Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Dunovant an caje shi kuma an sallame shi daga sabis don maye a ranar 8 ga Nuwamba, 1862 amma a ranar 28 ga Yuli, 1863 an ba shi wata dama don ya jagoranci rundunar sojan doki ta 5 na Kudancin Carolina. Ya yi aiki da Jihar a wannan matsayi, har sai da aka umurce shi zuwa Virginia a ranar 18 ga Mayu, 1864. A can shi da rundunarsa suna karkashin umurnin brigade na Brigadier Janar Matthew C. Butler, a cikin Major Janar Wade Hampton's division of Major Janar Jeb Stuart's cavalry corps, wanda Major Janar Hampton ya umurce shi bayan mutuwar Stuart a yakin Yellow Tavern. Birgediya Janar Matt Whitaker Ransom ya ba da rahoton cewa rundunar karkashin jagorancinsa ta yi aiki mai ban sha'awa a karo na biyu na Drewry's Bluff, ko kuma karo na biyu na Fort Darling, a ranar 16 ga Mayu, 1864, kuma daga baya a cikin gamuwa da sojojin dawakai na Philip Sheridan. Ya ba da sabis na gallant tare da Butler's brigade a yakin Cold Harbor, yakin Trevilian Station da sauran alkawurra a cikin Yakin Yakin Kasuwanci da kuma farkon Siege na Petersburg, ta haka ne ya karbi sunansa. An ji masa rauni a hannun hagu a yakin Haw's Shop
a ranar 28 ga Mayu, 1864.