"Mr. Berger, you had better send to the soldier and get your pup back. I have no doubt your game cock was a valuable bird, and that your terrier pup will make a good dog, but as neither of them would be recognized on my property return, I expect you to deliver the horse to me at once." "I won't do it."

"You won't?"

"No, curse me, if I do!"

“Corporal, hand this man over to the officer of the guard, with instructions to keep him in custody until further orders."

"You don't mean to put me in the guard-house, do you?"

"Yes; and to keep you there until the horse is restored."

"Well, if I must, I must! but it's hard to deprive a man of his property, and loose his cock and pup besides. I'll give him up under protest!"

Berger, having sent for the horse, delivered him to Smith and left, swearing he would be revenged on the soldier for cheating him, when he knew the horse belonged to the Government.

CHAPTER XII.

THE NOTABLES WE MET.

WE are indebted to the Wheeling Intelligencer for the following sketches of Brigadier-General Wm. S. Rosecrans and Brigadier-General George L. Hartsuff:

BRIGADIER-GENERAL ROSECRANS.

William Starke Rosecrans was born in Kingston Township, Delaware County, Ohio, on the 6th of November, 1819. His parents were Crandall Rosecrans, whose ancestors were originally from Amsterdam, Holland, and Jemima Hopkins; the former a native of Wyoming Valley, Pennsylvania, who immigrated to Ohio in 1808-the latter, raised in the same beautiful country, and a daughter of a soldier of the Revolution, who had for five years daily offered his life and treasure in that struggle for liberty. The early years of the present General were passed in close application to his studies, so that at the age of eighteen he was well fitted for his appointment as cadet at the Military Academy at West Point, in 1838. He graduated with high honors in 1842, being third in mathematics and fifth in general merit, in a class of fifty-six, num

bering many distinguished competitors. He entered the Corps of Engineers as Brevet Second Lieutenant on the first of July, 1842, and served that year at Fortress Monroe, as First Assistant, under command of Lieutenant-Colonel R. E. De Russey. He was ordered to duty at West Point, in 1843, as Assistant Professor of Engineering.

About this period General Rosecrans was united in marriage, at St. John's Church, in New York City, to the amiable and accomplished Miss A. E. Hegeman, only daughter of Adrian Hegeman, long known and respected as one of the noblest jurists of that city. In 1844, he was detailed as Assistant Professor of natural and experimental philosophy. In 1845-'47 he served as Assistant and First Assistant Professor of Engineering, and had charge of the department to which Captain Swift had been attached, while that officer served in Mexico, and was also for nine months Post-Quartermaster. He was ordered to Newport in 1847 and there took charge of all the fortifications, and the reconstruction of a large military wharf, which had previously been destroyed during a storm. This duty devolved upon him on account of his recognized ability as an engineer, and was then looked upon as a decided compliment. He remained there until 1852. In 1852-53 he was charged with the survey of New Bedford and Providence Harbors and Taunton River, under an act of Congress, appropriating a stated sum for the purposes of improvement. In

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April, 1854, he was ordered to report for duty to the
Secretary of the Navy, in the Bureau of Docks and
Yards, then assigned as Constructing Engineer at
the Washington Navy Yard, until November, 1853,
when, on account of ill health, he felt compelled to
resign his position, and tendered his resignation to
the Secretary of War, Jefferson Davis. The resig-
nation was not accepted, from a desire to retain so
valuable an officer in the service, and a leave of
absence was granted, with the understanding that,
at its termination, if the resignation was insisted
upon, it would be accepted; which was subse-
quently done in April, 1854.

From that date to June, 1855, General Rosecrans
occupied an office in Cincinnati as Consulting En-
gineer and Architect. In June, 1855, he was in-
duced to take charge of the interests of the Cannel
Coal Company, which, with other parties, were
engaged in building locks, dams, and endeavoring
to effect slack-water navigation on Coal River, in
Western Virginia. As Superintendent of the
works, and President of the Company, he gave
great satisfaction, but relinquished his position to
assume control of the Cincinnati Coal Oil Com-
pany, then making preparations for an extensive
business, in which he was directly concerned. The
many improvements perfected by him while in
this capacity, furnish ample evidence of the fer-
tility of his inventive genius, the depth of his
researches, and the activity of his energetic mind.

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But the threatened storm of rebellion at last burst upon the country, calling to arms the noble heroes who were prepared to shed exultingly the last drop of blood in the effort to maintain the Government and preserve the Constitution.

When General McClellan was appointed, he at once selected General Rosecrans as his Aid and Acting Chief Engineer, with the rank of Major. The Legislature of Ohio then purposely created the office of Chief Engineer of the State, which was intended for General Rosecrans, and accepted by him.

On the 10th of June, 1861, he was appointed by Governor Dennison Colonel of the Twenty-third Regiment Ohio Volunteers, and was sent upon a mission to Washington City to arrange for the maintenance and payment of the Ohio contingent forces.

On the 20th of June, he was nominated by the President a Brigadier-General in the regular army, a promotion universally acknowledged to be as rapid as it was deserved, and attended with the spontaneous approbation of all classes and creeds of citizens, who knew his worth and estimated his merit.

When the advance into Western Virginia was made, General Rosecrans was intrusted with a brigade composed of the following regiments: the Eighth and Tenth Indiana, and the Seventeenth and Nineteenth Ohio, and placed in command at Parkersburg.