Dee ihe ndị ọzọ dị na paragraf a - Rowley jere ozi dị ka onye ọchịagha nke ndị agha nke 13 nke Pennsylvania site n'April 25, 1861, ruo August 6 n'otu afọ ahụ. Mgbe ahụ, ọ ghọrọ onye isi nke 102nd Pennsylvania Volunteer Infantry Regiment. E merụrụ ya ahụ́ n'Agha Pines Asaa
, mgbe ọ na-edu ndị agha ya na ndị agha nke Potomac. Ọ (n'oge na-adịghị anya) duziri otu ndị agha na VI Corps na Agha Fredericksburg. N'ịbụ onye e buliri n'ọkwa nke brigadier general ruo n'ọkwa site na Nọvemba 29, 1862, Rowley na-esote onye isi otu ndị agha nke I Corps na Agha nke Chancellorsville. Ọ bụ onye na-arụ ọrụ ọchịagha nke Ngalaba nke 3, I Corps na mbido Agha Gettysburg, ebe Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday bụ onye na-arụ ọrụ ọchịagha. (Chapman Biddle duziri ndị agha Rowley.) N'ụbọchị mbụ nke ọnwa Julaị n'afọ 1863, ndị agha ahụ tara nnukwu ahụhụ na-eche ndị Confederates ihu site na Maj. Gen. Harry Heth. A chụpụrụ ya n'ịnyịnya ya mgbe ọ na-alaghachi azụ mgbe ọ kwụsịrị na mmiri. Ọ na-arịa ọrịa site n'ọrịa ndị dị ka àkwá ọkụkọ n'ime apata ụkwụ ya, ọ na-enwe ahụ ọkụ, na-enwekwa mmụọ. Mgbe esemokwu dị n'etiti Rowley na Brig. Gen. Lysander Cutler n'ihi omume nke ụfọdụ ndị ọrụ Wisconsin nke asaa, Cutler gbara akwụkwọ maka ị ofụbiga mmanya ókè na Eprel 1864. E nyere Rowley ihe na-erughị awa iri abụọ na anọ iji kwadebe okwu ịgbachitere ya maka ikpe, ụlọikpe ndị agha mara ya ikpe na onye edemede bụ John F. Krumwiede kwuru na ọ bụ, "enweghị ele mmadụ anya n'ihu ma na-agagharị n'egwú nke aka ya". Ọ bụ ezie na e weghachiri ya site n'iwu nke Secretary of War Edwin M. Stanton na President Abraham Lincoln, e kenyere Rowley naanị iwu mpaghara na ọdịda anyanwụ Pennsylvania, n'ihi esemokwu na-aga n'ihu n'etiti ọchịagha ndị agha General George G. Meade na onye isi ndị agha ugbu a bụ General Gouverneur K. Warren. N'ịbụ onye ihe General Darius N. Couch mere iji kwụsị mwakpo nke 1864 nke Pennsylvania site n'aka Confederate General Jubal Early gbochiri, ọ gbara arụkwaghịm na ọrụ ya na Disemba 29, 1864.