NC Civil War Sailors Project

Joseph Gabel, born Marengo County, Alabama, about 1840; 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 ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in July, 1864, as a seaman to the CSS Macon, on which he served 1864 - 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 560.]

John E. Gadsby, born Maine, 1839; enlisted in New Hanover County, North Carolina, May 16, 1862, as private, 1st company A, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred, as corporal, to 2nd company I, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery, November, 1863; transferred to Confederate States Navy, February 26, 1864; served as seaman on the CSS Arctic, 1864; resided at Duplin County, in 1870; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Annie E., and four children, at Richlands, Onslow County, North Carolina. [NCT 1, 152 & 178; ORN 2, 1, 278; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

James F. Gadsden, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, March 24, 1862, for duty aboard the gunboats in Charleston harbor; reported for duty on March 29, 1862; dismissed May 14, 1864. [CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 458.]

Peirce Gadsen, pilot, side wheeled steamer CSS Talomico, Savannah, Georgia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]

D. Gafany, see Dominique Gaffney.

Andrew Gaffney, originally enlisted as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and was later rated as 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.]

Dominique Gaffney (surname also shown as Gafany), private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, April-June, 1864; also stationed at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 280 & 314.]

Charles Gage, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1066.]

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

John R. Gaines, 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.]

Theodore Gaines, enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 10, 1862; deserted in early July, 1862, after only 22 days of service. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 109.]

Wesley Gaines, boy; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; later served as landsman aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 630.]

John Galagher, served as landsman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated 1st class fireman from September 2, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 838.]

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

Charles Gallagher, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]
George Gallagher, seaman, 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.]

J. T. Gallagher, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy about December, 1861, receiving a bonus of $20; served aboard the CSS Beaufort, and also aboard the CSS Seabird. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 729; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 777.]

James Gallagher, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1864; attended a medical survey on May 19, 1864, and was declared as being unfit for service, due to chronic rheumatism, which did not originate in the line of duty, and was ordered to be discharged from service; discharged on May 22, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MX - Medical Surveys and Examinations of Individuals; B - Miscellaneous, pages 7 - 8.]

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

John Gallagher, 1st class fireman and seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

John Gallagher, shown, on a Roll of Prisoners of War, paroled at Mobile, Alabama, May 11, 1865, as being a seaman in the Confederate States Navy; resident of Mobile, Alabama. [Booth 1, 957.]

John Gallagher, born Ireland, about 1832; served as fireman (his rating is also shown, in the entries of Friday, August 29, 1862, and Monday, September 15, 1862, as seaman) aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for fever on Monday, August 11, 1862, and again on Friday, August 29, 1862, Monday, September 15, 1862, Friday, May 8th, 1863, Tuesday, June 2nd, 1863, Monday, July 6, 1863, Monday, August 10, 1863, and Thursday, August 20, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

John Gallagher, 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 Gallagher, 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 677.]

Martin Gallagher, enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, for the war, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on January 1, 1863; transferred from the Mobile station to the CSS Baltic, at Mobile, on January 20, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 94 - 95.]

Patrick Henry Gallagher, previously served as 3rd Corporal, Company G, 3rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, April 26, 1861; transferred to CSS Atlanta, April 1, 1863; wounded at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May, 1863 [?]; captured at Warsaw Sound, Georgia, June 17, 1863; paroled at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, July 6, 1863; exchanged at City Point, Virginia, July, 1863; his widow, Sarah Elizabeth Gallagher, collected a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 495; GA Pension Index 365.]

Peter Gallagher, ordinary seaman, Confederate States Navy, 1862; served on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 313-314.]

Thomas Gallagher, born Ireland, about 1827; served as a marine aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Monday, August 24, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

Samuel C. Gallaher (surname also shown as Galliher), served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia, 1864; transferred to the Marine Barracks at Richmond, Virginia, June 2, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 320.]

Charles Gallaway, served as private, company H, 20th Texas Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

John Galloway, ordinary seaman, CSS Beaufort; September, 1861 - April, 1862; vessel operated in North Carolina and Virginia waters. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]

Alexander Galt, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 115, 117 and 569.]

Francis Land Galt, born Norfolk, Virginia, about 1832; son of Major John M. Galt; citizen of Georgia, but appointed from Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 28, 1855; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as surgeon, April 15, 1861; served aboard the cruiser CSS Sumter, 1861; CSS Alabama, 1862-1864; also served as acting paymaster, on the dismissal of Clarence Randolph Yonge, from the CSS Alabama, January 25, 1863; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; captured and taken aboard the USS Kearsarge, but was paroled the same day; appointed surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; relieved from his duties, in Europe, in July, 1864, and ordered to return to the Confederate States; sent to the James River Squadron, October 7, 1864, and assigned to Battery Brooke, on the James River; married Lucy Randolph, of Virginia; post war he entered the service of the Peruvian government in 1870, to make a hydrographic survey of the Upper Amazon; his journal (later donated to the Smithsonian Institute by his family) describes his study of the birds, animals and plants of the region, including a supposed remedy for falling hair, that was used by the Amazon Indians; an 1892 newspaper report describes him as "still hale and erect, and is often seen riding about Loudon county, Virginia, on an old mare. But no one can get him to either talk or write about the war"; died at Woodside/Upperville, Virginia, November 17, 1915. [Sinclair; Confederate Veteran volume XXIV (March, 1916), page 127; ORN 1, 1, 614; 1, 3, 70 & 664, and 1, 10, 767 & 785; Register1863; CSS Sumter Muster Rolls; Semmes 125; JCC 4, 123; Confederate Veteran 24, 127; New York Times dated Friday, November 19, 1915; Atchison Daily Globe (Atchison, Kansas) dated June 29, 1892; Washington Post (D.C.) dated October 6, 1938, page X3.]

Joseph T. Game, born Wayne County, North Carolina, January, 1838; pre-war occupation, carpenter; enlisted at Cumberland County, North Carolina, March 16, 1864, in the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864, and was involved in the battle of Plymouth, North Carolina, and in the battle with the Union fleet in Albemarle Sound; discharged from Naval service, October 3, 1864; married August 30, 1880; resided as a carpenter, in 1900, at Florence, South Carolina; wife, Susan Game, applied for a Confederate widow's pension, from Marion, South Carolina, in 1919; pension papers indicate he was wounded three times during the war; died October 29, 1909. [CSN Shipping Articles; South Carolina Confederate pension series S126088, item no. 08001, at "South Carolina Department of Archives and History: ON-LINE RECORDS INDEX," URL: http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/; ORN 2, 1, 274; 1900 U.S. Census; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2.]

Thomas Gammon, boatswain's mate, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 551.]

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

Thomas Ganly (surname also shown as Ganley), born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 32, as private, company A, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March, 1862, and sent aboard the Patrick Henry, as seaman, in exchange for J.L. Martin (date shown on another roll as January 22, 1862); also served as quartermaster on the CSS Torpedo. [Booth 1, 965; ORN 2, 1, 307.]

J.B. Gannon, see John B. Cannon.

J. Gantree, CSN; died April 16, 1865; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

Anthony P. Garcia, ordinary seaman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

Manuel Garcia, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]

John Gardell, served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; may have previously served in company C, 12th Mississippi Infantry. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Civil War Service Records.]

Edmund Nicholas Gardien, born La Rochell, France, about 1827; migrated to the United States, arriving at the port of New York, in 1828; married Elizabeth Caroline Langford, August 23, 1856; resided as an auctioneer, in 1860, with his wife and two children at Mobile, Alabama; enlisted as private, company D, Confederate States Marine Corps, at Mobile, November 1, 1862; promoted sergeant, and was stationed at the Mobile station in 1863 - 1864; resided Wayne County, Mississippi; died Birmingham, Alabama, November 7, 1910; buried Elmwood Cemetery (may have married twice, as his widow is shown as Rebecca J. Gardien, who received a Confederate pension from Jefferson County, Alabama, in 1914, file no. 39938). [Confederate Burials, 68; ADAH; 1860 U.S. Census; Passenger and Immigration Lists Index, 1500s - 1900s, and Alabama Deaths, 1908 - 1959 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677.]

James Gardiner, served as 1st class boy 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.]

M.H. Gardiner, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864 (see also W.H. Gardiner, listed below, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 277 & 302.]

W.H. Gardiner, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see also M.H. Gardiner, listed above, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

Baldwin P. Gardner, resided in, and enlisted at Wilson County, North Carolina, May 30, 1861, aged 19, as private, company D, 2nd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 1, 1862. [NCT 3, 415.]

Benjamin Gardner, born Germany, about 1824; served as seaman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; rated as quartermaster from June 8, 1861; named his next of kin as Margaret Pope. [St. Philips; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 864 and 894.]

George Gardner (surname also shown as Gardiner), born Trieste, (Germany?) about 1812; served as seaman, and later as captain of the hold, aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Thursday, August 14, 1862; treated for a contused wound of the foot on Friday, September 12, 1862; treated for subluxation on Sunday, May 17th, 1863, after lifting a heavy load the day before, and injuring the small of his back. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

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

James Gardner, 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.]

Joseph M. Gardner, born Virginia, about 1844 or 1845; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 24, 1860; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 3rd class, July 8, 1861; detailed by flag officer Lynch to instruct and drill captain White's company, stationed in the Naval battery (North Carolina?), December, 1861; involved in a small controversy over whether he should outrank a Confederate Army captain; he obtained leave, in March, 1862, to accompany the remains of lieutenant Tayloe home for burial, then reported for duty at Mobile, Alabama; served as midshipman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron, 1862-1863; treated for diarrhoea on Friday, June 20, 1862; treated for a fever on Sunday, July 6, 1862, Saturday, August 16, 1862, Saturday, September 27, 1862, and Tuesday, October 14, 1862; treated for tonsillitis on Saturday, November 1, 1862; at about 9.30 p.m. on Sunday night, November 2, the surgeon noted that Gardner had an epileptic fit, and with frequent spasms throughout the night; earlier that day the surgeon noted that Gardner's "mind was affected, calling things by the wrong name; this gradually increased, and in the early part of the evening was talking wildly", with other signs that caused the surgeon to give him an injection, and, on Tuesday, November 4th, 1862, Gardner was transferred to hospital (ashore), the surgeon noting that "His symptoms continued up to the hour of leaving, without return of conscience or relief in any way. I think he has an effusion on the right side of brain"; after his return to the CSS Gaines, he was treated for a fever on Saturday, March 28, 1863, with the notation being made that Gardner had "had frequent attacks last summer, and was so ill as to be obliged to leave the station"; again treated for a fever on Wednesday, April 15, 1863, as well as Thursday, April 16th, 1863; involved in the capture of the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863; detached from the batteries at Drewry's Bluff, James River, on September 23, 1863, and ordered to proceed to Wilmington, to await orders; also involved in the Johnson's Island expedition, 1863; appointed 2nd lieutenant in the Navy on September 25, 1863, "for gallant and meritorious conduct.....", and later appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; sent to Canada and Bermuda, at the end of 1863, on government authority; served aboard the CSS Olustee (which had formerly been known as the CSS Tallahassee), Wilmington station, 1864, and later on the CSS Fredericksburg, James River Squadron, 1864; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865; resided as a lawyer, in 1870, with his wife Susan B., and son, at Christiansburg township, Montgomery County, Virginia. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal; ORN 1, 2, 824; 1, 6, 754-755, 764; 1, 7, 740 and 1, 10, 632; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; see also article titled List of Confederate Officers captured at Sailor's Creek, VA., April 6, 1865, published in the New York Herald, dated April 9, 1865; Callahan; 1870 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 848; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 460; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 278 and 288 - 290.]

W.A. Gardner, Third Assistant Engineer, paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785.]

Patrick Garity (colored), served as landsman on the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS General Polk, in 1861; rated as coal heaver from November 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 471; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 62.]

A.L. Garland, served as a private in Company K, 19th 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.]

Samuel Garland, resident of Liverpool, England; occupation, fireman; shipped aboard the CSS Rappahannock, at Calais, France, in February, 1864; deserted March 25, 1864. [Alabama Claims 2, 753.]

A. Garner, served as ship's steward aboard the CSS Alert, Mobile station, 1862; court martialled, about June, 1862, for an unspecified reason. [Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations; PB - Administration of stations; Columbia - Pensacola, page 832.]

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

Joseph L. Garner, enlisted, for the war, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on April 10, 1863, receiving a $50 bounty. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 677.]

Algernon S. Garnett, born Virginia, April, 1835; previous service in the United States Navy, from May 16, 1857, and had served as surgeon aboard the USS Wyandotte; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 10, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon, June 24, 1861; served on the CSS St. Nicholas, on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1863, and on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861; in command of the medical post at the village of Dumfries, Virginia, November, 1861; also on the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; highly commended for his participation, and promoted surgeon, August 22, 1862; served at Drewry's Bluff, 1862 - 1863; later served on the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, and on the steamer CSS Baltic, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863 - 1864; appointed surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; married in 1869; served, post war, as a physician at Selma, Alabama, and later on the faculty of the University of Alabama, Montgomery, 1872; resided as a physician, in 1880, with his wife Alice E. Garnett, and three children (eldest child born 1864, in Alabama), at Hot Springs, Garland County, Arkansas; died at Garland County, Arkansas, October 30, 1919. [ORN 1, 4, 555; 1, 7, 47 and 2, 1, 299, 307, 308 & 321; Register1863; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; JCC 4, 123; some additional data from page 800, of the publication, Reminiscences of Public Men in Alabama, for thirty years, with an appendix, by William Garrett, published 1872, by Plantation Publishing Company's Press, Atlanta, Georgia; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861, October 25, 1861 and November 27, 1861; Arkansas Death Index, 1914 - 1950 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

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

L.B. Garnett, served as private, Courtney Artillery (Henrico Artillery), Virginia; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also Weisiger's Company, Virginia Light Artillery). [Civil War Service Records.]

Theodore Stanford Garnett, jr., born Virginia, October, 1844 or 1846; son of civil engineer Theodore S. and Florantine J. Garnett; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Columbia, Richland district, South Carolina; served as clerk, Confederate States Navy Department, at Richmond, Virginia, 1862 - 1863; possibly the same person of this name who was appointed as aide de camp, with the rank of 1st lieutenant, in the Confederate States Army, on January 27, 1864; resided as a teacher, in 1870, with his parents, at Hanover County, Virginia; married in 1885; later resided as a lawyer, in 1900, with his wife, Louisa B., at Norfolk, Virginia; died 1915. [Register1862; Register1863; JCC 3, 744; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; Virginia Historical Society.]

Abram Garo, born Florida, 1830; enrolled March, 1862 in the Confederate States Navy; served on CSS Spray; discharged May, 1865 at St. Marks, Florida; married Catherine Faircloth at Walkulla, Florida, on July 29, 1858; resided as a fisherman, in 1870, with his wife, at St. Marks, Walkulla, Florida; died at Walkulla, Florida, November 14, 1880. [Soldiers of Florida, 317; Florida Confederate Pension File no. A00226; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Thomas Garrason, originally served as private in Captain Galloway's Company, Coast Guards, North Carolina; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, entry for Thomas Garrison, who may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

Frederic Garretson (also found as Frederic Van Bibber), born Virginia, about 1832; appointed assistant surgeon, Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861; served on the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, 1861 - 1862; served on the cruiser CSS Florida, 1862 - 1863; appointed passed assistant surgeon, September 17, 1862; service abroad in 1864; passed assistant surgeon in the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States, June 2, 1864; returned to the Confederate States and served at Charlotte, North Carolina, 1865; surrendered at Augusta, Georgia, May 17, 1865; paroled on May 24, 1865; resided as a physician, in 1870, at Baltimore, Maryland. [CSNRegister; 1870 U.S. Census.]

J.E. Garrett (surname also shown as Garnett), ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia; served May - June, 1862; also served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Sampson, and the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297, 303 & 305.]

Thomas George Garrett, born Alabama, March 23, 1844 (New York Times of October 26, 1860 indicates he was appointed into the United States Naval Academy from the state of Arkansas, though this may be an error); previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from October 12, 1860; resigned from the United States Navy, February 26, 1861; enlisted as private, company A, 60th Alabama Regiment; wounded at Bean's Station, Tennessee (date not shown); original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 4th class, July 8, 1861; served aboard the CSS St. Philip, and on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; later served on the CSS Pamlico, 1861, then on the Jackson station, 1862; detached from the New Orleans station, March 19, 1862, and ordered to Mobile, Alabama; served on the steamers CSS Gaines and on the CSS Morgan, 1862 - 1863; resigned from the Naval service on January 23, 1863; resided briefly in Washington, D.C.; wife was Mary Judge Garrett; died Montgomery County, Alabama, December 15, 1910 or 1911; buried at Grace Episcopal Church, near Merry, east of Montgomery, Alabama. [ORN 2, 1, 318 & 320; Register1863; some biographical data sent by Barry N. Wyatt, in an e-mail message (AutaugaRifles@netscape.net) dated January 22, 2003; ADAH; New York Times dated October 26, 1860; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 1018.]

John Garrigan, see John Carrigan.

H. B. S. Garris, served as landsman aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1232.]

---- Garrison, pilot, served aboard the CSS Chickamauga, September-December, 1864; see also, entry for Thomas Garrison, who may be the same person. [ORN 1, 3, 710.]

D.B. Garrison, born North Carolina, 1832; served in the Confederate States Navy; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his six children (eldest child born 1862), at Mallard Creek, Mecklenburg, North Carolina; widowed; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

J.W. Garrison, served as private, company A, 1st Missouri Infantry, Confederate States Army; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (middle name may be William). [Civil War Service Records.]

James Garrison, 1st class boy, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]

Thomas Garrison, born North Carolina, 1835; served as quartermaster and pilot aboard the CSS Arctic, 1862, and as pilot, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; resided as a pilot, in 1880, with his wife S. Elizabeth Garrison, at Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina. [ORN 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 293, 295 & 296; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Thomas Garrison, quartermaster, CSS Arctic, Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1863 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 279 & 323.]

Thomas C. Garrison, 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 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 282; DANFS.]

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

Abram Garron, served as seaman 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 658.]

John Garyey, 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 677.]

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

Silas Gaskill, ordinary seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; later served as landsman aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron, 1865 (see also entry for Silas Gaskins, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 11, 794 and 2, 1, 309.]

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

Silas Gaskins, served in the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Mary Gaskins, applied for a post war Confederate pension from Carteret County, North Carolina (see also entry for Silas Gaskill, which may be the same person). [NC State Archives.]

C. Gates, CSN; died January 31, 1865; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Tom Brooks.]

Charles Gates, served as landsman at the Mobile station in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1059.]

Charles Gates, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

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

Thomas Gauley, appointed acting boatswain, Confederate States Navy, October 31, 1862; served aboard the steamer CSS Torpedo, 1862 - 1864, and on the Submarine Battery Defenses (Semmes Submarine Torpedo Battery), James River, 1864 - 1865; involved in an unsuccessful torpedo attack on the USS Minnesota, off Newport News, Virginia, April 9, 1864. [Register1863; Register1864; ORN 1, 9, 604 and 1, 11, 664.]

John Gauther, born Hanover; seaman, CSS Mobile, 1861-1862; aged 23; recommended to be discharged, February 22, 1862, by survey. [St. Philips.]

Simon Gavala, served as seaman on the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 357.]

William A. Gaw, appointed first officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Resolute, 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.]

Nathaniel G. Gayle, born Virginia, 1835; son of Kitty F. Gayle (mother); resided as a carpenter, in 1860, at the home of his mother, in Norfolk, Virginia; originally served as orderly sergeant, Portsmouth Rifle Company, company G, 9th Virginia Regiment; promoted 3rd lieutenant of the company; wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1863; transferred, as carpenter, to the Confederate States Navy, 1865; resided as a ship's carpenter, in 1880, at Norfolk, Virginia, with his wife Sadie F. Gayle, and three children (eldest child born 1874); died 1880. [CSNRegister; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Norfolk County Record 80.]

Richard Haynsworth Gayle, born Alabama, 1832; resigned from the United States Navy, June 27, 1853; appointed midshipman, Confederate States Navy; promoted lieutenant for the war, January 7, 1864, to rank from July 22, 1863; ordered to assume command of the steamer Cornubia, at Wilmington, June 10, 1863; captured aboard the Cornubia, November 8, 1863; confined at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor; released for exchange, October 1, 1864, and sent south aboard the steamer Circassian; arrived at Richmond, from City Point, October 18, 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; ordered, by Secretary Mallory, to report, December 6, 1864, to Wilmington station, for command of the blockade runner Stag (which was run under the direction of the Navy Department); on his return to Wilmington, from Bermuda, after obtaining a cargo of arms, blankets, shoes, etc., captured, as commander of the Stag, January 9 (one source shows date as January 19), 1865, and sent to Fortress Monroe, Virginia, then to Fort Warren, Boston harbor, February 7, 1865; married Flora Levy, of New Orleans, November 27, 1866; died New Orleans, Louisiana, April 9, 1873; buried Magnolia Cemetery, Mobile, Alabama. [ORN 1, 1, 620 - 621 and 1, 9, 281 - 283; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; ADAH; Fort Warren; some biographical data from the Gayle Ancestry web site, at URL: http://home.inu.net/sadie/gayleancestry.htm; see also, page 625, of the publication, Reports of Cases in Prize, Argued and Determined in the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, for the Southern District of New York, 1861 - 1865, by Samuel Blatchford, published by the Government Printing Office, Washington, 1866; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]

Michael Gearon, served as landsman and wardroom steward/ officers' steward aboard the CSS Savannah and the CSS Atlanta, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; lodged in the Savannah jail for two days in May, 1862, reason not specified; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275 & 304; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 22.]

Michael Geary, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677.]

Charles Wright Geddes, previously served in the United States Navy, as engineer, from November 15, 1847; resigned September 5, 1855; reappointed 2nd assistant engineer, United States Navy, August 27, 1859, but declined this appointment, August 31, 1859; appointed1st assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861; served aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of the prize vessel, A.B. Thompson, May 19, 1861; received the sum of $304.37, as his share in the capture of that vessel; resigned from the service on July 23, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 323; Callahan; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, page 1; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

David Gee, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; in 1864, served aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 277, 294 & 295; DANFS.]

A. J. Geiregarno, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]

Thomas Gemmon, served on the CSS Selma; buried at Ship Island Cemetery, Mississippi (cemetery no longer extant, due to the action of storms). [John E. Ellis.]

Bernard Gemon, see Bernard F. Gilmore.

Michael Genshlea, Fireman, CSS Alabama; born Ireland; discharged at Blanquilla, November 26, 1862, as invalid. [William Marvel.]

Robert T. Gentry, served in the Navy Department of the Confederate States; paroled at Charlottesville, Virginia, May 16, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658.]

William H. Gentry, served as private, Courtney Artillery (Henrico Artillery), Virginia; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as landsman aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River squadron, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Civil War Service Records.]

William Genzmar (Genzmer), served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; previous service in company D, 15th Louisiana Infantry. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Tom Brooks.]

"George", a slave belonging to (landsman?) Richard H. Baker, who may have been serving aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, in 1863; George was also indicated to have been serving aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, but was discharged on December 28, 1863, by reason of expiration of his term of service. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 885.]

J. P. George, served in the Confederate States Navy at Richmond, Virginia; paroled at Burksville, Virginia, April 26, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 658.]

James M. George, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 303; DANFS.]

M. Lee George, served in the Confederate States Navy; still living in Virginia, in 1892. [LVa - see application papers of Charles Layton for entry to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, dated November, 1892.]

Thomas George, served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida; witness in the court martial trial of ordinary seaman Guizeppi Mastreli, September, 1864; captured aboard the cruiser, October 7, 1864, off Bahia, Brazil; sent to Fort Warren for confinement; released February 1, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 256; Fort Warren; CSS Florida court martial records, in National Archives microfilm publication T716, roll 3.]

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

Thomas George, seaman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]

Thomas George, born Virginia; 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.]

Thomas George, served as private, Portsmouth Rifle Company, company G, 9th Virginia Infantry; promoted corporal; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, 1863. [Civil War Service Records; Norfolk County Record 83.]

Thomas George, born Austria, about 1831; served as captain of the forecastle aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Tuesday, May 27, 1862; transferred to the receiving ship at Mobile on Saturday, June 7, 1862; returned to the CSS Gaines very shortly before he was treated for diarrhoea on Friday, August 29, 1862; transferred to the hospital on shore, on Sunday, September 7, 1862; condemned by a Medical Survey and discharged from the Naval service on Sunday, September 14, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

John G.W. Gerding, originally served as a private in captain Bibb's Company, Sharp Shooters, Alabama Volunteers (subsequently a company of the 12th Alabama Volunteers); Gerding had enlisted in this company at Woodville, Alabama, on June 20, 1861, for 12 months; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, July 16, 1861, and ordered to proceed to Fredericksburg, Virginia, and to report to commander Robert G. Robb for duty on the Rappahannock defences; served on the Richmond station, 1861; having reported to commander Robb, at the Lowry's Point battery, on July 19, 1861, Gerding was given the following instructions: "You will proceed to the mouth of the River, taking Edwards with you, and should a steamer appear, displaying the signal which has been confided to you, you will put Edwards on board to pilot her to this place. You will also erect signal poles with balls at such points on the River which will facilitate the transmission of intelligence to this post."; Gerding resigned from the Naval service on September 30, 1861, and subsequently enlisted, at Richmond, Virginia, on January 7, 1862, as a corporal in the 3rd Battery Maryland Artillery, Confederate States Army; Gerding married Victoria Vaux at Roane, Tennessee, on March 17, 1863; he is shown serving as an agent for the Southern Express Company, in mid 1863, and as a clerk in the quartermaster's office at Hodge's Post, at the end of 1863, and in early 1864; a colonel John G. W. Gerding died at Augusta, Georgia, of paralysis of the heart, January 10, 1862, and this may be master's mate Gerding's father. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Compiled Military Service Record for J.G.W. Gerding, captain Bibb's company; Compiled Military Service Record for J.G.W. Gerding, 3rd Battery, Maryland Artillery; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), pages 461 and 462; Richmond, Virginia Daily Dispatch dated January 15, 1862; Tennessee State Marriage Index, 1780-2002, at www.familysearch.org; Confederate Citizens File for John G. W. Gerding, at FOLD3.]

R. Gerhardt, served as ship's steward 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.]

Jacob Gerhart, 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 677.]

Luke Germain, born Austria, about 1842; served as seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for furunculus on Tuesday, August 19, 1862; treated for a fever on Tuesday, September 2, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

James Gettis (surname also shown as Gittis), served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS General Polk, in 1861; rated as armourer from November 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 471; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 58.]

James S. Gettis, original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, August 22, 1862; served on the CSS Arkansas, and on the Mississippi defenses, 1862 - 1863; involved in the action of July 15, 1862, when the Arkansas took passage from the Yazoo River, through the combined Union fleet above Vicksburg. [Register1863; ORN 1, 19, 132; Charleston Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862.]

George Getsinger, enlisted April 18, 1863, aboard the CSS Alabama; discharged as an invalid, at Cape Town, South Africa, August 12, 1863. [Sinclair.]

J.R. Gibbes, served as private, company B, 1st (Charleston Battalion) South Carolina Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

J. S. Gibbes, 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.]

Paul Hamilton Gibbes (surname also shown as Gibbs), born South Carolina; served as acting midshipman on the Charleston station, 1862; served on the Savannah station, 1863; appointed midshipman, 3rd class, January 27, 1863; temporarily transferred for defensive duties, to the Charleston station, in September, 1863; served on the school ship, CSS Patrick Henry and aboard the CSS Roanoke, 1864; also as passed midshipman, aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; attached as lieutenant to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 632; 1, 11, 690; 1, 12, 187; 1, 14, 765 and 2, 1, 311 & 317; M1091; Register1864; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

Robert Reeves Gibbes, born South Carolina; graduated, in 1856, from the [Medical] College of Charleston; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon, June 6, 1861; served aboard the steamer CSS Savannah and the CSS Atlanta, Savannah station, 1862 - 1863; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent, in charge of the wounded personnel from the Atlanta, to Fort Warren; released from captivity, December, 1863; served aboard the steamer CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1863 - 1865; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; stationed at Charlotte, North Carolina, 1865; enrolled in Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 14, 268 and 2, 1, 322; Register1863; Register1864. JCC 4, 123; M1091; CSNRegister; see also page 508, of the publication, Debow's Review, volume 22, issue 5, May 1857; Terry Hambrecht.]

B. C. Gibbon, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1181.]

Alex. Gibbons, served aboard the CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 783.]

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

John Gibbons, seaman, gunboat Missouri; captured on the Mississippi River, November 10, 1863; sent to Indianapolis, Indiana, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received September 23, 1864; released December 10, 1864. [Fort Warren.]

Martin Gibbons, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on June 14, 1861;served as private in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 285.]

Robert Gibbons, resided in England; enlisted at Beaufort County, North Carolina, June 3, 1861, aged 23, as private, company E, 4th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; wounded in action at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863; 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; deserted the service and went aboard the Union vessel, USS Onondaga, on the James River, on April 4, 1865. [NCT 4, 59; Confederate States Navy subject file; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 554.]

Tobias Gibbons, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and in the marine guard aboard the CSS Drewry, James River squadron, and at the Richmond station, 1862 - 1863; appeared as a defendant in a Naval Court Martial, held at Richmond, Virginia, August - September, 1862, specification of charges not shown; later in the Naval Brigade (see entry for B. Gibbons, who may be the same person). [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 435; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 185.]

George Gibbs, served as landsman aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans, 1861; later rated as coal heaver, and as 2nd class fireman from November 20, 1861; arrested by New Orleans police, for an unspecified reason, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 17, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 986; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 430.]

John M. Gibbs, acting master, served on the Richmond station, 1862 - 1864; in 1863, he was shown as "transport agent, C.S. Navy Department" at Richmond, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Confederate Navy subject file B - Ordnance; BG - Guns and gunnery; Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 362.]

John R. Gibbs (surname also shown as Gibbes), born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as master not in line of promotion, March 1, 1861; served as naval store clerk on the Charleston station, 1862; on special duty, 1862 - 1863; resigned January 12, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 317; Register1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

P.H. Gibbs, see Paul Hamilton Gibbes.

Richard Gibbs, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and was attached to the marine guard aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston station in 1863-1864 (see also, the entry for Richard Spencer Gill, who may be the same person). [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 133, 136-139 and 153.]

Thomas E. Gibbs, originally served as private, Courtney Artillery, Virginia (Weisiger's Company, Virginia Light Artillery); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, on being appointed acting master's mate, July 6, 1863; served aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1863, and the CSS Richmond, James River, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 671; Register1864; Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 464.]

W. Gibbs, Seaman, CSS Tuscaloosa, August, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 713.]

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

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

A.G. Gibson (middle initial also shown as J.), born South Carolina; landsman and ordinary seaman; aged 43; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Thursday, April 9, 1863; ORN 1, 14, 268.]

Adolphus Gibson, 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.]

Beverly Tucker Gibson, resident of Kentucky; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, September 19, 1864, and ordered to proceed to Wilmington to report to lieutenant W. G. Dozier for duty; served aboard the CSS Chickamauga, 1864; appointed acting midshipman on December 27, 1864, and ordered to report to lieutenant William H. Parker, for duty aboard the CSS Patrick Henry. [ORN 1, 3, 710; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), pages 465 and 467.]

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

Henry M. Gibson, 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.]

Jeremiah Gibson, private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, December, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

John Gibson, appointed first assistant engineer on February 23, 1862, and as chief engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Resolute, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on March 16, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

M.C. Gibson, served as private, company H, 15th Confederate Cavalry (Murphy's Battalion, Alabama Cavalry); transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Thomas B. Gibson, served as sergeant, company B, 28th Battalion, Georgia Siege Artillery; demoted to private, transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; additional documentation shows that he served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677.]

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

T.P. Gibson, private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, December, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

Thomas Gibson, born Newcastle, England, about 1837 (aged 28 in March, 1865); height, five feet ten inches; complexion, fair; color of eyes, blue; color of hair, light brown; served as 2nd class fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, June - October, 1864; was one of the party who were ashore when that vessel was captured at Bahia, Brazil, by the USS Wachusett; returned to London; granted leave of absence, December 1, 1864 to January 1, 1865, by his commander, Charles Manigault Morris; joined the CSS Rappahannock, January, 1865, as coal heaver; discharged March 27, 1865, at Calais, France (another source shows that he was ordered to report aboard the CSS Rappahannock, but did not do so). [Alabama Claims Correspondence 2, 197-198; 655; and 3, 366; Florida Medical Journal, see the list of personnel in the Engineer's Department, CSS Florida, dated at St. George's, Bermuda, June 27, 1864.]

George H. Gifford, Seaman; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976.]

George H. Gifford, born Virginia, March, 1840 (1860 U.S. Census shows his state of birth as New Jersey); son of steamboat captain, Z.C. Gifford and his wife Martha Ann; resided, in 1860, as mate on a steamer, at Richmond, Virginia; served as master's mate on the Richmond station, and on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; discharged June 13, 1862; married in 1869; resided as a river pilot, in 1880 - 1900, with his wife, Margaret, in Richmond, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 299 & 322; LVa - see application of John Walsh, formerly landsman of the CSS Patrick Henry, for entry to the Ex-Confederate Soldiers' Home, Richmond, Virginia, dated August, 1885; CSNRegister; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]

James A. Gifford, born Alabama, 1846; served in company C, Confederate States Navy (Confederate States Marine Corps?); moved from Alabama to Georgia sometime after 1871; resided as a boiler maker, in 1880, with his wife Mary L. Gifford, and four children (eldest child born Alabama, 1867), at Atlanta, Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 376; 1880 U.S. Census.]

George Washington Gift, born near Nashville, Tennessee, March 1, 1833; entered the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, Maryland, 1846; assigned as midshipman to the Pacific Squadron, 1848; resigned from the U.S. Naval service, 1852, and established a banking business in Sacramento, California; at the outbreak of the Civil War he returned east, and entered the Confederate Army, and then the Navy, in which he was appointed acting master on December 27, 1861, and later as lieutenant for the war, March 18, 1862; Gift had reported for duty aboard the Confederate States floating battery New Orleans, at Columbus, Kentucky, on December 31, 1861; served at New Orleans, and aboard the CSS Louisiana in April, 1862; given permission by his immediate commander, John K. Mitchell, to abandon his vessel and to try and escape capture; sent aboard the CSS Arkansas, at Memphis, Tennessee; slightly wounded in action, in the shoulder, aboard that vessel, on the Mississippi River, July 15, 1862, during the ram's passage through the Federal fleet, above Vicksburg; participated in the taking out of the USS Underwriter, at Newbern, North Carolina; stationed aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1863, as lieutenant; married Miss Shackleford, of Florida; detached from the CSS Chattahoochee, May 18, 1863, and ordered to proceed to Mobile, Alabama, for duty aboard the CSS Baltic; reported at this station, June 8, 1863, and was immediately ordered aboard the Jarvis; ordered, September 18, 1863, to proceed to Wilmington, North Carolina, to await orders from the Navy Department; reported there for duty on October 4, 1863; later involved in Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863; sent to the Naval station at Charleston station, at some stage, then ordered to proceed back to Columbus, Georgia, on February 15, 1864, and sent in command of the CSS Chattahoochee; also involved in failed attempt to capture USS Adela, at St. George's Sound, Florida, May, 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; ordered to report aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, July 5, 1864; on torpedo placing duties, July, 1864; reported sick that same month; also served aboard the CSS Olustee (which had formerly been known as the CSS Tallahassee), as executive officer, 1864; resided in Memphis, Tennessee, which he left, July, 1869, for San Francisco, and then China, to arrange for laborers in California, in the interest of the Arkansas Emigration Company; returned to California, where he died February 11, 1879 (one source shows date of death as February 1, 1879), while serving as editor of the Napa City Reporter; buried at Tulocay Cemetery, Napa, Petaluma, California 94952. [ORN 1, 2, 824; 1, 15, 749 & 764; 1, 17, 698, 867 & 873; 1, 18, 299; 1, 19, 69; 1, 20, 840 and 2, 1, 283 & 318; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Scharf 618n; Sheppard - Atlanta Constitution dated February 12, 1879; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site; New York Times dated Wednesday, July 18, 1869; Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi), dated July 21, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 10 and 848; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), pages 469 and 471.]

Charles Gilbert, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia; served May - June, 1862; later on the side-wheeled steamer CSS Firefly (classed as a tender), Savannah station, September - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 285 & 297; DANFS.]

John Gilbert, served as boatswain's mate at the New Orleans station, and aboard the receiving vessel, St. Philip, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 65 and 561.]

John Gilbert, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, October 29, 1861; served on the receiving ship St. Philip, New Orleans station, 1861; later at the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Accounts for expenditures, page 703; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 474.]

Richard Gilbert, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

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

Edward Gilbride, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]

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

George H. Giles, (colored) enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, February 1, 1863, and served as 1st class boy on the stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron; discharged at Savannah, on May 10, 1864, for bad conduct. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 905.]

Thomas Giles, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Selma, Mobile squadron; captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 844.]

Thomas Gilfoy, coal heaver, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 476.]

E.C. Gill, Assistant Engineer, CSS Drewry, October, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 766.]

Edwin James Gill (first name also shown, in Register1863, as Edward), born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, December 11, 1861; served on the Richmond station, and aboard the CSS Hampton, 1861 - 1863; as 1st assistant engineer, died of injuries received, February 2, 1864, in the taking out of the USS Underwriter, Neuse River, North Carolina; date of death actually shown as February 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 9, 454 and 2, 1, 321; Register1863; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 103.]

Emmet F. Gill (middle initial also shown, in Register1862, as J.), born Virginia, June, 1841; served in the 6th Virginia Regiment; left the army after the battle of Malvern Hill, 1862; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, February 19, 1863; served on the Charleston station, 1862, and aboard the CSS Torch, 1863 - 1864; later, as 2nd assistant engineer, served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg and the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; also served in Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; married in 1871; resided as foreman in a railroad shop, in 1880, with his wife, Julia, and family, at Auburn, Montgomery County, Virginia; shown as a resident of Radford, Montgomery County, in 1900; shown as one of the few members of the Association of Survivors of the Confederate States Navy, when they met up at Murphy's Hotel, in Richmond, Virginia, in May, 1907. [ORN 1, 10, 632; 1, 11, 690 and 2, 1, 311 & 317; Register1862; Register1864; Scharf 399n; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 1, 1907, page 3 and June 30, 1907, page 2.]

Ezra Thomas Gill, born, August, 1841, North Carolina (1900 U.S. Census shows year of birth as 1842); resided in, as a farmer, and enlisted at Franklin County, North Carolina, May 16, 1861, aged 21, as private, company E, 15th Regiment North Carolina Troops; captured at or near Crampton's Pass, Maryland, September 14, 1862; confined at Fort Delaware, Delaware; exchanged at Aiken's Landing, James River, Virginia, November 10, 1862; returned to his company, and was promoted corporal, January 1, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about February 15, 1864; served as landsman on the CSS Yadkin, Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1864; never married; resided as a farmer, in 1900, with his mother, Aley, at Franklin County, North Carolina; died June, 1914; buried at Oakwood Cemetery, Raleigh, North Carolina. [NCT 5, 552; ORN 2, 1, 313; John E. Ellis; 1900 U.S. Census.]

James Gill, 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.]

Joseph Gill, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864; shown on a watch bill of the 1st part, starboard watch forecastle. [ORN 2, 1, 292; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1204.]

Joseph T. Gill, ship's steward, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

Richard Spencer Gill, born Virginia, about 1847; originally joined the Confederate States Navy and served on the James River, Henrico County, Virginia; later served in company F, 53rd Regiment Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Marine Corps, in Virginia, 1864; transferred back to the Army, and surrendered at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April, 1865; married Nannie E. Strachan, at Chesterfield County, Virginia, October 30, 1878; post war occupation as farmer; died at Petersburg, Virginia, May 16, 1905 (see also, the entry for Richard Gibbs, who may be the same person). [See Florida Confederate Pension File no. A10391; 1880 U.S. Census.]

James Gillan, enlisted for three years or the war in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on September 16, 1862, and served aboard the CSS Huntress. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 182; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 313-314 and 753.]

Patrick Gillan, served as 2nd class boy aboard the CSS Mobile, off Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1862; rated as landsman from June 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1041.]

James Gilland (surname also shown as Gillen), born Ireland, about 1835 (his obituary indicates his year of birth as being 1840); served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; also served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State; stated to have served in all naval engagements (presumably of the two vessels he served on); resided as a lighterage businessman, in 1880, with his wife Margaret, and five children, at Brooklyn, Kings County, New York; occupation in the towing business at Greenpoint, Long Island; died at his home, 171 India Street, Brooklyn, aged 75, on Saturday, October 16, 1915. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Veterans Census; New York Times dated Monday, October 18, 1915; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Ira Gillespie, first class boy, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

John Gillespie, born Glasgow (or Edinburgh), Scotland; shipped from prize vessel, Red Gauntlet, about August 1, 1863, as seaman on the cruiser CSS Florida; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 356, 360 and 363 & 2, 456.]

W. A. Gillespie, came from the North in 1852, and enlisted in the southern Army at the beginning of the war; captured at Fort Donelson, 1862, and, after being exchanged, he transferred to the Confederate States Navy at Mobile, where he surrendered at the end of the war; after the war he served as adjutant of the Hugh A. Reynolds Camp, United Confederate Veterans of Leflore County, Mississippi; died prior to 1913. [Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 21 (1913), page 574.]

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

T.J. Gillick (first initial also shown as F. and S.), native of Ireland; shipped aboard the cruiser CSS Florida at Mobile, Alabama, 1862; served as master at arms; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863; paid off at Liverpool, England. [Alabama Claims 1, 356, 360 and 363 & 2, 456.]

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

Frederick Gilligan, served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida; captured aboard the cruiser at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]

Henry F. Gilliland, acting master's mate, served on the Savannah station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 323.]

John Gilliland, originally enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and later served as seaman and ship's cook (rated ship's cook from September 18, 1861) aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma), 1862 - 1864; arrested as a deserter at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862; wounded in action and captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864; sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 579 & 844 and 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.]

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

Albert Gillman (surname also shown as Gilman), enlisted aboard the CSS Alabama, January 25, 1863; deserted at Saldanha Bay, July 31, 1863. [Sinclair.]

Hugh Gillman, 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.]

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

Peter Gilloon, served as landsman on the New Orleans station, and as a crew member of the receiving vessel, CSS St. Philip, 1861; rated as carpenter's mate from July 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100, 555 and 557.]

Allen Gilmore, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

Bernard F. Gilmore (surname also incorrectly shown as Gemon), served 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, pages 1063 and 1070.]

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

William Gilmore (surname also shown as Gilmour), resident of Jonesville, Kentucky; served as pilot aboard the steam ram, CSS Arkansas, 1862; killed in action on the Yazoo River, July 15, 1862, during her passage through the Federal fleet, above Vicksburg. [Booth 2, 28; ORN 1, 19, 69; Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi), dated July 21, 1862; Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 5 (1897), page 210.]

Robert Gipson, 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.]

Auguste Girau, served on the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100.]

W.P. Gissom, ordinary 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.]
James Gittis, see James Gettis.

Robert Given, born New York, about 1833; served as landsman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station 1861-1862. [St. Philips; ORN 2, 1, 290.]

Alex. Givens (first name also shown as Henry), born Sandwich Islands; shipped from the prize bark Abigail, as seaman aboard the CSS Shenandoah, June 12,1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log.]

James Givens, born Franklin County, Kentucky, about 1833; transferred from the Confederate States Army, at Dalton, Georgia, to the Confederate States Navy, on April 9, 1864, and sent for duty, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Savannah; transferred, on April 21, 1864, to the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS; 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, page 642.]

James Givens, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]
James Givens, served as private, company C, 5th Arkansas Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Tobias Givens, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

George O. Gladden, born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1825; shown as boatswain on the privateer Dixie, 1861; captured aboard the privateer Dixie, and sent to Fort Lafayette, New York, August, 1861; later served as pilot, CSS Palmetto State, Charleston station, 1863 - 1864; highly commended by flag officer Duncan N. Ingraham, for his actions during the attack on the blockading squadron off Charleston, South Carolina, January 31, 1863; post war occupation as a pilot at Charleston; died of typhoid fever at Charleston, June 5, 1867. [ORN 1, 13, 619 and 2, 1, 298; ORA 1, 14; see also article 'THE REBEL NAVY" in the Richmond, Virginia Daily Examiner, Friday, November, 1861, page 1; New York Times dated Wednesday, October 7, 1861; South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 at Ancestry.com.]

W. H. Gladden, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Atlanta, Georgia, June 2, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 475.]

Louis Glaser, landsman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Ebenezer Glass, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677.]

John Glass, born in South Carolina in 1828; appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, February 5, 1862; served aboard the CSS Manassas, and escaped from that vessel when it was destroyed on the Mississippi River, April 24, 1862; highly praised by the vessel's commander, for his actions during the attack at New Orleans; also served briefly aboard the CSS Louisiana, at the surrender of Forts Jackson and St. Philip, April 28, 1862; given permission by his immediate commander, John K. Mitchell, to abandon the vessel and to try and escape capture; failed to escape and was captured; exchanged Oct5ober 11, 1862; later on the Jackson station, 1862; died January 30, 1877; buried at the Girod Street Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana, which no longer exists. [Booth 2, 35; ORN 1, 18, 299 & 303 and 2, 1, 319; CSN Register; Young Sanders; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 477.]

Francis Glassbrook, born at Cork; father, John, was a hairdresser in 1862, at Liverpool; Francis resided, in 1863, with his wife, Cecilia, at 53, Upper Hill Street, Liverpool, England (residence also shown as 10, Coburg Street, Liverpool - this address was a boarding house); previous service in the Royal Naval Reserve, under the surname, Rivers (his name was removed from the Naval Reserve service when it was found that he had served in the Confederate Navy); shipped aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, under the name of Francis Rivers, but later signed on in his original surname; signed the shipping articles, March 27, 1863, and served as captain of maintop; cruised with the vessel for several months until arriving at Cherbourg, France, October, 1863; a list of "Boarders" of the CSS Georgia shows his position as sponger, and as no. 4 at the 1st gun division, and also as shellman in the same division; later, in November, 1863, given a week's leave of absence to return home, but never returned to the vessel; Francis shown, in 1865, as a hairdresser, at Mill Street, Higher Tranmere, Birkenhead; died of typhus fever, at 1, Mill Street, Tranmere, county of Chester, England, February 24, 1866, aged 25; buried at the Roman Catholic section of Flaybrick Hill Cemetery, Birkenhead, Liverpool. [Alabama Claims, 1, 692-694, 697; Alabama Claims Correspondence 4, 554, 561 and 562; death information from a copy of his death certificate, in the possession of the author; Gores, 1862 and 1865; burial information provided by Ms Emma Challinor, Archivist, Wirral Museum, Wirral; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

William Thornton Glassell, born January 15, 1831, at Richland plantation, Virginia; appointed midshipman in the United States Navy, March 15, 1848; promoted lieutenant, 1855; imprisoned at Fort Warren, Boston, when he refused to swear allegiance to the United States, in December, 1861; exchanged, July, 1862, and appointed from Alabama, as lieutenant, Confederate States Navy, August 5, 1862; served aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1862 - 1863; promoted commander, to rank from October 1, 1863; also served on the Wilmington station, 1863; ordered to report for temporary duty at Charleston, South Carolina, in September, 1863, and to assume command of the torpedo steamer CSS David, on September 22, 1863; captured in the attack against the USS New Ironsides, October 5, 1863; sent to Fortress Monroe, then to New York for imprisonment, and then to Fort Lafayette, New York harbor; exchanged October 1, 1864 and sent to Richmond, from City Point, Virginia; after his release, he served aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; ordered to report to Confederate Army lieutenant general Hardee, at Charleston, South Carolina, for special duty, November, 1864; later commander, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; stationed at Charleston until the fall of that city, at which time he was sent to the James River Squadron, where he commanded the ironclad, CSS Fredericksburg; after the evacuation of Richmond, Virginia, and the destruction of the CSS Fredericksburg, attached, as lieutenant colonel, to the command of the 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; after the war, resided in Orange, Virginia, then later moved to Orange, California; worked in his brother's law firm; died January 28, 1879, in Los Angeles, California; buried at the Angeles-Rosedale Memorial Park; never married. [ORN 1, 15, 11-13 & 16 and 2, 1, 293 & 295; ORA 1, 14; 1, 35 (part 2), 648 and 2, 6; Register1863; M1091; Fort Warren; much additional biographical information included in the e-book, "Prisoners of the Civil War: The Story of Two Americans," by Douglas Westfall, published by the Paragon Agency, Orange, California, 2001; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]

John Glavin, enlisted as seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile station, May 31, 1862; deserted May, 1863, but was arrested, and returned aboard the vessel on May 10, 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 119.]

James Gleason, coal heaver, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 & 295; DANFS.]

James Gleason, served as ordinary seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863 and on the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 276 & 296.]

William Gleason, served as boatswain's mate aboard the CSS Arctic and the wooden sidewheeled steamer CSS Caswell, 1862; later, as acting boatswain on the ironclad sloop, CSS North Carolina, Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864 (may be the same person listed in the next entry). [ORN 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 276, 282, 293, 295, 296 & 323; DANFS.]

William Gleason, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (may be the same person listed in the previous entry). [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

John Glenn (surname also shown as Glynn), served as landsman aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; reported sick, April, 1862, and sent to the Marine Hospital, New Orleans [Daily Picayune, Tuesday, April 29, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 88.]

John Glesson, landsman, served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 305.]

Franklin Glover, (assumed name shown as Gloon); seaman, CSS Shenandoah; joined the vessel at Melbourne, Australia, 1865; rated sailmaker's mate, March 21, 1865; proficient in the Polynesian dialect. [Alabama Claims 1, 975; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 128.]

J.W. Glover, landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]

John T. Glover, resided in, and enlisted at Northampton County, North Carolina, May 23, 1861, aged 30, as private, company A, 15th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 1, 1864. [NCT 5, 508.]

William Glover, second class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

John Glynn, see John Glenn.

M. Gnischhas, enlisted August 24, 1862, as ordinary seaman, CSS Alabama; invalided, and paid off at Blanquilla. [Sinclair.]