 Nyorai mberi kweiyi ndima - Mukupera kwehondo yevagari vemo, akagadzwa May 1863 Colonel we129th Illinois Volunteer Infantry Regiment, akashanda akadaro kwemakore maviri, uye akaperekedza Gen. William Tecumseh Sherman pakufamba kwake kuenda kugungwa. Akakwidziridzwa kuva Brigadier General muna March 1865. 