445, 446.] Benham stayed but two or three days, modified Wagner's plans enough to feel that he had made them his own, and then went back to Rosecrans's headquarters, where he was met with an appointment as brigadier-general, and was relieved of staff duty.

He was a stout red-faced man, with a blustering air, dictatorial and assuming, an army engineer of twenty-five years' standing.

He was no doubt well skilled in the routine of his profession, but broke down when burdened with the responsibility of conducting the movement of troops in the field.

Wagner was a recent graduate of the Military Academy, a genial, modest, intelligent young man of great promise.
He fell at the siege of Yorktown in the next year.

Whittlesey was a veteran whose varied experience in and out of the army had all been turned to good account.