12 20 8856 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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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. 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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - Book 1 1851-1889 Family history of Dodge family as recalled by Nathan P. Dodge. Diary of Dodge, 1853-1857. Correspondence. Anti-War Period. Norwich University. Index for Book 1 included. 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. 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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 2 1861-1863 Index for Book 2 included. Typescripts of originals housed at the State Historical Society of Iowa. Missing title page and pps 1-10 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 1861-1863 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. 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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. 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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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United States -- History -- Civil War, 1861-1865 -- Correspondence Description An account of the resource General Dodge Papers - 1914-1916, Book 23 Extracts from Illinois Central Magazine January 1914. (Story of I. C. lines during the Civil Conflict 1861-65. Page 1 to 14 inc.). How General Rawlins Came to be a Cabinet Minister. (Chas. Aldrich 1880). Death of Geo. D. Perkins, February 1914. (Sioux City Journal). War Time Song-The Southern Girl or Home Spun Dress, and Parody prepared by Louis McCrary. Late Company H 39th Iowa Inft. Birthday Dinner, April 11, 1914. Gen. Dodge's Statement to Nonpareil regarding Prohibition. Gen. Dodge's Paper to Des Moines Register & Leader on "Give the Railroads Fair Treatment." Letter to Edward S. White, Hralan (sic), IA., of his early experiences in Railroad Building. R. S. Lovett to E. E. Calvin on Baltimore & Ohio. Harlan to Clarkson regarding Dodge Biography. Inscription Suggested for Allison Monument. G. M. Dodge to Evelyn B. Longman. Gen. Dodge to Harlan regarding Autobiography. July 29, Aug. 18, 1914. Gen. Dodge to Harlan regarding Biography Aug. 22, 1914. Introduction by General G. M. Dodge at Society Army of Tennessee September 30, 1914. Biog. Sketch Gen. Samuel S. Burdett by Jas. Tanner. Petition for Election of Gen. Dodge as Honorary Member American Society Civil Engrs. November , 1914. Gen. Dodge to Huntington of Founding Iowa Society New York December 10, 1914. Gen. Dodge to Council Bluffs Nonpareil on Dodge Light Guards. Resolutions on Gen. Dodge by Iowa Citizens California. Mar. 8-15. Resolutions on Gen. Dodge by Iowa Senate. Resolutions by Council Bluffs Commercial Club, March 23, 1915. Resolutions by Congress & Senate on Gen. Dodge's 84th Birthday, April 12, 1915. Editorials on 84th Birthday. Resolutions on Gen. Dodge by Co. Bluffs Odd Fellow Lodge October 25, 1915. Resolutions on Gen. Dodge by Abe Lincoln Post, G. A. R., C. B., Nov. 6, 1915. Telegrams & Letters received upon Death of General Grenville Mellen Dodge, January 3, 1916. Index to Book 23 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 1914-1916 Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource Document Type The nature or genre of the resource Book 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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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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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 1864 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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