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`` He 'll never hear reveille no more , '' he says . I got my blanket and lay outside the door , it being against regulations for any of us to be in the field-hospital after taps . But the orderly said he 'd call me if Benny was to wake up before the end , and the doctor promised me I might go in . Sure enough , I was called somewheres along of four o'clock and the orderly led me inside the tent to Benny 's cot . There was no light but a candle in a bottle , and I held it in my hand and bent over and looked in Benny 's face . He was himself all right , and he put his cold , sweaty hand in mine and pressed it . `` Do you know me , old man ? ''