Ia tusia se faaauauga mo lenei palakalafa - Na tofia Stewart e avea ma fitafita sili i le aso 8 o Novema ma tofia e pule i le 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, Columbus District, o le Confederate Department No. Lua (o le muamua o le Matagaluega o Tennessee), i lalo o le taʻitaʻiga a Leonidas Polk. O Stewart na ia umia lenei tofiga mai ia Novema 16 seʻia oʻo i lena Tesema, ina ua siitia lana auvaʻa i le Matagaluega o le First Geographical Division, seʻia oʻo ia Fepuari 1862. Na toe foʻi atu lana vaega i sisifo o Kentucky, ma na faʻaopopoina i le vaega a John P. McCown, ma taʻitaʻia le puipuiga o le taulaga i le Taua o New Madrid ae leʻi faʻatonuina e McCown le aveʻesea ma toe solomuli i lalo o le Vaitafe o Misisipi. I le aso 1 o Aperila, na auai ai tagata o Stewart i le vaega a Charles Clark, i le vaega a Leonidas Polk, o le Army of Mississippi a Albert Sidney Johnston, i le taimi tonu lava mo le Taua i Shiloh
. O i inā na taʻitaʻia ai e Stewart lana vaega i osofaʻiga i le aso muamua i le "Hornet's Nest" i le ogatotonu o le laina a le Iuni.