Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'oge afọ nke abụọ nke ọmụmụ Latimer, Agha Obodo malitere na Latimer hapụrụ VMI iji jeere ndị Southern Confederacy ozi. O buru ụzọ jee ozi dị ka onye na-akụzi ihe maka ndị Richmond Hampden Artillery n'oge opupu ihe ubi na oge ọkọchị nke 1861. N'oge mgbụsị akwụkwọ, e nyere ya ọrụ dịka onye isi ndị agha ma hụ ọrụ na Maj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's nkewa na Shenandoah Valley Campaign nke 1862. Mgbe o jisiri ike mee ihe dị iche na batrị ya n'agha ndị dị ka
Nke mbụ Winchester na Cedar Mountain, a kwalitere Latimer ka ọ bụrụ onye isi nke battalion nke bụbu nke A. R. Courtney. Mgbe ọ chịsịrị ndị agha ahụ na Fredericksburg na Disemba 1862, e buliri Latimer n'ọkwa onye isi n'ọnwa Machị 1863. Ewell zoro aka na ya dị ka "Napoleon na-eto eto", mana ndị ya na ha dịkọrọ ndụ kwuru na ọ bụ nwata na obere, obere ogo site na ịkpọ ya "Boy Major". Ọ ghọrọ onye isi n'ọchịagha Richard Snowden Andrews's Battalion nke Maj. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson's Division.