Nyorai kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Akakwidziridzwa kuva Lieutenant muna February 1864, akagoverwa ku steam frigate muNorth Atlantic Blockading Squadron. Pakurwiswa kweFort Fisher
musi waJanuary 14, 1865, Lieutenant Woodward akatungamirira boka revarume 49 kubva ku "Minnesota", uye "vakazvibata noushingi", uye mufambiro wake wakaratidzwa sewakanga uri "unorumbidzwa zvikuru" naCommodore Joseph Lanman, anotungamirira Second Division, North Atlantic Squadron. Iyewo "akabatsira zvikuru" Mutungamiri Mukuru William B. Cushing, achiraira, nevashandi vechikepe chechikepe ichocho.