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| | Brevet Brigadier-General Benjamin Harrison, U.S.V. |
 | | Harrison colonel of the Seventieth Regiment, Indiana Volunteers. |
 | | Colonel Harrison's regiment was brigaded with the Seventy-ninth Ohio, the One Hundred and Second, the One Hundred and Fifth, and the One Hundred and Twenty-ninth Illinois, Brigadier-General Ward commanding; and, what is extraordinary, the organization thus effected was kept unchanged to the close of the war. |
 | | Colonel Harrison participated in the Atlanta campaign, and was engaged in the battles of Resaca, where, in charging a battery, he was amongst the first to cross the parapet. |
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