Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Emory ya yi aiki a matsayin kwamandan brigade a cikin Sojojin Potomac a 1862, kuma an tura shi zuwa gidan wasan kwaikwayo na yamma. An ci gaba da shi zuwa brigadier janar na masu sa kai a ranar 17 ga Maris, 1862. Daga baya ya jagoranci wani bangare a yakin Port Hudson. Daga bisani ya koma Gabas a matsayin kwamandan na goma sha tara, yana aiki a duk manyan fadace-fadace a Shenandoah Valley Campaign na 1864
, musamman ma a yakin Cedar Creek, inda ayyukan Emory ya taimaka wajen ceton sojojin Union daga mummunar nasara har zuwa lokacin da Major General Philip Sheridan ya isa.