NC Civil War Sailors Project

Albert Black, served as landsman/ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Selma, 1862 - 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 841 - 842 and 2, 1, 286 & 306.]

Alexander Black, born Scotland, resided in Beaufort County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, sailor; enlisted at Beaufort County, December 15, 1861, aged 30, as private, company C, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 8, 1862; served as a seaman on the CSS Arctic, August, 1862; CSS North Carolina and as captain of the hold, CSS Tallahassee, 1864; later sent aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, and was rated as captain of the hold from January 1, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [NCT 1, 397; ORN 1, 23, 703; 2, 1, 279, 293, 295-296 and 307; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 268 and 270-271.]

C. B. Black, served in the Confederate States Navy, Mobile Squadron, 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and paroled the next day (see entry for C. P. Black, below, who may be the same person). [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 646.]


C.P. Black, originally served in the 15th Mississippi Volunteers; transferred from lieutenant general Polk's Army at Brandon, Mississippi, to the Confederate States Navy, by special order no. 309, Adjutant and Inspector General's office, dated at Richmond, Virginia, December 30, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer William F. Lynch, at Wilmington, North Carolina; sent on to report to admiral Franklin Buchanan's command at Mobile, Alabama, by another order dated at Richmond, on January 7, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and Transfers.; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 83.]

Charles Black, enlisted for three years or the war, as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 8, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 164.]

Horace N. Black, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, July, 1861, as private, company E, 13th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 12, 1864; served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Booth 1, 196; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]

J.W. Black, originally served as sergeant, Kilcrease Light Artillery, Florida (Confederate); transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

John G. Black, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]
Julius Black, seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, April - June, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia). [ORN 2, 1, 283; DANFS.]

Samuel Black, f. (fireman?), side wheeled steamer CSS Talomico, Savannah, Georgia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]

Samuel Black, served as seaman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as quarter gunner on February 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 854.]

W. N. Black, served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865; rated as carpenter's mate from January 1, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 268.]
Wallace Black, deckhand (?), side wheeled steamer CSS Talomico, Savannah, Georgia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]

William Black, 2nd class fireman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

William L. Black, resident of New Orleans, Louisiana; acting assistant paymaster; attempted to seize steamer, Salvador, running from Panama to the port of San Francisco; captured by the USS Lancaster, November, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 302 & 355.]

William M. Black, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Gaston County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

John Blackadden (surname also shown as Blackadder), born Scotland, 1825; migrated to America in 1850; resided as a machinist, in 1850, at Portsmouth, Virginia; married in Virginia, 1852; superintendent of machinery at the Naval Ordnance Works, Selma, Alabama, during the Civil War; by 1870 he had moved to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he is shown residing, as a machinist, with his wife, Margaret, and four children; died at New Orleans, December 24, 1907. [ADAH; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804 - 1949 at the Ancestry.com web site.]
James Cunningham Blacker (surname also shown as Blackar), born Ireland, about 1829; stated to be an Irishman; was a captain in the English merchant service; had previously commanded the merchant vessels White Swan and Saxonia; may have also commanded the merchant vessels, Pirate (to Otago, in June, 1861), Hydra (to Otago, in February, 1862) and Blue Jacket (to Liverpool, in June, 1862); stowed away, with 41 other men from Melbourne, aboard the CSS Shenandoah and was appointed as captain's clerk aboard the cruiser, by lieutenant James I. Waddell, on February 18, 1865; placed under arrest, June 25, 1865, for fighting with master's mate Cornelius Hunt; one of the signatories who petitioned lieutenant Waddell, in September, 1865, to steer for Cape Town, South Africa, at the end of the cruise of the CSS Shenandoah. [Alabama Claims 1, 974; Temple 974; ORN 1, 3, 782; Argus (Melbourne) newspaper, dated Tuesday, November 29, 1864; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 169; merchant shipping data also obtained from the Victorian Public Records Office web sites titled "Outward Passengers to Interstate, UK, NZ and Foreign Ports 1852 - 1876" and "Unassisted Immigration to Victoria" at http://proarchives.imagineering.com.au/index_search_results.asp; Otago Witness (New Zealand) dated 27 July 1861, page 3; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 694.]

Andrew Blackie, see Andrew Blakie.

John Blacking (surname also shown as Blucking), born Denmark; Seaman, CSS Shenandoah; deserted from the dinghy, January 28, 1865, at Hobson's Bay, Melbourne, Australia, but returned on board, the next day. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

George Blacknall, born North Carolina, 1804; attended the Department of Medicine, University of Pennsylvania; previous service in the United States Navy, as surgeon; resided, in 1860, with his wife, Emma, and four daughters, at Norfolk, Virginia; later appointed as surgeon, Confederate States Navy; died January 20 or 21, 1862 at Norfolk. [ORN 1, 7, 47; Register1862; 1860 U.S. Census; some additional information provided by F. Terry Hambrecht, Rockville, Maryland, in an e-mail (thambrecht@comcast.net) dated September 4, 2003; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 17; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

John G. Blackwood, born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1830; previous service as ensign in the United States Revenue Service; served aboard the United States Revenue cutter, J.C. Dobbin, at Savannah, Georgia, in 1860; served as 2nd lieutenant aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, in 1861, and executive officer aboard the steamer CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, and in the Naval defense of New Orleans,1861 - 1862; served as lieutenant on the Mobile station, 1864 - 1865; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Porter's Naval History, 785; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (1861), page 514; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 322; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Richmond (provisions) - revenue marine, page 824.]

G. Blader, CSN, died March 20, 1863, buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

Andrew Blake, born New Orleans, Louisiana, March, 1845; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, at Mobile, Alabama, on May 4, 1862, under captain Julian Myers; served as landsman aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama; states that he was shot through the shoulder, and wounded, on an expedition to capture the Tennessee; paroled as a prisoner of war at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865; applied for the Confederate pension from Louisiana, in September, 1913, and which was allowed on December 10, 1913; resided all his life in New Orleans; at the time of his application his wife was deceased, and he stated that he had no children. [ORN 2, 1, 288; Louisiana Confederate pension application of Andrew Blake.]

Charles Blake, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy for three years or the war, as seaman aboard the CSS Huntress, at Charleston, South Carolina, on June 23, 1862, and received a $50 bonus at enlistment. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 747 and 749.]
James Blake, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Joseph Davidson Blake, born North Carolina, about 1831; originally served in the United States Navy, from September 9, 1847; entered the Confederate States Navy on February 23, 1862, as 1st lieutenant; served as lieutenant on the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a very bad sprain in his ankle, after a fall, on Friday, June 13, 1862; treated for catarrh, with coughing and fainting spells, on Thursday, August 21, 1862, and again with the same condition on Saturday, August 30, 1862; on Thursday, October 30, 1862, the surgeon reported, in his medical journal, that Blake was suffering from "phthisis pulmonalis" adding that Blake had been "suffering with a severe dry cough since about the 1st August - Became much prostrated, and obtaining leave of absence, visited the Springs, with much benefit. The cough has continued constantly since, and upon examination two weeks ago, I detected considerable irritation in upper portion of left lung, with dullness on percussion, and puerile respiration on right side. Last night had an attack of haemoptysis spilling about half pint of blood"; the surgeon treated him with medication, adding, in his notes, that "The disease is hereditary in his family"; it was later noted that Blake had been examined by a survey on November 1st, 1862, and that he would be relieved from duty; went on sick leave; later served on the Richmond station, 1863-1864. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal; ORN 2, 1, 322; Register1863.]

Peter Blake, 2nd class boy, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

James Blakely, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; died prior to June 3, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 1.]

W. Blakely, ordinary seaman, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 553.]

W. Blakeman, indicated to have served as captain, Confederate marines; buried at the City Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

John Blakeslee, appointed master not in line of promotion, Confederate States Navy, December 24, 1861. [CSNRegister.]
Washington Blakey, born Alabama, 1844; son of William and Nancy Blakey; resided as a farm laborer, in 1860, at Barbour County, Alabama; served as landsman aboard the CSS Selma; captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a prisoner of war; may have served as private, company I, 1st Alabama Infantry; married Sarah Susan McLeroy at Barbour County, July 14, 1866. [ORN 1, 21, 844; Sierra; 1860 U.S. Census; Alabama Marriage Collection, 1800 - 1969 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Andrew Blakie (surname also shown as Blackie and Blacksie), served as seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863; appointed boatswain, Confederate States Navy, May 9, 1863; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Savannah, Savannah River squadron, 1863; later served aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, and the CSS Virginia II, James River squadron, 1863 - 1864; ordered to return to the schoolship, CSS Patrick Henry, June 26, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 644 & 709 and 2, 1, 300 & 304; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530.]

H. Blanc, appointed third assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy (no record of an assistant engineer of this name in official Confederate Navy sources); served aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; aboard at the time of the boiler explosion, May, 1863; escaped uninjured. [Booth 1, 4; ORN 1, 17, 869.]

Samuel Peters Blanc, born Louisiana, about 1845; son of merchant and banker, Jules A. Blanc; appointed as acting Midshipman, August 29 (Register1864 shows date of appointment as August 28, 1861), 1861; served aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; attached to the Jackson station, 1862; served aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, 1862 - 1863; also aboard the CSS Savannah, from September 3, 1863; promoted passed midshipman, January 8, 1864; involved in failed attempt to capture USS Adela, at St. George's Sound, Florida, May, 1864; promoted master in the line of promotion, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served on the Mobile squadron, 1864, and aboard the CSS Sampson, Mobile Squadron, from July 21, 1864, and CSS Chattahoochee, in 1864, on which he served as executive officer; commanded torpedo boat Hornet, James River, Virginia, January, 1865; served as master aboard the CSS Webb, April, 1865; abandoned the vessel below New Orleans, and was captured, April 25, 1865; sent aboard the USS Lackawanna, and then the USS Richmond, as prisoner of war, on the same day; sent to Florida, for transfer north, April 27, 1865; later sent to Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received May 20, 1865; released June 13, 1865; resided as a lawyer, in 1880, with his wife, Catherine, and four children, at New Orleans, Louisiana; served for some years as City Attorney; member of the Louisiana Division of the Association of the Army of Tennessee; died of Bright's disease at New Orleans, Thursday, February 9, 1888; buried at St. Louis Cemetery, New Orleans. [ORN 1, 17, 698; 1, 22, 155, 157 & 167 - 169 and 2, 1, 283, 290 & 318; Young Sanders; Booth 1, 4; Fort Warren; Register1863; Register1864; 1880 U.S. Census; JCC 4, 122; New York Times dated Wednesday, February 10, 1888; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated Friday, February 10, 1888, page 4.]

Joseph Blancar (surname also shown as Blanca), born Palermo, Italy, 1835; enlisted at Apalachicola, Florida, May 10, 1861, in company A, of the Melton Light Artillery, in which he served before being transferred to the Confederate States Navy, October 20, 1862; sent from the Confederate Navy Yard, to Columbus, Georgia, in November, 1862; served as seaman and quarter gunner on the CSS Chattahoochee, 1862-1864 (a Naval document shows that he was actually transferred, from aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, at Savannah, to Columbus, Georgia, on September 6, 1864); paroled and discharged at the Columbus Navy Yard, Georgia; he indicated, in his pension application, that he was on a 30 day furlough at Columbus, when the war ended; resided as a sailor, in 1880, with his wife Eliza A. Blancar, and three children, at Lake Charles, Calcasieu county, Louisiana, and was still living there at the time he applied for the Confederate pension from Louisiana, in June, 1908. [ORN 1, 17, 700 and 2, 1, 283; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; 1880 U.S. Census; Louisiana Confederate Pension application file of Joseph Blancar at www.familysearch.org; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 242, 575 and 673.]

---- Blanchard, Assistant Surgeon, Queen of the West, February, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 407.]

Charles Blanchard, 1st class fireman, CSN Submarine Battery Defenses, James River, Virginia, April, 1864; served aboard the screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864; involved in an unsuccessful torpedo attack on the USS Minnesota, off Newport News, Virginia, April 9, 1864; attached as private to company B, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 9, 604 and 2, 1, 307; M1091.]

Reuben G. Blanchard, born Washington County, Florida, May 8, 1838; enlisted at Tallahassee, Florida, September 30, 1862, in company E, 10th Florida Infantry; wounded in action, in the right leg, at Olustee[?]; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 10, 1864; served on CSS Palmetto State; returned to the Army after the surrender of Charleston, South Carolina; captured April 6, 1865, at Burkesville, on the retreat from Richmond, Virginia; post war occupation, farmer; resided at Clarksville, Florida, in 1910; a letter in his pension file indicates that he may have served in the Union Navy at St. Andrew's Bay, and may have applied for a Union Pension. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A12327.]

J.M. Blankenship, originally served as sergeant, company D 2nd Battalion, Georgia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

R. O. Blankenship, served as a clerk in the Navy Department at Richmond, Virginia, March, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, V - Governmental relationships, VA - Administration, etc., Miscellaneous, page 27.]

John Blanking, see John Blacking.

Adolphus Blass, possibly a native of Italy; served as 2nd class fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864; witness in the court martial cases against Vincenzio Capitan and Edward Vickopuskis, September 19, 1864. [CSS Florida court martial records and engineering department records (dated at St. George, Bermuda, June 27, 1864), in National Archives microfilm publication T716, roll 3; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 414.]
Robert H. Bledsoe, originally served as private, company D, 19th Virginia Infantry; later promoted corporal; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Andrew Bleike, served in the Confederate States Navy; buried at the Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

John Blenman, born England; seaman, Launch No. 2, 1861-1862; discharged from service, February 8, 1862; aged 40. [St. Philips.]

John Blenman, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 674.]

Patrick Blenney, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 3, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 47.]

Peter Blessey (surname also shown as Blesey and Blesi), born Canton Glaves?, Switzerland, September 21, 1844; resided, at the time of enlistment, at New Orleans, Louisiana; enlisted at Camp Lewis, Louisiana, April 15, 1862, as private, company E, 30th Louisiana Infantry; presumed to have been taken prisoner at the battle of Baton Rouge, August 5, 1862; returned to his unit at a later date; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March 26, 1864, and served as landsman aboard a vessel at Mobile Bay; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865; joined the Jefferson Lodge No. 191, of Masons, on December 22, 1868; married Margaret Rau on June 17, 1869, at the Milan Street Evangelical Church, New Orleans, and three children were born of this marriage; resided as a butcher, in 1870, with his family at New Orleans; died of tuberculosis, at New Orleans, February 12, 1879; buried, on February 13, at the 6th District Cemetery, New Orleans; his funeral service was attended by members of the Pioneer Fire Company No. 1, and Jefferson Lodge No. 191; after his death his widow, Margaret, made application for the pension from Louisiana on August 26, 1931. [Booth 1, 11; 1870 U.S. Census; New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804 - 1949 at the Ancestry.com web site; Louisiana Confederate Pension application of Margaret Blessey.]

John Blihue, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama on May 10, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 292;Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1218 - 1218.]

Joseph Block (first name also shown as Julius), enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on April 8, 1864; shown as seaman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, in May, 1864; transferred from the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina. [ORN 1, 17, 700; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 575 and 673.]

W.H. Blocker, coal heaver, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

W.J. Blodget, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316.]

Anton Blomeke (first name also shown as Antone), served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 54 and 98.]

Benjamin T. Bloodworth, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Pender County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

Jas. Blooford, served as landsman at the Naval battery, Gloucester Point, Virginia, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 398.]

George Bloom, born New Orleans, Louisiana, about 1847; served as boy aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for diarrhoea on Friday, June 27, 1862; medical entry for Wednesday, July 23, 1862 states that he "was on liberty and indulged very freely in green fruits. After returning on board was attacked with convulsions, epileptic in character" and was treated accordingly, which cured him of the condition, however, on Friday, July 25, 1862, he was transferred to the hospital ashore; later returned aboard the vessel; treated for a fever on Saturday, August 16, 1862, and again with the same condition on Sunday, September 7, 1862 and Wednesday, September 17, 1862; treated for an abscess in his ear, on Sunday, July 19, 1863; treated for a fever on Monday, August 10, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

J.F. Bloom, Landsman, assigned, from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Battery Brooke, James River, Virginia, October, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 805.]

William Bloom (surname also shown as Blum), carpenter's mate, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294, 295 & 297; DANFS.]

W.F. Bloomer, seaman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

George Bloons, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]

Jacob A. Blount, served as private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864; paroled at Thomasville, Georgia, May 18, 1865; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [ORN 2, 1, 315; GA Pension Index 109; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 651.]

Miles Blount (surname also shown as Blunt), born North Carolina, 1838; resided as a shingle maker, in 1860, at Russels, Craven County, North Carolina; enlisted at Craven County, May 27, 1861, as corporal, company F, 2nd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; wounded in action at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209 dated at Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston, South Carolina; served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; also shown on a muster roll as having served on the CSS Albemarle and at Halifax Station, July-September, 1864; resided as a shingle maker, in 1880, with his wife, Louisa, and four children, at George, Colleton County, South Carolina. [NCT 3, 433; ORN 2, 1, 274 & 298; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate States Navy subject file.]

S. E. Blount, served as a marine aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of the prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of that vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, page 2.]

S. R. Blount, served as a marine aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of the prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of that vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, page 2.]

John Blucking, see John Blacking.

John A. Blue, recruited aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, in 1864, and transferred, as landsman, on October 6, 1864, to the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), also in the same squadron; transferred to the Richmond station by order of flag officer W.W. Hunter, dated October 19, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 583; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 648.]

Frank L. Blum (surname also shown as Blume), born August 3, 1847, Winston-Salem, North Carolina; served as midshipman on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864; married in 1875; resided as a notion dealer (?), in 1880, with his wife, Martha, and daughter, Maddin, at Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee; still residing in Nashville, as a general broker, in 1910. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Veteran 24, 273; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]

William Blum, see William Bloom.

George Blummer, served as boy aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 333.]

John Blunt, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 62.]

John Blunt, served as cabin steward aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, 1861 - 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 320, 325 and 329.]

Miles Blunt, see Miles Blount.

Gustavus Blythe, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 3, New Orleans station, in 1861; later served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 47.]

Thomas Stuart Blythe, Seaman; born Florida, 1848; son of William Blythe, listed below, and his wife, Ellen Maria (maiden name, Shine); enrolled, October 14, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida, in captain A.B. Noyes company of (Florida) Coast Guards; later served aboard CSS Spray; paroled at Tallahassee, Florida, May 13, 1865; married Johanna Guerin in Melbourne, Australia, 1872; resided in Victoria, Australia for several years before his name disappears from the records. [Soldiers of Florida, 52; also see Internet site Civil War Veterans of Wakulla County at URL: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~rthompso/cw_vets.html; copy of marriage certificate of Thomas S. Blythe and Johanna Guerin, 1872, in possession of the author; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 654.]

William Blythe, Coxswain; born England, 1820; Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 9, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52; also see Internet site Civil War Veterans of Wakulla County at URL: http://mailer.fsu.edu/~rthompso/cw_vets.html]

T.P. Boatright, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia; served May - June, 1862; also served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Sampson, Savannah, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 303.]

J. F. Bobitt, sent from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Richmond station, and received aboard the CSS Hampton, James River squadron, on October 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 744.]

C. Boccaletti, served as coxswain in the Confederate States Navy, and was involved in the expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863 (see also, entry for Carlo Boicaletti). [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]

M. Bogeatt, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 674.]

S. M. C. Boggs, enlisted October 6, 1864, in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served as private in the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 266.]

James Bogle, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 79.]

Paul Bogon, enlisted, for one year, as coal passer aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, on September 24, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1227; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

Charles B. Bohannon, born Virginia, 1830; resided as a sea captain, in 1860, with his wife, Virginia, and daughter, Mary, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Rappahannock, operating on the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; later served aboard the CSS Nansemond, James River squadron, 1864; post war occupation in the Government Light Service at Richmond, Virginia; describes, in a 1901 Richmond newspaper article, how he managed to create havoc aboard a United States blockading vessel, be leaving a jar of hornets on the vessel, during the war. [ORN 1, 10, 642 and 2, 1, 303; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census; Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated April 21, 1901, page 2.]

George A. Bohannon (surname also shown as Bohannan), born 1836; states that he enlisted as private, company G, 51st Regiment, Virginia Infantry (official records actually show that George A. Bohannon enlisted in company A, 25th Battalion, Virginia Volunteers), at Centre Cross, Essex County, Virginia, June 12, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 20, 1864; served aboard the CSS Hampton; resided at Norfolk, Virginia; admitted to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, August, 1906; died March 7, 1908; buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [LVa; Civil War Service Records.]

Michael Bohen, originally enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861 and later rated as cook aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422.]

Henry Bohn (surname also shown as Bons), served as ordinary seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida; captured aboard the vessel, October 7, 1864, off Bahia, Brazil; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he arrived November 11, 1864; released February 1, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 256; Fort Warren.]

Carlo Boicaletti, coxswain, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865 (see also, entry for C. Boccaletti). [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

Joseph Boisseau, Pilot, paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231.]

A. William Boit, see Ambrose William Burt.

Jacob Bokey, Landsman, CSS Selma, captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 844.]

H. E. Bold, served as a marine aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of the prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of that vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, page 2.]

J. W. Bold, served as a marine aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of the prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of that vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, page 2.]

John Bolt, born England, about 1827; resided as a seaman, in 1860, with his wife Sarah, and two children, at Washington, Beaufort County, North Carolina; enlisted at Beaufort County, May 10, 1861, as private, company I, 3rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 22, 1862; enlisted in the army again, at Craven County, North Carolina, February 9, 1862, aged 36, as corporal, company C, 61st Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred back to the Confederate States Navy, January 16, 1863; served as seaman on the CSS Arctic, and as captain of the forecastle on the CSS North Carolina, 1864. [NCT 3, 579 & 14, 669; ORN 2, 1, 279, 293 & 295; 1860 U.S. Census.]

Nicholas Bonchas, served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; arrested as a deserted by New Orleans constable D. Kenney, and turned over to the CSS St. Phillip, on April 5, 1862, and for which Kenney received a reward of $10. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 434.]

Michael Bond, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314.]

Walter Ernest Bondurant, born St. Joseph, Louisiana, March 5, 1841 (1860 U.S. Census shows his state of birth as Mississippi) ; resident of Hartford, Connecticut, in 1860; appointed from Mississippi; assistant surgeon for the war, Confederate States Navy, May 10, 1863; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served at Columbus, Georgia, 1864; served aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston station, 1864; post war practiced medicine in Natchez, Mississippi; married Ella Felice Walker in New Orleans, December 16, 1873; died June 13, 1874, at Natchez; buried in the Bondurant Lot of the Natchez City Cemetery; his widow, Ella F. Bondurant, resided, in 1880, at New Orleans, Louisiana, with her son, W.E. Bondurant. [CSN Register; JCC 4, 123; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; additional information from descendant, Walter Bondurant, in an e-mail (wbondurant@nc.rr.com) dated March 8 2006, from Candace Bundgard, of Natchez, in two e-mails (CandaceBundgard@aol.com) dated March 22, 2006, and from Don Estes, in an e-mail (cdestes@bellsouth.net) dated May 16, 2006; see also Louisiana Marriages, 1718 - 1925 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Frederick Bone, boatswain's mate, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Charles Boneral, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]

Lewis Bonford, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 54.]

R.H. Bonham, served as a private in company H, 2nd North Carolina Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209 dated at Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston, South Carolina. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]

John Bonica, resident of St. Louis, Missouri; indicated to have been a Chief Engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at Shreveport, Louisiana, but no record in other published sources. [ORN 1, 26, 540-1.]

M. Bonifar, appointed master not in line of promotion, Confederate States Navy, December 24, 1861. [CSNRegister.]
Patrick Bonlin, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

Francis Nathaniel Bonneau, born South Carolina, 1825; nephew of Confederate States Navy officer, Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham; previous service in the United States Navy, aboard the USS Somers; served in the Mexican War; originally served as captain in Captain Mathewes' Company, South Carolina Heavy Artillery, raised in Charleston, South Carolina, and assigned to duty at Battery Wagner, Morris Island and also aboard the gunboat Rattlesnake (which was later to be named the CSS Nashville), in 1861; assisted in fighting the major fire that burned out a large district of Charleston, on December 11 and 12, 1861; later served as acting master (Bonneau himself claimed that he held an appointment as lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy), Confederate States Navy, on the Charleston station, 1862; commanded a gunboat at Morris Island; involved in an engagement near James Island, Charleston Harbor, May 25, 1862, and in the engagement at Secessionville, James Island, South Carolina, June 16, 1862; commanded steamer Ella and Annie, 1863; captured November 9, 1863, off New Inlet, North Carolina, and imprisoned at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor; exchanged September, 1864; returned to duty at Richmond, Virginia, October, 1864, then to Charleston; also served aboard the blockade runner, Hattie, in the final months of the war; resided as a sea farer, in 1880, with his wife Catherine, at Charleston, South Carolina; on February 18, 1903, an act was approved, by the United States Congress, to grant Bonneau an increase of pension for his service during the Mexican War; Bonneau died at Charleston on January 14, 1915, and is buried at the St. Philips Episcopal Church Cemetery. [ORN 1, 9, 294 - 295 and 1, 13, 35 - 36; ORA 1, 14 and 2, 7, 868; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; New York Times dated September 18, 1892; Charleston (South Carolina) Mercury dated Tuesday, December 17, 1861 and Thursday, December 19, 1861; http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Page:United_States_Statutes_at_Large_Volume_32_Part_2.djvu/395
United States Statutes at Large Volume 32 Part 2.djvu/395; Find A Grave web site memorial.]

Bryant T. Bonner, recruited aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, and transferred from that vessel, on October 6, 1864, to the CSS Georgia, where he served as landsman; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, by order of flag officer W. W. Hunter, dated October 19, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 583; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 648.]

J.E. Bonner, served as boy, Confederate States Navy; attached as private to company C, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

James Bonner, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 57.]

John Bonner, previously served as Private, Company E, First Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, March, 1862; transferred to Confederate States Navy, December 15, 1862; served as seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, in 1863, and aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, 1863; rated as quartermaster on May 2, 1863; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863 and served aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1864. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 157; ORN 2, 1, 284 & 288; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530 and 779; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 748.]

John W. Bonner, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 674.]

S.L. Bonner, appointed, from Virginia, as assistant surgeon, Confederate States Navy, March 14, 1862; served aboard the CSS Morgan, 1862. [Register1862; JCC 2, 66; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1064.]

Henry Bons, see Henry Bohn.

Louis Bonsigne (surname also shown as Bonsique), served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 83 and 99.]

Solomon Booge, Landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Benjamin Charles Bookout, originally served as private, company I, 28th Mississippi Infantry; later in Confederate States Navy; buried at Shell Ridge Cemetery, Indianola, Mississippi. [John E. Ellis; Sierra.]

John Boomer, served as 1st sergeant in company A, Confederate States Marine Corp, 1863 - 1864; Boomer was sent, on February 15, 1863, by his commander at Drewry's Bluff, captain George Holmes, to procure a batch of Marine clothing (consisting of 5 uniform coats, and 7 pairs of shoes) from the quartermaster's department at Richmond, and return, with these items, to camp; however, while waiting at the wharf at Rockett's Navy Yard, for the gunboat to take him and the items back to camp, a man grabbed some of the clothing, and, when Boomer gave chase, another man at the wharf made off with the remainder of the clothing; a report was made out by Boomer, to captain Holmes, and who then reported the incident to his own superior. [ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Richmond (clothing - ordnance), page 206.]

S.H. Boon, served as seaman and ship's corporal, ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia; signed on for the war on July 1, 1863, and was granted a furlough, as quartermaster, from July 4, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 715 and 2, 1, 286; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 514.]

Allen R. Boone, born in Coweta County, Georgia, in 1835; previously served as Private in Company K, 44th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, March 4, 1862; wounded at Malvern Hill, Virginia, July 1, 1862; transferred to Navy, April 4, 1864. [Georgia Rosters, 4, 830.]

William Boone, served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; deserted about April, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling; Miscellaneous, page 14.]

Asa J. Booth, born Georgia, 1836; son of John and Anna Booth; enlisted for the war, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on April 10, 1863, receiving a bounty of $50stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Clarke County, Georgia; married about 1873; resided as a family grocer, in 1880, with his wife, Aby E. Booth, and five children, at Athens, Clarke County, Georgia. [ORN 2, 1, 316; GA Pension Index 117; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 677.]

Edwin Gilliam Booth, jr. (first name also shown as Edward), born Nottoway County, Virginia, February 27, 1839; son of Edwin Gilliam Booth and Sarah Tanner (Jones); attended Winfield Academy, Dinwiddie County, Virginia, and Hampton-Sydney College, graduating in 1859; also attended University of Virginia, and then the University of Pennsylvania, from which he graduated with his medical doctorate, 1861; at the commencement of the Civil War, enlisted in the Nottoway Cavalry, and the 3rd Virginia Regiment; original appointment, in Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon for the war, April 1, 1862; served aboard the CSS Beaufort; September, 1861 - April, 1862; vessel operated in North Carolina and Virginia waters; later served on the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, and the steamer CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1862 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; taken prisoner aboard the CSS Selma at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864; confined at Pensacola, Florida; released in his capacity as a surgeon, September, 1864, and returned to Mobile, Alabama; paroled, at the end of the war, at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; visited Europe after the war, and returned to Virginia, residing at James City County; married Clara Haxall Thomson, October, 1870; resided for about three decades at Bellefonte, Nottoway County, Virginia; later resided in Williamsburg; member of the board of William and Mary College; died January 5, 1922. [ORN 1, 21, 609 & 622 and 2, 1, 281 & 292; ORA 1, 39/1; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; Porter's Naval History, 785; CSN-Museum; 1880 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; some data from the University of Virginia Library web site at http://ead.lib.virginia.edu/vivaead/published/uva-sc/vivadoc.pl?file=viu00113.xml.]

Thomas Booth, seaman, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River, Louisiana, area); served July - November, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS.]

George A. Borchert (surname also shown as Borchet), born Savannah, Georgia, April 28, 1839; son of Anthony and Louisa Borchert; original service in the United States Navy, from September 20, 1855; graduated from the United States Naval Academy in 1859; entered the Confederate States Navy, July 23, 1861, as midshipman; served on the New Orleans station, 1861; promoted 2nd lieutenant, February 8, 1862; later served on the CSS Baltic, and the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1862 - 1863; by order of lieutenant commanding William P.A. Campbell, dated at Charleston, South Carolina, June 8, 1863, he was ordered to proceed to Wilmington, North Carolina, and there board the blockade runner Sirius, for Nassau; served on the cruiser CSS Rappahannock, 1863 - 1864, and the ram CSS Stonewall, 1865; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; served, post war, in the Mexican Imperial Navy, and later in the Colombian Navy; together with fellow ex-Confederate Navy officer, John W. Murdough, he was hacked to pieces and murdered by an armed mob at Carthagena, Colombia, September 1, 1867. [ORN 1, 3, 729 and 2, 1, 292 & 320; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; Georgia in the War, 1861 - 1865, 107; New York Herald dated Friday, May 12, 1865, page 1; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; 1860 U.S. Census; New York Times dated June 13, 1859; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated Wednesday, September 25, 1867; Confederate States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers.]

S. J. Bordelon, served as landsman at the Naval station at Shreveport, Louisiana; discharged from the Confederate States Navy on July 18, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 890.]

Andrew Borden, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Daniel Borden, 1st class fireman, served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Sampson, Savannah, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 303; DANFS.]

W.A. Bordenhammer (surname also shown as Bodenhammer), landsman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863; later served aboard the receiving vessel CSS Indian Chief, Charleston station, 1864, and aboard the CSS Columbia, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 270.]

S.R. Bordsey, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Christopher Borneville, born Mississippi, about 1840; served as landsman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Tuesday, August 26, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

---- Boronas, seaman, CSS Florida, 1864. [CSS Florida medical journal records, in National Archives microfilm publication T716, roll 3.]

James Borough, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]

Charles Borum, born Virginia, 1840; previous service as private, captain Grandy's Company, Virginia Light Artillery (Norfolk Light Artillery Blues); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, and appointed lieutenant, Provisional Navy, January 7, 1864; served on the Charleston squadron, South Carolina, 1864; served at Battery Brooke, James River defenses, 1864; resided as a wholesale herbalist, in 1880, with his wife, Cordelia and five children, at Norfolk, Virginia. [Civil War Service Records; ORA 1, 42/3; ORN 1, 10, 805; Register1864; 1880 U.S. Census; Norfolk County Record 251.]

Daniel Bosurge, born Bayou Le Batre, Mobile County, Alabama, January 29, 1844; originally enlisted a Bayou Le Batre on April 25, 1861, as a private in company E, 1st Battalion, Alabama Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on July 5, 1863, and served aboard the ram CSS Nashville; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, in 1907 at Ancestry.com.]

W.F. Boswell, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 297.]

Walter P. Boteler, reported aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, about March 14, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OO - Operations of large groups of vessels; Charleston - Miscellaneous, page 88.]

Samuel F. Botts, enlisted March 1, 1863 for 1 year, at the rate of $18 per month; also shown with earlier service, as seaman aboard the CSS Dodge, in Texas waters, 1862; sent for duty to the plantation of colonel Hamilton Washington, on the Trinity River, Polk County, Texas; sent aboard the steamer Alamo, to report for duty, as seaman aboard the CSS Harriet Lane, in Galveston Bay, Texas, April 15, 1863; later sent to Shreveport, Louisiana, to serve aboard the CSS Missouri, under lieutenant J.H. Carter, in 1863; discharged from the Confederate States Navy, at Shreveport, on April 27, 1864. [ORN 1, 19, 813 & 816; 1, 20, 815 and 2, 1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 302; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 892.]

James Boudet, part of a group of Confederate Navy personnel, who attempted to seize steamer, Salvador, running from Panama to the port of San Francisco; November, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 357.]

Pierre Boudreaux, may have served in Confederate States Navy; listed as Private, Launch No. 1, CSN; deserted about December 9, 1862. [Information supplied by Arthur Bergeron, Louisiana.]

Louis Bourcier (surname also shown as Beussere), indicated as being a Frenchman; served as seaman aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, 1861; deserted to the Union vessels, while on picket, September, 1861. [Weber; ORN 2, 1, 300.]

John A. Bourke, appointed 3rd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, February 11, 1862; served at the Warrington Navy Yard, Florida, and later on the CSS Morgan, Mobile squadron, 1862; resigned August 12, 1862; flag officer V. M. Randolph, the Naval commandant at Mobile, advised Bourke that he had actually received a dispatch from the Navy Department, indicating that Bourke was to discharged from the Naval service, anyway. [CSNRegister; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 173; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 1001.]

Joseph Bout (original surname - Boutovich), born about 1833, at Peljesac, Dubrovnik, Croatia; left London, England on December 30, 1863, for Brest, France, where he joined the cruiser CSS Florida, for service as a seaman; witness in the court martial case against Edward Vickopuskis, for mutinous conduct, September 19, 1864; captured aboard the vessel, October 7, 1864, off Bahia, Brazil; arrived in Adelaide, South Australia, aboard a windjammer, and jumped ship, according to family lore; married Mary Ann Satterley, October 30, 1867, at Hindmarsh, South Australia; Joseph farmed in later years; died Tyntynder Central, Victoria, Australia, November 22, 1930; buried at Swan Hill Cemetery, Victoria; after his death, his family is noted to have burned all his naval belongings; his command of the English language, until the day he died, was poor. [ORN 1, 3, 256; CSS Florida court martial records, in National Archives microfilm publication T716, roll 3; additional data from descendant, Carol Cosstick, of Devonport, Tasmania, in e-mail (cashistory@hotmail.com) messages dated January 14, 16 and 17, 2005; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 347.]

Frank (or Francis) B. Boville, see Francis Bartow Beville.

Michael Bow, see Michael Bowe.

Jerry Bowden (first name also shown as Jeremiah), colored, served as 1st class boy aboard the CSS Seabird; captured Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and paroled, February 12, 1862. [Scharf, 391; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 445; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 779.]

Lloyd Bowdoin (first name also shown as Floyd), born Northamptonshire County, Virginia, 1835; son of Severn E. and Laura Bowdoin; resided, in 1860, at St. George's Parish, Accomack, Virginia; served as master's mate aboard the CSS Virginia II and the CSS Roanoke, 1864 - 1865, and aboard the CSS Drewry, James River, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 671 and 1, 12, 187; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 310.]

George A. Bowe, original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, March 4, 1863; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; paroled as 2nd assistant engineer in the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States, at Montgomery, Alabama, on May 22, 1865; personal description, at the time of his parole shown as dark eyes, light hair, fair complexion and standing 5 feet 6 inches tall. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 12.]

Michael Bowe, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at the New Orleans station, 1861, and at the Mobile station, in 1862; later transferred aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864, on which he was transferred from the marine guard, and rated as master at arms. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 850; ORN 2, 1, 320; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1048.]

Charles K. Bowen, served as powder monkey aboard the schooner Royal Yacht, under captain Thomas Chubb; wrote an account of the actions of that vessel, from his home in Galveston, Texas, in 1894. [Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas) dated August 5, 1894, page 6.]

George Washington Bowen, born December 30, 1833; enlisted October 6, 1864, in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served as private in the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station; died July 21, 1898; buried family cemetery, Route 32, Washington County, North Carolina, over the border from Beaufort County. [Confederate Burials, 68; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 266.]

H. H. Bowen, enlisted October 6, 1864, in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served as private in the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 266.]

M. Bowen, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; arrested as a deserter, at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]

O. T. Bowen, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 674.]

Oliver Bowen, indicated as being a seaman in the Confederate States Navy, when he was captured on board the schooner Hugo, off Pensacola, Florida, November 14, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then transferred to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, September 18, 1863; exchanged October 1, 1864; arrived in Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864. [Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]

Robert James Bowen, born Virginia (JCC 4, 121 indicates he was appointed from Mississippi); entered the Confederate States Navy, March 18, 1862, as lieutenant for the war; served aboard the CSS Louisiana on the Mississippi River, 1862; given permission by his immediate commander, John K. Mitchell, to abandon the vessel and to try and escape capture; failed in this attempt and was captured at the fall of New Orleans, April, 1862, and paroled; served on the Richmond station, 1862, and later on the CSS Chicora and the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1862 - 1864 (in 1865 his father was noted to be residing at Jackson, Mississippi - see ORA 1, 49 (part 2), 142); appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865. [ORN 1, 13, 619; 1, 18, 299 and 2, 1, 298 & 322; ORA 1, 49 (part 2), 142; Register1862; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; see also article titled List of Confederate Officers captured at Sailor's Creek, VA., April 6, 1865, published in the New York Herald, dated April 9, 1865.]

Timothy Bowen, served in the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Issabella Bowen, applied for a post war Confederate pension from Pender County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

William Bowen, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, New Orleans station, 1861; arrested as a deserter, at Mobile, Alabama, by the police at Mobile, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]

William Matthew Bowen, born Thomas County, Georgia, March 25, 1837; resided in Florida since 1859; enlisted August 4, 1861 (another source shows July, 1861), at Tampa, Florida, in Company K, Fourth Florida Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, at Dalton, Georgia, April 11, 1864, as landsman, for service aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron (another page in his pension file indicates his transfer date was 1863, at Savannah, Georgia, but an official Navy document shows the correct date as April 8, 1864); involved in the expedition that took out the USS Water Witch; transferred, in July, 1864, as landsman, to the CSS Macon, aboard which he served 1864-1865 married Mary M. Singletary at Polk County, Florida, January 12, 1868; shown as a resident of Fort Meade, Florida, in 1907; died and buried Polk County, Florida, June 23, 1918. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 451; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A02085; CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 560.]

Bill Bower, indicated as being a crew member of the CSS Alabama, about January, 1863; attempted to desert at Jamaica, by seizing a dug-out, alongside the cruiser, and rowing towards the shore, but was apprehended; released from imprisonment after a court of general sessions. [Semmes 560, 564-565.]

David Bowers, born Ireland, about 1823; served as landsman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; rated as 1st class fireman from September 2, 1861; also served at the Jackson station, 1862; named his next of kin as Bridget Bowers. [St. Philips; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 838 and 894.]

Moses Bowers, landsman, ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1863; also served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863 ; transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief; returned later, to the Savannah station; transferred to the Wilmington station, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764; ORN 2, 1, 287 & 305; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005.]

G.C. Bowie, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

Walter Bowie, born November 11, 1843, Westmoreland County, Virginia; father, James Barker Bowie, mother, Anna Louise Simpson; attended Virginia Military Institute, 1860-1861; drillmaster, company G, 40th Virginia Infantry, and 11th Virginia Infantry; re-enlisted as private, company C, 9th Virginia Cavalry, July 14, 1862; wounded in action, Shepherdstown, October, 1862; appointed acting master, Confederate States Navy, from Virginia, March, 1863; served at Charleston Naval station; resigned, May 26, 1863; rejoined Confederate States Army and served with Mosby's Rangers; his first wife was the widow of colonel David Bullock Harris; second wife, Eugenia Turley Miller; post war employment in the grain business; died December 23, 1909; buried Spring Hill Cemetery, Nashville, Tennessee. [David M. Sullivan; ORN 2, 1, 317; Civil War Service Records.]

R.C. Bowles, born Kentucky; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant surgeon, February 26, 1863; served on the Charleston station, 1862; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served aboard the steamer CSS Tennessee, 1863 - 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Richmond; later that same day, sent aboard the USS Metacomet, to go to Pensacola, Florida; released, in his capacity as surgeon, September, 1864, and returned to Mobile, Alabama; sent to the James River Squadron, September 23, 1864, and assigned to Battery Brooke, James River, October 16, 1864; surrendered, and paroled at Richmond, Virginia on May 27, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 767 & 785; 1, 21, 406, 622 & 847 - 848 and 2, 1, 317; ORA 1, 39/1; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 14.]

John Bowlin, served as seaman aboard the CSS Tuscarora, New Orleans station, 1861; rated as quartermaster from November 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61 and 876.]

James Bowling, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Thomas Bowling, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Isaac Bowman (first initial also shown incorrectly, in Register1862, as J.), born Virginia; original appointment, in Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, July 31, 1862; served on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1861 - 1863; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, 13 September, 1862; involved in the expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863; served on the screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1863 - 1864; although his service was mainly aboard the torpedo boats on the James River, his name was entered upon the books of the CSS Virginia II, for subsistence, December, 1864; ordered, on December 26, 1864, to report immediately to the Office of Orders and Detail, for special service. [ORN 1, 11, 775 & 788; 2, 1, 301, 307 & 322; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]

John W. Bowman, originally served as private, company E, 10th Virginia Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as coxswain to the flag officer aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Civil War Service Records.]

R. Bowman, 1st class boy, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]
Robert H. Bowman, enlisted as seaman, at Mobile, Alabama, Aplril 3, 1863; served on the gunboat CSS Tuscaloosa; discharged October 13, 1864; wife's name, Senia. [Pension from Mobile County, Alabama; number 38760.] [ADAH.]

Samuel L. Bowman (middle initial also shown as H.), enlisted, November 23, 1861, in the "Georgia Hussars," company A, 5th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy in 1864. ["Roll and Legend of the Georgia Hussars," by Alexander McC. Duncan, published 1906; see also web site, "The Outline History of the 5th Georgia Cavalry Regiment, 1863-1865," at URL: http://pollette.com/5thcavalry/5thcav/companya.htm; Civil War Service Records.]

William Bowman, served as landsman on the submarine defences of the James River, 1864; rated as coal heaver from March 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 942.]

William C. Bowman, enlisted at Winnsboro, Louisiana, August 8, 1861, as private, company C, 4th Battalion, Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, December 15, 1862; see next entry. [Booth 1, 70.]

William C. Bowman, born North Carolina; ordinary seaman, CSS Atlanta, 1863; aged 18; possibly the same person listed in the previous entry. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Thursday, March 19, 1863.]

William Bowne, see William Brown (seaman, CSS Florida, later CSS Selma).

Tom Bowse, indicated as being a crew member of the CSS Alabama, about January, 1863; attempted to desert at Jamaica, by seizing a dug-out, alongside the cruiser, and rowing towards the shore, but was apprehended; released from imprisonment after a court of general sessions. [Semmes 560, 564-565.]

Frank Bowton, originally served as private, company B, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

James Box, originally served as gunner, 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Edward D. Boxley, born Virginia, March, 1843; originally served as private, company G, 23rd Virginia Infantry; later promoted corporal; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; married in 1865; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Mary C. Boxley and four children, at Jackson, Louisa County, Virginia; still shown as residing in Jackson, in 1900. [Civil War Service Records; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]

James G. Boxley, born Virginia, about 1844; appointed from Georgia; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served on the James River Squadron, 1864; assigned for duty at the Naval battery at Bishop's, James River, Virginia, October 5, 1864; served on Battery Semmes, James River squadron, November, 1864; attached as to Semmes' Naval Brigade, for special service, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as a physician, in 1870, with his wife, Fenton, and son, at Louisa County, Virginia; in 1910, shown as residing with his son at Salem, Roanoke County, Virginia, and, in 1920, shown as a patient of the Westbrook Sanatarium, Brookland, Henrico County, Virginia. [ORN 1, 10, 767 & 772 and 1, 11, 753; JCC 4, 123; M1091; 1870 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census.]

John Boy, born Sandwich Islands; shipped from the prize bark, Abigail, as landsman (Alabama Claims source incorrectly shows his rating as seaman) aboard the CSS Shenandoah, June 12, 1865; his right hand was crushed in a shipboard accident, July 14, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783; Whittle 161 & 176.]

David Boyd, born Louisiana; pre-war occupation, caulker; marital status, single; resided at New Orleans; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 23, 1861, aged 20, as private, company B, 8th Louisiana Infantry; captured at Antietam, Maryland, September 19, 1862, and incarcerated at Fort McHenry, Maryland; exchanged at Aikens Landing, Virginia, November, 1862; deserted and joined the Confederate States Navy, May 29, 1863. [Booth 1, 73.]

J.J. Boyd, landsman, screw steamer CSS Fanny (which operated in North Carolina waters); served sometime in, or during the period September - December, 1861 and May, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 285; DANFS.]

J.L. Boyd, private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315.]

J.M. Boyd, enlisted, March 20, 1863 (substitute for J. Smith), as private, company G, 63rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry; transferred to company E, in exchange for J.C. (or A.C.) Martin, August 1, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy by Special Orders No. 1341, June 9, 1864. [Georgia Rosters 6, 447.]

James T. Boyd, served as ordinary seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee, Savannah River, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; deserted about September, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling; Miscellaneous, page 16.]

Lawrence Boyd, served as boatswain's mate aboard the CSS Selma; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 841 - 843.]

Thomas S. Boyd, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; pre-war occupation, plasterer; enlisted at Currituck County, North Carolina, May 13, 1861, aged 26, as private, company L, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about July 28, 1861. [NCT 6, 193.]

Jeremiah Boydon, 1st class boy; served aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Winslow, North Carolina waters, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

Thomas Boyer, brought, as a Naval recruit, from Columbia, South Carolina, to Wilmington, North Carolina, in July, 1863; served as ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; Confederate States Navy subject files - NR.]

W.W. Boyer, brought, as a Naval recruit, from Columbia, South Carolina, to Wilmington, North Carolina, in July, 1863; served as ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 & 295; Confederate States Navy subject files - NR.]

Jerry Boyken (surname also shown as Boykin), served as private, Confederate States Marine Corps aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 299; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 275.]

R. M. Boykin, indicated to be a Naval Store Keeper at the Richmond station, 1861-1862. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XA - Accounting and finance, Miscellaneous, pages 75, 145-146; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OL - Mobilization and demobilization; Norfolk - Miscellaneous, page 18.]

R. V. Boykin, served as chief clerk at the Confederate States Navy Yard, Gosport, Virginia, in 1861; also indicated to have served as acting Confederate States Naval store keeper. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (1861), page 542; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (January - June, 1862), page 612.]

Barnard Boylan, indicated to have served as a Confederate marine; buried at the Catholic Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

James Boyle, rated as 1st class fireman aboard the Confederate States floating battery New Orleans, off Columbus, Kentucky, from January 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 9.]

Lawrence (or Laurence) Boyle, born Ireland, about 1825; enlisted for the war, at Mobile, Alabama, on October 15, 1861, as a private in captain Waters' company, 1st Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery; Boyle was also rated as a driver in the company; indicated to have been absent from quarters, in the last quarter of 1861, but subsequently noted as present; the company muster for February shows Boyle as being "absent in arrest by order of Provost Marshal at Shelbyville [Tennessee] since 20 February, 1863"; in May, 1863, Boyle was charged by a court martial held at Shelbyville, with having been absent, after roll call, on the night of March 10, 1863, and that he went to a house outside of the camp limits, spending the night there, and not returning to camp until near daylight; he was also charged with being absent from his post as sentinel, on the night of March 11, 1863, and at which time he confessed that he had been asleep on a caisson; Boyle pleaded not guilty to both charges, but he was found not guilty of the first charge, and guilty of the second charge, and was sentenced to forfeit two months' pay, and to wear a ball and chain of 24 pounds, for a month; Boyle was subsequently transferred to the Confederate States Navy, under Special Order No. 13/11 dated January 16, 1864; he served as boatswain's mate aboard the CSS Tennessee, and was aboard the ironclad vessel when it was captured at the battle of Mobile Bay on August 5, 1864; he was sent to New Orleans for incarceration, but escaped on September 3, 1864; he eventually made his way to Australia aboard the vessel Newsboy, in 1887, and worked as a waterman at the wharf in the city of Newcastle, New South Wales; Boyle was often in trouble with the police and courts in Maitland and Newcastle, being charged with common offenses such as vagrancy, drunkenness, obscene language, resisting arrest, etc., as shown in the New South Wales Gaol Description and Entrance Books, between the period 1887 and 1891; even as late as July 3, 1891, the same month of his death, he had been charged with being drunk, at Newcastle, and had been fined one pound or seven days imprisonment; his sentence expired on July 9, 1891; later that same month of July, 1891, he was sent to the Newcastle hospital in an unconscious state, and died a few days later (the newspaper report of his death indicates, incorrectly, that Boyle had served aboard the cruiser, CSS Alabama, but there is no evidence that he was ever aboard that famed vessel, although his service in the Confederate States Navy, in Alabama, is verified); buried on July 31, 1891, in the Catholic section of the Sandgate Cemetery, Newcastle. [Civil War Service Records for Lawrence Boyle, of captain Waters' company, 1st Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery; Confederate Navy Subject File NA - complements, rolls, lists of persons serving in or with vessels or stations, Lists and Registers, page 474; Sydney Morning Herald dated Saturday, 1 August, 1891, page 10; Sandgate Cemetery (Newcastle, New South Wales) online search facility at http://www.sandgatecemetery.org.au/index.php/our-records/undertake-a-search/catalog?search=boyle&start=20; New South Wales, Australia, Gaol Description and Entrance Books, 1818-1930 at Ancestry.com.]

P. M. Boyle (or Boyld, Boyd), served as private in the Confederate States Marine corps, aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, in 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1182.]

Patrick Boyle, landsman, CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; also served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), sometime between January, 1863 and September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; DANFS.]

Patrick Boyle, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, and was transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764.]

Terrance Boyle (or Boyld, Boyd), served as private in the Confederate States Marine corps, aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, in 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1182.]

WIlliam Boyle, Private, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
John Boynton, served on the CSS Florida, 1863; indicated as having gone to Florida, in 1863. [Alabama Claims 2, 456.]
William Boynton, served as ship's steward and coxswain aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863-1864. [ORN 1, 2, 661; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 362.]
William Boynton, resident of Alabama; paymaster's clerk, CSS Stonewall, 1865. [New York Herald, Friday, May 12, 1865, page 1.]