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Major General Grenville Dodge had a problem when he served during the War. He couldn’t seem to stay out of the way of bullets, starting with an accident in 1861, when he shot himself. But he proved a capable leader, and an excellent engineer, and a formed friendship with General's Grant and Sherman, one that would last the remainder of their lives, helped him advance in rank rapidly, commanding a corps under Sherman at Atlanta - until another bullet found him.
Grenville Mellen Dodge died January 3, 1916, from cancer, at the age of 84, in Council Bluffs, Iowa. His mansion, shown in the above photo, still stands and is a museum today. While reported to be the last Civil War corps commander to die, former cavalry corps commander James H Wilson would survive him by nine years.
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The latter two photo's (and next) are courtesy the Council Bluffs Iowa Library
The next photo is a personal favorite and if you download this photo and zoom in with your photo viewer (I use the free Infranview if you don't have one) , you might recognize some of the Civil War photo's on his wall, and others that you may not be familiar with
Pet lovers share a passion with this general
According to the Encyclopedia of the Great Plains, General Dodge also founded the city of Cheyenne, Wyoming, selecting the site as a supply depot and naming it after the Cheyenne Indians.