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A. Buchanan, Confederate States Navy; died December 15, 1864; buried Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. [Honeycutt.]
Franklin Buchanan, born Baltimore, Maryland, September 17, 1800; citizen of Pennsylvania; originally served in the United States Navy, entering the service on January 28, 1815; served as acting lieutenant on a cruise to India; promoted lieutenant, January 13, 1825; commanded the frigate Baltimore, in 1826; resided with his wife, A.C. Buchanan, and nine children, at Washington, D.C., in 1860; after the attack on the Massachusetts troops, at Baltimore, he resigned his commission, but, on finding that his state did not secede, he wrote to United States Navy secretary, Gideon Welles withdrawing his resignation and asking to be restored; his request was refused and his name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 22, 1861; entered the Confederate States Navy, September, 1861; served as captain and flag officer, CSS Virginia, Richmond station, 1861 - 1862; wounded in action, Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862; promoted admiral, August 26, 1862; commanded Mobile Squadron, 1863; appointed admiral, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; wounded in the leg and captured aboard CSS Tennessee, at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; sent, as prisoner of war, to the Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida; then sent aboard the USS Fort Morgan, with his two aids, to Hampton Roads, Virginia, where they arrived in late November, 1864; exchanged February, 1865; after the war he retired to private life; served as president of the Maryland Agricultural College; later served, for a few months, as agent for a St. Louis life insurance firm; died at his residence in Talbot County, Maryland, May 13, 1874 (New York Times dated Wednesday, April 29, 1894 shows date of death as May 11, 1874). [ORN 1, 7, 42 & 790; 1, 21, 406, 575 & 578; 1, 27, 640 and 2, 1, 308 & 321; ORA 1, 35; JCC 4, 144; Register1863; CSN-Museum; 1860 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; New York Times dated May 14, 1874 and Wednesday, April 29, 1894.]
John Buchanan, 2nd class fireman; served aboard the CSS Arctic, 1863, and the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 276, 294, 295 & 297.]
Joseph Buchanan, resided at 12, Skirving Street, Liverpool, England (in 1862); occupation, engineer; appointed assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Rappahannock, by the commander of the vessel, William P.A. Campbell, 1864; left the vessel a short time later. [Alabama Claims 2, 743 and 753; Gores, 1862.]
Thomas E. Buchanan, born Maryland; appointed from Virginia; served as clerk, Confederate Navy Department, 1863 - 1864. [Register1863; Register1864.]
William Buchanan, served as seaman aboard the Confederate States schooner, Dodge, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 298.]
W.F. Buchannan, Captain of Afterguard, CSS Georgia, July, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 715.]
Lyman Buck, Master's Mate, CSS Hampton, October, 1864 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 10, 766.]
Lyman Buck, ships steward, side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1862 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 303; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XA - Accounting and finance, Miscellaneous, page 144.]
L. F. Buckalew, Confederate States Marine Corps; 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 554.]
John Buckell (surname also shown as Buckle and Buckills), served as seaman, and later as quartermaster, aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah squadron, 1862-1863; rating reduced, on May 17, 1863, to seaman, and transferred, on May 18, 1863, to the CSS Atlanta; also served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865, and was rated quartermaster from January 1, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 297 and 304; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 268 and 270-271; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 605 and 608.]
John Buckley, enlisted March 25, 1864, aboard the CSS Alabama; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864. [Sinclair.]
Michael Buckley, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and later as seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61.]
Morris Buckley, Captain's Steward, CSS Governor Moore, wounded in action, April, 1862, off Forts Jackson and St. Philips, Louisiana; indicated to have been thrown overboard, while lying on the deck wounded, with a life preserver on, in shoal water. [ORN 1, 18, 723.]
Thomas Buckley, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]
Timothy Buckley, Mate, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in January 1, 1862. [Soldiers of Florida, 49.]
John Buckman, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Charleston, South Carolina, 1864; ordered to accompany 2nd lieutenant A.S. Berry, of the Marine Corps, to Raleigh, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina, on recruiting duties, September 27, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 155.]
Jesse Buckner, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]
Levi Francis Buckner, born near Blountsville, Alabama, December 15, 1844; son of John and Rachel Buckner; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Blount County, Alabama; by 1860 he is shown to have moved, with his family, to Fayette County, Alabama, and was assisting his father as a farmer; enlisted at Talladega, Alabama, on March 3, 1863, and served as private, Company D, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed at Mobile, Alabama, 1863-1864, and served aboard the CSS Tennessee; participated in all the naval engagements off Fort Morgan and in Mobile Bay; captured August 5, 1864, at Mobile Bay, and imprisoned for three months at New Orleans, then transferred to Ship Island; married Letha Josephine Hallmark, 1867, in Alabama; post war residence, as a farmer, in St. Clair County, Alabama; died November 11, 1923; buried Hullett's Chapel Cemetery, Springville, Alabama. [Confederate Burials, 68; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; U.S. and International Marriage Records, 1560 - 1900 and Alabama Confederate Pensioners on the Roll at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 674.]
William Buddendorff, resident of New Orleans, Louisiana; personal description shown as brown eyes, dark hair and dark complexion; 5 feet, 4 inches in height; listed as a sailor in the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Baltic; deserted from the Confederate Navy on December 17, 1863; sent to New Orleans and released, March 16, 1864, by order of Union General Banks. [Scriber.]
Francis Buel, served as landsman aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston, South Carolina; condemned by a medical survey and discharged from the Naval service, at Charleston, on December 15, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 245.]
John Henry Buesing (surname also shown as Brushing), served as seaman aboard the CSS Tuscarrora, New Orleans station, 1861; rated as quartermaster from November 8, 1861; later served aboard the CSS General Polk in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 479-480 and 485; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61 and 870.]
William "Billy" Bugg, African American; resident of Savannah, Georgia; served as pilot, CSS Isondiga; his pay was to be paid to his master, John A. Wood (or Mooed?); on December 3, 1864, he was ordered to be transferred to the CSS Sampson, also in the Savannah Squadron; deserted January 8, 1865; described by Flag Officer William W. Hunter, CSN, as "one of the best pilots on the Savannah River"; Bugg, and other deserters from the Confederate Navy were re-captured while attempting to make their way into enemy lines at Savannah; due to his experience as a river pilot, Bugg was returned to duty. [ORN 1, 16, 498 and 2, 1, 289; Confederate States Navy subject files - NP; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 544.]
William Buins, 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.]
Charles Bullinger, see Charles Ballinger.
Louis Buissere, Seaman, CSS St. Nicholas, June, 1861. [ORN 1, 4, 555.]
James Buist, served on the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100.]
Irvine Stephens Bulloch (initials incorrectly shown, in Register1863, as J.D.), born Georgia, May 18, 1842; half brother of James Dunwoody Bulloch; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, August 29, 1861; served on the Savannah station, and aboard the CSS Nashville, 1861 - 1862; later served aboard the cruiser CSS Alabama, 1862-1864; appointed acting master, June 22, 1863; served aboard the CSS Shenandoah, 1864 - 1865; described as a "tall, stalwart fellow, the best in the world, and a splendid officer"; resided, post war, in England; died in England, 1898; uncle of President Theodore Roosevelt. [Alabama Claims 1, 974, also see volume 2, appendix 2, page 133; Register1863; Register1864; ORN 1, 1, 752; 1, 2, 751 and 2, 1, 322; Sinclair; CSN-Museum; Whittle 151; Harrison 75 - 76.]
James Dunwoody Bulloch, Commander; born near Savannah, Georgia, June 25, 1823, and appointed from that state; previous service in U.S. Navy; commanded the steamer Black Warrior, 1853 - 1854; resigned from the United States Navy, October, 1854; later commanded the merchant steamers, Cahawba, in 1859, and the De Soto, in 1860, both operating between New Orleans and Havana; commanded CSS Fingal, November, 1861; served as financial agent of the CS Navy Department, operating out of Europe, 1862-4. Wrote an autobiographical account of his wartime service in the two volume set "The Secret Service of the Confederate States in Europe." Remained in England after the war, due to his exclusion from the amnesty, and died there on January 7, 1901; assisted the compilers of the Naval official records, after the war, by contributing his vast amount of holdings on the activities of the Confederate Navy in Europe; buried at Toxteth Park, Liverpool, England. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 107; CSN-Museum; Callahan; New York Times dated January 4, 1854, October 6, 1854, February 7, 1859, April 20, 1860 and April 27, 1894.]
James D. Bulloch, jr., Midshipman, CSS Alabama; born in and appointed from Georgia. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 107.]
Henry A. Bullock, born Granville County, North Carolina, about 1826; enlisted at Granville County, February 24, 1862, and mustered in as corporal, company E, 46th North Carolina State Troops; reduced to private, July 16, 1862; sent to hospital at Richmond, Virginia, September 28, 1862, with a gunshot wound of th thigh (place and circumstances of wound not recorded); returned to duty and wounded again, in the thigh, at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862; returned to duty in May or June, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 15, 1864. [NCT 11, 179.]
A.N. Bully, Master, paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785.]
William Bumbar, appointed first officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Defiance, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]
John Bunicum, appointed 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, January 5, 1864; paroled at Shreveport, Louisiana, June 7, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 235; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 222.]
William H. Bunting, originally served as private, Craney Island Artillery, company I, 9th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 11, 1862; served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Norfolk County Record 91.]
Thomas J. Burbage, acting master; served aboard the CSS Albemarle, and on the Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274 & 323.]
Charles B. Burch, recruited as 2nd class boy at the Naval rendezvous in Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863; served aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 444.]
Samuel M. Burch, born Virginia, about 1846; resided, in 1860, with his two brothers, at the home of Robert and Levina Oates, at Hardy County, Virginia; served as landsman and seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; also indicated to have been corporal of artillery aboard the vessel; arrested by Richmond city police, March 14, 1862, for an unspecified reason, and delivered aboard. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 2, 1, 301; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 484 - 487; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OO - Operations of large groups of vessels; Charleston - Miscellaneous, page 86.]
---- Burchette, signal officer, CSS Drewry, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 190.]
Oliver Stanton Burdett, born South Carolina, about 1833; married Laura Kennison, at St. Landry parish, Louisiana, November 28, 1862; served as pilot aboard the gunboat Cotton, in 1862, and the CSS Webb, 1863; post war river pilot at New Orleans; may have married again, as he is shown residing in New Orleans, in 1880, with his wife, Mary, and six children; died at New Orleans, December 7, 1892. [ORN 1, 19, 336 and 1, 24, 407; 1880 U.S. Census; marriage, residential and death data from Louisiana Marriages, 1718 - 1925, New Orleans, Louisiana Directories, 1890 - 1891 and New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804 - 1949, respectively, available at the Ancestry.com web site.]
D.B. Burgess, landsman and ordinary seaman, CSS North Carolina, 1864; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Randolph County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 294-296.]
Nicholas Burgess, served as seaman on Launch No. 5, New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 45.]
William Burgess, Fireman; born England; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 977.]
William Burgess, born in Camden County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, mariner; enlisted at Pasquotank County, North Carolina, September 24, 1861, aged 22, as private, company I, 5th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, October 21, 1862; shown as a seaman aboard the CSS Albemarle and at Halifax Station, July-September, 1864. [NCT 4, 235; ORN 2, 1, 274.]
M. Burgress, served in Confederate States Navy; buried at Charleston Port Society Cemetery, on Ashley River, Charleston. [Name and service status inscribed on granite monument unveiled December 10, 1922, by the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina.]
Thomas Buriss, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]
George I. Burk (surname also shown as Burke), served as a private in company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; served in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Richmond, James River, 1863 - 1864, and at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 386 and 387.]
John H. Burk, appointed captain aboard the Confederate States gunboat General M. Jeff Thompson, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on January 28, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]
Charles Burke, born 1829; enlisted July 29, 1861, at Apalachicola, in Company B, Fourth Florida Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, December 12, 1862; travelled from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to Saffold, Georgia, in January, 1863, to join the CSS Chatthoochee; served as carpenter's mate, CSS Chattahoochee. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 377; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 246.]
Ed. Burke, served as 2nd class fireman at the New Orleans station, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 123 - 124.]
J.A. Burke, listed as 3rd assistant engineer; no further data located. [Register1862.]
John Burke (1), private, Confederate States Marine Corps, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]
John Burke (2), private, Confederate States Marine Corps, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]
John Burke, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]
John Burke, served in the Confederate States Navy, Richmond station, 1861; charged for violent assault and wounding sergeant John Mooney of the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Richmond, June, 1861. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 18, 1861.]
John Burke, served as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS Juno, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, on the night of August 6, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]
Martin Burke, born Ireland, about 1828? (another entry shows his age as being 30 in 1863); served as a marine aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Thursday, September 4, 1862, and with the same condition on Sunday, July 5, 1863, and Thursday, July 23, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]
Mitchell Burke (first name also shown as Michael), private, Confederate States Marine Corps, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1181.]
Patrick Burke, born Maryland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 21, as private, company H, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, sometime after February, 1862 (see next entry for Peter Burke, who may be the same person). [Booth 1, 187.]
Peter Burke, served as a private in company H, 10th Louisiana Volunteers; 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 (see previous entry for Patrick Burke, who may be the same person). [Confederate States Navy subject file.]
William Burke, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, July 18, 1861, aged 27, as private, company D, 15th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February, 1864. [Booth 1, 188.]
William Burke, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; wounded in action at Hampton Roads, during the action of March 8 - 9, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Weekly Raleigh Register (Raleigh, North Carolina) dated March 19, 1862.]
William G. Burke, appointed master's mate, Confederate States Navy, September 23, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861; discharged November 25, 1861. [CSNRegister.]
William John Burke (surname also shown as Burk), born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1832; appointed, from South Carolina, as pilot, Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Juno, Charleston station, 1863 - 1864, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, on the night of August 6, 1863, off Charleston; the Juno was lost in a heavy gale, in March, 1864, and Burk, together with engineer John Horry Dent, had been saved by blockade runner, Petrel, from the stormy seas; died of hepatitis, at Charleston, on January 30, 1893; buried at the Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. [ORN 1, 14, 427; CSNRegister; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated April 18, 1864; South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 at Ancestry.com; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]
William Burkes, seaman, CSS Virginia; wounded in action at Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862. [ORN 1, 7, 43.]
Bennet G. Burley, born Virginia, 1841; son of Robert Burleigh, of the United Kingdom; citizen of Great Britain (1881 British Census shows place of birth as Scotland, and surname as Burleigh); original entry into Confederate States Navy, as master not in line of promotion, September 11, 1863; on special service, 1864; assisted captain T. Fitzhugh, 5th Virginia Cavalry, in an expedition to capture the steamers Iolas and Titan, at Cherrystone, Northampton County, Virginia, March 5, 1864; captured Rappahannock River, Virginia, May 12, 1864; released, and later involved in the seizure of the steamers Philo Parsons and Island Queen, on Lake Erie, September, 1864; arrested by Union authorities; resided as an editor and journalist, in 1881, with his wife, Marion and three children at Lambeth, Surrey, England. [ORN 1, 3, 714 - 716; ORA 1, 33 and 1, 37, 72; Register1864; 1881 British Census.]
Michael Burnell, shipped in the Confederate States Navy on July 22, 1863, and served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, in 1863; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863, and served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, at Charleston, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 779; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 202.]
E. Burnes, Coal Heaver, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]
J.J. Burnes, see J.J. Burns.
M.E. Burnes, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
William Burnet (surname also shown as Burnett), born Prussia; shipped as Private, Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Shenandoah, June 16, 1865 (Whittle 162 shows date shipped as June 13, 1865). [Alabama Claims 1, 977; ORN 1, 3, 789; Whittle 162.]
H. Burnett, seaman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private to company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]
N. Burnett, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
Thomas Burnett, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Thomas Burnett, served as ordinary 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 76.]
Ellias Burney, born North Carolina (1850 U.S. Census and his pension file both show his place of birth as Brooks County, Georgia), January 17, 1844; son of David and Sarah Burney; resided with his parents, in 1860, at Brooks County, Georgia; enlisted September 7, 1861, as private, company C, 61st Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry; roll dated April 30, 1864 shows he was transferred to the Confederate States Navy; he is also shown as being wounded at Monocacy, Maryland, July 9, 1864; honorably discharged at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865, at the surrender; married Amanda A. Tillman at Colquitt County, Georgia, May 22, 1870; resided in Florida, since April, 1873, and collected a Confederate pension from that state; died at Hillsborough County, Florida, February 15, 1910. [Georgia Rosters 6, 219; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Florida Confederate Pension file no. A 03674.]
W.A. Burney, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
J. Burnham, officer's steward, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later served as landsman on CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1863 (see entry for Richard Johnson Burnham, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 305; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]
Richard Johnson Burnham, born Walton County, Florida, November 20, 1844; enlisted at Tallahassee, Florida, in the reserves; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, and served on the CSS Chattahoochee, and the CSS Savannah; sent to Charleston, South Carolina, and then to Richmond, Virginia; was in the battle of Sailor's Creek, Virginia, and surrendered at Appomattox, April, 1865; resided in Freeport, Walton County, Florida, after the war, as a farmer; married Amanda Edgar, October 16, 1926 (second marriage), at Walton County; died February 4, 1929, at Walton County (see entry for J. Burnham, who may be the same person). [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A08643; 1910 U.S. Census.]
Samuel Burnham, volunteered his services to lieutenant John J. Guthrie, aboard the CS Floating Battery New Orleans, January, 1862. [ORN 1, 22, 813.]
Bennet Burns, born North Carolina, 1826; resided as a laborer, in 1850, with his wife, Mary, and daughter, at Lower Regiment, Chatham County, North Carolina; served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Chatham County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1850 U.S. Census.]
Charles Burns (surname also shown as Burnes), served as a private in company F of the Confederate States Marine Corps, stationed at Mobile in 1864; later in company C, Confederate States Marine Corps aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia; also served on the Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 299 & 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1072; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 674.]
Christian Burns, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer, marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 19, 1861, aged 20, as private (later promoted corporal), company D, 8th Louisiana Infantry; captured at Fredericksburg, Mississippi, May 3, 1863; incarcerated at Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C., and then at Fort Delaware; paroled at a later date; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March, 1864. [Booth 1, 192.]
Edward Burns, resided in, and enlisted at New Hanover County, North Carolina, June 24, 1861, aged 25, as corporal, company E, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; reduced to private, August 26, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 3, 1862. [NCT 3, 193.]
Edward Burns, served as coal heaver aboard the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]
Edward Burns, originally served as private, company E, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Henry Burns (first name also shown as Harry), previous service as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah (previously named the CSS Oconee), 1862 - 1864; transferred to the CSS Savannah on June 9, 1863; later appointed as quartermaster; with several other sailors, broke into the liquor store aboard the CSS Savannah on Christmas night, 1863, and when they were confronted by armed officers of the vessel, Burns assaulted one of the officers, for which offense he was sentenced by a Court Martial to be shot to death, but the sentence was revoked by President Jefferson Davis, and he was reduced to landsman, March 26, 1864. [Robert Watson Diary March 26, 1864; ORN 2, 1, 297 & 304; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 615.]
Henry Burns, landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served about 1862 - 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]
Henry Burns, originally served as private, company F, 22nd Battalion Georgia Heavy Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, 1st (Olmstead's) Georgia Infantry). [Civil War Service Records.]
J. J. Burns, originally a member of the 28th Louisiana Infantry (Thomas'); captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, December 28, 1862, and shown in POW records as being in the Confederate States Navy, aboard an unnamed gunboat; paroled at Camp Douglas, Illinois, April 3, 1863, and exchanged at City Point, Virginia, April 10, 1863. [Booth 1, 193.]
James Burns, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 291 & 320; DANFS.]
James Burns, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina,1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
James Burns, originally served as private, company D, 8th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
James Burns, originally served as private, company H, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
James Burns, native of either England or Ireland; may have previously served on an English man of war; taken from the prize vessel, Nora (together with Luis Muller), by the CSS Alabama, March 25, 1863, then left on the island of Fernando de Noronha, off Brazil; taken aboard the CSS Florida, nine days later (about April, 1863), as boatswain's mate; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863; paid off at Liverpool, England. [Alabama Claims 1, 356, 358 and 360 & 2, 456.]
James Burns, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and in the marine guard aboard the CSS Drewry, James River squadron. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 308.]
James F. Burns, born about 1834; described as 5 feet 8 ¼ inches high, hazel eyes, dark hair, fair complexion; served as private, Confederate States Marine Corps; deserted from the Marine Camp near Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, about June, 1862; notice also included the stipulation that if he returned voluntarily to camp, within six days, he would be exempt from trial for desertion; also indicated to have served aboard the CSS Charleston, as corporal, 1863-1864, and as 1st corporal of company B, Confederate States Marine Corps, at Drewry's Bluff, James River, in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 10, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 133, 136-139 and 153.]
John Burns, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station in 1861, and later as coal heaver aboard the cruiser CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 76.]
John Burns, coal heaver, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]
John Burns, master at arms, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
John T. Burns, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, November 1, 1861, as private, company K (also shown as being in companies E and G), 1st Louisiana Infantry (Strawbridge's); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 12, 1864. [Booth 1, 195.]
John T. Burns (surname also shown as Burn), born Louisville, Kentucky, about 1832; previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 8, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as landsman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred as landsman to the CSS Macon in July, 1864, and later served as ship's cook aboard the vessel, 1864 - 1865. [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.]
Matthew Burns, born Ireland; coal heaver, CSS St. Philip, 1861-1862; aged 21. [St. Philips.]
Michael Burns (surname also shown as Byrnes), enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, September 3, 1861 as musician, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed at Pensacola, Florida, and then transferred to Norfolk, Virginia, and to Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864; captured April 6, 1865, at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, and sent to Point Lookout as a prisoner of war; resided, post war, at Corinth, Mississippi, and was still living in 1924; in a statement dated at Corinth, Mississippi, in August, 1926, Burns attested to the fact that a fellow marine, John Barrett, had also served in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [ORN 2, 1, 314; ADAH; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2; Louisiana Confederate pension application of Mary Ann Meyers Barrett, widow of John Barrett.]
Pat. Burns, served as landsman aboard the CSS Manassas, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as fireman from November 7, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 994.]
Patrick Burns, born Ireland (or Liverpool, England); resided for some time in Buffalo, New York, before going south; shipped as fireman, CSS Florida, 1862, at Mobile, Alabama; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863; paid off at Liverpool, England, October 1, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 356, 360 and 362 & 2, 456.]
Peter Burns, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS New Orleans, in 1861; rated as 1st class fireman from November 10, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 79 and 369.]
Peter Burns, 1st class fireman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]
Peter Burns, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]
Samuel Burns, served as private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; confined at Castle Booker (prison) at Richmond, Virginia, on July 9, 1862, for an unspecified reason. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated July 12, 1862.]
Thomas Burns, seaman, Captain Mulrenan's Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in November 27, 1861; later served in company K, 7th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, August 5, 1862; served aboard the CSS Chattahoochee as ordinary seaman. [Soldiers of Florida, 49; Robert Watson Diary August 5, 1862; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]
Thomas Burns, 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.]
Thomas Burns, served as ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, 1863; died in the Naval hospital at Savannah, Georgia, on August 7, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 24; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 335.]
William Burns (surname also shown as Barnes), enlisted aboard the CSS Alabama, November 8, 1862; served as quarter gunner; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; captured by the USS Kearsarge; paroled at Cherbourg on the same day. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 72.]
Horace C. Burr, born North Carolina, November, 1838; son of Horace and Mary Jane Burr; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Wilmington, North Carolina; served as acting master's mate, Confederate States Navy, aboard the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, and at the Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1862 - 1864; also served aboard the CSS Arctic, in 1863; married in 1876; lived in Illinois after the war; later resided as a credit manager in the furniture business, in 1900, with his wife, Helen, and two sons, at Omaha, Nebraska. [ORN 2, 1, 313 & 323; Register1864; 1850 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 1367.]
Edward Burrell, shipped, May 9, 1864, from the prize vessel, Tycoon; last man shipped on the CSS Alabama; served as seaman; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; captured by the USS Kearsarge; paroled at Cherbourg on the same day. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 72.]
E.T. Burriss, appointed pilot, Confederate States Navy; served on the CSS Tallahassee (Olustee), 1864. [CSNRegister.]
Joseph A. Burriss, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
Thomas G. Burris, see Thomas G. Burroughs.
Edward T. Burriss, born North Carolina, October, 1836; appointed pilot in the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Tallahassee (renamed Olustee, and later Chameleon), Wilmington Station, North Carolina, 1864; resided as a pilot, in 1880, with his wife Mary M., and four children, at Smithville township, Brunswick county, North Carolina; later (in 1900) resided as a watchman, at Wilmington, North Carolina. [CSN Register; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]
Joseph N. Burriss (middle initial also shown as A.), born North Carolina, about 1828; enlisted in New Hanover County, North Carolina, October 1, 1861, as private, Captain William C. Howard's Cavalry Company; transferred to the "Naval Service," April 11, 1862; served as seaman on the CSS Arctic; resided as a pilot, in 1880, with his wife, Mary, and three children, at Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina. [NCT 2, 713; ORN 2, 1, 277; 1880 U.S. Census.]
J.M. Burroughs, appointed from civil life; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as carpenter, February 20, 1862 (Register1864 shows appointment date as February 2, 1862); on special duty, 1862 - 1863; commanded steamer Cornubia, Wilmington station, 1862 - 1863. [Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; ORN 1, 9, 280 - 281 and 1, 13, 483.]
James Burroughs, Seaman, participated in expedition to capture US Army steamer Leviathan, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, September 21, 1863. Recaptured the next day by USS De Soto. [ORN 1, 20, 598.]
Thomas G. Burroughs, served on the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, New Inlet, North Carolina; deserted October 9, 1863, and taken aboard the USS Shenandoah, off Beaufort, North Carolina; later sent to Hampton Roads, Virginia, for further questioning (his father, ---- Burroughs was captured aboard the blockade runner, Merrimac, off New Inlet, North Carolina, July, 1863, took the oath of allegiance and served as pilot aboard the USS Minnesota and USS Shokokon, but later deserted back to the Confederacy). [ORN 1, 9, 132, 137, 235; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 474.]
Walter P. Burrow, born Virginia, about 1837; son of Burdon and Ann E. Burrow; resided as an engineer, in 1860, at Norfolk, Virginia; served as engineer in the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Ellis, and the CSS Forrest, 1861; married Victoria T. Kuhn, of Baltimore; resided as an engineer, in 1880, with his wife, Victoria, and two children, at Norfolk. [CSNRegister; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; details of his wife's maiden name, etc. obtained from her obituary in the Virginian Pilot newspaper of Wednesday, October 17, 1906 and Friday, October 19, 1906, shown at URL: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/va/virginiabeach/obits/obitsb.txt.]
Frederick Burrows, born Charleston, South Carolina, 1832; son of Samuel and Mary Burrows; resided as a clerk, in 1850, at Charleston, South Carolina; appointed pilot in the Confederate States Navy, May 20, 1863; served aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1863. [CSN Register; 1860 U.S. Census.]
James Burrows, indicated to have served as captain of the Confederate States steamer Red Gauntlet; paroled at Gainesville, Alabama, June 4, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 655.]
Joseph Burrows, seaman and pilot, CSS Arctic, August, 1862. [ORN 1, 23, 703.]
Mason M. Burrows, born Kentucky, 1840; son of J.L. and Adelia Burrows; resided with his parents, in 1860, at Richmond, Virginia; served as acting master, Confederate States Navy, on the Richmond station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 321; 1860 U.S. Census.]
Moses Burrus, served on the Charleston station at an unspecified date. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 235.]
Thomas Burrus, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, August, 1862. [ORN 1, 23, 703.]
Claude Burse, originally served as drummer, company G, 3rd Alabama Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Ambrose William Burt (name also shown as A. William Boit and Ernest W. Burt), Surgeon's Steward; born England; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 975.]
Nicholas Burtchall, born Ireland, about 1817; served as seaman aboard Launch No. 6, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862. [St. Philips; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 49.]
Henry Burtell, served as landsman aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile squadron, 1863; deserted about April, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling; Miscellaneous, page 38.
John Burthon, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]
John Burton, appointed acting gunner, Confederate States Navy, January 29, 1862; served on the Confederate States floating battery, New Orleans, New Orleans station, 1862; captured at Island No. 10, April 8, 1862; exchanged September 22, 1862; served on the Jackson station, 1862; may have been involved in experimentation on torpedoes, to be used against Union naval vessels, as he is mentioned in a lengthy message in a Richmond, Virginia, newspaper, in November, 1864. [CSNRegister; Richmond Examiner (Richmond, Virginia) dated Wednesday, November 30, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 224.]
Joseph Burton, 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 60-61.]
W.F. Burton, originally served as sergeant, company H, 7th Battalion (Enfield Rifles), South Carolina Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Walker D. Burton, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Tennessee, Mobile squadron. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 674.]
W. F. Burts, born Stanton, Illinois, about 1841; previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 8, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in July, 1864 to the CSS Macon, on which he served 1864 - 1865. [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.]
Robert Busby, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, from October 15, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 267.]
Edward C. Bush, served as seaman aboard the ironclad CSS Fredericksburg, 1865; paroled at Dover Mine, Virginia, May 1, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 30.]
Isaac F. Bush, born New York, 1835; served in the Confederate States Navy; buried at Cedar Hill Cemetery (Virginia?), block C, Lot 54. [Nansemond.]
J.F. Bush, Signal Officer (CS Army?), CSS Beaufort, July, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 726.]
Peter Bush, served as landsman and ordinary seaman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 87.]
Robert B. Bush, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]
V.F. Bush (first initial also shown as L.), signal operator (CS Army?), James River Squadron, 1864; attached, as private, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 766; M1091.]
Robert Bushby, second assistant engineer, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
Frank Busher, served as landsman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as steerage officer's cook from February 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]
L. A. Bussard, enlisted for three years or the war in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on September 30, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 190.]
Anthony Bussinger, born France, resident of Winnsboro, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, cooper; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 19, 1861, aged 32, as private, company E, 8th Louisiana Infantry; detailed as a nurse in a Richmond, Virginia hospital, in September or October, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 1, 1864. [Booth 1, 202.]
C. Butcher, Steward, CSS Dixie, November, 1861. [See article "THE REBEL NAVY" in the Richmond, Virginia Daily Examiner, Friday, November 29, 1861, page 1.]
Henry Butcher, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and later as carpenter's mate aboard the 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; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 65.]
George Buthan, see George Washington Bethards.
G. C. Butland, enlisted at Monroe, Louisiana, March 24, 1862, as private, company F, 4th Battalion, Louisiana Infantry; promoted 4th sergeant, in September, 1862; later attached to work on a gunboat at Savannah, Georgia; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 12, 1864. [Booth 1, 202.]
---- Butler, second engineer, CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]
D.M. Butler, served as landsman aboard the CSS Virginia II, 1864 - 1865; was temporarily attached to the CSS Beaufort, but ordered to return to the CSS Virginia II, when the CSS Beaufort was sent to Richmond for repairs, on January 17, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 110.]
F. M. Butler, 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.]
George Butler, 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.]
J.C. Butler, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
James Butler, Wardroom Steward, 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.]
James Butler, coal heaver and second class fireman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, at Wassaw Sound, 1862-June 17, 1863; boarded the CSS Florida at Bermuda on June 29, 1964, claiming to have escaped from Fort Warren; later taken on the strength of the CSS Florida, and evaded the capture of that vessel at Bahia in 1864. [ORN, 1, 3, 626 and 645; 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275; Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Friday, March 27, 1863; CSS Florida engineering department records, in National Archives microfilm publication T716, roll 3.]
James S. Butler, landsman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]
Thomas Butler, seaman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]
Thomas Butler, seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in December 15, 1861; accidentally wounded in the foot by buckshot, February 5, 1862; later served in company K, 7th Florida Infantry. [Soldiers of Florida, 49; Robert Watson Diary February 5, 1862.]
William Butler, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
William Butler, served as landsman aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1233.]
William Butler, born New Jersey; wardroom cook, CSS McRae, 1861-1862; aged 24 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [St. Philips.]
William Butler, landsman, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River, Louisiana, area); served July - November, 1861 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]
William Butler, officers' steward, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]
William Butler, 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.]
William Butler, born Europe (no particular nation shown), about 1826; served as gunner's mate aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Wednesday, August 6, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]
William Butler, served in the Confederate States Navy; he applied for a post war Confederate pension from Wayne County, North Carolina; his widow, Susan Mary Butler, later applied for a pension from the same county. [NC State Archives.]
William Butler, indicated to be the only son of a widowed mother; aged not more than 12 years, and to have served in the Confederate States Navy, but was considered as a problem sailor by his officers, who were unable to keep him on board; described as "sprightly, active, intelligent, and fond of bad company"; noted to have been captured by the Clerk of the Second Market, on June 26, 1863, at Richmond, Virginia, and turned over to the proper authorities, on the charge of swindling a lady out of $5; stated to have been a great annoyance at the market places for some time (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 27, 1863 (see article under the heading of "Youthful Depravity").]
William Butler, confined, as a deserter from the CSS Nansemond, James River Squadron, in one of the military prisons at Richmond, Virginia, in May, 1864; John K. Mitchell, commander of the squadron, on May 28, 1864, ordered lieutenant Murdaugh, commander of the CSS Nansemond, to send an officer and guard to find out where Butler and two other deserters from the vessel were confined, and to take them in custody, and accompany them back to the vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 509.]
William Martin Butler, born 1848, in Hanover County, Virginia; enlisted at Richmond, Virginia, 1862; served as 2nd class boy on the CSS Patrick Henry; deserted about November, 1863, but was apprehended and returned to the vessel, November 15, 1863; claimed, in a 1934, newspaper article, to have also served on the original ironclad, CSS Virginia, but muster rolls only show him as having served, as boy, on the second ironclad of that name, the CSS Virginia II, in 1864-1865 (see previous entry, which may be the same person); inmate of the soldiers home in Richmond, Virginia, in 1930; was arrested in June, 1930, on a charge of killing a fellow Confederate veteran, after a fist fight over who should occupy a barber's chair; however he was released when the coroner indicated that the death may have been caused by shock. [ORN 2, 1, 311; biographical data included in an article titled "Survivor of Ironclad VIRGINIA tells of stirring Naval Battles," by John Daffron, in the Richmond, Virginia, Times Dispatch, of February 9, 1934, and reproduced, with Martin's photograph, at a web site compiled by A.C. Griffith of Richmond, Virginia, titled Richmond: Then and Now, at http://www.richmondthenandnow.com; Rich County News (Utah) dated June 27, 1930; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling; Miscellaneous, page 40.]
J.M. Butt, 2nd class boy, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]
Josiah W. Butt, served as quartermaster aboard the CSS Sea Bird; captured at (Cobb's Point Battery) Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862; paroled and returned to Norfolk, Virginia, February 19, 1862. [Scharf, 392; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February 19, 1862.]
Richard E. Butt, resident of Buena Vista, Marion County, Georgia; appointed, from Georgia, as acting midshipman, Confederate States Navy, November 8, 1864, and ordered to report to lieutenant William H. Parker for duty; served on the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, 1864. [CSNRegister; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 226.]
Walter R. Butt, born Portsmouth, Virginia, 1841; original service in the United States Navy, from September 20, 1855; graduated from the United States Naval Academy, 1859 (New York Times of June 13, 1859 indicates he was appointed from Washington Territory); resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; arrested for disloyalty and sent to Fort Lafayette, New York, October 2, 1861; after his release, he was appointed 1st lieutenant, Confederate States Navy, January 8, 1862; served aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; also served at Drewry's Bluff, James River, 1862; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; assigned to temporary command of the CSS Hampton, after lieutenant Ivey Foreman was sent to temporary command of the CSS Torpedo, November, 1864; commanded CSS Nansemond, James River, Virginia, December, 1864-1865; attached, as a captain and assistant adjutant general, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, 1865, and surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as a surveyor, in 1880, at Kern County, California. [ORN 1, 7, 47; 1, 11, 766 & 772 and 2, 1, 308; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; M1091; 1880 U.S. Census; Norfolk County Record 221 & 226; New York Times dated June 13, 1859 and Wednesday, October 7, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1224.]
Henry Buttell, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]
Thomas Butter (or Butters), noted to have been an Englishman; participated, as seaman, in the Clarence-Archer-Tacony expedition, May 6, 1863; may have joined the expedition from a captured prize; captured off Portland, Maine, June 27, 1863, and imprisoned at Portland jail; sent to Fort Warren, arriving there May 4 or 5, 1864; exchanged and sent to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864. [Drayton; Fort Warren; see, also, letter dated October 12, 1894, written by Robert Hunt, and addressed to Mrs. N.C. May, of Ellisville, Mississippi, in the Charles W. Read Papers, Collection No. 424, East Carolina Manuscript Collection, J.Y. Joyner Library, East Carolina University, Greenville, North Carolina; ORA 2, 6; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]
Walter Butterfield, served on the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100.]
William Buttows, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
W.T. Byerly, CSN, died May 7, 1865; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]
Francis J. Byington, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Mobile station, in 1863; under sentence of a court martial, dated February 6, 1864, Byington lost all pay him due to him on that day, 2/3 of what was due him for the next 24 months; transferred to Drewry's Bluff, James River, for confinement, on June 8, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1063; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 674; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 24.]
James Byrd, 2nd class fireman, side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 303; DANFS.]
Richard W. Byrd, served as captain's clerk and master's mate aboard the CSS Beaufort, 1861; dismissed from the Naval service on December 1, 1861. [Parker 237; ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 981.]
Philip Byrne, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 4, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 51.]
Thomas Byrne, born 1839; served in the Confederate States Navy; died 1863; buried at the Catholic Cemetery, 1700 Wheaton Street, Savannah, Georgia 31401. [U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site.]
James Byrnes, originally served as sergeant, company B, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery; reduced to private, transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
James Byrnes, served as seaman at Mobile, Alabama, 1864; tried by a Naval General Court Martial, held at Mobile, on April 28, 1864, on the charge of striking his superior in the execution of his duties, and disobedience of the lawful orders of his superior officer, and was sentenced to be in solitary confinement in double irons at the Marine Barracks at Mobile, for thirty days on bread and water, to forfeit three months pay, and to be deprived of liberty for six months. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 47.]
James Byrnes, appointed first assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Resolute, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on March 16, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]
M. Byrnes, see Michael Burns.
Thomas Byrnes, originally served as sergeant, company B, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery; reduced to private; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Edward Byrns (surname also shown as Burns), coal heaver, Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Missouri and the CSS Cotton,