<prompt> Ngwala tšwetšopele ya serapa se - Ka March 1861, Ferguson o ile a kgethwa go ba mokapotene wa mašole a South Carolina, ka morago a kgethwa go ba Lefotenente le mothuši wa kampeng go C.S. Army Brigadier-General P. G. T. Beauregard. E be e le yo mongwe wa bahlankedi bao ba ilego ba amogela go ineela ga semmušo ga Major Robert Anderson wa Sešole sa U.S. kua Fort Sumter, a emiša folaga ya mathomo ya Confederate States, gomme a romela bahlapetši ba mathomo kua Fort Sumter. Ka morago ga go rakelelwa, o ile a romelwa go ya go neela folaga ya mathomo ya Confederate yeo e ilego ya hlaselwa ke go thuntšhwa ga lenaba go Kopano ya Nakwana ya Dinaga tša Confederate. E be e le motlatšamokolone le mothuši wa kampeng wa General Beauregard nakong ya Ntwa ya Shiloh  <response>: .. le Nakong ya Ntwa ya Farmington, o be a le ka go 28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. O ile a laela yuniti ge a be a šireletša Vicksburg, gomme a thuša go thibela ditlhaselo tša U.S. Major-General William T. Sherman le U.S. Commodore David Porter. 