Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - Yayin da yake zaune a Fortress Monroe, Janar Benjamin Butler ya umurci rundunar soji da sojan ruwa don kama sojojin Confederate Fort Hatteras da Clark. A cikin yakin da ya biyo baya na Hatteras Inlet Batteries
, rundunar amphibious da ke karkashin jagorancin kwamandan New York na 20, Kanar Max Weber, ya amince da mika wuya ga sansanonin biyu. Jirgin ya kasance mummunan lamari, wanda babban teku ya hana yawancin sojojin mamayewa daga saukowa kuma ya bar mutane 318 kawai a bakin teku tare da wadataccen abinci. Bayan haka, hare-haren jiragen ruwa na Union, duk da haka, ya tilasta wa garuruwan Confederate su mika wuya. Sashe na 20 wanda ya shiga cikin mamayewa ya kasance a kusa da Forts Hatteras da Clark na makonni da yawa, har sai rahotanni sun kai ga Major General John Ellis Wool cewa sojoji daga rundunar sun aikata "kisan kai da kuma zalunci daban-daban" a kan mazauna. Sauran kafofin sun nuna cewa colonel na 9th New York ya zargi 'yan fashi a kan maza na 20 don kare mutuncin rundunarsa, wanda kuma ya halarci.