Benham

Henry W., an American military engineer, born in Cheshire, Conn., in 1816; was graduated at the United States Military Academy in 1837; and became Colonel of the United States Engineers, and Brevet Major-General, United States army. He commanded the engineer brigade and laid several pontoon bridges under fire during the Chancellorsville battles; constructed and commanded the defenses at City Point; devised the picket shovel; and made many improvements in the construction of pontoon bridges, in which he was a \. Beni recognized expert. He died in New. York, June 1, 1884. |. Beni, a river of Bolivia, South America; formed by the union of all the streams flowing down the Eastern Cordillera.