Grenville Mellen Dodge & Staff.  Photo taken at Corinth, Mississippi sometime between March 1862 and June 1864.

Trained as an engineer in New England before making his home in the Midwest, Dodge mustered in as Colonel of the 4th Iowa Infantry July 6, 1861.  At the Battle of Pea Ridge he had three horses shot from under him and was severely wounded.  Promoted to Brigadier General March 21, 1862 and Major General June 7, 1864, he commanded the XVI Corps during the Atlanta campaign where again he was seriously wounded.  Towards the end of the war Gen. Dodge commanded the Dept. of Kansas and the territories establishing Fort Dodge (later Dodge City) while dealing with guerrillas and hostile Indians; after the war, was appointed chief engineer for the Union Pacific Railroad and by May 1869 oversaw the creation of 1,086 miles of track to Promontory, Utah.  He is one of the subjects posed in the "Meeting of the Rails", an icon of American photography. 
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