Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I whakatairangahia ki te rangatira i uru ia ki te whakaeke ki Port Royal e te kaipuke i raro i te rangatira a Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont. I whakanohoia e ia ki te whakamana i te ahi whakaeke i runga i te pourewa i Hilton Head, me te awhina i te awhina i nga papahiko o te hoariri. I te tau 1863 i whakatairangahia ia ki te commodore; a ka whakahau i te 4th Division o Admiral David Dixon Porter's fleet i te tuatahi me te
nga pakanga tuarua o Fort Fisher, North Carolina, i te Hakihea 1864 me te Hanuere 1865. I roto i te ripoata o te mahi whakamutunga i tino whakamoemiti ia mo te tautoko i whakawhiwhia ki te rangatira rangatira, me te whakatikatika pai me te pupuhi tika o tana kaipuke, te.