Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - An ba shi mukamin kyaftin ya shiga cikin harin da Port Royal ya kai wa rundunar da ke 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 na Fort Fisher
, Arewacin 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.