Benjamin Harrison

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Union colonel (and future U.S. president) Benjamin Harrison, leading the 70th Indiana Regiment, overtook a four-gun Confederate battery on May 15, 1864, during the Battle of Resaca.

Courtesy of Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division

Benjamin Harrison

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