Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: O Sylvester Bonnaffon Jr. e 19 ona tausaga, na lesitala mo le auaunaga i le vaegaʻau i Filatelefaia, i Penisilevania iā Tesema 14, 1861, ma na auai i le aso lava lenā o se fitafita i le Vaega I o le 99th Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry. Na siitia atu o ia i le Kamupani G i totonu o le regiment lava lea e tasi ia Tesema 18, ona siitia ai lea o ia i le tulaga o le kapeteni ia Aperila 1, 1862 ma le tulaga o le sareni i le masina mulimuli ane (i le aso 1 o Me). Na tofia o ia o se lutena lona lua i le aso 1 o Aukuso o lena lava tausaga, na mulimuli ane auai ai ma lana regiment i le tele o gaioiga sili ona ogaoga o le American Civil War o se vaega o le Union Army o le Potomac, e aofia ai le 1862 Taua Lona Lua o Bull Run (Aukuso 28<unk>30) ma taua o
Chantilly (Setema 1) ma Fredericksburg (Tesema 11<unk>15); 1863's Chancellorsville Campaign (Aperila 30<unk>Me 6), taua o Gettysburg (Iulai 1<unk>3) ma Wapping Heights (Iulai 23), Bristoe Campaign ma lona Taua Muamua o Auburn (Oketopa 13) ma Taua Lona Lua o Rappahannock Station (Novema 7), ma le Mine Run Campaign (Novema 27<unk>Tesema 2); ma 1864's taua o le Toafa (5<unk> Me 7), Spottsylvania House Court (Me 8<unk>21), North Anna (Me 23<unk>26), ma Cold Harbor (Me 31<unk>Iuni 12). Na auai o ia ma lana regiment i le Siege of Petersburg, e aofia ai le First ma le Second Battles of Deep Bottom (Iulai 27<unk>29, 1864 ma Aukuso 14<unk>20), ona toe siitia ai lea o ia i le tulaga ma se komisi i le lutena muamua ia Setema 27.