Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Bayan aikin farko a Pensacola, an umurci 33rd da ya ba da rahoto zuwa Koranti, Mississippi, don aiki tare da Janar Albert Sidney Johnston na Sojan Mississippi. Ya isa bayan da Confederate ya rasa a Shiloh
(wanda aka kashe Johnston kuma Janar PGT Beauregard ya maye gurbinsa a matsayin kwamandan), an sanya na 33 ga brigade wanda Kanar Alexander T. Hawthorn ya ba da umarni, wanda ya kasance wani ɓangare na Rundunar Sojoji ta 3. A watan Yuli na 1862 Hawthorn ta zama wani ɓangare na wani rukuni wanda Major General William Hardee ya umurce shi, kuma a watan da ya biyo baya an canja shi zuwa brigade (har yanzu a cikin Hardee's division) wanda Brigadier Janar Sterling Wood ya umurce shi. Private Matthews ya ba da rahoton "an rataye shi a cikin rami mai laka a cikin brigade na S.A.M. Wood, "a watan Mayu 1862, kuma ya kuma nuna cewa shi da abokansa sun yi musayar bindigogin Pensacola don" sabbin bindigogin Enfield da aka zana daga cikin akwatunan, tare da harsashi na Minie balls, sabbin bindigogi da scabbards. " Ya ba da rahoton cewa sojoji da yawa ba su da lafiya, kuma ya ce "ba mu son ruwan [a Koranti], sai dai cewa mun kawo daga rijiyar artesian mai gudana".