MCCWRT Meeting: Henry Haupt-- Part 2: The Railroad Guy

**  Henry Haupt was Lincoln's railroad man.

**  He was appointed to the USMA at West Point at age 14 and graduated at age 18.  He graduated in July and resigned his commission in September.

**  At the Second Battle of Manassas, Union General Pope needed troops.  But the question was, where were those troops.  These troops were with General Samuel Davis Sturgiss.  He kept 10,000 troops out of the action.

**  Haupt knew how to use railroads in a wartime sitiation.  The United States Military Rail Road was formed to make sure the railroads could help the war effort.

**  He rose to prominence during McClellan's Peninsular Campaign

**  He was especially good at building bridges, including the 400 foot long, 100 foot-high trestle over the Potomac Creek in Virginia.

--Old Secesh