Faatumu le fuaiupu lenei: I le 1860, na taunuu ai Parnell i le Iunaite Setete ma auai i le vaegaʻau a le Iunaite Setete i Brooklyn, i Niu Ioka, ina ua amata le Taua Faalemalo a Amerika i le tausaga na sosoo ai. Na avea o ia ma sui o le 4th Regiment New York Volunteer Cavalry, na lauiloa o le "Dickel's Mounted Rifles", ma sa tautua muamua i le Army of the Potomac. I uluaʻi tausaga e lua o le taua, na auai ai o ia i le taua a le Kolone o Louis Blenker i le vanu o Shenandoah ma West Virginia. Na auai foʻi o ia i taua i Cross Keys, Port Republic, Cedar Mountain, ma le Taua Lona Lua i Bull Run. Na auai foʻi o ia i le vaega o fitafita tiʻetiʻe solofanua i taua i Fredericksburg, Beverly Ford, Brandy Station, Stoneman's Raid, Aldie, ma Middleburg. I le aso 21 o Iuni 1863, na puʻea ai o ia ina ua uma ona taʻitaʻia se osofaʻiga a le au tiʻetiʻe solofanua i le Taua o Upperville ma puʻeina puʻupuʻu o se pagota-o-taua. Na sola o ia i le lua masina mulimuli ane ai ma alu atu i Petersburg, West Virginia lea na toe faatasi ai ma lana vaega. Na mulimuli ane auai o ia i taua i le vao, Spotsylvania, Trevilian Station, Petersburg, Lee's Mills,
O Winchester ma Cedar Creek, faatasi ai ma isi feutagaʻiga.