After Wise fell severely ill with pleurisy (and was confined to bed for a week), Federal forces captured Roanoke Island.

Obediah Jennings Wise (editor of the Richmond Enquirer before the war and whose funeral at St. James Church in Richmond would be the capitol's most elaborate before that of Stonewall Jackson the following year)[2] and Roberts Coles (son of former Illinois Territorial Governor and abolitionist Edward Coles).

Afterward, it remained in Virginia and mainly dealt with false alarms about Union troop movements on the James River, then for the next 16 months, remained stuck on the Peninsula as a counterforce to the Union presence at Norfolk and Fortress Monroe.

It then endured the hardships of the lengthy Petersburg trenches north of the James River and helped set the Confederate capitol afire per orders as the CSA army evacuated.

During the final Appomattox Campaign, many officers and men were captured during the Battle at Sailor's Creek.