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Civil War Soldiers - Dodge
| Dodge, Charles C., brigadier-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Plainfield, N. J., Sept. 16, 1841. He was
commissioned captain in the first N. Y. mounted rifles, Dec. 6, 1861,
and was soon afterwards promoted major. He was in command of the
outposts at Newport News, and of a cavalry column of Gen. Wool's army
that marclicd on Norfolk, and received the surrender of that place
before the arrival of his superior officers. He commanded in
successful engagements at Suffolk, Va., and Hertford ford, N. C, was
promoted lieutenant-colonel, July 1, 1862, colonel, Aug. 13, 1862, and
brigadier-general of volunteers, Nov. 29, 1862, and on June 12, 1863,
he resigned. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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| Dodge, Grenville M., major-general,
U.S. Army, was born in Danvers, Mass., April 12, 1831, was graduated
in Capt. Partridge's military academy, Norwich, Vt., in 1850, and in
1851 moved to Illinois, going thence to Iowa, and was employed as a
civil engineer in railroad construction work until the outbreak of the
Civil war. He was sent to Washington in 1861 to secure arms and
equipments for the Iowa troops, was successful in his mission, and on
returning to Iowa was appointed colonel of the 4th Iowa regiment,
which he had raised. He served in Missouri under Fremont, commanded a
brigade in the Army of the Southwest, and a portion of his command
took Springfield, Feb. 13, 1862, opening Gen. Curtis' Arkansas
campaign of that year. At the battle of Pea ridge he commanded a
brigade on the extreme right, had three horses shot under him in that
engagement and was severely wounded in the side. For gallantry he was
appointed brigadier-general of volunteers, March 31, 1862, and in June
of that year he took command of the district of the Mississippi and
built the Mississippi & Ohio railroad. He was one of the first to
organize negro regiments. He defeated Gen. J. B. Villepigue on the
Hatchie river, Oct. 5, 1862, captured Col. W. W. Faulkner and his
forces near Island No. 10, and in the autumn of 1862 was placed in
command of the 2nd division of the Army of the Tennessee. During the
Vicksburg campaign, with headquarters at Corinth, he made frequent
raids, and indirectly protected the flanks of both Grant and Rosecrans,
and for his services was placed at the head of Gen. Grant's list of
officers recommended for promotion. He distinguished himself at the
battle of Sugar valley, May 9, 1864, and at Resaca, May 14 and 15,
1865, and for his services at these engagements was promoted
major-general of volunteers June 7, 1864. In the Georgia campaign he
led the 16th corps of Sherman's army and distinguished himself at
Atlanta, July 22, withstanding, with eleven regiments, a whole army
corps, and at the siege of that city, on Aug. 19, where he received a
wound so severe as to incapacitate him for service for some time. He
succeeded Gen. Rosecrans in the command of the Department of Missouri
in Dec, 1864, became commander also of the Department of Kansas and
the territories in Feb., 1865, breaking up bands of guerrillas and
marauders and defeating hostile Indians, and receiving the surrender
of Gen. Smith's army in Missouri, and Gen. Merriwether Jeff Thompson's
command in Arkansas. Gen. Dodge was chosen chief engineer of the Union
Pacific railroad on May 1, 1866, and resigned from the army to accept
the office. He served in the 40th Congress, 1867-69, as representative
from Iowa, but declined renomination. He was chief engineer of the
Texas & Pacific railroad from 1871 to 1881, and then removed to New
York city. Gen. Dodge was a delegate to the Republican national
conventions of 1868 and 1876, held the office of president of the
Society of the Army of the Tennessee, and was at one time commander of
the Loyal Legion. He was appointed major-general in the war with
Spain, in 1898, but declined the honor.
Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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