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John Hoagland, see John Haglund.
John Hoar, coal heaver, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Alex Hobbs, first class boy, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]
Charles L. Hobbs (may have been related to George W. Hobbs, shown in the next entry), born,
resided in as a sailor, and enlisted at Currituck County, North Carolina, August 1, 1861, aged 20, as
private, company B, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; promoted corporal, September 1, 1863;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 1, 1864; served as seaman aboard the
CSS Albemarle and at Halifax Station, mid 1864, and aboard the CSS Arctic; sent to Battery Buchanan on
December 2, 1864; married Bethana O'Neal, February 9, 1868, at Currituck County, North Carolina; post
war occupations included farmer and waterman; indicated as being disabled with dispepsia, in the 1880
census. [NCT 4, 538; ORN 2, 1, 274; Sheppard; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 117.]
George W. Hobbs (may have been related to Charles L. Hobbs, shown in the previous entry), born,
resided in as a sailor, and enlisted at Currituck County, North Carolina, August 2, 1861, aged 23, as
private, company B, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States
Navy on or about April 1, 1864 (a document shows he was shipped, on that date, by 2nd lieutenant F.
M. Roby, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle at Plymouth Sound); served as seaman on the
CSS Sea Bird, and was captured and paroled at Roanoke Island, February 10, 1862; transferred to the
steamer Cora; later served as quartermaster and pilot aboard the CSS Albemarle and at Halifax Station,
1864; later as quartermaster aboard the receiving ship CSS Arctic; sent to Battery Buchanan on
December 2, 1864; married Mary E. Dulin, June 21, 1866, at Currituck County, North Carolina. [NCT 4,
538; ORN 2, 1, 274 & 306; Sheppard; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB -
Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 548; Confederate Navy subject file N
- Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 117.]
John Hobbs, seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
Joseph Hobbs, served as captain of the hold on the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863; a list of "boarders" on
the cruiser shows Hobbs holding the position of sponger at the 3rd gun division. [Alabama Claims 1,
694; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]
Russell Baker Hobbs (first name sometimes shown as Robert), born Sussex County, Delaware, 1808;
employed as an apprentice chair maker and wheel spinner, early in life; married Mary Parvis, in 1844,
and after she died, he married Elizabeth B. Wilson; his trade was shown, in the 1860 census, as painter;
became a merchant seaman, in 1863; left his ship and was at Simon's Bay, South Africa, in August,
1863, when the CSS Alabama arrived there; joined the crew of the Confederate cruiser, as ordinary
seaman, later rated Quartermaster, then reduced to Seaman; captured in the engagement with the
USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France; after he was released at Cherbourg, he went to
Southampton, England, and then to Liverpool, before getting on a vessel bound for New York; after
arrival in New York, he made his way home to Delaware, but was arrested at Dover; confined aboard
the USS Princeton, at Philadelphia for a year, before being pardoned and released; resided as a
painter, in 1880, with his wife, Elizabeth B. Hobbs, and two daughters (eldest daughter born 1859), at
Harbeson, Sussex County, Delaware; buried in Union Cemetery, Georgetown, Sussex County,
Delaware. [Information supplied by his great, great grandson, Dave Bryan, of Dover, Delaware, in an e-
mail (davebryan@juno.com) dated January 18, 2004; 1880 U.S. Census.]
Charles Hobday, originally involved in construction work on the CSS Jackson, at New Orleans, March
29, 1862; later served as acting master, Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy Subject
File, A- Naval ships: design, construction, etc., AC - Construction, New Orleans, page 458.]
Thomas J. Hobday, signed for the Engineers Department of the Navy Yard at Gosport, Virginia, in 1861;
may have served aboard the CSS Raleigh. [Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval
ships and fleet units; OL - Mobilization and demobilization; Norfolk - Miscellaneous, page 231.]
William Hobson, see William Hopson.
J.R. Hockaday, 2 master (?), steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1,
313.]
John Hockaday, quarter gunner, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]
R.J. Hockley, see Robert J. Horley.
Humphrey Hodder (surname also shown as Hardder), born Bertie County, North Carolina, 1840;
stepson of William P. and Sarah E. Gurley; resided in, and enlisted at Washington County, North
Carolina, June 24, 1861, aged 22, as private, company G, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops;
discharged February 3, 1862, on being transferred to the Confederate States Navy; served as ordinary
seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [NCT 3, 216; 1850 U.S.
Census; Bertie County, North Carolina Vital Statistics, 1700s - 1920 at the Ancestry.com web site; ORN
2, 1, 309.]
Euclid P. Hodges, born Virginia, 1838; son of Churchill A. and Catherine Hodges; resided with his
parents and siblings, in 1850, at Richmond, Virginia; resident of Maryland at the start of the war; served
as 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy; killed in boiler explosion aboard CSS
Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; buried at the First United Methodist Church
cemetery, Chattahoochee, Florida. [ORN 1, 17, 869; John E. Ellis; 1850 U.S. Census.]
Jacob Hodges, original service as private, company B, 24th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same person).
[Civil War Service Records.]
Jacob Hodges, born Virginia; shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate
States Navy, on April 12, 1864, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle, at Plymouth Sound, North
Carolina; later served as a crew member of the CSS Bombshell; captured aboard the vessel during the
engagement at Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, May 5, 1864, and transferred, the same day, from
the USS Ceres to the USS Sassacus, then to the steamer Lockwood, on May 10, 1864, for
transportation to a prisoner of war facility (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN
1, 9, 746; deck log entries for the USS Sassacus dated May 5, 1864 and May 10, 1864; Confederate Navy
subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota,
page 38; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38.]
John G. Hodges (middle initial also shown as D.), served as pilot aboard the CSS Arkansas, mortally
wounded in action, Yazoo River, July 15, 1862, died July 17, 1862. [ORN 1, 19, 69 and 134; Charleston
Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862.]
L.W. Hodges, served in the Signal Corps, Confederate States; detailed for service as signal officer in
the Confederate States Navy, on the James River Squadron, October, 1864; resided at Florence, South
Carolina, in 1907. [ORN 1, 10, 766; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2.]
William R. Hodges, private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 315.]
E. Hoencke, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, April 8, 1864; served as ordinary seaman, CSS
Chattahoochee, 1864; transferred from the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in
September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina. [ORN 1, 17, 700 and 2, 1, 283;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]
Rand Hoes (or Hoel),served as 3rd class boy aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station,
1861. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 87.]
Richard Hoey, quartermaster, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
Caleb Hoffman, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]
James Hoffman, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]
Martin Hoffman, indicated to have served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps,
and was in the Naval Brigade. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 679.]
Edward E. Hogan, enlisted, for one year, as waiter aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South
Carolina, on October 2, 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.]
John Hogan, served as coal heaver aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863-1864; was one of only four
enlisted personnel who remained loyal during a mutiny of the enlisted personnel, who refused to
perform their duties, September, 1863, while the vessel was at Brest, France; captured at Bahia, Brazil,
October 7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he arrived, November 26, 1864, for
confinement; died December 19, 1864, at that facility, of bright's disease of the kidneys. [ORN 1, 2, 661
and 1, 3, 256; Florida Medical Journal, see the list of personnel in the Engineer's Department, CSS
Florida, dated at St. George's, Bermuda, June 27, 1864; Quinn Journal, entry dated September 2, 1863;
Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 362.]
John Hogan, shipped on June 1, 1863, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Oconee, off Thunderbolt,
Savannah River, Georgia; later served aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron; deserted about
June, 1863; an advertisement was placed in the newspaper 'Savannah Republican', offering a reward
of $50 for his apprehension. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages775; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 612;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 464.]
John Hogan, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 41.]
John J. Hogan, served as acting carpenter aboard the CSS Oconee (CSS Savannah), 1861 - 1864. [ORN 1,
14, 694 and 2, 1, 304 & 323.]
Joseph Hogan, served as a private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the
Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861, and aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1862;
stationed aboard the receiving ship CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, April-June, 1864, and
the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan on
December 15, 1864; later stationed at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 280, 302, 313, 316 & 317;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 117; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 573.]
Peter Hogan, 2nd class fireman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina,
1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
William Hogan, served as 1st class boy aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864; captured at Bahia, Brazil,
October 7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, for confinement; released February 1, 1865.
[ORN 1, 3, 256; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 359-360.]
Francis Lyell Hoge, born in what is now West Virginia, June, 1841; son of attorney at law Isaac and
Rachel Hoge; original service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 20, 1856;
resided with his parents, in 1860, at Elisabeth, Marshall County, Virginia; entered the Confederate
States Navy, June 25, 1861, as midshipman; served on the Richmond station, at Drewry's Bluff, and
aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; promoted 2nd
lieutenant, February 8, 1862; involved in the capture of the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance off
Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, on August 23, 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to
rank from January 6, 1864; another Naval document shows he was appointed 1st lieutenant to rank
from August 23, 1863 for "gallant and meritorious conduct"; also served aboard the CSS Neuse, North
Carolina, in 1864; never married; post war formed a partnership with fellow ex-Confederate Navy
officer, Richard F. Armstrong, and other ex-Confederates, in establishing a tobacco factory, and were
also very successful in the real estate business; resided as a surveyor, in 1900, at the residence of his
brother, in Union District, Ohio County, West Virginia. [1860 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; ORN 2, 1,
299 & 322; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco) dated August 29, 1871;
Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money
- Miscellaneous, pages 30-32; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1231; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A -
K), page 566.]
Martin Hogen, 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 679.]
Thomas E. Hogg, native of Baltimore, Maryland; resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; used the alias of
Egenton and Esson; commissioned as master in the Confederate Navy; 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 S. Hogue (surname also shown as Hogen), born Florida, 1844 (1860 U.S. Census shows his
state of birth as Maryland, while all other census records show it as Florida); son of attorney at law,
David P. Hogue, and his wife, Esther; resident of Leon County, Florida; previously enlisted, April 2,
1861, as private in Company A, 1st Florida Infantry; mustered out of Army service, April 6, 1862;
appointed midshipman, Confederate States Navy, November 24, 1862; served at the Naval Station, St.
Marks, Florida, 1862 - 1863, and later on the Wilmington station, 1863; ordered to report for temporary
duty at Charleston, South Carolina, in September, 1863; served aboard the CSS Isondiga and the CSS
Savannah, 1863 and the CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, 1864; later served aboard the CSS
Chattahoochee, 1864; involved in failed attempt to capture USS Adela, at St. George's Sound, Florida,
May, 1864; later aboard the CSS Richmond, James River squadron, Virginia, 1864; also served aboard
the CSS Spray, St. Marks, Florida, 1865; paroled at St. Marks, May 12, 1865; resided as a lawyer, in 1870,
with his wife, Elizabeth, and two sons, at Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida. [ORN 1, 10, 766; 1, 15, 11; 1,
17, 698 and 2, 1, 283 & 289; Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 7; Florida Confederate Card File; Register1863;
Register1864; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 660.]
Mathew Hoigh, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina
stations, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]
George Holbrook, originally served in the Confederate States Navy; transferred, as private, to
company I, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Cavalry, December 26, 1863; transferred again, January 17,
1865, to company G, 18th Regiment North Carolina Troops; deserted this regiment, February 20, 1865.
[NCT 2, 248 & 6, 384.]
Isaac C. Holcomb (surname also shown as Holcombe), born Savannah, Georgia, about 1842; son of
Thomas and Fannie Holcombe; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from
November 8, 1859; resided, in 1860, with his parents, at Savannah; resigned from the United States
Navy, January 17, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy, May 16, 1861, as acting
midshipman; appointed passed midshipman, October 3, 1862; served aboard the stern-wheeled
gunboat CSS Isondiga and the CSS Savannah, Savannah station, 1862 - 1863; promoted master in line
of promotion, January 7, 1864; on special service, 1864; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy,
June 2, 1864; paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 27, 231 and 2, 1,
288 & 322; Register1862; Register1863 (which incorrectly shows his first initial as J.); Register1864; JCC 4,
122; 36th Congress Report 24.]
James Holcomb, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865.
[ORN 2, 1, 311.]
J.W. Holcombe, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension
from Robeson County, North Carolina (see also, previous entry). [NC State Archives.]
John Fenney Holden, born Tennessee, 1841; son of W.B. Holden, of Louisburg, Tennessee; previous
service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, 1857; later resigned; appointed midshipman,
Confederate States Navy; served aboard the Habana, prior to her commissioning as the CSS Sumter,
1861 (also attached to the receiving ship St. Phillip, lately known as the Star of the West); drowned
Mississippi River, May 17, 1861, when the boat he was in, while transferring an anchor to the Sumter,
was swamped. [1860 U.S. Census; CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Kell 146; Semmes 102-103; Callahan; Daily
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 24, 1861.]
Lewis Holden, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 43.]
Charles Holder, served as seaman aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Selma, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1862; arrested as a deserter at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval
authorities on February 12, 1862; deserted again, about November, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 306; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 157 and 427.]
J.B. Holder, served as landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863 - 1864; also served on the CSS Georgia. [CSS
Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 283 & 287.]
W. Holdsworth, born Virginia; served as messenger, Office of Ordnance and Hydrography,
Confederate Navy Department, 1862 - 1863. [Register1862; Register1863.]
Charles Holiday, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on March
10, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Jackson, for duty. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A -
K), page 572.]
C.W. Holland, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN
2, 1, 311.]
G.G. Holland, landsman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
during July - December, 1863; later served aboard the receiving vessel CSS Indian Chief, at Charleston,
South Carolina, October - December, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]
G.L. Holland, coal heaver, Confederate States Navy; attached as private to company D, 1st Regiment,
Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26,
1865. [M1091.]
J.W. Holland, served in the Confederate States Navy; died November 18, 1864; buried Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]
James Holland, original service as private, company A, 1st Missouri Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same person).
[Civil War Service Records.]
James Holland, seaman, Confederate States Navy; captured off Yazoo City, Mississippi, July 14, 1863;
sent to Indianapolis, Indiana, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received September
23, 1864; released December 10, 1864 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [Fort
Warren.]
Laurence Holland, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS Pontchartrain,
1862; rated as officer's steward from February 2, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 123 - 124 and 340.]
William Holland, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]
J. H. Holleman, served aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, 1864; transferred to the
Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005.]
Griffin Hollerman, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 297.]
Robert B. Holley, see Robert B. Holly.
John Holliday (first name also shown as Jos.), served as a private in the Confederate States Marine
Corps, and was attached to the CSS Charleston, Charleston station, in 1863-1864. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
pages 133, 136-139 and 153.]
Joseph Holliday, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 314.]
John Holligan, served as landsman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as
1st class fireman from October 8, 1861; deserted about February, 1862, but was apprehended by New
Orleans policeman Henry White, and returned aboard the vessel, and for which White received a
reward of $5. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 882; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ -
Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 425.]
G. Hollingsworth, shipped, as landsman, aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, May 4, 1864; also served
aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (which was also known as the State of Georgia and
Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 701 and 2, 1, 283 & 287; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages
618.]
Owen R. Hollingsworth, born Duplin County, North Carolina, 1833; son of Guilford Hollingsworth; pre-
war occupation, distiller; enlisted at New Hanover County, North Carolina, June 25, 1861, aged 28, as
private, company I, 18th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy
on or about April 9, 1864; married Mary Walker, May 2, 1865, in New Hanover County; resided as a
farmer, in 1870, with his wife, at Caswell, New Hanover county. [NCT 6, 406; North Carolina Marriage
Collection, 1741 - 2000, held at the Ancestry. Com web site; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]
Frederick W. Hollins, born Maryland, about 1838; son of captain George N. ( later in the Confederate
States Navy) and Maria S. Hollins; brother of Confederate States Navy officer, George Nichols Hollins,
jr.; original service as private, company B, 21st Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States
Navy at an unspecified date; appointed as captain's clerk, August 1, 1861, and served on the Richmond
Station, 1861; served on the New Orleans station, 1862, aboard the CSS Pontchartrain and the CSS Ivy;
appointed acting master, January 2, 1862, and ordered to report to the Commandants office, Naval
station at New Orleans, for further orders; served on the Jackson station, 1862; resigned from the
Naval service, April 17, 1862; may have been the same person who attempted to raise a Maryland
Partisan Corps, in May, 1862; may also have been the same F.W. Hollins who served as private in
Johnson's battery, Stuart's Horse Artillery, Confederate States Army; arraigned before the Mayor of
Richmond, Virginia, on November 13, 1863, to answer the charge of stealing a gold watch and chain
from his fellow Navy officer, Charles Beck, while staying at the Spotswood Hotel; case was discharged,
November 21, 1863, due to the non appearance of the witness, Charles Beck. [ORN 2, 1, 319 & 320;
CSN Register; 1850 U.S. Census; Civil War Service Records; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated
May 14, 1862, November 14, 1863 and November 23, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A -
K), page 574.]
George Nichols Hollins, sr., born Baltimore, Maryland, September 20, 1799; original service in the
United States Navy, from February 1, 1814, and served in the War of 1812; captured by the British,
aboard the President, and held as a prisoner of war until peace was concluded; married Maria R. Sterell
[Sterett?] at Baltimore, Maryland, March 20, 1833; resided as a United States Naval officer, in 1850,
with his wife and six children, at the United States Navy Yard in Escambia County, Florida; captain and
flag officer; entered the Confederate States Navy, June 22, 1861, as captain; commanded the CSS St.
Nicholas in June, 1861; commanded the New Orleans station and the Naval forces on the Mississippi,
with the CSS McRae as flagship, August 1, 1861 to early 1862; later served on the Jackson station, 1862;
also on the Richmond station, 1862 - 1863; noted in ORA 1, 46 (part 1), 477, to have been killed, near
Charlottesville, Virginia, March 5, 1865, by a scouting party from general Custer's command, however,
Appletons indicates that he died in Baltimore, Maryland, January 18, 1878; town crier in the city court
of Baltimore, after the war. [ORN 1, 4, 555 and 2, 1, 318, 320, 322, 452 & 471; ORA 1, 6, chapter 16; 1, 8
and 1, 46 (part 1), 477 & 503; Register1863; Appletons; 1850 U.S. Census; Maryland Marriages, 1655 -
1850 at the Ancestry.com web site; see also, his obituary in the New York Times dated January 20,
1878.]
George Nichols Hollins, jr., born Maryland, about 1840; son of captain George Nichols Hollins, sr., and
his wife, Maria S.; shown as a master's mate and 3rd assistant engineer at the New Orleans station,
September 19, 1861; ordered to report to lieutenant Hays, on board the CSS Florida, for duty; later
appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer, November 1, 1861, and ordered to report aboard the floating
battery, New Orleans, for duty; later served at the Jackson station, 1862; attended, just before his
death, by Robert Lebby, M.D., of Charleston, South Carolina; died of yellow fever, September 5, 1862;
buried at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 318 & 320; Morgan 91 - 93; 1850
U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and
deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 141; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 424; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments
of officers (A - K), pages 576 and 578.]
D. Hollis, served as 1st 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.]
David Hollis, seaman, CSS Beaufort; September, 1861 - April, 1862; vessel operated in North Carolina
and Virginia waters. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]
William Washington Hollman (surname also shown as Holman), recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on
July 31, 1863, as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps; his widow, Percila
Hollman, filed for a post war Confederate pension from Gwinnett County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index
481; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
New Orleans - Yorktown, page 688.]
James Holloman, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1,
313.]
John Holloran, see John Halloran.
James Hugh Holloway, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate
pension from Durham County, North Carolina; his widow, Martha Holloway, also later applied for a
pension from the same county. [NC State Archives.]
W.T. Holloway, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN
2, 1, 311.]
J. H. Holly, 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.]
Robert B. Holly (surname also shown as Holley), born Mobile, Alabama, about 1840; served as acting
master's mate, Confederate States Navy; served on the CSS Dalman and the CSS Selma, Mobile
squadron, 1862 - 1864; indicated, in ORN 1, 21, 145, to have been taken prisoner by four deserters
from the CSS Selma, March, 1864, and delivered to the Union Navy, as a prisoner of war, but another
source indicates that he surrendered himself voluntarily; sent, aboard the USS Ossipee, to the provost
marshall at New Orleans, in March, 1864; took the oath of allegiance to the United States, October 6,
1864, at New Orleans; resided as a clerk, in 1880, at New Orleans. [Register1864; ORN 1, 21, 145; 1880
U.S. Census; CSN Register.]
J.W. Hollywood, indicated to have served as an engineer in the Confederate States Navy; served
aboard the CSS Morgan; resided at Louisville, Kentucky, in 1907. [Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia)
dated June 30, 1907, page 2.]
Thomas Hollywood, served as landsman aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, James
River Squadron; served 1861 -1862; also served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry,
James River, Virginia; deserted from the CSS Jamestown on June 10, 1862; apprehended and
sentenced, on June 25, 1862, to three months loss of pay. [ORN 2, 1, 289 & 301; DANFS; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 312; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry -
Military Commissions, page 174; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and
straggling, Miscellaneous, page 442.]
Peter Holm, born Malma, Sweden, about 1828 (one source shows year of birth as 1838); enlisted
August 30, 1861, at Apalachicola, Florida, in company B, 4th Florida Infantry; 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 seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron;
transferred as seaman, to the CSS Macon, in July, 1864, and later served as carpenter's mate aboard
the vessel, 1864 - 1865. [Hartman's Florida Rosters 1, 380; 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 Holman, born Denmark, about 1835 (see John C. Holman, seaman, listed below); served as ship's
cook on the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Tuesday, August 5, 1862, Monday,
September 29, 1862, Thursday, October 9, 1862, Friday, November 14, 1862, and Tuesday, December 9,
1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]
John C. Holman, born Denmark, about 1837 (this may in fact be the same person, John Holman, ship's
cook); served as seaman on the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Thursday, July 3,
1862; treated for a contusion on the foot, caused by a block of wood, on Friday, May 1st, 1863; on
Saturday, May 30th, 1863, it was noted that he had returned for treatment for a wound caused by a fish
fin, which had occurred a few days before; after first being treated at that time, the wound became
inflamed some days later; treated for feb. Internil tertian? on Monday, June 15, 1863; treated for
rheumatism on Friday, July 10, 1863; treated for a fever on Thursday, July 30, 1863, and again on
Saturday, August 22, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]
Benjamin Holmes, served as seaman at the New Orleans station in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page
106.]
C.R. Holmes (middle initial also shown as K.), landsman & ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North
Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]
Daniel Holmes (first name also shown as David), coxswain to flag officer, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River,
North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279 & 323.]
George Holmes, born Maine; appointed from Florida (also indicated to have been a resident of
Savannah, Georgia, in 1861); previous service in the United States Marine Corps, from March 3, 1849;
original entry into Confederate States Marine Corps, as captain of company A, March 29, 1861; served
at Georgia and South Carolina, in 1861; commanded the Marine detachment involved in the defense
of Port Royal, South Carolina, in November, 1861; later served at Drewry's Bluff, James River squadron,
1864; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865. [Florida Confederate Card File; Register1864;
ORN 1, 12, 297 and 2, 1, 313 & 316; 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.]
Harry Holmes, born Franklin County, North Carolina; resided in, as an engineer, and enlisted at
Granville County, North Carolina, July 15, 1861, aged 28, as private, company D, 8th Regiment North
Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate State Navy on or about April 6, 1863. [NCT 4,
556.]
James Holmes, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864;
also served on the marine guard aboard the CSS Charleston , Charleston station in 1863-1864. [ORN 2,
1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 133, 136-139 and 153.]
Michael Holmes, served aboard the CSS V.H. Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
page 844.]
Moses Holmes, captain's steward; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863.
[ORN 1, 14, 268.]
Thomas Holmes, quartermaster and quarter gunner, CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863; captured aboard that
vessel at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll of the CSS Charleston, dated October 31, 1863,
indicates that he also served aboard that vessel. [ORN 1, 14, 268; 2, 1, 275 & 282.]
Trimigan Holmes, born February 20, 1830; resided Washington County, North Carolina;
enlisted October 6, 1864, in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served as a private in
the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station; died March 23, 1891; buried
Spruill-Holmes family cemetery, Route 1142, junction of Route 1155, close to Creswell, North
Carolina. [Confederate Burials, 69; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 266.]
William Holmes, Landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864; arrested and imprisoned in the
county jail, May 21, 1864, by order of captain J.J. Guthrie, commanding the Halifax station. [ORN 2, 1,
274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NJ- Discipline (minor); Miscellaneous, page 9.]
Alexander H. Holsenbeck, born in Edgefield District, South Carolina, in 1825; previously served as
Private, Company G, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, April 25, 1861; also served in 14th
Regiment Georgia Infantry, July, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy; served aboard CSS
Virginia and CSS Tallahassee; later on CSS Richmond. [Georgia Rosters 1, 610 and 2, 358.]
L.G. Holston, original service as private, company F, 5th Alabama Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Anthony Holt, 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
679.]
H. C. Holt, appointed gunner aboard the Confederate States gunboat Little Rebel, of the Mississippi
River Defense fleet, April 21, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]
Henry Holt, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]
Henry Clay Holt, born Tennessee, 1842; resident of Tullahoma, Tennessee; previous service in the
United States Navy, as midshipman; appointed acting midshipman in the Confederate States Navy,
May 23, 1861, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Jackson for duty; states that he left his domicile in
Tennessee on June 1, 1861, to report for duty; served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; later
on the Jackson station, 1862; resigned from the Naval service on March 21, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318 & 320;
Register1862; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 866 and 890; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A -
K), page 580; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked
commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 1030.]
J.N. Holt, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
Rand. Holt, served as 3rd class boy on the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page
95.]
John Holtz, master at arms, 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.]
Ben Holzman was a sailor in the Confederate Navy who is listed as the last survivor of the CSS Virginia.
He was born on April 3, 1844, died on January 4, 1922, and is buried at the Hebrew Rest Cemetery,
Shreveport, Louisiana. [Young Sanders]
Elbert T. Homan, born New York, September, 1838; married Sallie McCorkle, in Georgia, November 5,
1860; appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, May 28, 1864; as 3rd assistant
engineer, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served on the CSS Firefly, Savannah Squadron, 1864; resided,
as a machinist, in 1900, with his wife, at Brunswick, Glynn County, Georgia. [CSNRegister; 1900 U.S.
Census; Georgia Marriages, 1851-1900 at the Ancestry.com web site.]
Jonathan Home, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]
James Honegger, served as 1st class fireman at the New Orleans station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 110.]
James H. Hood, born Canada, 1825; appointed, for one year, as chief engineer aboard the cruiser CSS
Nashville, at Charleston, South Carolina, on September 22, 1861; resided as an engineer, in 1880, with
his wife Emma, and three sons (Richard, born Nassau, 1864; Eugene S., born New York, 1866, and Harry
W., born New Jersey, 1868), at Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina. [ORN 1, 1, 752; Alabama
Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228.]
John Hoodless, born England, August 29, 1834; migrated to the United States in 1845; resided in Florida
since 1857; married in 1862; a letter dated September 3, 1861, in his pension file, shows that he was
officially appointed, by Secretary of the Navy, as acting Master Ship Carpenter (states in his pension
file that he performed no military service), and was to report to commander Thomas W. Brent at the
Pensacola Navy Yard in Warrington, Florida; also indicated to have held the positions of acting
constructor and inspector at the Navy Yard in 1861; was in New York City at the close of the war;
resided as a shipwright, in 1900, with his wife, Cassius, and five children, at Milton, Santa Rosa County,
Florida; member of Camp Cobb No. 538, United Confederate Veterans, of Santa Rosa, in 1908; still
shown as a resident of Santa Rosa County, in 1910. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. D17817; 1900
U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards
and Stations); PI - Industrial activity; Montgomery - Pensacola, pages 570 and 574.]
Daniel S. Hooker, born Tyrrell County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Tyrrell
County, May 16, 1861, aged 20; as private, company L, 12th Regiment North Carolina Troops;
transferred to company A, 32nd Regiment North Carolina Troops, October, 1861; wounded in the
shoulder and/or left leg and captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania sometime between July 1 and 5,
1863; hospitalized at Gettysburg until September 14, 1863, then transferred to hospital at Baltimore,
Maryland; received at City Point, Virginia, September 27, 1863, for exchange; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864; served as coal heaver on the CSS Virginia II, 1864-1865. [NCT 5,
235 & 9, 13; ORN 2, 1, 311.]
James Lingard Hoole, born Alabama, about 1842; son of R.J. and Violetta Hoole; resided with his
parents, in 1850, at Barbour County, Alabama; original service in the United States Navy, from
September 22, 1856; entered the Confederates States Navy, June 22, 1861, as midshipman; served on
the Richmond station, 1861, and aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River,
Virginia, 1861; promoted acting master, September 24, 1861; later commanded the CSS Forrest,
Virginia, 1861-1862; wounded in the head, February 7, 1862, at Roanoke Island, North Carolina;
promoted 2nd lieutenant, February 8, 1862; also served on the steamer, CSS Florida, 1862 - 1864;
appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; sent back to the Confederate
States, April, 1864, due to ill health (the surgeon of the CSS Florida indicated that further naval service
could cost Hoole his life); died at Clayton, Alabama, August 5, 1866. [ORN 1, 1, 768; 1, 2, 673; 1, 3, 610; 1,
6, 594 & 2, 1, 299 & 321; Register1863; CSNRegister; JCC 4, 121; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census;
Montgomery, Alabama Daily Advertiser dated September 4, 1866; Confederate Navy subject file, X -
Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (1861), page 385.]
Isaac Hooper, appointed captain aboard the Confederate States gunboat Resolute, of the Mississippi
River Defense Fleet, on January 26, 1862. [ORN 1, 18, 249; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]
Richard W. Hooper, served as seaman aboard the CSS Curlew, 1861; also served as coxswain aboard
the CSS Fanny, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 278 and 330-332.]
S.N. Hooper, Midshipman, CSS Savannah, November, 1861. [See article "THE REBEL NAVY" in the
Richmond, Virginia, Daily Examiner, Friday, November 29, 1861, page 1.]
Ashley D. Hoort, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
George Hooten, Second Class Boy, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]
William H. Hoover, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to
April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia; served May - June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 297; DANFS.]
Alfred Hope, recruited as landsman at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864,
and served aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864; paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina, May
16, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 955 and 1234; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 660.]
James Barron Hope, born Virginia, March 23, 1829; son of Wilton and Jane A. Hope; resided as a
lawyer, in 1850, with his parents, at Hampton, Elizabeth City County, Virginia; served as secretary to his
uncle, commodore Samuel Barron, in the United States Navy; appointed secretary to the commanding
officer of the Gosport Navy Yard, Portsmouth, Virginia, in July, 1861; served as commodore's
secretary, CSS Confederate States, 1862; served, May 26-July 17, 1862, as Judge Advocate of a Court of
Inquiry, at Richmond, Virginia, into the destruction, on Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, of the gunboats
CSS Bienville, CSS Pontchartrain and the CSS Pamlico; appointed as first clerk to the Naval commandant
at the Charlotte, North Carolina, Naval station, on September 1, 1862, and subsequently as secretary
to the flag officer commanding the Naval forces in the waters of Virginia, on November 7, 1862, and
ordered to proceed to Richmond for duty; also indicated to have served as a captain in the
Confederate Army, when the war broke out; editor and proprietor of the Norfolk Landmark, in the
1880's; resided, in 1880, with his wife Annie B. Hope, and two daughters (eldest daughter born 1860),
at Norfolk, Virginia; well known poet and journalist; died September 1, 1887, at his home in Norfolk.
[Reminiscences 37; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated July
19, 1861; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated September 18, 1887, page 11; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of
officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 733 and 734; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 7.]
William M. Hope, born Virginia, 1813; resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; Naval constructor, served on
the Richmond station, in 1863, and later at the Mobile station, 1864; resided as a ship's carpenter, in
1880, with his wife, Virginia F. Hope, and three children (eldest child born 1853) at Portsmouth, Norfolk
County, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 319; 1880 U.S. Census; Norfolk County Record 221; Confederate Navy
subject file A - Naval ships: Design, construction, etc. - AC - Construction; Saffold - Wilmington, page
432.]
Arthur Hopett, ship's corporal, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina,
1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
A. Hopkins, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Andrew Hopkins, original service as private, company D, 6th Virginia Infantry; 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; Civil War Service Records.]
Charles Hopkins, negro; born Baltimore, Maryland; shipped aboard the CSS Shenandoah, November
14, 1864, as ordinary seaman; later served as Wardroom Cook. [Alabama Claims, 1, 975; CSS
Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 70-71; ORN 1, 3, 783.]
Franklin Hopkins, 3rd assistant engineer, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron,
Alabama, 1863; resigned August 5, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 292; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]
Fred M. Hopkins, ordinary seaman, screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 307.]
G.W. Hopkins, original service as private, captain Jones' Company, Texas Light Artillery; transferred to
the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
J.B. Hopkins, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863(see also, entries for James
Hopkins and John B. Hopkins, who may all be one and the same person). . [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
J.B. Hopkins, acting master, CSS Beaufort; September, 1861 - April, 1862; vessel operated in North
Carolina and Virginia waters (see also, entries for James Hopkins and John B. Hopkins, who may all be
one and the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 281.]
James Hopkins, pilot, CSS Beaufort, 1862 (see also, entries for J.B. Hopkins and John B. Hopkins, who
may all be one and the same person). . [Parker 237.]
John B. Hopkins, pilot, CSS Albemarle, 1864; involved in the attack on Plymouth, North Carolina, April
20, 1864; highly praised by commander of the CSS Albemarle, J.W. Cooke, for his handling of the vessel
during its engagement in May, 1864 (see also, entries for James Hopkins and J.B. Hopkins, who may all
be one and the same person). . [ORN 1, 9, 657 & 771; 1, 10, 718 and 2, 1, 274; see also article on CSS
Albemarle, on page 2 of the [Richmond, Virginia] Sentinel, of Monday, May 23, 1864.]
John N. Hopkins, served in company B, Naval Battalion (?); served as witness in the post war
Confederate pension application of Martha Coppedge, of Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index
486.]
Joseph Hopkins, enlisted at Richmond, Virginia, September 1, 1861, as private, company I, 1st South
Carolina (Gregg's or McCreary's) Volunteer Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy,
January 17, 1862; served as landsman, CSS Virginia, 1862. [SC1st; ORN 2, 1, 309; Civil War Service
Records.]
Peter Hopkins, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina
stations, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]
William Hopson (surname also shown as Hobson), appointed acting 1st assistant engineer in the
Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, September 5, 1861; served on the CSS Florida (Selma), at
New Orleans in late 1861; later at the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject
file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 438; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 424;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 584.]
Charles Horan, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Atlanta, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]
Christopher Horan, previously served as Private, Company G, First Regiment Georgia Regulars,
February, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy May 2, 1864; served aboard CSS Palmetto
State, June 30, 1864. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 346.]
James Horan, served at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and later as coxswain aboard the cruiser CSS
Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100.]
Timothy Horan, born Ireland, about 1836; transferred, on July 14, 1862, as ordinary seaman, to the CSS
Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Friday, August 15, 1862. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 467.]
Patrick Hore, born Ireland, about 1832; served as fireman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron;
treated for fever on Tuesday, October 28, 1862 and Tuesday, October 7, 1862; Thursday, January 29th,
1863, he reported to the surgeon suffering from rheumatism; treated for a fever on Wednesday,
August 12, 1863, and again, for the same condition, on Sunday, August 30, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical
Journal.]
Robert J. Horley (surname also shown as Hockley), listed as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy;
captured at Morris Island, South Carolina, September 7, 1863; sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, then to
Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received, September 23, 1864; released and sent to
Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged. [Fort Warren; Daily
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]
Tim Horn, see Tim Horne.
William F. Hornback, 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 680.]
P.J. Hornberger, appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, November 1, 1861;
served aboard the CSS General Polk, New Orleans, 1861; resigned December 9, 1861; a CS Navy
document indicates that he had died at the Jackson Naval station, about the time of, or shortly after
his resignation. [CSNRegister; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from
medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 143.]
G.W. Horne, served on the CSS Charleston, and the CSS Indian Chief, Charleston station, in 1864, and
was transferred, by order of flag officer J. R. Tucker, dated September 13, 1864, to the command of
flag officer Lynch, at Wilmington, North Carolina; served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear
River, North Carolina, 1863, and aboard the CSS Albemarle, and at the Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1,
274 & 279; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 156 and 761.]
Joseph Horne, served in the Confederate States Navy, at Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864; died at the
General Hospital No. 4, Wilmington, about June 11, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical;
MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 144.]
Simeon A.J. Horne (second initial also shown as J.), born July 8, 1838, Twiggs County, Georgia; resided
in Florida since 1856; enlisted in company E, 1st Special Battalion, Florida Infantry (later company B,
10th Florida Infantry); transferred to the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS
Chattahoochee, May, 1864, as landsman; later transferred to the ram CSS Georgia (which was also
known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah station, Georgia; hospitalized at Savannah,
Georgia, at the close of the war; married Hattie Boyd (may have been a first marriage, as he is also
shown married to an Emaly); resided as a farm worker, in 1880, with his wife Emaly and eight children
(eldest child born 1862), at Bartow, Hamilton County, Florida; resident of Live Oak, Florida, in 1908; died
November 4, 1915, at Suwanee County, Florida. [ORN 1, 17, 701 and 2, 1, 283 & 287; Florida
Confederate Pension File No. A01799; 1880 U.S. Census.]
Tim Horne, coal heaver, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN
2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]
David Horner, Ordinary Seaman, ironclad CSS Fredericksburg, wounded in action (over sacrum and
right scapula), James River, Virginia, October 22, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 589.]
H.J. Horney, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
John Horrigan, enlisted as landsman on the steamer, CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862;
discharged by medical survey, August 20, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN -
Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 367; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]
Sylvester Horrigan, original service as private, company E, 1st Texas Heavy Artillery; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Webb,
Shreveport, Louisiana, 1864; rated as carpenter's mate from January 1, 1864; deserted from the vessel
on September 28, 1864. [Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 960; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 523.]
Robert Horsley, served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863; a list of "boarders" of the cruiser
shows Horsley in the position of gun captain at the 1st gun division. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]
William Horsville, served as landsman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as seaman from
February 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]
C.R. Horton, served in Confederate States Navy; buried at Charleston Port Society Cemetery, on
Ashley River, Charleston. [Name and service status inscribed on granite monument unveiled
December 10, 1922, by the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina.]
John W. Horton, seaman and ship's cook; served on the CSS Sea Bird; captured and paroled at
Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 306; Scharf, 392]
Levi Horton, original service as private in the Kilcrease Light Artillery, Florida; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; paroled at Thomasville, Georgia, May 13, 1865. [Civil
War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 660.]
Martin M. Horton, served as 1st class boy 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 660.]
R. Horton, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN
2, 1, 292.]
Richard Horton, 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 680.]
Thomas Horton, born 1831; enlisted July 17, 1861, at Apalachicola, Florida, in Company B, Fourth Florida
Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, December 12, 1862, and sent from Murfreesboro,
Tennessee to Saffold, Georgia, in January, 1863, for service as quarter gunner on the CSS
Chattahoochee, 1863. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 380; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 246.]
John Hortz, served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863; a list of "boarders" of the cruiser shows
Hortz with the position of "H.S. man" at the 1st gun division. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]
George Horwood, see George Harwood.
William G.B. Hosch (may be the same person listed as William Harch), born Georgia, August, 1845;
served as private in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, at Savannah, Georgia, 1864; paid
expenses of $9.50, on February 20, 1864, for transportation from Jackson County, Georgia, to
Savannah, to join his company at Savannah; married in 1873; resided as an agent at the railroad depot,
in 1880, with his wife Angeline and four children (eldest child born 1874), at Flowery Branch, Hall
County, Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Hart County, Georgia; still shown as a
resident of Hall County, in 1910; his widow, Angeline Hosch later also filed for a pension from the same
county. [GA Pension Index 489; ORN 2, 1, 315; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles;
Miscellaneous, page 392.]
E.N. Hoskins, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
John Hoskins, corporal, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed at Drewry's Bluff,
Virginia, 1864; also served on the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 -
1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312 & 314.]
Seth Augustus Hotchkiss, born York District, South Carolina, about 1843 (1920 U.S. Census shows state
of birth as Georgia); resided in South Carolina as a farmer, prior to enlisting at Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina, April 3, 1861, as private, company B, 13th Regiment North Carolina Troops (New York
Times of Sunday, April 15, 1934 states that he was a veteran of the 53rd North Carolina Infantry, and
that he was captured during the retreat from Gettysburg, in July, 1863; spent eighteen months in the
Union prison at Fort Delaware); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 15, 1862, for
duty on the Merrimac (CSS Virginia); married in 1878; resided as a carton maker, in 1910, with his wife,
Margaret, at New Haven, Connecticut; indicated to have been an arms expert; amassed a fortune as
contractor for the Winchester Repeating Arms Company, and retired about 1914; killed as a result of a
fall from a three story window at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Mary Maher, in New Haven, April 14,
1934. [NCT 5, 303; 1910 U.S. Census; 1930 U.S. Census; New York Times dated Sunday, April 15, 1934.]
W.D. Hough, appointed from Maryland; Captain's Clerk, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October
7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received November 26, 1864; described as
a dangerous character, and the prison guard were instructed to keep a close watch on him, and fellow
officer, engineer William Ahern; released February 1, 1865. [ORN 1, 2, 681 and 1, 3, 256; photograph
held at Museum of the Confederacy - see Civil War Times Illustrated, March/April 1995, page 48; Fort
Warren; New York Times dated November 18, 1864.]
E. House, served at the Mobile station, in 1863, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1070.]
John House, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled at St. Marks, Florida.
[Soldiers of Florida, 52.]
W. R. House, enlisted November 4, 1864, in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served as
private in the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 266.]
J. Houstock, 2nd class fireman, ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]
Spencer Louis Houston, born Talbot Island, Duval County, Florida, December 13, 1837; claimed to have
served as quartermaster, under the name of George Lewis, aboard the steamship Agnes E. Fry (a
blockade runner commanded by Captain Joseph E. Fry); joined the vessel at Greenock, Scotland;
transferred to the steamship Little Ruby at Nassau; served as sailing master aboard this vessel;
captured by the USS Gucha [?], commanded by Captain Alexander Wallace, taken to Key West, Florida
and imprisoned at Fort Taylor until the end of the war; resided at Fort George, Duval County, Florida, in
1917. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. D20930.]
A. E. Howard, served as 2nd class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and aboard the CSS
Livingstone, in 1862; rated as landsman from February 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 93.]
Benedict Howard, recruited at Mobile, Alabama, by captain George P. Turner, into the Confederate
States Marine Corps, May 19, 1862; later promoted sergeant. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1047;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and
Registers, page 680.]
C.C. Howard, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]
C.J. Howard, served in the Confederate States Navy; died March 23, 1863; buried Hollywood
Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]
Calvin Howard, born about 1844; served as a private in company F, Navy Battalion; died as a prisoner
of war, of chronic diarrhoea and debility, at Point Lookout, Maryland, on May 8, 1865; buried National
Cemetery, Point Lookout. [Tom Brooks; Point Lookout; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN
- Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 146.]
Charles Howard, seaman, CSS Beaufort; September, 1861 - April, 1862; vessel operated in North
Carolina and Virginia waters. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]
George Howard, born England; served as boatswain aboard the CSS Alabama, 1864 and the CSS
Shenandoah, 1864 - 1865. [Alabama Claims, 1, 975.]
George Augustus Howard, born Tennessee, 1842; previous service in the United States Navy, as
midshipman, from September 20, 1858; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting
midshipman, 1st class, April 10, 1862; served on the Mississippi defenses, 1862 - 1863; resigned March
18, 1863. [1860 U.S. Census; Register1862; Register 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]
George Leon Howard, rated as officer's steward aboard the CS floating battery New Orleans, at
Columbus, Kentucky, from November 20, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 2 and 5.]
Henry H. Howard, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862; attached as private to company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865;
surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 310; M1091.]
J. D. Howard, served as sergeant in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS
Tennessee. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; Lists and Registers, page 680.]
James Howard, served as seaman aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in
1863; discharged from the Naval service, by order of flag officer W.W. Hunter, on August 4, 1863, by
reason of Howard's transfer to the Confederate States Army. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 510;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 908.]
John Howard, Quarter Gunner, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
John Howard, originally served as private, 2nd Texas Field Battery; later in the Confederate States
Marine Corps; see also, Waul's Texas Legion. [Civil War Service Records.]
John H. Howard, served as coal heaver and 1st class fireman on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick
Henry, James River, and at the Richmond station, Virginia, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, pages 484 - 487.]
William Howard, quarter gunner, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina,
1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
William Howard, served as seaman at the New Orleans station in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page
85.]
William E. Howard (middle initial also shown as H.), enlisted at Richmond, Virginia, on March 1, 1864,
as a musician in company C, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the marine guard aboard the
CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron, 1864; transferred in December, 1864, destination not
indicated. [ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 461; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV
- Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 325.]
William H. Howard, ordinary seaman and seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River,
North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]
S.A. Howarth, seaman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2,
1, 311.]
Becket Kempe Howell, born Natchez, Mississippi, December 24, 1840; brother in law of the
Confederate president, Jefferson Davis; appointed from Louisiana; previous service in the United
States Marine Corps, from August 1, 1860, until his resignation, March 1, 1861; original entry, as 1st
lieutenant, Confederate Marine Corps, March 29, 1861; commanded Marine Guard on CSS Sumter,
1861-1862; then served on CSS Alabama, 1862-1864; promoted captain, February 1, 1863; described as
being a guitar player; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864, where he was rescued by English
yacht Deerhound; transferred to the steamer Laurel; returned to England, then attempted to return to
the Confederate States, but was at St. Georges, Bermuda, at the close of the war; post-war, employed
as overseer at the Jefferson Davis plantation, "Brierfield"; resided as a planter, in 1880, at Madison
County, Louisiana; died of fever, September 12, 1882, in Mississippi. [Sinclair 174; Donnelly 208-209;
Booth 2, 367; ORN 1, 1, 614; CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Semmes 125; Register1864; 1880 U.S. Census.]
Charles L. Howell (middle initial also shown as S.), born April 15, 1848, Chatham County, Georgia;
enlisted at Savannah, Georgia, November 3, 1861, in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the
gunboat, CSS Sampson; transferred to Gunboat No. 2, also served as 2nd class boy on the ironclad ram
CSS Savannah (later renamed the CSS Oconee), Savannah station, Georgia, 1862; rated as landsman
from December 1, 1862; later served aboard the receiving ship CSS Indian Chief (at Charleston, South
Carolina), and the steamer CSS Arctic, at Wilmington, North Carolina; then transferred to Drewry's
Bluff, James River, Virginia, and finally served in the Naval Brigade, Lee's Division, Ewell's Corps, Army
of Northern Virginia; captured at Laurel Hill, Virginia, April 6, 1865, and confined at Newport News,
Virginia, until June 28, 1865; after the war resided in Florida since September 17, 1914; resided in Duval
County, Florida, in September, 1922. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A02885; ORN 2, 1, 297 &
305; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
New Orleans - Yorktown, page 589.]
James Howell, served as a private in company I, 55th Virginia Volunteers; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209
dated at Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston,
South Carolina; buried at Charleston Port Society Cemetery, on Ashley River, Charleston. [Name and
service status inscribed on granite monument unveiled December 10, 1922, by the Ladies Memorial
Association of Charleston, South Carolina; Confederate States Navy subject file.]
J.M. Howell, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865;
attached as 1st sergeant to company D, 1st Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered
and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; M1091.]
Jefferson Davis Howell, born Louisiana; youngest brother of Varina Howell Davis, wife of president
Jefferson Davis; appointed as second captain aboard the Confederate States ram General Sumter, of
the Mississippi River Defense Fleet, 1862; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman,
February 24, 1863; sent aboard the school ship Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia; passed his first
regular examination in December, 1863, and promoted to 3rd class midshipman, and immediately
ordered to service; served on the Charleston station, 1863 - 1864; participated in several of the
expeditions under John Taylor Wood; also on the expedition that captured the USS Underwriter in
North Carolina waters; also served on the CSS Chicamauga, on her run out from Wilmington, in 1864;
captured with the presidential party (of Jefferson Davis), near Irwinville, Georgia, May 10, 1865; held
prisoner at Fort McHenry, Maryland, May 23, 1865; sent to Portland, Maine, then to Fort Warren,
Boston Harbor, where he was received December 8, 1865; released January 21, 1866; after the war he
shipped before the mast as a common sailor; later resided with his relatives in New Orleans, for a very
short time; indicated to be an experienced navigator; commanded the merchant steamer Pacific, in
which he was lost on a trip from Oregon to San Francisco, November, 1875. [Booth 2, 368; ORA 1, 49/1;
Register1864; Harrison 262; Fort Warren; Sheppard - Atlanta Constitution dated November 10, 1875;
Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas) dated November 14, 1875; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]
John Howell, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia,
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]
Joseph Howell, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]
William B. Howell, Navy Agent at Montgomery, Alabama, January, 1863; a dispatch dated at Augusta,
Georgia, February 1, 1864, from W.F. Howell, Navy agent at Augusta, mentions "the late William B.
Howell, Navy agent" indicating that William B. Howell had passed on; William B. Howell and W.F. Howell
may have been related. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XA - Accounting and finance,
Miscellaneous, pages 252, 559 and 605.]
W.F. Howell, served as Confederate States Navy agent, at Augusta, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 2, 558.]
William Wilbern Howell, born Dale, Barbour County, Alabama, March 5, 1836; resided in Florida since
1845; married in 1858; enlisted September 7, 1861, at Vernon, Washington County, Florida, in Company
H, Fourth Florida Infantry; enlisted by Navy lieutenant W.W. Carne, at Dalton, Georgia, on April 8, 1864,
for service as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia; transferred, on May 4, 1864, to
the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron; also served aboard the CSS Tennessee [see page 007 of the
pension file of fellow shipmate, William Courtney, file number A11677]; later served aboard the CSS
Macon, 1865; surrendered and discharged at Augusta, Georgia, May 9, 1865; resided as a farmer, in
1880, with his wife, Ann, and nine children, at Vernon; died January 23, 1910, buried New Hope
Cemetery, Vernon. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 436; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A11069;
CSS Macon Rolls; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA
- Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 585.]
Emmett B. Howle, born Virginia, April, 1844; son of M.P. and Sarah Howle; resided with his parents, in
1850, at Henrico County, Virginia; originally enlisted as private, company I, 16th Virginia Infantry
Regiment, July 17, 1861; discharged September 29, 1861; later served as seaman aboard the side-
wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, James River squadron, 1861 - 1862; rated as surgeon's steward
from December 14, 1861; also stated to have served on the ironclad, CSS Virginia, 1862; married in
1869; resided as a druggist, in 1870, with his wife, Bettie, at the home of his mother, in Manchester,
Chesterfield County, Virginia; occupation shown, in 1900, as publisher; shown as a resident of
Richmond, Virginia, in 1910. [ORN 2, 1, 289; American Civil War Soldiers database at the Ancestry.com
web site; LVa - see especially, application of James Rudd for entry to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1,
Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, dated February, 1903; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S.
Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 947.]
William R. Howle, born and raised in Richmond, Virginia; lived in Missouri, 1855 - 1857; practised law,
prior to the war; originally enlisted in the Confederate States army, May, 1861, as private, company C,
9th Virginia Infantry; stated that he "was brevetted for hard fighting and gallantry; and appointed
commissioner in the navy by the Confederate government"; served as acting master's mate, CSS Arctic,
1863; a Naval document, however, shows that he was appointed acting master's mate, at Richmond,
Virginia, on January 19, 1864; captured with five other personnel of the Confederate Navy, by Union
sailors from the USS Pequot, on the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, February 19, 1865; sent for
confinement to the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C., and then to Fort Delaware; returned to
Virginia, after the war, and was engaged in contracting, including cutting new roads in Richmond; drove
stock from Virginia to North Carolina; employed as railroad contractor, Chatham County, North
Carolina, 1870 - 1872; left the job when his contractors were attacked by Ku Klux Klansmen; married,
with child. [ORN 1, 12, 42 and 2, 1, 275; additional biographical information from "Testimony taken by
the Joint Select Committee to Inquire into the Condition of Affairs in the Late Insurrectionary States:
North Carolina," published 1872, by the Government Printing Office, 1872, pages 51 - 68; Sierra;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 588.]
John Howley, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as 1st class fireman
from October 5, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 65, 67 and 122.]
Thomas Howley, served as landsman aboard the CSS Mobile, in 1861; rated as coal heaver on
November 5, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1027.]
James B. Hoyle, born England, about 1831; appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate
States Navy, at New Orleans, on October 23, 1861; served aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans
station, and from which he was detached on November 6, 1861, and also aboard the CSS Tuscarora,
1861; ordered, on November 6, 1861, to proceed, the next day, November 7, on board the Empire
Parrish, and report to flag officer G. N. Hollins, at New Orleans; March 31, 1862, Hoyle received
instructions from commandant Whittle to report for duty aboard the CSS Jackson, and to continue to
discharge the duties of engineer on the floating battery Memphis, whenever that battery was within
reach of the CSS Jackson; also served on the Jackson station, 1862. [St. Philip; ORN 2, 1, 318;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 890; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), pages 591,
598 and 600.]
Henry Hoyt, ordinary seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Mathew Hoyt, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Sampson,
Savannah squadron, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 573.]
Samuel J. Hubbard, original service as private, company D, 10th Florida Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
W.S. Hubbard, landsman, CSS Macon, 1865; post war resident of Charleston, South Carolina; attended
a reunion of soldiers and sailors of the Confederacy, held at Charleston, in April, 1896. [CSS Macon
Rolls; Weekly News and Courier (Charleston, South Carolina) dated April 29, 1896, page 10.]
M. V. Hubbell, 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.]
William J.H. Hubel, born Germany, 1841; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, April 15, 1861;
served as paymaster's steward aboard the CSS Beaufort; also served aboard the CSS Tallahassee; post
war occupation as restaurant/hotel keeper; member of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York;
awarded the United Daughters of the Confederacy Cross of Honor; never married; died 1910.
[Confederate Veteran Camp of New York; 1880 U.S. Census.]
John Huber, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and was attached to the CSS
Charleston, 1863-1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 133 and 153.]
Peter Huble (surname also shown as Hubble), listed as ship's steward aboard the CSS Beaufort, in a
muster roll of the vessel, dated March 31, 1864; also served as officer's steward aboard the CSS
Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864; at the expiration of his term of service, he was paid off and
discharged from Naval service, at Wilmington, on December 20, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 108; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 850; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) -
Revoked commissions, page 910.]
Lewis Neill Huck (middle name also shown as Neale), born Virginia, November 29, 1830; resided as an
attorney at law, in 1860, with his wife, Mary R. Huck, at Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia;
originally commissioned as lieutenant, company H, 13th Virginia Infantry, Local Defence (also, 13th
Virginia Infantry), April 20, 1861; promoted captain, April 26, 1862; resigned as unfit for duty, October
21, 1862; appointed master not in line of promotion, in the Confederate States Navy, November 14,
1863; served on the school ship CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1863 - 1864; paroled, at the
close of the war, at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 13, 1865; returned to his law practice at Winchester,
after the war; died July 22, 1895. [ORN 2, 1, 299; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; Civil
War Service Records; American Civil War Soldiers database at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate
Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, 96.]
A. Huckfield, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and as boatswain's mate aboard
the revenue cutter Pickens, at New Orleans, 1862; deserted from the vessel, but was apprehended by
police officer James Feney, and returned aboard on January 29, 1862, and for which Feney received a
reward of $10. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 62; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ
- Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 159.]
J.M. Huddleson, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served on the steam
gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277 & 302.]
James Huddleston, served as 2nd class boy, and later 1st class boy aboard the ironclad floating battery
CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1863 - 1864;
transferred, in 1864, to the Wilmington station; also shown to have served on the Charleston station at
an unspecified date. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 235 and 522; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 1005.]
John Huddleston, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]
S.B. Huddleston, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865.
[ORN 2, 1, 311.]
W.J. Huddleston, boy; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14,
268.]
William Green Huddleston (surname also incorrectly shown, in Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia)
dated March 9, 1863, as Suddenston, and in the issue of March 14, 1863, as Suddleston), born March 8,
1843, Montgomery, Alabama; enlisted April 2, 1861, at Montgomery, Alabama, as drummer, company
B, Confederate States Marine Corps; served at the Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida; transferred to Santa
Rosa Island, then to Norfolk, Virginia, on the receiving ship; later on CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads,
Virginia, 1862, as gunner and private; also indicated to have served in company C, Confederate States
Marine Corps; deserted at Richmond, Virginia, in March, 1863, and was supposed to have enlisted in a
volunteer company and gone to Fredericksburg; personal description shown as 5 feet, 2 ½ or 3 ½
inches high, hazel eyes, auburn hair and dark complexion; a reward of $30 was offered for his
apprehension and delivery at Castle Thunder, Richmond, Virginia; Huddleston did return to duty, as he
is later shown, on a list of privates at Drewry's Bluff, dated September 30, 1863, who had lost, through
negligence, items of clothing or accoutrements; Huddleston is shown to have lost a sword bayonet,
together with its scabbard and frog, as well as a waist belt and cap pouch; later stated to have been
discharged in April, 1865; post war occupation as farmer; married at Travis County, Texas, February 19,
1880; died Jacksonville, Texas, October 19, 1929, of Brights disease. [ADAH; Confederate Veteran 37,
468; ORN 2, 1, 310; Texas Confederate Pension application file no. 17076 for W.G. Huddleston and
46154 for Mrs. W.G. Huddleston; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated March 9, 1863 and March
14, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV -
Miscellaneous; Richmond (clothing - ordnance), page 724.]
A. Hudgins, seaman, Confederate States Navy; confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he died
and is buried. [Point Lookout.]
Albert Gallatin Hudgins, born Virginia, about 1841; original service in the United States Navy, as
midshipman, from September 24, 1857; resigned from the Naval Academy, March 4, 1861; entered the
Confederate States Navy, April 15, 1861; ordered to report to the New Orleans station, where he
arrived on June 20, 1861; served aboard the CSS Sumter; sent as prize master aboard a captured
vessel, but was captured by Union vessels and sent as prisoner of war to the "Tombs," New York, July
22, 1861; released and returned to the Confederate States; promoted 2nd lieutenant, February 8, 1862;
served aboard the steamer CSS Baltic, 1862 - 1863; later aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, and
on the Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864; involved in the expedition to capture the USS
Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, on August 23, 1863, and also in
the Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863; served aboard the CSS Arctic, 1864; appointed 1st
lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; detached from the batteries at Drewry's
Bluff, James River, on September 23, 1863, and ordered to proceed to Wilmington, to await further
orders; subsequently sent to Canada, and Bermuda, on Confederate government authority; was a
passenger on board the blockade runner Dare, running from Bermuda to Virginia, at the time of the
loss of that vessel to Union blockaders, on Thursday, January 7, 1864, near Wilmington, North Carolina;
escaped to Wilmington; captured aboard the CSS Bombshell during the engagement at Albemarle
Sound, North Carolina, May 5, 1864, and transferred, the same day, from the USS Ceres to the USS
Sassacus, then to the steamer Lockwood, on May 10, 1864, for transportation to a prisoner of war
facility; later, as 1st lieutenant, served aboard the CSS Virginia II; transferred to the CSS Richmond,
January, 1865; attached as captain, commanding company I, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade,
April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as an
insurance agent, in 1880, with his wife Cora, and three children, at Stevensburg, Culpeper County,
Virginia; prominent in the south as an underwriter and general land agent; died of cancer of the face,
at St. Luke's Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, January 3, 1895; remains sent to Culpeper, Virginia, and
buried there with Masonic honors. [ORN 1, 1, 614; 1, 2, 824; 1, 9, 745; 1, 11 664 & 691; 1, 12, 187 and 2, 1,
275, 301 & 323; ORA 2, 3; CSS Sumter Muster Rolls; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Register1863;
Confederate Veteran volume 3, no. 4, April 1895, page 109; JCC 4, 122; M1091; Daily Dispatch
(Richmond, Virginia) dated August 14, 1861 and January 14, 1864; deck log of the USS Sassacus dated
May 5, 1864 and May 10, 1864; Washington Post dated January 5, 1895, 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 O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM -
Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 336 - 347.]
John S. Hudgins, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, and was involved in the
expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River,
Virginia, on August 23, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money,
etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]
L.G. Hudgins, listed as a private? in the Confederate States Navy; captured at Accomack County,
Virginia, November 15, 1863; sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor,
where he was received, September 23, 1864; exchanged October 1, 1864; released and sent to
Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged. [Fort Warren; Daily
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]
Lewis M. Hudgins, born Virginia, 1829; acting master, Richmond station, 1862 - 1863; captured near the
South Anna crossing, Hanover County, Virginia, June 26, 1863; resided as a sea captain, in 1880, with his
wife, Isabella, and four children, at Westville, Mathews County, Virginia; died prior to 1889. [ORN 2, 1,
321; ORA 1, 27/2; 1880 U.S. Census; see also entry for Isabella Hudgins, widow, at the Norfolk, Virginia
Directories, 1888 - 1891 database, at the Ancestry.com web site.]
Robert K. Hudgins, born Virginia, 1815; father of Confederate Naval officer, William E. Hudgins, listed
below; originally served in the United States Revenue Service; resided, in 1860, with his wife, Sarah,
and eight children, at Portsmouth, Virginia; served as captain in the Virginia Revenue Service; attached
to Yorktown battery, Virginia, 1861. [ORN 1, 6, 724; 1860 U.S. Census.]
Thomas Jefferson Hudgins, master's mate, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River,
Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Register1864.]
William E. Hudgins, born Mathews County, Virginia, 1838; son of United States Revenue service
officer Robert K. Hudgins (later an officer in the Virginia Revenue Service, 1861), and his wife Sarah J.;
resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; served in the United States Revenue Cutter service, pre-war;
resigned when Virginia seceded, and entered the Artillery service of the Confederate Army; served as
lieutenant in the Virginia Revenue Service; attached to the Yorktown battery, Virginia, 1861; original
entry into the Confederate States Navy, May 26, 1863; promoted lieutenant for the war, January 7,
1864, to rank from May 26, 1863; ordered to report for duty aboard the ironclad ram CSS Savannah,
Savannah River Squadron, Georgia, in July, 1863; served in the boat expedition against the Union Navy
vessels, USS Satellite and USS Reliance, off the mouth of the Rappahannock river, in August, 1863;
appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; assigned to command a
detachment of Naval personnel detailed to guard prisoners at Savannah, September 10, 1864; after
the fall of Savannah, he was sent to Charleston, South Carolina, then to Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher,
North Carolina, where he was wounded and captured; exchanged and sent to Richmond, Virginia, just
prior to the fall of the city, April, 1865; after the war he returned to his home in Portsmouth, Virginia;
later went to South America, where he joined the Columbian and then the Peruvian Navies; returned
to Virginia, 1866, and settled in Norfolk; appointed collector for customs; later commanded the Virginia
Oyster Patrol Fleet, and then served as harbor captain; married Victoria Stone, in 1871; member of the
United Confederate Veterans, Pickett-Buchanan Camp, becoming camp commander, 1913; died at
Norfolk, July 27, 1920. [ORN 1, 6, 724; 1, 14, 726; 1, 15, 770 and 2, 1, 304; JCC 4, 122; Register1864; some
additional information included in an article by Charles Avery, in the Confederate Veteran magazine,
March/April, 1990, page 9, in which a post-war photo is included; see also, Confederate Veteran
magazine, volume 28 (1920), page 348; 1860 U.S. Census; Norfolk County Record 221 & 226.]
Edward W. Hudson, original service as private, company H, 2nd Texas Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Francis Hudson, 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 680.]
J. R. Hudson, served as private (?) in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Charlotte, North
Carolina, May 11, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 660.]
William Hudson, Corporal, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Francis Huener, served on the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 -
100.]
Robert Huenigen, officers' steward, 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.]
William H. Huey, original service as private, company B, 14th Mississippi Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865;
surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Civil
War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]
George R.G. Huff, born Georgia, about 1832; originally enlisted as private, company K, 6th Regiment,
Georgia Infantry, June 21, 1861; discharged for disability, May 25, 1862; later enlisted, on April 10, 1863,
as private, Confederate States Marine Corps, receiving a bounty of $50; served aboard the ironclad
floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia,
1863 - 1864; later transferred to Richmond, Virginia, at an unknown date; resided as a farmer, in 1880,
with his wife, Martha, and eight children, at Simston, Oglethorpe County, Georgia; still shown residing
in Oglethorpe County, in 1910. [ORN 2, 1, 287 & 316; 1880 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; American Civil
War Soldiers database at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA
- Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 677; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 316.]
Thomas Huffman, resided in Burke County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at
Catawba County, North Carolina, February 2, 1863, aged 36, as private, company F, 55th Regiment
North Carolina Troops; reported as being absent without leave, October 25, 1863, but apparently
returned at an unspecified date; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 3, 1864.
[NCT 13, 491.]
John J. Hufham, Landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
Thomas Bee Huger, born Charleston, South Carolina, July 12, 1820; son of Dr. Benjamin Huger; original
service in the United States Navy, from July 1835; served in the Mexican War; married Marianne
Meade, a sister of George G. Meade, who was later to command United States forces during the Civil
War; resigned from United States Naval service, November 12, 1860; appointed lieutenant,
Confederate States Navy; commandant of batteries on Morris Island, South Carolina, April, 1861;
attached to the Jackson station, 1862, and later at the New Orleans station, where he commanded
steam sloop CSS McRae (ORN 2, 1, 318 shows his rank, at this time, as lieutenant commander, but this
is probably a typographical error); mortally wounded in the actions at New Orleans, April 24 - 25, 1862,
and died on May 11, 1862. [ORN 1, 18, 249; 2, 1, 290, 318 & 320; ORA 1, 1; Appletons; Daily Picayune,
Tuesday, April 29, 1862; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated November 11, 1861; 36th Congress
Report 24; Charleston Courier, Tri-Weekly (South Carolina) dated June 12, 1862.]
John Huggard, enlisted for the war, on April 2, 1862; served as ordinary seaman and seaman aboard
the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah
River, Georgia; condemned to be sent to Drewry's Bluff, as a prisoner, by sentence of a Court Martial,
May 1, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 297; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of
Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 62.]
C.H. Huggins, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension
from Pender County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]
Cohen T. Huggins (middle initial also shown as F.; surname also shown as Huggens), born New York,
1842 (1880 U.S. Census shows state of birth as Alabama); resided as an engineer, in 1860, at Mobile,
Alabama; original service as private, company E, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery; transferred to
the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; enlisted aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron,
as landsman, on June 15, 1862; rated as 2nd class fireman from July 16, 1862; resided as a railroad
conductor, in 1880, at Mobile; shown as a widower, in 1880. [Civil War Service Records; 1860 U.S.
Census; 1880 U.S. Census; ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 109.]
J.G. Huggins, see James G. Bennett.
L.F. Huggins, pilot aboard the CSS Louisiana, at New Orleans, Louisiana, April, 1862. [ORN 1, 18, 297.]
Jerdan Hugh, shown as Private aboard Launch No. 1, Confederate States Navy; listed as a deserter,
December 9, 1862. [Information supplied by Arthur Bergeron, Louisiana.]
Benjamin F. Hughes, born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting gunner,
October 20, 1862; another Naval document, however, shows that he was appointed acting gunner at
New Orleans, November 25, 1861, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Manassas for duty; Hughes is
described in a letter sent by admiral Franklin Buchanan, dated at Mobile, Alabama, November 15, 1862,
as being "old and infirm, unfit for sea duty, but can attend to the duties of a gunner at shore
batteries"; served on the Jackson station, 1862; later served on the Mobile station battery, 1862 -
1863, and aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, 1863; served on the steamer, CSS Florida, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 319;
Register1863; Register1864; Confederate Navy Subject File, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls,
etc., page 1058; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships
(April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 1131; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 605.]
D. M. Hughes, listed as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Beaufort, in a muster roll of the vessel, dated
March 31, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 108.]
George W. Hughes, served as a private in Cobb's Georgia Cavalry; 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.]
H.W. Hughes, seaman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14,
268.].
Henry Hughes, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 14, 1861, at
St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]
Henry Hughes, 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
680.]
Hugh Hughes, ordinary seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
Hugh Hughes, served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863; a list of "boarders" of the cruiser shows
Hughes as tackleman at the 1st gun division. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]
James Hughes, Carpenter's Mate, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
James Hughes, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 292.]
James E. Hughes, ordinary seaman, wooden gunboat CSS Drewry, classed as a tender (which operated
on the James River, Virginia), October - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]
John Hughes, Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1863; deserted at Cape Town, South Africa, September 18, 1863.
[William Marvel.]
John Hughes, see John Hays.
John Hughes, born England; aged 23; ordinary seaman, CSS Jackson, 1862. [St. Philip.]
John Hughes, 1st class boy, served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN
2, 1, 305.]
John Hughes, served in the Confederate States Navy; captured and paroled at Raleigh, North Carolina,
April 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 660.]
Patrick Hughes, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Patrick Hughes, born Ireland, about 1812; served aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861-1862;
rated as coal heaver from September 2, 1861. [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 838.]
Patrick Hughes, original service as private, company E, 8th Alabama Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Peter Hughes, Captain of the Foretop, later Coxswain, and Boatswain's Mate, CSS Alabama; born
Liverpool, England; wounded in action, and captured in the engagement with the USS Kearsarge, June
19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]
Thomas Hughes, 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.]
Timothy Hughes, enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 9, 1862; deserted
in early July, 1862, after only 23 days of service. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 109.]
W.H.H. Hughes, resident of Montgomery County, Georgia; originally served aboard the ironclad ram
CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia, and the Ladies' Gunboat); transferred to the CSS
Atlanta, and captured aboard that vessel, at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Daily Morning News
(Savannah, Georgia) dated June 27, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 643.]
William Hughes, original service as private, company F, 1st South Carolina Artillery; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
William S. Hughes, served in the Confederate States Navy; post war member of Robinson Springs
Camp, United Confederate Veterans No. 296, of Grand View, Alabama; died March 6, 1903.
[Confederate Veteran magazine volume XIX, no. 2 (February, 1911) page 83.]
G. M. Huishane, served as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, and transferred to the Mobile station
about January 22, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 100.]
M. Huishane, served as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, and transferred to the Mobile station about
January 22, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 100.]
G.W. Hull, original service as sergeant, company H, Morgan's Men, Kentucky (?); transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
William Hull, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the side-wheeled gunboat
CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma), 1861; operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and
Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862; Hull was rated as quarter gunner from December 1, 1861; arrested as
a deserter at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February
12, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 431; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 39;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]
D.D. Hullender, born York District, South Carolina; resided in Cleveland County, North Carolina as a
farmer, prior to enlisting there, October 1, 1861, aged 21, as private, company H, 34th Regiment North
Carolina Troops; reported absent without leave, August 2, 1862, and listed as a deserter; dropped from
the rolls of the company sometime between July and August, 1863; same source also indicates that he
joined the Confederate States Navy while on sick leave, contrary to orders, but there is no record of
his service in the Navy. [NCT 9, 326.]
Albert P. Hulse (name incorrectly shown, in Register1862, as A.V. Hulty), appointed captain's clerk in
the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on March 24, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the
CSS Louisiana for duty; appointed acting master, April 2, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS
Manassas; later returned for service aboard the CSS Louisiana and was given permission by his
immediate commander, John K. Mitchell, to abandon the vessel and to try and escape capture;
captured at the fall of New Orleans, April, 1862, and paroled; served on the Jackson station, 1862; later
served as secretary and clerk in charge at the Mobile station; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama,
May 10, 1865. [ORN 1, 18, 299 and 2, 1, 319; Register1862; Porter's Naval History 785; Confederate Navy
subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, page 890; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments
of officers (A - K), page 607; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked
commissions, page 736.]
Samuel Humberstone, born May 13, 1809; indicated to have served in the Confederate States Navy;
died April 5, 1880; buried at the Lawnridge Cemetery, W. 8th Avenue, Rochelle, Illinois 61068. [U.S.
Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site.]
Alfred Humble, born North Carolina, November, 1827; married in 1855; served as landsman, CSS
Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864; resided as a farmer, in 1900, with his wife Sarah and children, at
Greene, Guilford County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Guilford
County, North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 274; NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]
Joshua Humphreys, born Virginia; entered the Confederate States Navy, March 5, 1862, as lieutenant
for the war; commanded the uncompleted gunboat Stevens (which was noted to be in charge of the
Navy Department), off New Iberia, Louisiana, 1863; this gunboat was purposely sunk, 2 miles below
New Iberia, in April, 1863, because it was unfit for action. [ORN 1, 20, 824; ORA 1, 15, 393; Register 1862;
Register1863.]
William Humphreys, original service as private, company D, 10th Florida Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Isaac Humphries, recruited as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous,
Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863; served on the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River,
Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 444.]
John Humphries (surname also shown as Humphrey), captain of forecastle, side wheeled gunboat CSS
Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1204-
1205.]
B. C. Hunencker (surname also shown as Hunsucker), recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on July 31, 1863,
as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 688
and 690.]
Humphrey Hunley, see Humphrey Hurley.
F.M. Hunson, ordinary seaman, ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of
Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia; served sometime between September, 1861 and
December, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS.]
A.H. Hunt, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the steam
gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302.]
A.W. Hunt, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the steam
gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters,1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302.]
Alexander T. Hunt, born Kentucky; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman, May 5,
1863, and ordered to report to lieutenant William H. Parker for duty; Hunt states that he had received
these orders while he was at Cartersville, Georgia; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which
operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), 1863 - 1864; later served aboard the CSS
Fredericksburg, James River Squadron, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 632; 1, 11, 102 and 2, 1, 283; Register1864;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 608.]
Cornelius E. Hunt, Master's Mate, cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863; later sent aboard the cruiser CSS
Rappahannock, and then the CSS Shenandoah, 1864-1865; reported, December 2, 1864, for neglect of
duty, and placed on extra watch; placed under arrest, June 25, 1865, aboard the CSS Shenandoah, for
fighting with captain's clerk, John Blacker; restored to duty on the same day; author of "The
Shenandoah; or the Last Confederate Cruiser, published 1867, by G.W. Carleton, & Co., New York;
served as major of marines, in the service of the Khedive of Egypt, 1870, at a pay rate of 962 francs;
reported to have been killed, January, 1873, in Egypt, by a fall from his horse. [Alabama Claims, 1, 694
and 975; CSN Register; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 2, 635;
Whittle 81 & 169; New York Times dated Wednesday, August 26, 1870 and March 6, 1873.]
Garrett P. Hunt, 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.]
J. Hunt, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, and was involved in the expedition to
capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on
August 23, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc.,
Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]
J.B. Hunt, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]
James P. Hunt, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS St. Nicholas, June, 1861, and later aboard
the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 1, 4, 555 and 2, 1, 300.]
John Hunt, served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862;
appeared as a defendant at a Naval Court Martial, held at Richmond, Virginia, in July, 1862,
specification of charges not shown. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO-
Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 179.]
John Hunt, previously served as Private, Company F, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, April, 1861;
transferred to Confederate States Navy, March 3, 1864; captured at Department Headquarters, as a
deserter from CSS Fredericksburg, October 9, 1864; took oath of allegiance at Washington, D.C.,
October 12, 1864. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 341.]
Peter Hunt, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1862; discharged 3rd
quarter of 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1064 and 1178.]
Robert W. Hunt, seaman, bark Tacony; captured at Portland Harbor, June 27, 1863; sent to Portland
Jail, Maine, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, May 4 or 5, 1864; released and sent to Richmond from
City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged; detailed to a battery below Drewry's
Bluff, James River, Virginia; later sent on an expedition to Wilmington, North Carolina, and then on a
secret expedition to New York; was residing, in 1894, at 62, Habersham Street, Savannah, Georgia;
member of the Confederate Veterans' Association of Savannah; also shown as a resident of Louisville,
Kentucky, in 1907. [Fort Warren; ORA 2, 6; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864;
additional information from a letter, dated October 12, 1894, written by Robert Hunt to the widow of
his Civil War commander, Charles W. Read, held in the collections of the Joyner Library, East Carolina
University, Greenville, North Carolina; see also, the article titled "A Daring Capture," by Robert Hunt, in
the Galveston Daily News of Monday, September 17, 1894, page 2; Times Dispatch (Richmond,
Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2.]
William Hunt, served in the Navy and the Ordnance Department, Selma, Alabama; pension application
filed by his widow, Elizabeth Hunt, from Chilton County, Alabama, in 1899. [ADAH.]
Charles Hunter, native of Maryland; acting master's mate, Confederate States Navy; served aboard
the ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), 1863 - 1864;
served in Tucker's Naval Brigade, Virginia, 1865; captured at the battle of Harper's Farm (Sayler's
Creek), Virginia, April 6, 1865; marched through Petersburg, then to City Point; sent aboard the
steamer Cossack down the James River, and on to Washington, D.C.; sent to Fort Warren, Boston
Harbor; released June 13, 1865, and returned home to Baltimore, Maryland. [ORN 2, 1, 283;
Register1864; Fort Warren; some data obtained from entries in the diary of master's mate Charles
Hunter, which was offered for sale in the War Between the States Memorabilia catalog number 31, of
dealer Len Rosa, of Goshen, New York, dated in November, 1991.]
Ferdinand S. Hunter, born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman,
4th class, July 31, 1861; served on the Richmond station, and aboard the steamer CSS Hampton, 1861 -
1862; later on the Charleston station, 1862; returned to the CSS Hampton, 1862 - 1864; sent on
temporary duty at Battery McIntosh, James River squadron, October, 1864; served on the school ship,
CSS Patrick Henry, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 644 & 766; 2, 1, 317 & 321; Register1863; Register1864.]
J.B. Hunter, original service as private, company D, 2nd Texas Infantry; transferred to the Confederate
States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Civil War Service
Records.]
J.B. (or C.) Hunter, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Webb, Red River, April, 1865; abandoned
the vessel below New Orleans, and was captured, and sent aboard the USS Bermuda, to Philadelphia,
as a prisoner of war (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 22, 166 & 170.]
Joseph Hunter, Landsman, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]
Thomas T. Hunter, born Virginia, 1816; previously served in the United States Navy, from July 1, 1828;
father of Confederate Naval officers, William W. Hunter, and Thomas T. Hunter, jr., listed below;
resided as a United States Navy officer, in 1850, with his wife, Mary V., and six children, at Vansville
district, Prince George's County, Maryland; stationed at Wilmington, North Carolina, as light house
inspector, pre-war; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 23, 1861; appointed
commander, Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861; commanded the expedition for the defense of
North Carolina, using the CSS Raleigh as his flagship, September, 1861; promoted commander,
Provisional Navy, to rank from May 13, 1863; served aboard the CSS Gaines, 1863, and commanded the
Naval forces at Fort Morgan, Mobile, Alabama, 1863; commanded ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which
operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), 1863 - 1864; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6,
1865 and sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor; released July 24, 1865, after taking the oath of
allegiance. [ORN 1, 15, 697; 1, 20, 827 and 2, 1, 283; ORA 1, 4; JCC 4, 121; 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 April 26, 1861 and May 31, 1861;
Register1863; Fort Warren; 1850 U.S. Census; New York Times dated July 25, 1865.]
Thomas T. Hunter, jr., born Maryland, 1841; son of Confederate States Naval officer, Thomas T.
Hunter, listed above, and his wife, Mary; brother of Confederate States Navy midshipman, William W.
Hunter, listed below; resided with his family, in 1850, at Vansville district, Prince George's County,
Maryland; served as acting master's mate and acting master, Confederate States Navy; served aboard
the CSS Curlew, as captain's clerk, 1861-1862; appointed by lieutenant Charles M. Morris, as master in
the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States, on September 29, 1864, and was ordered to report
aboard the cruiser CSS Florida for duty; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren,
Boston Harbor, where he was received November 26, 1864; released February 1, 1865. [ORN 1, 2, 673
and 1, 3, 256; Register1864; Fort Warren; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 278;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 609.]
William W. Hunter, born Maryland, 1843; son of Confederate States Navy commander, Thomas T.
Hunter, and his wife, Mary; brother of Confederate States Navy acting master's mate, Thomas T.
Hunter, jr., listed above; resided with his family, in 1850, at Vansville district, Prince George's County,
Maryland; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman, 4th class, August 16, 1861;
served aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile squadron, Alabama, 1862 - 1863; died at Mobile, Alabama,
February 4, 1863, of typhoid fever. [ORN 1, 20, 816; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February
27, 1863; Register1863; 1850 U.S. Census.]
William Wallace Hunter, born Pennsylvania, 1803, appointed from Louisiana; previous service in the
United States Navy, having entered that service, May 1, 1822; entered the Confederate States Navy,
June 6, 1861, as commander; reported for duty at the New Orleans station, May 15, 1861; reported for
duty at Tappahannock, Virginia, July 30, 1861; ordered, in August, 1861, to report to general Earl Van
Dorn, for duty at Galveston, Texas, as superintendent in charge of the works for the defense of the
coast of Texas; assigned to the immediate command of the naval defenses of the port of Galveston,
and of all vessels in the employ of the Government, November 4, 1861; later on the Jackson station,
1862; commanded CS Schooner Dodge, off San Jacinto, Texas, in September, 1862; ordered, in
December, 1862, to take charge of the defenses on the Trinity River, above Liberty, Texas; received
orders, on April 10, 1863, to report for duty at Richmond, Virginia; left the Trinity River, Texas, on April
24, 1863, for Richmond, Virginia, in company with captain W.F. Rogers, W.H. Beazley and Hamilton
Beazley; ordered to report to the Savannah station, June, 1863; on the evacuation of Savannah, in late
1864, he was stationed at Augusta, Georgia, 1864 - 1865; next of kin listed as Mrs. Jane V. Hunter;
resided as a harbor master, in 1880, at New Orleans, Louisiana; died June 29, 1892; buried at Metairie
Cemeterie, Metairie, Louisiana. [ORN 1, 14, 712; 1, 16, 492, 820, 832, 835 & 848; 1, 18, 839; 1, 19, 786, 811
& 816 and 2, 1, 318 & 320; ORA 1, 4; Wayne Cosby; Register1863; Young Sanders; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 427.]
James G. Hurd, indicated to have served in the Texas Navy, and in DeBray's regiment; buried at the
Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887,
page 1.]
William C. Hurd, 1st class fireman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads,
Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]
L.J. Hurdle, seaman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1,
311.]
Humphrey Hurley (surname also shown as Hunley), served as ordinary seaman aboard the stern-
wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek,
Florida), in 1863; deserted April 22, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530
and 771; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 748.]
James Hurley, served aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; rated as coal heaver from
September 2, 1861, and rated as 2nd class fireman from February 11, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 838
and 856.]
James Hurley, 2nd class fireman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina,
1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
James Hurley, 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 680.]
Thomas B. Hurley, previous service in the Confederate States Army, at Spanish Fort; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, 1862; served at the Selma Navy Yard, Alabama; then on the torpedo boat,
St. Patrick, Mobile Bay, 1865; widow resided at Citronel, Alabama, in 1924. [ADAH.]
James Hurrey, original service in the 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate
States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
William M. Hurst, appointed chief engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Earl Van
Dorn, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]
Ashley Davis Hurt, born Petersburg, Virginia; educated at the University of Virginia; served as
secretary to flag officer F.O. Lynch, Confederate States Navy, at Wilmington, North Carolina, August 3,
1864 to September 22, 1864; continued his studies at Gottingen, after the war; served briefly as
principal of the Louisville Male High School; president of the Florida Agricultural College at Lake City,
Florida, from 1884; then headmaster at Tulane High School, 1885, and taught Greek at Tulane
University, in 1894; died March 10, 1898. [CSN Register; additional data from "A Guide to the Ashley
Davis Hurt Papers, finding aid prepared by the staff of the George A. Smathers Libraries, University of
Florida, at Gainesville, and shown at http://web.uflib.ufl.edu/spec/archome/MS64.htm; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances -
Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 738.]
C.J. Hurt, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 315.]
Henry Hurt, 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.]
James Henry Hurt, appointed captain aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Beauregard, of
the Mississippi River Defense fleet, January 27, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]
James H. Hurt, served as acting master's mate aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Danube, at Mobile,
1864; also commanded the steamer Baltic; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865.
[Porter's Naval History, 785; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1076.]
Pat Hurt, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 315.]
J.W. Hurty, see James W. Herty.
Charles Husmann (surname also shown as Husman), served as landsman aboard the CSS Ivy, New
Orleans station, in 1861; rated as surgeon's steward from September 13, 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
page 840; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 34.]
James Hussey, resident of Livingston parish, Louisiana; personal description shown as blue eyes,
brown hair, light complexion and 5 feet, 5 inches in height; served as 1st class boy at the New Orleans
station, in 1861, and later rated as surgeon's steward, from February 20, 1862, aboard the side
wheeled steamer CSS Pontchartrain, 1862 - 1863; also served aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile Bay,
Alabama; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863; sent as a prisoner of war to New Orleans,
Louisiana, where he was released April 30, 1865, by order of Union General Canby. [ORN 1, 24, 117 and
2, 1, 299; Scriber; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61 and 340.]
John Huston, served in Confederate States Navy; buried at Charleston Port Society Cemetery, on
Ashley River, Charleston. [Name and service status inscribed on granite monument unveiled
December 10, 1922, by the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina.]
W.J. Hutchins, landsman, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around
Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), 1863; also served aboard the CSS Savannah,
Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H.
Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving
vessel, CSS Indian Chief; also shown to have served as a seaman aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston
station, at an unspecified date. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764; ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; DANFS;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 716.]
William H. Hutchins (surname also shown as Hutchings), appointed acting master in the Confederate
States Navy at New Orleans, on August 21, 1861, and ordered to report to lieutenant Charles W. Hays,
aboard the CSS Florida, for duty; served on the New Orleans station, 1861-1862; later on the Jackson
station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318 & 320; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 424; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A -
K), page 612.]
I. Hutchinson, served as landsman aboard the CSS Richmond, in 1865; was temporarily attached to the
CSS Beaufort, but ordered to return to the CSS Richmond, when the CSS Beaufort was sent to
Richmond for repairs, on January 17, 1865. [ Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 110.]
John Hutchinson (surname also shown as Hutchison), born Scotland, June, 1838; previously served as
assistant engineer aboard the steamer Laurel; appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer aboard the CSS
Shenandoah, October 19, 1864; served through 1865; migrated to the United States in 1867; married
Annie E. Ferguson at New Orleans, Louisiana, June 9, 1870; shown residing as a marine engineer, in
1900, with his wife and five children, at New Orleans; died of Brights Disease at his residence, 1022
Canal Street, New Orleans, Louisiana, August 12, 1906; buried Metarie Cemetery, New Orleans; his
widow, Annie E. Hutchison, applied for a Confederate pension, September, 2, 1909. [Alabama Claims,
1, 974; Louisiana Confederate Pension application of Annie E. Hutchison, no. 6650; 1900 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 613.]
John L.T. Hutchinson, served as seaman in Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards; enrolled,
October 15, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida; also shown as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy;
paroled at St. Marks, May 12, 1865. [Soldiers of Florida, 52; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 660.]
Samuel W. Hutchinson, originally served as purser's clerk, CSS Sumter, May, 1861; in a dispatch from
Raphael Semmes, commander of the CSS Sumter, to Hutchinson, dated June 29, 1861, Semmes wrote:
The surgeon of this ship having reported to me that the state of your health will incapacitate you from
the proper performance of your duty at sea, you are hereby discharged. You can take passage in the
"Ivy" to Fort Jackson this evening, and thence by the "Empire Parish" to the city tomorrow"; later
served as captain's clerk aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; appointed
captain's clerk, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, by lieutenant Francis E. Shepperd, aboard the CSS Mobile, on
May 1, 1862; also served on the Jackson station, 1862 (Register1862 indicates he was assistant
paymaster, Confederate States Navy, in 1862). [ORN 1, 1, 614 & 619 and 2, 1, 290 & 318; CSS Sumter
Muster Roll; Register1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked
commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 741 and
913.]
William Hutchinson, Seaman; born England; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 1, 975.]
Henry Hutson (Hudson?), landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
William C. Hutter (1860 U.S. Census shows his surname as Hutton), born near Lynchburg, Virginia,
1843; son of Edward S. and Emma W. Hutter; resident of Bedford County, Virginia, 1860; previous
service in the United States Navy, as midshipman; later served as acting midshipman, Confederate
States Navy, 1862; served aboard the CSS Raleigh and in the battle at Roanoke Island; killed aboard the
same vessel during the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 8, 1862. [1860 U.S. Census;
Register1862; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated March 14, 1862.]
William Hutton, landsman, side-wheeled gunboat CSS Selma, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1862. [ORN 2, 1,
306.]
J. Huyatt, master carpenter, Confederate States Navy. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies,
XN- Naval stores afloat, Accounts for expenditures, page 906.]
Isaac S. Hyams, a lieutenant in the Confederate States Army, who is indicated to have served
briefly in the Confederate States Marine Corps, from May, 1861 to March 24, 1862.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
Lists and Registers, page 680.]
John C. Hyde, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN
2, 1, 301.]
M. Hyde, [Gunner's?] Mate, CSS Webb, April, 1865 (see next two entries, which may be the same
person). [ORN 1, 22, 170.]
Mike Hyde, original service as private, company A, 2nd Texas Infantry; transferred to the Confederate
States Navy at an unspecified date (see previous and next entries, which may be the same person).
[Civil War Service Records.]
Michael Hyde, Seaman, CSS Webb, resident of Galveston, Texas; surrendered at Shreveport,
Louisiana, May 26, 1865; paroled, June 7, 1865 (see previous two entries, which may be the same
person). [ORN 1, 27, 234.]
Albert Hyer, Ordinary Seaman and Seaman, CSS Alabama; deserted at Singapore, December 23, 1863.
[William Marvel.]
Charles Hyer, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; served aboard the CSS
Pamlico, from October 15, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1049; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 54 and
268.]
Thomas Hylleyer, served in the Confederate States Army, and was transferred to the Confederate
States Navy, June 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and
Transfers.; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 88.]
Joseph J. Hyman, born Martin County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, carpenter; enlisted at
Pasquotank County, North Carolina, May 4, 1861, aged 22, as private, company L, 17th Regiment North
Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, October 4, 1861, and
served as seaman aboard the CSS Curlew, 1861. [NCT 6, 196; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 278.]
M. T. Hynes, served as 3rd class boy on the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page
93.]
William Hynes, landsman, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River, Louisiana,
area); served July - November, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS.]