Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: N'afọ 1860, Young kọrọ na ụgbọ mmiri na-agba n'akụkụ ụgbọ mmiri, nke na-arụ ọrụ na Gulf of Mexico, Mediterranean Squadron, na n'akụkụ ụsọ oké osimiri United States. Ọ nọ n'ụgbọ "Susqehanna" mgbe Agha Obodo America malitere n'April 1861, ma sonye na mgbochi Union nke Confederate States of America. O sonyekwara n'ụgbọ mmiri "Susquehanna" n'ọgbọ mmiri nke
njide nke Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina, na 28 August 1861 na Agha nke Port Royal na Port Royal, South Carolina, na 7 November 1861. Site na Nọvemba 1861 ruo June 1862, ọ bụ onye isi ndị ọrụ nke sloop-of-agha, nke na-etinye aka na mgbochi nke Wilmington, North Carolina, na site na June 1862 ruo November 1862 ọ bụ onye isi ndị ọrụ nke ụgbọ mmiri ụgbọ mmiri na-arụ ọrụ na mgbochi nke Charleston, South Carolina, na-akwalite ya na onye isi ndị isi na 16 July 1862.