A ranar 26 ga watan Satumba, rundunar ta tashi daga Fort Monroe zuwa Fort Hatteras, kwanan nan da aka karɓa daga 'yan majalisa a lokacin yakin basasa.
Yaƙin Hatteras Inlet Batteries, a Tsibirin Hatteras a shirye-shiryen kai hari kan sojojin Tarayyar da ke kare gaba da mashigar. An tura Gilbreath tare da mutane 500 a cikin kamfanoni 7 zuwa Chicamicomico Beach, Hatteras Island, a ranar 29 ga Satumba, 1861. Babban manufar su ita ce kawar da sojojin abokan gaba daga tsibirin Roanoke. Kwamandan Fort Hatteras yana cikin gaggawa don samun wannan burin ya cika cewa mutanen sun sauka a Chicamicomico Beach ba tare da kayayyaki ko tantuna ba. Regimental Quartermaster Isaac W. Hart da kuma karamin bayani sun isa tare da kayayyaki masu dacewa a ranar 1 ga Oktoba. Duk da haka, jirgin ruwan da ke dauke da Hart da kayayyaki ya kai hari daga wasu jiragen ruwa guda uku na Confederate ba da daɗewa ba bayan Hart ya fara sauke kayayyaki a wannan rana. An kama Hart da maza 47 a matsayin fursunoni, kuma kayan da za a kai wa Gilbreath an dauke su a matsayin ganimar yaki ta Confederates. Kwamandan kwamandan Fort Hatteras ya aika da kayayyaki a ranar 3 ga Oktoba, wanda mutanen suka yi farin ciki sosai.