"convivial," and rose early from the table on these occasions to get to his work. To his mates he then gave the impression of being almost what, if he had been a woman, would have been called prudish." On the battle-field he was fearless; clear-sighted also as to the campaign.'

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General Hancock was assigned to the command of the Second Corps in 1863, and kept Walker as his A.A.G. He had himself in former days been noted for excellence in this position, and soon he is reported to have exclaimed, 'Walker is the best Adjutant General I ever knew.' Yet this was said of a volunteer officer barely twenty-three years old.

At Chancellorsville a shell so severely wounded Walker in the hand that, though by care it was saved from amputation, his health suffered and he was sent home for some months, and so missed Gettysburg. After this the war was mainly quiescent in Virginia until May, 1864, when Grant's advance toward Richmond began. Walker was in active and dangerous service on the staff of the Second Corps through all the heavy and almost daily battles and night marches of that severe campaign. His admirable 'History of the Second Army Corps' tells vividly and accurately its proud story in that great war. Though a man of logical, scientific, even mathematical mind, all his life a tireless and exact worker in manifold fields, Walker never dried up. He kept his young enthusiasms, of which he was not ashamed. He gave more than duty, loyal devotion to the successive commanders with whom he served. His pride in his corps and its general thus appears:'Organized by the gallant Sumner, who was the very ideal of courage, magnanimity and devotion to duty, its youthful officers, fresh from civil life and full of patriotic and martial enthusiasm, had received their baptism of fire in a spirit which made misbehavior in the presence of the enemy almost impossible.

'When the old General Sumner, borne down by increasing infirmities, bade farewell at last to his comrades and children-inarms, he could proudly say in his (general) order, that the Second

The above was not given me in writing by Colonel Livermore, who died in 1918. I took written notes while he talked, and am sure that this is very close to his own words. E. W. E.

Corps "had never lost a Colonel and never lost a gun." And this remarkable declaration still remained in force up to the very hour when the Corps crossed the Rapidan in May, 1864, having captured more than threescore of Confederate flags in open battle.' At a lecture which, years after the war, General Walker gave in Concord, I recall how, when in the midst of careful history of one of the great battles, 'Hancock, superb in manly beauty,' rode into the story, Walker's cheeks flushed crimson and he swallowed hard, yet carried his sentence bravely through.

Late in August, 1864, in a losing battle, due to a misunderstanding of conditions by General Meade, Walker was sent with orders to an isolated and outnumbered division beyond Reams' Station. It was already dark; he rode through a gap in the line, and was instantly surrounded, a prisoner. Next afternoon the long procession of captured officers and soldiers was started on foot on their way to Richmond along the railroad. The Appomattox River ran close beside them. During a halt, when the guards were looking elsewhere, Walker and another officer rolled down the railway embankment, scrambled under some rank reeds, and when the column had passed, and the sunset, began to swim down the river. His companion soon could swim no farther; but Walker pressed on till late twilight, when his strength was all gone, and he was aimed at by a Confederate sentry, to whom he surrendered. A negro with whom he spent the night in a prison cell kindly offered the barefoot officer his shoes, but Walker would not take them. He was marched to Libby Prison, where he found his brother. Both became sick, but Frank so seriously that he was liberated on parole, and later exchanged. Broken health caused his resignation in January, 1865. At the end of the war, by General Hancock's request, he was brevetted Brigadier-General.

It took fully three years to restore him to reasonably good health, yet meantime he was a teacher at Williston Seminary. In 1868 he became assistant editorial writer for the Springfield Republican. The next year he was appointed by President Grant Deputy Special Commissioner of Revenues, Chief of the Bureau of Statistics, and

From Petersburg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Papers of Military Historical Society, Vol. V.

Superintendent of the Ninth Census. While he was engaged in these large tasks another was added in 1871; he was appointed a Commissioner of Indian Affairs. Incidentally he was told that these new duties need not be burdensome. Major Alford remarked, 'Anyone knowing Frank Walker, however, will understand that he was not content to remain simply a figure-head in connection with any work with which he was officially connected. Therefore, while keeping a steady hand upon the completion of the census, he took hold of the office of Indian Affairs with his characteristic vigor, courage, and intelligence, and in an astonishingly short time had the details of that intricate and difficult branch of the public service completely within his grasp. His double duty prevented his personal investigation of affairs on the frontier.... Notwithstanding the unusual difficulties under which he labored, there has been no period of administration of the United States Indian service in which there was so distinct an advance and reforms in the service so important and lasting as marked the single year during which General Walker was in control.' '

Walker was hardly free from the above arduous labors when the Corporation of Yale summoned him to be the first Professor of Political Economy and History in the Sheffield Scientific School. He held that position for more than eight years (1871-80). Meantime he gave two courses of lectures at Johns Hopkins University; and was also sent to represent the United States at the International Monetary Conference in Paris.

i In superintending the Ninth Census he had been impeded by old precedent and inadequate legislation, but Professor Davis R. Dewey says: "In 1880 Walker undertook a great and notable task for the hundredth anniversary of the birth of the Nation. An army of enumerators had to be summoned; trained experts had to be picked out for special monographs; an enormous clerical force had to be organized, new schedules and minute instructions drawn up; all this to be done by a temporary force and at once, and above all

* Major Alford was a gallant United States cavalry officer on Colonel Charles R. Lowell's staff. The quoted remark was probably made at the time of General Walker's death. -E. W. E.

* Review of Reviews, Feb. 1897.

in the presence of a hungry mob of politicans seeking office for their friends and dependents. This work immediately established in Europe the reputation of General Walker as a statistician of the highest order.'

In 1881 Walker was summoned to succeed the admirable William Barton Rogers, one of our associates, then a seriously sick man, as President of the Institute of Technology in Boston.

This practical and special school, one of the first of its kind in the United States, was founded by private effort just as the war was beginning, and, helped by State grants, it led a languishing life during the war years. Then it gained under the faithful nursing and educational gifts of President Rogers. In 1881, however, it was still poor, and for some time did not gain due reputation and popularity.

General Walker was a strong believer in the value of liberal studies 'severely pursued' in preparation for the profession of engineering. He saw the uses also of strenuous athletics. 'He was preeminently a leader' to quote the words of Professor H. W. Tyler, of the Institute faculty-'preeminently a leader of young men. His soldiers fought with his courage, his students studied with his insight, his associated teachers taught with his enthusiastic, vivifying zeal. He knew young men, he rejoiced in young men, and his knowledge was power over them and power in them. He always judged them with abounding charity. The earnest student, without ever exchanging a word with the President, felt for him the cordial confidence of a younger brother. Even the inveterate shirk, coming to him perhaps for censure, was uplifted by his generous optimism, gaining self-respect and becoming for the time, at least, as earnest as his fellows. With his nearer associates and friends he had that sunny cordiality which radiates light and warmth, but which so rarely survives the stress and strain of toilsome middle life.'

Miss Elizabeth C. Putnam, famous for her devotion to good works in Boston, once said that on matters of public social concern, like schools, reform-schools, and the political and religious problems then arising, General Walker was always ready to come into council and lend himself as freely and fully to his interlocutor