Pedzisa mashoko anotevera: Muna 1861, pakatanga Hondo Yenyika Yechipiri muUnited States, aiva Adjutant weThird Artillery. Nokukurumidza pashure pacho, akasiya basa kuti abatane nevashandi veGeneral Edwin Vose Sumner's sevakuru "aide-de-camp", vachiwana chinzvimbo cheMajor. Akanga ari chikamu cheuto rePotomac iro rakaona chiito muHondo dzeYorktown, Williamsburg, Fair Oaks, Seven Pines, Savage's Station, Glendale, Malvern Hill, Antietam, Fredericksburg (ese akaitika muna 1862), uye
Kuyerera kweMugodhi uko kwakatangira muna November 1863 kusvikira muna December 1863.