Tusi se faʻaauau mo lenei parakalafa - Battery "D", 1st Illinois Light Artillery Regiment o se fanafana fanafana mai le setete o Ilinoi na tautua i le Union Army i le taimi o le American Civil War. Na faatagaina le maa i Iulai 1861 i Cairo, Ilinoi. Na tau le vaega lea i Fort Donelson ma Shiloh i le 1862, Port Gibson
I le 1863, na taʻua ai ia Raymond, Jackson, Champion Hill, ma Vicksburg, ae i le 1864, na taʻua ai Meridian, Atlanta, ma Nashville. Na lē toe iai le vaega a le vaegaʻau i le auaunaga a le Malo i Iulai 1865.