<prompt> Pedzisa mutsara unotevera: Muna Chikunguru 1861 chikwata chinozivikanwa seEngineer Regiment of the West chakanyoreswa zvikurukuru muZimbabwe dzeIllinois neMissouri, chakarongwa naColonel J. W. Bissell, uye Henry Flad akaitwa kaputeni weCompany B. Muna August wegore rimwe chetero akaiswa naGeneral Frémont, panguva iyoyo achitungamirira kuSt. Louis, nokuda kwebasa mukuvakwa kwezvivakwa paCape Girardeau, Missouri, kwaakagara kwemwedzi inoverengeka. Gare gare mugore iroro, apo Frémont akatsiviwa naGeneral Halleck, Captain Flad akarayirwa kujoina General Pope kumaodzanyemba kwakadziva kumabvazuva kweMissouri, uye akashanda semukuru mukuru kuburikidza neNew Madrid uye Point Pleasant mushandirapamwe uye kutora Island Nhamba Gumi, mushure mezvo akabatanazve nehurumende yake kuNew Madrid. Akanga ari nechikwata chake paFort Pillow uye  <response>: Pittsburgh Landing uye mumibato pamberi peCorinth. Mukati mezhizha ra 1862 akabatanidzwa mukugadzirisa Mobile neOhio Railroad, mukuvaka nhare paKorinde, uye mukugadzirisa Mississippi Central Railroad. Akanga achibatanidzwawo mukufambira mberi kwaGrant kuGrenada. Muna February, 1863, akarayirwa kuenda kuYoungs Point, kwaakashanda pabasa rouinjiniya, sezvaakazoita kuBaxter Bayou, Lake Providence, uye Bayou Macon. 