Main entrance to Corinth National Cemetery, established in 1866, shown above; individual graves of members of the Fifty-First Illinois Infantry buried in the Corinth Cemetery shown below. The men buried at Corinth in northeast Mississippi and Levi Smith, the single member of the regiment buried at Shiloh in southwest Tennessee, all died early in the war and all died of disease, as the regiment advanced deeper into the South in April, May, and June of 1862 in the campaign to take Corinth.

Grave of George Dunn, Company H Born in New York, circa 1815. Resident of Rock Island County, cooper. Falling ill and weakening, dropped out of ranks on march from Corinth to Tuscumbia. Died of chronic diarrhea, August 18, 1862, in hospital at Corinth, Mississippi.	Grave of John Benson, Company A Born in Sweden, circa 1834. Married, resident of Cook County, farmer. Died of typhoid fever at Corinth, Mississippi, on July 5, 1862.
Grave of Horace P. Canady, Company C Born in Ohio, circa, 1831. Single, resident of Iroquois County, farmer. Died of typhoid fever, June, 1862, Farmington, Mississippi; reinterred.	Grave of Augustus Chamberlain, Company C Born in Vermont, circa 1834. Married, resident of Iroquois County, farmer. Died of chronic diarrhea, June 1862. Originally buried at Farmington, Mississippi; reinterred.
Grave of Simeon C. Ames, Company C Born in Illinois, circa 1843. Single, resident of Winnebago County, farmer. Died of typhoid fever, July 10, 1862, Camp Big Springs, Mississippi.	Grave of William Rosa, Company H Born in Ohio, circa, 1838. Single, resident of Knox County, farmer. Guarded Confederate Donelson prisoners en route to Camp Douglas, Chicago. Died of fever, July 14, 1862, Camp Big Springs, Mississippi.

Shiloh National Cemetery, Tennessee

Main entrance to Shiloh National Cemetery shown above; grave of Levi Smith of Fifty-First Illinois below.

A portion of the cemetery grounds at Shiloh in Tennessee, on the banks of the Tennessee River.

Grave of Levi Smith, Company E Born in Indiana, circa 1836. Single, resident of Champaign County, farmer. Died of disease at Hamburg, Tennessee, about May 1, 1862, just before the regiment moved south into Mississippi. Hence Smith was buried in Tennessee whereas the others on this page were originally buried around Farmington (where there was for a time a Federal hospital) and Corinth, Mississippi—and all eventually reinterred in the Corinth National Cemetery.