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Herman Haupt (March 26, 1817 – December 14, 1905) was an American civil engineer and railroad construction engineer and executive. As a Union Army General during the American Civil War, he revolutionized U.S. military transportation, particularly the use of railroads.
- 1835; 1862–1863
- Brigadier General
22 mar 2024 · Herman Haupt was an American civil engineer and inventor, known especially for his work on the Hoosac Tunnel in Massachusetts. Haupt graduated from the U.S. Military Academy, West Point, N.Y., in 1835 but resigned his army commission to enter the rapidly expanding field of railroad engineering, in.
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The Generals and Admirals: Herman Haupt (1817-1905) - Mr. Lincoln's White House. Union official in charge of railroad construction, Herman Haupt served as the U.S. Railroad Superintendent from 1862 to 1863. His whole background was in railroading after his graduation from West Point—mostly in Pennsylvania and Massachusetts.
Herman Haupt—railway engineer, inventor, author, and administrator—was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania into a middle-class family. When Haupt was eleven, his father died, and the family fell into poverty. Haupt was very intelligent, however, and his congressman helped him gain admission to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, where ...
15 giu 2018 · Herman Haupt: Reopening The Rail Lines To Gettysburg. by Sarah Kay Bierle. Posted on June 15, 2018. Herman Haupt. “I am now at Hanover Station. A bridge is broken between this place and Littlestown. I will proceed at once to repair it, and commence to send off wounded; then return and take the Gettysburg Railroad and commence repairing it.
16 mag 2023 · View in National Archives Catalog. Herman Haupt was not to be stopped. He was an industrious man, a skilled organizer, and an experienced railroad engineer— an important figure for the Union in his job of overseeing the operation and maintenance of the North's military railroads during the Civil War.
10 mag 2009 · 1971 HERMAN HAUPT AND THE PENNSYLVANIA RAILROAD 75 Construction, which was well received and was used for decades as a standard text at the best engineering schools in the country, including his alma mater.7 Haupt was too much a man of action to settle down to a life of research; after the Pennsylvania Railroad was chartered in 1846 he
