Tusi se faaauauga mo lenei palakalafa - Na faauu Leffert mai le Iunivesite o St. Lawrence i le 1863. Ina ua uma ona faauu mai le St. Lawrence, na auai ai Buck ma tau mo le Union Army i le American Civil War i lalo o le General Slocum, ma auai i taua i Antietam, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Lookout Mountain
, Misionare Ridge, Peachtree Creek, Resaca ma Ringgold Gap.