Charles Whittlesey.— A. Winchell. 263 
but sacrificed the advantages of persistent and concentrated 
effort in a life-long occupation. But if his labors, by lack of 
continuity, failed to reach the deepest principles of science, 
industry and human life, he gained by versatility and aptness 
to respond to the demands which from time to time seemed 
most urgent and best suited to his abilities. Thus viewing 
his long and useful life in retrospect, we have to contemplate 
him as a soldier, a geologist, an archaeologist, a journalist and 
a religious thinker. In each of these characters he rendered 
service to the world, of which we would speak in a few char- 
acteristic words. 
He possessed the qualities of the true soldier. These were 
manifest in his manly mien, in his self poise, in his terse 
phrase and his iron purpose. Had he not been dowered with 
more than soldierly gifts, his life would have been spent in the 
army. But his military susceptibilities were re-awakened 
whenever his country needed soldierly defence. His services 
in the War of the Rebellion were conspicuous for bravery, for 
prudence, for foresight, for promptness, for a humane spirit, 
even for a high order of generalship. At Seary Run, on the 
Kanawha, July 17, 1861, he distinguished himself by intrepid- 
ity and coolness during a severe engagement, in which his 
horse was shot under him. In Kentucky, his military energy 
and marked sagacity crushed treason and established order 
with unexpected celerity. At Fort Donelson, his conduct 
elicited the special commendation of generals Wallace, Force 
and Grant, and of senator Sherman. What is even more, hie 
relations with his subordinates won him many expressions of 
profound and tender regard. But when the call to arms was 
no longer heard he knew how to doff his uniform and cultivate 
the arts of peace. 
Colonel Whittlesey was a good geologist. His studies were 
chiefly structural and stratigraj)hical ; and his field work was 
almost always upon unfossiliferous rocks; but when in Ohio, 
he gave due attention to the collection of organic remains, and 
these he carefully referred to definite physical horizons. He 
appreciated their significance in geological investigation.^ 
® The writer investigated for colonel Whittlesey, a collection from 
the sandstones of northern Ohio and Pennsylvania. (Proc. Acad. Nat. 
Sci. Phil., July, 1865, pp. 109-133.) ColonelWhittlesey himself published 
a description of a coal plant supposed to be new (Amer. Jour. Sci., 
July, 1850, with cut). His personal attention to fossils is evinced in 
