 He was a Biebrza district commissar, local Plenipotentiary for the "Rada Narodowa" (National revolutionary council) and was responsible for the purchase of armaments.The following year he took part in a series of skirmishes and in May 1863 he distinguished himself at the head of a relief party in the battle of Kazlų Rūda.By November 1863 he was in Eastern Prussia where he was arrested and imprisoned in Posen-West Prussia.