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Civil War Soldiers - Haupt
| Haupt, Herman, brigadier-general, U.S.
Army, was born in Pennsylvania, and was a cadet at the United States
military academy from July 1, 1831, to July 1, 1835, when he was
graduated and promoted in the army to brevet second lieutenant, 3d
infantry. He resigned on Sept. 30, 1835, and served as assistant
engineer on the Norristown railroad during the following year. He was
principal assistant engineer in the service of the state of
Pennsylvania, 1836-39, professor of civil engineering and architecture
in Pennsylvania college at Gettysburg, 1840, and of mathematics,
1844-47. He then served as principal assistant engineer of the
Pennsylvania railroad, 1847- 49, and as general superintendent,
1849-52. He was chief engineer of the Southern railroad of Mississippi
in 1852, of the Pennsylvania railroad, 1852-54, being elected director
by the city council of Philadelphia, in 1855, and he was chief
engineer of the Hoosac tunnel in Massachusetts, 1856-62. He was also a
member and secretary of the board of visitors to the U. S. military
academy in 1861. In the Civil war he served as colonel of staff and
additional aide-de-camp from April 27 to Sept. 5, 1862, as chief of
construction and transportation on the U. S. military railroads,
directing the repairs and construction of roads for facilitating the
movements of the Federal armies in Virginia, and on Sept. 5, 1862, was
promoted brigadier-general of volunteers for meritorious services in
operations against the enemy during the campaign of the Army of
Virginia, but declined to accept the appointment, and devoted his
attention to civil pursuits. He was general manager of the Piedmont
Air Line railroad, from Richmond, Va., to Atlanta, Ga., 1872-76; chief
engineer of the Pennsylvania Transportation company, and Seaboard Pipe
Line, for carrying petroleum from Parkers City to Baltimore, 1876-78;
consulting engineer, 1878-81; general manager of the Northern Pacific
railroad, 1881-85, and president of the Dakota & Great Southern
railway, 1885-86. Source: The Union Army: A History of Military Affairs in the Loyal
States 1861-1865, Volume 8 Biographical, 1908
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