Tusi se faaauauina o lenei palakalafa - Ina ua uma le Fort Donelson, sa tofia le 41st Illinois i le 1st Brigade i le Stephen A. Hurlbut's 4th Division o le Army of the Tennessee. E leʻi umi talu ona amata le taua i le Taua i Sailo
I le osofaʻiga a Pugh, na matuā manuʻa ai le taʻitaʻi o le 1st Brigade, o Colonel Nelson G. Williams, ma na tuuina atu ai le taʻitaʻiga o le brigade iā Pugh. Na taʻitaʻia ma le atamai e Kolone Pugh le vaega a le ami aʻo tau i le lua aso i Sailo i le vaipanoa o le "Vaitafe o le Toto".