Shields, Eli bio

History of Fulton County, Illinois; together with Sketches of its Cities, Villages and Townships, Educational, Religious, Civil, Military, and Political History; Portraits of Prominent Persons and Biographies of Representative Citizens. Chas. C. Chapman & Co., Peoria, Illinois, 1879, page 961, Woodland Township
Eli Shields, deceased, was born in Fulton Co., Feb. 6th, 1837, where he grew to manhood; on the 12th day of August, 1858, he was united in marriage to Miss Eliza Jane Littlejohn. When the war broke out he enlisted in Co. H, 85th Ill. Vol. Inf., and promoted Sergeant; served gallantly during the war and gave up his life in the cause of his country at the battle of Kenesaw Mountain. There were 2 children born of this marriage, Edward and Wm. H.