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Specific picture descriptions: Photos above with "i" icons next to the bracketed sequence numbers (e.g. "[1] ") are described as follows:
1. SHILOV_130302_10.JPG: Northern Commanders: Ulysses Grant: Grant's military career began inconspicuously, graduating in the middle of his West Point class. He served gallantly in the Mexican War, but the tedium of peacetime led to drinking problems. He resigned to avoid a court martial. He volunteered for service when the Civil War broke out and gained attention with his victory at Fort Donelson. Don Carlos Buell: After the Mexican War, in which he was severely wounded and twice breveted for gallantry, Buell served in various staff assignments. The outbreak of the Civil War found Lieutenant Colonel Buell station in San Francisco. He arrived in Washington, DC in September 1861 and assisted in organizing and training the Army of the Potomac. He was then transferred to command of the Army of the Ohio where he paralleled Grant's southward advance.
2. SHILOV_130302_14.JPG: Southern Commanders: Albert Sidney Johnston: Many Americans in 1861 would have agreed with Confederate President Jefferson Davis that Johnston was the country's outstanding soldier. His commanding personality and presence gave credence to that belief. But the defeats at Fort Henry and Donelson led some to call for his dismissal. The Federal Army at Pittsburg Landing gave him an opportunity to prove his ability. Pierre Gustave Toutant Beauregard: Second in command to Johnston in the West, Beauregard had already proved his ability in combat. He directed the bombardment of Fort Sumter to open hostilities. Transferred to Manassas Junction, Virginia, he commanded the Confederates in the fight for Henry Hill in the Southern victory at First Manassas.
3. SHILOV_130302_46.JPG: Thousands of casualties on both sides, which overwhelmed the limited resources of regimental surgeons, led to an innovation in battlefield medical care: a field hospital. Surgeons combined their efforts, giving better care to more wounded. The hospital at Shiloh was the forerunner of the army field hospitals used in combat up to the present.
4. SHILOV_130527_01.JPG: This silk flag belonged to Private William Shallenberger. It was his personal flag, and was carried by him during the Battle of Shiloh. William served in Company D, 55th Illinois Infantry; and was killed in action on the first day of battle, April 6th, 1862. The flag was discovered in private Shallenberger's pocket, and was draped over his body by his comrades prior to burial on the battlefield.
5. SHILOV_130527_09.JPG: Tintype of William Shallenberger
6. SHILOV_130527_26.JPG: When the Civil War erupted, William L. Shallenberger was a farmer in Fulton County, Illinois. He decided to leave the farm, and offer his services to Illinois. William enlisted to serve for the Union Army, on August 19, 1861 for three years. He mustered in as a Private in Company D, 55th Illinois Infantry. Private Shallenberger said goodbye to his pregnant wife, Sarah, and their three children. He then made his way to Camp Douglas in Chicago, Illinois, to begin training for life as a soldier. In just five short months, Private Shallenberger and his regiment will find themselves defending the precious Union left flank at the Battle of Shiloh.
7. SHILOV_130527_29.JPG: The 55th Illinois Infantry Regiment was encamped at the extreme left of the Union Army as part of Colonel David Stuart's Brigade. By noon on April 6, they had fallen back 300 yards behind their camps to the crest of a ravine. At this defensive stand, the 55th Illinois, with only 512 men, and the 54th Ohio Infantry Regiment with only 300 men, held in check two Confederate brigades and two artillery batteries totaling 5,000 soldiers, for 2-1/2 hours. The men dropped down the hill to load, and crawled to the top to take deliberate, aimed fire. Only after their cartridge boxes were empty, and the ammunition of their dead and wounded exhausted, did Stuart's Brigade retreat toward the landing. The 55th Illinois suffered 270 casualties out of 512 present for duty. Among the causalities [sic] was Private William Shallenberger.
8. SHILOV_130527_34.JPG: His comrades found him slain on the battlefield, and before his burial they took his Union flag from his pocket and draped it over his body. They buried him in his own grave, marked with a wooden headboard, and sent the flag back to his family. Four days after William gave the ultimate sacrifice for his country, his son William Ellsworth Shallenberger was born.
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