Benjamin Harrison was a lawyer and publicist who served as colonel of the 70th Regiment Indiana Volunteers during the war from 1861 to 1866 and was brevetted brigadier general in 1866. He later served as a U.S. senator from 1881 to 1887 and as president from 1889 to 1893. He was remembered as a statesman, yet friend to truth, of soul sincere, action faithful and in honor clear.
