<prompt> Bhala okuqhubekayo kwalesi sigaba - NgoMashi 1861, uFerguson wakhethwa njengokaputeni embuthanweni waseNingizimu Carolina, ngemuva kwalokho waqokwa njengoLieutenant kanye nomsizi we-camp ku-C.S. Army Brigadier-General P. G. T. Beauregard. Wayengomunye wezikhulu ezathola ukuzinikela okusemthethweni kukaMajor Robert Anderson wase-US eFort Sumter, waphakamisa ifulegi lokuqala le-Confederate States, futhi wathumela onogada bokuqala eFort Sumter. Ngemva kokuvinjezelwa, wathunyelwa ukuba ayokwethula ifulege lokuqala le-Confederate elishaywe isitha esibhekiswe kwi-Provisional Congress of the Confederate States. Wayengu-lieutenant-colonel nomsizi-de-camp kuGeneral Beauregard ngesikhathi seMpi yaseShilo  <response>: . futhi. Phakathi neMpi yaseFarmington, wayese-28th Mississippi Cavalry Regiment. Wayala iyunithi ngenkathi evikela iVicksburg, futhi wasiza ukumisa ukuhlaselwa okwenziwe ngu-US Major-General uWilliam T. Sherman no-US Commodore uDavid Porter. 