Brig. General Herman Haupt
I enjoyed the talk on the Pennsylvania Railroad and the Civil War given recently by Ivan E. Frantz, Jr. at the York Civil War Round Table. I was especially impressed by Brig. General Herman Haupt and his fantastic engineering of railroad bridges and the speedy repairs his men made to the bridges destroyed by the Confederate invaders of York County.
Wondering, as always, if he had any other York County area connections, I did a little searching. Turns out, he certainly did.
Continue reading The (Railroad) Bridges of York County.
