Kammala wannan jumla: An daukaka shi zuwa kyaftin ya shiga cikin harin da Port Royal ta yi a karkashin Admiral Samuel Francis Du Pont. Ya sanya shi a matsayi don tabbatar da wuta a kan sansanin a kan Hilton Head, kuma ya taimaka wajen taimakawa batir din abokan gaba. A shekara ta 1863 an daukaka shi zuwa commodore; kuma ya umurci rundunar ta 4 na Admiral David Dixon Porter a karo na farko da na biyu.
Yaƙe-yaƙe na biyu na Fort Fisher, North Carolina, a watan Disamba 1864 da Janairu 1865. A cikin rahoton wannan aikin na ƙarshe an yaba masa musamman don goyon bayan da aka ba kwamandan kwamandan, da kuma kyakkyawan horo da kuma harbi na jirginsa, da.