Kammala wannan jumla: A lokacin da yakin basasa ya barke a watan Afrilu na shekara ta 1861, an nada shi jami'in Flag na Atlantic Blockading Squadron. A watan Agusta an aika da shi tare da dakarun da ke karkashin Janar Benjamin F. Butler, don kama manyan biranen bakin teku biyu kusa da Cape Hatteras. A cikin
Yaƙin da ya biyo baya, an kama sansanonin ba tare da asara ba, kodayake ba tare da wata wahala ba saboda yanayin, kuma rundunar ta koma Fort Monroe don jin daɗin jama'a. Duk da haka wannan ba da daɗewa ba ya ba da izini ga sukar Stringham don kada ya dauki jiragensa a kusa, kuma ya ci gaba da kai hari a bakin tekun. Gaskiyar cewa jiragensa sun jawo ruwa da yawa don shiga cikin ruwa mai zurfi, kuma an umarce shi kai tsaye da ya dawo nan da nan, a ƙarshe ya fito, amma a bayyane ya yi latti don kwantar da fushinsa, kamar yadda a wata mai zuwa, a kan bukatar kansa, an sauke shi daga umurninsa. A matsayin wani karamin diyya a ranar 1 ga watan Agustan 1862 an daukaka shi zuwa matsayi na rear admiral a jerin sunayen da suka yi ritaya.