of the face the gleaming fangs were revealed; and the body,

command as the Eleventh Division, Army of the Ohio, and assigning

Brigadier-General J. T. Boyle to command the division, and me to

command one of its brigades. To this I could not object, of course,

for I was a brigadier-general of very recent date, and could hardly

expect more than a brigade. I had learned, however, that at least

one officer to whom a high command had been given--a corps--had not

yet been appointed a general officer by the President, and I

considered it somewhat unfair that I should be relegated to a