inter-State Commerce Commission sixty days to consider any rate we were going to advance and let them pass their judgment upon it? Then if it was favorable, we could issue it, and if it was unfavorable, we could appeal. I have been in hopes that the coiart would decide that the question of irates was a matter that lay absolutely with the railroad. The question of the reasonability of the rate would rest with the Commission but that does not seem to satisfy the country. Winter is letting up a little here today. I am. Truly and cordially, G. M. Dodge. . .jv! t Iowa City, Iowa, Jan. 4, 1910. General G. M. i^odge. oouncil fluffs, lowa. My dear General Dodge: Since reading one of the pamphlets that you so kindly sent me, it has occurred to me that you might be able to enlighten me on a subject that puzzled me, not a little, while preparing the paper on the Battle of ishiloh; namely, what was the reason for the, apparantly, unreasonable time consumed in the bridging of Duck River, by Buell's army on the march to Pittsubrg Landing^ Buell had a division at Columbia on the 10th of March (before consolidation of Departments) but the bridge was not completed until the 30th. i found nothing to show when the building began. It has occurred to me that Buell entertained the same fear thit the enemy might turn on him ,as he entertained immediately after the enemyevacuated Nashville, and that inick River, without a bridge, would be a good defence. It was Grant's idea that the enemy evacuated Nash ville with the intation of hurrying south as fast $ possible , while Buell seemed to Ihink that the enemy fell back for the purpose of drawing him on, and would turn on him. I have no doubt but that the bridging of Duck River was a difficult piece of work, and I know that the army did not have the expert bridge builders in 1862 that i had later. It has occurred to me that your familiar knowledge of the road south from Nashville to Decatur might enable you to enlighten me on the subject. Hoplnr that I am not intrudlnc too much upon you? time and patience, and thanking you in advance for any information that you may be able to impart, I remain sincerely yours, J. v. Rich. has been ^ enclose pointed a out slip to me—.not correcting serious a slight but error annoying." in m^ pcaoer 'that J. w.R, January, 1910. January 7, 1910, . Spooner, President Norwich University, Northfield, Vermont. r/.y dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours.of December 31st. I think it would be a £;ood idea to make up an official stateiiient of the cost and the expenditures on the Alumni Hall. I have all the data of the subscribers and the amount they have paid. It is very questionable to me whether ornot we should print them because outside of what Adams and myself gave, they did .act amount to much and not very many have paid. h\r. Adams and myself not only made our large subscriptions but we advanced all the mioney to cover all the unpaid subscriptions; I mean those that were to be paid in one, two, three, four and five years. I am laid up now, and have been since Ghristm.as, with rather a serious attack of rheumatic gout but hOive to be out soon and will look this matter up. Jones kept these matters in such a slip-shod way that I don't know whether I can get a correct list out or not; however, I have all the subscription pap-rs and will see. A very few of those people that you wrote to Lave written to me. I guess they don't intend to pay much attention to this. I know it will cost niOre to make the collection than the amount we would have rectirved. If they would only write me and tell nie the reason they don't pay, it would be some consultation. Truly, G . ¥ . Dodge • I ' 'V h/ ' ■ • . « ■ ' ■ 1 ■■k : " ■ f aff '' ' .1 t - % t ' i January, 1910^ Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 7, 1910. Theodore Vail, American Telephone & Telegraph Office, Boston, Mass, My dear Mr. Vail: I received yours of January 3rd and was very pleased to hear from you. I^Tiat you write me about getting your first appoint ment in the railroad mail service is news to me. I have no doubt it is true because you say so, but a great many men claim that they got you this appointment. I know, of course, your uncle. General Qun.iby, very well and no doubt, I being in Washington at that time, I went around and got that appointment. When I was in Congress or in Washington, they were very kind to me and gave me most anything I asked; however, I am very glad that I got it for you because you have shown so thoroughly that is was a good appointment. I remember our ocean trip and I have often thought of you since. I have left New York and business, and it would seem to me that you ought to be looking in that direction yourself. Our early days were great struggles as they are looked upon today. They did not seem that way to me. I had a very severe sickness last summer lasting three or four months but I pulled through, but just now, since Christmas, I am down again with my old trouble, rheumatic gout, but am getting better. You know no one gets any sympathy for that. We have had a very cold winter here. Have had good sleigh ing since the first of December and if the snow will only stay on the ground and the weather about zero until the first of March, it will be a great thing for us. I have been a stockholder in the Bell telephone ever since the Nebraska Telephone Co. was started. I think I was one ol' the original subscribers in that and take quite an interest in it. It seems to be getting along all right. It is possible that your duties may bring you out this way and if they do, I want you to wire me and come and make me a visit. I have plenty of room and there are lots of people here that would like to see you and as it is your bid stamping ground you might want to look it over; however, I want you to borne tomake me a visit and stay as long as you can. Thanking you ior your letter and wishing you the compli ments of the season, I am. Truly and cordially, G. M. Dodge. January, 1910. Council Bluffs, lo^a, January 8, 1910, J. W. Rich, Iowa City State Bank, Iowa City, Iowa. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of January 4th. I have no idea what halted Buel's army at Duck River. That river is generally fordable at points, but it was only a day or two's work a build a bridge that an army could cross on. I built that whole road to Decatur for the railroad and it did not take any time to build a railroad bridge across Duck River. That work is set forth pretty fully in General Grant's memoirs. General Grant's idea, after the Battle of Ft. Donelson, and what he recommended was that his army and Buel's should have been immediately mobilized and that it should have gone forward and taken Vicksburg, but you have read all the history of the delays that occurred. If they had moved forward immediately, there was no force in their front or could there have been one put there that would have kept them from reaching Vicksburg; but the long delay before any decision was made gave the Confederates new heart; they thought they had injured us a great deal worse than they had and they concentrated this force at Shiloh. V'e all know that if Grant had been allowed to have gone for ward after the Battle of Shiloh, he would have then moved through to Vicksburg. Beauregard's army could not have faced his, Grant's, and Buell's army. The one question that always was a problem and enigma to us who were with Grant was, why the Government never paid any at tention to his recommendations. After every successful battle or campaign, they either immediately relieved him of the command of the army, or else, distributed that army whenit was in the best possible condition to move forward on the enemy and which he always wished to do. I have treated that question pretty fully in an address or two that I made on that subject, but it has never been published but some day, I probably will publish it and will send you a copy. You speak of Duck River being a difficult stream to bridge. That is a mistake. We have built many a bridge over that stream and larger ones in a day and a night so that our army could cross. When we are apeaking of the movements of different armies, we have to take into consideration the temperament of the different men who commanded them. Buell was slow; you know that when he left Corinth to go up the Tennessee, he allowed the enemy to push him back to Louisville, while his objective point was Chattanooga. 1 an. Truly, G. M . Dodge. January, 1910. New New January 14, 1910, Gen. Grenvllle M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, la., My dear Gen. Dodge I want to have the sketch of your life entirely re-written, but before doing so wish you to make whatever corrections or additions upon the enclosed duplicate copy as may be necessary, in order that we may have at hand all the facts down to date to incltide when re writing your sketch, as above stated. Any help you may find it converiitent to render us will be greatly appreciated. With best widhes for your health, I beg to remain, Very sincerely yours, Guy C. Bixler. .!. .'1^ I'Al., ' Carterville, Mo. Jan, 17, 1910 Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, Dear Sir and uomrade:- As i have been thinking of writing to j'-ou for some time concerning Gen. McPherson's death as have before me two pa^rs of the National Tribune Washington, u. o. one of Date ThursdayJan. 9th, 1896 giving account of anu dlaiming to being an eye witness of Gen. McPherson's death by private ueorge Reynolds of Go. D. 15 iov/a and signal by H. Seymore Male, Brevet Brig. Gen. U. S. Vols. Lawrence, Kansas and have written to both five or six year., ago stating the true facts of the case as 1 saw it and have not received any answer and was no excuse for them not answering as they were both living then and put stamp in letter for reply and"^-^ have another of date Thursda- September 1st, 1904 giving an account of the Battle of Atlanta by Maj• Gen. Grenville M. Dodge. ' I suppose it is yourself and including the deat : of Gen. McPherson on the 22nd of July I864. wow. General I have a statement which is true so that there is three statements as to General McPherson's death but there c-in't be but one true one and j. happened to be right there where it happened so 1 will give youthe way i happened to be there and see it. My name, is i^'rederick Molesdale of Co. 32 Mo Vols. Inft. Third Brig-de, 1st division 15th A. C. or wanglins's Brigade, wow I think the brigade was in reserve that day, 22nd July 1864; any way I know ray regiment was and we was resting at will on a road at the foot of a long slope or rather a hill and while we was there a General came galloping down the-hill to us and halted to where our Major was as he was in Gommand of Regiment and said to wanted the dirty second " as he was a German he could ot say thirty second, to fill a gap. between the 15th and 17th double^auicr double quick . So th.''he major rebels give orders wouldto break fall firough in and and thenorders to double quick and we double quicked to the top of the hill in a kind Snif halted S""? in line, two ranks facing. 1 don't allround know ud the and course there but we war olole°to thr?lar wounded f-o 4 the flag. uo. v. was iri front that day and 1 was close to tLy'^^rtha^fa^rard"!:/"'' '•^eht t^see my left touched me and said,""There oomerMo'Pho^son®"™® standinc to ened up and turned my head to thrL?rand jSr^wS: Oer and in less tim than it woMd take to tell ft n McPherson struck him and he never uttered a word thot o something happened to drop his bfidirfefns 3 his head and lean to hiriLf ^^San to go up over . or staff officers was to his side and cfufht hirrr^n orderlies arms, and right then, our Major lA J o ^ ^ their Trase toHake command command of hSff? battrioh^ to Captain Captain a. n. bout it, and he wasn't LnrbSi ff0 0? and see back and the Gaptain asked him how It waf until he came dead, so you know how we afJ ffu H I suppose waitiiig for orders and it'wnsn't lorf 4 4^®^® minutes, was on the grounS 1 auppooe tr?aje place!'' w1 there as alone this for me take to you want don't I Dodge Genernl Now, give will i and same the saw that living still upmrades several is this when day of time the to as and some of address and names the you watch good a had i as time the of minute a to told have could I happened could x ranks break to allowed been have \t^would if and pocket y ra in happened, it time the at stood horse his where place the marked have disturbed been hasn't grounc^ thf^ and place the near or on was I if and throw don't you if General, Now, now. telling to close come Capld I possible if this read to time take and basket waste the this'^n more_ any with you bother not will 1 so you from hear to would--lik' I attention. your give will you present.^but at that addresses names^^pjid four or three you give -w^ill I \Now follows: as matter, the in benefit foi^syour same the saw Seay, J. 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Cheney Tower, Hartford, Connecticut January 22nd, 1910, Dear General Dodge Through the courtesy of Mrs. Thomas Metcfelf, Senior, resident of your city, we have been informed that you might be able to furnish us with some very interesting and historically valuable data anent the settlement of the West and the building of the Union Pacific railroad. Such subjects, written in narrative form, would prove of great intefcest to our subscribers and we would be pleased to give them record in our publication. As you probably know, our institution is a periodical of national patriotism, recording the intimate history of events that led to the building of our great Republic and circulates in thousands of cultured homes in America. In founding THE JOURNAL OP AMERICAN HISTORY we believe that there were a sufficiend number of loyal Americans to support a national periodical of patriotism with their material and subscriptions. The work has, of course, cost us many thousands of dollars more than has been received from it and it therefore is made possible only by the co-operation of those who have a deep interest in it. Owing to the patriotic nature of the work, which, as you of course understand would not be possible if we were required to purchase manuscript, we shall be pleased to reciprocate by sending cotjies of the publication to a list of your friends when it appears in print. Thanking you in anticipation of your courtesy, I am Yours very truly, W. R. Bickford. Of Board of Editors. 101 Jan. 28, 1910. Adamsville, Tenn. Gen. G. M. Dodge, Council oluffs, Iowa. uear bin: 1 hear that Mr. •^ohn b. wills who was a scout in the union -H-rmy during the war between the states has applied for a pension. I understand that he was for a time under you during the war. Mr. Mills is now an old man about 82 years old; by the advice of physcian he sold his little farm here arn^ went to nook Cut Mountain thinking it would benefit his wife's health, who has for several years been an invalid. Mr. Mills is a high-toned Christtin man. His home was the home of traveling preachers; he.was widely known for his Christian .and moral character and his fidelity to v/hat he believed to be the truth. There was not in the south a more loyal man to the Union . What is done must be done quickly as old' age is fast telling on his vitality, his foot steps unsteady, eyes so dim he can no longer read. riow General 1 write you thinking perhaps you might interest yourself in his behalf; a few lines from you to the proper authorit es will do more than anything else to secure him the help he now so sorely needs. Mr. T. »v. Sims, M.C. from this state has his case in charge. Very respectfully, Jas. L. Sanders P. S. I know of a case similar to Mr. Mills' where the late r was appealed to who knew of the man's service in r n S ?? Army under him during the war between the states. SarpeSslonsdT"' tho .an L • S • January, 1910. 103 New York, Jan. 2,9, 1910. Gen. G. M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, la. My dear Gen. Dodge Your favor of the 26th duly received. Many thanks for your promptness in returning the corrected sketch of your life. I am indeed sorry to learn of your severe sickness of last summer. I got the sketch of Francis H. Leggett approved hy him just about ten days before he died and had an engagement with him the day after he dropped dead. He told me that he had visited you at Council Bluffs on his way from California, and admired jmr photograph pf you so much that I promised to give him one. Mr. Harriman promised to give me the only sketch of his life he ever prepared when he returned from Europe last September, but he unfortunately died, and his estate is doing the best it can for us now. However, I succeeded much better with J. Pierpont Morgan whose sketch in three thousand words I have corrected in his own handwriting. It is believed to be the best sketch of Mr. Morgan in existence. Our sketch of Gen. Grant is in thirty thousand words and Gen. Porter has written me a letter stating that it will prove a valuable contribution to history. Of course Gen. Brederick D. Grant also praised it highly, as well as Col. R. T. Van Horn, the veteran founder and retired editor of the Kansas City Journal. ~ If possible, we would like to get to press this year but have determined not to ruin the advantage to be gained from years of intel ligent effort by making undue haste. Of course the more money we have invested in the enterprise the more anxious we are to get the work on the market, in order to reimburse oursftlves; but the trouble with prattically all works of this character has been that when their pub lishers found it difficult to obtain material from all the men of great eminence, they simply contented themselves with filling up their works with "nobodies" and rushed to press in order to "cash in". I do not, however, wish to blame such publishers for doing so, for I realize as much as any one can what a long sustained effort is necessary to get adequate sketches of our most eminent and therefore most worthy men, both living and deceased, simply because we cannot depend upon existing publications for facts and are consequently obliged to coniii^u^lly seek for the highest living authorities to pass upon our art icles before we can risk their publication. As promised in my Isst letter, I intend to have your sketch entirely re-typewritten and some additional data of importance included besides what you added. When I send you this new sketch, you will, of course, be at liberty to cross out what you consider ought not to go in* but, as I believe you are one of the greatest men that American has ever produced, I naturally want your sketch to be as complete and ac curate as it is possible to make it. ^ With kind regards, I beg to remain. Very truly yours, Guy C. Bixler, Manager. 105 January, 191C. Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 31, 1910, B. L. Winchell, President Frisco Ry. Co., Chicago, 111. Tv'iy dear ^!r. Winchell: I received your passes for myself, car and family for which please accept my thanks. I have not seen you or even written to you since you went back to the Frisco. I must say I was very sorry to see you to away from the Old Rock Island, which you know is my "first-love;" however, I suppose it is for the best. You ts ve a great field in the south-west which is filling up and you want to watch the country from Brady south-west an get In there before others do? It is going to fill up fast, either going dov/n the Frio or the Nuesces rivers. I was going to build from San Angelo south down the Hesces but Ripley came in and objected so strenuously and said he was going to build there, so we gave it up. I know that country very thoroughly and there is a large emigration from Iowa going in. You want to extend south through Uvalde and follow the country along the Nesces on south until you reach the "rownsville line. It is not necessary to go into parti culars on this with you because Yoakum known the country pretty well, but my idea is for you to get In there before others do and fill it up with settlers. There is a great tendency now for people to go to south-west Texas. Are you located permanently in Chicago? I don't know when I will go east, but when I do, I want to call to see you. I hope when you come this way, you will let me know. I have been pretty well this winter except for an attack of rheumatism which laid me up for a month. The railroads have been having a hard time this winter. 'Ve are having a winter that will last until March. I knew that when the sun crossed the line with the wind in the north-west; it is a sure sign. We havehad two months of good sleighing here. Thanking you for your passes, I am. Truly and cordially, G. M. Dodge. February, 1910. 107 Council Bluffs, Iowa, Vebruary 2, 1910, Wr. G, A. Chapman. Noble Grand $49 I.O.O.F., Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Sir and Brother: I am in receipt of yours of February 1st informing me that on the evening of Friday February 4th, Council Bluffs Lodge No. 49, ~1.0.0 .P. will, at the invitation of Omaha Lodge No. 2, attend in a body the special celebration of the latter's insitution. This is in ^^recognition of the fact that "49" is the acknov/ledged "mother" of No. 2^ . You also state that we ha"ve been asked in particular to Contribute reminiscences and information relating to the fraternal work of the late brother A. D. Jones. I regret very much that it will be impossible for me to attend as I am not going out now in the evening, but it will be a great pleasure to me to pay ii,y tribute to our late brother, A. D. Jones. ^ 4.4 . The records of our lodge show that Brother A. D. Jones was ^ Council Bluffs lodge on April 26, 1854. He received the ft 5th degree on January 2, 1855 and together with our late brother Hadl®y Odd SFellows took in Cmaha final City, cards December for the 15, purpose 1855. of instituting On motion of a Brother lodge of R. R. Pegram, the J.D.G.M. was allowed the use of the Regalia in openat Omaha City January 29, 1856 and on motion of J. Smith Hooton, this lodge attended in a bouy at Omaha on Friday ni^ght which motion carried. According to the records of our lodee this was at the tiii:e that the use of lamps instead of candles for lighting the lodge room was being agitated. I am not certain, but conlidant that I was present with the rest of our iemb^s to to me mp alist of the members oI Omaha the Lodge. lodge at Brother that tim.e; Bowman thirty-two has handedof of all are familiar to Q.e. There are only two of the then members now living. One is Captain N. T. Spoor and the other myself. Captain Spoor resides in New York City with his dauchgrandson, and H I T am glad to say formerly he is enjoying a citizen fairly of good Omiaha, health. and his intimately acquainted with our late brother. A. D. Jones. He was a civil engineer and surveyor, giving most of his of of 1853 when I ran surveying the first of railroad lands and line lots. from I the met Nississl him in nni the to fallth®-. massacre that occurred there, drove all the . J'®'"'®®''®- The Indian into Omaha and we were finally obliged to le^ve, UlnTletf aloT, and not only for that reason, but the Government sent a company of militia out and they occupied oar cabins and grounds. In moving into the City of Omaha, my father obtained from A. D. Jones a log cabin located on the side hill south of the present Union Pacific railroad station on the ground where the residence of the late Herman Kountze now stands, and they spent the winter in this log cabin. My sister, who is with me at thfe present time, states that there was a band of the Omaha Indians camped near them and while they were very friendly, were a great trial and annoyance. When Mr. Jones moved to Omaha, he continued hiw work as a surveyor and I think was the city engineer because when we came to make the surveys for the Union Pacific road, I depended upon iiim for the information that I needed in relation to our lines in the city of Omaha and in Douglas County. Our friend'« ship continued until his death. He was a prominent citizen of Omaha, taking a pronriinent part in everything that tended to build it up. He was looked up to as a leading citizen and his profession tended to give him pron.inence in all matters. Our late brother, Hadley D. Johnson was a citizen oi Council Bluffs. He was the first person elected to represent the territory of Nebraska in Washington. When he was elected to represent the territory in Washington, the local paper here gave notice that our citizen the Honorable Hadley D. Johnson left that day for Washington to represent the interests of Nebraska before the Congress. This is not exactly the language used out it is the sentiment and in after years has often caused many alaugh. He also became a very promin ent man in Omaha and Nebraska and was a leader in all of its up growth. He was a man of ability and sterling qualities and passed away with our late brother A. D. Jones, honored and regretted by everyone. I wish to extend to the Omaha lodge my congratulations up on their celebration of their institution of the organization of the lodge more than one-half a century ago. Thanking you for your courtesy and attention, I am. Yours in F. L. 4 T., Grenville M. Dodge. •i'', f f ■ ■ , t I . T '. h. , .5 :( s, . r- . • r 4 k. . 109 February, 1910 Council Bluffs, Iowa, February 3, 1910 B. F. Walton, Sec. Co. A. 14th Penn. Cavalry, - 3428 N. 20th St., Philadelphia, Penn. My dear Comrade: I am in receipt of yours of Feb. 1st inviting me to attend the reunion of your cavalry organization. I am no longer in New York having moved to my home in Council Bluffs and therefore the long distance prevents my being with you; however, I appreciate your courtesy. I have just written up the Indian campaigns . of 1865-6 and when I print it, I will send you copies. I closed my report of the canipaign as follows: "During this campaign on the plains, I had as my escort Co. A , 14th Penn. Cavalry. They belonged to one of the regiments that was sent from the East to take part in the Indian campaigns and did not ask to be mustered out until after the campaign. I was greatly indebted to this company for the close attention they gave to me and the intelligence they showed during the whole trip. They had served faithfully in the Civil War and their veteran experience there was a great benefit in the work they had to do on the plains, often in taking messages and performing other duties where only two or three of them could be detailed at a time. It has always been a great pleasure to me to have had an invitation, ever since they organized their society, to attend their reunions, but, unfortunate ly, I have been so far away that I could not go, and to the surviving members, I, with great pleasure extend my thanks for their good ser vices to me." Thanking you for your courtesy, I am. Truly and cordially, Grenville U. Dodge. ' .1 Y ■ % 111 February, 1910, Council Bluffs, Iowa, February 4, 1910, Hon. Walter I. Smith, Washington, D. C. My dear Sir: I am in receipt of.yours of January 31st and note what you say in relation to the^papers in the district. I had a talK with Everest. What do you get in ahswer to your letters? Of course you read the Register and the Nonpareil and you have seen Byers' inter view on the cause of high prices? I have seen a great many causes but that beats them all; of course, it is put out forpolitical effect, nothing else, and you ought to cut it out and when you get on the stump, show it upi it is really foolish and I don't see why the papers do not pick it up. The Insurgent papers are very agressive, while our capers are far from it though they have all the arguments on their side'. They ought to demand of the insurgent papers if they ever propose to be in favor of the President and his policies. The fact is the insurgent papers are more vindictive against the President and the party" than the democratic and doing more harm. ^ They copy every report that any one puts out that elfects the President or any of his administration and they don't defend or speak well of a single one of his policies; they want to change them all. They claim they are following Roosevelt but if Roosevelt was here, he would jump on them with both feet^and if there ever was a man that hated an insurgent or a person that iftDlted his party, it was Roosevelt. He always believed there was only one way to win a fight and that was to line up in a solid line in the front as we did in battle not on the skirmish or as a guerilla and there can be only one result from this theory of fighting outside of the line and that is to help the enemy. There is no doubt but what Taft and his policies are gaining ground all the time, even in Iowa but more so outside of the State, but I see letters now occasionally in the papers from strong progressives standing up for Taft and i hope that you and Congress will be able to get a solid line before you leave in favor of the party; if you don't we are gone then there will be the devil to pay all over the country. This hysteria on high prices of food, etc. is effecting business mater ially everywhere. It is making people halt and you know if there is anything more timid than one dollar, it is two dollars. Unless the thing stops pretty soon, I expect to see depression everywhere. I an,, Truly and cordially, G . M . Dodge. 115 Mountain View, Cal. Peb'y. 12, 1910. Gen. G, M. Dodge, Council Dluffs, Iowa. My dear General Your letter received Jan'y 20 and v/as very much pleased to hear from you as I had some doubts as to reaching you with a letter which accounts for the dela3r in delivery to you as I sent your letter to Washington to be directed to your address. Am extremely sorry to hear youare laid up by rheumatism but what can we expect with all our exposure in earlier years? ?es we are thinning out and our meetings are growing less numerous, just yesterd y I received a letter announcing the illness of my Captain of Co. B. 18th Mo. who is not expected to live. It seems incredible that there is only 400 comrades who attend the meetings of the Army of the Tennessee—that grand old army of which we were a part. I often think of our service —our march with Sherman through Georgia, and the Carolines and often recall incidents that are ^till fresh in mh mind, ard often I think of you in that way as I saw you so many times under trying circumstances. I ha\e your article written for the National Tribune on the Battle of Atlanta and find it the most au thentic and complete of any 1 have-'read and exactly describing it as I saw it and as it actually occurred. Yes, indeed the 16th Corps saved the day then and all because we always had good officers. I shall be pleased to receive the pamphlet "How we built the Union Pacific " as you wel] know under wh-t difficulties we all labored. Yes, I wish ve could see more of one another but there i: away down deep in my heart a big warm spot for my comrades who were giving the best days of their lives for their country in the days of 61 to 65. I will be extremely pleased at any time to hoar from you and t o know that ■ou have recovered from the attack you speak of. I expect to go east this year after an absence of nearly thirty years and perhaps you may receive a call as I am going to hunt up some of the old boys . With kindest of remembrances believe me as ever. Fraternally yours, Samuel M. Dyer. 117 February, 1910 Gen. G. . Dodge, Mountain View, Gal. Feb'y. 12, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa. dear General; Your letter received Jan'y. 20 and was very much pleased to he.'.r from you as I had some doubts as to reaching you with a letter which accounts for the delay in delivery to you as I sent your letter to Washington to be directed to your address. Am extremely sorry to hear you are laid up by rheumatism but what can we expect with all our exposure in earlier years? Yes we are thinning out and our meetings are growing; less numerous, just yesterday I received a letter announcing the illness of my Captain of Go. B. 18th Mo. who is not e:^pEted to live. It seers incredible that there is only 400 comrades who attend the meetings of ti:e Army of the Tennessee--that grand old army of which we were a part. I often think of our service--our march with Shernian through Georgia, and the Carolinas and often recall incidents that are still fresh in rry niind, and of ten I think of you in that way cs I saw you so many tines under trying circuirstances. I have your article written for the National Tribune on the Battle of Atlanta and find it the most authentic and complete of any I have read and exactly describing it as I saw it and as it actually occurred. Yes, indeed the ICth Corps saved the day tien and all because we always had good officers. I shall be pleased to receive the pamphlet "How we built the Union Pacific" as you well know under what difficulties we all labored Yes, Iwish we could see more of one another but there is away down deep in n.y heart a big warm spot for my comrades who were giving the best days of their lives for their country in the days of G1 to ' 65. . I will be extreniely pleased at any time to hear from you and to know ihat you have recovered from the attack you speak of. I gxpect to go east this year alter an absence of nearly thirty years and perhaps you may receive a cell as I am going to hunt up some of the "old boys." With kindest of remembrances believe me as ever. Fraternally ycmrs. Sarriuel M . Dyer . 0- ..u. ■ February, 1910. (COPY) 127 New York City, February 19, 1910. Mr. Guy C. Bixler, 150 Fifth Avenue, New York City. My dear Mr. Bixler My father, Charles M. Dinsmore, who served two and a quainter years in the Civil War and is now Commander of the G. A. R. Post at Jeffersonville, Ind., has expressed his desire to me to obtain a Government position as Custodian of a Fort or Lighthouse where he would not have to do manual labor. He is not sixty-six years of age, draws a pension I think of |:200.00 a year and, while he is suffering from disabilities acquired in the War such as Rheumatism and Heart Trouble, yet he is very active anc capable, and needs must support his wife and two small children. I take the liberty of thus addressing you, knowing of your large acquaintance with men of influence and hoping you may be good enough to inquire if such a position is obtainable. Very sincerely, (Signed) E. Dinsmore. PERSONAL. Washington P.O. City. I^ear Mr. Secretary:- Inclosed I send you draft of the inscriptions for the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa aspprepared by me in accordance with our understanding when we last met. Kindly look them over and see if they meet vsdth 2,'our approval. I have submitted the form to Senator Allison, Colonel Hepburn n adn Judge Connor, the committee of the Iowa Delegation chosen to take charge of the matter, and these meet with their approval. I have also submitted it 4)o some but not all of the other members of the dil^egation. If therefore it now meets with your approval and you can get it signed I will be very glad. Senator Allison had volunteered to go with me to pre sent it in this form to the Secretary of War, but believe it would be a good idea for you to personally present it and ask its acceptance. Cordially yours, Walter I. Smith. February, 1910. 131. New York, February 21, 1910, Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, la. My dear Gen. Dodge As promised in my last two letters, I have had your sketch entirely re-typewritten and some additional data of importance included, besides what you added when you corrected the last copy. In making any corrections or additions on this copy, please use ink and write as plainly as possible, as it will be the last copy you will receive before it is set in type. Also please be sure to make this copy "Correct as to facts," sign and date it, as we are making a strenous effort to haYe absolutely reliable data, so much needed in an age when our eminent men are continually being misrepresented for selfish reasons. I n3)te that you referred to your home in Council Bluffs in the additional data you furnished when you corrected your last sketch some weeks ago. It would seem particularly appropriate to have an illus tration of your beautiful home in this most comprehensive sketch of your life which is to be published in the most reliable cyclopedia ever produced in this country. If you agree with me in this respect, we can furnish a fine genuine Photogravure (Steeled) Full Page Portrait of your home 0 Sl25.00j or a Full Page Portrair made from, a fine pen drawing and copper engraving 0 f^lOO.OO, or a smaller pen drawing and copper engraving of the same quality to be printed with the text P ^?50.00, This we figure is the estimated cost to us, but you are of course under absolutely no obligation to subscribe unless you feel perfectly free to do so. I felt quite indignatn yesterday in reading in the New York HERALD an extended reference to Gen. Sickles and a smaller inaccurate one concerning yourself in the same article. I feel that if any one should be given the rank of Lieutenant General, it should certainly be you in preference to Gen. Sickles, not that I have anything personally against Gen. Sickles, but simply because you not only have a very much better military record but also a record in civil life that has not been surpassed, in my estimation, by any American since Gen. Grant. I say this only after a careful study of the accomplishments of the leading Americans for the past fifteen years of my life. Trusting that your health is steadily improving and to hear from you at your convenience, I beg to remain. Very truly yours, Guy C. Bixler. Manager. 135 General G. M. Dodge, Broadway, New York City, Dear General: I have just I'^arned that General Stanley is hurled in the grounds of the soldier's Home. You may recall, it was there while I was at work ibn his relief that he introduced mc to you. It strikes me that you may know enough of his friends who could join in having a copy of that felief with suitable inscription placed on the walls of the building as a memorial of his long administration. Gen. Stani^ was so pleased with the relief that, in "hie will he ordered a copy of this bronze to be placed in Cullir, hall at West Point. Gen. Rodenbaugh had had my model of your head on exhibition for some time in the military museum on Governor's Island. If you can make it convenient, I shall be glad to show you my relief of Gen. U. t>. Gr-nt from sittings he gave me in 1880. and which now belongs to Ge n. f. d. Grant. Very sincerely , Feb. 21, 1910 318 W. 57th St. N.Y.C. F. iii. Aelly February £3. Governors Island, New York, Feby £3rd My dear General Dodge: Seeing a letter from you I ventured to open it in Fred's absence, and as he will be away some time, I write to sa.}/, that I know he will be only too happy to do , as you suggest in your cir cular of February I5th, with reference to the erection af a mon\iment by Congress- in honor of General HowardWe often think of our charming visit with you in your interesting home and of all your hospitablity and Mrs. Montgomery's With warmest regards to her and to yourself- in which Fred would Join ifl here, and hoping to see you both in our home later, believe me, my dear General Dodge, Yours very sincerely Ida H. Grant. fy '- ki . few I •'AtiT- •• ■ >- i,•_» m 139 February, 1910. Reading, Pa. Feb. 24, 1910, Gen. Grenville M. Dodp;e, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear General Your letter to Co. A. 14th Penna. Cav. was read and listened to with much interest and regret. Interest because of what you said in reference to our service with you and regret because we could not have you with us. I was directed to thank you for the kind words spoken of us, but my best is but a feeble expression of the sentiments we entertain towards you. I was very much disappointed to find that you would not be at Salt Lake City in attendance upon the National Bncampraent of the Grand Army of the Reoublic last Aupoast and much grieved when I learned it was because of illness. I hone you fully regained your health. I .would like to get a copy of your address on General Sherman at the Union League in Philadelphia. In fact, I am quite anxious to get copies of all your articles referring to your campaigns for I am sure they are full of interest and I am collecting everything within my reach pertaining to the 'Van, While our trip across the Plains was not exciting it was full of interest and is one of the incidents of ray life that remains with me as a most pleasant memory. In my family' your name is a household word, because I so frequently refer to you and our association with you. I would like to add your photograph to my list of friends on whose faces I look with pleasant recollections of bygone days. I look forward with much pleasure to the coming National Encamp ment at Atlantic City where I hope to meet you. Believe me. General, Most fraternally yours. M. A. Gherst. 141 San Francis co, Cal. February 24, 1910. My dear General: I l^egard it as a confession of advancing into the "sear and yellow" when your friends (or rather mine) begin to celebrate birth days, and when the girls are willing to kiss. I have reached that epoch, ray dear old Comrade, as you vill see by the enclosed clipping. I never realized wh at a hell of a fellow I am considered to be till reminded by having all the boquets of oratory, poetry and praise thrown at me, and yet it is all very pleasant , especially coming from good old friends with whom I have been associateu over forty ye-rs. uf course, you know just how it is, having had the same thing happen to you , lo these many years. I don't know whether you remember Tom Witt, a lieutenant in the 1st Missouri Light Artillery He lives in St Louis and I expect him here this week. Out here it is rare to see an old comrade one knew in the old days and so I shall be glad to see him. As you will notice, in the list of guests at thv, dinner, Hugh Burke is still on deck, and he made a very witty speech, among the other sparkling ones of the evening. Long life, health and happiness to you, my dear General, and believe me. Yours very cordially, A. G. Hawes. Bohemia Honors Colonel Hawes. Raphael weill Gives Dinner in Observance of the Dean's 77th Dirthday. in honor of the seventy-seventh birthday of Uolonel A.g.Hawes, Raphael Wcill gave an elaborate dinner at the Bohemian club last night. Colonel Hawes IS the dean and the oldest of the former presidents of the c3ub and was a member of the first board of directors in 1873 He 1 a veteran of the civil war. Although the honors of the dinner were for Col. Hawes alone coincident!' extended to Adralral S eb nee whoce birthday wL The tables were heavily laden with great banks of redroses and carnatlcns^and^from the^oelllng was hung a huge cluster or woodwardlas. Orlttenden Thornton f. ». Hall Hugh M Burke n ? ♦ ''hank Dcerlng Dr K R ,® Robertson Judge J.V.coffey O.A.Smith T r, r. Consul Gen.Hen.Merou V. Stow H G Pl-'tt y n' Bush SiclMaier John'l-^nders naer'"q s. V. wcMurtio n Col.A.G.Hawes Gen. Bhas. S.W roster Ba kus Doctor Ainsworth Ed Bosqui H.R.Bloomer Co?.J.r^adf Col. u.E. Leanard Admiral Uriel Sebree S Sacher Ranhael WpIii ■■ ■ - ■; l . ^Vt; 147 Pebruarjf, 1910. THE '.VESTERN UNION TELEGRA.PH COMPANY Send the folSiowing message subject to the( terms on back hereon, which are ( Feb. 26,1910. hereby agreed to. ( Genl G. M, Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. The Norwich Alumni of Boston at its 22nd Annual Banquet sends greetings to its most distinguished Alumnus. Briggs. Sect'ry. March, 1910. 151 New -York, March 1, 1910, Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, la. My dear Gen. Dodge Please accept mgtny thanks for the retiirn of the final copy of the sketch of j'our life, prepared for the National American Biograptjy, I am sorry that you decided not to have an illiistration of your h me, as we could make a beautiful one from the fine photograph you gave me while in New York. It will surely become one of American's historic homes and it would be very appropriate to have it in your sketch, which is about eight thousand words in length. In yonr letter of January 26th you spoke of Gen. Gheridan as being a very strong friend of yours, and we would consider it a great favor if you could correct our sketch of Gen. Gheridan, as we know of no higher authority than yourself. Our sketch of Gen. Gheridan has been prepared with a great deal of pains, but so many errors concerning eminent men have found their way into print that any sketch is of little value that hns not been passed upon by a very competent authority, Very truly yours, Guy 0. Bixley. Manager. Knickerbocker Publ. Co. March, 1910. 'A ■ • ■ 153 Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 4, 1910, Chas.V. E. Starrett, Chicago Daily News, Chicago, 111. Dear Sir: I am in receipt of yours of February 25th. The papers, generally, state that there are only two Corps Commanders of the Civil War living. This is a mistake. There is one Army Comu.ander and five Corps Commanders of the Civil War living, The Army Commander is Major General Grenville M. Dodge of Council Bluffs, Iowa, who was also a Corps Commander and the five Corps Commanders are as follows: Major General Daniel E. Sickles of New York. Major General Julius Stahl of New Yj^rk. Major General James H. Wilson of Wilmington, Del. Major General Wesley Meri'itt of Washington, D. C. Major General B. H. Grierson of Jacksonville, 111, The first two were Corps Commanders of Infantry and the three latter, of Cavalry. I am. Very truly, Grenville M. Dodge, Maj . General, March, 1910. 157 71 Broadway, New York, March 8, 1910, Major-General Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa, My dear General Dodge Be so kind as to favor rae with several copies of your pamphlet entitled "How we built the Union Pacific Railway, and other Railway papers and Addresses," I would like to give some of them away, as well as keep one in my files as a record of a useful and honorable life, of which both you and your friends may well be proud. I attended the banquet of the Boston Alumni Association recently, where your memory is cherished, and remarks were made in evidence that you have a warm place in the hearts of the men from Norwich University, We are planning for our banquet here on the 25th inst,, and I beg to suggest that it might be helpfulfor the occasion if you send a greeting by lefeter or telegram that could be read to your friends of the New York Association. We are all interested in your health and contentftent, and most heartily wish you both in full measure. Sincerely yourr, Edward D, Adams, President of the New York Alumni Association of Norwich University, 159 Chicago, 111., March 8, 1910 General G. M. -Oodge, council nluffs, Iowa. « near 8ir:- Yours letter came to hai:id by due course of mail. The next morning after our Chicago Herald gave us your likeness and a brief sketch of your work, it is to me a gr at pleasure to be carried back to my student days,and i now have your likeness installed in my scrap book among the gods, x have learned from Mr. Kllis of your patriotism to our college aiid j. had given him a brief sketch"Of the work x had done in R, R. construction. The writing of my history reminds me of a history of Gen. Franklin Pierce, when he was a candidate for the presidency. The whigG issued a "History of rranklin Pierce" in a little leather bound book aboiit as large as my thiuab. Some writer has said that most men's lives are written in their epitaphs --"Horn on such a daj , died on such another with an interval of three score years between." I will write Mr. Ellis a little more fully giving dates, etc.I take it that just a sketch is all that can e embraced in such a work. To the former students it will be very inter sting. It is true that for twenty or more years i had a very strenuous life in building rail roads first as engineer then as organizer, and subsequently as opera tor. i built among them three of the roads which terminate here. All of these have becom parts of other systems. This all has happei © d nearly a generation ago, and in this fast age is forgotten. Almost my first experience in the west was on transitman in the preliminary surveys of the Allegheny Valley. The problem was to find a low grade line connecting Pittsburg with the Husquehanna River, we ran the water courses of three streams leading from the river to the lowest parts in the mountains together with the crest line between, and all the draws between the lower an higher lines and the contour lines at each ten foot level were laid down, and we found what at first would have been thought impossible a route with a teen foot maximum grade. ' of the +V. Penn. R. R, i brou ht the lesson of the importance the possession of low grades awav with me and made the maximum grade of the Ft. wayne and Chica|o The muo Chicago and Great the nastern Chicago, 3/4 Danville of 1;?,.and vincennes 2/5 of 1%. This lart named railroad was built during the Civl3 War, when labor and material were at the highest, or I should have spend more money in making lower grades. The importance of low grades was not so fully appreciated in the earlier days of railroads it was later when traffics became heavier, and had to be carried at a much lower rate. The older roads built with higher grades have been obliged to reduce their grade at gr^at cost to meet comnetition, A whole generation of men have passed sines that was done, but I still take an active interest in cheapening transportation. :ieo It is an axiom with engineers that it is better to spend the cost of a locomotive, as occasion may require, to keep the maximum grade down than tokeep the engine at work ovorcoraing the grade. I feel a great interest in the university and wish it v/as in my power to aid it, but if I could do so it would be on theplan of vbcational education making it, however, fund amental that the student should have a critical knowledge of English and the lower branches of mathematics. General Cileason and Major iruller Iboth graduates of W. U. were with me in the construction of the u. D. and V. R. R. If i was not a toddling old man, I would tr3'' and get the N. U. men of this city into an association which might be of-som.e value to the University. I thonk you for writing me. Respectfully yours, Joseph E. Young. . I send with this a paper which may interest you. J.E.Y. > • • i . r(l t: :' ^ March, 1910. 161 New York, March 10, 1910. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffc, la. My dear Gen. Dodge Please accept thanks for your letter of the 4th inst. While we shall have Gen. Porter go over our sketch of Gen. Sheridan, we have made a duplicate copy especially for you which we herewith enclose, and trust you will make whatever c&rrections or additions that may occur to you to be just, after which kindly endorse upon the sketch the fact that you have corrected it and your opinion as to its merit, sign, date, and return same at your early convenience. You ma^ have noted how careful we are with all our sketches to have the highest possible authority or authorities vouch for their accuracy over their own signatures. We think this will prove of in estimable value in the future; at any rate Gen. Porter and many others have told me so. I have not been able to find in^any Cyclopedia a sketch of Gen. Sheridan nearlj*^ as full and comprehensive as the one we enclose, and if we can assure ourselves that the facts contained therein are accurate, its value as an article of reference will be very much enhancea, We just got back our Harriman sketch from Mrs. Harriman with many corrections and additions, and believe it to be the most valuable ever prepared of Mr. Harriman. Mrs. Ingersoll was so pleased with our sketch of Col. Ingersoail that she sent me a special invitation to dine or lunch with them that they may thank me in person. I only tell you these things that you may be better able to judge of the ultimate value of our work when ready for the market, and because you are one of the many from whom we have received much encourage ment . Hoping that you are in good health, I beg to remain, Yours very truly, Guy C. Bixler. Manager. I ./ - f 163 March, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 10, 1910, John F. Dobbs, 1243 W. 21st St,, New York City. Dear Sir; I note what you say about sending me a copy of your book on "From Bunker Hill to Manila Bay." I don't find it among ray books. It is possible that it was given to me by Clarkson before I left New York and got mislaid; however, I will look through my library more carefully. I return the statement of the Battle of ^ea. Ridge as re quested by you, which is something different from the general views that have often been taken of that battle. I have gone into detail more than your statement. Now regarding your statement that the "skilful manipulation of the artillery in Siegel's division did much toward determining the result"-the fact is, the artillery had nothing whatever to do with the result. The first batteries we got into action were soon knocked to pieces. I did not have a single battery on ra y line for over two hours and Seigel's batteries never got into action until the morning of the last day when there really was no fighting of consequence, the enemy retreating as soon as they could get away. Thanking you, I am. Truly, G. M. Dodge. r; 't 165 March, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 10, 1910, General James H. Wilson, Vjilraington, Delaware. My dear General: I am in receipt of yours of March 8th and note your very complimentary words in relation to my book which I recently sent you on "How We Built the Union Pacific Railroad." That portion of it was written in 1874 and I added to it some addresses that I had made since. My time has been taken up so that 1 had no opportunity to get some of my matters together. I note what you say about the endowment for old N. U. There is no institution of learning that is, in my opinion, more en titled to aid than .that. You know its standing in the military point of view is next to that of West Point and its Honor Cadets can go into the Army without further examination. It has not had any endowment for two years; not since it received $100,000 from one of its graduates. It seems to be very difficult to get capitalists to give to a military institution. Carnegie, for his personal friendship to me, gave us a library and has yet to put us on his teacher's pension list. I am in hopes that someone will help us. We are trying all the time. I have already sent Winslow a book and I sent Chas. Francis Adams one to Boston as I did not know he was in Washington. I sill send him one there. I wish you would send me Mrs. Harriman's address. I would be pleased to send her a book. I have forgotten their country home address and even their city address. I am sending you another copy of the book that you can present to Col. Long so that you may retain your own copy. I can see by your writing that you are strong and hearty, which I am very glad to know. My health is fairly good. Have you been writing up anything lately? If so, what? I am. TruV and cordially, G. M. Oodge. March, 1910. 167 March 11, 1910, Edward D. Adams, Pres. N.Y. Alumni Assn. of N.U., New York 01 ty;. My dear Sir;- I am in receipt of yoursof March 8th notifying me of uhe Norwich Association Banquet of March 25th. I wish I could be with you in person but that is impossible, f^y thoughts and my heart are with you and I know you will have a happy time that will aid old N.U. in its new life and future well-fare. In a pamphlet I sent out lately on "How We Built the Union Pacific Railroad," I included three of my addresses on old N.U. and I have been surprised to find old N.U. so often and favorably spoken of by the parties who received tJ.e book. General James H. Wilson, a distinguished Corps Commander in the Civil War and a distinguished citizen of our country wirtes as follows:- And then, there is old N.U. and her patriotic graduates, patient, tnorough, capable and equally so in both peace and war. Why don't Carnegie, Rockefeller or one of her own sons endow her with ul1 th; t is necessary to put her ^n ner feet with a plant and an income equal to her deserts'. 'What better use could be made of money than to endow a college where the students so generally work their way through?" All we have to do is lor the Alumni and oast cadets to put forth their best energies in behalf of the efforts'that are being made to build up our Aliiia tater. The Government and people now look forward favorably to the work of the military colleges. They begin to appreciate that we, in this country, must have a well organized and well trained military reserve, that can be put in the field on short notice, officered by educated soldiers and the New York Alumiii Association can look back their work for old N.U. with great satisfaction and all they l.ave to do to get final success is to go I'orward in the I'uture and complete the work that tor twenty years they so loyally and enert-eticallY inaugurated and carried out, and in this I am with heart and hand. Our Alumni in the west have founded an association at St.Louis which is growing. It is small in number now but as years go and the cadets come into ttis new empire that is forging ahead so rapidly, it will soon be a helpful factor to the University. I know you wil: be pleased to learn that our work on the new history of the Association is progressing rapidly and Mr. Ellis has by d^igent research, found ii,any new names of old and distinguished cadets and much interesting history so that we are obliged to issue two volumes instead of one as originally inte>ided. Extending to you, one and all, my best wish for your good health and prosperity and for the success of old N .U., I am. Truly and cordially, Grenville M. Dodge. 169 Denver Colorado, March 12, 130. Major General Grenville M. Dodge, (jouncil nlUffs, Iowa, jjear sir: I'wish to thank you heartily for your courteous response of March 9, regarding Jim Bridger and Kit uarson, and the equally valuable data accompanying. You do not request return of pamphlets or engraving; i will retain them until you ask for them. They are most interesting to me. Any other prints along this line of early plains and mountain days will be appreciated; and x hope that you will issue your information upon Tongue Kiver and connected cam - paigns. I am writing to the Journal of the U. S. Cavalry Association, Leavenworth, for the article upon xvit car: on, and hope to get it there. And l shall write to Captain Palmer, that possibly 1 may find his account of the plains campaign still extant. Intruding upon your time again, to keep my information exact i would ask: Is the Bridger print with wich you favored me a copy taken JhhL ^^fuerreotype mentioned by you in the dedication eLrcises the only 1 i^ridger picture that i ever have -1843" seen.on the back of it . it is If you recall Inman's"Santa me Trail', you mav remember that Col, inman makes cridger come to Denver, there sketch an outline bouth Pass had of course been well known for twentv ^ronr. k* uregon -rrail. .-.e could not have meaXthat i? J"? ^ because of the 1 presume that the pass is the one npar the story is true, road dips over, down for oalt LakP tk ^ ? station, where the of th building Of the Jn?on Pac??Jr L to have it. Pacific, in book or pamphlet, I want you Photographer be decide"^ tl a°iear!:ornrjrAu''oir"onr''-il' out a d6mi-god without^a wakness or fau??I Sj?hoi?^a?tPm%%'®^® to at all to detract from his character nS V.f ® ©ut a man. i wonder if Bridcer evrr <5nni'o n-p v,} bike to make him him with uridger, p ke of him. x should not rank Assuring you again of the great pleasure that your pamphlets snd letter are to me, and trusting that v/hen other data of early western plains and mountain days are at your disposal i may be put in touch with the same, as they occur to you, x am, sir, ^ 1 > t, ' ■»4 Very respectfully yours. hdwin L. tiabin. pi' ' ^ v. 171 Wilmington, Delaware, ?;'arch 12, 1910, Genera, Grenville uodge, - ' ' t ■ Baldwin ulocl, uouncil oluffs, iov^a, my dear ("eijieral:- Many thanks fo yours of the 10tl: , and for what you have done in reference to the little-book. There is a good deal of interesting matter in it which 1 amsure all of your friends will appreciate as fully as i do, ^ 1 do not doubt that one of these days your old college will receive the admiring and appreciative support of some * of the rich men. if Oarnegie or Rockefeller could be induced to read what you have written aiout it, i am sure the money would be forthcoming, « » i do not know exactly Mrs. narriman's add ess, but 1 am sure if you will enclose anything to her in care of R. o. urant, r^squire, 71, nroadway. New York she will get it the next day. He is a very close friend, uf course Judge Lovett, 120 Droadway would also forward anything immediately, I am doing things and writing pretty constantly. X have finished two volum s of personal history and observations in connection with the oivil war, and am nearly half way through the third one, brir.ging the narrative down to the end of the intervention of the Allied Powers against the noxer uebellion, i i think i see my wat to a conclusion to all such labor within the next three months. After that j. shall go play, I am starting with Mr. schiff and a small party of fr iends, June 16, for a two months trip in Alaska, going north inside via sitka, okagway, nhite house Gap, to the xukon , thence down that river and around the coast to Nome by special s earner, returning home by the outside-inside route, and getting back about the middle of august, i may take a short run to jaurope in September, AS you know although i hav6 carefully revised it, i h-ve not yet published my memoir of Rawlins, and yet i do not intend thrt it shall be lost, a few important men, including yourself, have rrad it and while it '\as received their aproval one or two have suggested that i should go slow, and x am going slow .hen . think of it ana of Ra.llns- bold, outspoken and splendldhoura age in behalf of what he conceived to be right, I am inclined to ask myself if x am not overcautious. again, It is snowing hevily here today but we shall soon have spring why do you not emply your leisure in dicfttating a plain. 172 simple, unvarnished, straight-forward account of your own life, your ancestry, education and public services? i^o one who has read your writings will ever accuse you of immodesty. ISO far as i know x am absolutely will. Although i am seventy-two years of age, i am not conscious of the slightest diminution of my mental or physical powers. x go to-balls, and dance as much as anyone else, aj^d my grand-daughters say that none of the younger men can ieat me. i gave up my horses when x returned from china and am depending now upon my automobile for short route trans portation. I am. Wishing you a continuance of health, strength and happiness. i?'aithfully yours. James li. wilson. ■ i ' a - .1 March, 1910. 173 Springfield, Illinois. March 14, 1910. Gen. Grenville M. Dodge, ' Council Bluffs, la. My dear General:- I read with a great deal of interest from day to day, political affairs as they are shaping themselves in Council Bluffs and in the state generally. I note what you have been doing to get the Judge's candidacy under way. Prom the list of names of those who are friendly to him, I do not much fear that he will lost out. I wish I were back, at least long enough to give what little assistance I could to help "nut him over the plate." I see that they are after my old friend the Major. I surely hope they will find nothing to warrant any drastic action. We have become quite settled in our new home. We miss our friends dreadfully, but are trying to make new ones. I hope you are enjoying good health. General, and that -'rs. Montgomery too, is well. Some days ago Mrs. Bender gave me several Setters to mail, among them one to Mrs. Montgomery. I have no recollection of mailing the letters, but have not had the nerve to intimate to Mrs. Bender that they may be lost. I can remember only the one to Mrs. Montgomery, and I have felt that if she received hers, the btherS" also, probably arrived at their destination. It is a long time until the 12th of February 1911, but I want to tell you, that the one hundred and second anniversary of Lincoln's birth is to be celebrated here on a big scale, and Judge Humphrey who is the president of the Lincoln Memorial Association, has authorized me to advise you that you will be expected at that time. President Taft, Justice Puller and several other distinguished men will be here. You will hear more of it later. With kindest regards to you all, I beg to remain. Sincerely yours, Victor E. Berder. March, 1910. 71 Broadway, New York, March 14, 1910. Major-General Grenville M, Dodge, ^Jouncil Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General Dodge:- Your two interesting letters of March 11th have come to hand with their enclosures. I thank you very much for yc^ur check for ylOO to help out the expenses of the banquet. Mr. Ellis is here assisting Mr. Nichols and me in the prepara tions that we are making for the banquet on Friday evening next. I thank you particularly for your letter addressing me of ficially, as I shall take great pleasure in reading the same to the company assembled at the banquet, andiin thus bringing you in touch with so many of your old friends, who, I am sure, will be glad to hear your message to them. You may be interested to know that I have arranged with Lieut enant James J. Mayes, of the 24th United States Infantry, who won the gold medal of the Military Service Institution of the United States for 1910, to speak upon what he calls "The Reserve Cadet Corps of the United States Army." Very likely you have seen this paper; it apneardd in the March-April number of the "Journal of the Military Service'Instituttfin." If not, I shall take pleasure ibn sending you a copy if I can procure one. I have also arranged with Mr, Hiram Percy Maxim to give a lecture with exhibitions of his "silencer". I know General James H. Wilson personally, and esteem him very highly. I think, however, that we have enough to occupy the time that we should devote to the intellectual part of our evening, and will therefore hold General Wilson in res(rve for another year. We expect a delegation from Northfield, and are doing all we can to arouse an interest in this annual function and what it stands for. Many thanks for your kind offer to make further contributions in case of need. We will send you a list of the names of those who attend the banquet, so that you may mail each of them a copy of your book. Sincerely yours, Edward D. Adams. President of the New York Alumni Association of Norwich University. 177 March, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 16, 1910, Victor E. Bender, c/o The Springfield Evening News, Springfield, 111. My dear Mr, Bender: I am in receipt of yours of March 14th, 1910 and in answer to your question about the letters would say that Mrs. Montgomery has never received the letter. She:was expecting one and was afraid that Mrs. Bender was sick, so I think you will have to make your peace with Mrs. Bender. The attack here on Major Richmond is political. They are trying to go back to the old days when an open city was paid for and went to the city treasury, but I don't think they can get back under the bill more than a year. The citizens here, almost unani mously, are against thisaction. It made them mad and they voted the whole democratic ticket for school-board and Kilpack, who is the old member of the Board of Education ran way behind his ticket. Of course it is easy enough to get up charges against the chief of police but my observation since I have been here two years is tliat the city is well taken care of. You hardly ever hear of a robbery or a scrap of any kind on the streets and tramps evidently avoid the place. Of course, a city located as this is, with the great city across the river that runs right open gives the chie£ of police a great deal of trouble but Richmond, as I can see, has handled matters very judic iously and without creating any fufes. He doesh't use the papers. I don't think the attack on Richmond will help Byers any. We miss you here greatly. Our paper is a failure. It is against the President and the administration. They make all sorts of excuses but that is the up-shot. Matters however, are regulating themselves and the opposition to Taft is confined mostly now to this State and here I am certain he is gaining ground all the time. People see the unreasonable attacks upon him. I note what you say about the 102nd aniversary of Lincoln's birth to be celebrated on the 12th of P^ebruary, 1911. It would be a great pleasure to me to be present there. I was in command of the military at his funeral and I don't know that I have been in Springfield since that day. The death of Mr. Hai'le was a great loss to us. A Mr. Mitchell of Sidney is to come here to take his place in Mr. Tinley's office. I understand he is a pretty strong man. Mrs. Montgomery and myself wish to be remembered kindly to Mrs. Bander, I am. Truly and cordially, G. M. Dodge. March, 1910. Port of New York, ^ March 16th, My dear General:- I have received-in due time your last two lett^j^ to have them both. I am so busy here in my closing-up daf* and i life that I haven't much time for personal letters. Yes, our last annual dinner was unexpectedly n^^ We had "202 guests. I was afraid after Dolliver and Secr^^^y Perf t failed us that it would throw a damper over-the evening^ i 'hn+h I think the tone and spirit of the dinner were better t]^^ % t-he contrarv before. We were very happy in our speakers. President ever had " ' Central made a capital speech on Iowa reminiscences. I he is going to have it printed or not; if he does, you know whether of it. George Roberts came on from Chicago and made the k ^ to have a ponv 1 -J. T V, r, AT ■ Deoi the best statement I have seen from any source, on the pj, ®t speech and question of nf" high b 1 crVi rTrlpps. prices, the t.hp tariff, +.ar'-S -P-F_ etc. pt.P. No Mo rinoor> paper in -Jo At ®ht acute. * anything to equal it, and yet no paper reported it. ■ Geoj, ^ork has-had strong in the mathematics of a public situation. You is singularly that first brought foward a- sufficient answer to Harvey, it was he himself "Coinf and who was the main spirit in building -(^>3 used to sign Craze in the West. Young Harlan, Charlie Aldrich's succe<. ® Free Silver also made a find speech and impressed everybody very fav-Q^^f' as Curator friend of all for his work,- which is quite an important and made a to have the same spirit- and skill of Aldrich in reaching ^ He seems necessary allies in the prosecution of this peculiar woru for the ^ ^ ^ T a Al l _ WK 4 _, . - - originated in Iowa, and which you more than any other haif^^^h Aldrich have helped forward to success. *^02en men I was very glad that Mr. Brown had this opportunit n ■■ tn OaaJ i. TT A T_ _ - * good impression on the members of our Society. By the ab«s make a _T mjl 1 1 AT •„ _ J _« I -I . , _ _ C\ T\-11 and Wilson he became the main star of the evening, and he Dolliver his great advantage. Heretofore he seemed far away from th members momborro . This Tblo time ^ ^ ma he bo nroo was .rovrT. very human Vim mo vr and o won their affecti »x*.o TTIOqq r**P the +Vio anxious for Mm to make good because I think he should be +b^®* ^ of the Society. There is too much work and burden and expe next Presidsic and especially if I go into private lif ent e, where I would hav do. He has the equipment of people under him- on whom he ca^ work to the detail, and he has such a high credential in his posit,!^ leave much of to the Society in this City, where such things amount to so°^ give standing that it needs. The best men so far in the work ar high Bluffs men,- Huntington and Stedraan. Stedman is a great for Council demonstrated his ability by his career in the Wells Pargo Co°^* a coming man, or, indeed, one who has already arrived,- a business ability and clear insight. I think it is a part of +b luck of the Society that it has young men in it like Stedman u +4 * to bear it on to the future. ™ Huntington On receiving your second letter, I sent to the pnot ^ got the pamphlets you had addressed and which were renorted to 4ni called for. I will see that they are distributed to people wbn predate them. T presume 'r. Huntington has sent on to you our last roster and a picture of the last banquet; if he has not done so. t wm +bo + he does. Everybody I spoke to at the dinner - and that was nearly Svervbodv inquired with the greatest affection after you. Mrs. Clarkson and T dinner Monday night with Colonel Clowry and Mr. Estabrook, and then went to the opera with them. Both- were extremely anxious to hear the last word from you. You certainly have good friends in them. In reply to your inquiry as to what I shall do after I leave the Service, I would say that I have not fully decided. My first choice would be to get a newspaper, and I have been in negotiations for two or three months to get one here or in Washington or Chicago or Los Angeles.^. All the family prefer the latter place, as they think it a better place for Mrs. Clarkson and me in our advanced age and a better place for the boys in the expansion and chances that are sure to exist there, especially after the Panama Canal shall have been finished. There is only one chance there and that ia in a paper called the Herald. The Times, which is the paper I would like to.have, is beyond reach and is making a half million a vear, and the men who own it are millionaires in property outside of the Times. But I believe I could make the Herald a great force there. Mrs,. Alexander, the wife of Cen'l. filexander, (now retired fcnm the Army and who now lives in Pasadena), has just sent me a picture of the Iowa Picnic held there on Washington's birthday. There were over 40,000 former lowans in attendance; they covered over 5 acres of ground, as the picnic'had to be held outdoors to make room for it; they mapped the ground after the map of Iowa, with each table having its county and its flag, and each county situated as it is in the State,- so that everyone knew where to find their home. It. is said there are over a quarter of a million of Iowa people in Southern California. This is another thing that makes me think Los Angeles would be a good location for me and for the boys also. There is something in Iowa people that makes them hang together. I also have two or three offers in a business way, which I am carefully considering, and one of which may be letter for me to accept than the care of a newspaper. It is a matter of much temerity and courage for a man of 67 to take up daily newspaper work again and to give insurance of its success through his own ability and vitality. I realize too, that the newspaper of today is a different game from the paper of the day when I made the Register. Still, I do not think that I have lost step with the advancing time, and believe that I have had a great deal of added newspaper equipment in the long and large experiences I have had since. So, if I can get a paper on self-respecting terms,- that is to say if I can get the money to buy it on conditions which do not tie my hands and my own ideas of public matter, I will go into it. Otherwise, I will go into some of these business ventures which offer. Referring to your question as to the political situation, I do not see how it could be worse. There seems to be no political head, no prac tical knowledge of organization nor any nearness to the people in the mass at Washington or elsewhere. The President has no political advisers in his Cabinet. The Rational Committee has been virtually suppressed and no longer looks after the interests of the Party, either to maintain the voters the Party has now or to gain new ones. If the Committee had been on its feet and had a proper Chairman of sufficient power, as it ought to have had, he could have gone to the Senate last Winter and made peace between the Republican factions. Everyone would have listened to the Chairman of the Rational Committee. Advice from anybody else they would have resented. I think it is a great weakness in the Party that no6bdy is representing the Committee, or what the National Committee ought to represent, between Presidential elections, except Hitchcock, who is a member of the Cabinet,- and the rank and file of the Party everywhere resent this sort of thing. I do not believe any President was ever more honest or more desirous of doing the right thing than President Taft., but he never had the Practical drill in politics nor the love of politics no,r the experience in it which are necessary to make him understand the great practical game, and he takes the advice of others who knew nompre, or even less than he does, about practical things. The situation in Ohio and in New York could hardly be worse from the Party standpoint. I see no possible 183 March 16, 1910, •chance to retrieve the situation as to the next House, unless it is done by something which happens after Roosevelt's return. Of course, in the Presidential fight of 1912 we will have, as heretofore, our best asset in the division of the Democratic Party, or in the Bryan and anti-Bryan democrats,- but it is hardly sensible for a party to depend upon the blunders of the opposition, '''e are a million or a million and a half voters short in the nation today and doing nothing by way of close organization either to mobilize the Republicans we have or to gain any new recruits. There is plainly a tendency, and a very strong one, on the part of the American people at present away from Party, or representative, government, and a tendency to denend entirely on the rrovernor in the State and the President in the Nation, too much of a disuosition to think that no man in a Legislature can vote his own convictions or represent the interests of his own districtas against the Gxavernor's idea without being dishones"^, and similarly so in Congress. This may be right, but if so we might as well go back to a monarchy. This is a representative government, however, based on party responsibility, and has been kept a Republic by this method of Government and can never be kept a Republic on any other plan. There are so many things of this sort that they add to iry anxiety to get hold of a newspaper Tho nov-t- +bree or four years are going to be so interesting that I would like to be in the fight. I am g'^ing over to Washington some day this week, and if I learn a.nythiner of interest there I will write you. Early last December I asked • Loeb, who was going over to see the President, to tell Mr. Taft that I "*ould be very glad to bear a part in 'lelping to make peace in the P°rty and that I would be glad to come over and spend a we-^k or two weeks in Washington helping to this end, as I had good friends on both sides, that I had the lifelong friendship of Aldrich, the same as of Dolliver and that I felt that I could talk to each side and have influence. Whether Loeb did not tell him or T"ft did not care for my services I do not know,- but I believed at that time, indeed I knew, that if an effort had been made along these lines we would have got the Party together. From what I know of Iowa I think it is in about as bad shape as Ohio and New York. Two or three of the Progressives and two or three of the Standpatters have been in to see me in the last six weeks, and I have been astonished by the bitterness the two elements show towards each other. It looks to me as though there is a great possibility, if things are not changed there, for a nearly solid Democratic delegation from Iowa in the next Congress. Sincerely yours, J. S. darks on. General G. M. Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, Iowa. March, 1910. 185 Chicago, Illinois, March 22nd, 1910, My Dear General Dodge In reply to your note received today enclosing that of H. R. Mcllvain, State Librarian of Virginia, I hasten to say, that I will write to him all the information I have on the "Grant Memorial Societies." We have thought of you constantly this winter and hope that you are feeling stronger. It seems that I am soon to return to the Command of the Depart ment of the East, and Ida and I hope that we may have a visit from you and Mrs. Montgomery there, as it would make us so happy to have you with us. Is there no chance of your coming to New York this Spring and will you not let us hear? The burning of our house caused much trouble and some:;loss but fortunately nothing of great value was destroyed and nothing connected with father's history. Ida wanted to write you her thanks for for your kind inquiries, but suffering from the burns on her hands and from the nervous strain, writing was impossible for a long time. Both she and I were deeply touched that you thought of us at that time. We have a most heartfelt appreciation of all your kindness and real friend ship. We have had a few days in Washington recently and found Ulysses and his wife, well and very proud and happy with their little girl. The children use your beautiful gift, the superb silver pitcher, with greatest pride, prominently on their table. Senator and Mrs. Root were well and we all spoke often of you. With warmest remembrances from Ida and myself, to you and Mrs. Montgomery, believe me. Yours faithfully, Frederick D. Grant. 187 Macch 23, 1910. Washington, D.C. Gen. G.M.Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Hear General:- ' First I want to thank you most cordially for the speech you made at the organization of the Council Bimffs Club. Some printed copies of it have been sent me and the speech is not only very gratifying to me per sonally but I think was exceptionally v/ise in its nature and its tone. Mr. Everest says that either himself or someone else spoke to'you about mailing this speech .with what appeared to be a personal letter form your self to each soldier in the district. If you would prepare one type-v/ritten letter to a soldier and send it to me I will have fac similes of the body of the letter prepared here, fill in the names of the various soldiers at the top andh have a stamp made with a fac simile of your signature upon it and thus send v/hat appeared to be a personal letter from you to every soldier along with the speech. If as I have been advised you are willing to do this for me.I res pectfully suggest that your letter call attention to the fact that I have personally aided in a greater or less degree in three thousand individual pension eases since I became a member of Congress; that I havevoted for every bill ever presented to Congress during my service in their eintereit; that when the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Iowa regiments at Shiloh had hf d their claims three times denied by the War Department I was called into the matter by the Iowa Commission and arranged the forces that secured justice from the War Departments for these Iowa boys, and personally wrote the inscriptions now on their monuments at Shiloh; that when the Grant Memorial had been located in Washington in accordance with the wishes of the family of General Grant and of his close friends Speaker Cannon and m many influential men tried to change its location and that I undertook the fight for the Commission and the family and friends of General Grant in the House and Succeeded in winning as against powerful influences in Con gresa and in the Washington press. I think it would be well for your letter to refer to the-inclosed re marks which you made at the organisation of the Council Bluffs Club. Some of these matters may be more strongly stated than you want to put them and this letter is simply suggestive. With kind personal regards, and hoping that, you are q.uite well these days, I am, Cordially yours, » . , . . Walter I. Smith. n, ' ■ .1 .• . / 'ft. fi ■ . ' r.'i ■ ■ . .... ■ f?"'.,- I ■ I ! . ■ / •-/. ■ ■ f\- ■ " 'jI. t:- - . ■ s ; ^ :> . 1- , -ii.- .'v '' ' • 1 ■f - I'.'f' ' ■ ' ) 'i*. 1 V- ' 189 March, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 24, 1910, Capt. J. G. Everest, 95 Adams St., Chicago, 111. My dear Comrade: I am in receipt of yours of Itarch 22nd and note what you say. First as to they question of the Statue of General Grant. I had this up some years ago with Captain Rigby and Henry M. Schrady, who is the sculpture of the Grant monument in Washington. He agreed that we should have a duplicate of his equestrian statue of Grant that is to be placed on that monument, at cost for foundry , which he thought would be about $1500. That is simply^statue without any pedestal. It was Rigby*s idea to put the pedestal in the Park. The only way I know of accomplishing this is to go to a few friends of General Grant, there are plenty in Chicago and Illinois and it ought to be put up by the citizens of Illinios, and get them to give say $100 apiece and then arrange with Henry M. Schrady that when his statue is cast, to have a duplicate cast. I will give $100 towards it. It is no use to go into a general subscription. Now as to the statue of General Hickenlooper. All monu ments or statues that I have seen erected have always been given the highest rank that they held in the army and it seems to me that that is the rank that should be given to hickenlooper although it is coirimemorating his act as a Captain, still it is in honor of the achievements he acquired during the war. You know when we erected statues to Grant or Sherman, and others, we gave them the highest rank they attained. If the family have different views, you will have to accept them. The reason Col. Cadle resigned from the Shiloh commission was that his health was such that whenever he went down there, he got sick and it used him up andthe Doctors told him he would have to give it up. I think when we have our next meeting, we will have to do something for him. He is left with such a small imcome now and as he has always worked for nothing, I think we ought to pat him a small tribute in the way of giving him a little salary. This is only ffi y view and ^ would li^e to know what you think about it. I know he will need it but he will not say anything. The society has the money and could well afford to pay so faithful a servant something for the work he does; however, this is only a suggestion of mine. You might speak of it incidentally to some of the Chicago society without using my name and see what thetr opinion is. Truly and cordially, G. M. Dodge. March S5, t9I0. 191 71 Braadway, New York. Dear General: I think I have neve, been under more pressure than during the last two weeks but nov/ the negotiations for control by C. & 0. Of Kocking Valley which I have been conducting are concluded and also our negitiations for new financing. We are to issue $31,390,000 convertible 4-l/2^ bonds and I will send you a newspaper containing the advertisement to stoohholders. The first advertisement is to appear this afternoon or tomorrow morning. I refer to our negotiations as "completed", but we are still busy with a broom sw eping up the details. However, Mr. Hawley and I are plan ning to leave here Wednesday of next week, going as far as Gauley," West Virginia,over the C.& 0., thence tver the K.& M. and Hocking Valley Rail ways to Toledo: thence over the Clover Leaf to St. Louis and thence south for a trip over the M.K.& T. I have been so busy since redeipt of your letter of March fourth that I have neglected a great deal of correspondence because I was determined not to let anything interfere with the consumation of the negotiations referred to and I haven't had time to talk very much v. with Mr. Hawley about the itinerary for our trip, but you may rely ppon my conveying to him your very cordial invitaiton and suggestion concerning himself. I, at least, will certainly try to spend a day with you on my way back to Chicago as I would like very much to have a good talk with you if you feel like seeing me. Matters in Washington are a good deal mixed bjtt I believe will come out fairly well in the long run. Of course, however, it would be very disast rous to the country id the radicals succeed in tying ^p the railroads. We have arranged for good medical care for MTs.Trumbull and I be lieve we will be able to work out a good improvement in her condition in the next few months. 192 I would write more, but because I am indulging the hope that I f ■ • ; may see you and because a number of other matters need attention, I am trying not to say so much at this time. I cannot close, however, without thanking you for copy of your book "How We Built the Union Pacific Rail way," which I have already partly read and vdiich is more interesting to me than a novel. I showed it to Mr. Stevens,Presi dent of the C. & 0., when he was here the other day and he said he also would like very much to have one. With sincere affection and hi^ regard, I am as ever, Faithfully yours. Frank Trumbull. Uen. G.M.Podge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. f.rj" , J , '. j •» :o l ivt'* -rf ■ .••u .« ' . ; .'11 t-i 1 -1 . J.' ♦ C ;.!, .. •nO'tf. .1 'i-m 1. . V. K-..I , . i V. S' ■ I 0 .1 ' if .. 3 1 f ' 7 'II ■ ■.r • r-i , • I f V ' '>^"1 ' ■ . 1 . i 'y : ■ ■ ' V " " i, .l ■> V. ^ ■- !<( • ■ •' OiiiD 0 X^. I '& ( "fyt £i ilx .1 . . L<> ' ,y£^if . Hif , I 't jd 11. y W»t'.1 I- -vl V ti . 'i:<v J " ' ' ■ w/. . . • ill -i ]■ ' 0. • ■ *ll J' i. i... - ; ■> ■ 1 ■ • OJ. V .<1 193 March, 1910. Boston, March 28, 1910. My dear General; I have to thank you for remembering me in your late pamphlet entitled "How we Built the P. R. R." In asmuch as Mr. Maxwell would like to have the record clear therein and that now so few remain to clear such record, I would like to call your attention to a statement on page 118 in which Maxwell is named as my "assistant" in the party which crossed Salt Lake in the "Star of the West", which sloop was owned by Meredith of Ogden, {Max well was not on this trip). I sailed in that boat with Mereditti from Mud Island, Jvine 10th. The sloop was wrecked June 14th, and for the loss of which against my views you paid Meredith $1000. sometime later in the fall of 1868. I see by my memoranda that in crossing from Mud Island to Promotory Point I reported to you that there was at least 13 feet of water ior several miles; did I add "above Stansbury's sound ings?" I have just lately returned from the Isthmus of Panama where I think was made evident one of the smoothest works of construction with the least confusion and waste of time and material of any work I ever went over; and this much to my surprise because the experience of Army Engineers heretolore had, as far as my knowledge went, extended to seeing that contractors lived up to specifications not the execution of the work from the original surveys to the finished production. Trusting your health is as well as usual, I am, Very truly yours, F. S. Hodges. 197 March, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 29,1910, Hon. Robert Cousins, Tipton, Iowa. My dear Mr, Cousins: It was only a day or two ago that some one sent me a slip from a Washington paper telling of the order of the Senate, at the request of Senator Hale, to publish my book on "How We Built the Union Pacific Haiiroad." I was rather nonplused about it and wondered how it came about. I did not know the Government published such things but I know that Hale was in the house when we built the road and I thought it might come from that, but I want to thank you for your courtesy and interest in the matter. Of course, I never dreamed of the Government taking it up but they did print my reports when I was building the road. I wrote a greater part of the book in 1870 when everything was fresh in my mind and it laid away until I got back home here and I took it up and added some later items to it. I have sent out about three thousand copies and I have had appeals from all directions for it. I had no idea it would be looked upon as it has been. I hope you are well. If you come this way you will not fail to stop and visit me. -'-t would give me great pleasure to have you see some of our people. I'ou have escaped the strenuous times down at Washington. We are making a big fight here for V/alter I. Smith and I enclose you my little address on the matter givian at the Smith Club and which they had printed. i think we will nominate him. I have written Mr. Wold and told him we could furnish him all the prints; also sent him a couple copies of the book. I am sending you another copy. 1 am, Truly and cordially. Grenville M. Dodge, 189 March, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, March 31, 1910, F. S. Hodges, P. D. Box 857 Boston, Mass. Dear Sir: I have yours of ^larch 28th. My manuscript of the Union Pacific was written in the seventies and in that writing then, I had it stated that you had made this survey and had reported it as being 13 or 14 above the Stansbury measurement, but when I got my paper out to publish it, and add to it such addressesas I had rrade since, I received a letter from Maxwell and he states that he made the survey in the small boats as stated in it and I made the change supposing that he had made it under your direction. I ought to have written you. I had forgotten ailabout the big boat. I looked aip your re ports to me and I did not find anything in them in relation to the sounding or survey. I know that it was made and therefore, I follow ed my original manuscript until I got this letter from Maxwell. Mr. Maxwell is now living at Newark, Delaware and I received today a letter acknowledging receipt of my book. He speaks of you and says that he has not seen you for thirty years. I notice that the U. S. Senate has ordered the book to be printed as a public docunient and they have sent here for the plates of the prints for their use. I note what you say about your visit to Panama. I get letters from there occasionally as there are several engineers down there who have been witi: n.e . They all seem to think they are doing a great work and I see you think so also. My health has been fairly good this winter; cold weather agrees with me better than summer. I am, Truly and cordially, G. M. Dodge . 203 March SIst, 1910. General G.If.Dodge, Washington, D.C. Council Bluffs, Iowa. ik> Dear General 1 am ,1ust in receipt of your letter of March 28th, and I now have a complete lis^; of all the soldiers who receive pensions in the 9th dis trict, which I ob'tained from Des Moines. I am taking steps as rabidly as possible to get'your letter in the hands of every one of these, as well as your speech. They v/ill all be mailed at Council Bluffs, being sent there by express. I would be very glad to spend tv/o weeks in the district if possible before the prim.ary, but although I have be n sitting in committee prac tically all day for mafiy days, we have not completed the Sundry Civil Ap propriation Bill, the wwrk of which always falls quite largely upon my self. This bill must then be pasted through the House, and, next to Mr. Tawney, I have the chief responsibility for the bill on the floor. It would not seem wise for me to be absent when the new railway legislation comes before the House, and so allthings seem to combine to completely absorb my time. I would like to stump the district, but do not wish to do so in any event until Mr. Byers starts his campaign. I shall look up the Union Pacific matter that you asked me about and advise you further. I met General Sickles the other day, and he especially asked me to give you his love. Ihanking you for all you are doing in my behalf, I am,as always, Cordially yours, waiter I. Smith. April, 1910. Personal. 207 Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 7, 1910, J. S, Glarkson, 601 W. 110th St., New York City. Iv;y dear Mr. Glarkson: I have been studying up the Allison matter and last Monday went over to Des Moines and got the legislative Commission together. I have had in my mind for some time the plan of interesting the Bankers of the State and they have their State meeting in June. I Saw the President of the Association , Mr. Stevens and Mr. 7/hisenand, and they took it up with a great deal of enthusiasm. They seem to think that they could get the convention to take it up for a matter of their organization and raise us a great deal of money. Now, they want me to write them a letter telling what Allison did in a financial way that would interest the Bankers. I know, generally, but not much in detail and I wihh you would write me a letter immiediately telling me the principle financial niatters that would interest the Bankers, that Allison took a part in and vir tually carried through. At the same time, keep this matter private because they did not want anything said about it until they were fully organized and could spring it in their meeting. I think the President will utilize miy letter in his yearly report and recommend that action will be taken and they think that in this way they can get the bankers of the State generally interested. We will have to begin pretty soon to see what the Iowa Society of New York can do, but on receipt of this letter, please give me what inforn.ation you have so that I can utilize it, I don't know Ahether you are out of the Custom Eouse or not so I am. sending this to your residence. Hoping you are well, I am. Truly and cordially, G . M . Dodge . . Brooklyn, April 7th 1910. My dear General Dodged After your declination of invitation to be our orator at Tom^ of General Grant on Memorial Day, we extended an invitation to General Horace Porter who also declined, substantially for the same reason as did yourself. His place has beer, supplied. However, by reason of his cornection with the Moniunent Association i have arr-^nged for him to say a few words informally, and which is quite pleasing to him. Now in view of your connection with that Association, and you being the last surviving officer of high rank of the Army of the Tei^neegsee , it has occurred to me that a letter from you, to be read dur ing our services, would be highly acceptable, and should be made a pai-t of our record on that occasion. If this meets your view, I would be highly gratified and in this I voice the feelings of my conmitttee. I write this on the forty-eighth anniversary of the second day of Gen. Grant's first great battle in which I was a musket firer in Hurlbut's division. Sincerely , and with deep respect, P. "Y iiedley. 213 April, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa April 9, 1910. Ron. Walter I. Smith, Washington, D. C. dear Sir: I am in receipt of your two letters; one in relation to the book printed by the Agnate and the other enclosing my letter to the soldiers of the 9th district. I hope the letter will do good; however, these people are very industrious. The attack upon Richmond here was a vicious one and uncalled for but it will do Richmond good even if they should relieve him on a technical violation of the law because it has been shown so good that no one can gain say it that he is an honest and efficient officer and it is now con ceded by evei'yone that the only point in the whole testimony is whether he violated a law in not suppressing the social evil. I testified on the stand that in my opinion it was his duty to obey his superior officers even if it did violate a law. I hold that where they pass a law that it is impossible to enforce an officer has a right to use his best judgement how to administer that law for the benefit of the people interested and especially is that the case when he has the supt^ort of the authorities under which he acts. Of course, I understand it the same as it was in the army; if you would commit an illegal act, you were responsible but if you dis obeyed an order, you lost your head and we always obeyed the order and took our chances on the law. I am certain that it will be necessary for you to come home and speak two or three weeks before the election so do all you can to get rid of your appropriation bills. y Truly and cordially, Grenville M. Dodge. ' _ '■ ill .t* 215 April 9th, I9I0. Council Bluffs, lov/a, My dear Comrade fhe Hon. Walter I. Smith is a candidate for nomination and re-election to Congress in this, the 9th district. My duties have made it necessary to "become acquainted with the work of Congressman Smith in behalf of the volunteers of the Civil War and I wish to call your attention to it. He has personally looked after over three thousand individual pension claims c,nd he has advocated and voted for every hill that has been up in Congress: during his time in their intereWhen the I5th and 16th Iowa Hegiments had their claims denied three times as to their service at Shiloh, Judge Smith was called into the case hy the Iowa Qommission and arranged the forces that secured justice from the War -department for these lov/a soldiers and he personally wrote the inscription now on their monuments at Shiloh. When the uncalled for and unreasonable efforts were made hy the press and interested parties in Washington for the removal of the Gen. Grant statue from the Bontanic Gardens and Congress was appealed to for a law accomplishing this against the protests of General Grant's family and veterans of all the armies, the Monviment Commission, consisting of the then Secretary of War, now President W.H.Taft, and myself, went to Walter I. Smith to make the fight for us in Congress. He responded promptly and, although opposed hy Speaker Cannon and many leading members, including nearly all the Democrats, he defeated the hill in the Committee and on the floor of the House and made a magni ficent, aggressive fight for the veterans and received oru thanks. The monument to General Grant is nearly completed and every one now recognizes what a crime it would have been to remove it. The veterans now have an opportunity to show their appriciation for what Mr. Smith has done for them hy vdjting for him at the primary and securing his re-nomination. 216 i^ecently, the Eepublieans of the House of •''■epresentatibes have shown their opinion of him and the way he has performed his duties. They gave him in caucus almost a unanimous vote for member of the Com mittee 018 Rules, and a much larger vote than any other member received^ thus indicating plainly that if re-elected he would be the Republican nominee for Speaker of the next Congress. This is a great compliment to him, to our district and State. I stated in an address to the "'alterI. Smith)Taft Club in thiS city my opinion of his service and I enclose a copy v;ith this letter and hope that every comrade in this district will not only vote for him, but will v/ork for his nomination and election, I am. Truly and cordially Grenville M. Dodge. c V V : , 1 , » 'y . . ' .M "V' .1 V.' i 1* " • t,''- • ' : :b;.oX ■ ■ - , # I.' . .,W 217 Washington, C April 9, 1910. r.Ty dear General: - I have your letter about Major Korton's diploma of the order of ^Jeiham el Anouar. There were about two hundred of these apfilications pending, and the Committee on Foreign Relations of the Senate undertook to di.al with them all by reference to some general rules which might serve to prevent any such mass of applications piling up in the future. A report was accordingly prepare'' and fUlly discussed and adopted by the uommittee and then the rules of the report were ap;-lied to the pending applications anci a bill was reported containing the result. The rules woul'-'seeni to exclude uaptain Morton's application, so that the bill did not include him. The bill gassed the Senate and the whole matter is now in the hands of the House, but I understand that the House Committee is unwilling to' go even so far as the ?^enate went and that there is little prospect of any of the applica tions being granted. I am sendin- you under separate cover a copy of the report of the Senate < o mittee. The report certainly does not go very far in the way of granting consent, and if the House is not willing to go as far as this i think our officers would better be made to understand that they s" ould decline all offers. I am glad to hear from you again and to know that you are well a d enjoying life. We are gaving a curious and ra\her dis agreeable time and it rather looks to me as if the Republican i^arty is in for a good sound thrashing. H' ving elected a president, about a third of t}.e party appears to be devoting itself exclusivolv tc a concerted and continuous attempt to destroy him. What s the matter witiUlowa anyway? *^111 have noticed that the Govern ent has bought all the blocks running south from Pennsylvani Avenue to the Mall and between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, and is going to put there buildings of the State Department, Department of Justice, and Depart ent of Uommerco and Labor, facing the park. Of course this will involve pulling down Chase's theatre and the other buildings that now obscure the view of the Sherman statue as one goes un Pennsylvania Avenue towards the Treasury. When the new buildings ome to be located they ought to be so that an open space will b left on the Pennsylvania Avenue and, giving a view of the Sherman statue from the Avenue, if you have an opportunity to mention this to some of the active men in the Army of the Tennessee it may be worth wile to do -o With kind regards, i am always, " ' Faithfully yours, „ „ , , Flihu Root . Mrs. Root and Ulysses and Edith who are dining here all send their love to you, uiicxx April, 1910. 219 Chicago, Illinois, April ICth, 1910, My dear Genl. Dodge Please accept my thanks for the copy of your speech which I have greatly enjoyed reading with your letter forwarding it. I had orders to go to Governor's Island April 2Cth, which were changed almost immediately, and I am to remain here, until General Wood returns from South America, where he has gone on some special mission. I had a telegram from Genl. Bell that he was better, but I hear that he is still in bed from his serious accident. When I go East this summer, I shall certainly see Mr. Shrady about the monument and shall be glad indeed to see the part that is finished. I am intensely interested in having the work go on and the monument finished as soon as nossible. There are so many delays occuring but I hope the work can be pushed forward rapidly. When we go to Governor's Island this summer, your room will be ready for you in our home always and Mrs. Grant and I hope to see you and Mrs. Montgomery often there. With our warmest regards to you both and hoping to hear how you are and wheneyou are going this summer, believe me, my dear General. Yours always faithfully, Frederick D. Grant. P c _ Ulysses and Edith think of you and speak of you often in their letters and would join in sending you love if they knew that I was writing. Yours, P. D. G • P. S.- My Dear General: I have received and read with deepest interest your pam phlet: "How we Built the Union Pacific Railway." I was deeply grati fied to read what you say about my father and your mention of him. I shall ever be grateful for the way you honor his memory as well as your kind friendship shown me. Yours faithfully, Frederick D. Grant. April, 1910. 091 Port Qf New York, N.Y., . ilApril 11th, 1910. My dear General Dodp:e;- I have your letter of the 7th, which finds me still in the Customs Service, where I will remain until a week from today, or the 18th instant, when I will again take up the dignities and duties of private life. I cannot answer offhand your inquiries as to the many great financial acts and laws which Senator Allison helped to create and pass, I have been so much out of the editorial line and habit of memory in the past eight or ten years that I find I cannot summon them all up by the index of memory alone, I. have sent your letter to Dollivor and asked him to see Mr. Cleaves, who was the Secretary of the Aoprooria.tion Com mittee during the whole of Allison's time, and, I think, was with him in some official capacity during his entire service, in the Senate. He will remember this better than anyone else, as he is a good deal of a financier himself. After I cet the facts from him, I will promptly send them to you, I know how vigorously you are trying to close this matter up, and I will admit of no delay which I can prevent. I am only awaiting the return of Senator Clark (of Montana) to hold a final meeting, or at least a decisive meeting of the Allison Monu ment Committee of the Iowa Society of New York. I think we have subscribed so far i'l'lCOG, or something near that amount. I have never been able to get men like Shonts, Brown (of the N.Y. Central) and other rich Iowa men here to cooperate. I will try to get Senator Clark to give a dinner or luncheon, or give one myself, in some part of town near to Brown, Shonts, and others, so as to give them as little excuse fis possible for not coming. I agree with you that this monument matter ought to be finally closed up as soon as possible, for Allison's sake and for decency's sake; and I promise you that everything I can do toward bringing the matter to a final end, so far as the Iowa Society of New York is concerned, shall be done. I will try to see President Brown and talk the matter over with him and get his copperation. He has neVer been at any of the meetings where the Allison monument has been acted upon and has never made his own donation. I believe we can raise at least (|'2500, and we ought to raise fin,000. Perhaps if Brown, Shonts, Sheffield, Dillon, and the other rich men would take hold of i.t in earnest, we could raise that amount. Did you ever address Carnegie or Pierpont Morgan on the subject? Those two men and perhaps half a dozen others in this city among the very prominent finan ciers might help in this good work if the right men should broach it to them. I do not feel that I can do this, but men like Brown or Shonts or Dillon could. The trouble is always to get the men to do the work. I am getting very tired of carrying the Iowa Society in detail and holding it up to doings its duty in a decent way. The trouble is, there is so much of indifference and so much of postponement on the part of everybody. I have not yet decided what to go into when my term of office expires. I have been thinking most seriously of newspaper work, and am now considering two or three propositions,- one in New York, one in Chicago and one in Los Angeles. My entire family prefer the latter location, as I think I have .vritten you before. A Committee was on here from Des Moines on Thursday of last week to see if I could be induced to go there if the money was raised to buy out the Register and Leader or to start a new paper. I told them I did not care to go back to Iowa in its state of faction and in any event I would not be put in any attitude where I would have to fight old friends like Dolliver. I would nearly as poon fight one of my own sons as to fight Dolliver, for I have always been so close to him and have so much affection for him. Our Republican party is in about as bad shape as it is possible to be. Its stock is lower than it ever has been since Lincoln was first elected President. There seems to be no wise heads at Washington to advise peace-making and unity instead of fighting and division. Taft means well enough, but does not know politics and-has nobody in his , Cabinet, aside from Wilson, who does know it. He listens too much to people who want to divide the party, and unless something unforseen occurs or Roosevelt shall ccme and prove the peacemaker, we are sure to lose the House this year and almost as sure to lose the Presidency in 1912,- unless, as General Grant always said, the Democra.ts act the fool in our favor at the right time. Sincerely yours. J. S. Clarkson. General G. M. Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, Iowa. J t " * . ' A ■ . , v^i. -1 • . • I •! • •'f t H-' ■V ' . • 223 1910. On April 12, 1910, the Saturday Noon Cluh gave me the usual Birthday dinner. The souvenirs for the dinner was a photograph of my self with the follow^'ng quota!on from John N. Baldw^'n's tribute to me: "He is the very incarnation of resoluteness and determination. It Is because he sav/ events and their causes, stiBve to obvi tate conseq- ences, studied to ascertain contingencies, and because of caution and foresight that he became distinguished in the realm of action, reaching a point where he had no superiors." Twenty-two sat at the tables--C. 17. Hc^Pnald j H. 17. Binder, H. A. 'iuinn, H. Ih Van Brunt, E. II. Merriam, John Mehlhop, Jr., Fred Davis, August Bereshelm, W. A. Maurer, B. M. ^argent and George S. Wright, Guests of the club were Major Richmond, Emmett Tinley, T. M. Treynor of Des Moines, Ernest E. Hart, E. W. Hart, J. J. Gpindler, C. R* Hanna, Jr. C. E. Price, Mayor Thtoas Haloney and Charl'^s T. Stewart, There were many short addresses made and my response was as follows: ** , - --h ■ 7 ^ . . V-*U>' 225 April, 1910. Nev/ark, April 12th, 1910, Gen. G. M, Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dear Sir; Yours of March 31st came duly to hand, S© far I cannot get any definite answer to my requests for the address of McCabe. It seems that a sounding was made by Hodges, in 1867, Mine was made in 1868, under orders from Mr. Blickensderfer, I never was in any of Hedges parties and in fact never saw him for many years after the time he started out from Salt Lake City with his party to run a line above .Bear Lake , I used a small boat with only the topographer, Thos. Hubbard, and one man to row were with me. I took the soundings and Hubbard recorded them. From the point of Mud Island across the mouth of Bear River Bay to Promontory Point, we went on June 16, 1868, I did not know anything about the soundings made by Hodges, and dont now know where he sounded. There were two district set of soundings made and I have heard that Mr, Keed had a third made late in 1868. I will give you full name and address of McCabe as soon as I can get it. Yours truly, Jas . R. Maxwell 227 April, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 13, 1910, J. S. Clarkson, c/o Custom House, New York City. ^;y dear Ret: I notice what you say about politics. ^ can't see any reason why the Republican ^arty should be divided. It is all rot to be talking about a division on tariff. There never was a tariff and never will be one that people will agree on and we have to take what the party finally decides on. The trouble in this State is that the insurgents jropose to take it and control it, and they are after Taft and no one else. They have a thebry that it is necessary to down him to build up Cummins but there is one ti.ing very certain, Taft's action in keeping right on the line he has laid out and not being acared or driven from it, is helping him and he is growing in favor even in Iowa. Outside of Iowa, there doesn't seem to be so much opposition to him. President Roosevelt launched a great many very drastic problems but he did not stay in office to put any of them into law. That was left to Taft and you see when you put these problems before Congress, the interests over the country are so diver sified that they crnnot get any agreement on them any more than they could on the tariff. There is no national pride or feeling in Congress; every fellow is for what his constituents want. I do not know but it would be a good thing if we shoula loose the house or even the next Presidency. I don't see how we are going to get the party together again except for some great revolution or calamity. Only think of BoRiver and Cummins coming into this State to make speeches against such a man as Smith'. It is unheard of ever before in Iowa politics. I hope Dolliver will not do it. If he does, it will drive all of Allison's friends from him; they still cling to him. I am. Truly and cordially, G . M. Dodge. 229 April, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 14, 1910, Eon. Elihu Root, Washington, D. C. My dear Senator: I received yours of April 9th and note what you say about Major Morton's diploma. I notice that the ^^ouse has turned it down. I also note what you say about the Governments purchase of the block running south on Pennsylvania Avenue to the Mall between 14th and 15th Streets and are going to place there a building for the State departments. I am going towrite immediately in relation to their location so as to open up the view of the Sherman mianument, coming up Pennsylvania Avenue. The question is who will have the location of these buildings? I will write to Col. Crosby who is new at the head of public grounds and buildings. Won't young Grant have something to do with them? You ask a question that is very haid to answer; "What is the matter with Iowa anyway?" It is beyond me. I can see no reason why any republican should have any kick and why they can't all go forward in behalf of the principle of the party. The difference does not amount to anything. The whole fight here is against Taft and I cannot tell why. He certainly has done very well since he became President; for of coui'se he is carrying out new policies which it was even hard work for President Roosevelt to inaugurate and much more difficult to put into laws. This country is so large and its interests are so diversified that it is impossible to get agreements; therefore we have to act on compromises. There is one thing, however, Taft is growing and a great many see the injustice of the attacks upon him. That is even so in this State and if he keeps right on the line he has started on and does not allow himself to be influ enced to change, he will win out. In all probability the Payne tariff like the McMinley one, will be as popular in two years as it is unpopular now. If President Roosevelt on his return takes the stand that I think he will, and he ought to, it will Eliminate a great deal of this opposition. I am doing all I can to help re-elect Walter I. Smith. It is an unheard of thing in this State for its Senators to come into the State and take active part in opposition to the re-nomination of good Republicans, simply because they do not happen to agree in everything with them and it is bound to do great harm and I fear lose us many members in Congress and I am astonished to see them do it. I don't see vhat ttiey can gain by it. I often hear from young Grant. 230 Won't you please extend my compliments to Ivirs. Root, Edith and Ulyssos when yau see them. ThaHiding you, I am, Truly and cordially, I see in the papers will see President Roosevelt, ■gives no encouragement to the if he hesitates we are gone I in good health. I read your Bill as reported by committee some parts. Grenvile M. Dodge. you are going to Hague. I hope you If he supports President Taft and guerrillas it will save the party, fear even in 1912. I hope you are speech on Ry. Bill. I approve of though it is drastic in . .t " ; ■ i ' I r;i ' • f ■ . J. ^ ^ S', ^ ■' 'J - * . ,iiV of * ' li- ^ A . - «f * . ■• i'i'A'- . I '' ' ,• ./. i f . ) > if : J' > , . . ■ • 1 . ■ ■ ■ 1' ^ .V ■> . 10;; . , ..;i, ' V • iii-i r , I.. ^ ■ -J 231 Boston, Ma-s., April 14, 1910, Dear General I certainly should call on you as you have invited meunder yours of the 9th, in case i ever was in the vicinity of Council Bluffs. In ref^ard to the trip which I made across Bear River Bay inthe Great Salt Lake, it war on my own initiative; I had no orders from you of any kind, as 1 was serving under Mr. Blickensderfer s orders, and I had just returned fronkhat fool trip he sent me on, to run a "line of levels" along the summit of the wasatch Ranp, and now he was rushing me off on that preliminary for Humboldt -ells. 1 hired Meredith and his sloop and took a load of provisions team; which u I T had sent shore ahead of Promontory with the party. Point in As order the boat to lighten was up the wrecked, ± thought it my duty to report the facts to you and in that report I stated the depth of water across the Bay and the feasabilitv o a line along the nest side of Promontory Point. My instruc tions were to run preliminary around the North side of Dear River Bav and across the Promontory Range, uf course i obeved instructions ^ but i knew that you were always ready to receive suggestions fttm any subordinate and hence I wrote the letter referred tO. Again thanking you for your invitation, I remain. Very truly yours. . Hodges, P.u. Box 1857. 233 April I4th, 1910.-. Pes Moines, Iowa. General Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General; In my mail this jaorning I found a number of letters from the Ninth district in each of which was unclosed a letter purporting to have been written by yourself under date of April 9th. These letters were all writ ten in the interests of Judge Walter I. Smith's candidacy for congress. In each of the is the following statement: "When the I5th and I6th Iowa Regiments had their claims denied three times as to their services at Shiloh, Judge Smith was called into the case by the Iowa commission and arranged the forces that secured justice from the Viar department for these Iowa soldiers, and he personally wrote the inscriptions now on these monuments at Shiloh." This statement is not in harmony with the record as made up by the report of the Iowa commission and now on file here, nor is it in harmony with the recollection of the Commissioners with whom I have had an oppor tunity to talk, in fact, if your statement is true then the Commission has falsified the record. I, of course, have no objection to your speaking well of Judge Smith and doing whatever you can consistently and properly to advance his candidacy; I muct, however, in taking care of my own interests protest a*-, gainst your name being nsed to secure support for the Judge upon a false statement of his public record. If you dictated the letter yourself I assume that you made the state ment complained of from memory and did not purposely misstate the record ^ and since I have no way,of knowing just how many old soldiers you m441ed your letter to I have decided to reach them with a correction by publishing your letter together with statements which I will get from the members 234 of the Coinmission and excerpts from the Commissioners' report. Tffiis data will shov/ that the credit which you give to Judge Smith is due entirely to Senator Cummins, v/ho was then the Governor of this state, and that the inscriptions which you say v/ere written hy Judge Smith were proposed by Governor Cummins long before the Governor requested the Iowa delegation to assist him. I have deemed it proper to call your attention to this statement in your letter before making such publication in order that you might make the correction if you felt so inclined. Yours with great reapect, H«W#Byers. X * t' ' J. I sj ^ it I t. ^ .1 ■ 'm ' ■ ^ J< ■VN' ■ . COPY OF LETTER TO HON. W.H. BYERS. April I6th, I9I0. Council Bluffs, Iowa. Hon. W.H.Byers, Bes Moines, lov/a. Dear Sir:- I am in receipt of yours of April I4th and in answer have to say that my statement in relation to the I5th and loth Iowa Regiments at Shiloh was made on v/hat I considered unq^uestioned authority. Upon re ceipt of your letter, I wired the Hon. Walter I. Smith your criticisms and he answers that my statement is correct and he has proof of it. I suggest that before you make denial that you consult the correspondence that took place befcre Governor Cummins and Mr. Smith during this contro versy. In it I think you will find ample justification for what I stated in my letter to some of my comrades. I am, Truly and respectfully Grenville M. Dodge 237 . Glenallen, Ala. April 16, 1910. General Grenville M» Dodge, Council Dluffe, lov/a. Dear Sir & Comrade( If I be allowed the Honor) Are you the General who commanded 16th Army uorps through Georgia.' If so have often thought of you since the war. I was a mre boy was orderly for 4th division. 1 well remember a clash over near Atlanta with Generals Dodge iiuller, and £>weeney concerning orders during engagements. The three with their escrot being assembled at Sweenie's headquarters. lou (if you; gave the opinion that common sense at such times where victory or defeat could be fores een that a man should act from judgment. Sweeny replied that he would not move a peg without orders from you if he lost every man he had so you placed him on the d—n fool list. Then the smoke began to rise; so X will not follow the detail any further at present. 1 have the assurance that you are my friend as I see G. A. R. coupled with your name.in St. nouis Globe ueraocrat, and our northern friends and comrades are our only hope, as they were in the civil war and it is a great source of pleasure to correspond with them, i love the G. A R. the noblest man mad institution existing though we of the south who were compelled to forsake all and jcin with our northern friends to hold together the union are still loyal but are so scattered that we can t organiz© as those of you in the north and west. I hope you of the G.A. R will remember us when you come to gether in your Grand Reunions.There. are a few of us of the 1st Alabama uavalry (our only union Regiment-) meet anrually in Reunion, if you could find time I would respectfully ask that you write something encouraging to be read at our next reunion (in September) shewing that we anv* our sacrifice and service is remembered and appreciated by our comrades north. Please excuse t^is tax on your patience and give me the pleasure of an answer. Your comrade and friend. R. M. Lambert, Late of Go. 1st Ala. i was present at the death of the lamented Gen'l, McPherson, 239 April I7th, I9I0. Washington, D.C. , , , Gen. G.M.Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear General I received your two telegrams, and answered them "both yesterday. I have not my correspondence here on the subject of the monuments at Shiloli, but I remember it very distinctly, and am sending for it doday. The Governor C\immins si^ of--the controversy you w-ill find on page 176 of the Iowa Official ttegister for 1906. In the same volume, on page J87, you will find the inscriptions on the I5th and I6th Iowa regiments. If you will read what is said by the commission, you will grasp generally what the controversy was. In the fall of 1905 Mr. John Hayes, of Red Oak, Iowa, came to me about this matter. The inscription prepared for the monuments by the Iowa Commission had been rejected by the National Commission. Thereupon the lov/a Commission reported to Governor to apply for a rehearing, and the re hearing was ordered for May 20, 1904, at Pittsburg Landing, Tennessee. The Commission again rejected the Iowa contention, and Governor Oummins again argued the case before the Assistant Secretary of War on November EE, 1904. A compromiSB was then arranged between Governor Cummins and the assistant Secretary of "^ar decided against the regiments. In February 1905, for the first time, Governot Cummins applied to Senator Allison to go with him to President Roosevelt, who ordered the matter reheard before the Secretary of. War. The Secretary of War, for the purpose of advising himself, created a board of young officers, who had seen no Civil War service, and, as I understand it, they were present at the final argument before th4e Secretary of War. In the fall of 1905, My. Hayes came to me expressing at least his fears, if not his belief that the board of young officers had also deter mined the case against the Iowa contention, and insisting that I take 240 the matter up. I explained to him the emba-rrassment I would be under in doing so, as the Governor had never invited any of the delegation to help ^ him, except the invitation to Senator Allison to go V(ith him to President « Roosevelt: that we never knww when the case was to be argued except when we read it in the newspapers, but told him that 1 would write Governor Cummins and Senator Allison. I wrote Senator Allison urging that he ask the S,ecretary of War not to decide the matter until the dllegatior; could get to .Vashington; that-we-had-twe-iaeabers-ef-tke I wrote to Governor Cummine, in substance, that it was at least believed in Iowa that Iowa had considerable influence in lAashington; that v/e had two members, of. the Cabinet, the colleagues of Secretary Taft; that we had the chairman of the Appropriations Committee of the Senate, who .controlled the appropriat ions both for the War Department and the Ar.my in the Senate; that we had the chairman of the Committee on Military Affairs of th,e House, who con trolled in the House the api.ropriation for the army; that if this mat- 4 ter was decided finally adversely to the Iowa soldiers, both the Governor and the delegSftion would be subject ^to criticism, the Governor for refus ing to invite the Iowa delegation, and the Iowa delegation for failing to interfere without his invitation, and I therefore sugjested that he invite the lov/a delegationa and the Iowa members of the Cabinet to assist him in the controversy. He wrote back that he would invite the Iowa delegat ion, but would not invite the Iowa members of the, Cabinet, which I well understood at the time was due to his. ani.mosity to Secretary Hhaw. After Congress convened the delegation met, and Governor Cummins made an extended statement before us; and it was then agredd that iienators Allison and Dolliyer should ^o to the ■.^eci'etary of war and urge the accept ance of the compromise which had been proposed by Governor Cummins, and j Col. Hepburn, Judge Connor and myself were appointed a committee to study the whole subject and prepare the necessary argument before the Seoretary of War, in case the compromise was again refused. Col. Hepburn rendered 241 i:ii the assistance possible, consistent with his other duties, but Judge Conner and myself read every report, both Union and Confederate, on the battle of Shiloh, covering about a thousand pages of the records of the hebellion. I then went to Senator Allison, and asked if the conference had taken place between the senators and the Secretary of War, and he informed me that it.had not, and said that owing to my greater familiarity with the details of the controversy, he wished I would go with them to see the Secretary of V/ar. *'• told him that I would do this, but that I personally thought that Secretary Shaw should be invited; he ac(iuiesced in that, and the four of us went to see Secretary Taft, and he again re fused the compromised inscriptions proposed by Governor Cummins. Govern or-Cummins' plan of compromise stated the undisputed facts, and when it came to the point in dispute, continued "and according to the report of the colonel commanding, etc.," this v/as rejected by the Secretary of War be cause the inscription thus prepared stated that all the matters narrated were facts, and it v/as claimed that the words "and according to the re port of the colonel commanding" were dimply a citation of historical ev idence to prove the matter stated, he proposed to put the inscriptions upont the moniunents "it is stated in the report of the colonel commanding" •this we rejected because the word "stated" car;ies with it something of the impression of "alleged",aand carried an inference that the statements were not undisputed. We then proposed as a counter proposition to strike out the con junction "and", put a period at the end of the undisputed facts, and com mence a new sentence•"According to the report of the colonel commanding". At first the 'Secretary was inclined to aceept this, but it was subsequently determined that this did not overcome the objection to Governor Cummins' proposed compromise, and it was again rejected. Ap proposition was then m made to us to have the inscription read, "the report of the colonel commandlng states", tut we deemed this as otjeotionatle as the former 2i2 propostion: "It is stated in the report of the colonel commanding". now upon I the then moniiments, personally using drafted the a words: new prpposition "As shown containing by the v>fords the of words the | official report of the colonel commanding"; and this was urged by Senators Allison and Dolliver and Secretary Shav/ and was accepted by the Secretary of War. Governor Cummins' proposed inscriptions were twice rejected, and he was not in Washington for weeks before the controversy was settled, and had refused by reason of his malicious feelings toward "jecretary Shaw to invite in his assistance, api^arently willing that Iowa's interests should be sacD^ificed rather than invite aid from one whom he disliked. Governor Cummins never- saw the words upon the monument until I sent them to him, and the inscription as proposed by'him was not as shown on page 179 of the 1906 biok. ^ e You will notice that on page 180 it is stated that the inscriptions were in substantial accordance with the arrangement once made between may Governor Cummins and the assistant secretary. They have been in sub stantial accordance, but his were rejected twice, and mine were accepted. ' On page ISO it is said "To our delegai^ion in Congress much credit is also due for loyal and efi icient help". I never have claimed to have wielded the influence that secured these inscriptions, but I helped organ ize the forces and wrote the inscriptions, well knowing that id we agreed .to any inscriptions without the Governor's approval, if the soldiers' sub sequently disaxiproved ,of them as surrender, who the blame would be unlead ed on, I took the precaution to keep the Governor constantly advised of the progress of the negotiations, and no one knows better than the Gov- ^ ernot that his inscriptions were.rejected and mine accepted. Whan Senator Allison was leaving here for home twp years ago next month, I was compelled to remain a few days to argue the 5 cent fare for the citizens of Co\inci;}. Blufis, and I went over to bid Senator Allison goodbye. That was the last time I saw him beofore his death, and as we parted upon the front porch of his x'esidence in this city, he arose and siad to me: "You owe it to your self and to the truth of history to see to it that sometime the truth is told about the inscriptions on the Iowa monumentsat Shiloh." And substantially every word in this letter will be fplly borne out and sustained by the correspondence, as soon as I can get my hand on it. Cordially yours. Walter I. Smith. 245 April, 1910, Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 18, 1910. H. M. Lambert, Co. A. 1st Alabama Cal., R.F.D.j^?2 Glen Allen, Ala. My dear Comrade: I am in receipt of yours of the 16th and am pleased to hear from you I am also pleased to know that you comrades of the First Alabama have a reunion once a year. Of course you know that I raised the 1st Alabama and put it into the service and it served with me until we went on the Atlanta Campaign when it went into the Cavalry Corps. It is always a pleasure to me to hear from the conirades It was a very efficient regiment and of incalculable service to me not only as soldiers but as couriers, scouts, etc. I used a great many of the men to go inside of the lines and ge t information that it was impossible to get any other way as they knew the country and had friends inside of the enemies lines and could remain there in safety. Lt. Col. Godfrey of the regiment is still living in Des Moines and I occasionally hear from other comrades who belonged to that regiment. At your next reunion I wish you would extend m.y compliments and thanks and my best wishes that they will all live to a good old age, be hapx)y and prosperous and if any of them should happen to come this way, I hope they will come to see me. I am sending you a book that have just published that may interest you. Truly and cor'dially, Grenville M. Dodge. April 20th, I9I0. General G.11.Dodge, Washington, D.C Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear General I have your letter of April I6th. I do not know who the proprietor of the cafe in Guthrie Center is to whom you refer, but J.M. Briggs, of Anita, always supports every nes candidate for Congress, and then always fights his as soon as he gets in because nobody dare appoint his candidate for postmaster, as he is always in the minority. I think my letter to you written some days since fully answers everything else in your letter. I do not know whether President Taft will want to interfere di rectly by giving a letter stating that I wrote the inscriptions or not, bot don't think there will be any doubt, when I get my correspondence, left in the minds of anybody as to who in fact wrote the inscriptions. Cordially yours, Walter I. Smith. 249 April 22, I9I0. Washington, B.C. Generc-l G.M.Dodge, / Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear General I I have your two letters of April 20th, and will do all I can to try and increase the pension of Mrs. Howard. It certainly ought to he done. Further anav^ering ahout the Shiloh matter, I do not think a member of the Iowa commission was ever in Washington in this connecton; certainly none of them were after the time when the Congressional delegation took charge of the matter. I do not know whether they ever made a report except the report which was put in the Iowa official reg ister, but I knew it was garbled at the time as thus reported by Governor Cummins. It may strike you at first that the change which I made in the inscriptions on the I5th and 16th Iowa regiments' monuments were slight. If you look at the inscriptions on page 187 of the 1906 Iowa official register, we will take the loth as an example. ^his inscription was prepared exactly in its present form by the Iowa commsission, except the words; "Its colonel commanding officially reported that ;" so that no part of it can claim to have been wtitten by Governor Cuimnins, except that where these words appear Governor Cuimiiins had proposed the words; "And according to the report of the colonel com manding," and I proposed the words; "The colonel commanding officially reported that." You will notice that the language chosen by me is much more positive than that chosed by Governor Cummins, covers all the sub ject that he can claim to have written anything on, and v/as adopted, al though the departraant refused to adopt his. No member of the Iowa commission, unless it was John Hayes of Red Oak, was consulted by the delegation pending the< adoption of my substitute. If Mr. Byers takes youi" advice and sees the correspondence, I do not think he dare dispute your word. Gordidlly yours. Y/alter I. Smith. < , , ;v:vr • ^ ' '■Jiu »■ ... v J' iy'i ■ ■ ■ ■ * , J* -v n 251 April, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, April 25, 1910. Editor of The Nonpareil, I notice an article in your issue of April 24th, copied from the ^lalvern Leader, headed, "General Dodge ^.istaken." This article denies the truth of the following statement^in®my letter to some of my comrades in the 9th District: "When the 15th and 16th Iowa regiments had their claims denied three times as to their services at Shiloh, Judge Smith was called into the case by the Iowa Commission and arranged the forces that secured justice from the War Departn.ent for these Iowa soldiers and he personally wrote the inscription now on their monument at Shiloh." I made that statement on what I considered unquestionable authority. My attention was called to it and its accuracy questioned I immediately communicated with the Hon. 'Walter I. Smith and he answered that the statement was correct and he had ample proof of it. The Malvern Leader evidently did not have before it all the facts relating to what occurred in Washington during that controversy. I am, Respectfully, Grenville M. Dodge, 253 Washington, D, u. April 25, 1910. General G. m, nodge, Baldwin JBlock, Council fluffs, iowa. near General Dodge: I have your favor of the 22d. 1 am glad to say that the illness from which ± suffered for uite a while during this session seems to be leaving me and i am now about back to normal, I note your suggestion with reference to the pension of Mrs. nov/axd. i shall be glad to do what ± can to help the matter because of your interest in it and will also ende-^vor to enlist the good offices of Senator Guramins. uf course, some rule of the Pension Committee may stand in the way but we will do what we can as this seems to be an tonusually worth case. Very truly yours. Jonathan P. Dolliver, 255 April 26th, l9I0. Malvern, Iowa. April 26, J9I0 General Grenville M. Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. My dear Sir: Your communication of the 25th came to hand last ni^t. I was very much surprised to see the statement to which you refer in the Non pareil credited to my paper for it has never appeared in the Leader and I see no reason v.hy it ever should. Under separate cover I am mailing you a copy of last weeks Leader which contains the only reference I have |ever made to you-- a copy of your letter to Col. A.J. Chantri^. • Just why the Nonpareil should take such underhanded means to discredit you and Judge Smith is beyond me. I can ouly believe that they have made a mistake and I have written them asking them to make a cor rection. Very respectfully yours. W.P. Wortman. ^ » ■ ■ " i kL C.JV April E6, 1910. 257 71 Broadway, New York. Dear General: Mrs. TrumlDull was very much pleased with your autograph letter of April I8th, and since then we received from you two tickets for the lect ure on Java. I am sorry to say that she went to the hoppital Saturday morn ing and had an operation Saturday afternoon for a trouble closely related to the bladder. She has not been well for some time. We think we have a very good physician and a very good surgeon and they thought an operation would give her eight chances out of ten of becoming a well woman, so she concluded to have it done. She came thrbu^ nicely and the doctors say is doing as well as any parient could under the circumstances. She has no fev er and I fell very confident that within a few months she will be better than she has been for a long time. In fact, | think that after two or three weeks she should gain strength and health right along. I am more sorry than I can tell you that I didn't get to Council Bluffs after all on our recent trip west. There are so many things about which it would be so much more satisfactory to talk with you than to write. I would have broken away from the party at Kansas City and would have been willing to forego the trip with them over the Alton if it hadn't veen that Mr. Hawley wanted to see for the first time the C.C.& L. line and as I hadn't seen it myself it seemed to me that we ought to get our first im pression together if we could. It is a better road than we expected to see. Ei^ty-five percent of it is straight line. The ruling grades are one per cent, over a good pare of the line but with the exception of two or three places they can be reduced to three-tenths of one per cent, without great cost. Mr. Stenens thinks .j;i,50C,000 will put the line in shape for double the traffic it nov/ has.It is the shortest line between Cincinnati and Chi cago by fifteen miles and if there is no hitch in the foreclosure proceed ings we should be in control by July. 258 I aca glad Mrs. Beard has been %lth you and v/ish you would kindly ^ give her our kindest regards. I don't know of anything to take me to Chi cago soon, but if I should get there, I shall certainly be strongly tempt ed to take another day and t«nar noghts in getting to Council Bluffs so as to see you. I sui'pose you have seen that the insurgents have been trying to mix up the Administration Railraad Bill. Perhaps I can write you more in a few days about the present prospect. My trip out west and things which have happened here since my return have put me a little out of touch with the actual situation, but I hope to catch up this week. With high regard and sincere esteem, I am as ever, my dear General Faithfully yours, Frank Trumbull. " ' General G.M.Dodge, Council Bluffs, to:;' ".r I ■ . X';. Iowa. i'. > : .'1 - it ' i " J }!■' J I" .. K f- '! ' ;i '.- r. . ' ' o.t 0 jV., ; .'. - •/ - ■ ' 0 i ■li •U .iit-. 0 , ' • f* s. • t ■*' / I' ' I < : / ;1 , ' , ' v'ifiV'iiiV ■ ' V .1. ■ li 0 April 27th, I9I0. 259 Washington D.C General G.M,Dodge, Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear General I have your letter of April 25th. The clipping inserted in the Nonpareil as from the Malvern Leader is, ih fact, from the Guthriah of Guthrie Center. The Malvern Leader is friendly to me and does not " publish such articles. I have not yet been able to secure from Council Bluffs, in the absence of my secretary, all of the letters from Senator Curnmings to me, but I send you today copies of my letters on the subject, which I think by themselves will reassure you as to the true history of the in scriptions at Shiloh, and I hope to be able within a short time to have Cummins' letters and get them all before you. Cordially yours, Walter I. Smith. h ' i * i'- VI 265 Lookout Mt. Terji, May 2, 1910. General G, M, uodge. Coiancil Bluffs, lowa. xjear uomrade: At the request of Colonel oase i write you asking if you can give us any information about H. M. Harrison who was uapt. and chief of cscouts at Jiastport, Miss, in 1865. He was in the scouting service at Corinth, Miss, b fore the evacuation of corinth and whil., you were commanding the Post at oorinth ± remember to have heard it said in camp that narrison was a cousin of yours. in looking over somo old papers my daughter found a statement from H. M. Harrison of which I am sending you a duplicate with this letter. She also found some passes three of them from different officers. These original papers Colonel Case my pension attorney in Chattanooga has already sent to Mr. Bims. Thanking: you for your efforts in my behalf, I remain yours very truly. John B. Mills, Copy Head Quarters Scouts, Eastport, Miss. March 16, 1856 officer wishing his services. respectfully recommend him to any H. M. Harrison, Capt. and Chief of Scouts. 267 May 3, 1910. Seattle, Washington, Genei'al G.M.Dodge, Co\incil Bluffs, Iowa. Dear General Your letter of the S7th ult. is received enclosing slips relating to the controversy regarding the inscriptions on I5th and I6th Eegimental monuments at Shiloh. I am writing Judge Smith explaining, I hope, to his satisfaction certain phases of the Shiloh matter aiiich are being publicly discussed. The credit for securing Justice for the I5th and I6th Regiments can hardly be claimed by any one individual. Certain members of the regiments were active from beginning to end. Without their activity and vigilance any-hand-out by the National Commission would, in the first instance, have • ^ been accepted. Jhe Iowa commission saw the injustice of the Ainsworth decision, unanimously upheld the I5th and 16th Commissioners. Without their support righteous results would never have been obtained. Governor Cummins cheerfully took up our defense and brought the State of Iowa into the controversy; he labored for years in maintaining the history made by the I5th and I6th Regiments at Shiloh and in 1905 invited the co-operation of the congressional delegation. Without him, our records would have been despoiled and his services can never be for gotten by those who belonged to our commands. Senator Allison took up the battle at a critical period, and who shall say that his voice, possibly demands, v/ere not all-powerful. Judge Smith marshalled the congressional delegation, through whose instrumentality the final order was made, and he so revised a phrase of the inscriptions as to over come the objections of the Secretary of War. With tegards, I am, Yours very truly John Hayes iilay 7til, 1910. General G.K.Dodge, Washington, D.C. Council Bluffs, Iowa. Dear Friend:- I have just had a long talk with the President, and have showed him a copy of your letter to the soldiers of the 9th district, and also }lr. Byers' denial of your statements. He says for you to write him a letter enclosing a copy of your letter to the soldiers, which 1 herewith furnish, stating that you have sent it out to the soldiers of the 9th district, and asking him to corroborate you, ao^ far as his recollection will permit, as to my services in connection with the Shiloh monuments and the Grant monument; and thereupon he will send you a signed letter in the form which I herewith enclose. You will return this White House form with your letter to the President, and it will be rewritten and sent As this is a matter of necessity of some haste, I feel that jou will kindly attend to it for me at once. Cordially yours, Walter I. Smith. May, 1913. 271 May 9, 1910, H. Spooner, Pres., Northfield, Vt, Dear Sir:- I am In receipt of your letter returning my subscription list and note what you say; and also the different changes of address. I also note what you say about the Armory. It would be a great thing to have the State build that building if possible. The demands of"^the institution as it grown seems almost too much to gratify. I note what you say about Mr. Adams. As soon ss I learn the amount to be paid on the concreting of the Alumni Hall, I will send ii.y part. Ellis did not send me any particulars about what he had gathered about Partridge but said he had some important information. I smpppse I will get it later on. As to Mrs. Howard, I did all I could and got all the Western men I could to help raise the amount; I think it will go through Gen. Edward H. Ripley's address is 11 W. 56th St., New York; he has a country residence at Mendon, Vt. I suppose he spends his winters in New York City. If you find this address is not correct and you get his correct address, please give it to me as I wish to send him one of my books. I sent Fletcher's subscription for ,^500, which he has never acknowledged or written ab ut, to my son-4)n-law, Mr. F.S.Pusey, 36 Beaver St., New York City, asking him to see Mr. Fletcher, I understand he is a man that is well-off and if he does not give any attention to the matter, I thinK we ought to take some action in the matter to make him pay. You did not send me the address of Mary B. Dinsmore, who gave us ^200 . Won't you please sent it to nie? You ask who Leon A.-Kiumer is. This should be Leon A. Skinner, So. Royalton, Vt. I don't know about Mary Houghton of Arlington, Vt. I sent her a book and she must have received it for it has never been returned here. Siie subscribed jplOO and paid ,iplOO. '.Ve have no subscription blank for W . I. Granger but he appears on the subscription list as having subscribed :JlOO and paid J50 but we have not heard anything from him since. I think you ought to mail him your "Record." I have gone over this list carefully. Did you write any of these men in addition to what you had written? I am, Truly, G . M . Dodge subscription blank is for :^200. As soon as you have verified the statement of receipts and expenditures please return them with amounts so I can send copy to Mr. Adams THE "HITE HCUSE. WASHINGTON. 273 May nth, 1910. My dear General I am in receipt of your letter in v/hich you enclose a letter that you have addressed to the soldiers of the Ninth District in hehalf of the renomination of Hon. Walter I. Smith for Congress, and I note your re quest to me to confirm the statements that you Saake in respect to Judge Smith's connection with the inscriptions on the Shiloh monuments, and Judge Smith's efforts in behalf of the placing of General Grant's statue. I know Judge Smith v/ell, and knov/ a great many more reasons for wishing him to come back to Congress than those you state, for I regard him as one of the ablest and one of the best men on Congress, and one of the strongest lawyers and debaters on the floor. But as you invoke my person al testimony in respect to certain facts in your letter, I do not hesitate to say that Judge Smith's connection with the securing of the inscriptions which are now on the Shiloh monuments was direct and close. Many Iowa per sons took part in the discussion, and many long arguments were made, and the matter acquired siqch importsnce, that I delayed deciding the question after the arguments werw made, as I recollect it, for several months; and at the end of that time Senators Allison and Dolliver, and Secretary Shaw and Judge Smith came to me with an inscription dravm by Judge Smith which was offered and which I adopted as a solution of the difficult position presented. What you have said in your letter with respect to Judge Smith's agency in the maintenance of the Botanic Gardens as a site for the Gen eral Grant statue in Washington, is in every respect true, for I person ally know. Very sincerely yours, (Signed) Wm.H. Taft. General Grenville M. Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, Iowa. 275 Brooklyn, May 12th, 1910. Dear General Dodge: It is with great pleasure that I acknowledge receipt of your favor of 9th inst., with your letter to oe read at Memorial Services a the Tomb of General Grant, on the 30th inst. The letter is highly creditable to you, and despite its brevity will prove a valuable addition to our mass of matter relating to the Great Commander, Your very force ful phrase "Gen. Grant never fought a batle or v/on a vic tory vmless he asked immediately to move again upon the enemy, and for some r ason was always halted." With the instances you cite is suggestive of how you could amplify upon a unique feature of his career which so far as I have read has never been elaborated as you could do, and intensifies ray regret that you were iinablc to be our orator at this time. You were the first choice of our Post, and Gen. Grant and Gen. Porter have both expressed to me their regret that you wore unable to accept—the first in correspondence, the latter in a personal interview at his house a fortnight ago. With sincere regard, Hedlcy, 277 May, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa May 14, 1910. To the Editor of the Nonpareil: I notice you published the statement of the Guthrie Center Guthrian in answer to my letter to my comrades of the Ninth District on the Shiloh Monument. I simply stated in my letter the part the Honorable 'A'alter I. Smith took in bringing about a settlement of the inscription on the fionument. I received today frou President Taft, the then Secretary of War, who made the decision accepting the inscription as presented by Congressman Smith, the following letter which I will thank you to publish: "May 11, 1910. My dear General: I am in receipt of your letter in which you enclose a letter that you have addressed to the soldiers of the Ninth District in behalf of the renomination of Hon. Walter I. Smith for Congress, and I note your request to me to confirm the statements that you make in respect to Judge Smith's connection with the inscriptions on the Shiloh monuments, and Judge Smith's efforts in behalf of the placing of General Grant's statue. I know Judge Smith well, and know a great many more reasons for wishing him to come back to Congress than those you state, for I regard him as one of the ablest ana one of the best men in Congress, and one of the strongest lawyers and debaters on the floor. But as you invoke my personal testimony in respect to certain facts in your letter, I do not hesitate to say that Judge Smith's connection with the securing of the inscriptions rtiich are now on the Shiloh monuments was direct and alone. Many Iowa persons took part in the discussion, and many long arguments were nade, and the matter acquired such im portance that I delayed deciding the question after the arguments were made, as 1 recollect it, for several months; and at the end of that time. Senator Allison and Dolliver, and Secretary Shaw and Judge Smith, came to ne with an inscription drawn by Judge Smith which was offered and which I adopted as a solution of the difficult position presented. What you have said in your letter with respect to Judge Smith's agency in the maintenance of the 'otanic Gardens as a site for the General Grant statue in Washington, is in every respect true, as I personally know. Very sincerely yours, General Grenville M. Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Blufls, Iowa." Wm. I:. Taft." Very tespectfuliy, Grenville M. Dodge. Salt Lake City, Utah, May 18, 1910. General Grenville M. Dodge, 64 Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, Iowa, Dear Sir:- Your letter of April 28th was received and read with mpch interest. There has as yet been no difficulty in maintaining the Southern Pacific line across the lake. The presei-t high water causes some' trouble in maintaining the embankments durings heavy storms, to which the lake is subject. On account of the weight and great bupyancy of the water in this lake, it is more difficult to protect against then ordinary or sea water. That is, a heavy flow of water, such as a receding wave, will often carry rock of considerable size a considerable distance. Thdsfeature makes the rock protection which has been placed along embankments much more difficult- to maintain than would be the case if fresh water or sea water were to be dealt with, and as a result, with the lake at its present high level, storms have at times damaged the embankments to some extent, but such storms have done practically no damage to the trestle. Should the lake level continue to rise, further difficulty, and even serious difficulty, may be expected, and in such event it would seem possible that your early plan of following the lake shore from Promontory Point to near Momament might again be favorably considered. It is true that our early records indicate the lake has been at an elevation corresponding closely with the heighth of the present trestle. It is possible that when the plans for this trestle were pre pared, by reason of the then low stage of the water and its having receded for many years prior thereto, not enough weight was given to the former somewhat misty high level records. At that time various arguments were made to the effect that the lake could never again rise to its former high level. One of the principal arguments was to the effect that by reason of the water from the streams flowing into the lake being at that time largely used for irrigation, with a liklihood that the future would increase this use, there could be little probability of so large amounts of water reaching the lake as has been the case heretofore. In fact, at about the time the Salt Lake trestle was being built, some little alarm was felt throughout the Salt Lake valley that this lake was about to be entirely eliminated, by reason of the small flow of water into the lake and the heavy rate of evaporation. Pr'ojects were under consideration for turning a portion of the flow of Snake River into the Salt Lake Basin, with a view of perpetuation this lake. From such observations as I liave been able to make, I feel that the followihg conditions concern the lake level quite intimately and possibly to the largest extent; First, Snowfall: I is doubtless generally recognized that in the Salt Lake Basin the history so far as recorded indicates cycles in years during which the precipitation of moisture, and especially snow, is heavier than at other periods. During the past few years, the snowfall «n the mountains surrounding the Salt Lake Basin and upon"the headwaters of the streams flowing into Salt Lake has been much heavier than during 282 a series of years prior to this cycle, and should these years of heavy snowfall in the mountains continue I think we must expect a continuation or possibly a rise, of the present water level. In this connection, it would seem that precinitation records fail to tell the entire story as to the results of high precititation. Rainfall in the form of showers, or even rains, during the summer or fall months, seems to contribute very little lo the lake, and it is possible that these showers or rains are absorbed or tahen up by the soil to such an extent that their result upon the lake is hardly noticeable. But it has been noted that following winters of heavy snowfall in the mountains about the S It Lake Basin a material rise in the lake level has resulted almost without fail. I have, therefore, about reached the conclusion that snow falling in the mountains is the principal source from which the waters of Salt Lake are supplied and tha t the local con ditions upon the plains or upon the gently sloping country tributary to the lake have in the past had but "little effect upon the lake level. Also, that irrigation, so far as developed at this time, cuts a small figure, -^s the water taken out of the streams "for Irrigation is usually after the larger portion of the snows in the mountains have been disolved and reached the lake. That is, during the flood season, as a rule, very little water is used for irrigation . Most of the flood water passes into the lake and in large volumes. During the Irrigation season, the streams have dwindled to such a size that no great volume of water could reach the lake even though not taken out for irrigation, and there may be some question as to the taking of water for irrigation, especially in the Lake Lake Valley, materially decreasint fehe amount of water that ultimately reached the lake. Second,- Evaporation: It will be noted that the lowering of the lake level by reason of evaporation varies considerably during the different years. It has seemed that years of high evaporation have to some extent been grouped in cycles, and it is possible that these cycles correspond to some extent with the cycles of heavy snowfall. It has been remarlfed, and I believe substantiated by the weather reports, that during the past few years the heat and dryness of the atmosphere has been less intense than has been recorded in past summers. A Combination of low low snowfall in the mountains and extreme heat and dryness during the summer is, of course, a combination that tends to reduce the lake level. As the lake level reaches a higher elevation, the surgaee of the water extends over a largely increased area, thereby exposing to the influence of evaporation a much greater surface add over much of this increased surface conditions are favorable for evaporation, on account of the shallowness of the water and the favorable conditions for the ab sorption of the sun's heat, and this I feel is the safety valve provided by nature 8or checking the rise of the lake. I very much regret that data obtainable upon which to base a careful study of the changes in the elevation of the surface of Salt Lake are not available, but steps are being taken from which more pertinent data can be obtained in the future. For example, most of the precipita tion records pertain to localities' in the vicinity of the lake itself, instead of being records of the winter snowfall in the mountains, which, in my judgement more directly concerns the lake than the amount of rain fall which may occur along its shores. But in this respect I am pleased to note that the U. . Weather Service Bureau is establishing observation stations at more remote points, many of which should be able to give data which would seem to me to pertain directly to influence upon the lake. The U.''. Geological Survey have also been giving this matter some attention and it seems probably they may in the future be able to contribute materially to the information that would be necessary to correctly under stand the influences which bear most directly upon the water levels of the Great Salt Lake. Yours Truly, Wm. Ashton, Chief Engineer. 283 708 10th St. Washington, D, u. May 19th, 1910. » « Major General G. M. Dodg§, 0 vmcil Bluffs, Iowa, My dear General Dcuge:- 1 have the honor to send you the Congressional Eulogies of General John H, Ketchara an old veteran of the Civil War, and my brother, with a record of thirty-six years in Congress, It is with the view that you write a few lines of Eulogy on General Ketcham for a Biography and book of Eulogies I am preparing, vitn portraits of his Colleagues in uongress and oth r distinguished men. It is my purpose to have a photographic group of the sairviving Major Generals of the late Civil War. Sincerely, James C. Ketcham, Please send with your Eulogy your best photo. J.C.K. 284 James C, Ketchlim, Dear Sir; ' ' In reply to yours of May 19th 1 wish to say I first became acQusinted with General Ketchum in tne Atlanta Campaign and when I entered congress in 1897 found him a member from New ^ork. Having been comrades in the Civil 'Var naturally our acquaintance grew into a friendship that lasted throughout his life,As a soldier he had the confidence of his commanders and was noted for the care and attention he gave his regiment and his bravery in action. As a member of Congress his long service in the House gave him an experience that was valuable and he was consulted in matters of importance . His judgment was safe and valuable and he was especially friendly to new members, which they greatly appreciated. I am, Truly and respectfully. Grenville M. Dodge, 289 May, 1910, Council Bluffs, Iowa, May 25, 1910 F. Y. Hedley, ' Ch.U.S.Grant Post Memorial Day Ex. Com., 489 Washington, Ave., Brooklyn, N. Y. My dear Comrade: Referring to your invitation as one of the surviving offiders of the Army of the Tennessee and as the President of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee that if I could not be present at the services at the Tomb of General Grant on Memorial Day, you would like to have me write a letter to be read during the services. It is a great regret to me that I am so far away that it would be impossible to make the trip to attend the services. There is no ceremony that appeals to roe so strongly as the ser'vices at "General Grant's Tomb andthe tributes that are made to him on Memorial Day. It is unfortunate that the old army of the Tennessee lives in the far west so they could not attend in a body. They all honor and carry in their hearts today the great love, respect and confidence that they had for General Grant in the days of the war and while he rose to the command of all the armies, it was always his endeavor to come to all the reunions of the old army of the Tennessee and in all his life, he never failed to speak of them and with the greatest re spect and affection and was ever commending them and all their com manders for their services under him. It was always a mystery to the Army of the Tennessee who knew General Grant so well and compre hended so fully his great ability as a commander, why he was not more fully appreciated by the Government in the early days of the war. General Grant never foaght a battle or won a victory unless he asked immediately to move again on the enemy and for some reason he was always halted. After Donelson, he wished to combine his army with General Buel's and immediately move on Vicksburg. There is no question but at that time those two armies could have opened the Mississippi irver without much opposition but instead of action being taken on his request, he was relieved of his command. After Shiloh, he wanted to move immediately on Corinth but was halted on the order of General Halleck, and that great army was scattered instead of moving immediately upon the enemy so that at the battle of Corinth and luke. Grant had hardly 80,000 men in that command to fight those two battles and hold all the territory they had conquered and occupied. After Vicksburg, he desired to move immediateiV on Mobile but his army was then divided, part going to East Tennessee and General Sherman with his command marching across the country from Memphis finally reaching Chattanooga. After Chattanooga,he desired to move immediately on Mobile, utilizing a ^^art of that army on the forces on the Mississippi, but here he was halted again and it was only whan he became commanderin-chief of all the armies that he adopted his policy of a continual and agressive movement on the enemy until the end. 290 Even today after we have read the history of the war from the records, there does not seem to be any reason why the plans of General Grant, after each successful campaign, should not have been carried out and the veteran armies that he commanded should hot have immediately moved on the enemy as suggested. This failure of the Government to support his recommendations was a disappointment to him as all who were with him at the time know, still not one work or one thought or complaint came to his lips. His answer to us when we spoke of it was that "he doubt the Government had reasons and plans that conflicted with his views that we did not know of and that made their action necessary." At one of the last reunions of the Army of the Tennessee that General Grant attended, he paid this tribute to that army: "As an army, the army of the Tennessee never sustained a single defeat during the four years of war. Every fortification which it assailed surrendered; every force listed against it was either defeated, captured or destroyed. No officer was ever assigned to the command of that army who had afterwards to be relieved from it or to be reduced to another command. Such a history is not accident." No finer tribute than this was ever paid any army and from its ranks it gave the Federal Army, Grand, Sherman, Sheridan, McPherson, Logan, Howard, Blair, Austerhouse, Grierson, V/ilson, Rawlins, Ransom, the three Smiths, Prentis, '.Vallace, Porter, Force, Leggitt, Crocker, kower. Rice, Tuttle, Gresham, P^azen, Sprague, Fuller, Noyse, Hickenlooptr, Walcutt and many othei s too numiorous to mention. All have a prominent place in history and a secure place in the hearts of their countrymen on Memorial Day in all parts of our country where the comrades are assembled to pay their tribute to their departed friends and heroes, the namied of Grant stands first in their memory and on behalf of the Society of the Army of the Tennessee, our members extend to you their thanks for the tribute you pay on this day to the memory of their first and greatest comiiiander. General U. S. Grant, and his comrades who have passed away with him. I am, Truly and cordially, Grenville M. Dodge m June, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, Junel, 1910, Harvey Ingham, Editor Registex' ^ Leader, Dec Moines, Iowa. l.y dear Sir: The following is a statement taken from your paper of June 1st and is so misleading that it seems to me that such a wild statement when the evidence to convert it is so patent, should not be utilized by a paper to increase the prejudices against the railroads; "It would surprise almost anybody to hear that in these recent years, every additional mile of railway has cost the American u people not ^^.50,000, as we used to thim^ a mile of railroad cost, but between $200,000 and $300,000. The truth is the figures are so start ling as to be almost incredible. made the statement on a previous occasion here that since the year 1900 railway gross liabilities have been increased in such a fashion that we have had added to those liab ilities $3,500,000,000 without any additional railroad facilities of any sort to show for it." In the first place, since 1900 there has been at least 30,000 miles of new railroad built, not mentioning double tracking. That alone has cost more than a billion of dollars . Now in addition to this, since 1900, nearly every railroad has been obliged not only to increase its capacity nearly double but they have virtually had to rebuild their railroads to carry the heavy power and equipment upon |> it. There is no estimate as to what the cost has been but a great V proportion of this cost has come out of earnings which has not gone into the capital. Then again, every railroad in the United States, since 1900, h^ks had to add fron. thirty to fifty percent to its trackage, in increasing its sidings, in building to industries to accomodate its business. All this, especially in all the terminal points, has cost immense sums of money. It is only necessary for me to cite one or two instances. For instance, take the terminals; and elevated tracks in the city of Chicago and the Terminals and tunnels and grounds that have been added to the mileage in New York, New Jersey and Brooklyn. In these two cities alone, the addition to the railroads have cost close to a billion of dollars. When you take into consideration that every railroad in the United States, in every town of importance, has had to provide additional termanals paid high prices for the land and for all the work, you can see that $3,500,000,000. is a small sum to add to the capitalization of these roads for the work that has been accomiplished. You know tir. Kill estimates that it takes a billion of dollars per year, new capital,to take care of the increase of business. How Senator Dolliver can state that this two instances. For instance, in the city of Chicago and the have been added to the mileage In these two cities alone, the close to a billion of dollars. money has been paid and there is nothing to show for it. my comprehension, thi of what he said. I am. beyond nk there certainly must be a misquotation Truly and cordially, Grenville M. Dodge. 2t)3 June, 1910. Council Bluffs, Iowa, June 1, 1910, F. P. Spencer, Randolph, Iowa. Dear Comrade: I have yours of Kay 31st and take pleasure in answering it. On April 15th, Kr. Lincoln called for 75,000 troops. April 17th, the Virginia convention assembled at Richmond and passed an ordinance cf secession, which, however, before it could become a law or put in force had to be ratified by a majority mote of the entire State. On the 18th of April, Col. Robert E. Lee, informed General Scott that he was contemplating a withdrawal from the Army that he might retire to private life. April 20th, he sent his resignation to General Scott and then v/ent to Richmond. His resignation was not receivdd by the 7,'ar Department until April 25th, when it was accepted. Col. Lee on April 22nd became the Kajor General and Commander-in-chief of all the Virginia forces; therefore, he put in his resignation and became commander-in-chief of all the regular forces before the ordin ance became a law. The Ordinance was voted on on the 23rd day of May. Trijly and cordially. Grenville M. Dodge. 295 Brooklyn, J\ine Ist, 1910. My Dear General. I had the honor of reading your admirable letter, in the course of our Memorial Services at the Tomb of General Grant. It evoked very much coraraendation, and the concensus of opinion was that never before had such a splendid tribute been paid to the Grrat Commander as that of yurs, in its exploitation of his masterly plans after each on of his western campaigns. Your letter will go into print with the oration delivered on the same occasion, and I will take pleasure in forwarding copies. You will undoubtedly some day give to the press in some shape, or some one will for you, this admirable letter. In vieiv thereof, I would be grateful to you if you would turn to your carbon copy and give my name more faithful interpretation than my signature enabled your stenographer to do Your letter was widely com~ended at our dinner in the evening and I was desired to express to you, on behalf of my Post, our sincere thanks for same, and the hope that you world be permitted for many years to enjoy honor, happiness, prosperity, and communion with the troop of friends who hold you in so great regard. Sincerely ever. Y. Hedley, Capt. Penwich Y. Hodley, 'V'g 't. June, 1910. Omaha, Nebraska., June 1st, 1910. Gen. G. M. Dodee, Council Bluffs, la. Dear General:- Will you please send a co-y of your book, "How we built the Union Pacific" to George P. West, General Agent of the Chicago North Western, Omaha, Nebraska. Mr. West told me today, that he would appreciate one and that he would also like to have one to send to the literary bureau of his road in Chicago, so if you could send him two copies, he would appreciate it very much, one to place in their files in Chicago and one for his own personal use. I have heard a great many comments on your speech on Monday night. The Bee's article last'night showed that Mr. Rosewater had written an account of it and voiced the sentiment of every man that was present. There is no audience in Omaha that would give me greater pleasure to have you address, arid although as a rule not very spontaneous thej?- were enthusiastic to a man about your speech. I never heard you speak so well and so long without notes. Mr. Crofoot spoke to me several times when '"r. Gurley was speaking on how cold the audience was, and yet I thought they gave you a great ovation when you were introduced. We are doing some very effective missionary work in behalf of the cemetary, and have had considerable encouragement from parties who contribute the most towards its success. Mr. '"urphy is still kept there most of the time completing the improvements that are now essential, but after we get the roads oiled which we will start next Monday, he will be able to give more time to organizing a selling force. We are now working among the Fraternal organizations. I will soon have a statement made up on the monies we have expended and how, and we will try to cut down all the expenses to the minimum hereafter and what improvements we make we will do by contrast. I think I will have just the vault built in the rear of the chapel and leave the chapel for a few years. Everybody things we have a great property and that it is bound to be popular, but I realize that it will be slow and I think the time has come to pull ones horns in and sail close hauled. Very truly yours, N. P. Ddidgri, Jr. P.G. I sent father a copy of last night's Bee. I want to send one to Aunt Jule. Did you see it? Very truly yours, 307 June, 1910. My dear General Dodge:- 51 Broadway, New York, June 2, 1910. CONFIDENTIAL Mr. Huntington has showed me, when I came in today to attend a me^eting of our Iowa Society, your letter concerning your latest endeavor in regard to the Allison fund in Iowa. I note your inquiry as to what has become of me. I can report that in the month I have been out of office, I have been very busy catching up with accumulated business and looking into business enter prises which have been offered for my inspection and action. I have not as yet decided as to any one of them. As I prefer a newspaper to anything else, I feel that it will be wiser for me to wait for a few months until some of the present hysterialand chaos have cleared up indicating what is going to happen. I have never seen politics to be so fuddled and all parties so completely off their feet as at the present time. I notice that Iowa is about the worst part of the whole confusion. I sincerely trust that they will not beat Judge Smith, as he deserves re-appointment and re-election and the party needs the continuation of his services. I have not done anything as to the Allison Monument taatter here, because I waited for the return of Senator Clark, and who has more energy and determination aboutthis matter than any of our wealth members, and then when he came, he was suddenly called to Europe, so I m4ssed seeing him altogether. His office states it is uncertain whether he will return soon or not until the Pall. I had hoped when he was here to have him give a dinner or give one myself and get the more capable people to attend and try to make a final effort to raise something like ^2500, alltold and send that to you. We shoilild be able to raise ^5000 and if might be that if we could get all the people to attend the dinner that shotild come, that we could make up C5000. We will do our best. I think it would be useless to attempt it at the present time, with nearly all the important people are out of town or going out of town soon. It is impossible to get anybody's attention to matters like this at this time of the year. It is very plain that we will do well if we build one monument instead of two. I can only pledge you now that I will do the best I can toward helping you to make sure of the one monnment in Iowa. It is too bad that the great burden of this work has been left upon you. We are all well down here and we wll hope that you are in good health yourself. I can imagine how active you are at the present time in these times just before the Primary Elections in Iowa. With best wishes, I remain General Grenville M. Dodge, Baldwin Block, Council Bluffs, la. Very sincerely yours, James S. Clarkson. 313 New York City, Jxme 7, 1910. Gen» Greriville M. Dodge, Coiincil Bluffs, Iowa. My dear General:- The United states Military Academy, west Point, N. Y., IBS asked for an oil portrait of General 0 0. How;>,rd for Memorial Hall there, and has set apart a special place for it. Under the rules the Goveriiment receives and cares for the portrait, which must be contriuuted. The artist, Oharles Melville Dewey, has been selected and is at work on the portrait of proper size aiid suitable for the special location. The cost of the portrait, frame, hanging and expenses incident thereto, will be only ^3000; easy to obtain, in sn^l amounts, from General Hov/ard's many friends. It is desired that a committee be formed to be called "The General Hov.'a.d V/est Point Memorial Portrait Committee", to be selected from General Howard's friends. T^-e Committee, neither as a whole nor individually, becomes liabl for anj'- amount. The subscription will be obtained through the Secretary of the Committee, Mr. Thomas Conyngton, who at the re uest of General Ho. ard's family, has kindly consented to be Secretary of the Committee, and account for expenditures with the usual receipts and vouchers. Will you kindly consent to thus help honor General Howard's memory by becoming a Member of such a Committee? Very sincerely yours, J. n. How ard. P. S. After all acceptances have been received the names of all the Committee will be sent to each. r June 9, 1910. Dear General: 315 71 Broadway ^Hew York I duly received your letter of May twenty-fifth and I intended to write to you much sooner, but things have been moving so rapidly in the last two weeks that each day has made a nww history of its own. First let me thank you for your expressions of solicitude concern ing J^lrs. Trumbull4s health. She was in the hospital four weeks and has been home nearly three weeks. She doesn't get strenj^th as rapidly as she thinks she ought, but the doctors, the nurse and I, think that she has done just as well as anyone could expect under the circumstances.She has had no untoward symptoms and after the period of recovering strength is ov over I believe she will be in better health than for a number of years. I expect to be on duty all summer and am expecting to live at Braircliff lodge for two or three months, gping in and out nearly every day. I think suc^^ excursions in the country air as Mrs. Trumbull's strength willadmit from day to day will aid her convalescence. She^asks me particularly to send you her love, and we wonder if we aannot get a glimpse of you here this sommer. I would like to have a good long talk with you about conditions for, as I said above, we are making history very rapidly. If I hadn't been so incessantly occupied this winter and spring I would certainly have tried to get out and make you a visit in Council Bluffs so as to counsel with you about the drift of this generation. Everybody here was in the doldrums for a week or ten days on account of the injunct ion obtained by Attorney-General Wickersham, but after the visit of Ripley Felton, and Delano with the President there was a rebound as you know. The whole thing has its amusing side because different railroad men of brains 0iave talked as differently in the newspapers. I had breakfast yesterday morning with Ur. Ripley and had a long talk with him. He was feeling very blue, but I tried to cheer him up all I could. Certainly it is ttoue that 316 what he did in Washington on Monday, while not affording any immediate hope of better revenues for the railroads, was a good thing in one respect," vi*., that it has put e^rerybody in good humor. I take the position that we ^ cannot get anything settled when people are in bad humor, and therefore the first step toward adjustment was accomplished by the conference on Monday. Anyhow, the suspense which was hanging over the country on account of the injunction proceedings is relieved. YiTall Street can, you know, like most human beings—-stand most anything better than suspense. What will happen to the railroad bill in Conference Committee is somevdiat in doubt. Mr. Hines telephoned me from Washington yesterday afternoon and again early this morning, and I am going to try this morning to get some help for him here in certain quarters. Of course nothing radical aan be done in the way of changing the Senate bill, but some of its crudities may be very much improved without giving any real cause for offence to insurgents or others. There is some talk in the papers this morning'about the President's in- ^ sistence that the bond and stock section shall be inserted in obedience to the Republican platform, but Mr. Hines tells me that he ttiinks that is most ly talk. The bankers here are probably more interested in that feature than any other section. The bad features of the bill are the long time permit ted to the Interstate Commerce Commission for suspension of new rates, and the mi*ed-up condition of the long and short haul clause. Concerning the latter, I am inclined to think the railroads will knyhow have to accept something of the kind sooner or later. Undoubtedly some readjustments ought to be made. In talking with President Finley, of the Southern, in Washing ton not long ago, he said that a change in the long and short haul feature would upset a great many communities in the Southwest---such as Birming ham, Atlanta, etc., but he is evidently getting more philosophical about such changes. He said that, in years gone by, he had written reams of ^ stuff predicting dire calamities if such and such things were done, but the dire calamities hadn't materialized in full measure, so it may be possible 3 317 for us to find later in the long and short haul matter that we were worse •scared than hurt. Certainly one thing is true---the welfare of the country ^is now pretty well in the hands of the Interstate Commerce Commission , and it may he that we ought to put the country up to them for whatever happens either on account of getting the rate situation in a plaster cast, or up setting established commercial centers and conditions if the Commission makes radical readjustments. I have been urging on various people the wisdom of a coampaign of eduaation. I have had two or three talks with Mr. Yoakum, who is a genius in that way: I also talked with Mr. Ripley yesterday morning, and this morn ing I happened to come down on the elevated with Judge Lovett, who is en tirely in accord with the idea. I believe my colleagues, Mr. Hines, of the Atchison, and Mr. A.H.Harris, of the New York Central, are much impressed with it also, and I think perhaps we can bring around some definite pro- ^gram a little later by getting the railroad executives together in groups and submitting recommendations. I think it would be quite in order for us to do this for we would be glad to show what we have accomplished this winter and what we have iailed to accomplish, and in connection with that offer some plan for the future which would be a logical sequence. I have shown your letter to Mr. Hawley. I think that no one here will feel like striking out with another line toward the Pacific Ocean at any time soon, but Mr.Hawley has great respect for your advide and re commendations . It is hard to be reconciled to all things that are happening, but I amused Mr. Ripley somewhat yesterday morhing by likening him to t a painting of St. Sebastian in one of the great galldries of Italy. In the picture, St.Sebastian is being tortured: He is tied to a tree and is full llof arrows, but he wears an expression like he was preparing to go to an afteinoon tea. 318 That is I suppose, v\iiat railroad man must do under all the circumstances# Will you he coming east, and if so, how soon? As ever, with high esteem and sincere affection, I am Faithfully yours. Frank Trumhull. , i> i ,1 I . .. J - w • » A J . V.V ■ ' General G.M.Dodge, 1 f; .,> Council Bluffs, Iowa, IT- .;- i. ..tie '.'M • ' ■■ V " I. , Wrt J .'I. ''t . i .1 ' .'I . ■ a.: ; ? .,r: iV .wi' f < 0 >, Hir L Si I . 1:1*/! 'i ili - i ■ • \ i ■' . ^ .■ I , .a ^ 1 ■ ' ' I ■■ I , T .1 J ' j£) r .4 .. J j .1 IJ'l 1 • / »»•}»j( : < 1 I ,1 '• June, 1910. 321 Chicago, Illinois, June 23, 1910, General G. M. Dodge, Union League Club, New York City, N.Y. My dear General Dodge Mrs. Grant and I were terribly distressed when we found that you had been in the city and we did not know of it until after your depart ure. She asked me last night to write to you because she is too ill to do so herself. Mrs. Grant has most heroically gone through a very severe surgical operation, and, happily she is now convalescing finely. We hope she will be well enough to leave the hospital in two or three weeks. The dear little lady kept her trouble all to herself until two days before the operation, when she told me, but did not inform the other members of her family, and they did not know there was to be an operation until it was over. I am staying with her at the Michael Reese Hospital, sleeping and taking breakfast and supper there, coming to my headquarters every morning to attend to my military duties. I was delighted to get your letter this morning, and to learn that you are well and also to learn that father's monument is progress ing. Do you think it will be finiashed in time to be unveiled in 1911? I am expecting to be at Governor's Island about the 20th of July, and after getting my house in order, go to the instruction camp at Pine Plain, Jefferson County, New York, about the 28th. I will remamn at the instruction camp until the end of August. Mrs. Grant will stay at Governor's Island. Both of us expect to see much of you, and I hope you will find time to make a visit to the camp. I will take good care of you, and believe you will be greatly interested, for you will see much to remind you of your old Civil War days. Please visit me at the camp. Of course you know that your room at the house is always ready for you. With affectionate regards from us both for you and yours, Yours faithfully, Frederick D. Grant. 323 Kansas *^ity, Mo. June 29, 1910. Gen. Grenville M. uodge, My dear Sir: Jim .Bridger's daughter now Mrs. Virginia K. Halm was in to see me th other day, and -e were talking about her old claim as an heir of her father, Jaipes Bridger against , the U. S. Government, we have not accomplished anything or much lately. The Washington attorney, Mr. Charles M. Carter seems discouraged, and 1 hardly know what to do, I wish you could give us some good advice or some ©od directions as to the best v/ay to proceed. I have been thinking since the House or Representatives re vised its rules that we might be able to push a claim through the House and finally through the Senate, what do you think? Mrs. Hahn is not so strong as she used to be. She is failing gradually. She is very poor and works hard to support her self. Her dauf^ter died sometime ago. I have had to len her money when she was clear broke for her absolute necessties. I think it is a shame that this rich Government should be in poss ession of over five thousand acres of 1-nd justly belonging to her and her sister, and she is unable to get anything out of it. I would thank you very much to write me a letter after due reflect ion as to the best course to pursue. The monument that you so .-'merously erected in Washington Cemcetery is a beautiful testimonial of your appreciation, respect and love for James J'ridger. I often think of him and you as I pass it in the quietness of the beautiful surroundin'~s where the monument st-mds. Thanking you for Mrs. Hahn as well as for myself for all you have done in our behalf, I remain. 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Delegate as one of Inter-State Commission. Early History of Union Pacific and its Relations to Omaha. Death of J. B. Hawley. Colorado Midland Railway. Death of Major General F. D. Grant. Emmett Tinley at General Dodge's 81st Birthday Banquet. Union Pacific Changes Head of Echo and Weber Canons. Mrs. John A. Logan's Books. Republican Convention at Chicago. Fight Against Location of Grant Monument Washington, D. C. Address Before Commercial Club Omaha. Construction of Bridge over Atchafalya River. Iowa Encampment Iowa Soldiers Des Moines. General G. M. Dodge's Address before C. B. Order of Elks, Flag Day. Address before Order of Eagles, Council Bluffs. Historical Society Peabody, Mass. Visit Rochester, Minn. James Tanner on Visit to South. Extension Capitol Grounds Des Moines. Address by M. F. Gurley on G. M. Dodge's 82d Birthday. Allison Monument. Maj. Gen. P. J. Osterhaus on 4th Iowa Vol. Index to Book 22 included. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1912-1913 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Type The nature or genre of the resource Book Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections 1912 1913 Grenville M. Dodge Union Pacific Railroad https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/3087c7cccafa5f3a4141eaaedc92003f.pdf 1aee2439fe99b262200ed4ec93860b4f https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/d7a89b3fac8b19a0a09944f0f759c333.pdf 07292e8cab8c2cb991fb9075b1bd6c5f Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. 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Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1851-1916 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. 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Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - Book 3 Index Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1863-1864 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. 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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 5 July 1865 For an index for Book 5, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 5 Index" record. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. 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Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book 1865 civil war General Grenville M. Dodge https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/699da411b3fb32f5a335ba69d962a435.pdf e0ad3d8831490463ff6fee39fa2b31fe Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence Description An account of the resource Data chronologically arranged for ready-reference in the preparation of a biography of Grenville Mellen Dodge. Correspondence, diaries, business papers, speeches, and miscellaneous notes related to Dodge's family history, Civil War activities, railroad construction, life in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and travels in Europe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1851-1916 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers - Book 5 - August 1865 Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 5 August 1865 For an index for Book 5, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 5 Index" record. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource August 1865 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. 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Correspondence, diaries, business papers, speeches, and miscellaneous notes related to Dodge's family history, Civil War activities, railroad construction, life in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and travels in Europe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1851-1916 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers - Book 5 - September 1865 Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 5 September 1865 For an index for Book 5, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 5 Index" record. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource September 1865 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book 1865 civil war General Grenville M. Dodge https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/6606daa0ae6f69de38d228efe2c2926e.pdf 7110b017f68a7e096e29d80b057c6347 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence Description An account of the resource Data chronologically arranged for ready-reference in the preparation of a biography of Grenville Mellen Dodge. Correspondence, diaries, business papers, speeches, and miscellaneous notes related to Dodge's family history, Civil War activities, railroad construction, life in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and travels in Europe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1851-1916 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers - Book 5 - October 1865 Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 5 October 1865 For an index for Book 5, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 5 Index" record. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource October 1865 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book 1865 civil war General Grenville M. Dodge https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/b7cc8b18ac8c33029a14ad290763164c.pdf 7caebaf4cd79cbada5c5d3b272642216 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence Description An account of the resource Data chronologically arranged for ready-reference in the preparation of a biography of Grenville Mellen Dodge. Correspondence, diaries, business papers, speeches, and miscellaneous notes related to Dodge's family history, Civil War activities, railroad construction, life in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and travels in Europe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1851-1916 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. 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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 5 November 1865 For an index for Book 5, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 5 Index" record. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. 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Correspondence, diaries, business papers, speeches, and miscellaneous notes related to Dodge's family history, Civil War activities, railroad construction, life in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and travels in Europe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1851-1916 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers - Book 5 - December 1865 Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence. Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 5 December 1865 For an index for Book 5, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 5 Index" record. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource December 1865 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book 1865 civil war General Grenville M. Dodge https://archive.councilbluffslibrary.org/files/original/efabd2967e7296bf37e91ce52737188d.pdf 36bead797b4f17e5827589c604faa38c Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence Description An account of the resource Data chronologically arranged for ready-reference in the preparation of a biography of Grenville Mellen Dodge. Correspondence, diaries, business papers, speeches, and miscellaneous notes related to Dodge's family history, Civil War activities, railroad construction, life in Council Bluffs, Iowa, and travels in Europe. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource 1851-1916 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Text A resource consisting primarily of words for reading. Examples include books, letters, dissertations, poems, newspapers, articles, archives of mailing lists. Note that facsimiles or images of texts are still of the genre Text. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Document Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource General Dodge Papers - Book 6 - March to November 1867 (miscellaneous) Subject The topic of the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 -- Correspondence. Union Pacific Railroad Company. Generals -- United States -- Biography. Railroads -- History. United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - The War Period, Book 6 March to November 1867 (miscellaneous) For an index for Book 6, please refer to the "General Dodge Papers - Book 6 Index" record. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Dodge, Grenville M., 1831-1916 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Council Bluffs Public Library Special Collections Date A point or period of time associated with an event in the lifecycle of the resource March-November 1867 (miscellaneous) Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context B D6643z Coverage The spatial or temporal topic of the resource, the spatial applicability of the resource, or the jurisdiction under which the resource is relevant Council Bluffs, Iowa Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Educational use only, no other permissions given. U.S. and international copyright laws may protect this item. Commercial use or distribution is not permitted without prior permission of the copyright holder. Language A language of the resource English Type The nature or genre of the resource Book 1867 civil war General Grenville M. Dodge