. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . ns armies. liewas known throughout the army as an officer who. when he wason the line building entrenchments under fire, no matter whatthe circumstances were, stayed with his work, however fiercelyattacked. Pie turned his pioneer corps, largely made up of en-listed men, into fighting raen, and whenever we saw hira comefrom his work with any portion of his pioneer corps when at-tacked, we knew it was because he was driven out by a superiorforce. Other pioneer corps would often come out when simplyattacked, not be
. How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses . ns armies. liewas known throughout the army as an officer who. when he wason the line building entrenchments under fire, no matter whatthe circumstances were, stayed with his work, however fiercelyattacked. Pie turned his pioneer corps, largely made up of en-listed men, into fighting raen, and whenever we saw hira comefrom his work with any portion of his pioneer corps when at-tacked, we knew it was because he was driven out by a superiorforce. Other pioneer corps would often come out when simplyattacked, not being able to hold their men to the work, butHurd never did, and in this way he became favorably knownin the Army of the Tennessee. Hurd left me in August, 1864, in front of Atlanta, to beraustered out. Not being able to obtain promotion, he wentback to his profession and began work on the Union PacificRailway under S. B. Reed, who was division engineer of theroad at that time. After the war, in 1866, I found Hurd uponthe Union Pacific Railwav, and during the (;onstruetion of the.
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