Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1862, i whakawhiwhia a Schenck ki te mana o te West Gulf Blockading Squadron. I whakahaua hoki e Schenck me te wehenga tuatoru o Admiral David Dixon Porter's fleet i
ngā mahi ki Fort Fisher, ā, i whakahuatia hoki mō te toa i roto i te pūrongo mahi a Admiral Porter. I muri mai ka whakatairangahia ia ki te kaitautoko i te 21 o Mahuru, 1868, ka mutu i te 11 o Pipiri, 1869.