Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A wannan lokacin rani, ya dauki umurnin gunboat na gefe kuma ya jagoranci ta a cikin wasu alkawurra da sojojin Confederate. A shekara ta 1864, ya koma Atlantic blockade a matsayin jami'in zartarwa na "Powhatan". Yayin da aka ba shi wannan jirgi, Bache ya shiga cikin hare-haren da ba su yi nasara ba da kuma nasara
a kan Fort Fisher, wanda aka yi a watan Disamba na 1864 da Janairu 1865. A wannan hari na ƙarshe, an ji masa rauni amma ba mai tsanani ba.