Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A lokacin yakin basasar Amurka, an ba shi izini a matsayin laftanan-kolonel na 18th Wisconsin Volunteer Infantry karkashin Colonel James S. Alban. An shirya 18th Wisconsin a watan Fabrairun 1862, ya ci gaba zuwa Tennessee a watan Maris, kuma an jefa shi cikin yaƙi a Shiloh
kwana daya bayan isowarsu. Beall ya ji rauni a yakin kuma an yanke ƙafafunsa a kasa da gwiwa. An kashe Kanar Alban, tare da kwamandan na uku na rundunar, Manjo Josiah W. Crane. Bayan ya warke, Beall ya yi aiki a matsayin mataimakin kwamandan sansanin fursunonin yaki a Elmira, New York, inda fursunonin suka kira shi "tsohuwar kafa" kuma suka zarge shi da wani nau'i na zalunci da cin zarafi.