Rubuta ci gaba ga wannan sakin layi - A ranar 26 ga Satumba, rundunar ta motsa daga Fort Monroe zuwa Fort Hatteras, kwanan nan da aka karɓa daga Confederates a lokacin yakin Hatteras Inlet Batteries
, a tsibirin Hatteras a shirye-shiryen kai hari kan sojojin Tarayyar da ke kare gaba da mashigar. An tura mutane 500 a cikin kamfanoni 7 zuwa Chicamicomico Beach, Hatteras Island, a ranar 29 ga Satumba, 1861. Babban manufar su ita ce kawar da sojojin abokan gaba daga tsibirin Roanoke. Kwamandan Fort Hatteras yana cikin gaggawa don samun wannan burin ya cika cewa mutanen sun sauka a Chicamicomico Beach ba tare da kayayyaki ko tantuna ba. Regimental Quartermaster Isaac W. Hart da kuma karamin bayani sun isa tare da kayayyaki masu dacewa a ranar 1 ga Oktoba. Duk da haka, jirgin ruwan da ke dauke da Hart da kayayyaki ya kai hari daga wasu jiragen ruwa guda uku na Confederate ba da daɗewa ba bayan Hart ya fara sauke kayayyaki a wannan rana. An kama Hart da maza 47 a matsayin fursuna, kuma kayan aiki da kayan aiki sun kama su ta hanyar bindigogi na Confederate, wadanda suka ci gaba da yin amfani da bindigogi don hana duk wani tsangwama daga ƙasa.