Young Dutchman Views Post–Civil War America

Augustus J. Veenendaal, Jr. is author of Spoorwegen in Nederland [Railways in the Netherlands]. H. Roger Grant is Kathryn and Calhoun Lemon Professor of History at Clemson University. He is author of 24 books, including Visionary Railroader: Jervis Langdon Jr. and the Transportation Revolution (IUP, 2008).

"An important look inside a turbulent period in American history."—James A. Ward, Guerry Professor of History, University of Tennessee, Chattanooga"Highly recommended as a valuable primary source for public and college library American History collections."—The Midwest Book Review

• ContentsAcknowledgmentsIntroduction1. From Amsterdam through Belgium and Great Britain to New York: April–May 18662. In New York City and Westward to Chicago: May 18663. From Chicago through Illinois and Northward to Minnesota: May–June 18664. In Chicago and by way of Cincinnati and Washington, D.C., to Philadelphia: June–July 18665. New York City, Albany, Niagara Falls, Pennsylvania Oil, and Canada: July–August 18666. In Boston and New England: August–September 18667. In New York City, New Jersey, and Troy, New York: September–October 18668. In Boston, Providence, Albany, and back to New York City: October–December 18669. In the South: Charleston and Savannah: December 186610. In Georgia and Virginia: December 186611. To Baltimore and Washington, D.C.: December 1866–January 186712. In New York City: January 186713. In New York City and Boston and Salem, Massachusetts: January–February 1867NotesIndex