Rubuta ci gaba don wannan sakin layi - A ranar 26 ga Agusta, 1861, "Wabash" ya tashi daga Hampton Roads, zuwa Hatteras Inlet, North Carolina, don shiga cikin hare-haren amphibious na farko na yakin. "Wabash" tare da,, mai yanke kudaden shiga, tug "Fanny", da kuma sufuri biyu, dauke da sojoji 900 a karkashin Manjo Janar Benjamin Butler. Sojojin Union sun tabbatar da Hatteras Inlet tare da kama Fort Hatteras
da Clark a ranar 29 ga Agusta, 1861. Sojojin da suka kai hari ba su rasa rayuka ba kuma sun kama mutane fiye da 700. Daga cikin wadannan akwai Kyaftin Samuel Barron na Rundunar Sojan Ruwa na Tarayya, tsohon kwamandan a cikin Rundunar Sojan Ruwa na Amurka na "Wabash" lokacin da ta yi aiki a karkashin Rear Admiral La Vallette.