 Kunyora kupfuurira kweiyi ndima - Mushure mekukunda kweUnited muHondo yePort Royal musi waNovember 7, 1861, Brigadier-General weConfederate Thomas F. Drayton akarayira kubviswa kwemauto evapanduki kubva kuHilton Head Island kuenda kunyika yeBluffton. Kutora Port Royal Harbor, South Atlantic Blockading Squadron yeMubatanidzwaipapo aigona kuongororwa kubva kune vanopandukira vanotarisa vakapararira kubva kumuzinda mukuru weBluffton. Nzvimbo yeBluffton yakaita kuti ive iyo chete nzvimbo ine hungwaru paEast Coast uko maConfederates aigona kuunganidza ruzivo rwakananga paUnion squadron, yaiita basa rakakosha rekudzivirira kumahombekombe ekumaodzanyemba. Pakupera kwaMay 1863, Major-General David Hunter, Mutungamiriri weDhipatimendi reSouth, akarayira kuparadzwa kweBluffton nemoto. Sangano re Expedition against Bluffton rakaitwa musi wa 4 Chikumi 1863, richiparadza zvikamu zviviri kubva muzvitatu zvezvivakwa zveguta zvinofungidzirwa kuti makumi matanhatu. Machechi maviri chete edhorobha nedzimba gumi neshanu dzakaramba dzakamira pashure pokurwiswa. Parizvino dzimba sere dzepamberi pehondo nemachechi maviri zviripo muGuta Rekare, zvichiratidza dunhu renhoroondo rakanyoreswa nenyika. 