. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and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 . neering, and myAssistant Engineer on the Pennsylvania Eailroad, where hisintelligence, activity and efliciency gave me great him to be the man for the place, I gave him charge ofthe transportation on the Ac
. Reminiscences of General Herman Haupt; giving hitherto unpublished official orders, personal narratives of important military operations, and interviews with President Lincoln, Secretary Stanton, General-in-chief Halleck, and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 . neering, and myAssistant Engineer on the Pennsylvania Eailroad, where hisintelligence, activity and efliciency gave me great him to be the man for the place, I gave him charge ofthe transportation on the Acquia Creek & Fredericksburg Rail-road, which was well managed. He accompanied General Sherman in his march to the sea,and managed the transportation on the whole system of MilitaryRailroads used in that memorable campaign, securing resultswhich, considering the difficulties encoimtered, were trulymarvelous. General Sherman has referred to Wright in his Memoirs interms of the highest commendation, but T regret that he overlookedAnderson and Smeed, without whose efilcient service in construc-tion no transportation could have been effected: but these gentle-men Avere in the field, and at a distance, and did not come underthe eye of the General in command, while Wright spent much ofhis time at Headquarters, and an opportunity was offered forbetter GENERAL HERMAN HAUPT. 317 E. C. Smeed.—I may be considered extravagant in the strongexpressions of commendation I have used in regard to members ofmy staff in the Construction and Transportation Corps of theMilitary Eailroads, but amongst them all Smeed is the man whomI most delight to honor, and especially so as Generals Shermanand McCallum, while making favorable mention of others, haveomitted entirely the man whom I consider most worthy of especialnotice. Before the war Smeed held a subordinate position on theCatawissa Eailroad in Pennsylvania as a Eoad Supervisor, incharge of bridges and trestles. He came to Virginia
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