Tuhia he haere tonu mo tenei whitianga - I te Hanuere 1861, i whakarerea e ia te rangatira o te 10 o nga United States Infantry ki te whakaae ki te Lieutenant Colonelcy o te Augusta Volunteer Battalion. Kaore i roa ka whakarere ia i taua tuunga hei rangatira mo te 1st Georgia Infantry. I te marama o Hune, ko ia te Koronela Lieutenant o te 10th Georgia Infantry Regiment me nga marama e wha i muri mai ko tana koroneela, i whai ake i a Lafayette McLaws. I mahi ia i te wa o te Peninsula Campaign o te tau 1862, tae atu ki te Pakanga o Yorktown, te Pakanga o Savage's Station
, me te Pakanga o Malvern Hill, i whara ai ia. Na tana mahi i whiwhi ai ia i te whakahau mo te wa poto mo te brigade Alabama i mua o te pakanga a Maryland na te mate o te Brigadier General Cadmus M. Wilcox.