After the capture of Ford Donelson, his regiment took part in the expedition to Columbus, Kentucky. Then, on March 8, 1862, they embarked on a steamship up the Tennessee River. In Battle of Shiloh, in which his regiment suffered heavy casualties, he escaped from being hit by a shell unscathed, but was subsequently wounded by another shell in the left hand, across his shoulders, in his left breast and right arm. After this battle, on either April 8 or April 9, 1862, he was made an orderly sergeant, and held this position for eleven months.