Ia tusi se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - Na auai o ia i le ʻautau a le Iuni e avea o se fitafita i le Vaega E o le 49th New York Volunteer Infantry i le masina o Iuni, 1861, ma avea ai ma se saua. Sa auai lana vaega i taua ma le Army of the Potomac lea na aofia ai le Young's Mill, Yorktown, Williamsburg, Mechanicsville, Fair Oaks, Gaines's Mill, Savage's Station
, Malvern Hill, Second Bull Run, South Mountain, Antietam, Fredericksburg, Williamsport, Gettysburg, Mine Run, Wilderness, Cold Harbor, Petersburg ma isi. Na ave faapagotaina Walsh i le taimi o gaioiga faasaga i le Welden Railroad i se taimi puupuu ao leʻi maeʻa lona vaitaimi o le lesitalaina ma sa avea o se pagota i Belle Isle, Libby Falepuipui, Andersonville, Savannah, Castle Pinckney ma Florence Stockade, ae le i fesuiaʻi ma toe foi atu i Annapolis, Indiana, lea na faʻamavaeina ai o ia i le aso 5 o Me, 1865. I se taimi mulimuli ane, na ia galue ai mo le valu tausaga i le "Wisconsin State Journal" i Madison.