Sunken Road. When his division was finally surrounded, he ordered a withdrawal and many escaped, but he was wounded and only later found barely alive on the battlefield by his troops. They carried him to his wife, who coincidentally had arrived for a surprise visit to her husband on the very morning of the battle. She helped tend to him on the way back to General Grant's headquarters in the Cherry Mansion in Savannah, Tennessee. He died three days later in his wife's arms; his last words were "We meet in heaven." He is buried in LaSalle County, Illinois, in Ottawa. He was the brother of future Brevet Brigadier General Martin R. M. Wallace. Personal life In 1851 he married Dickey's daughter, Martha Ann. Tribute Wallace County, Kansas, was named in his honor in 1868. See also List of American Civil War generals (Union) Notes References Cooling, Benjamin Franklin, The Campaign for Fort Donelson, U.S. National Park Service and Eastern National, 1999, . Daniel, Larry. Shiloh: The Battle that Changed the Civil War, Simon and Schuster, 1997, . Eicher, John H., and David J. Eicher, Civil War High Commands, Stanford University Press, 2001, . Wallace, Isabel, Life and Letters of General William Hervey Lamme Wallace, Lakeside Press, 1909. Wallace, Isabel, Life and Letters of General William Hervey Lamme Wallace, Southern Illinois University Press, 2000, . Further reading Huffstodt, Jim, Hard Dying Men: the story of General W. H. L. Wallace, General T. E. G. Ransom, and their 'Old Eleventh' Illinois Infantry in the American Civil War (1861–1865), Heritage Press, Bowie, MD, 1991. External links Biography of W.H.L. Wallace Ottawa Visitors Center Ottawa, Illinois 1821 births 1862 deaths People from Urbana, Ohio American military personnel of the Mexican–American War Union Army generals People of Ohio in the American Civil War People of Illinois in the American Civil War Union military personnel killed in the American Civil War People from Ogle County, Illinois People from Ottawa, Illinois Wallace County, Kansas United States politicians killed during the Civil War