This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... OF GENERAL HERMAN HAUPT Director, Chief Engineer and General Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Contractor and Chief Engineer for the Hoosac Tunnel Chief of the Bureau of United States Military Railroads in the Civil War Chief Engineer of the Tidewater Pipeline General Manager of the Richmond ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1901 edition. Excerpt: ... OF GENERAL HERMAN HAUPT Director, Chief Engineer and General Superintendent of the Pennsylvania Railroad Contractor and Chief Engineer for the Hoosac Tunnel Chief of the Bureau of United States Military Railroads in the Civil War Chief Engineer of the Tidewater Pipeline General Manager of the Richmond & Danville and Northern Pacific Railroads President American Air Power Company Etc Etc GIVING HITHERTO UNPUBLISHED OFFICIAL ORDERS, Personal Narratives Of Important Military Operations, AND Interviews With President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General- In-chief Halleck, And With Generals Mcdowell, Mc- Clellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, And Others In Command Of The Armies In The Field, And His Impressions Of These Men [WRITTEN BY HIMSELF] With Notes And A Personal Sketch By Frank Abial Flower Illustrated from Photographs of Actual Operations in the Field 1901 PREFATORY NOTE 'HERE is too much truth in the Irish observation that "No one thinks of strewing flowers on a friend's grave till after he is The writer entertained a decided feeling that a man like General Haupt, full of years, of goodness, of unselfish patriotism, and of widely fruitful deeds, certainly should have his "grave" bestrewn with the very choicest flowers while yet there was life to enjoy their fragrance. This feeling led to the publication of the present volume. The main portion of it, which is General Haupt's, was committed to writing by him in 1889. He had no intention of publishing the collection--merely desired to get into record form, for the gratification of his grandchildren and other immediate descendants, many important facts concerning our civil war which had entirely escaped the attention of historians--especially those in which he was either the foremost or a...
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