<prompt> Feleletša polelo e latelago: Ge Ntwa ya Selegae e thoma ka 1861, von Vegesack o ile a ya United States gomme a tsenela Madira a Union. O ile a ba molaodi wa 58th Ohio Infantry. Ngwageng wona woo, o ile a hlatlošwa go ba molaodi wa madira a mašole a General John E. Wool. Sa pele o ile a hlankela kua Fort Monroe. Bjalo ka mothuši wa kampeng ADC go Joseph K. Mansfield o ile a tšea karolo ka tlhaselong ya dithunya ya Newport News. Ka 1862 o ile a rola modiro, eupša ka morago o ile a tlatša Major General George B. McClellan ge a be a dikanetša Yorktown. E le ADC go Butterfield o ile a tšea karolo dintweng tša Hanover Court House, Seven Pines le Fair Oaks. O be a le Ntweng ya Mechanicsville, Gaines Mill,  <response>: Seteišene sa Savage le Mmoto wa Malvern. Vegesack o ile a kgethwa go ba mokolonele wa 20th New York Infantry, sehlopha sa Jeremane sa Turner. O ile a newa taolo godimo ga brigade ya 3 ka go General William Farrar Smiths division of the 6th Army Corps. O ile a tšea karolo Ntweng ya Bobedi ya Bull Run. O ile a thopa mafelo a phagamego ka ntle ga Jefferson, Maryland. O ile a bontšha sebete kua Antietam. Vegesack o be a le Ntweng ya Fredericksburg. Ka May 1863 sehlopha sa Vegesack e be e le karolo ya lefapha la Joseph Hooker la ka go le letshadi ka Ntwa ya Chancellorsville. 