Lengkepan kalimah di handap ieu: Dina taun 1862, sanggeus Perang Sipil, anjeunna enlisted di Angkatan Darat Uni salaku kaptén Company H, 31st Iowa Relawan Infantry Regiment. Anjeunna diangkat jadi mayor dina taun 1864, sarta ngawula nepi ka ahir perang. Anjeunna milu dina perang Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Siege of Vicksburg, Lookout Mountain, Missionary Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain,
Atlanta, jeung Jonesboro, jeung Sherman's March ka Laut.