Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Mgbe Agha Obodo ahụ tiwapụrụ, Capehart hapụrụ ọrụ ya dị ka dọkịta na Bridgeport ma ghọọ onye ọrụ afọ ofufo n'òtù ndị agha Union. A họpụtara ya dịka onye na-awa ahụ na 1st West Virginia Cavalry na Septemba 18, 1861. N'ọkara nke abụọ nke 1863, o sonyere n'agha nke Gettysburg, Bristoe Station, na
Ịgba ọsọ nke m. Site na nkwanye nke General Judson Kilpatrick na ndị ọzọ, emere Capehart ka ọ bụrụ onye isi ndị agha ma nọchie Nathaniel P. Richmond, onye gbara arụkwaghịm n'ihi nsogbu ahụike, dị ka onye isi ndị agha na February 22, 1864.