<prompt> Nyorera kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Muna Chikunguru 1861 chikwata chinozivikanwa seInjiniya Chikwata cheMadokero chakanyoreswa kunyanya muZimbabwe dzeIllinois neMissouri, chakarongwa naColonel J. W. Bissell, uye Henry Flad akaitwa kaputeni weKambani B. Muna Nyamavhuvhu wegore rimwe chetero akaiswa naGeneral Frémont, ipapo ari mutungamiri kuSt. Louis, kuti ashande mukuvakwa kwenzvimbo dzakasimba 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. Aiva nehurumende yake paFort Pillow nePittsburgh Landing  <response>: uye mumibato yapamberi peKorinde. 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. 