General Herman Haupt
As a
Union Army
general in the
American Civil War, he
revolutionized military transportation, organization of
the U.S. Military Railroad, in the United States
and was one of the unsung heroes of the war.
Thaddeus S.C. Lowe
Thaddeus S.C. Lowe was an American aeronaut who
attempted to cross the Atlantic and also
introduced the use of balloons into the
U.S. Civil War. this invention helped a lot on enemy troops.
Andrew Carnegie
Through Andrew Carnegie was obtained the force which opened the War
Department Telegraph Office; which speedily attained national
importance by its remarkable work, and with which the memory of
Abraham Lincoln must be inseparably associated. It was fortunate for
the success of the telegraphic policy of the Government that it was
entrusted to men of such administrative ability as Colonel Anson
Stager, E. S. Sanford, and Major Thomas T. Eckert. The selection of
operators for the War Office was surprisingly fortunate, including,
as it did, three cipher-operators-D. H. Bates, A. B. Chandler, and
C. A. Tinker-of high character, rare skill, and unusual discretion.
John Ericsson
Naval engineers
of the 1860's were given the assignment of building ships that could withstand
the cannonballs of artillery. Two of these were the Merrimac and the
Monitor. Both would end up in battle and history was made. Present-day
modern ships are the result of the invention of the iron ship in the 1860's.
