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Albert Godfrey, 3rd class boy, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 301.]

Alfred Godfrey, served on CSS Patrick Henry from July 18, to September 30, 1861, when he was transferred to Drewry's Bluff, Virginia; enlisted as a Private in Company G, 22nd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, March 1, 1862; substitute for A.P. Jones; returned to Confederate States Navy to which he belonged. [Georgia Rosters 2, 982.]

C. W. Godfrey, served as chief clerk at the office of Naval storekeeper, James E. Godfrey, at Savannah, in 1863, at the rate of $1200 per annum. [Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PL - Labor and civil personnel; Savannah - Transfers place to place, page 21.]

James E. Godfrey, shown as Naval Store Keeper at the Naval station, Savannah, Georgia, in 1863-1864; later Naval storekeeper at Augusta, Georgia, December, 1864; paroled at Albany, Georgia, May 7, 1865. [ORN 1, 16, 489; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, pages 72 and 168; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (1864), page 6; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 659.]

Moses Godfrey, seaman, Confederate States Navy; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, for special service, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

Nathan Godfrey, 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 75.]

R. J. Godfrey, served as 2nd clerk to the Naval storekeeper James E. Godfrey, at Savannah, 1862 - 1863, at the rate of $900 per annum. [Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PL - Labor and civil personnel; Savannah - Transfers place to place, pages 15 and 23.]

Nick Godfry, seaman, CSS Florida, 1861. [St. Philips.]

John Godier, appointed carpenter aboard the Confederate States gunboat Colonel Lovell, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

Henry Godley, served as private, company F, 2nd Battalion, Georgia Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

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

John Chappell Godsey, resident of Powhatan County, Virginia; qualified, on July 30, 1864, to serve as a private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Richmond station; paroled at Manchester, Virginia, April 25, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 462; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 651.]

Henry Godson, enlisted, as ordinary seaman, aboard the CSS Alabama, November 8, 1862; fell overboard, February 28, 1864, but was rescued by Michael Mars, a shipmate; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; captured by the USS Kearsarge; paroled at Cherbourg on the same day. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 2, 803-804; 1, 3, 72.]

Charles Henry Godwin, born Dorsetshire, England, 1825; previously served on the English transport ship, Trent, in the Crimean War, and also aboard an American merchant ship, and then on a Confederate blockade running vessel; claimed to have enlisted on the cruiser CSS Alabama, by mistake, but concluded to stand by and fight it out; served as captain of afterguard, CSS Alabama, August 24, 1862-1864; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; escaped, after the battle, aboard a French pilot boat, and taken to Cherbourg; paid off, and honorably discharged at Cherbourg, June 22, 1864; later served as a ship chandler, with a Captain Coffin, in New Orleans; resided in Galveston, Texas, until 1887, when he returned to England to obtain his discharge papers, which were being kept by a Mr. William Bell of Dorsetshire; after obtaining these papers, he returned to the United States, and went to Richmond, Virginia, where he applied for admission to the Robert E. Lee Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, October 19, 1888; left the home on November 25, 1888, and made his way back to Texas, via Atlanta, Georgia, and Mobile, Alabama; admitted, December 15, 1888, to the Confederate Home, Austin, Texas, suffering from dropsy; died December 1, 1891; buried at the State Cemetery, Austin, Texas. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 653; some biographical information provided by Donaly E. Brice of the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, December 3, 2004, from the roster of the Confederate Home; additional data from the Dallas Morning News (Texas), dated December 2, 1891, courtesy of Ken Jones, in an e-mail dated April, 2005; LVa; Atchison Daily Globe (Atchison, Kansas) dated April 17, 1889; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated December 10, 1888, page 3.]

John Goff, 1st class fireman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

James Goffee, see James Coffee.

John Gogan, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River, Louisiana, area); served July - November, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS.]

Charles N. Golden, yeoman, served aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, 1863; appointed acting master's mate, October 15, 1863, and ordered to report to commander Robert G. Robb, at the Navy Yard at Rocketts, for duty aboard the CSS Drewry, James River squadron; sent on temporary duty to Battery Dantzler, near Howlett's, James River; returned to duty aboard the CSS Drewry, June 20, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 633 & 706 and 2, 1, 284; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 479.]

Gendal S. Golden, served in company A, Naval Battalion (?); filed for a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 385.]

Peter J. Golden, born New York, 1833; served as acting 2nd assistant engineer on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862; resided as an engineer, in 1880, with his wife, Anna, and four children, at Savannah, Georgia. [ORN 2, 1, 323; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Stephen Golden, coal heaver (also shown as landsman), served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

William E. Golden, served as landsman and captain's clerk aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, 1863; died at the Naval Hospital on the morning of October 18, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 106 and 108.]

Hamilton Golder
, born Maryland, 1838; son of Mary J. Golder; resident of Baltimore, Maryland, in 1850; served as master's mate, Confederate States Navy; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Savannah, Savannah river squadron, 1862 - 1863; wounded in boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; attached to the Savannah station, Georgia, 1864, as aid to the flag officer; involved in the taking out of the USS Water Witch, at Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, June 3, 1864; resided as a store clerk, in 1880, with other family members, at the residence of his widowed mother, in Baltimore, Maryland. [ORN 1, 15, 491, 499 & 500; 1, 17, 869 and 2, 1, 304; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Richard Golding, served as 2nd assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Resolute, Mississippi River Defense Fleet, from February 23, 1862 to December 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XD - Claims, Miscellaneous, page 10; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

Edmund K. Goldsborough, born Maryland, 1844; son of James and Mary E. Goldsborough; resided, in 1850, with his parents, at Easton, Talbot county, Maryland; previous service as surgeon in the Confederate Army; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, 1864 - 1865; attached as to Semmes' Naval Brigade, for special service, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; married Mary L. Coyle, 1878; resided as a physician, in 1880, with his wife and son, Hugh, at the residence of his mother in law, Mary A. Coyle, in Washington, D.C.; a fire at his residence, in Washington, on March 26, 1895, destroyed several valuable paintings, and did $25,000 worth of damage; one of Goldsborough's sons, Fitzhugh Coyle Goldsborough, was involved in a murder-suicide at New York in January, 1911; Dr. Goldsborough went to New York on January 23, 1911 to identify the body of his son, and bring the remains back to Washington for burial; died at his home on K Street, Washington, D.C., Thursday, March 14, 1912. [ORN 1, 11, 691 & 753; JCC 4, 123; M1091; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; New York Times dated Wednesday, March 27, 1895, January 24 & 25, 1911 and Friday, March 15, 1912.]

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

John Gomez (surname also shown as Gormez and Gomarz), sailor on the merchant vessel, George Latimer, of Baltimore, taken as a prize; shipped as fireman or coal heaver aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, May 19, 1864; court martialled, September, 1864, for mutinous conduct, and sentenced to be dishonorably discharged, with loss of all pay and prize money; captured aboard the cruiser, October 7, 1864, off Bahia, Brazil; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he arrived November 11, 1864; released February 1, 1865 (this may be the same person shown in the next entry, as seaman, though the dates of shipping and ratings are different). [ORN 1, 3, 256; CSS Florida court martial, medical and engineering department records, in National Archives microfilm publication T716, roll 3; Fort Warren.]

John Gomez, left London, England on January 21, 1864, for Brest, France, where he was shipped as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 24, 1864 (this may be the same person shown in the previous entry, as fireman/coal heaver, though the dates of shipping and ratings are different) [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 353.]

Thomas M. Gommow (surname also incorrectly shown as Morrow; middle initial also shown as W.), enlisted as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861; served aboard the CSS Florida (later re-named the CSS Selma), 1861-1862; rated as captain of forecastle from September 18, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 427-428.]

Celestine Gonzalez, appointed, by Naval storekeeper S.Z Gonzales, 2nd clerk of Naval Stores at the Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida, on October 5, 1861, subject to the approval of secretary Mallory; also shown on a pay roll of officers stationed at Pensacola, and on the gunboat, CSS Bradford (used as a storeship at Pensacola), in April, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 282; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PI - Industrial activity; Montgomery - Pensacola, pages 621 and 623.]

Jasper S. Gonzalez, born Florida, 1838; served as agent, Confederate States Navy; shown on a pay roll of officers stationed at Pensacola, Florida, and on the gunboat, CSS Bradford (used as a storeship at Pensacola), in April, 1862; resided as a grocer, in 1870, with his wife and children at Pensacola. [ORN 2, 1, 282; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Samuel Z. Gonzalez born Pensacola, Florida, November 3, 1817; appointed from Florida; previous service in the United States Navy; resigned, January 12, 1861; shown as the owner of four slaves, in 1860; indicated to have been a "rabid secessionist"; served as quartermaster, with the rank of major in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served at the Norfolk Navy Yard, 1861; resigned, September 13, 1861; later served as Naval storekeeper, Pensacola Navy Yard, and on the gunboat CSS Bradford (storeship at Pensacola), 1862; later served at Montgomery, Alabama, 1862; later at Mobile, Alabama, 1864; paroled May 7, 1865, at Albany, Georgia; died on March 16, 1907, and is buried in St. Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida. [Florida Confederate Card File; CSN Register; John E. Ellis; ORN 2, 1, 282; 36th Congress Report 24, 33 & 63; 1860 U.S. Federal Census - Slave Schedules at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Henry S. Gooch, shipped as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval Rendezvous at Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 21, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 408.]

R.O. Gooch, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; attached as private to company E, 1st Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; M1091.]

Samuel T. Gooch (middle initial also incorrectly shown as H.), born and resided in Granville County, North Carolina, as a farmer; enlisted at Wake County, North Carolina, July 8, 1862, aged 28, as private, company E, 23rd Regiment North Carolina Troops; discharged November 1, 1862, after providing private James A Suit as a substitute; may have served later in the 43rd Regiment North Carolina Militia, and as landsman in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Granville County and Wake County, North Carolina; also applied to the Home for the Disabled. [NCT 7, 189 & 683; NC State Archives.]

W. N. Gooch, sent from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Richmond station, and received aboard the CSS Hampton, James River squadron, on October 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 744.]

Bernard Good, born Ireland (incorrectly shown at one source as Liverpool); resident, since childhood, of America; shipped as landsman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1862, at Mobile, Alabama; discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863; paid off at Liverpool, England; stated that he was a good friend of William Thompson, of the same vessel. [Alabama Claims 1, 356-357, 360 and 363 & 2, 456.]

James B. Good, 1st sergeant, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314.]

R. J. Good, 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.]

William D. Goode, resided at Chesterfield County, Virginia; recruited at Richmond, Virginia, by lieutenant Venable, on September 30, 1864, for service in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and served as private in company B; served on the Richmond station, and at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864; paroled at Manchester, Virginia, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 472; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 651; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 445.]

William Drayton Goode (surname also shown as Good), born South Carolina; previous service in the United States Navy, from November 6, 1860; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 3rd class, July 8, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862; later aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile station, 1862 - 1863; returned to the Savannah station, and served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute, and the ironclad ram CSS Savannah, 1863; sent on recruiting duty at Macon and Atlanta, Georgia, May, 1863; commanded CSS Resolute, June, 1863; served aboard the CSS Olustee (which had formerly been known as the CSS Tallahassee), Wilmington station, 1864, and later on the CSS Patrick Henry, and the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 632; 1, 14, 699 & 714; and 2, 1, 303, 304 & 322; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 848.]

Joseph Goodin
, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; deserted from the CSS Manassas, in February, 1862, but was apprehended and returned aboard the vessel on February 8, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 69; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 121.]

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

Adam Goodrich (surname also shown as Goodrice), enlisted for three years in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, as 2nd class boy, on May 29, 1862; deserted from the vessel in June, 1862, but was apprehended by sergeant Nathan Davis of the Charleston police, and returned to the custody of the Naval authorities on June 30, 1862; Davis received the reward of $10. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 749; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 123.]

E. Goodrich, served as a clerk in the Navy Department at Richmond, Virginia, March, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, V - Governmental relationships, VA - Administration, etc., Miscellaneous, page 27.]

Hiram G. Goodrich, born Alabama, about 1830 (1860 U.S. Census shows his state of birth as Missouri); resided as an engineer, in 1860, at New Orleans, Louisiana; previous service as private, company A, 1st (Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry, enlisted at New Orleans, April 9, 1861; on daily duty as engineer at the General Hospital, New Orleans; discharged April 1, 1862; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, August 5, 1863; served on the CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, 1863-1864; surrendered at Mobile, Alabama, May 4, 1865; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Booth 2, 55; Porter's Naval History, 785; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census.]

John Goodsir, 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.]

John F. Goodson, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, and was transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief; also served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station in 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 and 762-764.]

John F. Goodson, originally served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; later served as p.m. (?) aboard the stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga ; rated ship's steward as from October 1, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NI- Promotions......reinstatement; CSS Georgia - Miscellaneous, page 13.]

Henry B. Goodwin, served in the Confederate States Navy, in North Carolina; paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 17, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 659.]

James Goodwin, served as a private in Company E, 6th 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.]

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

Matthew Peterson Goodwyn (first name also shown as Mathew), born Virginia, 1844; son of Edward A. and Martha C. Goodwyn; resided with his parents, in July, 1860, at Petersburg County, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 21, 1860, from which he resigned; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 3rd class, July 8, 1861; served on the Richmond station, and on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861 - 1863; involved in Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863; appointed 2nd lieutenant on September 25, 1863, for "gallant and meritorious conduct in the capture of the United States gunboats 'Satellite' and 'Reliance' on the Rappahannock River by the expedition under command of lieutenant John T. Wood, C.S. Navy, on the 23 of August, 1863"; served aboard the steamer CSS Raleigh, 1863 - 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; involved in the capture of the United States steamers Satellite and Reliance (his wife indicated that he captured a pistol in this action), off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863, and was promoted for this action; attached to the James River squadron; detached from the batteries at Drewry's Bluff, James River, on September 23, 1863, and ordered to proceed to Wilmington, North Carolina, to await further orders; sent to Canada and Bermuda by authority of the Confederate government; also served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, 1864; stationed at the Howlett battery, James River, June, 1864; commanded Battery McIntosh, James River Squadron, 1864; ordered to take command of the newly constructed Battery Semmes, James River, September, 1864; later aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, 1865; sent to hospital for a sprained ankle, January, 1865; resided with his wife at Petersburg, Virginia, after the war; died 1882; buried at the Goodwyn Family Cemetery, Sweden Plantation, Petersburg, Virginia 23804. [ORN 1, 2, 824; 1, 10, 632, 677, 745 & 766; 1, 11, 664 & 762; and 2, 1, 299 & 322; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Callahan; Scharf, 193; 1860 U.S. Census; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site; New York Times dated October 26, 1860; Washington Post (Washington D.C.) dated March 16, 1898, page 4; 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; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 484; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 304 - 317.]

Anthon Gorcia (name also shown as Antonio Goschai), born Funchal; private, Confederate States Marine Corps; aged 29; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Wednesday, April 1, 1863; ORN 1, 14, 268.]

H.H. Gorden, 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.]

---- Gordon, fireman, cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]

Charles Gordon (also Charles Jourdan), born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 29, as private, company H, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy sometime after December, 1862. [Booth 2, 59.]

Charles C. Gordon
, served as private, 34th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also C.C. Gordon, private of company A, 7th South Carolina Cavalry). [Civil War Service Records.]

Henry Gordon, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Jamestown,1861; deserted at an unspecified date. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 412.]

Henry M. Gordon
, served as seaman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, in 1861; appointed gunner's mate aboard the vessel, from June, 1861; later appointed as acting gunner, August 16, 1861, and served aboard the floating battery New Orleans; dismissed from the service, at Columbus, Kentucky, on January 15, 1862, for mutinous conduct towards his superior officer, and for drunkenness; later re-appointed on March 5, 1863, and served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; his appointment was revoked on June 25, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 307; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 862; 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), pages 224, 486 and 488; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 983 and 1121.]

I. R. Gordon, served as landsman on the ironclad CSS Richmond, James River squadron, 1865; transferred, permanently, to the gunboat CSS Drewry, James River squadron, on January 4, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 943.]

J. H. Gordon, served as coal heaver 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 Gordon, second class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

James G. Gordon, born 1818, or 1827, Anderson County, South Carolina; enlisted July 5, 1861, at Ocala, in Company E, Second Florida Infantry; discharged September 25, 1862; reenlisted, September 26, 1862, in Tampa, and transferred to Confederate States Navy, May 2, 1864. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 183.]

Thomas Gordon, who served in the Confederate States Navy, is buried at Chestnut Street Cemetery, Apalachicola, Florida. [John E. Ellis]

William H. Gordon, previously served as Private, Company F, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, April, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, November 26, 1861; served at New Orleans Station, 1861, and Jackson, Mississippi, Station, 1862. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 341.]

James W. Gore, ordinary seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

James E. Gorham, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

M. Gorham
, coal heaver, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

Michael Gorham, ordinary seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Thomas Gorley
, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]

Augustus Gorloff, born Sweden, about 1840; served as quarter gunner aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for fever on Monday, June 1st, 1863, Saturday, June 27, 1863, and Saturday, August 15, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

George Gorman, received aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on June 19, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 750.]

James Gorman
, ordinary seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

John Gorman, served as private, company A, 15th (Lucas') Battalion, South Carolina Heavy Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; deserted at Charleston, but was apprehended by the city police and returned aboard the CSS Indian Chief on October 25, 1862. [Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 759.]

Michael Gorman, served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida; also served aboard the Clarence, Archer and the Tacony; captured off Portland, Maine, June 27, 1863, and sent to Fort Warren, for confinement; released and sent to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged. [Fort Warren; ; Portland, Maine, Eastern Argus dated Monday, June 29, 1863; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]

William Gorman, enlisted, for one year, as 1st steward aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, on September 20, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

William Gorman, served as landsman 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.]

William Gorme, served as ship's cook 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 2.]

John Gormez, see John Gomez.

Marsaline Gormez
, left London, England on December 30, 1863, for Brest, France, where he joined the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 2, 1864, for service as a seaman. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 347.]

Crawford H. Gormley
, born Virginia, about 1839; son of John and Hannah Gormley; resided, before the war, with his parents at Norfolk, Virginia; appointed gunner, Confederate States Navy, May 11, 1863; involved in Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863; detached from the James River Squadron, on September 23, 1863, and ordered to proceed to Wilmington, North Carolina, and await further orders; sent to Canada and Bermuda on the authority of the Confederate government; travelled from Halifax, Nova Scotia, to Bermuda, aboard the steamer Alpha, in December, 1863; served aboard the CSS Richmond and the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron, 1864; because he was absent from his vessel, CSS Fredericksburg, beyond a specified period of leave, he was confined to the vessel for a period of two weeks as of December 27, 1864, except on duty, by order of flag officer John K. Mitchell; Gormley's rank, in the dispatch from Mitchell is noted to have been a 2nd lieutenant. [ORN 1, 2, 824 and 1, 10, 632; Register1864; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate States Navy subject file N - NJ - Discipline; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 319 - 332 and 535.]

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

Joseph Gosh, served as landsman aboard the CSS Juno, 1863, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, South Carolina, on the night of August 6, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]

John W. Gossett (surname also shown as Gossitt), shipped, on June 6, 1863, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Oconee, off Thunderbolt, Georgia; served as landsman aboard the CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, 1863; died at the Naval hospital, Savannah, on September 12, 1863; at the time of his death he was reported to have subsisted at the hospital for 53 days; buried Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, on the same day; his widow went to the hospital on September 19, 1863, to claim his effects. [Honeycutt; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated May 19, 1866; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 110-115; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 612.]

Thomas Goston, born Nova Scotia, about 1840; served as seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Monday, August 11, 1862; treated for furunculus on Saturday, August 30, 1862; treated again for a fever, on Saturday, September 6, 1862, and on Tuesday, October 7, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

Edward Gottheil
, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, January 30, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS McRae, for duty; shown as a Navy agent at New Orleans in early 1862; also served on the Jackson station, 1862; resigned April 4, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 490; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OX - Lines of supply and supply ships; Ships - Miscellaneous, page 222.]

Charles Gould, shipped as steward aboard the revenue cutter Morgan, Mobile, Alabama, on September 1, 1861; served aboard the vessel 1861-1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1162 and 1166.]

Louis Gounart (surname also shown as Gounard), acting midshipman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864; rank also shown as colonel, and held the position of professor in the Confederate States Navy; stated to have been a prisoner of war at an unspecified period; went to Charleston, South Carolina, in December, 1864, and then to France, for an unknown reason. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Richmond Daily Examiner dated Monday, December 19, 1864.]

Christopher Gowil, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]

A. K. Graalmann, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and as steward aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, at Jackson, Mississippi, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 62; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Richmond (provisions) - revenue marine, page 822.]

James Grady, born Washington, D.C.; landsman, CSS Atlanta, 1862; aged 23. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Tuesday, December 16, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 275.]

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

John Grady, born Ireland, about 1839; came from New Orleans, to Mobile, about March or April, 1862; served as fireman on the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for rheumatism in his right hip, and thigh, on Saturday, June 14, 1862; Grady had suffered from this condition for two about two years; transferred to the receiving ship at Mobile on Sunday, July 6, 1862; condemned by a medical survey on Sunday, November 30, 1862; his disease did not originate in the line of duty. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

John Grady, enlisted August 24, 1862, as boy, CSS Alabama; deserted at Singapore, December 24, 1863; Grady, together with two other deserters from the CSS Alabama, Frank Mahoney and Richard Humbley, were brought up before the court, in Singapore, on January 23, 1864,charged with assault upon some petty officers and crew of the British warships, the HMS Saracen and HMS Rifleman, and were fined 50 rupees each or the alternative of 2 months imprisonment in the House of Correction with hard labour in default of payment. [Sinclair; Straits Times (Singapore) dated 23 January, 1864.]

Timothy J. Grady, resident of New York; acting first assistant engineer; attempted to seize steamer, Salvador, running from Panama to the port of San Francisco; captured by the USS Lancaster, November, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 302 & 355.]

William F. Grady, served as a private in company C, Confederate States Marine Corps (see also, William F. Grady, company C, 2nd Battalion, Virginia I.L.D. (?). [Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 677.]

Maurice Graeme, served as landsman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 849.]

Charles Grafe (surname also shown as Graft), born Germany; shipped as landsman (Alabama Claims source incorrectly shows his rating as seaman) aboard the CSS Shenandoah, June 24, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log.]

Joseph D. Grafton, born Missouri; citizen of, and appointed from, Arkansas; previous service in the United States Navy, from December 23, 1859; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon, June 6, 1861; captured aboard the CSS Louisiana, at New Orleans, April, 1862, and held as prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, 1862; later on the Jackson station, 1862; promoted passed assistant surgeon, October 21, 1862; reported for duty aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, November 4, 1862; Maffitt stated that Grafton "enjoys the reputation of being an excellent surgeon"; drowned May 29, 1863, when the boat he was in was upset while crossing the bar at Rocas Island [Bermuda?]. [ORN 1, 1, 768; 1, 2, 652, 673 & 680; 1, 18, 317 and 2, 1, 318; ORA 2, 3; Register1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 962.]

Thomas Grafton, see Thomas Grattan.

Allen Graham, originally enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and later served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Florida, Mobile station, 1861; later rated as ward room cook, from February 4, 1862, aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, off New Madrid. [St. Philips; Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 336 and 340.]

Charles Graham, carpenter'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 550.]

Daniel Graham, formerly of New Orleans, Louisiana; indicated to have had a commission as a Confederate Navy officer; commanded the steamer Cumberland, 1863; no further data. [ORN 1, 17, 644.]

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

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

James Graham, Fireman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

James Graham, resident of Liverpool, England; occupation, fireman (may have been the same James Graham, occupation shown as mariner, residing at 36, Exmouth Street, Everton, Liverpool, England, in 1862); shipped aboard the CSS Rappahannock, at Calais, France, in February, 1864; deserted the vessel, March, 1864. [Alabama Claims 2, 746-747; Gores, 1862.]

James Graham, served as ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy; captured at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, April 3, 1865; paroled at Richmond, Virginia, April 17, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 659.]

John M. Graham (middle initial also shown as N.), ordinary seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; later served on the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277, 294 - 296; DANFS.]

Owen Graham, born Ireland, about 1841; shipped at Mobile, Alabama; served as landsman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for rheumatism on Saturday, August 2, 1862; treated for a fever on Monday, August 4, 1862; transferred for further treatment, to the hospital on shore, on Friday, August 8, 1862; returned to the vessel at a later stage, and reported for treatment, again, with a fever, on Wednesday, September 17, 1862; treated with sublaxation of the knee joint, on Thursday, January 29th, 1863; reported with a fever on Friday, February 13, 1863, and again on Friday, April 24th, 1863; treated on Saturday, June 20, 1863; condition illegible; again treated for a fever on Friday, July 3, 1863, Thursday, July 30, 1863, and Wednesday, August 12, 1863; later served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, in 1865, and surrendered and paroled aboard the vessel, at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]

T.J. Graham, served as private, company G, 15th Confederate Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, Murphy's Battalion, Alabama Cavalry). [Civil War Service Records.]

William Graham
, enlisted for the war, as ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on August 5, 1862, and served aboard the CSS Huntress; deserted from the vessel on August 14, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 170; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 443.]

William H. Graham, served as private in company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed at Mobile in 1864, and later at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864; attached, as assistant sergeant, to company B, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 314; M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1082.]

John L. Grahl, 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.]

Antonio Graise, born Fayal, Portugal, about 1834; served as seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for dysentery on Wednesday, May 14, 1862; transferred to the receiving ship at Mobile on Friday, May 16, 1862; returned to the CSS Gaines at some stage, and was later treated for dysentery, on Tuesday, July 1, 1862; transferred to the hospital on shore on Sunday, July 6, 1862; on Sunday, August 3, 1862, Graise was condemned by a Medical Survey, and discharged from the Confederate Navy. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

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

George J. Granger (surname also shown as Grainger), originally served as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS Sampson; recommended for promotion to 3rd assistant engineer, for good conduct in the capture of the USS Water Witch, at Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, June, 1864; promoted July 23, 1864; served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga, Savannah Squadron, 1863 - 1864; later served aboard the CSS Macon, 1865; services dispensed with on January 28, 1865. [ORN 1, 15, 502 & 505 and 2, 1, 289; CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 712.]

John P. Granger, served as landsman aboard the CSS Spray, St. Marks, Florida; paroled at St. Marks, May 12, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 659.]

Alexander Grant, jr.
, born New Orleans, Louisiana, July, 1825; appointed lieutenant for the war, Confederate States Navy, May 5, 1863 (another Naval document shows appointment date as April 29, 1863); commanded the CSS General Quitman, 1862; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, as acting executive officer, 1864, and at the Naval Station, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1863 - 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; married in 1877; resided, in 1900, with his wife, Mary and three children, at Pensacola, Florida; died 1902; buried at St. Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola. [ORN 1, 18, 249 and 2, 1, 291; JCC 4, 122; Register1864; Booth 2, 78; John E. Ellis; 1900 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (January - June, 1864), page 138; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 492.]

Anthony Grant, enlisted as landsman, at the Savannah squadron, for three years or the war, on May 16, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 748.]

Edward M. Grant, qualified, on June 7, 1864, to served as a private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Richmond station. [ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 462.]

George Grant, born Scotland, about 1827; served as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; transferred to the CSS Atlanta on December 8, 1862; rating also shown as engineer's yeoman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; later served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, and the CSS Isondiga, 1863-1864; Grant was tried by court martial, and his pay stopped, about August, 1863, but the Navy Department released him from the sentence, his pay continued, August 19, 1863; deserted from the CSS Isondiga, on the night of the evacuation of Savannah, Georgia. [Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry dated Friday, December 19, 1862; ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 289; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 617; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 592; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 59; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 543.]

James O. Grant, born Kentucky; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant surgeon, August 31, 1863; served on the receiving ship, CSS Indian Chief, Charleston station, 1863 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; attached, as assistant surgeon, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [CSN Register; JCC 4, 123; Register1864; M1091.]

John Grant, served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, about 1864; transferred to the CSS Macon at an unspecified date; captain of after guard, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as orderly sergeant to company G, 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, page 665.]
M.J. Grant, served as private, company a, 22nd Battalion, Georgia Heavy Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Samuel B. Grant, qualified, on June 7, 1864, to serve in company C of the Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Richmond station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 462; ORN 2, 1, 315.]

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

Thomas Grattan (or Grafton), quartermaster; involved in an attempt to seize a steamer running from Panama to the port of San Francisco. [ORN 1, 3, 302.]

A. R. Graulman, served as ward room steward 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 320, 325 and 329.]
Charles Iverson Graves (Register1863 incorrectly shows his middle initial as J.), born Longwood, Newton County, Georgia, July 26, 1838; son of John Williams Graves and his wife, Martha Hinton Graves; original service in the United States Navy, from December 17, 1853; appointed 1st lieutenant, Confederate States Navy, December 27, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1862; later on the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1862 - 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; also served, as flag lieutenant, on ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; post war occupation as teacher, and then as a farmer near Rome Georgia; served as a lieutenant colonel in the Egyptian Army, 1875 - 1878; later a civil engineer on construction of the Georgia Pacific and Memphis and Vicksburg railroads, 1881 - 1884; married Margaret Lea; died of heart failure at Rome, Georgia, October, 1896. [ORN 1, 11, 664 & 690 and 2, 1, 292, 311 & 321; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; SHC-UNC; see also his papers held at Auburn University, Alabama; Macon Telegraph (Macon, Georgia) dated November 1, 1896, page 10.]

George W. Graves
, served as seaman aboard the CSS Fanny, 1861-1862 and aboard the CSS Raleigh, 1862 - 1864; transferred, in exchange for private Lemuel B. Gray, as private, to company B, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops, on or about January 15, 1864; killed in action at Plymouth, April 20, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 285 & 301; NCT 4, 537.]

Henry Lee Graves, born Georgia; enlisted August 7, 1861, as private, company B, 2nd Battalion Georgia Volunteer Infantry; discharged for disability at Georgia Barracks, Norfolk, Virginia, January 19, 1862; appointed 2nd lieutenant in the Confederate States Marine Corps, October 24, 1862; ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, in July, 1863, and to take charge of the Marine guard of that vessel; nominated as 1st lieutenant, December, 1863; ordered to report to Flag Officer Tattnall, commanding Savannah Station, February 1, 1864; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 14, 731 and 2, 1, 305; M1091; Georgia Rosters 6, 787.]

J. D. Graves, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at Savannah, Georgia, and accepted his appointment on February 22, 1864; ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Savannah. [Confederate Navy subject file, N - Personnel, NN - Acceptances, applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances - appointments of officers (A-K), pages 16 and 494.]

Jacob Graves, ship's cook, side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute, Savannah river area, Georgia, 1862 - 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 303.]

John Graves, indicated to have served on land, and as a Confederate marine; buried at the Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

John F. Graves
, born Bladen County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Bladen County, May 3, 1861, aged 30, as private, company B, 18th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 3, 1864. [NCT 6, 325.]

William A. Graves, appointed acting constructor, Confederate States Navy, March 22,1862; served on the Richmond station, and at Rocketts Navy Yard, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 1, 11, 759 & 770; Register1862; Register1864.]

William W. Graves, born North Carolina; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon for the war, April 7, 1862; served at the Naval rendezvous, Mobile, Alabama, 1862 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; attached to the CSS Danube, until the sinking of that vessel on August 7, 1864, then sent on shore duty; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; Porter's Naval History 785; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XP - Pay and Allowances, Paymaster's Accounts - Miscellaneous, page 529.]

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

Benjamin Gray
, listed as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy; captured at New Bern, North Carolina, February 2, 1864; 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.]

Benjamin F. Gray
(surname also shown as Grey), seaman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864; also served as seaman aboard the CSS Roanoke, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 542.]

Benjamin H. Gray
, African American; born North Carolina, 1852; enlisted, at the age of 12, as powder boy, CSS Albemarle; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Margaret, and three children (eldest child born 1874), at Whites, Bertie County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Bertie County, North Carolina; his widow, Margaret Gray, also later applied for a pension from the same county. [NC State Archives; see also his image, and service information, on page 152 of the publication, Divided Allegiances: Bertie County During the Civil War, by Gerald W. Thomas; published 1996, by the North Carolina Division of Archives and History; 1880 U.S. Census.]

David Gray, indicated as being a sailor in the Confederate States Navy; robbed of $500 by fellow sailors, Patrick Stack and George Rawlings, at Richmond, Virginia, June, 1864. [Richmond, Virginia Sentinel dated June 22, 1864; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia)
dated June 22, 1864.]

Edmund Gray, originally served as private, company D, 38th Alabama Infantry, March, 1862 - July 20, 1864; then indicated to have joined the Navy, as a private (?), July 20, 1864; discharged May 20, 1865; resided, in 1890, at District 3, Fayette, Jefferson County, Mississippi. [Veterans Census.]

Edward Gray, born November 7, 1845, in Crawford County, Georgia; originally enlisted March 15, 1862, in company C, 5th Florida Infantry; discharged for disability, at Leon County, August, 1862; enlisted, March, 1863, in the Confederate States Navy, and served as landsman aboard the CSS Spray; paroled May 15, 1865, at Tallahassee, Florida; post war, farmer; married Eliza Moody, June 29, 1870, at Leon County, Florida; died at Leon County, on October 2, 1918. [See Florida Confederate Pension File no. A02096; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 659.]

Edwin F. Gray, born Virginia (Register1863 shows state of birth as Texas); appointed from Texas; previous service United States Navy; appointed lieutenant for the war, Confederate States Navy, March 18, 1862; service not accepted. [Texas in the War, 1861-1865, page 56; Register1863.]

Francis Gray, Seaman, cruiser CSS Georgia, shipped from prize vessel, Constitution, June, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 815.]

James Gray, resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy [may be the same person mentioned in the next entry]. [Norfolk County Record 201.]

James Gray (name also shown as John A. Gray), pilot; served aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862. [ORN 1, 7, 49.]

James H. Gray, captain of top, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

John Gray, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, April 1, 1861, as private, companies A and C, 1st (Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March or April, 1864. [Booth 2, 86.]

John Gray, born Bolivar, Maryland, about 1839; previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 8, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as landsman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, as landsman, in July, 1864, to the CSS Macon, and on which he later served as 2nd class fireman, 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 Gray, born Norfolk, Virginia, about September, 1841; served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy; witnessed the battle between the USS Monitor and the CSS Virginia, March, 1862; after the war he attended the University of Virginia, and later practiced law for twenty years in New York; later occupied as a peddler; applied to the American Legion State Adjutant, at Baltimore, Maryland, Arthur McGee, in August, 1930, for admittance to a Confederate home. [New York Times dated Wednesday, August 6, 1930.]

John J. Gray, 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.]

L. Gray, recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on April 14, 1863, as a private in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 683.]

Lemuel B. Gray, born, resided in, as a sailor, and enlisted at Currituck County, North Carolina, August 1, 1861, aged 28, as private, company B, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; shown in 1860 to be a resident at a boarding house in Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, on or about January 15, 1864, in exchange for private George W. Graves; served aboard the CSS Roanoke, in 1864, and aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, and rated quartermaster from January 1, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [NCT 4, 537; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page s268 and 270-271; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 542.]

Samuel Gray, deserted from the CSS North Carolina; went aboard the USS Shenandoah, off Wilmington, October, 1863; subsequently sent to Union admiral Samuel P. Lee for interrogation. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 403; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 471.]

Silas Gray (surname also shown as Grey), enlisted as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861, and served aboard the CSS Florida (later re-named the CSS Selma); rated as quarter gunner from November 1, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 427-428.]

Spencer Gray (first name also shown as Spence), seaman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864; also served as quartermaster aboard the CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864; married Mary E. Berry at Currituck County, North Carolina, in 1870. [ORN 2, 1, 274 & 301; North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741 - 2000 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Thaddeus S. Gray, originally served in the Norfolk Juniors, company H, 12th Virginia Regiment; later detailed on secret service for the Confederate government, and appointed master's mate, Confederate States Navy; based at Savannah, Georgia, 1864; involved in the taking out of the USS Water Witch, June 3, 1864; served on the CSS Macon, 1865; in a dispatch in the Confederate Navy subject files, there is a listing of officers of the Navy who were described as unfit to remain in service, and Gray is shown as being, at that date (in April, 1865) as being in a Confederate prison "for an extensive felony against the Confederate States in stealing and selling mules and wagons committed to his charge by flag officer Josiah Tattnall on the evacuation of Savannah"; shown as a prisoner, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 15, 482 & 499; CSS Macon Rolls; Norfolk County Record 289; Confederate States Navy subject files - NP]

Thomas Gray (surname also shown as Grey), enlisted for the war, in the Confederate States Navy, as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Huntress, at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 31, 1862; later served as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston station, 1863-1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 168 and 749.]

Thomas P. Gray, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Caldwell County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

William Gray, captain of top, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

William Henry Harrison Gray, born October 9, 1844, at Bibb County, Georgia; resided in Florida since he was an infant; enlisted at Tallahassee, Florida, March 11, 1862, in company K, 5th Florida Infantry; discharged for disability (blindness) at Camp Leon, Tallahassee, June 12 or 15, 1862; returned to service "as a guard" about 1863; served on CSS Spray and paroled at St. Marks, Florida, May, 1865; still a resident of Florida, 1912. [Soldiers of Florida, 152; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A06974.]

Henry Grayling, seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

William Greary
, cook, side wheeled steamer CSS Talomico, Savannah, Georgia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]

John Greely (first name also shown as James), served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861, and 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, paged 54 and 268.]

Bennett Wood Green, born Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from August 21, 1859; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon, May 23, 1861; served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862, and aboard the CSS Pamlico; later served on the Jackson station, 1862; afterward served at the Naval Hospital, Richmond, and on the Richmond station, 1862 - 1863; promoted passed assistant surgeon, October 25, 1862; on special duty, 1864; appointed passed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; sent aboard the CSS Stonewall, January, 1865; shown as a doctor, boarding at the Atlantic Hotel, Norfolk, Virginia, in 1890; shown as a practising surgeon at Richmond, Virginia, in 1907. [ORN 1, 3, 730 and 2, 1, 318, 320 & 322; Register1863; Register1864; Virginia Historical Society; JCC 4, 123; Norfolk, Virginia Directories, 1888 - 1891 at the Ancestry.com web site; see also, the Richmond Examiner, 1907, list of surviving Confederate Navy (www.csnavy.org) personnel at the web site of John E. Ellis; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MA - Administration of hospitals and medical departments; Brest - Miscellaneous, page 452.]

Charles Green, left London, England on December 30, 1863, for Brest, France, where he joined the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 2, 1864, for service as a seaman; rated coxswain on the same day; witness in the court martial cases against John Gomez and Edward Vickopuskis, for mutinous conduct, September, 1864; captured aboard the cruiser, October 7, 1864, off Bahia, Brazil. [ORN 1, 3, 256; CSS Florida court martial 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, pages 347 and 390.]

D.D. Green, served aboard the CSS Indian Chief; later transferred to the CSS Pee Dee; also served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Rutherford County, North Carolina (see also the entry for J.R. Street, who served aboard the same vessels). [NC State Archives; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]

Daniel Smith Green, born Culpeper County, Virginia, 1813; previous service in the United States Navy, from October 18, 1833; resided as a United States Naval officer, in 1860, with his wife and four children, at Culpeper County, Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as surgeon, June 20, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1864; based at the Medical Department, in Richmond, Virginia, 1864; described as being a "faithful and experienced officer" and as having an "invariably kind and courteous demeanor"; sent on leave from January 1, 1864, and died of disease, at Lynchburg, Virginia on March 5, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 321 and 2, 2, 647; Register1863; Ed Milligan; 1860 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated March 15, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 117.]

David Green, landsman, 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.]

David Green (1), landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

David Green (2), landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

David Green, (colored) boy, ordered, on May 9, 1864, to be transferred from Drewry's Bluff to the James River squadron, for service aboard the CSS Virginia II. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 315.]

Derby Green, enlisted for the war, as coal heaver in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Huntress, at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 31, 1862; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 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 168 and 749.]

Edward Green, Seaman, CSS Arctic, August, 1862. [ORN 1, 23, 703.]

Francis B. Green, Landsman, CSS Alert, 1861; later appointed acting master's mate, 1863; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785; Register1864; ORN 2, 1, 275.]

George Green, private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861; later stationed aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; also served in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Richmond, James River, 1864, and later stationed at Drewry's Bluff, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 280, 313 & 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 390.]

George Green, aged 14 (in 1864); indicted at the city court, on Thursday, May 19, 1864, for breaking and entering the premises of Charles Eckhart, at Richmond, Virginia; discharged from prosecution because of his status, and because his parents had enlisted him in the Confederate States Navy for seven years (as an apprentice). [Richmond Daily Examiner dated May 20, 1864.]

Henry Green, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; attached as private to company E, 1st Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; M1091.]

I. Green, see Israel Greene.

J.C. Green, see J.C. Greene.

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

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

J. W. Green (middle initial also shown as H.), served aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864, and later aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 849.]

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

James Green, served as 1st class fireman in the Confederate States Navy, and worked upon the CSS Jackson, at New Orleans, in June, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 866.]

James Foy Green (surname also shown as Greene), born North Carolina; resided at Fayetteville, North Carolina, where he was employed at the Arsenal, prior to his service in the Confederate States Navy; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 2nd assistant engineer, January 29, 1863; served on the Wilmington station, and on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864; attached as lieutenant to Semmes' Naval Brigade, for special service, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 301 & 323; Register1864; M1091; Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina) dated February 2, 1863.]

John E. Green, enlisted at Monroe, Louisiana, May 6, 1862, as private, company E, 31st Louisiana Infantry; transferred to a Confederate States gunboat, February 17, 1863; also shown on a Roll of Prisoners of War captured by the Union and paroled at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 4, 1863. [Booth 2, 93.]

Joseph P. Green, Steward; native and resident of Memphis, Tennessee; served aboard CSN transport at Shreveport, Louisiana; deserted September 26, 1864, going aboard the USS Benton, off Fairchild's Island, on October 8, 1864. [ORN 1, 26, 540-1.]

Martin Green, served as seaman aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, 1863; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863, and served 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 Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 779.]

Moses Green, recruited as a 2nd class boy in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous, Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 444.]

Saunders Green, private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315.]

T. B. Green, 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 678.]

T. Ritchie Green, appointed paymaster's clerk in the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, by paymaster George H. Ritchie, on May 7, 1862, and ordered to proceed to Charleston, South Carolina, for duty. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 726.]

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

William Green, born England; resided in Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia, in 1865; served as fireman aboard CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 882 and 977.]

William Green, mustered in, May 13, 1862, to Company E, Eighth Florida Infantry; transferred to Navy at Wilmington, February 27, 1862. [Soldiers of Florida, 196.]

William Green, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 6, New Orleans station, 1861; later served aboard the CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, from October 15, 1861; rated as boatswain's mate from November 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 49, 265 and 267.]

E.F. Greene, born about 1851; indicated to have served in the Confederate States Navy at the age of 14 (in 1865); later served in the United States Army transport service, and pilotted the lead vessel in the United States fleet through the Strait of Magellan, in 1907. [San Francisco Call dated December 21, 1907, page 5.]

Edward Greene, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (may be the same person listed in the next entry). [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

Edward Greene, landsman, 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 (may be the same person listed in the previous entry). [ORN 2, 1, 282; DANFS.]

Israel C. Greene
(surname also shown as Green), born New York. 1825; appointed from Virginia; previous service in the United States Marine Corps, from March 3, 1847; involved in the capture of John Brown at Harper's Ferry, in 1859; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Marine Corps, May 17, 1861; appointed adjutant, with rank of major, Confederate States Marine Corps, June 19, 1861; served at headquarters, Richmond, and at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1864; resided as a surveyor and farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Edmona S. Greene, and four sons, at Davison County, Dakota Territory; died May 25, 1909; buried Mitchell, South Dakota; stated to have resided in South Dakota since 1873. [John E. Ellis; ORA 1, 36/2; 1880 U.S. Census; Register1864; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; New York Times dated Thursday, May 27, 1909.]

James Foy Greene,
see James Foy Green.

John C. Greene (surname also shown as Green), paid the sum of $8.00 as transportation expenses, February 26, 1864, for travel from Atlanta, Georgia, to Savannah, to join company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps, into which he had been recruited; served as private in the Corps, aboard the CSS Macon, 1865; attached to the Shell Bluff battery, on the Savannah River, in February, 1865; sent to Augusta, Georgia, February 26, 1865, in charge of two Union prisoners. [CSS Macon Rolls; ORN 1, 16, 509; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 404.]

William Greenfield, served in captain Thom's company of the Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Pensacola Navy Yard, Warrington, Florida, in 1861; acting constructor John Hoodless, serving at the Navy Yard, made a request for several soldiers and marines, including Greenfield, on September 23, 1861, to work on the steamer Fulton. [Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PI - Industrial activity; Montgomery - Pensacola, page 570.]

Jacob Greenhoff, served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, 1863 - 1864; rated as quartermaster from January 15, 1864; disrated to seaman on May 21, 1864; deserted September 15, 1864. [ORN 1, 26. 810 and 2, 1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1011 and 1021.]

James W.B. Greenhow
(surname also shown as Greenhough), born Georgia; previous service in the United States Navy, from April 24, 1847; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as surgeon, August 2, 1861; captured at Elizabeth City, North Carolina, February 10, 1862; paroled at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 12, 1862; later served on the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, the CSS Arctic and at the Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1862 - 1864; appointed surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served as fleet surgeon at Wilmington, 1864; buried at the Old Chapel Hill Cemetery, Chapel Hill, North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 276, 313 & 323; Register1862; Register1863; ORA 2, 3; JCC 4, 123; Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 109; Scharf, 391; burial information sent by Terry Hambrecht, in an e-mail (thambrecht@comcast.net) dated September 15, 2005.]

S.B. Greenland, ship's steward, screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]

J. Greenough, 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.]

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

James Greenwood, originally served as private, company D (Virginia Artillery), 9th Virginia Infantry, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy. [Norfolk County Record 76.]

George W. Greeson, served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 16, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 313; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 659.]

W. W. Gregg, served as clerk at the Pee Dee Naval station, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PL - Labor and civil personnel; Albany - Richmond, page 427.]

Iowa Gregory (first name also shown as Jago and Iago), born North Carolina, 1843; residing, in 1850, with Edward and Nancy Franklin (may have been adopted parents), at Pasquotank County, North Carolina; served as landsman aboard the CSS Winslow, North Carolina; later served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Sea Bird; captured at (Cobb's Point Battery) Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862; paroled and returned to Norfolk, Virginia, February 19, 1862. [Scharf, 391; 1850 U.S. Census; ORN 2, 1, 312; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February 19, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 779.]

J.D. Gregory, landsman, 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.]

Nicholas Gregory, served as seaman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; died on March 6, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 990.]

Samuel S. Gregory, born North Carolina, 1844; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 24, 1859; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, June 20, 1861; served on the Richmond station, and on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1861 - 1863; appointed passed midshipman, October 3, 1862; promoted master in line of promotion, January 7, 1864; on special service, 1864; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served at Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1864. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 11, 772 and 2, 1, 301 & 322; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122.]

Stephen D. Gregory, born Pasquotank County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at the age of 20 (place and date of enlistment not reported), as private, company E, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Organizaation); transferred to the Confederate States Navy prior to July 28, 1861; served aboard the CSS Fanny, 1861. [NCT 6, 152; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 330.]

George A. Grelter, see George A. Gulter.

Benjamin F. Grey, see Benjamin F. Gray.

James Grey, served on the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, New Inlet, North Carolina; deserted October 9, 1863, and taken aboard the USS Shenandoah, off Beaufort, North Carolina; later sent to Hampton Roads, Virginia, for further questioning. [ORN 1, 9, 235.]

John Grey, shown as Private aboard Launch No. 1, Confederate States Navy; listed as a deserter, December 9, 1862. [Information supplied by Arthur Bergeron, Louisiana.]

Thomas Grey, served as coal heaver 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.]

R. Davis Gribble, served as private, company C, 18th Battalion, Alabama Volunteers; promoted sergeant; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as coal heaver on the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, and as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865, and was rated as 1st class fireman from January 1, 1865. [Civil War Service Records; ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 268; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 850 and 853.]

Isaac W. Grice (ORN incorrectly shows his first initial as J.), born Sampson County, North Carolina, 1836; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Sampson County, May 16, 1862, as private, company C, 5th Regiment North Carolina; appointed sergeant, June 4, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 21, 1864; served as landsman on the steamer Roanoke, James River squadron; wounded in action on the James River, January 24, 1865; resided as a mechanic, in 1880, with his wife, Susan, and two daughters, at Smithfield, Johnston County, North Carolina. [NCT 2, 391; ORN 1, 11, 689; 1880 U.S. Census.]

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

J.R. Griffin, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

James Griffin, shipped, for the war, as 2nd class fireman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, from May 1, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 602.]

John Griffin, Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

John Griffin, Landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

John Griffin, born Camden County, North Carolina; enlisted July 7, 1863, aged 22, as private, company B, 68th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864. [NCT 15, 537.]

John H. Griffin, originally served in company H, 4th Louisiana Volunteers; transferred from lieutenant general Polk's Army at Brandon, Mississippi, to the Confederate States Navy, by special order no. 309, Adjutant and Inspector General's office, dated at Richmond, Virginia, December 30, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer William F. Lynch, at Wilmington, North Carolina; sent on to report to admiral Franklin Buchanan's command at Mobile, Alabama, by another order dated at Richmond, on January 7, 1864. [Confederate States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers.]

Thomas J. Griffin, born South Carolina, October, 1842 (1900 U.S. Census shows year of birth as 1837); married about 1861; served as ordinary seaman on the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, 1862; also served, as ship's cook aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Sampson, Savannah, Georgia, 1863; resided as a laborer, in 1880, with his wife Margaret, and five children (eldest child born South Carolina, 1862), at Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia; moved from South Carolina to Georgia sometime between 1862 and 1869; his widow, Margaret Griffin, later filed for a post war Confederate pension from Richmond County, Georgia; shown as a farmer residing at Augusta, Richmond County, Georgia, in 1900. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 303; GA Pension Index 404; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]

William Griffith, served aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1862; discharged in the 4th quarter of 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1065 and 1200.]

John Griffiths, born England; shipped aboard the CSS Shenandoah, October 18, 1864; rated coxswain, November 9, 1864; also captain of mizzentop; reshipped May 8, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 975; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 65, 148 & 235; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

John Griffiths (surname also shown as Griffith), officers' cook and seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]

William Wilbert Griggs, born Virginia, January, 1841 (1900 U.S. Census shows state of birth as North Carolina); original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant surgeon, May 1, 1863; attached to the Wilmington station, 1863; ordered to report for temporary duty at Charleston, South Carolina, in September, 1863; returned to the Wilmington station, and served on the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; also served on Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1864; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as a physician, in 1900, with his wife, Johanna B., and two children, at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina; died at Elizabeth City, May 6, 1907. [ORN 1, 10, 767; 1, 11, 772; 1, 15, 11 and 2, 1, 293, 295 & 296; Confederate Veteran 16, 48 & X; JCC 4, 123; Register1864; M1091; 1900 U.S. Census.]

John Grimball (first name also shown as Jack), born South Carolina, April 18, 1840; son of Southern planter, John Berkeley Grimball and his wife, Mary; previous service as midshipman, United States Navy, from September 23, 1854; resided with his parents, in 1860, at Charleston, South Carolina; entered the Confederate States Navy, May 2, 1861; appointed acting lieutenant, and served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862; service aboard the CSS Capitol and the CSS Arkansas, in 1862; appointed 1st lieutenant, February 8, 1862; involved in the action of July 15, 1862, when the Arkansas took passage from the Yazoo River, through the combined Union fleet above Vicksburg; served on the steamer CSS Baltic, 1862 - 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; service abroad, and on the CSS Shenandoah, 1864 - 1865; at the end of the cruise, he went to Mexico, where he resided for about 14 months; returned to Charleston, South Carolina, in January, 1867; studied law, then moved to New York City, where he practiced for sixteen years, before returning to South Carolina; then took up rice planting; later a member of the United Confederate Veterans; met up with fellow ex-officers of the CSS Shenandoah, John Thomson Mason and Dabney Scales, at his home, for "Reunion Week" in Charleston, in May, 1899, and spun their old sailors' yarns; shown residing with his wife, Mary G., and three sons, at Charleston, in 1920; died December 25, 1923. [Alabama Claims 1, 974; ORN 1, 3, 785; 1, 19, 132; 1, 23, 698 and 2, 1, 322; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; photographed in uniform, in France, and included in the Confederate Calendar, March, 1987, original carte de visite in the possession of Lawrence T. Jones; Confederate Sailor 19; Whittle 43-44 & 142; 1860 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census; New York Times dated March 8, 1892; Weekly News and Courier (Charleston, South Carolina) dated May 20, 1899, page 8; Charleston Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862.]

Bartlett A. Grimes, originally served as private, company B (Virginia Riflemen), 3rd Virginia Regiment; wounded at the battle of Sharpsburg, September 17th, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston, South Carolina, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 717; Norfolk County Record 56; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 765-766.]

George W. Grimes, served as a private in Captain Kirkpatrick's Company, Virginia Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, Nelson's Company, Virginia Light Artillery); served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Virginia II, James River squadron, 1864 - 1865. [Civil War Service Records; ORN 2, 1, 311.]

John Grimes, Private, CSMC; born Ireland; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 977; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

Kindrell Lawson Grimmett (surname also shown as Grimmet), resident of Huntsville, Alabama, in 1860; enlisted March 3, 1863, at Blount County, Alabama, and transferred to the Confederate States Marine Corps fifteen days later; served as private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864; sent to Camp Beall, Richmond, Virginia; served aboard the supply vessel, Gallego; transferred to Manchester Navy Yard; surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia. [ADAH; ORN 2, 1, 315; see also Alabama Land Records, available at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 466.]

William D. Grimsley, born Kentucky, 1820 (Register1863 shows state of birth as Alabama); original entry into Confederate States Navy, February 21, 1862; appointed from Alabama, as 2nd assistant engineer, September 24, 1862; served on the CSS Florida, 1862-1863; resigned June 2, 1863; resided as an engineer on a steam boat, in 1880, with his wife, Adela, and four children, at Mobile, Alabama. [Register1862; Register1863; ADAH; 1880 U.S. Census.]

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

Charles Grinnell
, Captain's Steward, cruiser CSS Georgia; shipped from the prize vessel, Dictator, in April, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 812.]

George F. Grinnell, born Maine, 1836; resided, in 1860, at the Warrington Navy Yard, Escambia County, Florida; enlisted in company A, 2nd Florida Infantry; reported missing on the retreat from Yorktown, Virginia, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy; pension papers show no evidence of service in the Navy; resided as a pilot, in 1880, with his wife, Mary T., at Warrington, Florida; second marriage to Allie (maiden name not shown) at Escambia County, August 13, 1884; died at Escambia County, February 15, 1910. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. D19934; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Henry Grisset
, landsman, Provisional Navy; attached as private to company H, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

Thomas B. Grissam, see Thomas B. Grissom.

Edgar A. Grissom (first name also shown as Edward and surname also shown as Grisson), born North Carolina, 1840; enlisted in New Hanover County, North Carolina, October 1, 1861, aged 21, as private, Captain William C. Howard's Cavalry Company; transferred to the "Naval Service," April 11, 1862; served as seaman and pilot on the CSS Arctic, 1862, and as pilot aboard the CSS Yadkin, Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1864; resided as a pilot, in 1880, with his wife Cassey (name also shown as Cassie), at Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Brunswick County, North Carolina; his widow, Cassie Grissom, also later applied for a pension from the same county. [NCT 2, 714; ORN 1, 23, 703 & 2, 1, 279 & 313; NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Robert A. Grissom, born North Carolina, 1849; served in the Confederate States Navy; wife, Savannah Grissom; resided in Weakley County, Tennessee, after the war, as a Confederate pensioner; shown as a farmer, in 1910; still residing at Weakley County, in 1920. [Tennessee Confederate Pension file #S14047, wife's pension file #W10370; 1910 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census.]

T.J. Grissom, 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.]

Thomas B. Grissom (surname also shown as Grissam, and middle initial also shown as J.), born North Carolina, about 1838; pre-war occupation, pilot; enlisted at the age of 23, in New Hanover County, June 1, 1861, as a private in company E, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, August 24, 1861; served as seaman aboard the CSS Beaufort, 1861-1862, and aboard the CSS Caswell, 1862; resided as a pilot, in 1870, with his wife, Sarah, and two children, at Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina. [NCT 1, 94; ORN 2, 1, 281 & 282; 1870 U.S. Census.]

W.J. Grissom, served in the Confederate States Navy; may have also been the same W.J. Grissom who served as pilot on the steamer Vulture, which operated at Wilmington, North Carolina, in November, 1864; his widow, Mary Grissom, applied for a post war Confederate pension from Brunswick County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 1, 11, 744.]

Edgar Grisson, see Edgar A. Grissom.
Edgar Grisson, served aboard the Confederate States floating battery, New Orleans, about 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 11.]

William J. Grisson
, ordinary seaman and carpenter, CSS Arctic, 1862 - 1863. [ORN 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 279.]

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

Alexander Grogan, master at arms; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863 (see also, entry for Alexander Grogman, who may be the same person); also served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, about 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 642.]

Alexander Grogan, master's mate, served on the Charleston station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]

James Grogan, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on May 24, 1861; served as private in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, in 1862; later as private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, 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 285.]

Thomas Grogan, enlisted at Montgomery, Alabama, in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on March 25, 1861;served as sergeant in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, 1861 - 1862; also shown as a private (?) in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Richmond, James River, 1863 - 1864; later as 1st sergeant in company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, 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, pages 285, 386 and 387; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 171.]

Alexander Grogman, master at arms, CSS Charleston (ironclad steam sloop, which operated out of Charleston, South Carolina); shown on a muster roll of the vessel, dated October 31, 1863 (see also entry for master at arms, Alexander Grogan, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 282.]

Ely Groom, served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863; had either deserted, or died, about November, 1863, as his clothing and other effects were auctioned off to other members of the crew on November 23, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 528.]

D. E. Grove, originally enlisted, April, 1861, and mustered in as corporal in the 3rd Louisiana Infantry Regiment; seriously wounded at Elkhorn Tavern, captured, but escaped; returning to Louisiana, he was assigned, in 1863, to duty with the Navy, where he held the rank of lieutenant, and executive officer on the Queen of the West, on which he was captured when the vessel was destroyed on April 14, 1863; escaped from New Orleans in November, 1863, and, went to the temporary state capital at Shreveport, and was made sergeant at arms in the Senate, since he was unfit for duty; subsequently was in the artillery and secret service; at the end of the war he was paroled at Natchitoches, Louisiana on June 13, 1865; then returned to steam-boating on the Mississippi, until 1872, when he moved to Texas, where he operated a planning mill; after it was destroyed by fire he was employed as freight contracting agent for the Texas and Pacific Railroad, and then, from 1887 as an insurance agent. [Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 10 (1902), pages 73 - 74.]

Henry Christopher Grovenstine
(surname also shown as Grovenstein), born January 7, 1842, Savannah, Georgia; son of John L. and Henriette W. Grovenstein; resided in Florida since 1858; enlisted June 4, 1861, at Jasper (or Jacksonville), Florida, in Company I, 2nd Florida Infantry; wounded in the foot at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July, 1863; volunteered at Orange Court House, Virginia, and transferred to Confederate States Navy, April 16 (or February), 1864; sent aboard receiving vessel, CSS Patrick Henry, and later served on the CSS Fredericksburg, (under Captain Sheppard); paroled at Farmville, Virginia, April 15 or 16, 1865; post war occupation, country school teacher; shown to have been residing with his parents, in 1880, at Saint Marys, Camden County, Georgia; lived in Georgia Confederate Home, after the war; moved to Nassau County, Florida and resided at Jacksonville; applied, in May, 1909, for admission to the R.E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Soldiers' Home at Richmond, Virginia; still living in Florida, in 1919. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 219; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A10994; LVa - application papers for admission to the R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, Confederate Veterans' Soldiers' Home, dated May, 1909; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Charles A. Grover
(may have also used the surname Mores, as an alias), native of either England or (New York) America; another source shows that he was born in Maine, about 1840; had always followed the sea; shipped from the prize vessel, Crown Point, as ship's cook aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863; claimed to have been one of the 69 sailors on the cruiser who mutinied, and was discharged at Brest, France, September, 1863, then went to Liverpool, England; attempted to collect back pay from Frazer & Co., Liverpool, but unable to get his pay, so the group put their case in the hands of a lawyer; sailed from that port, aboard a merchant vessel, September or October, 1863; also stated to have shipped, at London (another account shows Liverpool), aboard the British vessel Frances A. Palmer, for New York. [Alabama Claims 1, 356, 358 and 361 & 2, 456 and 457; ORN 1, 20, 631; Civil War Subversion Investigations - Turner files, case 942 - Pirate Florida - Statement of four personnel of CSS Florida, arrested in October, 1863 at Fold3.]

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

Jacob Grunhaup, Seaman, paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231.]

Frank Guado, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 128.]

Joseph S. Gualtny, recruited as a ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous, Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 445.]

Octavo Gueringer (first name also shown as Octave), appointed commander's clerk, by commander C. H. Kennedy, aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, May 20,1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1064; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 728.]

John S. Guernsey, born Clark County, Indiana, March 14, 1837; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, at Biloxi, Mississippi; served aboard the CSS Carondelet, and was permanently injured in battle on the Mississippi River, below New Orleans, April, 1862; married in 1868; resided as a day laborer, in 1900, with his wife, Harriet, at Biloxi, Harrison County, Mississippi; received a Confederate pension from the state of Mississippi after the war; moved to Florida, and attempted to apply for the pension from that state without success; was a resident of Manatee, Florida, in 1920. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. D20743; 1900 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census.]

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

Robert E. Guffy (surname also shown as Guffie), served as landsman, CSS Arctic; his widow, J.A. Guffy, applied for a post war Confederate pension from Rutherford County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 277.]

William H. Gugel, served as 1st assistant engineer on the Savannah station, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 323.]

Matt. Guheea, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1223.]

Antonio Guilbrick, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about May, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 125.]

V. A. Guillot, shown as a Prisoner of War paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana, June 19, 1865; resided at Avoyelles Parish, Louisiana; roll indicates he was a private [?] in the Confederate States Navy. [Booth 2, 134.]

Henry Gullatt
, enlisted as private, company F, 1st Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Gate City Guards), March 18, 1861; mustered out at Augusta, Georgia, March 18, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Wilkes County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 409; Georgia Rosters 1, 269.]

George A. Gulter (or Grelter), served as master at arms 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 88.]

Nels Gunder, 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 88.]

Philip Gunn, 1st class fireman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

John Gunning, served as a private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Richmond, James River, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 386 and 387.]

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

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

Thomas Gurney
, born Baltimore, Maryland, about 1826; appointed 2nd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, 1861; served aboard the CSS Curlew, 1861-1862; discharged from Naval service on February 11, 1862. [1860 U.S. Census; CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 278.]

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

Donato Gustini, born Italy, about 1838; served as seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Wednesday, July 8, 1863, and again, for the same condition, on Tuesday, August 4, 1863, Thursday, August 20, 1863, and Monday, August 31, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

---- Guthridge, indicated to have served as a Confederate marine; buried at the City Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

Benjamin W. Guthrie, born North Carolina; resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; originally served as private, Old Dominion Guard, company K, 9th Virginia Infantry; entry into Confederate States Navy, as master not in line of promotion, February 24, 1862; served on the floating battery and receiving ship, CSS Arctic, 1862 - 1864; also served aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston station, 1864. [Register1863; Register1864; ORN 2, 1, 275; Norfolk County Record 99 & 221; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 146.]

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

James Guthrie, seaman and pilot (also shown as Quartermaster), CSS Arctic, 1862; see also next two entries. [ORN 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 276.]

James Guthrie, born at Carteret City; buried at Bellevue Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina; may be the same person listed in the previous, as well as the next entry. [Wayne Carver.]

James Guthrie, served in the Confederate Coast Guard and the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Amelia A. Guthrie applied for a post war Confederate pension from Brunswick County, North Carolina (see also, two previous entries). [NC State Archives.]

James Guthrie, born January 17, 1819; served in the Confederate States Navy; died February 9, 1872; buried at the Smithville Cemetery, 1 Moore Street, Southport, North Carolina 28461. [U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

John Julius Guthrie, born North Carolina; father of John Julius Guthrie, jr., listed in the next entry; original service in the United States Navy, from February 26, 1834; served in the war with Mexico; also served in the Anglo French war in China; resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; entered the Confederate States Navy, July 13, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; ordered to assume command of the steamer CSS Red Rover, November 7, 1861, and to proceed to Memphis, Tennessee to meet the floating battery New Orleans; arrived at Columbus, Kentucky, December 11, 1861; then served on the New Orleans, and also the CSS Capitol, 1862; later on the Richmond station, 1862; ordered, on July 7, 1862, to take command of the ram, CSS Arctic, Wilmington station; commanded CSS Chattahoochee, and served on the Naval station at Chattahoochee, Florida, 1863; later served aboard the CSS Albemarle, 1864, and also commanded the steamer Advance, at Wilmington, 1864; appointed as volunteer aide on the personal staff of North Carolina governor, Zebulon B. Vance, on March 23, 1865; involved in politics, post war, in his home state of North Carolina; drowned near Nags Head, North Carolina, November, 1877. [ORN 1, 17, 866; 1, 22, 800; 1, 23, 698 and 2, 1 274, 320, 322 & 323; Register1863; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Norfolk County Record 221; New York Times dated Wednesday, June 6, 1874; New and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) dated March 26, 1892; Confederate Navy subject file H - Battles and casualties to ships; HA - engagements with enemy war vessels; Miscellaneous, pages 246, 254 and 259; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 4.]

John Julius Guthrie, jr., born Virginia, August, 1843; son of John Julius Guthrie, listed above, and his wife, Louisa S.; appointed an acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, September 26, 1861, and ordered to proceed to New Orleans for duty; reported for duty aboard the Confederate States floating battery, New Orleans, at New Orleans, Louisiana, on October 21, 1861; served as acting master, Jackson station, 1862; captured at Island No. 10, April, 1862; resided as a travelling salesman, in 1900, with his widowed mother, at Portsmouth, Norfolk County, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 318; Register1862; 1900 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 10; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 500.]

George A. Gutta, served as seaman aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1862; deserted about September, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1064; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 127.]

John L. Guy (first name also incorrectly shown, in one source, as Peter), native of Plymouth, England; indicated to have served twenty years in the British Navy; shipped at London, England; gunner, CSS Rappahannock, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Shenandoah, 1864-1865; put off duty, December 23, 1864, for disrespect to lieutenant William Whittle; Guy was stated to have been placed under arrest, aboard the Shenandoah, for statements he had made while ashore, at Melbourne. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; Alabama Claims 1, 975 (where his first name is shown incorrectly as Peter); Alabama Claims Correspondence 3, 401; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 785; New Zealand Herald (Auckland, New Zealand) newspaper dated Saturday, March 4, 1865.]

Peter Guy, see John L. Guy.

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

Wilson Guy (first name also shown as William), stationed at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, until Norfolk was evacuated, when he was transferred to Richmond; indicated to have supervised the building of the CSS Virginia (Merrimac); Wilson Guy was appointed as acting master blacksmith by secretary Stephen R. Mallory, at the rate of $1800 per annum, on April 21, 1863, and ordered to report immediately to Little Rock, Arkansas, for duty in repairing the gunboat CSS Pontchartrain; later appointed paymaster in the Confederate States Navy; prominent member of the Confederate Veterans organisation; suffered for ten years from cancer; passed away September 10, 1902, at his home in Hampton, Virginia, aged 74. [Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated Thursday, September 11, 1902, page 1; ORN 2, 1, 299; Confederate Navy subject file A - Naval ships: Design, construction, etc. - AR - Repairs; Brest - Savannah, page 451.]

Washington Gwathmey, born England, 1817; citizen of Virginia; son of Robert Gwathmey; original service in the United States Navy, from July 21, 1832; resided as a United States Navy lieutenant, in 1850, at Richmond, Virginia; entered the Confederate States Navy, April 20, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; served on the New Orleans station, 1861, and commanded the CSS Jackson; commanded the CSS Carondelet, 1862; later on the Jackson station, 1862 (ORN 2, 1, 318 & 320 show his rank, at this time, as lieutenant commander, but this is probably a typographical error); afterward on the Richmond station, 1862; Army duty, 1862 - 1863; indicated to have also served aboard the CSS Arctic, 1863; ordered to report for duty at the Savannah station, July 10, 1863, vide Special Orders, No. 163; commanded ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1863 - 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; on the fall of Savannah, ordered to report for duty at Wilmington, North Carolina, December, 1864. [ORN 1, 14, 724; 1, 16, 474 & 494; 1, 18, 353 and 2, 1, 276, 286, 318, 320, 322 & 323; ORA 1, 6, chapter 16; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated April 23, 1861, in an article titled Gratuitous Insolence; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (1861), page 48.]

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

Thomas P. Gwynn, born Wisconsin; appointed from Virginia; originally served in company F/G, 6th Virginia Regiment; transferred to Confederate States Marine Corps, September 20, 1861; appointed 1st lieutenant, February 15, 1862; served at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1863, and aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; involved in the organisation of a Masonic fraternity, James River Lodge, No. 206, at Drewry's Bluff, in October, 1863; also in company C, Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864; indicated to have also served aboard the CSS Beaufort, in October, 1864; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 723 & 765; 1, 11, 690 and 2, 1, 311 & 315; Register1864; 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; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 22, 1863; Norfolk County Record 275.]



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