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Dodge (GRENVILLE MELLEN an American)

GRENVILLE MELLEN, an American military officer; born in Danvers, Mass., April 12, 1831; educated at Partridge's Military Academy and Norwich University; and was employed as an DODGE DODO engineer in the construction of the Il-paign of Chancellorsville" (1881); a linois Central and Rock Island railroads.

He entered the Civil War as colonel of the 4th Iowa Infantry; commanded a brigade at Pea Ridge in March, 1862, and became a Major-General of United States volunteers in June, 1864. He commanded a corps of General Sherman's army in the campaign against Atlanta (1864), and succeeded Rosecrans as commander of the Department of Missouri in December of that year. After the war he was chief engineer of the Union Pacific railroad and superintended its construction, and was a member of Congress from Iowa in 1867-1869. He succeeded General Sherman as president of the Association of the Army of the Tennessee in 1894, and was also president of the New York Commandery of the Loyal Legion. In 1898 he was made chairman of the President's Commission to inquire into the management of the War Department in the war with Spain. He died Jan. 3, 1916.