W.B. Grove of Company B 9th Tennessee Infantry only has two pages of Compiled Military Service Records. He was listed as a 2nd Sergeant with the Haywood Rifles also known as Company B. On his second page of CMSR's he is listed as being killed at the battle of Shiloh. Many soldiers of Company B were from Brownsville, Tennessee in Haywood County. It was said that many of the soldiers in Company B came from well educated and respected families from Haywood County and the search started there.
According to the 1860 census William B. Grove was born about 1832 and was the son of William B. Grove and Ema Grove. William B. Grove Senior was a lawyer and from 1832-36 was working for the clerk of courts for Haywood County. The family lived in Brownsville, Tennessee in Haywood County. William B. Grove Senior was listed as being born in North Carolina and was 54 years old in 1860. Their oldest son William B. Grove was listed as being born in Tennessee.
As earlier mentioned Sergeant W.B. Grove was listed as being killed at Shiloh. From previous experinece a few of the dead at Shiloh would suddenly appear as patients at a Northern hospital. Could this be the case with Sgt. Grove? At 12:30 pm on April 14, 1862 the steam ship "Magnolia" left Pittsburg Landing with 250 wounded soldiers and 57 of them were Confederates. Just short of 70 hours later on April 17, 1862 the "Magnolia" would dock in Cincinnati, Ohio. From there the wounded were taken by train on the "Little Miami Railroad" to the Camp Dennison hospital. One of the wounded Confederates was listed as J.W. Grones of the 9th Tennessee Infantry. Needless to say there was no one by that name in the roster of the 9th Tennessee. The Adjutant General of Ohio from my experience could have done a better job in in spelling the names of the Confederate and Union dead. According to his records he listed J.W. Groove as dying on April 22, 1862 and being buried in grave number 11 at the Waldschmidt Cemetery also known as the Camp Dennison Cemetery. J.W. Groove had no listing for a military unit. In July of 1869, the soldiers were reinterred into the Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati, Ohio. At Spring Grove a Civil War soldier is buried under the name of I.W. Grove with no mention of serving for either North or South and was listed as dying on April 22, 1862;and is buried in section 21 Lot C in grave #882. Notice that this was the same day as J.W. Groove was listed as dying at Camp Dennison.
A few days ago I found a Confederate dead list for Camp Dennison at the archives. There it stated that Confederate William B. Grove from Tennessee died on April 22, 1862 and was buried at the Waldschmidt Cemetery. Sgt. Grove's father and mother probably went to their graves thinking that their oldest son had died on the Shiloh battlefield. For the first time since the battle of Shiloh we may now know the exact location of Sgt. William B. Grove of Company B 9th Tennessee Infantry.