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Captain Patrick H. White Shiloh Campaign White actively participated in most of the major Western battles beginning with the battles at Belmont and Ft. Donelson, and was highly regarded by Union generals such as U.S. Grant and William Tecumseh Sherman. White was stationed next to the latter general at Shiloh Church on the morning of the battle when the Confederates surprised the Union army and pushed them back almost into the Tennessee River in their rear. After the bloodbath at Shiloh, Patrick White returned to Chicago in May 1862 in order to recruit additional soldiers. Back in Chicago, White's sister and neighbors observed that the young soldier had sixteen holes in his coat and pants as a sobering reminder of the Rebel barrage of bullets, shot, and shell at Shiloh. In the midst of those intense two days of fighting in Tennessee, Patrick White also had had his sword, sash, and belt blown away. During his stay in Chicago, he was awarded a new sword in a ceremony held on May 2nd and promised to never surrender it unless to another officer. |
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