He too had been a regular army officer, but of the younger class.

Rather small and delicate in person, gentle and refined in manner, he had about him little that answered to the popular notion of a soldier.

He had resigned from the army some years before, and was a professor in an important educational institution in Brooklyn, N.Y., when at the first act of hostility he offered his services to the governor of Ohio, his native State.
After our day's work, we walked together along the railway, discussing the political and military situation, and especially the means of making most quickly an army out of the splendid but untutored material that was collecting about us.

Under his modest and scholarly exterior I quickly discerned a fine temper in the metal, that made his after career no enigma to me, and his heroic death at the head of his division in the thickest of the strife at Stone's River no surprise.
The two regiments which began the encampment were quickly followed by others, and the arriving regiments sometimes had their first taste of camp life under circumstances well calculated to dampen their ardor.

The Fourth Ohio, under Colonel Lorin Andrews, President of Kenyon College, came just before a thunderstorm one evening, and the bivouac that night was as rough a one as his men were likely to experience for many a day.