NC Civil War Sailors Project

B.T. Conant, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 700.]

H. Conant, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 700.]

Ira C. Conant, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

Samuel Conch, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 4, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 51.]

Charles Concklyn, appointed second officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Lovell, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

Robert W. Condell, original service as private, company G, 6th Texas Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy and served as seaman and coxswain aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia). [ORN 1, 17, 700 and 2, 1, 283; Civil War Service Records.]

William Condellary, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

Alexander Condon, previous service as private, company K, 12th Virginia Infantry; promoted sergeant; transferred to the Confederate States Navy and served as master at arms aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Civil War Service Records.]

Chester Condon, see Chester Congdon.

Michael Condon, served as 1st class fireman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; arrested (possibly for desertion), and returned to the CSS McRae on January 22, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 56.]

Thomas Condon (surname also shown as Conden), served as landsman on the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, and as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Tallahassee, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865, and was transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296 & 307; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 270; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 849.]

Daniel Condrain, served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; deserted about May, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 58.]
Daniel Condroy, Landsman, CSS Atlanta, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]

Edward Cone, Ordinary Seaman, CSS St. Nicholas, June, 1861 [may be the same person mentioned in the next entry]. [ORN 1, 4, 555.]

Edward Cone, resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; served as seaman and ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, 1861 - 1862; made an allotment of his pay, in 1861, to Mary Cone, and, in 1862, to Nancy Cone [may be the same person mentioned in the previous entry]. [Norfolk County Record 200; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 287; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OL - Mobilization and demobilization; Norfolk - Miscellaneous, page 186.]

Fountain H. Cone, born Madison County, Florida, January 26, 1841; son of Fountain and Anna Cone; brother of William H. Cone, listed below; enrolled 1863 (pension shows enlisted April 11, 1864, at St. Marks, Florida); served as landsman on CSS Spray; included in the Roll Confederate Navy of Florida; paroled at St. Marks, May 12 or 13, 1865; physical description 5 ft. 8 in. tall, dark hair, grey eyes, light complexion; resided at Spray, Florida, after the war; married Lydia A. Willis at Madison County, Florida, on September 4, 1889; 7 children; occupation, Post Master in 1906; died at Greenville, Madison County, Florida, on February 14, 1922. [Soldiers of Florida, 317; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A02373; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 656.]

William H. Cone, born Madison County, Florida, December 22, 1833; son of Fountain and Anna Cone; brother of Fountain H. Cone, listed above; enrolled April 11, 1864 (pension papers show enlistment date as April 1, 1864, at St. Marks, Florida); served as landsman on CSS Spray; included in the Roll Confederate Navy of Florida; paroled at St. Marks, in May, 1865 (another Naval document shows that he was paroled at Tallahassee, Florida, on May 13, 1865); was residing at Greenville, Florida, in 1901. [Soldiers of Florida, 317; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A10852; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 656.]

Thomas Conforth, enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, September 11, 1861; as private, company A, 13th Louisiana Infantry; promoted sergeant, September 20, 1862; wounded in action at Chickamauga, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 11, 1864; served as seaman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864; also shown to have been transferred from the floating battery CSS Georgia, at Savannah, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina, in September, 1864. [Booth 1, 406; ORN 2, 1, 283; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]

Chester Congdon (surname also shown as Condon), had previously served as boatswain aboard the Confederate States schooner Dodge, in 1861; enlisted April 1, 1863 for 1 year, at the rate of $30 per month; transferred, April 13, 1863 to CSS Harriet Lane; served as boatswain; given leave, later in April, 1863, to visit his wife; later that same year, sent to Shreveport, Louisiana, to served aboard the CSS Missouri, under lieutenant J.H. Carter; also served aboard the CSS Webb, 1865. [ORN 1, 20, 815 & 816 and 2, 1, 292; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 289.]

George R. Congdon, born South Carolina, 1837; resided as a merchant, in 1860, with his wife Mary, and son George, jr., at Conwayboro village, Horry County, South Carolina; originally served as lieutenant, company F, 1st South Carolina Volunteers, and as captain, company K, 26th South Carolina Regiment; later as acting master's mate aboard the CSS PeeDee; died September 23, 1903. [Confederate Veteran 12, 544; 1860 U.S. Census.]

J.E. Conklin, Assistant Engineer, CSS Webb, February, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 407.]

John Conklin, boatswain's mate, served aboard the CSS Morgan at Mobile, in early 1863, and later on the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1180.]

Peter Conlen (surname also shown as Conlon), enlisted, for one year, as fireman's storekeeper aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, on September 22, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1227; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

John Conley, enlisted as private, company B, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Light 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 Conley (surname also shown as Conly), enlisted as landsman on October 30, 1863, and served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute, Savannah river area, Georgia, 1863 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 303; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 639.]

Michael Conley (surname also shown as Curley and Curly), born Ireland; shipped as landsman, CSS Florida, 1862, at Mobile, Alabama; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 356, 361 and 363 & 2, 456.]

Mark Conlin, served as landsman aboard Launch No. 4, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 51.]

Edward Conn, resident of Apalachicola, Florida; sent from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to Saffold, Georgia, in January, 1863, for service aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, as coal heaver; killed in boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; Hartman's Florida Rosters shows (in error?) married in 1868 and died September 3, 1894 at Escambia County, Florida; buried at the First United Methodist Church cemetery, Chattahochee, Florida. [ORN 1, 17, 869; Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 379; John E. Ellis; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 246.]

William Conn, Seaman aboard the CSS General Beauregard, died on May 9, 1862, and is buried at Soldier's Rest, Elmwood Cemetery, 824 S. Dudley Street, Memphis, Tennessee 38104. [From details shown at Internet site CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS AND VETERANS BURIED IN SOLDIER'S REST, ELMWOOD CEMETERY, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE at URL: http://www.people.memphis.edu/~jcothern/soldrest.htm; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

John Connaly, 1st class boy, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), sometime between January, 1863 and September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS.]

Jeremiah Connell, 2nd class fireman and coal heaver, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Tallahassee, as coal heaver. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296 and 307; DANFS.]

Jerry Connell, served as a sergeant in company F, 1st Battalion Alabama Artillery; transferred from the Confederate Army to the Confederate States Navy. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 675.]

John Connell (surname also shown as Connall), enlisted by captain Benthuysen, at New Orleans, Louisiana, on April 17, 1861, as a private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; served at the Richmond station, and at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 468.]

Michael D. Connell, served as a crew member aboard the schooner Royal Yacht, at Galveston, Texas, October, 1861, subject to the Naval laws of the Confederate States of America. [ORN 1, 16, 844.]

Patrick Connell, enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, for the war, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps on August 15, 1862; transferred from the Mobile station to the CSS Baltic, on January 20, 1863; taken captive at Fort Gaines, Alabama, August 8, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 281;;Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 224; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 94 - 95.]

Patrick Connell, served as landsman aboard the CSS Carondelet, at New Orleans, 1862; rated wardroom as from March 3, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 121.]

William Connell, Seaman, participated in expedition to capture US Army steamer Leviathan, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, September 21, 1863. Recaptured the next day by USS De Soto. [ORN 1, 20, 598.]

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

Daniel Connelly, born Ireland; landsman, CSS Atlanta, 1862; aged 23; deserted at an unspecified date. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Sunday, December 28, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 81.]

E. Connelly, appointed first assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Beauregard, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on March 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

Edward Connelly, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 301.]

Jerry Connelly, served as ordinary 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.]

John Connelly, born Ireland; served as ordinary seaman, CSS Resolute; deserted at Savannah, Georgia, May 1, 1864; apprehended and sentenced, by a Naval General Court Martial, in August, 1864, to confinement (see also, next entry, and entry for John Connolly, who may be the same person). [ORN 1, 15, 734; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 249.]

John Connelly, born Ireland; gunner's mate; aged 25; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863 (see also, previous entry, and entry for John Connolly, who may be the same person). [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry for Wednesday, June 10, 1863; ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275.]

John Connelly, served as quarter gunner aboard the CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, 1863; admitted to the Confederate States Navy hospital at Savannah for ten days, and was discharged on October 2, 1863; reason for admittance not specified; also indicated to have served on ordnance duty at Savannah, date not specified. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 361; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 663.]

John Connelly, 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, page 270.]

Patrick Connelly, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 675.]

Samuel Connelly, served as landsman aboard the CSS Manassas, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as fireman from November 7, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 994.]

Thomas Connelly, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Tennessee. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 675.]

C. Conner, served 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 849.]

Cornelius C. Conner, enlisted in Lenoir County, North Carolina, July 21, 1862, as private, substitute for Louis B. Cox, company B, 5th Regiment North Carolina Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 21, 1864; served as landsman aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865; attached as private to company G, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [NCT 2, 385; M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 270.]

James Conner, resident of Liverpool, England (may have been the same James T. Connor, master mariner, who resided, in 1862, at 2, Walton View, Egremont, Liverpool, England); shipped aboard the CSS Rappahannock, at Calais, France, in February, 1864; deserted Sunday, March 20, 1864. [Alabama Claims 2, 751; Gores, 1862.]

John Conner, gunner's mate, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

John Conner, served as seaman aboard the CSS General Polk, in 1861; rated as quarter gunner from November 1, 1861, and, as gunner's mate from March 15, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 471 and 484.]

Michael Conner, served as 1st class fireman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 58.]

Patrick Conner (surname also shown as Connor), captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; also served as coal heaver aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863 (see also Patrick J. Conners, landsman on the CSS Macon, who may be the same person); listed his next of kin as Bridget Connor, in 1864. [ORN 1, 14, 268; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523;Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 699.]

Robert Conner (surname also shown as Connor), native of Belfast, Ireland; served as seaman/ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Savannah (later renamed the CSS Oconee), Savannah River squadron, since June, 1863; deserted to the enemy, off Savannah, Georgia, November 8, 1863. [ORN 1, 15, 105 - 106 & 137 and 2, 1, 297 & 304.]

Thomas Conner, Officer's Steward, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Thomas Conner (surname also shown as Conners), served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Tallahassee, Wilmington station, 1864; rated as 1st class fireman from September 25, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 843 and 850.]

John Conners, born about 1831; personal description shown as 5 feet 6 inches in height, ruddy complexion, hazel eyes and brown hair; served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1863; deserted in May, 1863; a reward of $30 was offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 30, 1863.]

John Conners, born Louisiana, about 1845; shipped at New Orleans, Louisiana; served as boy aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Sunday, June 21st, 1863 (see also, entry for John O'Connor, boy, CSS Gaines, who may be the same person). [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

Patrick J. Conners, enlisted 1864, at Savannah, Georgia, and served, as landsman, on the CSS Macon; surrendered at Augusta, Georgia, April, 1865; married Annie (maiden name not shown), April 6, 1869; died August 7, 1903, at Savannah (see also entry for Patrick Conner, coal heaver on the CSS Atlanta, who may be the same person). [Georgia Confederate Pension file for Patrick J. Conners, Chatham County; CSS Macon Rolls.]

Patrick H. Connerton, born Virginia, 1843; son of Martin and Margaret Connerton; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Amelia County, Virginia; original service as private, company E, 32nd Virginia Infantry; later served as ordinary seaman on the side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, James River Squadron, 1861 - 1862; rated quartermaster on January 1, 1862, but disrated to seaman on April 24, 1862; deserted from the vessel on June 11, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 290; Civil War Service Records; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 312 and 947; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 442.]

Thomas Connohan, quarter gunner, ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 270.]

G.A. Connolly, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see also entry for George A. Connoly, of the CSS Raleigh, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

John Connolly, seaman, 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 as gunner's mate on the side wheeled steamer CSS Sampson, Savannah, Georgia, 1863 (see also, two entries for John Connelly, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 303; DANFS.]

John Connolly (surname also shown as Connelly), served as 1st class boy aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, 1863 - 1864; sent to the Naval hospital by order of lieutenant H. H. Dalton, on account of being unable to march, after the evacuation of Savannah. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530; 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; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 543.]

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

George A. Connoly, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864 (see also entry for G.A. Connolly, of the CSS Arctic, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]

John Connoly (or Connolly), see John Connelly.

Charles Connor, captain forecastle, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 551.]

James T. Connor, see James Conner.

John Connor, coal heaver, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

Joseph Connor, CSS Alabama, August 24, 1862-1864; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864. [Sinclair.]

Michael Connor, fireman, CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]

Patrick O. Connor, see Patrick O'Conner.

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

Patrick Connor (surname also shown as Connors), enlisted as private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; served in the Marine Guard on the CSS Richmond, James River, 1863 - 1864, and at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 386 and 387.]

Robert Connor, see Robert Conner.

S.O. Connor, served in the Confederate States Navy; died August, 1865; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

Thomas Connor, resident of New Orleans; appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, February 18, 1862, and ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Bienville. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 306.]

Benjamin Conolly, occupation, coal trimmer; served in the Royal Naval Reserve, aboard the HMS Black Prince; resided, in 1863, at 17, Temple Building, Liverpool, England, with his father Daniel, and sister, Eliza; shipped, as fireman, aboard the CSS Georgia, March 27, 1863; left the vessel (may have deserted), on Monday, November 23, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694 and 699; Alabama Claims Correspondence 4, 552.]

Lawrence Conoly, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]
J. Conor, served in the Confederate States Navy; died November 9, 1862; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

Daniel B. Conrad, born Virginia, 1831; son of lawyer Robert G. and Elizabeth W. Conrad; shown as a student of medicine, residing with his parents, in 1850, at Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 20, 1854; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 10, 1861; original entry into the 2nd Virginia Regiment; later appointed as surgeon, Confederate States Navy, June 6, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861; then on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; returned to the Richmond station, 1862, then, later on the Jackson station, 1862; at the end of 1862, on leave of absence; served at the Naval battery, Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1863 - 1864; appointed surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; later served as fleet surgeon aboard the CSS Tennessee, Mobile squadron; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; released and continued in service until paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; resided as a physician, in 1880, with his wife, Susan and four children, at Winchester. [ORN 1, 21, 406 and 2, 1, 318, 320 & 321; Register1863; Register1864; Porter's Naval History 785; Library of Congress; JCC 4, 123; 1850 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861.]

Bernard Conroy, Private, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Daniel Conroy, born Ireland; ordinary seaman; aged 40 (also shown as aged 27); captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, see entries for Wednesday, December 3, 1862, which shows his rating as landsman, and Wednesday, December 17, 1862; ORN 1, 14, 268.]

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

George Conroy, enlisted September 25, 1863, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Alabama; 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.]

P.M. Conroy, CSS Atlanta, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Wednesday, January 7, 1863.]

Timothy Conroy, served at the New Orleans station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 111.]

Joseph B. Consel, shipped, August 16, 1864, as a recruit in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and served as private in company C, Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 443.]

Patrick Considine (surname also shown as Cassadine), native of Ireland; parents and sister lived at Limerick, Ireland; shipped, as landsman, CSS Florida, 1862, at Mobile, Alabama; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863, paid off at Liverpool, England, October 1, 1863; left on October 8, 1863, by steamer, for Limerick. [Alabama Claims 1, 356, 358 and 360 & 2, 456.]

Daniel Constantine, served as master ship carpenter in the Confederate States Navy; reported for duty at Nashville, Tennessee, in January, 1862, by order of the Confederate Navy Department, and under the direction of lieutenant I. N. Brown, to superintendent and direct in the alteration of the steamers James L. Woods and James Johnson, which were to be converted from steamers into gunboats for the defence of the Cumberland and Tennessee Rivers; based at Charleston, South Carolina, in early 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file A - Naval ships: Design, construction, etc. - AC - Construction; Atlanta - Charlotte, pages 878-879; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PL - Labor and civil personnel; Albany - Richmond, page 610.]

F. Conter, 1st class fireman, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

Francis Conway, enlisted as private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps; served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863 - 4; later served aboard the CSS Atlanta, on which he was captured at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, at an unknown date. [ORN 1, 14, 268 and 2, 1, 305, 315 & 316.]

Hugh Conway, ship's steward, side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute, Savannah river area, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; also served as ship's steward aboard the CSS Oconee, in 1863, and was reduced in rating on June 8, 1863; deserted about April, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 303; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 614; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 63.]

Hugh Conway, born Dublin, Ireland; resided in East Troy, New York, where his mother kept a grocer's store; also had a brother, still living in Ireland, during the war; shipped as fireman, CSS Florida, October, 1862; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863; paid off at Liverpool, England. [Alabama Claims 1, 356, 358, 360 and 362 & 2, 456.]

Hugh Conway, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Manassas, in 1862; captured and paroled, and subsequently sent to Mobile, in August, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1050.]

James Conway, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, 1862; discharged by medical survey, October 13, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 5.]

James Conway, shipped, at Shreveport, Louisiana, as ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, on February 24, 1864, to serve for three years, or the war, and served aboard the CSS Missouri; deserted the vessel on June 12, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 400; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 513.]

John Conway, coal heaver, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

John Conway, born England, about 1835; served as a marine aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Sunday, October 12, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

M. Conway, born England; seaman, CSS Livingstone, 1861-1862; aged 37. [St. Philips.]
Peter Conway, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

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

Benjamin T. Cook, enlisted at Hamilton County, Tennessee, January 12, 1863, as private in Winston's Light Artillery Battery of Tennessee; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March 16, 1864. [Data provided by Terry and Theresa Scriber, of Knoxville, Tennessee, in an e-mail (La27Infantry@wmconnect.com) dated December 31, 2006 (info as obtained from National Archives microfilm roll).]

Charles Cook, seaman, side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS.]

Charles Cook, seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later served on the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 304.]

Edwin Cook, seaman, North Carolina Naval Battery [?]; confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he died and is buried. [Point Lookout.]

George R. Cook, served as a pilot in the Confederate States Navy, at Mobile, Alabama; detailed on mail boat between Mobile and Fort Morgan; captured and sentenced to be hanged, but pardoned; later commanded torpedo boat in Mobile Bay. [ADAH.]

Henry E. Cook, officers' steward, screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]

Henry S. Cook (surname also shown as Cooke), born Virginia, 1845; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from November 22, 1859; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman, 2nd class, June 12, 1861; served aboard the CSS Arkansas and the CSS Capitol, 1862, and aboard the steamer, CSS Nansemond, 1862 - 1863; later as passed midshipman and master, served aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina and the CSS Raleigh, Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864; promoted passed midshipman, January 8, 1864; assisted in the capture of the Union vessels, USS Sattelite and USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863; appointed master in the line of promotion, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; also served on the Charleston station; sent from Charleston to the Richmond station, and received aboard the CSS Hampton, James River squadron, on October 24, 1863; later served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River Squadron, 1864 - 1865; also indicated to have served on the CSS Patrick Henry, at some stage; attached as 1st lieutenant to company G, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; was residing in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1907. [ORN 1, 10, 767; 1, 12, 187; 1, 19, 132; 1, 23, 698 and 2, 1, 295, 296, 301 & 323; Register 1862; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; M1091; 1860 U.S. Census; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 744.]

J.L.C. Cook, shipped, on June 6, 1863, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Oconee, off Thunderbolt, Georgia; also served aboard the CSS Resolute, and on the CSS Georgia, Savannah, Georgia, 1863; died of congestive remittent fever aboard the vessel, off Fort Jackson, Savannah River, at 3.40 p.m. on August 27, 1863; buried Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, on August 28, 1863 (also indicated to have died the day before). [Honeycutt; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated May 19, 1866; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 53; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 375 and 612.]

James Cook, ship's steward, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as quartermaster sergeant to company I, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

James Cook, served as ordinary 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.]

James B. Cook, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS St. Mary, Brashear, Louisiana, 1862; rated as quartermaster from February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 110 and 547.]

James V. Cook, born Louisiana; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant surgeon, August 30, 1863; appointed assistant surgeon, January 7, 1864; served at the Naval Station, St. Marks, Florida, 1863-1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864. [Booth 1, 425; JCC 4, 123; Register1864.]

John Cook, served as officer's cook aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1231.]

John C. Cook (middle initial also shown as H. And also as A.), pre war occupation as seaman; Ship's Cook, CSS Chattahoochee, conscripted into naval service at Tallahassee, September 2, 1862; sent from the Confederate Navy Yard, to Columbus, Georgia, in November, 1862; deserted to the enemy, at Apalachicola, Florida, on June 5, 1863, and was taken aboard the USS Port Royal, off Apalachicola, on June 8, 1863. [ORN 1, 17, 474-475; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 242.]

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

Richard Cook, African American; described as six feet, two inches tall; servant of acting master Peter W. Smith; enlisted as officers' steward, Confederate States Navy; served aboard the screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864, with his master; claimed to have been on the steamer that took Confederate vice-president Alexander H. Stephens and other government officials down Hampton Roads, to meet President Lincoln for a truce meeting, in 1865; surrendered at Appomattox; Cook registered as a Confederate veteran at Ware District, Virginia, in October, 1902. [ORN 2, 1, 307; Richmond Dispatch dated October 4, 1902, page 1.]

Samuel Cook, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, November 1, 1861, and immediately entered on his duties at City Point, James River; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862; shown as Navy agent at City Point in April, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 308; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OX - Lines of supply and supply ships; Ships - Miscellaneous, page 469.]

W.H. Cook, served in company E, Confederate States Navy (Confederate States Marine Corps?); filed for a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 238.]

W. H. Cook, served in the Confederate States Navy, at Wilmington, North Carolina, 1862; deserted about August, 1862, but was arrested and returned to Naval commander William T. Muse, on August 13, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 65.]

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

William Cook, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1862 - 1863. [ORN 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 279.]

William Cook, seaman, screw steamer CSS Fanny (which operated in North Carolina waters), 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 285; DANFS.]

William Cook, resided in, and enlisted at New Hanover County, North Carolina, May 27, 1861, aged 33, as private, company D, 3rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 16, 1862. [NCT 3, 525.]

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

William J. Cook, served as private, company A, 1st Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Charles Cooke, pilot, served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 323.]

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

Henry S. Cooke, see Henry S. Cook.

James Wallace Cooke, born North Carolina; entered the United States Navy, April 1, 1828; married Mary Watts, of Portsmouth, Virginia; resigned, as lieutenant, May 1, 1861; resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; entered Confederate States Navy, June 11, 1861, after serving a short stint in the Virginia Navy; assigned duties in the Potomac River area, and then in North Carolina waters; commanded the CSS Weldon N. Edwards, August, 1861; assumed command of the CSS Ellis, October 30, 1861, and served at the battle off Cobb's Point Battery, Roanoke Island, February, 1862, where his vessel was destroyed; wounded in the right arm and captured; paroled and returned home to Portsmouth, Virginia, February 12, 1862; went to Warrenton, North Carolina, until his exchange in September, 1862; promoted Commander, September 17, 1862, and returned to North Carolina to serve on the Wilmington station, 1862 - 1864, and to supervise the building of the ironclad, CSS Albemarle; promoted commander, Provisional Navy, to rank from May 13, 1863; promoted Captain, and placed in command of all Naval forces operating in the waters of North Carolina, until the end of the war; commanded the CSS Albemarle during the attack on Plymouth, North Carolina, April 20, 1864; paroled at Raleigh, North Carolina, May 12, 1865; returned home to Portsmouth, where he died in 1869. [ORN 1, 6, 781 & 784; 1, 9, 656 - 657 and 2, 1, 274, 276 & 323; Scharf, 391 & 409n; Register1862; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February 19, 1862; Norfolk County Record 221 - 226; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 656.]

John Cooke, recruited as ordinary seaman, at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 955.]

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

John Cookson, born England, about 1840; previous service as a private in captain Swett's Company, Mississippi Light Artillery, in the Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 9, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in July, 1864, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Macon, aboard which he served 1864 - 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls; Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 560.]

John Cooley, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

Lewis Cooley, resided in, and enlisted at Warren County, North Carolina, July 22, 1861, aged 32, as private, company E, 1st Regiment North Carolina Cavalry; absent without leave from his regiment since October 1, 1863, but returned and was placed under arrest, with charges, about November or December, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 25, 1864. [NCT 2, 46.]

Samuel Cooley, enlisted at Vidalia, Louisiana, March 25, 1862, as private, company F, 25th Louisiana Infantry; taken prisoner at an unknown date and exchanged at Cairo, Illinois, November 1, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 12, 1864; served as seaman/ordinary seaman on the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864; transferred from the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina. [Booth 1, 430; ORN 1, 17, 700 and 2, 1, 283; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]

J.C. Coonin, see James C. Cronin

James L. Cooney, 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.]

Lorenzo Davis Coonrod, born Chester, South Carolina, June 20, 1830 or 1832; resident of Florida since 1852; shown residing with his mother, Hetty Coonrod, at Jackson County, Florida, in 1850; resided as a farmer, in 1860, with his wife, Susan, and three children, at Jackson County; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy at Tallahassee, Florida, May or October, 1862; served, as landsman aboard CSS Chattahoochee, from October 28, 1862 until the boiler explosion, May 27, 1863; transferred to CSS Savannah, then to Wilmington, North Carolina; post war occupation, farmer; died Jackson, Florida, February 13, 1910. [Soldiers of Florida, 317; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A11030; ORN 2, 1, 304; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Family Data Collection - Deaths at the Ancestry.com web site.]

I.C. Coons, served as acting master, Confederate States Navy; commanded the steamer, CSS A.B. Seger, which he ran ashore and abandoned to the enemy, on the Atchafalaya River, Louisiana, in November, 1862; indicated to have "abandoned his men and proceeded as fast as possible to Saint Martinsville". [ORN 1, 19, 327 & 335.]

J.A. Coons, resident of New Orleans; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, March 24, 1862; also served on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 317.]

A. S. Cooper, 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.]

Astley A. Cooper, original service as sergeant, company K, 12th Virginia Infantry; later served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Civil War Service Records.]

Edward Whaling Cooper (cooper may actually be his rating aboard ship, and not his surname), served in the Confederate States Navy, about 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 313-314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 885.]

George Cooper, served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; deserted about May, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 67.]

J. (or A.) B. Cooper, CSS Albemarle, May, 1864; Halifax Station, 1864; highly praised by his commander, James W. Cooke, for his actions on the CSS Albemarle, May 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 9, 770 and 2, 1, 274; see also article on CSS Albemarle, page 2, Richmond, Virginia, Sentinel, Monday, May 23, 1864.]

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

J.R. Cooper (first name also shown as William), served as 2nd class fireman and coal heaver aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; killed in action on the James River, January 24, 1865, while on temporary service aboard the torpedo boat Scorpion. [ORN 1, 11, 684 & 689 and 2, 1, 311.]

John B. Cooper, yeoman, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown (operated in James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia area); served sometime between January, 1861 and June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]

John P. Cooper, appointed first assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Colonel Lovell, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 9, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

Peter S. Cooper, carpenter's mate, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown (operated in James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia area); served 1861 - 1862; ordered, as carpenter, on May 9, 1864, to be transferred from Drewry's Bluff, to the James River squadron, for service aboard the CSS Virginia II. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 315.]

William Cooper, served as landsman aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, James River squadron, 1861 - 1862; sentenced, by a summary court martial, on June 25, 1862, to three 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.]

Edward Cope (surname also shown as Coup or Coupe), born Cedar Keys, Florida, September 8, 1841; enlisted at Apalachicola, July 17, 1861, in company B (Beauregard Rifles), 4th Florida Infantry; while at Chattanooga, Tennessee, transferred to the Confederate States Navy, December 12, 1862; served as seaman, CSS Chattahoochee; later transferred to the Charleston Naval Station, South Carolina, where he remained till the end of the war; married Madeline (name also shown as Magdelina) Williams at Franklin County, Florida, April 5, 1868; resided as a laborer, in 1880, with his wife and four children at Pensacola, Escambia County, Florida; died on September 3, 1894, and is buried at St. John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida. [John E. Ellis; Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 377; Florida Confederate Pension file no. A00783; 1880 U.S. Census.]

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

Isaac Copeland, born North Carolina, 1842; son of Harden and Mary Copeland; resided in, and enlisted at Surry County, North Carolina, September 18, 1861, aged 20, as private, company B, 2nd Battalion North Carolina Infantry; captured at Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862; paroled at Elizabeth City, North Carolina, February 21, 1862; wounded in action, and captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, sometime between July 1 and 5, 1863; transferred from hospital at Gettysburg, to DeCamp General Hospital, Davids Island, New York Harbor, July 14, 1863; exchanged at City Point, Virginia, sometime between September 8 and 16, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864; served as coal heaver on the CSS Virginia II, James River squadron, 1864-1865; paroled at Richmond, Virginia, May 16, 1865; never married; continued to reside, as a farmer, in 1910, at Dobson township, Surry County, North Carolina. [NCT 3, 281; ORN 2, 1, 311; 1850 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 656.]

John Copley, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy as seaman, in 1861, and served aboard the CSS General Polk; rated as quartermaster on February 18, 1861 aboard the vessel at Columbus, Kentucky, in place of Charles Robinson who had been disrated. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 478.]

F.A. Coppedge, served in company B, Naval Battalion (?); his widow, Martha Coppedge, filed for a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 241.]

Charles H. Coppell, born England, about 1831 (1860 U.S. Census shows his place and date of birth as New York, 1836); enlisted as private, company H, 61st Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, May 9, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unknown date; served as quartermaster aboard the CSS Atlanta; accidentally wounded by a gunshot in the shoulder, Friday, February 13, 1863; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; also served aboard the CSS Sampson, 1863; also served as boatswain's mate, and indicated to be in charge of the steamer Firefly, in 1864; later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, and was rated captain of the forecastle from January 1, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry for Saturday, February 14, 1863; ORN 1, 14, 268 and 2, 1, 303; GARoster 6, 260; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (July, 1864 - Miscellaneous), page 579; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 268, 270-271 and 335.]

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

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

Nicolas Corban, served as 2nd class fireman at the New Orleans station, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 123 - 124.]

Owen Corbatt (surname also shown as Corbett), served as seaman aboard the CSS St. Nicholas, June, 1861; also served as seaman aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, Virginia. [ORN 1, 4, 555 and 2, 1, 300.]

John Corbet (surname also shown as Corbett), served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864, and later as 1st class fireman; discharged from Naval service on December 14, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 850; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 968.]

Thomas Corbett, served in the Confederate States Army, and was transferred to the Confederate States Navy, June 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and Transfers.; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 88.]

Thomas Corbett, coal heaver, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

Spotswood Wellford Corbin, born Virginia, 1835; son of James P. and Jane C. Corbin; married Diana ("Nannie") Fontaine Maury, daughter of Matthew Fontaine Maury, prior to the war; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, August 8, 1861; master's mate and acting master; also noted to be a master carpenter; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862; on recruiting duties in South Carolina, February, 1862; appointed lieutenant for the war, March 18, 1862; service at Drewry's Bluff, James River defenses, 1862 - 1863; held the position of superintendent in charge of the Confederate Naval Rope Works, at Petersburg, Virginia, 1863 - 1864; captured June 15, 1864, and sent to Fort Delaware as prisoner of war; resided as a farmer, with his wife, Nannie, and two children, in 1880, at Rappahannock, King George County, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 321; ORA 2, 7, 1113 and 4, 1, 911; Register1863; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Virginia Military Institute Archives; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, page 660; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations; PB - Administration of stations; Petersburg - Yazoo City, page 34.]

Bartley Corcoran (first name also shown as Bartlett), enlisted by captain Benthuysen, at New Orleans, in April, 1861, as a private in company B of the Confederate States Marine Corps, and served aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; served at the Mobile station in 1862; also stationed at the Richmond station, and Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 291, 314 & 320; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1048; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 466.]

Michael Cordy, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315.]

John B. Core, born North Carolina, August, about 1846; served as landsman, 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; transferred to the CSS Chicora, in 1864; second marriage in 1886; resided as a farmer, in 1900, with his wife, Sarah, and children, at White Oak township, Bladen County, North Carolina; his widow later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Bladen County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 305; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy Subject file, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 609 and 762-764.]

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

John Corley, served as 1st class fireman 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 38.]

John Cormiday, seaman, Confederate States Navy; tried before a court martial and sentenced to ten years imprisonment for drawing a cutlass on his superior officer; offence committed prior to the battle at Drewry's Bluff, James River, July, 1862. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated August 1, 1862.]

J.N. Cornelius, Coal Heaver, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

Thomas Cornforth, Quartermaster, CSS Chattahoochee, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 700.]

Henry Cornick (surname also shown as Cormick), originally served as a private in Captain Grandy's Company, Virginia Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy as acting master, April 1st, 1863; served on the New Orleans station, 1861; served, in 1863, at the Naval ordnance works at Atlanta, Georgia. [ORN 2, 1, 320; Civil War Service Records; Norfolk County Record 251; Confederate Navy subject file B - Ordnance; BG - Guns and gunnery; Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 13.]

James Cornick, born Virginia; resident of Norfolk, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 11, 1819; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as surgeon, September 13, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1864; served as president on a Board of Naval Surgeons in session at Richmond, in March, 1862, and again in 1864, to examine candidates for admission into the naval service of the Confederate States as assistant surgeons during the war. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Register1863; Register1864; Richmond Dispatch dated Thursday, March 20, 1862; Norfolk County Record 313; Daily Richmond Examiner dated April 1, 1864.]

C. Corniff, served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; deserted about April, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 69.]

Nicholas Corobati (surname also shown as Carabada), served as seaman on the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864. [CSS Florida medical journal records, in National Archives microfilm publication T716, roll 3; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 357.]

Pavolo Corpolo, born about 1842; served as seaman on the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864; deserted from the vessel in early 1864; physical description of Corpolo, at the time of his desertion, shown as 5 feet 8 inches tall, dark skin, pock-marked in face, dark hair, dark eyes, and dressed in blue sailor clothing. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 357 and 375.]

James Corr (surname also shown as Carr), born England; shipped, as coal passer, aboard the CSS Shenandoah, June 24, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 977; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

A.G. Corran, master's mate, CSS Macon, 1865; on detached duty at Shell Bluff, Georgia in March, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]
John A. Corran, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Georgia, Savannah River, 1863; deserted from the vessel on April 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 471.]

John Corrin, see John Currin.

Thomas Corrin, previously served as Private in Company E, 4th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy at Mobile, Alabama, February 15, 1864. [Information supplied by Arthur Bergeron, Louisiana.]

H. Cosgrove, enlisted August 24, 1862, as boy, CSS Alabama; deserted at Singapore, December 24, 1863. [Sinclair.]

Thomas W. Cosgrove, served as a private in company I, 4th Kentucky 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.]

Thomas Cosley, served as landsman aboard the CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, 1861; rated as ordinary seaman aboard the vessel from March 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 270.]

Peter Cosman, served as seaman at the Confederate States Navy station at Mobile, Alabama, 1862 (may have been on the receiving vessel at that station); discharged by medical survey, October 13, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MX - Medical Surveys and Examinations of Individuals; B - Miscellaneous, page 6.]

Joseph Cosman see Joseph Crossmane.

Joseph Cosmane, see Joseph Crossmane.

Joseph Cosmier, see Joseph Crossmane.

---- Cosovitz, served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864. [CSS Florida medical journal records, in National Archives microfilm publication T716, roll 3.]

E.J. Costa, see E.J. Coster.

Thomas Costa (surname also shown as Coster), born Sicily, Italy, September 19, 1838 (1900 U.S. Census shows year of birth as 1839); migrated to the United States in 1852; resided in Florida since April, 1852; enlisted, April, 1861, at Apalachicola, Florida (shown elsewhere as enlisting at Johnson's Navy Yard, Early County, Georgia), in Denham's Company of the Milton Artillery; enlisted on January 1, 1864, in the Confederate States Navy, and served as seaman on the CSS Chattahoochee; transferred from the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina; discharged at Havana, Cuba, 1865; married about 1870; shown to be keeping a restaurant at Tallahassee, in 1880; resided as the custodian of a post office, in 1910, with his wife, Elizabeth, and two children, at Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida; died Leon County, Florida, 1916. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A07643; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 317; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Florida Death Index, 1877 - 1998 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]

A. Coste, pilot, served aboard CSS David, 1864; assisted in the unsuccessful attempt to destroy the USS Memphis, off Charleston, South Carolina, March 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 15, 359.]

Charles A. Coste, born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1845; served as acting master's mate on the Charleston station, 1862-1864; served aboard the CSS Indian Chief in early 1864; also served as special messenger at the Naval station at Charleston, and was ordered, on October 15, 1864, to proceed to Charlotte, North Carolina, to deliver certain stores, and then to proceed on to Richmond to deliver certain other stores, and then to return to Charleston, after completion of these tasks; post war occupation as a mariner; died at Charleston on July 7, 1866; buried at the Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. [ORN 2, 1, 317; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 264; South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 at Ancestry.com; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PI - Industrial activity; Atlanta - Charleston, page 1317.]

Napoleon E. Coste, born South Carolina, 1844; pre-war service in the United States Revenue Service; commanded the revenue cutter, William Aiken, at Charleston, South Carolina, 1860, which he surrendered to Charleston authorities in December, 1860, after the secession of his home state (Coste had hauled down the Revenue ensign on the Aiken, on December 26, 1860, and stowed it away, then hoisted the Palmetto flag); served as acting master's mate on the Charleston station, 1862; may have previously served as private, company A, 25th South Carolina Infantry; also 3rd (Palmettos) Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery; served on the steamer Juno, in 1863, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, on the night of August 6, 1863; resided, in 1870, as a seaman, with his wife, Rose, and two children, at Charleston, South Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 317; 1870 U.S. Census; Sierra; New York Times dated Wednesday, January 9, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 158; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]

John Costello, enlisted as seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 11, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108.]

John Costello, enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, for the war, as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, on April 22, 1864; sent aboard the receiving vessel CSS Danube; transferred to the CSS Morgan, at Mobile, on May 13, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1196 - 1199.]

E.J. Coster (surname also shown as Costa), paymaster's clerk, served on the Charleston station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]

Thomas Coster, see Thomas Costa.

W. H. Costir, shipped as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval Rendezvous at Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 21, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 407.]

M.H. Costner, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

L.M. Cothern, enlisted as private, company E, 10th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

John W. Cottell, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

John Cotten (see the entry, shown below, for James Cotter, cabin boy on the cruiser CSS Florida, which is probably the same person; name also shown as John A. Cotter), served as 1st class boy on the cruiser CSS Florida; captured aboard the cruiser at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; shown as a resident, in 1895, of Houston, Texas; shown as a member , in 1915, of United Confederate Veteran Magruder Camp, No. 105, of Galveston, Texas. [ORN 1, 3, 256; Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas) dated May 25, 1895, page 5; Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 23 (1915), page 256.]

James Cotter, Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

James Cotter (see the entry, shown above, for John Cotten, surname also shown as Cotton, which is probably the same person), served as 1st class boy aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864 confined at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor; released, January 30, 1865, upon the express condition that he was to leave the United States within ten days of his release. [Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 359-360.]

Richard Cotter, previously a Private in Company A, 47th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry; roll for December, 1862 shows he was detailed on Gunboat; served as seaman, in 1863, aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863. [Georgia Rosters, 5, 12; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 773 and 779.]

James Cotton, see James Cotter.

Michael Cotton, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

M. Coughlin, citizen who was indicated to have served as engineer aboard the Confederate States steamer Paul Jones; paroled at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 6, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 656.]

George W. Council, captain of after guard, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]
W. Council, sailor aboard the CSS Drewry; slightly wounded when the Drewry exploded during the action of January 24, 1865, on the James River. [ORN 1, 11, 684.]

Edward Coupe (or Coup), see Edward Cope.

Robert D. Court, appointed first officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Beauregard, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on January 30, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

Daniel Courteney (surname also shown as Courtney), served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Oconee, 1863; transferred, on May 18, 1863, to the CSS Atlanta; also served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863 and also as coal heaver aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862-1863; later served as coal heaver aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; also served aboard the CSS Savannah; resided, in 1892, at 249 Patterson Street, Algiers, Louisiana; applied for membership of the Army of Tennessee Association of Confederate Veterans, at New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1892. [ORN 2, 1, 297, 298 & 304; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated Wednesday, January 13, 1892, page 3; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 605.]

George Etienne Courtin, born New Orleans, Louisiana, January 23, 1839; son of Louis Romuald and Therese Teinturier Courtin; served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863, and also as assistant paymaster's clerk, having been appointed to this position on June 13, 1863, in place of paymaster's clerk H. H. Lowray, who was discharged prior to this date; married Louise Quere in 1863 or 1864; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; responsible for transcribing the memorandum of the conditions of the surrender of the Confederate Naval forces serving under the command of commodore Ebenezer Farrand in the waters of the sate of Alabama, made at Sidney, Alabama, May 4, 1865; resided as a commercial merchant, in 1880, with his wife and five children at New Orleans; died New Orleans, August 4, 1914. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Porter's Naval History, 785; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804 - 1949 and New Orleans, Louisiana Birth Records Index, 1790 - 1899 at the Ancestry.com web site; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated May 27, 1893, page 6; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 712.]

William Courtney, enlisted July 6, 1864, at Mobile Bay, Alabama, aboard the CSS Tennessee; received powder burns to his face and eyes and taken prisoner, [August 5, 1864?]; taken prisoner and sent to Ship Island; married Rachel (last name not shown), at Holmes County, Florida, December 25, 1866; died at Ebro, Washington County, Florida, October 16, 1899. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A11677.]

William Courtney, 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.]

Joseph Courts, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

James Cousin, recruited as a landsman 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.]

Louis J. Couvillon, served as landsman aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1864; deserted at Shreveport on April 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1017.]

William Covel (surname also shown as Covell), served as quartermaster aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863-1864. [ORN 1, 2, 661; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 359-360.]

Ellison Covert, born Ohio, 1830; appointed 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, September 26, 1861, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Mobile, at Berwicks Bay; also served at the Jackson station, and aboard the CSS Arkansas, 1862; involved in the action of July 15, 1862, when the Arkansas took passage from the Yazoo River, through the combined Union fleet above Vicksburg; wounded in action during that engagement; also served aboard the CSS Missouri, 1863-1864; paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865; resided as an engineer, in 1880, with his wife Mary, and three children (eldest child born in Texas, in 1868), at New Orleans, Louisiana; died New Orleans, September 25, 1909. [ORN 1, 19, 69; 1, 27, 231 and 2, 1, 291 & 318; 1880 U.S. Census; New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804 - 1949 at the Ancestry.com web site; Charleston Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (1864), page 8; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1031; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 323.]

B.T. Cowart, ordinary seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia); later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 283; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 270.]

Henry Cowart, ordinary seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, April - June, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia); later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, and was transferred, from that vessel, to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865; attached as private to company I, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 283; M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 270.]

Benjamin B. Cowell, born Currituck County, North Carolina, about 1843; pre war occupation as farmer; enlisted at Currituck County at private, company E, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st organization), May 13, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy prior to July 28, 1861; served as ordinary seaman on the CSS Curlew, 1861, and also aboard the CSS Fanny, 1861. [NCT 6, 150; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 278 and 330.]

William Cowhig (surname also shown as Couhig), enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and later served as ordinary seaman aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862 - 1864; arrested as a deserter by police at Mobile, and returned to Naval authorities on February 12, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422 and 1200; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]

W.C. Cowles, resident of Mobile County, Alabama; personal description shown as brown eyes, grey hair, dark complexion and 5 feet, 8 ½ inches in height; served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the ram CSS Nashville; captured by Union forces at an unknown place and date, and sent to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was released April 17, 1865, by order of Union General Canby. [Scriber.]

B.J. Cox, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
Harrison Cox, served as private, company E, 10th Virginia Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

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

James Cox, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 10, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

John Cox, Ship's Steward, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

John Cox, served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1863 - 1864; rated as ward room cook from January 15, 1864; disrated to ordinary seaman on May 1, 1864, and rated as quartermaster on the same day. [ORN 2, 1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1011, 1019 and 1021.]

John H. Cox, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

John H. Cox, served as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, and transferred to the Mobile station about January 22, 1864; later served in the position of steerage cook; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 551; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 100.]

John J. Cox, born in Washington County, Mississippi, March 1, 1848; enlisted June 22, 1862, in company D, 28th Mississippi Cavalry, and served until his discharge in November, 1863; re-entered the army and was assigned to the secret service; entered Vicksburg secretly, later went into Memphis where he was arrested and sent to prison on the old Irving Block, near Court Square, but escaped; later served on the staff of general O.P. Lyle, and was promoted 1st lieutenant; assigned to duty as acting adjutant of the 23rd Arkansas Infantry; stated to have been appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy in January, 1865, but rejoined his old company in the 28th Mississippi Cavalry (however, there is no official confirmation of such an appointment in the Navy; after the war he finished his education at Frankfort, Kentucky Military Institute, and then engaged in cotton planting on his father's plantation in Mississippi; went to Dallas, Texas, where he joined the Texas State Guard in 1874; later became editor of the Marion Reform in Marion, Arkansas; second marriage was to Mrs. Effie M. Williams; died after an automobile accident at Memphis, on December 24, 1914. [Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 23 (1915), page 132.]

Michael Cox, served as a private in company D of the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Tennessee, at Mobile, Alabama, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1072; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 675.]

Pliny Cox (first name also shown as Plinny and Phinney), originally enlisted in the 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy and served as landsman aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, 1862 - 1863; rated as ordinary seaman from June 1, 1862; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 117 and 2, 1, 299; Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 334 and 341.]

R.T. Cox, served as a private, company K, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; place and date of enlistment not reported; discharged April 22, 1863, on being transferred to the Confederate States Navy. [NCT 4, 617.]

Robert M. Cox, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 279 & 313.]

Robert S. Cox (first name actually shown as Robret, almost definitely a misprint), ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

Thomas Cox, served on the James River squadron, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 296.]

W. R. Cox, served as seaman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as carpenter's mate from September 14, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 840.]

William Cox, Boy, CSS Georgia; shipped from the prize vessel, Dictator, in April, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 812; Alabama Claims 1, 694.]

William B. Cox, served as acting master aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864; later promoted 1st lieutenant; paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 13, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 656.]

Matthew Coxford, ordinary seaman, 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, 279 & 296.]

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

Robert Coyle, 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.]

William Coyne, served as private, company A, 30th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]