Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: I le 1862, ina ua māeʻa le Taua i le Lotoifale, na auai ai o ia i le Union Army o se kapeteni o le Kamupani H, 31st Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. Na siitia o ia i le tulaga o le major i le 1864, ma auauna ai seʻia oo i le faaiʻuga o le taua. Na auai o ia i taua i Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Siege of Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain,
Atlanta, ma Jonesboro, ma le savaliga a Sherman i le sami.