Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Sabuwar gunboat ta tashi daga Boston a ranar 5 ga Fabrairu kuma ta shiga cikin Arewacin Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Ta kama dan Birtaniya mai suna "Don" daga Beaufort, North Carolina, a ranar 4 ga watan Maris, kuma ya taimaka wa sojojin da suka ci gaba da kai hari kan Wilson's Wharf, James River, Virginia, a ranar 24 ga watan Mayu. Ayyukan kewaye da ita sun shafe ta har sai ta shiga cikin na farko da na biyu
Yaƙe-yaƙe a Fort Fisher wanda ya kare Wilmington, North Carolina, a ranar 24 ga Fabrairu, 1864 da 13 ga Janairu, 1865, yana rufe wannan babban tashar jiragen ruwa ta ƙarshe. Ta bi wannan nasara ta hanyar taimakawa wajen kama Fort Anderson, North Carolina.