Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - Da zarar yakin basasar Amurka ya fara a 1861, sojojin Confederate sun yi amfani da gidan Windsor mai suna Windsor a matsayin dandalin kallo da tashar sigina. A cikin bazara na 1863, a matsayin wani ɓangare na yakin Vicksburg, Ulysses S. Grant da sojojin Tarayyar 17,000 sun sauka a tashar jiragen ruwa na Bruinsburg kuma sun mallaki gidan Windsor. Bayan Yaƙin Port Gibson
, sojojin Union sun yi amfani da gidan a matsayin asibiti kuma a matsayin tashar kallo. An yarda da iyalin Daniell su zauna a bene na uku na gidan a lokacin aikin Union.