On April 7th 1862 during the Battle of Shiloh on the cotton fields owned by Sarah Knox, an Illinois regiment stood up from concealment and poured a devastating fire upon the 2nd Texas (Moore's) Infantry.

Two brothers went down both wounded in the legs. Both brothers would be taken to a Federal field hospital. William would be taken to a hospital at Louisville, Kentucky where he would recover from his wound and then turned over to the Provost Marshall and taken to Camp Chase where he would stay until the parole and exchange process due to the Dix-Hill Cartel agreement in September of 1862 and was taken to Vicksburg, Mississippi.

For the rest of the war and William's life he searched in vain to find out what had happened to his brother but with no avail.

For over 150 years the family mystery still continued.

His brother had been taken to a hospital at Camp Dennison, Ohio and died of his wound in May of 1862. His surname was badly misspelled and the wrong unit attached to his paperwork. In 1869 his body was removed to the Camp Chase Cemetery still under the wrong information and his tombstone reflected the incorrect information.

The information was turned over to the family descendants and as a result a new tombstone for the Camp Chase Cemetery was ordered.

Ever since his death he has incorrectly been identified and ironically William's brother rested less then half a mile from where William had spent so much time held as a prisoner at Camp Chase.