Mezue ahịrịokwu na-esonụ: Keyes hụrụ ihe na Lee's Mill, Yorktown, Bottom's Bridge, Savage Station,
Seven Pines (Fair Oaks), Charles City Cross Roads, Malvern Hill, na Harrison's Landing. N'ihi obi ike na Fair Oaks, Keyes natara ikike nke brigadier general na ndị agha nkịtị. Mgbe agha ụbọchị asaa ahụ gachara, McClellan buliri ndị isi ndị agha ya niile na ndị isi nke ndị agha ya n'ọkwa nke nnukwu ndị ọchịagha, ewezuga Keyes, onye enwetaghị nkwalite ma nọgide na-abụ brigadier general. Mgbe ndị agha laghachiri Washington D.C. na mbido Ọgọstụ, Keyes na otu n'ime ngalaba abụọ nke IV Corps hapụrụ na Peninsula dị ka akụkụ nke General John Dix's Department of the James. Na Machị 12, 1863, Onye isi ala Abraham Lincoln họpụtara Keyes maka nkwalite n'ọkwa nke onye isi ndị isi, ndị ọrụ afọ ofufo US, ka ọ bụrụ ọkwa site na Mee 5, 1862 na US Senate kwadoro onyinye ahụ na Machị 13, 1863. Na mgbakwunye na IV Corps, o nyere iwu na Yorktown District, VII Corps, na nkewa na Suffolk. N'ime ihe ndị ọzọ Keyes mere bụ mwakpo a wakporo White House, Virginia, na Jenụwarị 7, 1863, na njem a gara West Point, Virginia, na Mee 7, 1863.