Whakaotihia te rerenga e whai ake nei: I te tau 1861, i te tīmatanga o te Pakanga ā-Iwi, i tohua ia e te rangatira o te New York National Guard, a Brigadier General John F. Rathbone, hei kaiwhakahaere hauora matua i te whare putunga o Albany. I te Pipiri 1862, whai muri i te
I te Pakanga o Savage's Station, i te wehenga atu o te Ope o Potomac, me ona taote, i noho a Swinburne ki te tiaki i nga mano o nga herehere i whara, i te Uniana me te Confederate. I te whakaute i tana turanga kaupapa, i whakawhiwhia e te rangatira Confederate a Stonewall Jackson ki a ia, me te panui whaiaro, e whakaae ana ki te toro ki nga herehere o te Uniana. I te tau 1864, i whakaingoatia ia e te Kawana Horatio Seymour ki te tūranga o te Kaiwhakahaere Hauora o te Tauranga o New York, a, i te tau 1867, i whakaingoatia ano ia e te Kawana Reuben Fenton, e ono tau te roa, tae noa ki te 1870. I a ia e whakahaere ana, ahakoa te kore hiahia o te whare ture o te kawanatanga ki te tohatoha moni, i tirotiro ia i te hanganga o nga whare quarantine o taua wa i runga i nga moutere i tapaina ko Swinburne me Hoffman.