Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: Na auai Wilshire i le Union Army o se alii sili i le One Hundred and Twenty-sixth Regiment, Illinois Volunteer Infantry, ma auauna mai ia Iulai 16, 1862. Ina ua maeʻa le Siege o Vicksburg, na auina atu lana vaega i Arkansas ma i le
Little Rock Campaign i lalo o le taʻitaʻiga a Major General Frederick Steele. Na faamavae o ia iā Iulai 16, 1864 ona o māfuaaga tau le soifua mālōlōina.