Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: A họpụtara Stewart ka ọ bụrụ brigadier general na Nọvemba 8 ma kenye 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'abalị mbụ nke ọnwa Eprel, ndị Stewart sonyeere ndị Charles Clark, na ndị Leonidas Polk, nke Albert Sidney Johnston's Army of Mississippi, n'oge maka
Agha nke Shaịlo. N'ebe ahụ, Stewart duziri ndị agha ya na mwakpo ụbọchị mbụ na mpaghara "Hornet's Nest" n'etiti etiti Union.