Identifier: howwebuiltunionp00dodg (find matches)
Title: How we built the Union Pacific railway, and other railway papers and addresses
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Dodge, Grenville Mellen, 1831-1916
Subjects: Union Pacific Railroad Company Railroads
Publisher: (New York?
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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h, Atlanta, and in fact, nearly all the great battlefieldsof the war. As General Grant, speaking of Vicksburg, saysin his personal memoirs, It looks now as if Providence di-rected the course of the campaign, while the Army of Ten-nessee executed the decree. The name of General Dodge will forever be associatedwith the Army of the Tennessee, its great soldier in time ofwar and its great citizen in time of peace. He was one of itsbest and honored commanders, a fit companion of Sherman,McPherson and Logan. In the personal memoirs of Grant,Sherman*and Sheridan are found the highest testimonials ofthese great soldiers to the valor, courage, skill and braveryof General Dodge. Commendation from such a source is apriceless legacy. I desire to speak tonight of the achievements and triumphsof General Dodge in the ranks of private citizenship. Whilehe has illuminated the pages of American history with hisdeeds of valor, he has also made his impress as a private citi-zen in the sphere of industry.
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J A TRIBUTE TO GENERAL DODGE 83 It is not the rule that men ascend to eminence by leapsand bounds. It is by steady tread that we move up the roughand rugged path to success. This is an age of concrete thoughtand those of whatever vocation who rise above mediocrityand reach eminence and distinction are they who subject theirlives to the crucible of hard intellectual and physical endeavor. We often and wisely repeat the truism that man is thearchitect of his own fortune. Individuality is the despot, des-tiny the subject. I do not subscribe to the doctrine that all men are createdequal or that at the threshold of lifes contest all are equallyarmed, but among those who are thus favored some fail whileothers succeed, thus establishing the fact that success is areward not a legacy. A man rising to eminence acquires that estate at tre-mendous cost. Many they are who crave it but few they arewho are willing to strive for it in the only way it can beobtained, that is, by hard and constant ende

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