Ashby, George Franklin. Major General Grenville M. Dodge (1831-1916) Maker of History in the Great West. New York: Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1947.
DODGE, Grenville Mellen, a Representative from Iowa; born in Danvers, Essex County, Mass., April 12, 1831; attended the Danvers public schools and Durham Academy, New Hampshire; was graduated as a civil engineer from Norwich University, Vermont, in 1851; moved to Iowa and settled in Council Bluffs; member of the city council of Council Bluffs in 1860; entered the Union Army as colonel of the Fourth Iowa Volunteer Infantry on July 6, 1861; promoted to brigadier general of Volunteers March 21, 1862, and major general June 7, 1864; resigned from the Army May 30, 1866; chief engineer of the Union Pacific Railroad 1866-1870; elected as a Republican to the Fortieth Congress (March 4, 1867-March 3, 1869); declined to be a candidate for renomination in 1868; delegate to the Republican National Convention in 1868, 1872, and 1876; settled in New York City; president of the commission to inquire into the management of the war with Spain; died in Council Bluffs, Iowa, January 3, 1916; interment in Walnut Hill Cemetery.
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[ Top ]Ashby, George Franklin. Major General Grenville M. Dodge (1831-1916) Maker of History in the Great West. New York: Newcomen Society of England, American Branch, 1947.
Baldwin, John N. General Grenville M. Dodge. [Council Bluffs?: N.p., 1906].
Dodge, Grenville Mellen. Address to Army associations and miscellaneous papers relating to Civil and Spanish wars. New York: Unz & Company, 1904.
------. The Battle of Atlanta, and other campaigns, addresses, etc. Council Bluffs, Iowa: The Monarch Printing Company, 1910. Reprint, Earlysville, Va.: Old Books Pub., [1996].
------. Biographical sketch of James Bridger; mountaineer, trapper and guide. [Kansas City: R.M. Rigby Printing Co., 1904?]
------. A brief biographical sketch of the life of Major-General Grenville M. Dodge. New York: Press of Styles & Cash, 1893. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1981.
------. Colonel William H. Kinsman. Des Moines: N.p., 1902.
------. How We Built the Union Pacific Railway. Washington: Government Printing Office, 1910. Reprint, Ann Arbor, [Mich.]: University Microfilms, [1966].
------. The Indian campaign of winter of 1864-65. [Denver?: N.p., 1907?]
------. Map of the Union Pacific Rail Road and surveys of 1864, 65, 66, 67, 1868 from Missouri River to Humboldt Wells, G.M. Dodge, Chief Engineer. [N.p.], 1869.
------. Personal recollections of General William T. Sherman, by Major-General Grenville M. Dodge. Delivered at the 28th annual encampment, Department of Iowa, Grand Army of the Republic, May 21, 1902, Des Moines, Iowa.
------. Personal recollections of Lincoln: An address before the Young Men's Christian Association of Council Bluffs, Iowa, on February 12th, 1911. Council Bluffs, Iowa: Monarch Printing Co., 1911.
------. Personal Recollections of President Abraham Lincoln, General Ulysses S. Grant, and General William T. Sherman. Council Bluffs, Iowa: The Monarch Printing Company, 1914. Reprint, Denver: Sage Books, [1965].
------. Romantic realities. The story of the building of the Pacific roads ... A paper on the trans-continental railways, by General G. M. Dodge, read before the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at its 21st annual reunion at Toledo, Ohio, September 15, 1888. Compliments Passenger Department of the Union Pacific system. Omaha, Nebr.: N.p., 1891.
------. Sketch of the military service of Major General Wager Swayne. New York: Unz, [1903].
------. [Transcontinental railways] Paper read before the Society of the Army of the Tennessee at its 21st annual reunion at Toledo, O., Sept. 15, 1888. New York: Unz & Co., printers, 1899.
Farnham, Wallace D. "Grenville Dodge and the Union Pacific: A Study of Historical Legends." Journal of American History 51 (1965): 632-50.
Hirshon, Stanley P. Grenville M. Dodge: Politician Railroad Pioneer. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1967.
Mauck, Genevieve Powlison, and William J. Petersen. "Grenville Mellen Dodge, Soldier-Engineer." Palimpsest 47 (November 1966): 433-80.
Perkins, Jacob Randolph. Trails, rails and war; the life of General G. M. Dodge. Indianapolis: Bobbs-Merrill, [1929]. Reprint, New York: Arno Press, 1981