omoted to the rank of
Medical Director, serving as such on the staffs, successively, of
Generale Stone, Casey, Sedgwick, and Peck. His army service was marked
by the same strong individuality, the same resolute activity, the same
executive talent, which we have seen stamped upon the boy and the
youth. Added to all those other qualities, was that same genial
humanity which made friends of every one. His brother officers trusted
him, depended upon him, and loved him. The private soldiers idolized
him, for they saw his quick and constant sympathy for them, and knew
that his large and loving heart embraced them all in its tender care.

"In the noble record of his army service, let us not forget, that to
our lamented friend belongs the credit of having originated and
erected the first complete military hospital on the modern 'pavilion
plan' that was built during the war of the rebellion.

"This hospital was visited and admired by surgeons throughout the
army, as a model of complete ventilation and drainage. Its plans were
extensively copied, and the record of its usefulness is preserved in
the archives of the War Department.

"In all his widening range of work and of social activities says
Professor Parker, 'his large heart seemed as incapable of being
overloaded with friendships as it was inexhaustible in its overflowing
friendliness. His personal magnetism held fast old friends, while the
keen points of his magnetic nature constantly caught new affinities
and drew to him fresh intimacies.'

"In the autumn of 1862, he was appointed adjunct professor of Surgery
in Dartmouth, and from that time forward his _honors_, literally,
outran his _years_.

"The number of his appointments to professional chairs in different
institutions, is something beyond precedent in the history of any
young American practitioner.

"In 1865, he was invited to the chair of Surgery in the University of
Vermont, and in the same year to a similar chair in the University of
Michigan.

"Both these positions he accepted, and ably filled for several years.

"In 1870, on the resignation of his honored father at the age of
threescore and ten, Dr. Ben was at once called to the chair of Surgery
in Dartmouth, and entered upon its duties, still continuing to perform
full duty in both his other professorships. He also delivered a course
of surgical lectures in Bowdoin College, Maine, during the same year.

"In 1871, he received the appointment of Surgic