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PAGE EIGHT THE GETTYSBURG TIMES, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 1), 1934. Former Qettysburg College Professor Directed Railroad Operations During Civil War Lutheran Minister. Had Interesting Career Throughout Conflict Between North and South. the rear of the enemy, while other information could be only derived from the front." The dav belore General Haupt arrived at Harrisburg. General Lee, at Chanibersburg, had received information through a scout that the Union army was in the vicinity of Ficderick, and it was after receiving this information that the move- General Herman Haupt.

Who Married Daughter of Gettysburg ment to Harrisburg was halted and a concentration of his forces ordered to be made at Cashtown. On July first General Haupt returned to Baltimore and after organizing transportation on the Western Maryland railroad he came HE only railroad that Gettys-, pnr.ted Ircm the Gettysburg to Hanover with a construction hiir? h.iri nt the time of the bat- r.f Anrii i 1933. is or train, passed over the Littlestown Eddie Plank Qymnasiiim By WILLIAM C. STORRICK I HE only railroad that Gettys- bum had at the time of the bat- tie was the line running to Han- over, and known as the Hanover branch and therefore the ship- ping of supplies needed by the Un- ion army was slow and very limited The advance forces of the Con- 5 in commauu 01 Genual Early, reached Gettysburg on the 26th of June. During their move- i ment to York the following day.

they destroyed all the bridges on i the lines of the railroads, thereby halting all shipment of all kinds of supplies to Gettysburg and other places visited by Early's soldiers. At the beginning of the war, all the railroads were owned and operated by the various railroad cor- NOTE-- This article, reprinted Ircm the Gettysburg Times cf April 1, 1933. is or special interest to Gettysburg college students as General Herman Haupt. the central figure, served a professorship in college from 1837-1847. ctorv lr 1 nv TV by William C.

Storrick, West Lincoln avenue. Gettysburg, retired superintendent of the Gettysburg battlefield, for this Editor. built frequently was over Bull Run. It was sometimes destroyed by the Confederates, and at other times by porations and when lines were dam- the Union armies as the fortunes of aged by the armies in their move- ar ebbed back and forth. It was different fields--of-roaly--by- constant vigilance and quick work that the railroads, there and elsewhere, were kept in condition for the transportation of troops and supplies, and it was by the efficient management of General Haupt that this was accomplished.

During the Gettysburg campaign. General Haupt was of great service to General Meade. His long resi- idence in Gettysburg had made him 'familiar with the adjacent towns, and the topography of the land, and he knew at once where to go and what to do. Foresaw Gettysburg: Clash On June 29, he went to Baltimore, intending to join Meade at Frederick, but as Stuart, in his raid around Meade, had destroyed the telegraph lines and railroad connecting Baltimore and Frederick, he decided to go to Harrisburg and inform Meade what assistance and cooperation might be afforded by over operation, much confusion and delay in the shipment of troops and supplies was the result. Shipment over the dirt roads on account of mud, at times was also impossible.

A good example of this was the attempt of Burnside to move his army after the battle of Fredencksburg, known as the "Mud March." General Haupt Selected In order to better conditions, some of the railioads were over bv the war department of the United States and put in charge of a competent railroad man. The person selected for this position was General Herman Haupt, a graduate of West Point military academy in 1835, a classmate of General George G. Meade. General Haupt was well known in Gettysburg before the battle, and may still be remembered by some of the older citizens. He served as professor of civil engineering and architecture at Pennsylvania (now Gettysburg) college, from 1837-1839, and of mathematics from 1843-1847, and for Borne time was in charge of a ladies' select school in the Shutz house on Seminary ridge.

rled Miss Keller, daughter of the Rev. Benjamin Keller, then pastor of the local Lutheran church. Later, General Haupt was chief engineer of the Hoosac tunnel, the Pennsylvania and the Northern Pacific railroad companies. In April, 1862, Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton summoned him to Washington and put him in charge of rescuing the railroads and transportation service from the chaos into which they had fallen.

At first he was employed as a civilian, later, was given the rank of colonel, and after the second battle of Bull Run he was commissioned a brigadier-general of volunteers. On account of some difference with General Pope, commander of the Army of Virginia, he retired to his home in Massachusetts in July, 1862. A few days later he received the following telegram from the war department: "Come back immediately; cannot get along without you; not a wheel moving on any of the roads." General Haupt, returned and soon brought order out of chaos and the wheels began to move. Work Praised by Lincoln ENERAL HAUFTS first sen-ice was the reconstruction of the' railroad between Acquia Creek and Fredericksburg. All the bridges in the vicinity had been destroyed.

A bridge was later built across the i pf Potomac creek, four hundred feet iff long and eiehty feet high, and with only inexpert labor and an insufficiency of tools it was completed less than two weeks and ready for engines to pass President Lincoln, on seeing it said it was the most remarkable structure that human eyes had eier seen. "Why," L-ncoin said. that man Haupt has built a bridge across Potomac creek about four hundred feet long and nearly cnc hundred feet high, uhlch trains are running hoar, and, upon my there is nothing it but bean poles and cornstalks." Another bridge that had to that the troops under Couch at place. In his report he says: "Very extensive arrangements had been made to procure information from scouts, and I saw clearly that, mstead-of attacking-Harrisburg, an exceedingly rapid concentration of the enemy's forces had been going on through that day, tending toward Gettysburg, evidently designed to fall upon and crush the Army of the Potomac before it could concentrate, or its commander get it full in hand, "i at once telegraphed to General Halleck and to General Schenck and suggested that an engine be run from Baltimore to Westminster with express and a mounted courier dispatched to General Meade. The dispatch was received, and it helped to confirm the correctness of information derived from other sources.

It came from fcianch and rebuilt a bridge that had been broken down by the en- enemy. He then returned to Hanover on the 2nd. and found General Sickles there, who had been wounded at Gettysburg on that day, without uuiibponution. He had him sent immediately to Washington, C. Other dispatches were sent, some from Hanover Junction and other places, that kept Meade informed cf transportation conditions after the defeat of Lee's army on July 3.

Rebuilt Oxford Bridge New Oxford, General Haupt sent a telegram to General Halleck, via Hanover, saying: "Night has overtaken me at Oxford, ten miles east of Gettysburg. We have been at work on a large bridge near this town, which is considerably damaged. It will require two hours tomorrow to finish it. when we will proceed to Gettysburg. A portion of the track is torn up.

I have found the foreman of repairs, and he will commence to repair the track at daylight. About a mile of the telegraph wire is down, and wire carried off. I have sent my engine to the junction for men and material to repair it. "When an office is ready, and line in order to Gettysburg, the operator will report to General Meade's headquarters. Persons just in from Gettysburg report the position of affairs.

I fear that while Meade rests to refresh his men and collect supplies. Lee will be off so far that he cannot intercept him. A good force on the line of the Potomac to prevent Lee from crossing would, I think, insure his destruction. By 11 o'clock tonight about 2,000 tons of supplies should have been forwarded since yesterday morning, to Meade's army, if so much has been offered for transportation. I had arranged for 1,500 tons per day on the Western Maryland railroad.

The opening of the Northern Central railroad from Hanover Junction to York will permit the rapid and convenient removal of wounded to that city, which is an excellent location for hospitals. I expect to have this completed by tomorrow (Sunday) night." General Haupt arrived at Gettysburg, on Sunday, July 5, and after a conference with General Meade and other officers at Meade's headquarters, for about three hours, returned to New Oxford, and completed the railroad to Gettysburg. He then returned to Baltimore. Genera! Meade moved his headquarters from Gettysburg to Frederick on Tuesday, July 7. Jonathan Letterman, U.

S. Army, medical director of the Army of the Potomac during the Gettysburg campaign, praises General Haupt for his valuable assistance in affording transportation lor the removal of many of the wounded from Gettysburg to other hospitals. General Haupt. in his report of the Gettysburg campaign, speaks in terms of strong commendation of the corps for construction and transportation that assisted him in his arduous duties as chief of the United States military railroads. On September 16, 1863, he was relieved from further duty in the war department, and Colonel D.

C. McCallum was appointed superintendent of military railroads. Addenda A DDITIONAL information on the 1 life and work of General Haupt, received by Mr. Storrick since the publication of the foregoing article, is as follows: Born on March 26. 1817, and died on Pennsylvania railroad train December 14.

1905; graduate of United States military academy in June, 1835; married Miss Ann Cecilia Keller, of Gettysburg, 'on August 28, 1838; professor of civil engineering and mathematics at Pennsylvania college, 1844-1847; superintendent, chief engineer and director of Pennsylvania railroad company, 184.71856; chief engineer of Southern railroad (Georgia and Mississippi), 1852-1853; chief engineer and contractor of Troy and Greenfield railroad, 1856-1862; director and chief of military railroads with the rank of brigadier general, 1862-1863. Chief engineer of Shenandoah Valley railroad, 1870; general manager of Richmond and Danville railroad, 1872-1876; chief engineer of Seaboard Pips line (Pennsylvania and Maryland), 1876-1878; consult- ng engineer of Hydrogen company cf New York, 1880-1881; general I manager ol Northern Pacific rail- iioad. 1881-1835; president of Dakota and Great Southern railroad, 1884; president of General Compressed Air and Power company, 1392, and president of National Nutrient company, 1899-1905. General Haupt came to Gettysburg from New Oxford on Sunday, July 5, 1863. and visited General George Gordon Meade at his headquarters.

While in Gettysburg he spent several hours walking over the battlefield. On July 6. 1863, vhile in Washington, General Haupt wrote a letter to General Hallsck in which he urged the pursuit of Lee in order to prevent his escape across the Potomac river before the arrival of Meade's army. General Haupt's chief assistant, while he was in charge of the military railroads, was D. C.

McCallum, who succeeded Haupt upon the latter's retirement in September, 1863. Others who assisted Haupt were William H. Whiton, chief clerk: John H. Devereux, assistant; Adna Anderson, chief engineer of construction corps; William W. Wright, who was Haupt's pupil at Gettysburg and who was with Sherman during the Atlanta campaign, and E.

C. Smeed, assistant, who invented an apparatus for twisting rails in the destruction of track. Both Anderson and Smeed were with Sherman's army. Expert Shoe Repairing NEAR THE POST OFFICE Work Guaranteed Satisfactory sho eh eppair Gervus Myers, Prop. Baltimore St.

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24--Hanover away Rule Applies To Wrestlers Only Veterans Eligible for Team; Material Lacking In 118-pound Class. (Continued from Page One) practice for at least part of each of the last two seasons. Although practice can not begin in full until alter the Thanksgiving holidays, when the soccer and football men will be available, it is planned, as was the case last year, to call out the other candidates some time in October. If the material warrants, there will be a freshman team and some suitable matches will be arranged with preparatory school and Y. M.

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