Despite being in home, Kagekatsu UESUGI plotted a rebellion, having Saito, Kakizaki, Maruta, and so on serve as captains to lead forces of uprising, and holed themselves up in Shitada Village, the boundary of Aizu; Chikayoshi himself, accompanied by soldiers, then fought against them, thereby acquiring a severed head or killing the offender' (according to "Kanei shoka keizuden" [The Genealogies of the Houses of the Kanei era]), by which achievements, he was awarded a citation by Ieyasu and Hidetada.
「上杉景勝本国にありなから逆謀をくはだて、斎藤・柿崎・丸田等を軍長とし、一揆の党をひきひて会津のさかひ下田村に楯籠、このとき親良みつから軍士をあいしたかへ、いとみたたかひて首級を得、すなはち、上意に達す、」（『寛永諸家系図伝』）、この功により、家康、秀忠から感状を賜る。