Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te whakapae o Petersburg, i whakahau ia i te 2nd Brigade, 1st Division, X Corps i Chaffin's Farm me nga mahi i muri mai i te huarahi o Darbytown me New Market. I muri iho ka whakahoutia te ope a James, a, ko tana whakahau ko te 2nd Brigade, 2nd Division, XXIV Corps i honoa ki te Fort Fisher Expeditionary Corps i raro i te Brig. Gen. Alfred H. Terry me te whai waahi ki te pakanga o te rautau o te rautau o te rautau.
Ko te pakanga tuarua o Fort Fisher me te hopu o Wilmington. Ahakoa kaore i tohua a Abbott hei rangatira nui, i te Hanuere 25, 1865, i whakaingoatia e te Perehitini a Aperahama Lincoln a Abbott mo te whakatuunga ki te taumata o te brevet brigadier general of volunteers, kia eke mai i te Hanuere 15, 1865 mo nga mahi toa i te hopu i a Fort Fisher me te US Senate i whakapumautia te tohu i te Hui-tanguru 14, 1865. I nga waahanga whakamutunga o te pakanga, i tohaina ia ki Wilmington, North Carolina.