vacant window where the dacoit had been, and up at the

graduated in 1853. On graduating he was appointed to the Ordnance

Corps, and served in that department at various arsenals and ordnance

depots throughout the country till early in 1861, when he resigned to

accept a professorship of mathematics and civil engineering at the

Brooklyn Collegiate and Polytechnic Institute. At the breaking out

of the war he immediately tendered his services to the Government,

and soon rose to the colonelcy of the Thirty-Third Ohio Volunteers,

and afterward to the rank of brigadier-general. I knew him well, and