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The Memoirs of General W. T. Sherman
Vol. II.

CHAPTER XXVI
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Ord, at Detroit; General John Pope, at Fort Leavenworth; and General J.J.Reynolds, at Little Rock, but these also were soon changed.

I at once assumed command, and ordered my staff and headquarters from Washington to St.Louis, Missouri, going there in person on the 16th of July.
My thoughts and feelings at once reverted to the construction of the great Pacific Railway, which had been chartered by Congress in the midst of war, and was then in progress.

I put myself in communication with the parties engaged in the work, visiting them in person, and assured them that I would afford them all possible assistance and encouragement.

Dr.Durant, the leading man of the Union Pacific, seemed to me a person of ardent nature, of great ability and energy, enthusiastic in his undertaking, and determined to build the road from Omaha to San Francisco.

He had an able corps of assistants, collecting materials, letting out contracts for ties, grading, etc., and I attended the celebration of the first completed division of sixteen and a half miles, from Omaha to Papillon.


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