Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - An ba shi mukamin Manjo (Amurka) ba da daɗewa ba bayan ya koma aiki, Wilson ya ji rauni sosai, an harbe shi sau uku a lokacin yakin Chickamauga. Bayan dawowa a Wisconsin (a lokacin da ya auri Mary Madson, 1843<unk>1903), Wilson ya dawo a watan Nuwamba 1863 a matsayin jami'in kwamandan rundunar Scandinavian a lokacin yakin Rocky Face Ridge, Resaca
da kuma Pickett's Mill (a lokacin da rundunar ta yi fama da mummunan rauni) kafin ta juya umurnin zuwa Col. Ole Johnson a watan Yulin 1864. Wilson ya kasance tare da rundunar, yana aiki a cikin ƙarin ayyukan soja 26, har zuwa karshen yakin a 1865.