Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mukati megore rechipiri raLatimer rezvidzidzo, Hondo yeVanhu yakatanga uye Latimer akasiya VMI kunoshumira Southern Confederacy. Akatanga kushanda semudzidzisi wechikoro cheRichmond Hampden Artillery munguva yechirimo uye yezhizha ra1861. Mumatsutso, akagadzwa semutevedzeri wekutanga uye akaona chiito naMaj. Gen. Richard S. Ewell's Division muShenandoah Valley Campaign ya1862. Pashure pokuzviratidza amene nebhatiri rake muhondo dzakadai seFirst Winchester
uye Cedar Mountain, Latimer akasimudzirwa kuva mutungamiriri webato raimbova raA. R. Courtney. Pashure pokurayira battalion paFredericksburg muna December 1862, Latimer akasimudzirwa kuva mukuru muna March 1863. Ewell akamudana kuti "Napoleon Muduku", asi vanhu vakararama panguva imwe chete naye vakacherechedza uduku hwake uye chimiro chake chiduku, vachimuti "Mukuru Mukomana". Akava mukuru mukuru muMaj. Richard Snowden Andrews's Battalion of Maj. Gen. Edward "Allegheny" Johnson's Division.