Dee ihe na-aga n'ihu maka paragraf a - A họpụtara Stewart ka ọ bụrụ onye isi ndị agha na November 8 ma nye ya iwu nke 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Columbus District, nke Ngalaba Confederate No. Abụọ (onye bu ụzọ na Ngalaba Tennessee), n'okpuru Leonidas Polk. Stewart nọ n'ọkwa a site na Nọvemba 16 ruo Disemba ahụ, mgbe ebufere brigade ya na Ngalaba nke Mbụ nke Ngalaba, ruo February 1862. E weghachiri brigade ya na ọdịda anyanwụ Kentucky, na-agbakwunye na nkewa John P. McCown, na-eduga ndị na-agbachitere obodo ahụ na Agha nke New Madrid tupu McCown enye ya iwu ka ọ pụọ ma laghachi na Osimiri Mississippi. N'ụbọchị mbụ nke ọnwa Eprel, ndị agha Stewart sonyeere ndị agha Charles Clark, na ndị agha Leonidas Polk, nke Albert Sidney Johnston's Army of Mississippi, n'oge maka Agha nke Shiloh
Ọ dị mma. N'ebe ahụ, Stewart duziri ndị agha ya na mwakpo ụbọchị mbụ na mpaghara "Hornet's Nest" n'etiti etiti Union.