Forty-sixth Pennsylvania.
The “boys” will have a warm place in their hearts for him. Many times he has carried your old Surgeon in his arms, as tenderly as a mother her babe. He once saved the Doctor from a horrible death. The office lamp exploded, (he had no wheel-chair at that time,) and he was alone and unable to move. Ben saw the blaze through the window and came to his assistance. Ben led Billy in the procession that followed his master to his last home.
SOURCE: Charles H. Lothrop, A History Of The First Regiment Iowa Cavalry Veteran Volunteers, p. 351
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