Ka kammala wannan magana: Keyes ya ga aikin a Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Bottom's Bridge, Savage's Station,
Bakwai Pines (Fair Oaks), Charles City Cross Hanyoyi, Malvern Hill, da kuma Harrison ta Saukowa. Don ƙarfin hali a Fair Oaks, Keyes ya karbi takardar shaidar brigadier janar a cikin sojojin dakarun. Bayan yakin kwana bakwai, McClellan ya inganta dukkan kwamandojinsa da kwamandojinsa zuwa babban janar, ban da Keyes, wanda bai sami ci gaba ba kuma ya kasance janar janar. Lokacin da sojojin suka koma Washington DC a farkon watan Agusta, Keyes da daya daga cikin ƙungiyoyi biyu na IV Corps sun kasance a baya a kan Peninsula a matsayin wani ɓangare na Janar John Dix na Ma'aikatar James. A ranar 12 ga Maris, 1863, Shugaba Abraham Lincoln ya zabi Keyes don gabatarwa ga babban janar, Amurka Volunteers, don yin aiki daga ranar 5 ga Mayu, 1862 kuma Majalisar Dattijan Amurka ta tabbatar da lambar yabo a ranar 13 ga Maris, 1863. Bugu da ƙari ga IV Corps, ya umurci gundumar Yorktown, VII Corps, da kuma rabuwa a Suffolk. Daga cikin sauran ayyukan Keyes sun kasance hare-haren White House, Virginia, a ranar 7 ga Janairu, 1863, da kuma tafiya zuwa West Point, Virginia, a ranar 7 ga Mayu, 1863.