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I found this story here.
Mrs. Pfieff, like many other widows of Union soldiers
killed in the battle of Shiloh, had traveled all
the way from Chicago to Tennessee to find her dear
husband's dead body and take it back home. Travel was
hard in 1862, especially for ladies traveling alone,
but Mrs. Pfieff was determined that her husband's
remains be returned home for his reburial.
When she arrived at the battlefield, she searched
tirelessly among the markers of the thousands of
hastily dug graves of the Union troops that had died
during the two days of fierce fighting on April 6
and 7. Casualties numbered 10,000 on each side, she had
been told, but she only cared about one -- the casualty
of Lt. Louis Pfieff of the 3rd Illinois Infantry.
At the end of the day, Mrs. Pfieff was about to give
up. No one had been able to direct her to the grave of
her husband. Discouraged and grief stricken, the
widow looked up from the burial field and saw a
large dog coming toward her. As the beast approached,
Mrs. Pfieff recognized her own dog, one that her
husband had taken with him when he had left Illinois.
The dog seemed pleased to see her and she knelt and
hugged the animal, burying her face in the animal's
coarse fur.
When at last Mrs. Pfieff stood, the dog began to move
away from her, looking back at her from time to time,
beseeching her to follow. The dog led the widow to a
distant part of the burial field and stopped before
a single unmarked grave that stood apart from the others.
Trusting the dog to lead her to her husband, Mrs.
Pfieff requested that the grave be opened. Sure enough,
the grave contained the remains of Lt. Pfieff. Later,
the widow learned that the dog had been by Pfieff's
side when he was shot, and had remained at his master's
burial site for 12 days, only leaving his post long
enough to get food and water.
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