Drawing of John S. "Jack" Casement. Drawing is signed "Brady. N.Y."

In charge of logistics and construction of the UPRR were the actual contractors, the Casement Brothers, Dan and Jack Casement. Jack Casement (1829-1909) served in the Union Army during the Civil War, first in a volunteer Ohio unit and was at the Battle of Winchester. Later he served in Tennessee. At the end of the War, he was breveted as a brigadier general and was, thus, referred to be workers on the railroad as "General Jack."