NC Civil War Sailors Project

James F. Claiborne, served as 1st lieutenant in the Confederate States Marine Corps; dismissed from the service on January 14, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 329.]

W.J. Claiborne, midshipman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

Brigman Clairbourne, (colored) served as landsman, supernumerary, 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.]

John Clancey (or Clancy), born Ireland, about 1840; seaman and gunner's mate; served on the CSS Atlanta, 1862 - 1863, and was captured aboard that vessel at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll of the CSS Charleston, dated October 31, 1863, indicates that he also served aboard that vessel. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275 and 282; Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry dated Monday, December 15, 1862.]

John D. Clancey, indicated to have been a Confederate marine captain; buried at the Catholic Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

Patrick Clancey, coal heaver, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864 (see also, next two entries, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

Pat Clancy, 2nd class fireman, involved in the expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863; also served aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865 (see also, previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 311; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]

Patrick Clancy, coal heaver, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown (operated in James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia area); served sometime between January, 1861 and June, 1862 (see also, previous two entries, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS.]

William Clap, resident of Moore County, North Carolina; served in the Confederate States Marine Corps; left Moore County and sent to Camp Holmes, where he was instructed for a short time, then sent to Charleston, aboard the CSS Indian Chief, arriving there on Sunday, November 6, 1864, for further drill and instruction as a marine; later sent aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston station. [Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina) dated November 24, 1864.]

William H. Clapdore, born Virginia, 1838; son of Jacob C. and Mary H. Clapdore; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Alexandria, Virginia; served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Indian Chief, Charleston, South Carolina, 1863; resided as a waterman, in 1870, with his wife, Emma, and two children, at Alexandria; in 1880, employed at Alexandria, as a ship's carpenter. [ORN 1, 14, 717; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 765-766.]

Anderson Clapp, born Alamance County, North Carolina, 1834; son of Tobias and Peggy Clapp; pre-war occupation, farmer; married in 1854; enlisted at Alamance County, February 28, 1862, aged 32, as private, company K, 47th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 3, 1864; resided, in 1910, with his wife, Lucinda, at Alamance County. [NCT 11, 354; 1850 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]

Isaac Clapp, born Alamance County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Alamance County, July 17, 1862, aged 22, as private, company F, 53rd Regiment North Carolina Troops; captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on or about July 4 or 5, 1863; confined at Fort Delaware, Delaware on or about July 9, 1863; received at City Point, Virginia, August 1, 1863, for exchange; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 23, 1864; served as landsman on the CSS Virginia II, 1864-1865; records of the Federal Provost Marshal indicate that he was paroled at Greensboro on May 24, 1865, and gave his unit as company F, 53rd Regiment North Carolina Troops. [NCT 13, 121; ORN 2, 1, 311.]

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

---- Clark (this may have been William T. Clarke), pilot; served aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862. [ORN 1, 7, 48.]

A.S. Clark, ship's steward, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

Asa B. Clark, born Connecticut, 1817; enlisted sometime in the spring of 1862, as assistant paymaster (with rank of major), under W.W.J. Kelly, stationed in Savannah, Georgia; a letter from CSN officer, C. Lucian Jones, in Clark's file indicates that he had actually served as paymaster's clerk, at Savannah; resided as a tax collector, in 1870, with his first wife, Mary (who was born in South Carolina, in 1821), at Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida; second marriage to Nellie D. DeMilly in Leon County, Florida, January 9, 1882; died May 6, 1895, in Florida. [Florida Confederate Pension File no. A04397; 1870 U.S. Census.]

C.A. Clark, served as a private in company G, 8th Alabama 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. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]

C.H. Clark, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

Charles Clark, resident of Savannah, Georgia; served as 1st class boy, CSS Sampson; son of Pilot George J. Clark, of the same vessel; deserted January 8, 1865, but was recaptured, together with his father and another Confederate Navy pilot, Billy Bugg, while attempting to make their way to enemy lines at Savannah; because of the extreme youth of Charles Clark, he was returned to duty, although his father remained confined until a court martial could be convened. [ORN 1, 16, 498; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 544.]

Charles Clark, served as boatswain's mate 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 C. Clark, born Savannah, Georgia, in 1846; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, and served aboard the ram, CSS Savannah; was on that vessel for three months before being transferred to the CSS Sampson; surrendered at Augusta, Georgia; post war occupation, sailmaker and later as a rail roader; married Josephine Howard, April 20, 1869, at Savannah; resided, in 1880, as a fireman, with his wife, Josephine, and four sons, at Savannah; died Savannah, January 13, 1926 (one source shows year of death as 1925); see also previous entry. [Georgia Confederate Pension file for Charles C. Clark, Chatham County; Georgia State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Edward W. Clark (or Clarke), seaman, CSS Patrick Henry, 1861; rated as drummer aboard the vessel. [Weber; ORN 2, 1, 300.]

F.T. Clark, acting midshipman, Provisional Navy; attached, as lieutenant, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [CSN Register; M1091.]

George J. Clark (surname also shown as Clarke), shipped, for the war, as seaman, aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, from May 1, 1863 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 297; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 602.]

George J. Clark (middle initial also shown as I.), resident of Savannah, Georgia; served as sailmaker's mate and pilot, CSS Sampson, Savannah station, 1864 - 1865; deserted January 8, 1865, but was re-captured while attempting to make his way, together with his son Charles Clark, and African American Confederate Navy pilot Billy Bugg, to the enemy lines; in an April, 1865 dispatch Clark is described as being unfit to hold his acting appointment in the Confederate States Navy, as he was then confined to prison for attempting to desert to the enemy and also for enticing others to desert; father of 1st class boy Charles Clark, also of the CSS Sampson. [ORN 1, 16, 498 and 2, 1, 303; CSN Register; Confederate States Navy subject files - NP; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 544.]

George W. Clark (surname also shown as Clarke), born District of Columbia; citizen of, and appointed from, Arkansas; previous service in the United States Navy, from June 2, 1858; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as paymaster, May 13, 1861; on special duty, 1862 - 1863; resigned from the Confederate States Navy, October 24, 1863. [Register1862; Register1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Hugh Clark (surname also shown as Clarke), original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 1st assistant engineer, July 1, 1861; served on the Richmond station, and aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; later on the ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 283, 299 & 322; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864.]

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

J.W. Clark served in the Confederate Navy during the war. He died on November 11, 1864 in New Orleans, but his exact burial site is unknown. [Young Sanders]

James Clark, originally served in company C, 1st Confederate Battalion; 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 States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers.]

James D. Clark, served in the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Magnolia Clark, applied for a post war Confederate pension from Bertie County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

John Clark (surname also shown as Clarke), served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS St. Mary, off Yazoo City, 1862; rated as coal heaver from May 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 110, 117 and 553.]

John E. Clark, born Mt. Falcom, County Mayo, Ireland, on March 12, 1839; stated that he had enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans; served, as "first class seaman" on the Resolute (which in actual fact was one of the vessels of the River Defense Fleet, and under contract to the Navy); stated that "when the Resolute was destroyed by Admiral Farragut, escaped and remained at New Orleans and left for the Texas border"; a signed statement by the son of a Dr. R.H. Westerfield, who resided on a plantation on the west bank of the Mississippi River, a short distance above Fort St. Philip, and who had seen the conflict between the Confederate Naval forces and the Union Navy, stated that he was home when the Resolute was sunk in the Mississippi River, above the flats at Fort Jackson, and the captain, Isaac Hooper, was brought to his father's house, after having been badly wounded and crippled; that, amongst the men who brought Hooper to Dr. Westerfield's house was the seaman, John E. Clark, who was then ordered by Hooper to seek out his (Hooper's) wife, and advise her of his wounding, and to bring her to his bedside, which was done by Clark; Dr. Westerfield's son, J.N. Westerfield, in his statement, mentioned that, many years after the war, he met Clark, who was by then superintendent of the Southern Ferry and Improvement Company, and that they had discussed that particular incident of the war; Clark was on the tugboat Louise, commanded by captain Ben Kromer, on the Rio Grande River, transporting goods to the Confederate Army, at the close of the war; after the war he was employed as temporary watchman; in his Confederate pension application he gives the names of some of his wartime comrades as 2nd lieutenant Henry Jones, quartermaster A.J. Lewis, captain Isaac Hooper, admiral Stevenson, paymaster Brady, signal quartermaster Huey Rooney and gunner Harry Bowen, all of whom he indicated as being deceased by then; in a letter dated May 28, 1923, the superintendent of the Naval Records and Library indicated that there was no record of John E. Clark having served in the Confederate States Navy; in 1923, aged 84, Clark was residing at North Rampart Street, New Orleans, Louisiana; he had been a member for fifty-five years (in 1923) of the Union Lodge #172, F & A.M; died on the night of January 12, 1929; buried at St. Vincent de Paul Cemetery, New Orleans. [Louisiana Confederate pension file of John E. Clark, image 1361.)]

Joseph Clark, shipped as boy (aged between 14 and 17) aboard the Confederate States floating battery, New Orleans, on February 18, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 12.]

Nat Clark, Landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

Noah Clark, served as recruit (but paid off as landsman) aboard the CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, 1863; discharged, by order of flag officer W.W. Hunter, August 3, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 966.]

T.G. Clark, boatswain's mate, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]

Thomas H. Clark, appointed clerk at the Naval Superintendent's Office at Shreveport, Louisiana, on November 1, 1862, at a salary of $1000 per annum; also served as captain's clerk, CSS Missouri, 1863; paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231 and 2, 1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 706.]

W. Clark, 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.]

W.I. Clark, originally served in company C, 1st Confederate Battalion; 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 States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers.]

W.J. Clark, enlisted as private, company A, 5th Alabama Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

White Clark, landsman, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga, 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. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764; ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; DANFS.]

William Clark, born England; fireman/coal trimmer, CSS Shenandoah; originally shipped aboard the Sea King (the original name of the Shenandoah), at London, England; allowed liberty at Melbourne, Australia, returning aboard the cruiser, January 31, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 877 & 977; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

William Clark (surname also shown as Clarke), enlisted aboard the CSS Alabama, October 3, 1862, 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.]

William Clark, born London, England, about 1832; resident of Mobile, Alabama; unmarried; stated to have been a private in the Confederate States Navy; died of chronic diarrhoea, on November 11, 1864 at the St. Louis Military Hospital, New Orleans; buried Monument National Cemetery, Chalmette (New Orleans), Louisiana. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 35.]

William Clark, landsman, ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia; served sometime between September, 1861 and December, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 287 & 305; DANFS.]

William Clark, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]

William Clark, served as seaman aboard the CSS Curlew, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 278.]

William B. Clark, see William B. Clarke.

William B. Clark, Commodore's Clerk, captured Mississippi River, April, 1862; confined at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. [ORN 1, 18, 317; ORA 2, 3, 641.]

William H.W. Clark, born Bridgetown, Barbados; enlisted at Pasquotank County, North Carolina, May 4, 1861, aged 21, as private, company L, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, October 4, 1861. [NCT 6, 194.]

William J. Clark, served as seaman aboard the CSS Tennessee, 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; held as a prisoner of war aboard the USS Lackawanna, at Mobile Bay, August 7, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 463.]

Charles Clarke, enlisted as corporal, company B, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Edward W. Clarke, seaman/drummer, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

Henry Clarke, served as seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as quarter gunner from February 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]

J. J. Clarke, served as landsman aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston, South Carolina; discharged, by order of flag officer Ingraham, from the Naval service, at Charleston, on November 19, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 245.]

James A. Clarke, private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315.]

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

John W. Clarke, served as ordinary seaman aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, James River squadron, 1861 - 1862; sentenced, by a summary court martial, on June 25, 1862, to a months loss of pay. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 174.]

Maxwell T. Clarke (surname also shown as Clark), born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as master not in line of promotion, March 31, 1862 (Register1864 shows original entry into service of the Confederate States Navy as March 23, 1862); served on the Richmond station, 1862 - 1865; commanded the CSS Raleigh, 1863; promoted lieutenant for the war, January 7, 1864, to rank from May 25, 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; commanded the steamer CSS Roanoke, 1863 - 1864; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 9, 798; 1, 10, 632 and 2, 1, 321 & 322; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; M1091.]

Noah Clarke, served as recruit aboard the CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, in 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 375.]

Pat. Clarke, served as landsman aboard the CSS Juno, 1863, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, South Carolina, 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.]

Philip Clarke, born Ireland, about 1822; served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for syphilis on May 1, 1862; on Friday, July 11, 1862 he was condemned by a Medical Survey and discharged from the service, with the notation that his disease did not originate in the line of duty. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

Robert Clarke, 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 41.]

Samuel H. Clarke, served as landsman on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, and later as 2nd class fireman on the Richmond station, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 301; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 493.]

Solomon T. Clarke, previous service in Company M, 26th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, as Third Sergeant, August 13, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864; served as quarter gunner; attached as 2nd sergeant to company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [Georgia Rosters, 3, 272; M1091.]

W.H. Clarke, resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; served as pilot in the Confederate States Navy; killed in the action between the CSS Virginia and the USS Monitor at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 9th, 1862. [Norfolk County Record 200.]

William Clarke, see William Clark, seaman, CSS Alabama.

William Clarke, born New York, about 1827; served as boatswain's mate aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Thursday, August 21, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

William B. Clarke (surname also shown as Clark), captain's clerk; held as prisoner of war, at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, 1862. [ORA 2, 3.]

C.E. Classon, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

Charles Classon (surname also shown as Claussen), served as seaman at the New Orleans station, and aboard CSS Pickens, 1861 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [St. Philips; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61.]

William J. Clatterbuck, shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 12, 1864, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle, at Plymouth Sound, North Carolina. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38.]

Joseph Peyton Claybrook, born Missouri, September, 1842; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 21, 1859; service in the Missouri State Guard, at the commencement of the war; original entry into Confederate States Navy, July 18, 1861; appointed passed midshipman, October 3, 1862; served aboard the CSS Palmetto State, 1862 - 1863; promoted master in line of promotion, January 7, 1864; on special service, 1864; served aboard the cruiser, CSS Rappahannock, 1864; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865; married Mary L. Booker, at Washington County, Kentucky, February 23, 1870; resided as a retired engineer, in 1900, with his wife, Mary, at Harrods Creek, Jefferson County, Kentucky; died at Jefferson County, June 20, 1921. [1860 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; ORN 1, 13, 619; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; 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; Kentucky Marriages, 1851 - 1900 and Kentucky Death Index, 1911 - 2000 at the Ancestry.com web site; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2.]

Ernest R. Claysung (surname also shown as Claysang and Claysing), served as landsman aboard the CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; possibly the same person who served in company G, 3rd Alabama Infantry. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

Daniel Clayton, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Daniel Clayton, ordinary seaman, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), 1864; also served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863 (see previous entry, which may be the same person); later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 270.]

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

J. Clayton, boy, CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]

James Clayton, born England; resided in Duplin County, North Carolina, as a sailor; enlisted at New Hanover County, North Carolina, July 6, 1862, aged 36, as private, company G, 61st Regiment North Carolina Troops; enlisted as a substitute; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 17, 1863; served as seaman on the CSS Arctic, 1863; died at an unspecified date, while in service aboard the CSS Arctic. [NCT 14, 718; ORN 2, 1, 276; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 37.]

James Clayton, ordinary seaman, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), 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. [ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; DANFS; Confederate Navy Subject file, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 609 and 764.]

M. Clayton, served as landsman aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston station, and was transferred to the CSS Indian Chief on October 25, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 764.]

R. H. Clayton, recruited as ordinary seaman at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864; served aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 955 and 1233.]

William Force Clayton, born Georgia, 1845; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 4th class, October 5, 1861 (in a personal account of his service, he indicates that he was appointed on September 6, 1861); reported to Norfolk for duty, and served aboard the receiving ship, CSS United States; transferred to the James River squadron; served aboard the CSS Patrick Henry and was aboard that vessel in the engagement at Hampton Roads, March 8 - 9, 1862; then at the action at Drewry's Bluff, James River, in May, 1862; also served on the steamer CSS Richmond, Richmond station, until January, 1863; later assigned to the CSS North Carolina, Wilmington station, 1863, but, on reporting to flag officer Lynch, at Wilmington, found the North Carolina not completed, and thus served as flag midshipman on flag officer Lynch's staff (indicates he was actually a messenger boy who carried the flag officer's messages to where they were to be delivered); ordered to report for temporary duty at Charleston, South Carolina, in September, 1863; involved in the capture of the USS Underwriter, and also commanded a boat on lieutenant Minor's expedition to Plymouth, North Carolina; served on the school ship, CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, 1864; served aboard the CSS Georgia, and held temporary command of the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1864, from which he was relieved, September 19, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Peedee, from about the middle of September, 1864; after the destruction of this vessel, reported for duty at Augusta, Georgia, March 22, 1865; assigned to the CSS Macon, March 22, 1865; shown as one of the few members of the Association of the Survivors of the Confederate States Navy, when they met at Murphy's Hotel, in Richmond, Virginia, in May, 1907; after the war, wrote an account of his service, titled A Narrative of the Confederate Navy, published 1910; resided as a lawyer in a general practise, in 1910, with his two daughters, at Florence township, Florence County, South Carolina; shown as a widower in 1910; died at Florence, September 3, 1918. [ORN 1, 15, 11 & 772; 1, 16, 511 - 512 and 2, 1, 322; Register1863; Register1864; CSS Macon Rolls; 1910 U.S. Census; South Carolina Death Index, 1915 - 1949 at the Ancestry.com web site; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 1, 1907, page 3, June 30, 1907, page 2 and November 3, 1907, page 8; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PI - Industrial activity; Montgomery - Pensacola, page 391.]

Anderson Claytor, appointed 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at Shreveport, Louisiana, February 29, 1864; paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 286.]

John Cleaper, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

James Cleary, 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 675.]

John Cleary, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Huntress, for three years or the war, at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 8, 1862, and served as 1st class fireman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1862 - 1864; received a $50 bounty at enlistment; on October 27,1862, lieutenant Warley offered a reward of $10 for the apprehension, and return to the CSS Chicora of Cleary, who had then been classified as a deserter; the reward was paid out, on October 29,1862, to John M. Downing. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 164 and 747; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 52.]

John Cleary, served as a private in company B of the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Mobile, Alabama, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1082; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 675.]

Thomas Cleary, Private, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Thomas Cleary, served as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 751.]

W. W. Cleaves, indicated to have served as a citizen and captain aboard the Confederate States steamer Charm; paroled at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 7, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 655.]

John Cleland (surname also shown as Cleeland), served as landsman 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; later served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]

John Clelland, served as seaman aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863; rated as coxswain aboard the vessel on July 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 512.]

George Clemens, see George W. Clemons and George W. Clements.
James Clemens, see James Clemments.

Joseph H. Clemens, served in the Confederate States Army, at Columbia, South Carolina, 1863; indicated his desire to enlist in the Confederate States Navy; midshipman J. M. Pearson was sent, from Wilmington, North Carolina, to Columbia, July 13, 1863, to bring Clemens and two other enlistees back to Wilmington, and deliver them to the receiving vessel at Wilmington, for shipment in the Naval service. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 355.]

J. K. Clement, 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.]

George W. Clements, enlisted in Washington County, North Carolina, September 16, 1862, as private, company K, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March 23, 1864 (see also the entry below, for George W. Clemons, who may be the same person). [NCT 2, 256.]

L. Clements, 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 675.]

James Clemments (surname also shown as Clemens), enlisted aboard the CSS Alabama, October 12, 1862; rated as yeoman; 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.]

A.B. Clemmons, Landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

James H. Clemmons (surname also shown as Clements), brought, as a Naval recruit, from Columbia, South Carolina, to Wilmington, North Carolina, in July, 1863; served as quartermaster, CSS North Carolina, 1864; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Brunswick County, North Carolina; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Jane, and five sons (eldest son born 1858), at Lockwoods Folly, Brunswick County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 294 & 296; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate States Navy subject files - NR.]

Josephus Clemmons, born North Carolina, about 1820; served as pilot in the Confederate States Navy, from December 30, 1862; served on the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, 1863; resided as a pilot, in 1880, with his wife, Margaret, at Tatemville, Balwin County, Alabama; involved in an accident, in October, 1896, after he had taken the steamer Miami out over the Mobile bar, and on leaving this vessel, in heavy seas, he fell off the ladder into his son's yawl; taken to his home and attended by a doctor, who found no bones broken, but Clemmons had received internal injuries; at that time Clemmons had been on the Mobile bar for sixty years, and was thought to be the oldest pilot in the United States. [CSN Register; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) dated October 26, 1896, page 2.]

George W. Clemons (surname also shown as Clemens), born Plymouth; listed as a pilot in the Confederate States Navy; captured on the CSS Bombshell, Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, May 5, 1864, and transferred, the same day, from the USS Ceres to the USS Sassacus, then to the steamer Lockwood, on May 10, 1864, for transportation to a prisoner of war facility; sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received, September 23, 1864; exchanged October 1, 1864; arrived in Richmond from City Point, Virginia, after being exchanged, October 18, 1864 (see also the entry for George W. Clements, listed above, who may be the same person). [Fort Warren; ORN 1, 9, 746; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; deck log entries for the USS Sassacus dated May 5, 1864 and May 10, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 38.]

Patrick Clenis, see Patrick Clines.

John Cleveland, Ship's Steward, CSS Georgia, July, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 715.]

Seth B. Cleveland (surname also shown as Cleaveland), born Rhode Island, about 1842; son of Seth and Adoline Cleveland; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Franklin county, Florida; served as ship's steward, ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia; 1861 - 1864; accompanied lieutenant William V. Comstock, to Decatur, Georgia, in March, 1863, on recruiting duties, to obtain recruits from the Confederate Army, for the Navy; later sent to Battery Buchanan, at Wilmington, North Carolina, on December 30, 1864; punished for disobeying a lawful command, February 8, 1865; also shown to have served on the Charleston station at an unspecified date; resided as a book keeper, at the residence of his brother, Henry and his family, at Savannah, Georgia, in 1880. [ORN 2, 1, 287; Robert Watson Diary February 8, 1865; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 118 and 235; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 311.]

Charles Clifford, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

Daniel Clifford, served as seaman at the New Orleans station in 1861, and later aboard the CSS Arkansas, wounded in action, July 22, 1862. [ORN 1, 19, 70; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 59.]

Green B. Clifford, served in the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Louisa J. Davis (who remarried another Confederate veteran, S.B. Davis, after Clifford's death), applied for a post war Confederate pension from Sampson County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

J.W. Clifford, enlisted, 1864, at Mobile, Alabama, in the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the ram, CSS Virginia; transferred to command of the magazine at Mobile, Alabama, until the end of the war; received a Louisiana Confederate pension after the war, file number 11632. [ADAH.]

J. W. Clifford, served as master at arms 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 J. Clifton, shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 12, 1864, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle, at Plymouth Sound, North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38.]

John D. Cline, served as landsman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as ordinary seaman from July 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 870; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 113.]

Mark Cline, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

Patrick Clines (surname also shown as Clenis), born Ireland, 1833; private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; also stationed aboard the CSS Richmond, James River, in 1864, and at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864; resided, widowed, as a porter in a store, in 1880, with his daughter, Mary (born 1866), in New Orleans, Louisiana. [ORN 2, 1, 280 & 314; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 390.]

Peter Clines, born about 1837; described as 5 feet 4 ¼ inches high, gray eyes, dark hair, dark 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. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 10, 1862.]

Michael Clinton, recruited as landsman at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864, and served aboard the CSS Neuse, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 955 and 1233.]

Emanuel Cloninger, born Gaston County, North Carolina, 1840; son of Jonas and Sarah Cloninger; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Gaston County, October 6, 1861, as private, company H, 37th Regiment North Carolina Troops; captured at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862; exchanged on or about December 17, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 10, 1864; married in 1865; resided as a farmer, in 1910, with his wife, Elizabeth, at Dallas township, Gaston County, North Carolina; died at Durham County, North Carolina, December 1, 1924. [NCT 9, 570; 1850 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; North Carolina Death Collection, 1908 - 1996 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

J. Garrison Clonts, born North Carolina, October 1831; served in the Confederate States Navy; married Elmina (first name also shown as Elminer) Giles at Burke County, North Carolina, February 23, 1865; shown as a shoemaker, in 1900, with his wife and child, residing at Silver Creek township, Burke County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Burke County, North Carolina, and, after his death, his widow also applied for the pension from the same county. [NC State Archives; 1900 U.S. Census; North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741 - 2000 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

John F. Clooney born Newfoundland, October 14, 1836 (1860 U.S. Census shows his place of birth as Louisiana); son of Dennis and Catherine Clooney; immigrated to the United States in 1856; served as a builder in the Confederate Navy during the war; resided with his wife, Mary, and three children, in 1880, at Calcasieu parish, Louisiana shown as a widower in 1900; resided as a ship's carpenter at the ship yard, in 1920, at Lake Charles city, Calcasieu parish, Louisiana; died Calcasieu parish, Louisiana, February 22, 1924; buried at Graceland Orange Grove Cemetery, Lake Charles, Louisiana. [Young Sanders; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census; Louisiana Statewide Death Index, 1900 - 1949 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Joseph Clopton, served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864; died on April 15, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 39.]

John E. Close, born Guilford County, North Carolina, 1839; son of James and Jane Close; pre-war occupation, machinist; enlisted in Lincoln County, North Carolina, April 25, 1861, aged 21, as private, company K, 1st Regiment North Carolina Infantry (6 months, 1861); mustered out November 12-13, 1861; later enlisted in the Confederate States Navy; served as first class fireman on the CSS Albemarle and at Halifax Station, 1864. [NCT 3, 52; ORN 2, 1, 274; CSN Shipping Articles; 1850 U.S. Census.]

George B. Cloud, born Texas; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman, March 2, 1863; served on the Mobile squadron, 1864. [Register1864.]

Jesse L. Cloud, seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 280.]

Alvaro Clough, born Ireland, about 1839; served as seaman and carpenter's mate aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station 1861-1862. [St. Philips; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 91 and 95.]

J. Clounts, enlisted October 6, 1864, in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served as corporal 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.]

J.C. Clouts, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

I. Clowery, served aboard the CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 783.]

James Clury, Private, CSMC; born England; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 977.]

George Coats, enlisted for the war, in the Confederate States Navy, June 1, 1863; served as landsman aboard the CSS Huntsville, Mobile station; paid up to September 1, 1863, stated to have been "delivered up to CSA". [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 54.]

A. Cobb, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy; appointment revoked December 7, 1863. [CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

J.G. Cobb, served as sergeant, company G, 20th Texas Infantry; demoted to private; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, 9th (Nichols) Texas Infantry). [Civil War Service Records.]

John H. Cobb, served as a private in company D, 10the Georgia 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; the transfer order includes the notation that Cobb never reported to the Charleston station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and Transfers.; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 72.]

W.H. Cobb, seaman and ship's steward, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 279; M1091.]

Willis B. Cobb, appointed from Kentucky; previous service in company D, 3rd Kentucky Mounted Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, as assistant paymaster, February 5, 1864; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served aboard the CSS Torpedo, James River Squadron, 1864; captured at Richmond, Virginia, April 3, 1865; paroled May 19, 1865. [CSN Register; JCC 4, 122.]

Charles Cobby (or Cobbey), born England; seaman, CSS Shenandoah; rated quarter gunner, March 27, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 975; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783; Whittle 128.]

J.C. Coble, see Jerry O. Cable.

James Coble, born August, 1842; resided in, and enlisted at Alamance County, North Carolina, May 21, 1861, as private, company H, 15th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred, July 1, 1863, to company G, 44th Regiment North Carolina Troops, in exchange for private John M. Davidson; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 1, 1864; second marriage about 1883; resided as a blacksmith, in 1900, with his wife Margarette, and five children, at Alamance County; died at Alamance county, January 27, 1922 (see also, the entry for Jerry O. Cable, who may be the same person). [NCT 5, 578 & 10, 458; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; North Carolina Death Collection, 1908 - 1996 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

John Coble, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see listing under J.O. Cable, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Robert Cobler, born North Carolina, 1833; son of Elijah and Hilary Cobler; enlisted in Rockingham County, North Carolina, September 1, 1861, as private, company I, 13th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 16, 1864; post war occupation as a tobacco picker; shown to be a resident, in 1880, with his wife, Ann, and five children, of North Williamsburg township, Rockingham County, North Carolina; still residing, as a widower, in 1910, at Rockingham County. [NCT 5, 368; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]

Charles Cobles, served as private (?) in the Navy Department of the Confederate States; paroled at Albany, Georgia, May 7, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 655.]

James Coby, ordinary seaman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]

John J. Cochran, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Cabarrus County, North Carolina; he also applied to the Home for the Disabled. [NC State Archives.]

H. I. Cochrane, served as ship's steward 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.]

J.V. Cockrell, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

William H. Codd (first name incorrectly shown as Charles), first assistant and chief engineer, CSS Rappahannock, 1864; remained aboard the CSS Rappahannock, in August, 1864, after the majority of the officers and crew had been discharged or transferred, to look out for the public property on board; CSS Shenandoah, 1864-1865; suspended from duty aboard the CSS Shenandoah, May 30, 1865, by order of commander Waddell, no reason shown. [Alabama Claims 1, 974; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 701.]

Frank Coddy, see Frank Cuddy.

Michael Codey (surname also shown as Cody), enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on August 25, 1861;served as private in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, in 1862, later on the CSS Richmond, James River, 1863 - 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 285, 386 and 387.]

Edward Cody, shipped as seaman aboard the revenue cutter Morgan, Mobile, Alabama, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1162.]

Martin Coffay, served as 2nd class fireman on the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 93.]

James Coffee (surname also shown as Coffey), 2nd class fireman; served aboard the CSS McRae, 1861 - 1862; wounded in action, April 24-25, 1862, below New Orleans; may have been captured and paroled, and subsequently sent to the Mobile station, 1862. [Daily Picayune, Tuesday, April 29, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 290; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1049.]

James Coffee (surname also shown as Cauffe, Coffay and Goffee), served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida; also served aboard the Clarence, Archer and the Tacony; captured June, 1863, off Portland, Maine, and sent to Fort Warren, for confinement; a captioned image indicates that he was a Chaplain on the Tacony, however, all documented sources show his rating as a seaman (one document also shows that he served, just before his capture, as a fireman), and there is no official evidence that any Chaplain was appointed in the Confederate States Navy, despite the Confederate Congress passing a bill to allow for such appointments. [Fort Warren; a photograph of Coffee (surname incorrectly shown as Goffee), is shown on page 392, volume 4, of William C. Davis' multi volumed set, The Image of War; Drayton; Portland, Maine, Eastern Argus dated Monday, June 29, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 86.]

John Coffee, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 303; DANFS.]

Patrick Coffee, served as landsman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1862; later appointed coal heaver aboard the vessel, and was killed in action, March 8, 1862, at Hampton Roads. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 282.]

Pat. Coffey, enlisted for one year, as 1st class boy aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on June 9, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 749.]

Antonio Coffield (see entry for Antonio Coffier, who may be the same person), born Sicily, about 1830 (or 1839?); served as seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for diarrhoea on Friday, May 2, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

R.R. Coffield (middle initial also shown as P.), acting 2nd assistant engineer (CSN Register shows his rank, at this time, as acting 1st assistant engineer), November 17, 1861; served as chief engineer aboard the CSS Polk in 1862, and later on the Jackson station, 1862; died at Jackson, Mississippi on July 8, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318; CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 41; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 490.]

James Cogan, served aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 858.]

James Cogan, served as 1st class boy aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1862; discharged June 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1064 and 1171.]

John Cogan, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, served on the New Orleans station, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 320.]

John Cogan, served as 1st class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as officer's steward from February 5, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 93.]

Michael Coggins, enlisted as private, company D, 3rd (Palmetto) Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Thomas Coggins, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]

Patrick Coghlan (surname also shown as Coghlin), landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 313-314.]

Thomas Cogins (surname also shown as Coggins), born Lawrence, Edgecombe County, North Carolina, 1840; resided in Edgecombe County as a farmer, 1860; enlisted at Edgecombe County, May 8, 1861, as private, company G, 13th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 20, 1862; served as landsman aboard the CSS Virginia, 1862. [NCT 5, 349; ORN 2, 1, 309; 1860 U.S. Census; Edgecombe County, North Carolina Vital Records, 1720 - 1880 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

J.H. Cohen (name is also shown as George H. Cohen), Paymaster's Clerk, CSS Tennessee, captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 406; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 550.]

Michael J. Cohen, born Georgia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, July 29, 1863; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Register1864.]

John A. Cohran, served as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523.]

Thomas Coin, originally in the merchant marine service, aboard the brig Gilmore Meredith; deserted at St. Thomas, West Indies, and joined the Confederate privateer Retribution. [ORN 1, 2, 66.]

Julius Colar, Seaman; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976.]

John Colbert, Seaman, CSS St. Nicholas, June, 1861 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 4, 555.]

John Colbert, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

William Colbert, rated as officer's cook aboard the CSS Tallahassee, Wilmington station, on October 1, 1864; served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865; rated as ward room cook aboard the vessel from January 1, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 268 and 270; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 843.]

F.M. Colburn, enlisted as private, company G, 20th Texas Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Charles E. Colby, served as paymaster's clerk aboard the CSS Florida, lieutenant Charles W. Hay commanding, on September 21, 1861; served on the New Orleans station in 1861, and as captain's clerk, appointed on October 23, 1861, and acting purser aboard the CSS Manassas, New Orleans station, in 1861-1862, and at the Jackson station, 1862; later served on the Richmond station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318 & 321; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 424 and 996; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 708 and 710.]

John H. Colby, native of Liberty, Maine; shipped in Boston, Massachusetts, aboard the merchant schooner, Lizzie M. Stacey, October 4, 1864; captured aboard that vessel, by the cruiser CSS Shenandoah, November 13, 1864, and impressed into service in the Confederate Navy; left at Melbourne, January 30, 1865. [Alabama Claims Correspondence 3, 402.]

Daniel DeLanne Colcock, born South Carolina, January, 1846; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 3rd class, October 22, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862; aboard the steamer CSS Gaines, 1862 - 1863; promoted passed midshipman, January 8, 1864; served on the Charleston squadron, 1864, and aboard the CSS Charleston in late 1864; appointed master, in the line of promotion, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; resided as a cotton weigher, in 1880, at New Orleans, Louisiana; married Mattie E. Rugeley, at New Orleans, January 8, 1880; also employed as secretary with the Louisiana Sugar and Rice Exchange; died at New Orleans, December 3, 1919. [ORN 2, 1, 322; Wayne Cosby; Register1863; Register1864; 1880 U.S. Census; JCC 4, 122; 1900 U.S. Census; additional data from Louisiana Marriages, 1718 - 1925, at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 356.]

Andrew Cole (or Coll), born Ireland, about 1844; served as boy aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Friday, June 20, 1862, and again on Tuesday, July 8, 1862; treated for cephalalgia on Wednesday, July 30, 1862; treated for a fever on Friday, August 15, 1862, and again with the same condition on Tuesday, September 9, 1862; treated for a furunculus, just below the umbulicus, on Tuesday, May 19th, 1863; treated for a fever on Sunday, August 23, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

Charles Cole, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 11, 1862; deserted in early July, 1862, after only 21 days of service. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]

Charles H. Cole, captain in the Confederate States Army, under General Forrest; represented himself to be a lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy. [ORN 1, 3, 715.]

George Cole, served as landsman 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. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]

George W. Cole, served as coxswain aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1223.]

H.M. Cole, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served, in 1864, aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 297.]

James Cole, enlisted as 3rd class boy aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 3, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 109.]

Joseph E. Cole (surname also shown as Coles), married Georgianna Boroyer at Key West, Florida, on July 20, 1861; enlisted in Captain Mulrenan's Florida Coast Guard, December 13, 1861; mustered out, March, 1862; transferred April 25, 1862, into Company K, 7th Florida Infantry; then as Coal Heaver into the Confederate States Navy, August 5, 1862; wounded in the boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; died March 12 (or 13), 1889, at Key West, Florida. [ORN 1, 17, 869 & 2, 1, 304; also see Florida Confederate Pension File no. A00553; Robert Watson Diary August 5, 1862.]

Lewis Cole, served as ordinary seaman 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.]

Robert Cole, African American; claimed to have been a slave of president Jefferson Davis; employed on the Confederate States steamer Patrick Henry; charged, in 1864, with stealing twenty papers of coffee from the Confederate States, and ordered to be given twenty lashes. [Daily Richmond Enquirer (Richmond, Virginia) dated Friday, July 1, 1864.]

Thomas Cole, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

W. J. Cole, served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]

William Cole, served as carpenter's mate aboard the CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864; later served as carpenter's mate aboard the CSS Arctic; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 15, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 117.]

William Cole, Landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Dennis Coleman, 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.]

Edward Coleman, seaman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

James Coleman (first name also shown as John), born Galway, Ireland, about 1829; 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, on May 4, 1864, to the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron; later served as seaman aboard the CSS Macon, in 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 585.]

John Coleman, First Class Fireman, previously served as Private in Company A, First Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, May 2, 1864, as Landsman, at New Orleans. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 118.]

John H. Coleman, born Rockingham County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, blacksmith; enlisted at Rockingham County, February 27, 1862, aged 22, as private, company E, 45th Regiment North Carolina Troops; wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania sometime between July 1 and 3, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 10, 1864. [NCT 11, 59.]

Thomas Coleman, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served at the New Orleans station, 1862, and later aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 130.]

Charles Coles, enlisted April 1, 1863, aboard the CSS Alabama; deserted at Cape Town, September 19, 1863. [Sinclair.]
Joseph Coles, see Joseph E. Cole.

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

James J. Coley, ordinary seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

James W. Colie, born New York, March, 1835; served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Lenoir County, North Carolina; resided as a house carpenter, in 1900, with his two sons, at Institute township, Lenoir County, North Carolina; shown as a widower in 1900. [NC State Archives; 1900 U.S. Census.]

Thomas Coligan, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

Henry Colins, see Henry Collins.

Andrew Coll, 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.]

Thomas Colley, served as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863, and as ordinary seaman and gunner's mate aboard the stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, 1863 - 1864; transferred, as quarter gunner, to the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston station, in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530 and 609.]

Charles H. Collier, served as private, company A, 32nd Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

Charles H. Collier, born Virginia (1900 U.S. Census shows state of birth as Massachusetts), August, 1826; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, April 21, 1862; served on the Charleston station, 1862 - 1863; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, May 21, 1863; served aboard the CSS Charleston, 1863 - 1864; ordered, by the Secretary of the Navy, Mallory, to report, in June, 1864, aboard the CSS Florida; indicated as not having reported the cruiser by June 28, 1864, when it left Bermuda; ordered to return to the Confederate States, from service abroad, in December, 1864, by Secretary Mallory; resided as a machinist at the Norfolk Navy Yard, in 1900, at the residence of his son in law, Edward Taylor (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 3, 613 & 621; 1, 11, 776 and 2, 1, 317; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; 1900 U.S. Census.]

Samuel Collier, appointed second officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Bragg, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on January 31, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

William A. Collier, resident of Columbus, Georgia; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, April 12, 1864, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, at Columbus, for duty; after having passed the required examinations, he was appointed acting midshipman, November 30, 1864, and then ordered to report to lieutenant William H. Parker, aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, for duty. [ORN 1, 10, 767; 1, 17, 700 and 2, 1, 283; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), pages 294 and 295.]

Thomas Collignan, 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.]

Henry Collings (surname also shown as Colling), served as seaman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1862 - 1863; deserted but was apprehended and returned to Naval authorities on April 13, 1863. [ORN 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 279; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 453.]

B. J. (or I.) Collins, appointed chief engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Stonewall Jackson, 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 265.]

Bernard J. Collins, acting 1st assistant engineer (ORN 2, 1, 318 indicates his rank, at this time, was acting 3rd assistant engineer); served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862, and as senior engineer aboard the CSS McRae, 1861; later on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318 & 320; Register1862; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Accounts for expenditures, page 737.]

Charles Collins, private, company K, 7th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, August 5, 1862, aboard the CSS Chattahoochee; served as second class fireman. [Robert Watson Diary August 5, 1862; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

Cornelius Collins, Boy, CSS Governor Moore, captured April, 1862, off Forts Jackson and St. Philips, Louisiana. [ORN 1, 18, 723.]

Frank G. Collins, native of Fredericksburg, Virginia; estimated age 23 to 26 (at the time of his death); CSS H.L. Hunley, died February 17, 1864, when that vessel attacked the USS Housatonic, off Charleston, South Carolina; his "sedimentary" remains were recovered, August, 2000, when the Hunley was retrieved from it's final position in Charleston Harbor; re-buried, April, 2004, at the Magnolia Cemetery, 70 Cunnington Avenue North, Charleston, South Carolina 29405. [ORN 1, 15, 337; Washington Times, report, titled "Civil War Submariners Home at last," March 27, 2004; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

G.M. Collins, enlisted, for three years, or the war, on October 28, 1862; served as landsman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; died on January 4, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 43.]

George W.F.D. Collins, originally served as private, Portsmouth Rifle Company, company G, 9th Virginia Regiment; detailed to work in the Confederate States Navy, 1862. [Norfolk County Record 84.]

Henry Collins, seaman, CSS Caswell (wooden sidewheeled steamer, which operated as a tender on the Wilmington Station, North Carolina); served during, or sometime between the period, July, 1861 to June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 282; DANFS.]

Henry Collins, enlisted as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and served aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma), 1861-1862; rated as quartermaster aboard the vessel from September 18, 1861. [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 and 427.]

Henry Collins (surname also shown as Colins), captain of forecastle aboard the CSS Arctic, the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, and the CSS Tallahassee, 1864; rated coxswain aboard the CSS Tallahassee, Wilmington station, on October 1, 1864; also served as quartermaster on the CSS Olustee (previously known as the CSS Tallassee), 1864; later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, as captain of forecastle, from January 1, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 279, 293, 295, 296 and 307; DANFS; 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 843 and 850.]

J.E. Collins, served as private, company K, 7th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

J. J. Collins, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 850.]

J.N. Collins, Landsman, CSS Fredericksburg, January, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 794.]

James Collins, 1st class fireman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]

John Collins, Seaman, CSS Shenandoah; joined the cruiser at Melbourne, Australia, February, 1865; confined, May 28, 1865, for drunkenness. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

John Collins, enlisted in Lenoir County, North Carolina, October 12, 1863; as private, 1st company A, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to 2nd company I, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery, November, 1863; transferred to Confederate States Navy, March or April, 1864. [NCT 1, 151 & 176.]

John Collins, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served as ordinary seaman on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302.]

John Collins, enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and later served aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862; lieutenant Charles W. Hays, commanding the CSS Florida, in a dispatch dated March 20, 1862, and addressed to paymaster Nixon, indicated that he had rated Collins as officer's steward, but had later been compelled to disrate him to landsman on March 15, 1862; Collins had been in some strife, and was made to stand for hours with his hands placed in irons behind him, and around a staunchion, and was wounded in the thigh, by a sabre in the hands of lieutenant Mills of the same vessel; a complaint was made to flag officer Randolph, who had lieutenant Mills arrested, but who was subsequently released. [ORN 2, 1, 286; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422 and 445; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations; PB - Administration of stations; Columbia - Pensacola, pages 837 - 840.]

John Collins, recruited as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous, Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 444.]

John Collins, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

John Collins, born about 1819; served in the Armoury Guards, just before the war; enlisted as ordinary seaman, Confederate States Navy, at Wilmington, North Carolina, 1863; served on the ram CSS Raleigh; transferred to company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, 1864, as private; stationed aboard the receiving ship CSS Arctic and the CSS Raleigh, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864 - 1865; captured at Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865; sent as a prisoner of war to Point Lookout, Maryland, where he remained until the end of the war; post war occupation, laborer; resided in Dayton, Ohio, in the 1880's; applied for entry to the R.E. Lee Camp 1, Confederate Soldiers' Home, Richmond, Virginia. [LVa - application papers for admission to the R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans' Soldiers' Home, dated May, 1889; ORN 2, 1, 280, 302 & 316.]

John Collins, native of Ireland; shipped as first captain of forecastle, CSS Florida, 1862, at Mobile, Alabama; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863; paid off at Liverpool, England; went to Manchester in October, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 356 and 361 & 2, 456.]

John Collins, born Gibraltar about 1842; served as ordinary seaman on the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Monday, June 30, 1862; treated for jaundice on Thursday, July 10, 1862; treated again for a fever on Friday, August 1, 1862; treated for colic and the passage of gall stones on Tuesday, August 12, 1862, and transferred to the hospital on shore, on the same day; condemned by a medical survey on Sunday, November 30, 1862; disease did not originate in the line of duty. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

John Collins, served as 1st officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General John C. Breckinridge, Mississippi River Defense Fleet, from April 21, 1862 to December 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XD - Claims, Miscellaneous, page 11.]

John Collins, served on the CSS Arctic, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 13, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 117.]

John B. Collins, served as seaman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, at Chattahoochee, Florida, in 1863; died about April, 1863; a fellow crew member, Charles H. Berry, was appointed as attorney for Felicia Collins, who was administrator of Collins' estate, and who was to receive any pay or effects that belonged to John B. Collins. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 45.]

Josiah Collins, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861; served aboard the CSS Pamlico from October 15, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 54 and 267.]

N. Collins, served aboard the CSS Richmond, James River squadron, 1865; deserted into the Union lines on March 7, 1865, and held in custody by the provost marshal of the Army of the James; sent for interrogation to the Union Navy commander on the James River. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 548.]

Nathan Collins, served as seaman 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. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]

Peter E. Collins, served as landsman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 87.]

Phillipp Collins, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

R.E. Collins, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

T. Collins, served as corporal, company B, 3rd (Palmetto) Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery; demoted to private; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Timothy Collins, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 316.]

W.H. Collins, born Virginia; served as midshipman in the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Chattahoochie, CSS Roanoke and the CSS Patrick Henry; shown as a resident of Birmingham, Alabama, in 1907 (see next entry, for William Collins, who may be the same person). [Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2.]

William Collins, appointed from Mississippi; appointed master not in line of promotion, December 18, 1863; on special service, 1863 - 1864; paroled at Grenada, Mississippi, May 18, 1865 (see previous entry, for W.H. Collins, who may be the same person). [CSN Register; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 656.]

William Collins, 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 43.]

William Collins, born New York, about 1843; served as a marine aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Saturday, February 7th, 1863; treated for fever, again, on Wednesday, June 24th, 1863, and on Tuesday, August 11, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

Lawrence Collis, 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 675.]

John Colmer, recruited at Mobile, Alabama, by captain George P. Turner, into the Confederate States Marine Corps, May 9, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1047.]

Charles Colson, enlisted January 16, 1864, aboard the CSS Alabama; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864. [Sinclair.]

Pendleton Colston, indicated to have been a Judge Advocate of the Confederate Navy, at Mobile, Alabama, during the war; post war assistant editor (under the former admiral Raphael Semmes) of the Mobile, Alabama Register. [New York Times dated September 25, 1866; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1078.]

Pat Colter, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Lodge Colton, born Baltimore, Maryland, February 4, 1837; father, William Colton; mother, Mary Wells Lodge; served in the Confederate States Navy, from the state of Virginia; Master's Mate, CSS Rappahannock, 1864; CSS Shenandoah, 1865; married Marion (maiden name not shown), 1882 (this marriage year is incorrect, as the 1880 U.S. Census shows them as already being married in 1880; shown, with his wife Marion, as residents of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1880; served as mariner after the war; captained passenger vessels to Havana, Cuba, including the Santiago and the Charles W. Lord; settled in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; died at Philadelphia, 1914. [Alabama Claims 1, 975; biographical information from the Family Group Record for Lodge Colton, compiled by Mr. Ed. Colton of Aurora, Illinois; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; ORN 1, 3, 785; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Fred Columbia, native of Cherbourg, France; enlisted July 7, 1863, aboard the CSS Alabama; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864. [Sinclair.]

F. Columbus, seaman, CSS Mobile, 1861. [St. Philips.]

Charles Combs, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in December 15, 1861. [Soldiers of Florida, 49.]

J.H.N. Comelhson (Connellson?), landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Nicholas Comforter, born Sicily, Italy, 1841; original service as private, company I, 11th Florida Infantry; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, 1863, and served as seaman on the CSS Spray; discharged at St. Marks, Florida, 1865; paroled at St. Marks, May 12, 1865; married Rebecca Elizabeth Archer, March, 1871, at Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida; resided as a sailor, in 1880, with his wife and four children, at Apalachicola; died at Franklin County, June 30, 1886. [Soldiers of Florida, 317; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A11225; 1880 U.S. Census; Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 656.]

A. Commandem, served as paymaster's clerk in the office of paymaster John W. Nixon, at New Orleans, 1861 - 1862, at the rate of $3 per day. [Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PL - Labor and civil personnel; Albany - Richmond, page 361.]

William Commerce, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 291.]

John B. Comporet, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 13, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

Richard R. Comron, born Onslow County, North Carolina, 1834; son of Hannah Comron; pre-war occupation, clerk; enlisted at New Hanover County, August 30, 1861, as private, company G, 18th Regiment North Carolina Troops; promoted corporal, January 1, 1863; absent without leave sometime between May and October, 1862; returned to duty sometime between November and December, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 10, 1864; shown as a resident of Screven County, North Carolina, in 1880. [NCT 6, 381; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

John H. Comstock, served as lieutenant, company F, 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

John Henry Comstock (Register1863 and Register1864 show his first name as James), born Louisiana (1860 U.S. Census shows state of birth as Arkansas); citizen of, and appointed from, Arkansas; original service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from January 7, 1858; previous service as 2nd lieutenant, company F, 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery; promoted 1st lieutenant, April 28, 1861; entered the Confederate States Navy, May 4, 1861, as midshipman; served aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; promoted 2nd lieutenant, February 8, 1862; also served on the Jackson station, 1862; later served on the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1862; reported for duty aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, September 29, 1862; his commander, John Newland Maffitt stated that Comstock was "unfit for the performance of the requirements of the Florida"; on sick leave, at the end of 1862; returned, as executive officer, to the CSS Morgan, in 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; served aboard the CSS Selma, 1863 - 1864; killed in action aboard the CSS Selma, August 5, 1864, at Mobile Bay, Alabama (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 1, 768; 1, 21, 406 and 2, 1, 290, 292, 318 & 320; ORA 1, 39/1; Booth 1, 403; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, page 262.]

William Van Comstock, born Louisiana, about 1841; original service in the United States Navy, from September 24, 1857; entered the Confederates States Navy, April 15, 1861, as acting midshipman; appointed master in the line of promotion on September 24, 1861; served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; commanded the receiving ship St. Phillip, 1861; promoted 2nd lieutenant, February 8, 1862; later served on the Jackson station, 1862, and aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Savannah, Savannah River, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; served aboard the school ship, CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1863 - 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; later, in 1864, served as executive officer of the CSS Macon; ordered to the command of the CSS Sampson, near Augusta, Georgia, March 20, 1865. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 16, 487 & 510 and 2, 1, 304, 318 & 320; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; CSS Macon Rolls; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 299.]

G. E. Comting, served as clerk aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile squadron, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (March - August, 1863), page 1093.]