Kammala jumla mai zuwa: 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 baya ya koma Gabas a matsayin kwamandan rundunar ta goma sha tara, yana aiki a duk manyan fadace-fadace a cikin
Shenandoah Valley Campaign na 1864, musamman 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.