Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Elias debanyere aha na June 18, 1861 dị ka Private na Company A, 6th Ohio Infantry. N'October 5, 1861, e buliri ya n'ọkwa nke abụọ wee bufee ya na Company F, 75th Ohio Infantry. Mgbe ahụ, a họpụtara ya onye isi ndị isi nke ụlọ ọrụ a na Mee 15, 1862 na onye isi nke otu ahụ na Jenụwarị 12, 1863. O sonyere na nkwekọrịta iri abụọ, n'etiti ha bụ ndị a: Phillipi, Laurel Hill, Carrick's Ford, Monterey, Shaw's Ridge, McDowell, Franklin, Strausburg, Cross Keys, Cedar Mountain, Freeman's Ford, Waterloo Bridge, Sulfur Springs, Second Bull Run,
Chantilly, Chancellorsville, Fredericksburg, na Gettysburg. N'agha nke ikpeazụ, e merụrụ ya ahụ nke ukwuu, na July 2, 1863, nke mere ka ọ dị mkpa ka ọ na-edo onwe ya n'okpuru ịwa ahụ ugboro ugboro, nke ikpeazụ mere na June 1911.