. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and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, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and others in command of the armies in the field, and his impression of these men . ery anxious to get an account from Smeed himself ofthe reconstruction of this Chattahoochee bridge to inchide in theseMemoirs, and wrote to him two or three times without reply. Ifinally concluded that his well-known and extrem
. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and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, McClellan, Meade, Hancock, Burnside, and others in command of the armies in the field, and his impression of these men . ery anxious to get an account from Smeed himself ofthe reconstruction of this Chattahoochee bridge to inchide in theseMemoirs, and wrote to him two or three times without reply. Ifinally concluded that his well-known and extreme diffidence ren-dered him indisposed to place himself in any position that woiildrender him conspicuous; but after his death, in 1892, his daughter,Mrs. Xate Smeed Cress, of Emporia, Kansas, wrote to me that shehad found amongst her fathers papers an unfinished letter ad-dressed to me, which she would forward if desired. Of course itwas desired, and the following is a copy of the letter: Omaha, Neb., May, 1899. Dear General: Replying to yours, asking to be furnished witha brief account of my operations while connected with the ConstructionDepartment of the Military Eailways of the Military Division of theMississippi, I will say: In the fall of 1863, while at Alexandria, Virginia, I received anorder to report for duty to General D. 0. McCallum at Bridgeport, o n. GENERAL HERMAN HAUPT. 293 Alabama. I started the same day I got the order and went direct toStevenson. While there I learned by telegraph from Colonel W. that General McCallum and himself were in New York waitingfor men to be recruited for railway service in the Southwest, and thatthey would not come on South for some time. 1 also learned, while inStevenson, that the base of supplies for the army then in Chattanoogawas at Bridgeport, Alabama. Being unable to render any service where T was, I went on toBridgeport, the terminus of the railway. Finding nothing I could dothere towards opening the railway further S
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