Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A 1862, bayan barkewar yakin basasa, ya shiga cikin rundunar sojojin Amurka a matsayin kyaftin na Kamfanin H, 31st Iowa Volunteer Infantry Regiment. An ci gaba da shi zuwa babban jami'in a 1864, kuma ya yi aiki har zuwa karshen yakin. Ya shiga cikin yaƙe-yaƙe na Chickasaw Bayou, Arkansas Post, Siege na Vicksburg, Dutsen kallo
, Mishan Ridge, Kennesaw Mountain, Atlanta, da Jonesboro, da kuma Sherman's Maris zuwa Tekun.