Whakakiia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I pōti a Wofford i mua i te wehenga, engari i tuku i ana ratonga ki tana kawanatanga me te ope taua. I tohua ia hei koroneela i te Georgia State Militia, katahi ka rangatira i te 18th Georgia Infantry i te Paenga-whāwhā 1861. I te Paenga-whāwhā 25 i whakatairangahia a Wofford ki te koronel, a i mahi ia i North Carolina me Virginia i mua i tana tohatoha ki te Brig. Gen. John Bell Hood's Texas Brigade. I kite ia i te mahi i Yorktown, Eltham o Landing, a
E whitu nga Pines i te pakanga o te Peninsula. I whawhai hoki a Wofford me te 18 i te Tuarua o Bull Run me Antietam, i reira i whakahau ai ia i te Texas Brigade.