Chapter 1: Genesis, footnote 6, page 4 Ch1 fn. 6 p. 4 Tags: Referral, Dissertations, Histories and Biographies, Politics, Corporate and Business Organization This account and what follows is drawn largely from Samuel Richey Kamm, "The Civil War Career of Thomas A. Scott," (Ph.D. Dissertation, University of Pennsylvania, 1940). See also, Robert C. Angevine, The Railroad and the State: War, Politics, and Technology in Nineteenth-Century America (Stanford, CA, Stanford University Press, 2004), 133-34.