Bayan hunturu mai sanyi, mai yunwa Kanal ya jagoranci mutanensa zuwa yaƙi a Georgia a Rocky Face Ridge,
Resaca kuma a ƙarshe a New Hope Church. A New Hope Church "Colonel L. T. Woodruff ya ji rauni sosai a ranar 25 ga Mayu, a karfe 4 na yamma, kwallon da ke shiga cinyarsa kusa da babban jijiya. An dauke shi daga filin, an yi imanin cewa an ji masa rauni. " Ya tsira kuma an ba da shawarar gabatarwa ga Birgediya Janar, amma ƙafarsa ta lalace sosai har ba zai iya tafiya mita hamsin ba har ma da takunkumi, don haka kwamitin likita ya ba da shawarar yin ritaya. Ranar 13 ga watan Disamba, 1864, ya yi ritaya daga rundunar soja kuma ya koma Mobile a farkon 1865.