NC Civil War Sailors Project

James L. Fabian, born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1823 (one ORN source states his age to be 47 in 1864); citizen of Screven County, Georgia; resided as an engineer, in 1860, with his wife, Elizabeth, at Savannah, Georgia; shown as being "in charge" of the CSS Talomico, at Savannah, in 1861 - 1862; in a dispatch dated at Savannah, Georgia, April 14, 1864, sent by acting assistant engineer, J.W. Tynan, to flag officer W.W. Hunter, it was indicated that Fabian had been examined and was found to be qualified for the appointment as 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy; appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer April 20, 1864; attached, at that rank, to the Savannah station, Georgia, 1864; served aboard the CSS Firefly; involved in the taking out of the USS Water Witch, June 3, 1864; on the fall of Savannah, given a week's leave, then ordered to report for duty at Augusta, Georgia, December, 1864; reported for duty on the CSS Macon, at Augusta, Georgia, January 5, 1865. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 15, 491 & 499; 1, 16, 493 and 2, 1, 307; CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NK- Technical and Professional examinations of individuals; Miscellaneous, page 33; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 395.]

William H. Face (Register1862 shows name as W.W. Face), born Virginia, 1827; resided as a pilot, in 1850, with his wife, Sarah (maiden name Dunbar), at the home of his mother in law, in Norfolk, Virginia; appointed master not in line of promotion, Confederate States Navy; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862, and aboard the CSS Teaser; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; resigned from the service August 22, 1862; continued residing at Norfolk, with his family, after the war, where he is shown as a pilot, in 1890. [ORN 1, 7, 48 and 2, 1, 321; Register1862; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; Norfolk, Virginia Directories, 1888 - 1891 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Joseph Fackerell, seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Henry Fagan, born Florida, about 1839; resident of Key West; appointed from the District of Columbia; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 5, 1860; shown as an engineer, residing at a boarding house in Washington, D.C., in 1860; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, July 23, 1861; appointed 2nd assistant Engineer, November 29, 1861 (one source shows appointment date as December 25, 1861); served aboard the CSS McRae, Mississippi River, 1861 - 1862, and captured aboard that vessel, April, 1862; confined Fort Warren, Boston Harbor and later released; served on the Jackson station, 1862, and then aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1862 - 1863, aboard which he was fatally wounded in the boiler explosion, May 27, 1863; died three days later; buried at the First United Methodist Church cemetery, Chattahoochee, Florida. [Florida Confederate Card File; ORN 1, 17, 869; 1, 18, 318 and 2, 1, 290 & 318; ORA 2, 3; Register1862; Register1863; John E. Ellis; 1860 U.S. Census.]

James Fagan (surname also shown as Feegan), native of either Ireland or Liverpool, England (resided in Liverpool after his discharge); shipped as ordinary seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1862, at Mobile, Alabama; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863; paid off at Liverpool, England. [Alabama Claims 1, 356, 358, 360 and 363 & 2, 457.]

Charles Frederick Fahs, born Pennsylvania, about 1828; citizen of, and appointed from, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from April 19, 1851; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as surgeon, January 1, 1862; served on the Richmond station, 1862; later served at the Naval Ordnance works, Selma, Alabama, 1862 - 1865; resided as a physician, with his wife, Elizabeth and two sons, in Selma, Alabama, after the war; died 1873, in Macon, Georgia, at the home of John McIntosh Kell. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Register1863; Register1864; Kell 289; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Michael Fahy (surname also shown as Fahey), served as 1st class fireman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and later aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 58.]

Needham Fail, born North Carolina, 1832; landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Pharibee, and seven children (eldest child born 1861), at Saulston, Wayne County, North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Charles Bowes Fairbanks, born Louisiana (1860 U.S. Census shows his place of birth as Maine), 1830; son of Benjamin and Abigail Sturgis Fairbanks; married Marian K. Palmer before the war; served as master on the Jackson station, 1862; commanded the steam Launch No. 6, 1862, New Orleans station; described by his immediate commander, John K. Mitchell, in a dispatch dated August 19, 1862, as being "cowardly, if not treacherous", because of his actions at New Orleans, in April, 1862, after Fairbanks had abandoned his vessel, on the attack of the Union vessels, and escaped with his crew into the swamp; another report indicates that Fairbanks, in Launch No. 6, was serving as picket on the night of the attack on New Orleans, and had proven to be a traitor, drowned his rockets, and made no signals of warning; also stated to have "met his deserts subsequently at the hands of some of the men he had betrayed". [ORN 1, 18, 249, 294 & 343 and 2, 1, 318; 1860 U.S. Census; some additional data provided by his descendant, Joseph Fairbanks, in e-mails (fiachadhr@pullman.com) dated Monday, June 11, 2007 and Tuesday, June 12, 2007.]

Allen D. Faircloth, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 9, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

B. Faircloth, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277 & 302.]

James Faircloth, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277 & 302.]

John Faircloth, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 9, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

Manassa Faircloth, resident of Florida; served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, 1863; killed in boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; buried at the First United Methodist Church cemetery, Chattahoochee, Florida; after his death, his widow, Rutha Faircloth, of Quincy, Florida, received all outstanding balances and pay due her. [ORN 1, 17, 869; John E. Ellis; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 91-93.]

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

Samuel F. Faircloth, born North Carolina, 1823; served in the Confederate States Navy; pension filed from Cumberland County, North Carolina, at NC State Archives; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Eliza, and other relatives (eldest son born 1850), at Flea Hill, Cumberland County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

John Fairclouth, ordinary seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

William James Faires, born Mobile, Alabama, January 25, 1844; enlisted at Mobile, May 10, 1861, as a private in company A, 12th Alabama Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, in February, 1862; attached as private to company B, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865 (or May 15, 1865); resident of Mobile, in 1907. [M1091; Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, in 1907 at Ancestry.com.]

Archibald B. Fairfax, born and appointed from Virginia, 1809; married first wife, Sarah C. Herbert, at Prince George's County, Maryland, November 10, 1832; father of Julian Fairfax, listed below; original service in the United States Navy, from August 4, 1823; resided as a Naval officer, in 1860, with his second wife, Eliza, at Washington, D.C.; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 18, 1861; appointed as inspector general of Naval ordnance, April 22, 1861, with permission to cooperate, if required, with the army; appointed commander, Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861; served as ordnance officer at the Norfolk (Gosport) Navy Yard, 1861; served on the Richmond Station, 1861 - 1864; inspector of Ordnance, Navy Department, 1863. [Register1863; ORN 1, 7, 790 and 2, 1, 322; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Maryland Marriages, 1655 - 1850 at the Ancestry.com web site; Norfolk County Record 22; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 398.]

Julian Fairfax, born Virginia, 1841; son of Archibald B., and Sarah C. Fairfax; resided with his parents, in 1860, at Washington, D.C.; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as master not in line of promotion, July 1, 1863; however, he is shown as acting master at Warrenton, North Carolina, in 1862, when he was ordered, on March 29, 1862, to proceed to Columbus, Georgia, on certain duties, and then to proceed to Selma, Alabama, and New Orleans; served on the Richmond station, 1862 - 1863; later aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 304 & 321; Register1862; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PI - Industrial activity; Charlotte - Mobile, page 3.]

Reginald Fairfax, born about 1822; resident of Fairfax County, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy; uncle of Confederate Navy midshipman, Clarence Cary; appointed lieutenant, Confederate States Navy, 1861; commanded a battery on the James River; prostrated by malarial fever and sent on leave, July 1, 1862; died at the Clifton House, Richmond, Virginia, July 8, 1862 (one official document indicates that his death actually occurred on July 9, 1862); buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks; Harrison 46 & 84; Register1862; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated July 12, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 95.]

Peter Faithfull (surname also shown as Faithful), born England (Register1864 shows birthplace as Virginia), 1838; son of Peter and Harriet Faithfull; migrated to the United States, with his parents, in April, 1840, arriving at the port of New York, aboard the ship Montreal, from London; resided as an iron finisher, in 1860, at Richmond, Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, July 8, 1863; captured on board a boat of the CSS Oconee near Savannah (at Ossabaw Sound), Georgia, August 20, 1863, by the USS Madgie; transferred to the USS Wamsutta on August 21, 1863, and sent to Fort Delaware, as a prisoner of war; later released and attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, for special service, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; married about 1876; resided as a machinist, in 1880, with his wife Laura (maiden name Hatton), and son Clarence, at Staunton, Augusta County, Virginia; employed as a machinist, and shown residing in Richmond, Virginia, in 1900. [ORA 2, 7, 1113; Register1864; M1091; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; New York Passenger Lists, 1820 - 1957 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 488.] .]

Lewisle Faiver, see Lewis Le Faivre.

John Falby, served as a private in Captain Johns' Company, Texas Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Francis Falcon, landsman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

George A. Falconi, born Brooklyn, New York, about 1826; resident of Louisiana since 1846; appointed acting master's mate, Confederate States Navy, October 15, 1861, and ordered to report to acting master Robert Tilford, at New Orleans, for duty; served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; resided as a bar pilot, in 1880, with his wife, Maryann and four children, at Southwest Pass, Plaquemines Parish, Louisiana; died Tuesday, April 29, 1890. [CSN Register; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated May 4, 1890, page 4; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 400.]

John Falkner, first class fireman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268.]

S. Fallas, ordinary seaman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

George Fallon, served as landsman aboard the receiving vessel, CSS St. Philip, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 563.]

Rofeno Fallos (variations of the name also include R. Falley, R. Fallas, Rofina Fallis, Rogino Phalez, Rouplina Feliz and Rofino Fales), mustered in December 1, 1861 as seaman in Captain Henry Mulrenan's Florida Coast Guards; later served in company K, 7th Florida Infantry; transferred, March 3, 1864, to the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Savannah; later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Soldiers of Florida, 49; Robert Watson Diary March 3, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 270.]

William A. Fallow, originally served in the Confederate States Navy, from which he was transferred, August 10, 1863, as private, to 2nd company H, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Artillery. [NCT 1, 483.]

Leander M. Falls, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Lewis Falman, (surname also shown as Fullman) born Germany; ship's cook, aged 21; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry dated Sunday, December 14, 1862; ORN 1, 14, 268.]

Luke A. Falvell (surname also shown as Falvel), born Ireland, about 1810; shown in 1850, as a light ship keeper, living with his wife, Mary, and four children, at Galveston; resided as a pilot, in 1860, with his family, at Galveston, Texas; indicated to have been a Confederate marine captain; buried at the Catholic Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Wednesday, June 1, 1887; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census.]

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

Peter Fanley, see Peter Farley.

T. Fannin, landsman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

Martin Fanning, landsman and captain of after guard, CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863; 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 & 282.]

Francis Farley, served as musician and sergeant in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and was stationed at the Mobile station in 1863, aboard the CSS Tennessee; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and taken aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 841 - 842; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 676.]

John Farley, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about November, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 102.]

Patrick Farley, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, April 17, 1861, as private, serving in companies E and G, 1st (Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 15, 1864. [Booth 1, 810.]

Patrick Farley, born Ireland, about 1830; 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 to the CSS Isondiga, at Savannah, on April 21, 1864; transferred, at an unspecified date to the CSS Chicora, Charleston squadron. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 542; ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (January - June, 1864), page 720; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 716.]

Peter Farley (surname also shown as Fanley), served in the Confederate States Navy, no other particulars shown. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 100.]

Thomas Farley, served at the Mobile station, in 1863, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061.]

William Farley, landsman, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]

Henry Farlow, served as seaman aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief, about 1864 [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 765-766.]

Lewis Farman, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Atlanta, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]

Valentine Farmer, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Andrew Farraday (surname also shown as Farrady), born Ireland; served as seaman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station in 1861; later served as seaman and quartermaster aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, and as a crew member of the CSS Bombshell, North Carolina, 1864; captured aboard the vessel during the engagement at 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. [ORN 1, 9, 746 and 2, 1, 291, 294-296; 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; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 87.]

P. B. Farrall, 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 676.]

Ebenezer Farrand, born in New York, about 1807 (one source shows place of birth as New Jersey); appointed from Florida (one source shows him as a citizen of Alabama); previous service in the United States Navy, from March 4, 1823; resided, as a Naval lieutenant, in 1850, with his wife, Elizabeth, and four children, at the Navy Yard, Escambia County, Florida; resigned from the United States Navy, January, 1861; appointed into the Confederate States Navy, as commander in charge of the Light House Bureau, Louisiana, March 26, 1861; commanded the Navy Yard at Pensacola, Florida, 1861; later served at the Richmond station, and commanded the facilities at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1861 - 1863; ordered by Secretary Mallory, on September 2, 1862, to proceed to the Alabama River, and enter upon the construction of ironclad vessels, at a suitable site on the river; appointed captain in the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States, May 13, 1863; as captain and flag officer, commanded the Naval Station at Mobile, Alabama, August 7, 1864 - 1865, after the capture of its previous commander, Franklin Buchanan, at the action at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; died at Attalla, Alabama, on March 20, 1873. [Porter's Naval History, 785; Florida Confederate Card File; Register1863; ORN 1, 7, 790 and 2, 1, 319 & 321; ORA 1, 51/2; 36th Congress Report 8; 1850 U.S. Census; Mobile Daily Tribune (Mobile, Alabama) dated Wednesday, August 17, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 402; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OL - Mobilization and demobilization; Norfolk - Miscellaneous, page 375.]

B. K. Farrar, served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 641.]

M. Farrel, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 295; DANFS.]

William H. Farrel, born, resided in as a farmer, and enlisted at Pasquotank County, North Carolina, August 19, 1861, aged 22, as private, company A, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; captured at Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862; exchanged August, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 18, 1863; shown as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Chicora, 1863-1864 (see also, W.H. Farrell, who may be the same person). [NCT 4, 527; ORN 2, 1, 284.]

James A. Farrell (surname also shown as Farrel), enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on August 1, 1861; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations in 1861, and later in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, in 1862; died on board the CSS Patrick Henry, off Mulberry Island, James River, on February 6, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 316; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 16; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 285.]

James E. Farrell, served as master's mate aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1233.]

John Farrell, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

M. Farrell, shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 1, 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.]

Michael Farrell (surname also shown as Farrel), served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS North Carolina and CSS Tallahassee, Wilmington station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 295, 296 and 307; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 850.]

Patrick Farrell, coal heaver, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

Patrick Farrell, born Ireland, about 1837; served as seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; reported with fever and treated, on Wednesday, August 13, 1862; treated for synovitis of the wrist joint on Thursday, September 11, 1862; again treated for a fever on Thursday, September 25, 1862, and Monday, October 27, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

Robert Patrick Farrell, born 1832; enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, as seaman, Confederate States Navy; served on the CSS Gaines, and was at the battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, where he lost three fingers on his right hand. [ADAH.]

W.H. Farrell, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864 (see also, William H. Farrel, who may be the same person. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

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

William G. Farrer, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 301.]

Michael Farrigan, born Ireland, about 1828; served as ordinary seaman, and later as fireman, aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Tuesday, August 19, 1862, and again, about a year later, on Monday, August 10, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

Patrick Farrington, served as landsman aboard the CSS New Orleans, 1861; rated as 1st class fireman from November 12, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 369.]
James Farry, described as being about 23 years old (in September, 1862), 5 feet 6 inches tall, light hair, with blue eyes; served as landsman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah station, Georgia, 1862; deserted August 28, 1862; a reward of $30 was offered for his apprehension and delivery aboard the CSS Savannah, by his immediate commander, lieutenant Thomas P. Pelot. [Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated Saturday, September 6, 1862.]

Henry A.M. Farwell, appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, December 16, 1861, and ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Livingston, New Orleans; appointed as acting master, February 1, 1862; later served at the Jackson station, 1862; his services being no longer required, Farwell was discharged from the Naval service on June 19, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), pages 405 and 407; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 903.]

John Faucet, 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.]

Richard F. Faucett, served as sergeant, company F, 14th Mississippi Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

L.W. Faulk, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

John Faulkner, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; transferred to the CSS Atlanta, on December 8, 1862; later served aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief, Charleston, about 1864 [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 765-766; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 592.]

William J. Faulkner (surname also shown as Falkner), private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard the receiving ship CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, April-June, 1864, and the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864; also stationed at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 280, 302, 314 & 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 348.]

Thomas Faun, served aboard the CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 783.]

Charles M. Fauntleroy, born Virginia; citizen of, and appointed from, Missouri; original service in the United States Navy, from March 2, 1838; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 7, 1861; entered the Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; participated in the Bull Run campaign, Virginia, in July, 1861, serving with the Army of general Joseph E. Johnston; served as executive officer of the CSS Nashville, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1862; later on Army duty, 1862 - 1863; ordered, in September, 1863, to proceed to Paris, France, to deliver dispatches, and to report to the senior Confederate Naval officer in Europe, for duty; served aboard the cruiser 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; married a daughter of James Taylor and Agnes Gordon Soutter; post war service as secretary to a commission of engineers appointed to study the alluvial basin of the Mississippi River, 1874 - 1875. [ORN 1, 1, 752; 1, 3, 701 and 2, 1, 322; ORA 1, 2 and 1, 22; Register1863; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; some additional data from pages 3, 93, 151 and 160 of the publication, Report of the Commission of Engineers appointed to Investigate and report a permanent plan for the Reclamation of the Alluvial Basin of the Mississippi River, Subject to Inundation, published 1875, by the Government Printing Office, Washington; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; New York Times dated Wednesday, February 23, 1899.]

Robert B. Fauntleroy, 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.]

William M. Fauntleroy, born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, September 12 (or 19?), 1861; served on the Jackson station, 1862; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, May 21, 1863; later aboard the steamer CSS Baltic, 1862 - 1864; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 318; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; Porter's Naval History, 785.]

Luke Fawel, served as seaman aboard the Confederate States schooner, Dodge, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 289.]

John Fay, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861, and was sent 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 268.]

Z. Fearing, signal operator, CSS Richmond, James River squadron, Virginia, 1865; attached, as private, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 691; M1091.]

James Feegan, see James Fagan.

John Feely, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at the New Orleans station, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 130.]

William Feely (or McFeely?), served as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at Mobile, 1862; died at Mobile prior to January 21, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 96 and 98.]

James Fegan, born Ireland; ordinary seaman; CSS Shenandoah, 1865; triced up, March 19, 1865, for disobeying the master at arms. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; Whittle 126.]

Rouplina Feliz, see Rofeno Fallos.

Ordrof Felkrob, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in January 25, 1862. [Soldiers of Florida, 49.]

William J. Fell, born Louisiana, 1820; resided as a carpenter, prior to the war, with his wife Lydia, and children, at the Navy Yard, Warrington, Escambia county, Florida; shown on a pay roll of officers, as a carpenter stationed at Pensacola, Florida, and on the gunboat, CSS Bradford (used as a storeship at Pensacola), in April, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 282; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census.]

Henry Fellenbran, coal heaver, ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

William Fellows, jr., born Kentucky, resided at New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war status, student; marital status, single; enlisted at New Orleans, May 26, 1861, aged 26, as private, 1st Company Battalion Washington Artillery; captured at Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 3, 1863, and sent to the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C.; paroled at an unknown date; went to England to join the Confederate States Navy at an unknown date. [Booth 1, 828.]

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

Charles E. Feltheim, see Charles E. Fetchann.

James R.Y. Fendall, born District of Columbia, 1838; son of attorney Philip R. Fendall and his wife, Elizabeth M.; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Washington, D.C.; appointed from Mississippi; previous service in the 18th Mississippi Volunteers, from which he was discharged on October 2, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Marine Corps, June 15, 1861, as 2nd lieutenant; appointed 1st lieutenant, December 5, 1861 (one source shows date of promotion as December 10, 1861); appointed, at Mobile, on December 22, 1863, as acting assistant quartermaster and commissary, but to remain on company duty; served on the Mobile squadron and aboard the CSS Gaines; captured at Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent, as a prisoner of war, to New Orleans; later commanded the Marine guard aboard the steamer, CSS Nashville, Spanish River, Alabama, 1864 - 1865; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [ORA 1, 49/1; Register1864; ORN 1, 21, 610; JCC 1, 818; Porter's Naval History, 785; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Charleston - Richmond (accounts), page 119.]

J. N. Fenet, served as s.s. (ship's steward?) in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at St. Marks, Florida, May 12, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 657.]

C.N. Fennell, born North Carolina (Register1862 shows birthplace as Maryland), appointed from Florida; served as clerk in 1862, on the staff of Secretary Mallory, and later as chief clerk, Office of Medicine and Surgery, Confederate States Navy Department, Richmond, Virginia, 1863 - 1864. [Register1862; Register1863; Register1864.]

William Fenner, Captain's Steward; born England; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

George D. Fentress, resident of Halifax, North Carolina; appointed acting carpenter in the Confederate States Navy, March 1, 1864; served aboard the CSS Albemarle, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 718 and 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 411.]

George W. Ferguson, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 9, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

Henry Ferguson, served as seaman 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 117.]

James Ferguson, born Scotland; aged 32 (in 1861); original service as seaman, Launch No. 1, 1861; admitted November 21, 1861, with asthma, to the Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana; later served at the Jackson station, in 1862, and as pilot, Savannah squadron, June 28, 1864; served on the CSS Savannah; on the fall of Savannah, reported for duty at Augusta, Georgia, December, 1864; stated, in an 1865 dispatch sent by his commanding officer, to be unfit to hold his acting appointment in the Confederate States Navy; named his next of kin as Mary Ferguson. [From the "Register of Naval Patients in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, La., 1861", original copy at the University of Virginia Library, and used with their kind permission; CSN Register; ORN 1, 16, 496; Confederate States Navy subject files - NP; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 894.]

Philip Feringer (surname also shown as Ferringer), served as 2nd class boy aboard the CSS Mobile, New Orleans, in 1861; later, while the vessel was stationed off Yazoo City, in 1862, he was rated as landsman from June 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1033 and 1041.]

George W. Ferment, see George W. Tennent.

D. D. Fernald, served as boatswain's mate aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1223.]

Francisco Fernandez, employed as pilot of Launch No. 2, New Orleans station, in February and March, 1862, and also as pilot of Launch No. 1 in March of 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 673 - 675.]
Joseph Fernandez, served as seaman aboard the Confederate States schooner, Dodge, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 289.]

John Feron, served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; deserted about April, 1862, but was apprehended by officer David Kinney, of the New Orleans police department, and Feron was delivered to acting midshipman William R. Dalton, aboard the receiving ship St. Phillip, on April 22, 1862; officer Kinney was paid the reward of $10. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 104.]

Thomas B. Ferrill (or Ferrell), born in Hancock County, Georgia, 1832 (1850 U.S. Census shows year of birth as 1838); son of James H. and Rebecca Ferrill; previously a Private in Company A, 48th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, May, 1862; wounded and captured at 2nd Manassas, Virginia, August 30, 1862; exchanged, and transferred to Company B in 1864; then transferred to Confederate States Navy in 1864; served as Landsman aboard CSS Virginia II, wounded in action, James River, January 24, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 689; Georgia Rosters, 5, 104; 1850 U.S. Census.]

Patrick Ferrington, 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.]

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

James J. Ferris, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

Lewis Ferris, shipped for the war, at New Orleans, as landsman aboard the Confederate States floating battery New Orleans, on November 12, 1861; later served as 2nd class fireman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 13.]

Oscar Ferris, 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.]

William Ferris, served as seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as quartermaster from January 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]

M. Ferriss, landsman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private to company I, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]


August Ferry, appointed second assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Defiance, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

B.W. Fesmere, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Charles E. Fetchann (surname also shown as Fettheim and Feltheim), served at the Mobile station, 1863-1864, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; ordered, on May 19, 1864, to report for temporary duty aboard the CSS Morgan, at Mobile; captured at Fort Gaines, Alabama on August 8, 1864. [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 1061, 1063 and 1074.]

Peter Fickle, served as carpenter's mate aboard the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, 1863; declared to be a deserter, at Shreveport, Louisiana, on November 19, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 292; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 476.]

Frank Field, born England, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; came to New Orleans as a sailor in 1860, and was sailing on Lake Pontchartrain at the outbreak of the war; claims to have enlisted while under the influence of liquor, at New Orleans, May 10, 1861, aged 31, as private, company B, 5th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, December, 1862, but subsequently returned to his company for disability; captured at the Wilderness, Virginia, May 5, 1864, and sent to Belle Plains, Virginia, May 18, 1864; forwarded to Elmira prison, New York, August 17, 1864; released on taking the Oath of Allegiance, May 29, 1865. [Booth 1, 839.]

Josiah M. Field, served as a private in G, 30th 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. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]

Thomas Field, served as ordinary seaman aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, 1861-1862; rated as coal heaver from January 1, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 947.]

Charles M. Fields, resided in, and enlisted at Craven County, North Carolina, June 4, 1861, aged 18, as private, company K, 2nd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; captured at South Mountain, Maryland, September 14, 1862; exchanged at Aiken's Landing, Virginia, October 6, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 29, 1863. [NCT 3, 473.]

Thomas Field, served as gunner 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.]

D. D. Fields, 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.]

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

Solomon Fields, born South Carolina, about 1840; served as landsman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; transferred on December 8, 1862, to the CSS Atlanta; captured aboard the vessel at Wassaw Sound, Georgia, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entries dated Sunday, December 14, 1862 and Wednesday, January 28, 1863; details of his capture included in the deck log of the USS Vermont, dated June 24, 1863.]

Marian C. Filbertt, served as an enlisted man in the Confederate States Navy; served on the Charleston station; shown as a resident of Charleston, South Carolina, in 1907. [Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2.]

William Files, 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.]

H. Fillebrand, First Class Fireman, paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231.]

H.C. Finch, landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

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

Benjamin F. Fincher, born North Carolina, about 1829; resided in, and enlisted at Union County, North Carolina, March 19, 1862, as corporal, company A, 48th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 15, 1864; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Matilda, at Monroe, Union County, North Carolina. [NCT 11, 374; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Thomas Findlay, served as seaman aboard the Confederate States schooner, Dodge, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 289.]

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

John Finger, 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 76.]

William Fink, ship's steward and paymaster's clerk aboard the CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, 1863; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 287; Porter's Naval History, 785.]

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

James Finn, previously served as Private, Company M, 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars, February 22, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, May 2, 1864; received as a deserter from the CSN, April 5, 1865, at Bermuda Hundred, Virginia; took Oath of Allegiance at Washington, D.C., and sent to New York City, April 12, 1865. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 370.]

Richard Finn, born Kentucky, 1833 (1870 U.S. Census shows his place of birth as Ireland); married Emeline Perrine at Calhoun County, Texas, September 6, 1859; resided as an engineer, in 1860, with his wife at Indianola, Calhoun county, Texas; served as seaman on the Mississippi River defense fleet, under J.E. Montgomery; captured on the coast of Cuba, August 25, 1862, violating the blockade; sent to Fort Lafayette; transferred to Washington, D.C., June 10, 1863, for exchange; appointed, from Texas, as 2nd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, Louisiana, July 3, 1863; listed as absent without leave, 1863 - 1864; captured aboard the steamer Alice, off the coast of Houston, Texas, September, 1864; sent as a prisoner of war, to Fort Taylor, Florida; returned to his home at Indianola, Texas, after the war, and was employed as a master mechanic on the railroad; shown residing there with his wife and daughter, in 1870; Richard died prior to 1889, as his wife is shown as a widow, residing in Dallas, Texas, in 1889. [Booth 1, 844-845; ORA 2, 8, 328; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; Texas Marriage Collection, 1814 - 1909 and 1966 - 2002 and Dallas, Texas Directory, 1889 - 1894 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Thomas Finn, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861, and aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 573.]

William H. Finn, surgeon's steward, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

James Finnegan, served as 2nd class fireman 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 117.]

James Finnegan, ship's cook, screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]

James Finnegan, born Ireland, about 1840; served as a marine aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Sunday, October 5, 1862; deserted about December, 1862, but was apprehended and returned to service on December 16, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 451.]

Michael Finnegan, served as coal heaver 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 110.]

Valentine Finner, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]

John Finney, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served, as ordinary seaman, aboard the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277 & 313.]

John Finney, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron in 1863; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863, and served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1863 - 1865; listed his next of kin, in 1864, as Mary A. Finney; deserted at Augusta, Georgia, January 5, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 284; CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 779; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 699.]

John Finney, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS Seger, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 71 and 785.]

Louis C.H. Finney, born about 1822, Accomack County, Virginia; resided as a lawyer, in 1850, at Accomack County, Virginia; served as acting master on the Richmond station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 321; 1850 U.S. Census.]

William W. Finney, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, September 28, 1863; involved in Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863; resigned from the Confederate States Navy in January, 1864. [ORN 1, 2, 824; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 413.]

Alexander Finnie, born Orleans Parish, Louisiana, resided in New Orleans; pre-war occupation, baker; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 7, 1861, aged 20, as private, company C, 7th Louisiana Infantry; appointed corporal, October 1, 1861, and sergeant, October 1, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February, 1864. [Booth 1, 846.]

D.D. Fiquet, served as private, company F, 3rd Virginia Infantry, Local Defense; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

James N. Fireford, served as landsman aboard the CSS Raleigh, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 349.]

Erasmus D. Fish, acting midshipman, served on the Richmond station, 1862; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, February 12, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Jamestown, James River, for duty. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Register1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 415.]

C.D. Fisher, landsman, 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. [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.]

F. H. Fisher, served aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1864; rated as quarter gunner aboard the vessel on April 2, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1015.]

George W. Fisher, born New York, 1827; resided as a machinist and farmer, in 1860, at Union County, Kentucky; appointed acting 1st assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, February 23, 1863; resigned November 20, 1863; served at Selma, Alabama, in 1863; assigned to duty at the Naval works; resided at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1907. [CSN Register; 1860 U.S. Census; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2.]

Henry Fisher, coxswain, CSS Alabama, August 24, 1862-1864; disrated to seaman, October 10, 1862, for being drunk; drowned in the action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 1, 794.]

John Fisher, born Ireland (also shown as England), resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, seaman; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 23, 1861, aged 30 (also shown as 32), as musician (drummer), company B (Band), 8th Louisiana Infantry; captured before Richmond, Virginia, June 28, 1862, and sent as a prisoner of war, to Fort Columbus, New York, and Fort Delaware, Delaware; exchanged at Aikens Landing, Virginia, August 5, 1862; he is listed as absent since July, 1862, but was in fact captured; joined the Confederate States Navy at an unknown date. [Booth 1, 851.]

Joseph Fisher, served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; died May 10, 1865; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia (see also, next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 309; Tom Brooks.]

Joseph Fisher, seaman, 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.]

Theodore H. Fisher, served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, 1863 - 1864; later rated as quarter gunner; deserted from the vessel at Shreveport, Louisiana, on the night of June 2, 1864, but was apprehended and returned to duty on August 18, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 106 and 510.]

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

W.C. Fisher, served in the 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

W.C. Fisher, Master at Arms, captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 117.]

William Fisher, ship's cook, side wheeled steam tug CSS Ellis (which operated in North Carolina waters); served sometime in August - October, 1861, or January - May, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 285; DANFS.]

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

William Fisk, jr., Chief Engineer, paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785.]

James E. Fiske, born Vermont, 1843; citizen of, and appointed from, North Carolina; original service in the United States Navy, from September 21, 1857; entered the Confederate States Navy, September 25, 1861, as midshipman; served on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861; later served on the Jackson station, 1862; promoted 2nd lieutenant, February 8, 1862; later served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1862 - 1863; by order of lieutenant commanding William P.A. Campbell, dated at Charleston, South Carolina, June 8, 1863, he was ordered to proceed to Wilmington, North Carolina, and there board the blockade runner Sirius, for Nassau; resigned from the Confederate States Navy on December 29, 1863; resided as a printer, in 1880, with his wife Harriett, and sons, Charles (born California, 1876) and James (born California, 1878), in Zanesville, Muskingum county, Ohio. [ORN 2, 1, 299, 307 & 318; Register1863; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Thomas D. Fister (name also shown as Daniel Pfister), born Pennsylvania, October, 1838; resided in Alabama since 1855; married in 1860; previous service as acting midshipman in the United States Navy; served as lieutenant on the Confederate States Revenue cutters Pickens and Morgan, and later aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; transferred to the CSS Louisiana, April 25, 1862; involved in the engagements at Forts Jackson and St. Philip, Mississippi River, April 28, 1862; given permission by his immediate commander, John K. Mitchell, to abandon the vessel and to try and escape capture; successfully escaped and later served on the Richmond Station, 1862 - 1863; Fister pay rate, shown in August, 1862, was $860 per annum; later served on the Mobile Station, 1863; ordered, on March 5, 1863, to proceed to Richmond, and report to the Navy Department for assignment to duty; Fister reported to the Office of Orders and Detail on March 31, 1863; post war member of the House of Representatives, from Calhoun County, Alabama; later resided as a bank cashier (Kutztown National Bank), in 1880, with his wife, Julia F. Fister, and five children (eldest child born Alabama, 1863), at Maxatawny, Berks County, Pennsylvania; shown as a landlord at the same town, in 1900. [St. Philip; ORN 1, 18, 299; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; CSNRegister; Callahan; New York Times dated Wednesday, September 28, 1868; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Richmond (provisions) - revenue marine, pages 832 and 851.]

James D. Fitch, served at the New Orleans station in 1862, and as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 111.]

Frank Fitrell, Pilot, Queen of the West, February, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 407.]

---- Fitzgerald, seaman, cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]

George Fitzgerald, 2nd class boy, served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 305.]

J. Fitzgerald, served in the 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

James Fitzgerald, 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.]

James Fitzgerald, carpenter?, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

John Fitzgerald, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

John Fitzgerald, native of New Orleans, Louisiana; shipped as boy aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, October 16, 1862, at Mobile, Alabama; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863; paid off at Liverpool, England. [Alabama Claims 1, 356 and 360 & 2, 456.]

John Fitzgerald, 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.]

John Fitzgerald, 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 71.]

M. Fitzgerald, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 11, 1861, as private, company A, 2nd Louisiana Infantry; wounded in action, May 3, 1863; returned to duty, August 22, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 7, 1864. [Booth 1, 855.]

Michael Fitzgerald, landsman (later rated as ordinary 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.]

Thomas Fitzgerald, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

Thomas Fitzgerald, master at arms, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]

Thomas C. Fitzgerald, born Baltimore, Maryland; crew member of the CSS Bombshell; captured aboard the vessel during the engagement at 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. [ORN 1, 9, 746; 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.]

Wesley Fitzgerald, listed as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy; captured at Accomack County, Virginia, November 15, 1863; 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, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged. [Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]

William B. Fitzgerald, born Virginia, 1822; son of United States Naval purser Edward Fitzgerald, and his wife, Mary; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from January 30, 1838; resigned, April 18, 1861; then served in the Virginia State Navy, 1861, at Sewells Point and Craney Island, Hampton Roads; appointed lieutenant, Confederate States Navy, June 20, 1861; served aboard the Confederate States recruiting ship, United States, 1861; commanded battery no. 2 at Aquia Creek, Virginia, 1861; later served at the Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia, 1862, and at Charlotte, North Carolina; died at Greenville, South Carolina, August 15, 1862 (Daily Dispatch shows date of death as August 9, 1862), of apoplexy. [Callahan; CSN Register; Register1862; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated August 21, 1862; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OH - Shore Operations; Miscellaneous, page 42.]

William H. Fitzgerald, originally served as private, Norfolk Juniors, company H, 12th Virginia Infantry; wounded in action at Malvern Hill, Virginia, July 1st, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, as acting master's mate, October 7th, 1863 (see also 6th Virginia Infantry). [ORN 1, 10, 805; Register1864; Civil War Service Records; Norfolk County Record 292.]

Martin Fitzgibbons, served as coal heaver at the New Orleans station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 110 and 117.]

Edward Fitzmaurice, enlisted August 24, 1862, as ordinary seaman, CSS Alabama; invalided, and paid off at Blanquilla, November 26, 1862. [Sinclair.]

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

Patrick Fitzmorris, previously served as Private, Company B, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, February, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, June 31, 1864. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 316.]

Dennis Fitzpatrick, 2nd class fireman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; also served aboard the CSS Beaufort in 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 319.]

J. Fitzpatrick, shipped, by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, as a recruit into the Confederate States Marine Corps, in early 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 299.]

Michael Fitzpatrick, born Ireland, resided in Donaldsonville, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 7, 1861, aged 23, as corporal, company F, 7th Louisiana Infantry; left his regiment, June 28, 1862, and was later indicated as being aboard a Confederate States Navy gunboat (name not shown). [Booth 1, 858.]

P. Fitzpatrick, served in the 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Patrick J. Fitzpatrick, served as landsman at the New Orleans station in 1862, and later as ship's steward (rated in this position from February 17, 1862) and purser's steward, CSS Pontchartrain, 1862 - 1863; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 117 and 2, 1, 299; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 124 and 340.]

R. J. Fitzpatrick, paymaster's steward, 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 550.]

John Fitzsimmons, see John F. Simmons.

P. Fitzsimmons, served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 641.]

Herman Flackenstein, boatswain's mate, screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]

W.H. Flagg, served in Confederate States Navy; buried at Charleston Port Society Cemetery, on Ashley River, Charleston. [Name and service status inscribed on granite monument unveiled December 10, 1922, by the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina.]

Andrew Flaherty, seaman, CSS McRae, 1861. [St. Philips.]

Patrick Flaherty (surname also shown as Flarity), served as boy aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, 1861 - 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 318 and 333.]

Elijah W. Flake (first name also shown as Elisha; middle initial also shown as F.), born and resided in Anson County, North Carolina, as a farmer; enlisted at Camp Bee, Virginia, September 5, 1861, aged 20, as private, company C, 14th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 15, 1862, for duty on the Merrimac (CSS Virginia); served as landsman on this vessel; later enlisted, February 1, 1863, as private, company K, 26th Regiment North Carolina Troops; wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1863; paroled at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865. [NCT 5, 417 & 694; 7, 593; ORN 2, 1, 309; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 313-314.]

William Flake, appointed 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy at Shreveport, Louisiana, June 27, 1863; served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS J.A. Cotton, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 421.]

Frank Flanagan (surname also shown as Hanagan), originally enlisted as a 3rd class boy in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and was later rated as 1st class boy aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422.]

William B. Flanagan, born Currituck County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, seaman; enlisted at Pasquotank County, North Carolina, May 4, 1861, aged 39, as private, company L, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, October 4, 1861. [NCT 6, 195.]

James M. Fleetwood, born Georgia, 1835; son of Savannah River pilot Green Fleetwood, and his wife, Mary; brother of William Henry Fleetwood, listed below; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Chatham County, Georgia; previously served as Private in Captain A.C. Davenport's Independent Company, Georgia Volunteer Cavalry, January, 1861; enlisted as private, company C, First Regiment Georgia Infantry (Olmstead's), May 30, 1861; in a letter addressed from aboard the CSS Atlanta, May 25, 1863, by the commander of the vessel, W.A. Webb, to brigadier general Mercer of the Confederate Army forces stationed at Savannah, Webb made a request for the transfer of Fleetwood, to the Navy, and aboard the CSS Atlanta, as Webb declared that Fleetwood "is a regular pilot of the coast and I am desirous of obtaining his services for the Atlanta"; Fleet was subsequently detailed as a pilot in Confederate States Navy, May 28, 1863; captured, aboard the CSS Atlanta, at Wassaw Sound, Georgia, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, July 4, 1863; paroled at Fort Warren, September 28, 1864; received at Cox's Wharf, James River, Virginia, for exchange October 18, 1864, and sent on to Richmond; Fleetwood had originally been loaned to the Navy from the Army, but he requested of his commanding officer, William A. Webb, who considered him as 'indispensable,' to be taken into naval service with the full pay of a pilot, and this request was officially granted, as of June 5, 1863; after his release from prison he served on the CSS Macon, Savannah Squadron; ordered to report aboard the CSS Savannah, 1864; on the fall of Savannah, reported for duty at Augusta, Georgia, December, 1864; recaptured by the Union Navy, January 25, 1865, at Sister's Ferry Bluff, Georgia; it was probably assumed that he had actually deserted to the enemy, as an April, 1865 dispatch, sent by his commanding officer (in Augusta, Georgia) described Fleetwood as being unfit to hold his acting appointment in the Confederate States Navy, as he was stated to have deserted while he was on a leave of absence; resided as a pilot, in 1880, with his wife Emilia and three sons (eldest son born Alabama, 1872), at Savannah, Georgia. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 186; ORN 1, 14, 268, 701, 704 & 708 and 1, 16, 189 & 494; CSN Register; CSS Macon Rolls; Fort Warren; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate States Navy subject files - NP.] [Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 46 - 47.]

William Henry Fleetwood, born Savannah, Georgia, July 15, 1839; son of Savannah River pilot Green Fleetwood, and his wife, Mary; brother of James M. Fleetwood, listed above; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Chatham County, Georgia; previously served as Private in the Second Republican Blues, Independent Company of Georgia Volunteer Infantry; transferred to CSS Francis S. Bartow, under Commodore Tattnall; resigned and enlisted in Georgia Cavalry in May, 1862; resided as a pilot, in 1910, with his second wife, Catherine (whom he married in 1868), and daughter Lillian, at Savannah; died Savannah, January 11, 1911. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 134; 1850 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]

William H. Fleig, born February 23, 1823; served in the Confederate States Navy; died September 13, 1923 (one source shows date of death as September 15, 1923), aged 100; buried at the Washington Cemetery, 2911, Washington Avenue, Houston, Texas 77007. [Confederate Veteran 32, 27; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site; see also Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 21 (1913) page 431.]

James Fleming, served as ward room steward aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863; a list of "boarders" of the cruiser shows Fleming in the master's division. [Alabama Claims 1, 694; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

Robert H. Fleming, born Virginia, October, 1846; served as midshipman on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; was one of the naval cadets who guarded the Confederate archives and treasure on its trip from Richmond to August, Georgia, when Richmond was evacuated; final discharge from Confederate service on May 2, 1865; paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 11, 1865; started for home from Abbeville, South Carolina, on May 7, 1865; married about 1875; resided as a Presbyterian minister, in 1880, with his wife, Lucy W. Fleming, and daughter, Mary R., at Johnston, Shenandoah County, Virginia; later a resident, with his family, of Lynchburg, Campbell County, Virginia; mentioned, in June, 1904, as being pastor of Westminister Church, Richmond, Virginia; by 1910, he is shown as a widower, residing at the home of his daughter, and son in law, at Brookville, Campbell County, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Washington Times (Washington, D.C.) dated June 12, 1904, page 6; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658.]

William A. Fleming (surname also shown as Flemming), appointed from civil life; appointment as acting gunner, Confederate States Navy, December 16, 1861, when he was ordered to report aboard the CSS Livingston for duty; served on the Jackson station, 1862; ordered, on June 27, 1862, to proceed to Jackson, Mississippi, to settle his accounts, and then to consider himself as discharged from the Naval service; re-appointed, again, as acting gunner, July 14, 1862, and ordered to report to Savannah, for duty aboard the CSS Georgia, on which he served 1862 - 1865; at the time of the receipt of his second appointment he was at Mobile, Alabama, and left there on July 20, 1862, arriving in Savannah four days later. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 319; Register1863; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), pages 423 and 425; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 963.]

---- Flemming, resident of Savannah, Georgia, 1863; appointed, by commander William A. Webb, of the ironclad CSS Atlanta, as master's mate aboard the ironclad, on May 29, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 55.]

Emanuel Flemming, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

J. Flemming, 2nd class fireman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

James Flemming, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

J. L. Fletcher, born Telfair, Georgia, about 1829; previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 9, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as landsman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in July, 1864, as landsman, to the CSS Macon. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 560.]

J.W. Fletcher, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

James Fletcher, served as seaman aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief, about 1864 [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 765-766.]

James W. Fletcher, served as boatswain's mate 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 1232.]

Stephen I. Fletcher, served as a private in company F, 9th Virginia 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.]

William J. Fleury (middle initial also shown as A.), rated as master at arms, March 1, 1864, aboard the CSS Missouri, off Shreveport, Louisiana (a notation on his appointment letter indicates that he was rated master at arms at an earlier date, January 15, 1864); rated gunners mate on April 2, 1864; later served as acting gunner, at the Savannah station, 1864; transferred, at the end of 1864, to the Wilmington station; paroled at Shreveport, June 7, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 235; Confederate States Navy subject files - N Personnel - NI - Promotions; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1015; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005.]

J.A. Flick, served as landsman aboard the CSS Selma; captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 842.]

Dennis Flinn, served as landsman aboard the CSS Selma, Mobile station; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 841 - 842.]

James Flinn, shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 10, 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.]

James F. Flinn, see James F. Flynn.

P.M. Flinn, born Alabama; appointed from civil life; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting gunner, January 18, 1862; served on the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1861 - 1863; served, in 1862, as Naval storekeeper ashore; complaints were made against Flinn, in June, 1862, by acting master Banifer, acting midshipman Rodman, and ship's steward Newton, all of the CSS Morgan, that Flinn was guilty of neglect of duty, and falsehood, but, at this time, he was cleared of these charges by flag officer Randolph; discharged June 9, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 292; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; ADAH; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations; PB - Administration of stations; Columbia - Pensacola, pages 791, 841-842.]

William H. Flinn, served as surgeon's steward at the Richmond station, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 493.]

George Flood, captured, November 7, 1864, aboard the merchant bark De Godfrey; served as seaman aboard the CSS Shenandoah; rated captain of main top, February 19, 1865, and as captain of the hold, March 1 or 2, 1865; disrated, prior to March 14, 1865, to coal heaver; confined, March 14, 1865, for fighting and drunkenness; disrated, March 15, 1865, to seaman. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; Alabama Claims Correspondence 3, 410; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783; Whittle 119 and 123.]

John Flood, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; sent aboard the CSS Pamlico from October 15, 1861; deserted from the vessel in January, 1862, but was apprehended by Frank J. Ames, and returned to the vessel on January 16, 1862, and for which Ames received payment of $23, including reward. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 54 and 268; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 108.]

Luke Flood, received aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on June 19, 1862; deserted at Charleston, but was arrested by the city police, and returned aboard the receiving vessel CSS Indian Chief, on October 25, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 750 and 759.]

George Florien (surname also shown as Florian, Florier and Florain), left London, England on January 16, 1864, for Brest, France, where he shipped aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 19, 1864, as coal heaver; later promoted to 1st class fireman; witness in the court martial case against Edward Vickopuskis, for mutinous conduct, September 19, 1864; captured aboard the cruiser at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; received at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, November 11, 1864; released February 1, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 256; Florida Medical Journal, see also, court martial proceedings, and the list of personnel in the Engineer's Department, CSS Florida, dated at St. George's, Bermuda, June 27, 1864; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 351.]

S. Floris, shown on a Roll of Prisoners of War paroled in June, 1865, as being a private [?] in the Confederate States Navy; resided at Bossier Parish, Louisiana. [Booth 1, 872.]
W.J. Flory, gunner's mate, ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

Robert Flournoy, born Georgia; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 23, 1859; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 3rd class, July 8, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1863; aboard the steamer CSS Georgia, 1862 - 1863; ordered to Virginia in 1863; resigned from the service on July 9, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 322; Register1863; 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.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Charles H. Flowers, previous service as private, company I, 26th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, May 1, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy in 1864; landsman and ward room steward, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; attached as 1st sergeant to company D, 1st Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [Georgia Rosters 3, 249; ORN 2, 1, 311; M1091.]

Charles R. Floyd, appointed master's mate at Savannah, June 1, 1864; later served on the CSS Macon, 1865; in an April, 1865 dispatch, sent by flag officer W.W. Hunter, Floyd is stated to be unfit to hold his acting appointment in the Confederate States Navy, as he did not come up to the standards required of him. [CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate States Navy subject files - NP; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 586; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 429.]
Daniel A. Floyd, coal heaver, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

E.G. Floyd, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

Richard Floyd, 2nd assistant engineer, served on the Savannah station. [ORN 2, 1, 323.]

Richard S. Floyd, born Georgia, September 8, 1843 (1860 U.S. Census shows state of birth as Tennessee; JCC 4, 123 indicates he was appointed from Tennessee); son of general Charles R. Floyd, of Camden County, Georgia; citizen of, and appointed from, Tennessee; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from November 28, 1859; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 2nd class, May 16, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862, and aboard the CSS Savannah; later served aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1862 - 1864, as acting master; commanded the Confederate States tender Oreto (or Lapwing), May, 1863; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; captured aboard the cruiser at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received November 26, 1864; described, at the time of his capture, as "a tall, fine looking man, wore long black hair, which almost reached his shoulders. His cap, unlike those of the other officers, was profusely trimmed with gold lace, which, however, was somewhat soiled"; released February 1, 1865; after the war he went to Mazatlan, Mexico, and then to San Francisco; entered the service of the Pacific Mail Steamship Company; married Cora A. Lyons, in 1871; resided as captain of a steamer, in 1880, with his wife Cora, and daughter Harriet (born California, 1873), at San Francisco, California; visited New York in May, 1880, and was shown to be staying at the Albemarle Hotel; president of the board of Lick Trustees, of California, in May, 1885; died at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, October 17, 1890. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 1, 769; 1, 2, 649, 673; 1, 3, 256 and 2, 1, 322; Register 1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; Fort Warren; 1880 U.S. Census; New York Times dated November 18, 1864, Wednesday, May 14, 1880 and Wednesday, May 29, 1885; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated October 26, 1890, page 12; Charleston Courier, Tr-Weekly (Charleston, South Carolina) dated August 13, 1861.]

Samuel Floyd, married Anna Jane McKissick at Franklin County, Florida, February 9, 1855; enlisted April, 1862, in the Confederate States Navy; discharged at Columbus, Georgia, May, 1865; died in Franklin County, Florida, November 7, 1867. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A00231.]

Thomas Floyd, Private, CSMC; born Ireland; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 977.]

Edward Flyles, served as boy on the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, 1864; transferred to the Wilmington station, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005.]
J. Flyn, enlisted at Jackson, Mississippi, May 12, 1863, as private, company D, 4th Battalion Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, sometime between December 31, 1863 and April 30, 1864. [Booth 1, 874.]

J.H. Flyn, captain of afterguard, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

Dennis Flynn, served 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.]

Dennis Flynn, served aboard ram CSS Tennessee; buried at Ship Island Cemetery, Mississippi (cemetery no longer extant, due to the action of storms) (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [John E. Ellis.]

J. Flynn, Fireman, CSS Chattahoochee, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 700.]

James Flynn, resided in Louisiana; enlisted at Halifax County, North Carolina, October 3, 1862, aged 34, as private, company D, 24th Regiment North Carolina Troops, as substitute for private John L. Ivey of the same company; transferred to the Navy Department, April 10, 1864. [NCT 7, 286.]

James F. Flynn (surname also shown as Flinn), born Ireland, about 1842; resident, before enlistment, of Mobile, Alabama; not married; served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; enlisted Mobile, Alabama, August 7, 1863, and served aboard the CSS Tennessee; captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864; sent as prisoner of war to New Orleans, where he died of chronic dysentery on December 25, 1864, at the St. Louis Military Hospital; buried Cypress Grove Cemetery (Monument Cemetery), New Orleans, Louisiana; next of kin listed as Margaret Flynn, of Mobile, Alabama (mother or sister). [Confederate Burials, 68; additional data also provided by Terry and Theresa Scriber, of Knoxville, Tennessee, in an e-mail (La27Infantry@wmconnect.com) dated January 14, 2007 (info as obtained from the National Archives Microfilm Roll M-598, relating to Confederate Prisoner of War Deaths, under the title "Federal Rolls of Prisoners of War"); Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 18; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677.]

James H. Flynn, 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 110.]

John Flynn, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, July 15, 1861, as private, company F, 1st (Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry; wounded in action at Murfreesboro and sent to hospital at Chattanooga, Tennessee; later sent to Floyd House and Ocmulgee Hospitals, Macon, Georgia, shown as admitted September 26, 1863, and October 26, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 15, 1864. [Booth 1, 877.]

John Flynn, ordinary seaman, CSS Macon, 1865; also previously served on the CSS Oconee, CSS Savannah and the CSS Georgia, 1863. [CSS Macon Rolls; ORN 2, 1, 287, 297 & 304.]

John Flynn, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, April - June, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia); also served aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (which was also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, in 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 283 & 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530.]

John Flynn (2), ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; Flynn had made an allotment of $14 per month to his attorney, Rosana Reilly, but, after Flynn had deserted from the vessel about September, 1863, and had subsequently been arrested by the police, and delivered back on board, assistant paymaster Charles W. Keim ordered that the allotment be stopped, with the added notation that "the Attorney being a woman of bad repute". [ORN 2, 1, 297; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 600; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 110.]

John Flynn, served as landsman 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.]

William Flynn, enlisted at New Orleans, on May 5, 1861, as a private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861, and aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1862; also served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron, in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313 & 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 461; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 573.]

William Flynn, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 6, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 49.]

Jackson Foely, 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 90.]

Benjamin M. Fogartie, born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1847; acting master's mate, Confederate States Navy, 1863 - 1864; served on the Charleston squadron, 1864; post war occupation as a clerk in a store; died of a brain disease, at Charleston, on June 1, 1893; buried at the Second Presbyterian Church Cemetery, Charleston. [Register1864; CSN Register; South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 at Ancestry.com.]

Orestes Folaly, served as coal passer aboard the cruiser CSS Florida; mentioned in an entry of January 26, 1864 (see next entry). [CSS Florida engineering department log, in National Archives microfilm publication T716, roll 3.]

Oresti Folbi, served as seaman and fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864 (may be the same person listed in the previous entry). [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.]

Michael Foley, served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, aboard which he reported on October 19, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 286; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523.]

Richard F. Foley, born North Carolina; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting master, October 13, 1861; promoted master not in line of promotion, July 24, 1862; served aboard the CSS Arctic, and the wooden sidewheeled steamer CSS Caswell, and on the Wilmington Station, North Carolina, 1861 - 1863; also served aboard the steamer CSS Richmond, 1862 - 1863; resigned from the service on April 30, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276, 282 & 323; Register1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Charles I. Folger (middle initial also shown as J.), 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.]

George W. Folks, Landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Michael Folliard, listed as a seaman on an unnamed gunboat; captured at Morris Island, South Carolina; September 7, 1863; 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, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged (see next two entries, which may be the same person). [Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]

Michael Folliard, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Isondiga, 1863; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863, and served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora at Charleston, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 779.]

Michael Folliard, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865 (see previous two entries, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

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

Valentine Folson, served as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy; shown as being in hospital in August, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 313-314.]

William Fonestall, see William F. Forrestall.

A.J. Foote, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

George A. Foote, born North Carolina; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant surgeon, January 7, 1864; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Raleigh, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Albemarle, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 718 and 2, 1, 274 & 301; JCC 4, 123; Register1864.]

Thomas Foran, Seaman; born Ireland; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976.]

Elijah B. Forbes, originally served as private, Norfolk County Patriots, company F, 41st Virginia Regiment; wounded in action at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 1st, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy. [Norfolk County Record 139.]

J. B. Forbes, served as landsman on the CSS Arctic, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 30, 1864; also indicated to have served at the Charleston station at an unspecified date. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 118 and 235.]

James Forbes, served as 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.]

John Forbes, ordinary seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

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

---- Ford, boy, cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]

Edwin Ford, born about 1839; personal description shown as 5 feet, 7 inches high, black eyes, dark hair and dark complexion; served as private, Confederate States Marine Corps aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, and at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; deserted from Drewry's Bluff, June, 1862; a reward of $30 was offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff, June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 290; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 12, 1862.]

George Ford, born about 1804; personal description shown as 5 feet 8 inches in height, fair complexion, blue eyes and light 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.]

James Ford, native of New York (Whittle indicates that he was an Englishman); shipped in the merchant marine, June, 1864, aboard the brig Susan, at Philadelphia, as seaman; captured aboard that vessel, November 10, 1864, by the CSS Shenandoah; impressed into service in the Confederate Navy (Whittle indicates that Ford actually requested to be shipped on the Shenandoah); left the vessel at Melbourne, January or February, 1865. [Alabama Claims Correspondence 3, 407-408; Whittle 66.]

John Ford, resident of Portsmouth, England; occupation, seaman; shipped aboard the CSS Rappahannock, at Calais, France, on Monday, March 17, 1864, but deserted the same day. [Alabama Claims 2, 752.]

Marcellus Ford, born Charlotte, Virginia, 1838; son of planter John Ford, and his wife, Catherine; resided, in 1850, with his parents, at Charlotte; graduated from the Medical College of Virginia, March, 1862; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon for the war, March 11, 1862, and was ordered to report to surgeon W.A.W. Spotswood for assignment to duty; served on the Jackson station, 1862; later served on the Richmond station, 1862, and then on the CSS Chattahoochee, 1862 - 1863 (operated on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia); later aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864; involved in the failed attempt to capture the USS Adela, at St. George's Sound, Florida, in May, 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served on the CSS Water Witch, Savannah squadron, 1864; attached to the marine detachment (under captain J.R.F. Tattnall) serving with the army in the line of defenses before Savannah; on the fall of Savannah, remained on duty with the marine detachment, at Charleston, South Carolina, December, 1864; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 16, 497; 1, 17, 698 and 2, 1, 283, 293, 318 & 322; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; M1091; Richmond Dispatch Friday, March 7, 1862; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 435.]

S. Ford, served as master at arms in the Confederate States Navy, and was involved in the expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863 (see entry for Stephen H. Ford, below, who may be the same person). [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]

Stephen H. Ford, master at arms, 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, 289; DANFS.]

Theodosius Bartow Ford (name also incorrectly shown as T. Martin Ford, in ORN 2, 1, 289), born Georgia, 1835; son of Edward and Theodosia Ann Ford; resided, in 1850, with his parents at Richmond county, Georgia; original service as private, company A, 5th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, May 11, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon, May 15, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861, and on the CSS Gaines, on the side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute, and the CSS Isondiga, Savannah station, Georgia, 1862 - 1863 (ORN 2, 1, 320 also shows his name, as 1st assistant engineer, on the New Orleans station, but this is obviously an error on the part of the transcribers; the reference is obviously to Thomas B. Ford, 1st assistant engineer); also served aboard the CSS Savannah, 1863 - 1864; ordered to report for temporary duty at Charleston, South Carolina, in July, 1863; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; returned to the Savannah station and served aboard the CSS Sampson, 1865; resided as a physician, in 1870, with his mother and other members of his family, at Floyd County, Georgia. [ORN 1, 14, 724 and 2, 1, 289, 303 & 322; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; Georgia Rosters 1, 647; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Thomas Ford, served, at the Mobile station, in 1864, as a private in company F of the Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1072.]

Thomas A. Ford, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

Thomas B. Ford, born England, about 1823; appointed 1st assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, from June 21, 1861, and served aboard the CSS Jackson, the New Orleans station, 1861; resided as a steam engineer, in 1870, with his wife, Elizabeth, at New Orleans, Louisiana. [ORN 2, 1, 320; CSN Register; 1870 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 876.]

Thomas Forde, landsman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Ivey Foreman, born North Carolina, 1845; shown residing with his brother William, in 1850, at the home of Richard H. and Martha E. Lewis, in Pitt County, North Carolina; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 25, 1858; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman, October 7, 1861; served aboard screw steamer CSS Fanny (which operated in North Carolina waters), 1861 - 1862; later served aboard the CSS Beaufort, 1862, and was involved in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 8-9, 1862, as aide to his commander; appointed master in line of promotion, October 15, 1862; served on the steamer CSS Baltic, 1862 - 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; served on the James River squadron, September 17, 1864; assigned to temporary command of the CSS Hampton, James River squadron, in October, 1864, in the absence of lieutenant J.S. Maury, sick; later assigned to temporary command of the CSS Torpedo, November, 1864; died in Richmond, Virginia, of typhoid fever, the day after his twenty-first birthday, December, 1864. [1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 7, 49; 1, 10, 767; 1, 11, 748 & 765 - 766 and 2, 1, 285; Register1863; JCC 4, 122; Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina) dated January 16, 1865.]

Lawrence Foreman, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

Michael Foreman, enlisted in Beaufort County, North Carolina, June 26, 1861, aged 21, as private, company G, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 1, 1862; served as seaman aboard the gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina, 1862 - 1864. [NCT 2, 152; ORN 2, 1, 301.]

John W. Fork, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 295 & 296; DANFS.]

Francis Fornia, served aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, about 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1204-1205.]

Andrew Harrison Forrest, born Matthews County, Virginia, 1839; original served in company B, 9th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, and served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; wife was Georgia A. Forrest; Andrew died April 12, 1921; buried at Mount Zion Christian Church Cemetery, Crittenden, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Nansemond.]

Dennis Forrest, served as 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.]

Douglas French Forrest, born Baltimore, Maryland, August 17, 1837, son of French Forrest, of the United States Navy (and later of the Confederate States Navy), and Emily Douglas Simms; later moved to Clermont, outside Alexandria, Virginia; entered Yale College in 1854, and later studied law at the University of Virginia; practiced law at Alexandria, just prior to the commencement of war; enlisted in company H, Old Dominion Rifles, which was later officially designated the 17th Regiment, Virginia Infantry; Forrest served as second lieutenant in this unit and participated in the first battle of Manassas; later placed on the staff of Brigadier General Isaac R. Trimble, September, 1861; reported sick in early 1862, and spent his convalescent leave at Norfolk, Virginia, where his father was in command of the Navy Yard; while there he volunteered as aide de camp to captain Franklin Buchanan, aboard the CSS Virginia, and was aboard during the first day of combat at Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862; returned to his Army unit and was placed in command of his company; reported to Richmond, Virginia and was appointed assistant paymaster, Confederate States Navy, May 6, 1862 (an unwanted commission, though he finally accepted it, and transferred from the Army); received orders to report to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina, May 8, 1862; reported to his next station at Richmond, Virginia, in September, 1862; received orders to go abroad in May, 1863, and sailed from Charleston, South Carolina, May 27, 1863, arriving in Southampton, England, July 29, 1863; assigned to the CSS Rappahannock in September, 1863; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 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; returned to the United States in May, 1865, through Texas, and, at the close of the war, to Virginia; received his parole at Houston, Texas, June 26, 1865; indicated to be volunteer aide de camp to major general J. G. Walker; practised law in Baltimore, Maryland, 1865 to 1871; returned to England, and then went to Palestine, after which he decided to take up religious duties; married Sallie W. Rutherfoord; resided as a minister, in 1880, with his wife Sallie, at Washington, District of Columbia; rector of several churches in later years; suffered a heart attack and died, May 3, 1902, at Ashland, Virginia. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; SHC-UNC; ORN 1, 3, 701 and 2, 1, 323; Forrest ix, 1 - 5, 37; Register1863; 1880 U.S. Census; JCC 4, 122; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658.]
Dulaney A. Forrest, born Maryland; citizen of, and appointed from Virginia; original service in the United States Navy, from March 3, 1841; resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; held as a prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Boston harbor, 1861; paroled and exchanged, January, 1862; entered the Confederate States Navy, February 8, 1862, as 1st lieutenant; served on the Richmond station, 1862; captured, and later exchanged, September, 1862; on Army duty, 1862; reported aboard the CSS Florida, as executive officer, October 9, 1862; served on the CSS Arctic, 1863; indicated to have been in delicate health at the start of the war, and went to North Carolina to recuperate; died at Oxford, North Carolina, August 10, 1863. [ORN 1, 1, 768 and 2, 1, 276 & 322; ORA 2, 1, 78 and 2, 4; Register1863; Norfolk County Record 221 & 226; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 102.]

French Forrest, born St. Mary's County, Maryland (one source also shows birthplace as Virginia, and another shows District of Columbia), 1796; previous service in the United States Navy, from June 9, 1811, as midshipman; served in the Mexican War; appointed from Virginia; married Emily D. Simms at Washington, D.C. on April 18, 1831; resided, in 1850, at Washington, D.C.; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 19, 1861; entry into Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861, as captain; commanded the Norfolk (Gosport) Navy Yard, April 21, 1861 - March, 1862; served on the Richmond station, and as chief of bureau, Office of Orders and Detail, Navy Department, Richmond, Virginia, 1862 - 1863; commanded the James River squadron, 1863 - 1864; detached from command of the James River squadron and Richmond station in May, 1864; later flag officer; acted as one of the pall bearers at the funeral of Confederate Army general J.E.B. Stuart, in May, 1864; attached, as brigadier general, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; died 1866. [ORN 1, 10, 624 and 2, 1, 322, 626 & 628; M1091; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861 and May 14, 1864; Register1862; Register1863; SHC-UNC; CSN-Museum; 1850 U.S. Census; Washington, D.C. Marriages, 1826 - 1850 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

George Forrest, originally served, as seaman, on the CSS Sumter, from which he deserted; later shipped on the merchant vessel, Dunkirk, on which he was recognised by some of his former crew members, when that vessel was captured by the CSS Alabama, October 8, 1862; taken captive, tried by court martial and placed in irons on the CSS Alabama; attempted to incite a mutiny aboard the cruiser, November 18, 1862, but was seized and subdued; dishonorably dismissed the Confederate Naval service, at Blanquilla (an island in the Caribbean), November 26, 1862; later stated to have joined an American fishing vessel. [ORN 1, 1, 794, 805 and 807; Sinclair 34; CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Alabama Claims Correspondence 3, 81.]

J.T. Forrest, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

J. T. Forrest, served as ordinary seaman 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 1232.]

John Forrest, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about September, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 112.]

John B. Forrest, served as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863; deserted from the vessel on April 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 471; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523.]

Richard William Forrest, enlisted as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at the New Orleans station in 1861; served aboard the CSS Florida (later re-named the CSS Selma) and was rated coxswain from September 18, 1861; later rated as captain of the hold aboard the CSS Selma, Mobile squadron 1862 - 1864; arrested as a deserter at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862; captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 844 and 2, 1, 286 & 306; Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422 and 427; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]

Robert J. Forrest, served as a private in the 32nd Virginia 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.]

W.S. Forrest, born about 1840 (age shown as 45 in 1885), Virginia; served in the Confederate States Navy; applied to enter the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, April 6, 1885, because of infirmity and indigena; left the home without notice and dropped from the rolls, no date shown (see next entry, which may be the same person). [LVa.]

W.S. Forrest, served as acting master's mate, Confederate States Navy; stated to be a young officer, and to have previously served in the Army, where he was wounded; assigned to the CSS Tennessee, from February 16, 1864; served as aid to admiral Franklin Buchanan, at Mobile, Alabama, 1864; taken prisoner aboard the CSS Tennessee at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864; sent aboard the USS Fort Morgan to Hampton Roads, Virginia, where he arrived in late November, 1864 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 21, 406, 578 & 934.]

William F. Forrestall (surname also shown as Forrestal, and, incorrectly, as Fonestall), quartermaster, CSS Alabama, August 24, 1862-1864; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; captured by the USS Kearsarge; paroled at Cherbourg on the same day; paid off, and honorably discharged at Southampton, England, 1864. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 72.]

William M. Forrestal, Coxswain, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Michael Forrester, served as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, and also the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, in 1863; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863, and served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora at Charleston,1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284 and 289; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530 and 779.]

John Forron, seaman, CSS Ivy, 1861. [St. Philips.]

John Forsey, 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 85.]

John Forster, served as 1st class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 76.]

J.J. Forsyth, Second Sergeant, Company C, 22nd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, August 31, 1861; wounded at Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; transferred to Confederate States Navy, April 15, 1864; served, as coal heaver, aboard the steamer Hampton, James River Squadron; attached as private to company B, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [Georgia Rosters 2, 950; M1091.]

John Forsyth, originally served as corporal, company A, 6th Virginia Infantry; promoted color sergeant; wounded in action at Malvern Hill, July 1st, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, November 11th, 1862. [Norfolk County Record 260.]

Wilie B. Fort, born North Carolina, 1842; before the war he attended the University of North Carolina, but joined the Confederate States Navy before he had graduated; served as master at arms aboard the CSS Indian Chief, about 1864, and as paymaster's clerk, aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, South Carolina; also served as a blockade runner; after the war, was a member of the United Confederate Veterans; resided as a farmer, in 1910, with his daughter, Pearl, at Pikesville, Wayne County, North Carolina; shown as a widower, in 1910; finally received his diploma from the University of North Carolina in 1911; still living in 1925. [Confederate Sailor 19; 1910 U.S. Census; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2; John E. Ellis; Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 26 (1918), page 459; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 765-766.]

John W. Forte, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294; DANFS.]

H. P. Fortier, appointed first assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Bragg, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 7, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

Alfred Fortune, served aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1864; rated quarter gunner aboard the vessel on April 2, 1864; deserted from the vessel, at Shreveport, on April 24, 1864, but returned aboard on July 1, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1015 and 1017; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 518.]

William F. Foscue, born Rhode Island, about 1823; resided as a sailor, in 1850, at New Berne, North Carolina; enlisted in Craven County, North Carolina, June 24, 1861, as private, company K, 2nd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 7, 1862. [NCT 3, 473; 1850 U.S. Census.]

William Foskey, born North Carolina, 1818; served as seaman (also shown as Boatswain's Mate), CSS Arctic, 1862 and aboard the screw steamer CSS Fanny, North Carolina, 1861 - 1862; resided as a mariner, in 1870, with his wife, Martha, and two children, at Craven county, North Carolina. [ORN 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 276 & 285; 1870 U.S. Census.]

C.D. Foster, served as private, company H, 34th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Columbus Foster, served as a private in the 15th 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.]

Frederick W. Foster, indicated to have served as machinist and gunner aboard the cruiser CSS Alabama; escaped from the vessel when it sank in battle off Cherbourg, France, in 1864; indicated to have kept his connection with the CSS Alabama a secret until the year before his death, fearful of having to give evidence before a board of arbitration; served as an apprentice in the English Navy; died at Atchison, Kansas, Saturday, March 14, 1908. [Salt Lake Herald (Utah) dated Sunday, March 15, 1908, page 2.]

Gustavus Foster, born Virginia, 1832; son of Isaac and Elizabeth Foster; brother of Confederate Navy officer, Seth Foster, listed below; resided as a seaman, in 1860, at Mathews County, Virginia; served as master's mate, CSS Beaufort, 1865; resided as a sailor, in 1870, with his wife, Kate, and daughter, at Baltimore, Maryland. [ORN 1, 12, 187; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Henry Foster, served as seaman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; rated as master at arms on January 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 850.]

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

James L. Foster, born Georgia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, December 29, 1862; served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, 1863 - 1864; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, May 21, 1863; appointed 1st assistant engineer in the Provisional Navy, October 26, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 289; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 443.]

Joseph Foster, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

Joseph Foster, gunner's mate, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 283; DANFS.]

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

Lyman B. Foster (middle initial shown in some sources as L.), born Maine, 1842; son of Cony and Caroline Foster; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Orono, Maine; previous service as midshipman in the United States Navy; enlisted at Hertford County, North Carolina, July 5, 1861, as sergeant, company F, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; wounded in action at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, December 15, 1863, as acting master's mate; later appointed master; served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg and CSS Drewry, Richmond station, 1864 - 1865; resided as a store clerk, in 1880, with his wife Susan A. Foster, and two children (eldest child born 1876), at Richmond, Virginia. [NCT 3, 205 & 682; ORN 1, 10, 632 & 766 and 2, 1, 322; Register1864; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Perry A. Foster, served as private, company H, 34th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served aboard the CSS Chickamauga, Wilmington station, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher, to assist in defence agains the Union Navy attack, December, 1864; mortally wounded in the right shoulder. [Civil War Service Records; ORN 1, 11, 376.]

Seth Foster, born Virginia, 1821; son of Isaac and Elizabeth Foster; brother of Confederate Navy officer, Gustavus Foster, listed above; resided as a mariner, in 1850, at Mathews County, Virginia; appointed from Virginia, as acting master, Confederate States Navy, October 2, 1863; commanded the Currituck (shown as a dispatch, flag of truce and towboat operating off the coast of North Carolina in the early years of the war); reported as being on 'special duty' in 1863-1864; post war occupation as farmer in Kingston Parrish; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Virginia, and two children (eldest child born 1850), at Chesapeake, Mathews County, Virginia. [CSN Register; Register1864; 1850 U.S. Census 1880 U.S. Census; some additional data provided by his great, great grandson, Dr. Eugene Foster Thomas, of New Market, Virginia, in an e-mail (gthomas@shentel.net) dated September 23, 2001.]

Sidney M. Foster, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, July 14, 1863, and ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Hampton, James River squadron; served aboard the CSS Richmond, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 671; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 446.]

Cofield Fountain (first name also shown as Coffield), born Edgecombe County, North Carolina, 1838; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Edgecombe County, September 1, 1863, in the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864; resided as a farmer, in 1870, with his wife, Laura, at Upper Fishing Creek, Edgecombe County, North Carolina. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Jasper N. Fountain, born Georgia, about 1833; served in Jones' company, "Gunboat," ; shown as having served on the floating battery CSS Georgia, about 1864; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Sarah, and five children (eldest biological child born 1869), at Glascock County, Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Glascock County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 354; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 641.]

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

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

A. S. Foust, served as landsman in the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred 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. [M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]

D.M. Foust, served as landsman in the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred 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. [M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]

George S. Foute, stated to have been a midshipman in the Confederate States Navy; captured at Richmond, Virginia, April 3, 1865; paroled at Richmond, April 15, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658.]

Robert Chester Foute, born Greenville, Tennessee, April 14, 1841; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 20, 1858; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, June 11, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862; later aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; then served aboard the steamer CSS Georgia, 1862 - 1863; appointed master in the line of promotion on October 4, 1862, and later as 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Savannah; ordered to report for duty at Charleston, South Carolina, January, 1865; after the war, married Mary Steward Dekantzow, a niece of general Philip Kearney, of the United States Army; later studied theology, and became deacon, 1872; served as rector of St. Philip Episcopal Church, Atlanta, Georgia; sent to Grace Church, San Francisco, 1885; died San Francisco, California, July 28, 1903. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 7, 47; 1, 16, 497 and 2, 1, 308 & 322; Register1863; Sheppard - Atlanta Constitution dated July 27, 1903; JCC 4, 122; Protestant Episcopal Church Clerical Directory, 1898, Family Data Collection - Individual Records and Family Data Collection - Deaths at the Ancestry.com web site; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 448.]

Charles Fowler, born Guildford, Connecticut, 1824; went to sea at the age of 14; went to Galveston in 1847, as captain of the brig Mary; returned to Connecticut three years later, and was married at Stratford, but later returned to Texas; appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at Galveston, on September 30, 1861; commanded the steamer Colonel Stell, at Galveston, Texas, in 1861; placed in command of the steamer Neptune, at Galveston, on November 29, 1861; temporarily in command of the Naval defenses of Galveston, January 9 to 11, 1862, during the absence of commander William W. Hunter; captured at Sabine Pass, Texas, and sent North as a prisoner of war, 1864; exchanged September, 1864; since 1866, held the position of agent for the Morgan line of steamships at Galveston; elected alderman of Galveston in 1873; died at Galveston, March 17, 1891, of serious kidney complication, and a fatal case of uremic poisoning; survived by his wife and three children. [ORN 1, 16, 865 & 867 and 1, 17, 156 - 157; ORA 2, 7, 868; Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas) dated March 18, 1891, page 5; Confederate Navy subject file, N - Personnel, NN - Acceptances, applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances - appointments of officers (A-K), pages 14 and 274.]

J. W. Fowler, served as landsman (also shown as private) in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 17, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658.]

John D. Fowler, appointed, from Alabama, October 26, 1861, as 2nd lieutenant, Confederate States Marine Corps; served at Drewry's Bluff, James River; wounded at the battle of 2nd Manassas, Virginia; died at the home of his mother, in Goochland County, Virginia, August 31, 1862 (Daily Dispatch shows his date of death as August 30, 1862). [ADAH; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated September 12, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 329.]

John F. Fowler, second class boy; aged 15 (shown elsewhere as aged 13); captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, see entries dated Monday, December 8, 1862, and Thursday, December 18, 1862; ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275.]

T. White Fowler, appointed captain aboard the Confederate States gunboat Little Rebel, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on March 25, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

Henry Fox, see Henry Yates.

Hugh Fox, born England, about 1848; immigrated to the United States in 1862; enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, in the Confederate States Navy; served on the CSS Gaines, as messenger; transferred, in 1864, to the Home Guard at Mobile, Alabama; paroled at Mobile, April 9 or 10, 1865; married in 1874; employed as a policeman and later watchman; resided, in 1910, with his wife, Anna J., at Mobile; died at Mobile, June, 1932. [ADAH; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Alabama Deaths, 1908 - 1959 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

John Fox, born Ireland, about 1834; served as captain's cook on the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Monday, October 6, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

John Fox, 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.]

Lewis Fox, served as musician/drummer, company E, 2nd (Robison's) Tennessee Infantry (Walker Legion); transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Michael Fox, served as coal heaver and fireman aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; struck by a shell and killed instantly, in action, April 24-25, 1862, below New Orleans. [Daily Picayune, Tuesday, April 29, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 291 (which shows his rating as landsman); Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 88.]

Nicholas Fox, enlisted at Jefferson (?), on February 16, 1863, as a private in company C of the Confederate States Marine Corps; served at the Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 466.]

Owen Fox, born Ireland, 1820; served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; later as 2nd class fireman at New Orleans, and aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; resided as a seaman, in 1870, with his wife, Ale, and three children, at Charleston, South Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 298; 1870 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1005; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 110.]

Patrick Fox, originally enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and was later rated 2nd class fireman, from September 18, 1861, aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862; arrested as a deserter at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile police, and turned over to the 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 427; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]

Patrick Fox, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, 1863; lodged at Castle Thunder, in Richmond, Virginia, on February 27, 1863, as punishment for an unspecified offence (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February 28, 1863.]

Patrick Fox, personal description shown as 5 feet 7 inches in height, dark complexion and brown hair; served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1863; served aboard the CSS Richmond; deserted in May, 1863 (another source shows desertion year as 1862); a reward of $30 was offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 30, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677.]

William Fox, listed as a seaman on General Ripley's despatch boat (may in fact have been an enlisted soldier in the Confederate Army); captured at Morris Island, South Carolina, September 7, 1863; 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, October 18, 1864. [Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]

William Fox, served as 2nd class fireman 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 110.]

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

W. L. Foyle, served aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, about 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 641.]

B. F. Fraley, resident of Rowan County, North Carolina; served as a sailor in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Salisbury, North Carolina, May 29, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658.]

J.H. Fralick, served as landsman aboard the CSS Selma; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 841.]

William Frame, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and aboard the gunboat General Beauregard. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677.]

Antonio Frances (surname also shown as Francis), served as seaman, CSS St. Nicholas, June, 1861; later served as seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, which operated on the Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 1, 4, 555 and 2, 1, 303.]

Ghilino Francesco, served as ordinary seaman on Launch No. 5, New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 45.]

Albert Francis, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy,1862 - 1863; deserted about January, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 114.]

Bragg Francis, born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1847; enlisted as 1st class boy aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston, South Carolina, October 19, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 243.]

John Francis, served as 2nd class boy 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 65.]

John Francis, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 69 and 329.]

Joseph Francis, served aboard the CSS V.H. Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; rated as coal heaver from February 11, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 844 and 856.]

Lee Francis, originally served as private, company A, Paul's (Waul's ??) Texas Legion; entered Confederate States Marine Corps, at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Thomas B. Francis, shown, only in one official source, as being appointed from civil life, as gunner, Confederate States Navy, March 21, 1862. [Register1864 (see page 9).]

Thomas P. Francis, ordinary seaman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; later indicated to have been a petty officer aboard the same vessel, and was paroled aboard a United States transport, on Potomac Creek, Virginia, on April 30, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658.]

A. Francisco, served as 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.]

Antonio Francisco, 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.]

Columbus Francisco, 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 81.]

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

John Francisco, served as private, company H, Cobb's Legion, Georgia; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Mathieu Francisco (first name also shown as Mathew), born Manilla, about 1828 (two other entries shows his age as 50 in 1862); served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for catarrh on Friday, June 13, 1862; treated for erysipelas on Friday, June 20, 1862; treated for a fever on Tuesday, July 1, 1862; treated for dysentery on Sunday, January 4, 1863; on Thursday, January 29th, 1863, he was treated for rheumatism, and, on Saturday, February 7th, 1863, he was transferred to the hospital on shore; condemned by a Medical Survey on Sunday, April 19th, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

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

August H. Frank, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 85.]

Joseph Frank, officers' steward, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

Charles M. Franklin, born North Carolina, 1837; served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; post war occupation as a farmer; married in 1888; resided with his wife, Frances and son William, in 1910, at Swift Creek, Wake County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Wake County, North Carolina; also applied to the Home for the Disabled. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 278; 1910 U.S. Census.]

Jerry A. Franklin, served as seaman aboard the CSS Mobile, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as captain afterguard on January 1, 1862; reduced to seaman on June 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1037 and 1041; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 85.]

John E. Franklin, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 301.]

Samuel Franklin, 2nd class boy, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown (operated in James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia area); served sometime between January, 1861 and June, 1862; later promoted 1st class boy, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private to company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 290; M1091.]

Thomas Franklin, enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy in 1861, and served aboard the side wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named the CSS Selma), 1861-1862; rated officers' cook from September 18, 1861 (rating also shown as officers' steward) officers' cook (rating also shown as officers' steward) (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 427-428.]

Thomas Franklin, served as private, company A, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

Thomas Franklin, quartermaster, 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 550.]

William Franklin, seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in November 27, 1861; transferred, in 1862, to company K, 7th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March 3, 1864, aboard the CSS Savannah. [Soldiers of Florida, 49; Robert Watson Diary March 3 & 9, 1864.]

N.D. Franks, ordinary seaman, ship's corporal & ship's cook, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]

Charles Frantz, shipped for the war, as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, on March 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 398.]

Jacob Franzes, 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.]

Alexander Fraser (surname also shown as Frayser), served aboard the CSS Tennessee, at the Mobile station, 1863, as private, Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1070; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677.]

Christian Fraser, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

Henry F. Frater (surname also shown as Fratee), born Santa Rosa County, Florida, December 27, 1841; enlisted May 1861, at Montgomery, Alabama, in company C (Morton Confederates), Walker's 40th Tennessee Infantry; later transferred to company E, 42nd Tennessee Regiment; captured at Island No. 10, April, 1862, and sent to Camp Butler; after release, transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January, 1864, and served as ordinary seaman on the CSS Selma; wounded in action (lost two fingers from his left hand) and captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864; sent aboard the USS Port Royal, and then to Ship Island as a prisoner of war; exchanged in March, 1865, and was on the Tombigbee River, below Demopolis, Alabama at the surrender of General Lee; married in 1868; resident of Escambia County, Florida since 1886; resided as a farmer, in 1900, with his wife, Sarah A., and daughter, Charlotte, at Escambia County; member of Camp Ward No. 10, United Confederate Veterans, of Pensacola, 1908; died July 5, 1929; buried at the Beulah Baptist Church Cemetery, Beulah, Florida. [ORN 1, 21, 579 and 844; John E. Ellis; Florida Confederate Pension File Nos. A07683 & D07844; 1900 U.S. Census; see also the Florida Confederate Pension file of Charles O'Connor (no. A12749), in which Frater indicates, in an affidavit dated 1902, that he had served on the CSS Selma.]

George W. Fraudree, 1st class fireman, side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 303; DANFS.]

Carman Frazee, born Alabama, about 1823; resided as a laborer, in 1860, at Los Angeles, California; appointed master's mate, Confederate States Navy, April 21, 1864, and served on the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia); involved in the failed attempt to capture the USS Adela, at St. George's Sound, Florida, in May, 1864; paroled at Montgomery, Alabama, May 13, 1865. [ORN 1, 17, 698 and 2, 1, 283; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 450.]

C. Frazer, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 37.]

G. T. Frazer, served as gunner's mate 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.]

A. J. Frazier, shipped at Shreveport, Louisiana, for three years or the war, on February 23, 1864; served as landsman aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, in 1864; deserted from the vessel on March 28, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1015; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 398.]

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

W. Frazier, served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 359-360.]

Frederick Frecise, see Frederick Freese.

John Frederick (surname also shown as Fredericks), born Germany, about 1832; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 4, 1861, as private, companies H and G, 1st (Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry; absent on detached service with Lieutenant W.E. Huger, on General Polk's Staff, at Mobile, Alabama, January 4, 1863; also on detached service as Orderly with General Bragg's Staff, November or December, 1863; absent on detached service as Orderly on General Johnston's Staff, January or February, 1864; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 12, 1864 (a Naval document shows he transferred, at Dalton, Georgia, to the Naval service on April 8, 1864), and sent for service as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, then transferred, on April 21, 1864, to the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron; rated as officers' cook from July 15, 1864, by order of the executive officer of the vessel, lieutenant L.H. McAdam; transferred, at an unspecified date to the CSS Chicora, Charleston station. [Booth 1, 924; ORN 2, 1, 289; Confederate States Navy subject file - NI; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 801; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 642 and 716.]

John Fredericks, Boy, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Charles Freeborn, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]

Frederick Freeise, see Frederick Freese.

Frederick Freeje, see Frederick Freese.

---- Freeman, ship's steward, cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]

Arthur C. Freeman, born Virginia, 1845; son of Joseph M., sr., and Mary A. Freeman; brother of Confederate States Navy engineers, Joseph M. Freeman, jr., and Virginius Freeman, listed below; brother in law of Confederate States Navy officer, Thomas P. Pelot; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Norfolk, Virginia; appointed as an acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at Savannah, Georgia, on September 26, 1863 (another source shows date of appointment as November 26, 1863); attached to the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah station, Georgia, 1863 - 1864; involved in the taking out of the USS Water Witch, June 3, 1864; ordered to report to Richmond, Virginia, on temporary duty, October 19, 1864; post war employment as a merchant at Norfolk; had also been one of Norfolk's foremost jewellers; resided, for a brief period, at New York City; died at Norfolk, following a protracted illness, July 6, 1908. [ORN 1, 15, 491 & 499; 1, 16, 457 and 2, 1, 286; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2, and July 7, 1908, page 2; Confederate Navy subject file, N - Personnel, NN - Acceptances, applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances - appointments of officers (A-K), pages 15 and 452.]

Charles G. Freeman, enlisted at Richmond, Virginia, on February 25, 1864, as a private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served in the marine guard aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 464.]

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

E. E. Freeman, served as landsman, Confederate States Navy, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 118.]

George W. Freeman, ordinary seaman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as sergeant major to company G, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

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

J.C. Freeman, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Joseph M. Freeman, jr., born Virginia, about 1833; brother of Confederate Navy master's mate Arthur C. Freeman, listed above, and Confederate Navy engineer, Virginius Freeman, listed below; brother in law of Confederate States Navy officer, Thomas P. Pelot; shown to be residing, in 1860, with his parents, Joseph M., and Mary A. Freeman, at Norfolk, Virginia; a Joseph M. Freeman is shown to have served as 3rd assistant engineer in the United States Navy, from February 16, 1852, until his resignation on October 8, 1853 - whether this was Freeman, senior, or his son, is not currently known; appointed assistant engineer in the North Carolina State Navy, June, 1861; served as private in Captain Grandy's Company, Virginia Light Artillery; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 2nd assistant engineer, May 8, 1863 (Norfolk County Record 251 shows date of appointment as May 12, 1863); later promoted 1st assistant engineer; served aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 10, 767 and 2, 1, 293, 295 & 296; Register1862; Register1864; Callahan; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 4, 1861; Civil War Service Records; Norfolk County Record 251.]

Joseph W. Freeman, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later served on the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 305.]

Miles J. Freeman (Register1863 incorrectly shows his first initial as W.), born Louisiana (one source shows place of birth as Wales, United Kingdom), 1832; appointed from Louisiana as 1st assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, May 11, 1861; served on the CSS Sumter, and on the Mississippi defenses, 1861-1863; sent to Liverpool, England, via London, April, 1862; later served on the CSS Alabama from which he was captured, when the vessel sank, off Cherbourg, France, and taken aboard the USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received November 11, 1864; released June 2, 1865; resided as an engineer on a steamer, in 1880, with his wife Caroline, and five children (eldest child born 1868; all children born in New Jersey), at Elizabeth, Union County, New Jersey. [Sinclair; Booth 1, 927; ORN 1, 1, 614 & 684; CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Fort Warren; 1880 U.S. Census; Register1863; Register1864.]

Robert Freeman, originally served as private, company F/G, 6th Virginia Regiment; captured in Maryland, July 13th, 1863; exchanged and appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, July 27, 1864; served aboard the CSS Albemarle, 1864; paroled at Richmond, Virginia, April 16, 1865 (may have also been a brother of Confederate Navy officers, Arthur C., Joseph M., and Virginius Freeman). [ORN 1, 10, 718 and 2, 1, 274; 1850 U.S. Census; Norfolk County Record 273; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 455.]

Robert J. Freeman, born Virginia, 1837; previous service in the United States Navy, as surgeon, from July 1, 1859; resided at Norfolk, Virginia, in 1860; original entry into Confederate Navy service, as assistant surgeon, August 20, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861; also served aboard the CSS General Polk, 1861; later at the Jackson station, 1862; promoted passed assistant surgeon, October 25, 1862; served on the steamer CSS Atlanta, 1862 - 1863, aboard which he was captured at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Warren, to accompany the wounded prisoners; exchanged at City Point, Virginia, December, 1863; also served on the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864, and at the Richmond station; appointed passed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; attached to the Confederate States Naval Hospital at Mobile, later in 1864; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [ORN 1, 14, 267; 2, 1, 298, 318 & 321; Register1863; JCC 4, 123; CSNRegister; Porter's Naval History, 785; Fort Warren; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 476; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NK- Technical and Professional examinations of individuals; Miscellaneous, page 45.]

Virginius Freeman, born Virginia, 1834; son of Joseph M., sr., and Mary A. Freeman; brother of Confederate Navy master's mate, Arthur C. Freeman, and Confederate Navy engineer, Joseph M. Freeman, jr., listed above; brother in law of Confederate States Navy officer, Thomas P. Pelot; resided as a machinist, with his parents, in 1850, at Norfolk, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from February 26, 1851; 1860 U.S. Census shows him residing, as a United States Navy engineer, with his wife, Mary C. Freeman, at Norfolk, Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as engineer, July 16, 1861; appointed chief engineer, October 23, 1862; served aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; later served on the Charleston station, 1862 - 1864; shown as engineer aboard the CSS Stono, Charleston station in February, 1863; stationed at Charlotte, North Carolina, 1865; enrolled as major in Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as a civil engineer, in 1880, with his wife Sophia (maiden name may have been Palmer - see 1880 U.S. Census - this may have been a second marriage) at Norfolk, Virginia; still shown as a civil engineer at Norfolk, in 1890. [ORN 2, 1, 290, 317 & 320; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; M1091; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Norfolk, Virginia Directories, 1888 - 1891; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, page 78.]

George Freemantle, captain's coxswain and quartermaster, CSS Alabama, August 24, 1862-1864; disrated, for drunkenness, August, 1863, but later reinstated; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; captured by the USS Kearsarge; paroled at Cherbourg on the same day; paid off, and honorably discharged at Cherbourg, 1864. [Sinclair 137; ORN 1, 3, 72.]

Frederick Freese (surname also shown as Freeise, Frecise and Freeje), seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; in 1864, served as quartermaster on the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 279, 294 & 295; DANFS.]

Nicholas Freet, Gunner, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]
Emanuel Freightero, see Manuel Frietas.

James French, born Sandwich Islands; shipped from the prize bark, Abigail, as landsman (Alabama Claims source incorrectly shows his rating as seaman), CSS Shenandoah, June 12, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783.]
B.N. Freshwater, born Alamance County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, machinist; enlisted at Alamance County, March 6 [1864?], aged 24, in the Confederate States Navy. [CSN Shipping Articles.]

Henry Freshwater, born Alamance County, North Carolina, about 1834; pre-war occupation, carpenter; enlisted at Alamance County, March 6, [1864?], in the Confederate States Navy; married in 1884; resided as a farmer with his wife and daughter, in 1910, at Melville, Alamance County, North Carolina; still shown as a resident of Melville, in 1920; his widow, Isabella Freshwater, applied for a post war Confederate pension from Alamance County, North Carolina. [CSN Shipping Articles; NC State Archives; 1910 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census.]

Thomas Fretro, born Germany; ordinary seaman, CSS Mobile, 1861-1862; discharged from service, January 1, 1862; aged 21. [St. Philips.]

William Freud, enlisted sailor aboard the CSS Rappahannock, 1863; placed in irons and on bread and water, for attempting to obtain a discharge, through false representations. [Forrest 99.]

Lewis Frewk, served as landsman 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 106.]

William Frick, jr., born Maryland; previous service in the United States Navy, from June 26, 1856; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 1st assistant engineer, September 1, 1862; reported for duty aboard the CSS Harriet Lane, Galveston Bay, Texas, February, 1863; promoted chief engineer, May 22, 1863; served on the Naval works, Selma, Alabama, 1862 - 1863, and at the Naval station, Mobile, 1863 - 1865. [Register1863; Register1864; ORN 1, 19, 843 and 1, 22, 169.]

Elmeor (Elmer?) Friend, originally enlisted as private, company D, 1st Battalion, Georgia Sharpshooters; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date, and served as coal heaver, CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; also shown as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Oconee (the original name for the CSS Savannah) (see also 13th Georgia Battalion); a Naval document actually indicates that he had shipped, for the war, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Oconee, from May 1, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 304; Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 602.]

William Friend, resident of Liverpool, England; shipped aboard the CSS Rappahannock, at Calais, France, in February, 1864. [Alabama Claims 2, 751.]

Patrick Friel, coal heaver, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later served on the CSS Savannah. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 304.]

Manuel Frietas (name also shown as Emanuel Freightero), native of Portugal; shipped from the prize vessel, Crown Point, as fireman on the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863; paid off at Liverpool, England. [Alabama Claims 1, 356 and 360 & 2, 456.]

John Frill, served as seaman aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1861-1862; rated as captain of the hold on February 1, 1862; arrested as a deserter, at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile police, and turned over to the 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 443; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]

John Frim, served as 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.]

Edgar Fripp, born at Lambeth, Middlesex (now a part of Greater London), England, April 28, 1835; joined the Royal Naval Reserve, May 22, 1854, as ordinary seaman, 2nd class, for ten years; served aboard the HMS Fisgard and the HMS Algiers; discharged as invalid, November 21, 1856; later joined the Confederate States Navy, as Landsman and Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, August 24, 1862-1864; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; captured by the USS Kearsarge; paroled at Cherbourg on the same day; paid off, and honorably discharged at Cherbourg, 1864. [Information from his Royal Naval Reserve file, no. 15281; Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 72.]

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

Charles Frisk, served as acting master aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 57.]

J.R. Frisly, Landsman, CSS Selma, killed in action, Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 578.]

A. Fritz, indicated to have been a deserter, confined at Castle Thunder, Richmond, Virginia, in October, 1864; may have served on the CSS Beaufort (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 10, 765.]

Albert Fritz, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

Steinborn Fritz, see Fritz Stienborn.

Bushrod W. Frobel, born Virginia, 1815; brother of Confederate States Navy officer, David W. Frobel, listed below; resided as a farmer, in 1850, with his brother, at Turner's district, Fauquier County, Virginia; previous service in the United States Revenue Marine, from which he resigned, April 19, 1861; indicated to have entered the Confederate Navy (no official evidence of this exists), at the beginning of the war, and then transferred to the Engineer Corps; actually served as lieutenant with the Virginia State Navy, 1861, but never entered the Confederate States Navy; post war chief engineer, vice president and general manager of the Macon and Covington railroad; died at Monticello, Georgia, July 12 (gravestone shows date as July 13), 1888; buried at Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia. [Sheppard - Atlanta Constitution dated July 13, 1888; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 6, 1861; Oakland Cemetery, Atlanta, Georgia cemetery transcripts from the Ancestry.com web site; 1850 U.S. Census.]

David W. Frobel, born Virginia, 1827; brother of Bushrod W. Frobel, listed above; resided as a constable, in 1850, with his brother, at Turner's district, Fauquier County, Virginia; served as master's mate, Confederate States Navy, on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 321; 1850 U.S. Census.]

M.T. Fronteraw, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Joseph Fry, born Florida (Appletons shows birth state as Louisiana, in 1828; New York Times dated November 13, 1873 gives his place of birth as Norfolk, Virginia); original service in the United States Navy, from September 15, 1841; involved in a duel with pistols, against midshipman Brown, of Mississippi, in 1847; resigned from United States Naval service, February 1, 1861; entered the Confederate States Navy, March 26, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; served as light house inspector, and on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; served aboard the CSS Ivy, 1862; commanded CSS Maurepas; wounded in action, St. Charles, Arkansas, June 17, 1862, and captured; released and later commanded Jackson station, 1862 - 1863; sent on special service, 1863 - 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; held the position of Confederate States Navy agent, at St. George, Bermuda, in early 1864; also stated to have commanded the blockade runner, Agnes E. Fry; commanded remnants of the Mobile Squadron, 1865; commanded the John H. Morgan in the final days before his surrender; surrendered at Mobile, Alabama, May 4, 1865 and paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; resided in dire circumstances, for a short period, in New Orleans; went to Glasgow, Scotland, in 1870, and remained there for about a year, before leaving his wife and her relatives in that city; then went into mercantile business in Albany, New York; commanded the vessel Virginius, 1873, in an expedition against the government forces of Cuba; captured and executed at Santiago de Cuba, November 7, 1873; his wife, Agnes E. (maiden name not shown) resided in Mobile County, Alabama, from where she applied for a Confederate pension. [ORN 1, 23, 202 and 2, 1, 318 & 320; ORA 1, 49/2 and 2, 4; Register1863; Appletons; JCC 4, 121; Porter's Naval History, 785; Florida Confederate Card File; ADAH; Scharf 343n; New York Times dated November 13, 1873; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NU - Uniforms; Miscellaneous, page 16; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 539.]

Samuel Fry, appointed captain's clerk in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval commandant's office at New Orleans, on May 13, 1861, at the rate of $600 per annum. [ORN 2, 1, 320; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 724.]

J.M. Fulford, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

James N. Fulford, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]

Isaac D. Fulkerson, appointed captain aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Earl Van Dorn, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on April 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

George Townley Fullam (Sinclair incorrectly shows his surname as Fulham), Master's Mate, CSS Alabama, 1864; born Kingston-upon-Hull, England, March 21, 1841; five feet eight inches in height, broad shouldered and muscular; blue eyes and brown hair; described as big hearted; served in the English Royal Naval Reserve; master's mate and prize master, CSS Alabama, July 29, 1862-1864; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; served in merchant marine, post war; lost at sea aboard steamer Marlborough, December, 1879, near Bay of Biscay. [Sinclair 12, 18; see also The Journal of George Townley Fullham.]

Charles Fuller, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 59.]

Edward W. Fuller, appointed as lieutenant, Confederate States Navy, from Louisiana; commanded CSS Cotton, in 1862, and CSS Queen of the West; wounded in action, in both arms, on Bayou Teche, Louisiana, January 14, 1863; wounded and captured at Grand Lake, Louisiana, April, 1863. Sent to Fort Delaware, thence to Johnson's Island, where he died in captivity, July 18 or 25, 1863; referred to as the "Paul Jones of the South". [See obituary notice in New York Times, August 16, 1863, page 5; ORN 1, 19, 335 - 337 & 524 - 525; JCC 3, 43, dated Friday, January 30, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

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

Henry C. Fuller, served as landsman aboard the CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, in 1863; ordered to be paid off and discharged on July 14, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 377.]

John Fuller, served as coal heaver at the New Orleans station in 1862; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 117; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 123 - 124.]

John Fuller, served in the 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

R. M. Fuller, jr., served as sergeant 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 $108.70 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 1.]

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

Robert Fuller, private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Richmond, James River, in 1864, and at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 280 & 313; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 390.]

William H. Fuller, enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862; rated as carpenter's mate on June 16, 1862; deserted from the vessel, but was apprehended and returned to the provost marshal on May 30, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 280; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 455.]

Lewis Fullman, see Lewis Falman.

George Fulp, previously served in the Confederate States Navy; transferred, as private, to company K, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Cavalry, December 26, 1863. [NCT 2, 256.]

J. Fulton, Third Assistant Engineer, paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785.]

John R. Fulton, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 6, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 49.]

Peter Fulton, born Missouri, about 1842; served as landsman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Wednesday, August 19, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

Thomas Fulton, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 85.]

James Furgerson, see James Ferguson.

J.H. Furguson, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

Jesse Furguson, served as ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 18, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658.]

Thomas Furguson, served as corporal, company I, 10th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Andrew Furlong, served as landsman aboard the CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, from December 14, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 268.]

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

William F. Furpless, born North Carolina, 1826; resided as a pilot, in 1850, with his first wife, Marinda, and two children, at Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina; shown, in 1860, as a slave owner; served in the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Ella Furpless, applied for a post war Confederate pension from Brunswick County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 Slave Schedules at the Ancestry.com web site.]

B. K. Furrow, served aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 510.]