ADOLPH LINDENKOHL. 
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partment of the Army. In the following summer he was 
assigned as topographer under the direction of Col. J. H. 
Alexander, acting chief engineer of the defenses of Balti¬ 
more. At the request of the chief engineer of the military 
department of West Virginia, Lieutenant Meigs, Mr. Linden- 
kohl was detailed, in October, 1863, to assist in compiling 
the data which had been collected at Clarksburg from army 
surveys and by expeditions of the cavalry forces. Other 
material, procured from the records of surveys at Annapolis 
and Baltimore, Maryland, and from the Engineer Bureau, 
was made auxiliary to the preparation of a military map of 
the department. Mr. Lindenkohl also assisted in the con¬ 
struction of a large map of the environs of Cumberland, and 
computed the longitude of a number of places in the state 
from sextant observations by Lieutenant Meigs. 
I cannot close this brief notice without bearing testimony 
of my love for the man. His gentle kindness endeared him 
to those who had recourse to him. He was without ostenta¬ 
tion, perchance to his detriment, for had ambition seized 
upon him he had the mind for becoming a man of great prom¬ 
inence. He was a valued correspondent of Petermcinn’s, and, 
I have reason to believe, established a reputation in that 
journal that made him ever a welcome visitor to its pages. 
Mr. Lindenkohl was a member of the American Associa¬ 
tion for the Advancement of Science, the Washington Acad¬ 
emy of Sciences, the Philosophical Society of Washington, 
and the National Geographic Society. 
Herbert G. Ogden. 
