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Thomas Idelett, 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.]
Osborn S. Iglehart (Register1862 incorrectly shows surname as Oglehart), born Annapolis, Maryland,
1837; son of merchant, James Iglehart; brother in law of Confederate States Navy officer, James I.
Waddell; previous service in the United States Navy, from August 29, 1860; resided as a United States
Naval surgeon, in 1860, at Annapolis, Maryland; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as
assistant surgeon, March 27, 1862; served at the Mobile station, 1862 - 1864; promoted passed
assistant surgeon, 1863; appointed passed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served
aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile squadron, 1864; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865;
post war residence at Mobile, Alabama; offered up his services at Brunswick, Georgia, during the
yellow fever epidemic of 1876; later, in 1888, resided at Vicksburg, Mississippi. [Register1862;
Register1863; Register1864; ORN 1, 21, 591 and 2, 2, 561; JCC 4, 123; Porter's Naval History 785; 1850
U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal & Messenger (Macon,
Georgia) dated September 26, 1876; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated February 16, 1888.]
W. Ihlenfeldt, original service as private in Captain Melchers' Company (company B, German Artillery),
South Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War
Service Records.]
William Ihlo, native of Sweden; served as seaman aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile Bay, Alabama; also
worked on the CSS Tennessee; deserted from Mobile, Alabama, on February 12, 1864, in a skiff; sent
aboard the USS Lackawanna, off Mobile, on February 18, 1864; sent to New Orleans, aboard the USS
Admiral, for further interrogation, on February 20, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 105; Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 495.]
Edward Illingsworth, served as landsman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as 2nd class fireman
from February 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]
Achile Infernous (surname also shown as Infemons), served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS
Missouri, 1863 - 1864; rated as quartermaster on January 15, 1864; deserted April 25, 1864 (another
official source shows the date as April 24, 1864), as quartermaster; was apprehended, and disrated
from April 27, 1864; deserted, again, on September 15, 1864. [ORN 1, 26. 810 and 2, 1, 291; CSN Subject
File - N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, etc., pages 1011, 1017 and 1021.]
A. Ingles, served as captain of the hold aboard the CSS Tennessee, 1864; captured at Mobile Bay,
August 5, 1864; held as a prisoner of war aboard the USS Lackawanna, at Mobile Bay, August 7, 1864.
[Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker -
U.S.S. Minnesota, page 463.]
John Henry Inglis, born South Carolina, 1845; son of Charlotte L. Inglis; original entry into Confederate
States Navy, as midshipman, May 11, 1863; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State,
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; resided as a lawyer, in 1880, at the residence of his
brother in Baltimore, Maryland. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Register1864; 1880 U.S. Census.]
F.D. Ingold, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, born South Carolinam 1810; father of Confederate Navy officer John
Hazelhurst Ingraham, and Confederate States Marine Corps officer, Henry Laurens Ingraham, both
listed below; uncle of Confederate States Navy officer, Francis Nathaniel Bonneau; previous service in
the United States Navy, which he entered June 18, 1812; resided with his wife, Harriett, and children,
in 1860, at Washington, D.C.; appointed as senior captain in the coast police or the Naval service of the
state of South Carolina, February, 1861; entered the Confederate States Navy, as captain, March 26,
1861; assumed command of the Pensacola Navy Yard, Warrington, Florida, March, 1861; on an
inspection tour, with general Robert E. Lee, of the forts at Charleston harbor, December 13, 1861; later
on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862, as Chief of the Bureau of Naval Ordnance, Navy Department;
assigned to the command of the Naval forces at Charleston, South Carolina, November 16, 1861;
served aboard the CSS Palmetto State, 1863; died Charleston, South Carolina, October 16, 1891; buried
at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina. [ORN 1, 13, 616 & 619 and 2, 1, 317, 320, 321 & 323;
ORA 1, 6; 1, 52/2 and 1, 53; John E. Ellis; Register1863; 1860 U.S. Census; see also, article on Francis
Nathaniel Bonneau in the New York Times dated September 18, 1892; Charleston (South Carolina)
Mercury dated Saturday, December 14, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 615.]
George H. Ingraham, appointed, by captain D. N. Ingraham, commanding the Naval station at
Charleston, South Carolina, as naval storekeeper at the station, on October 1, 1862, at the rate of
$1000 per annum; received the naval records of the Charleston station, from flag officer's secretary,
George E. Hazelhurst, at Cheraw, South Carolina; resided, in 1907, at Charleston, South Carolina. [ORN
2, 1, 317; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 30, 1907, page 2; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of
officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 874.]
Henry Laurens Ingraham, born Charleston, South Carolina, 1834 (another source shows year of birth as
1837); son of Confederate States Navy officer, Duncan Nathaniel Igraham, listed above, and his wife,
Harriett; brother of Confederate Navy midshipman, John Hazelhurst Ingraham, listed below; previous
service in the United States Marine Corps, from which he resigned, March 8, 1861; resided with his
family, in 1860, at Washington, D.C.; served as 1st lieutenant, Confederate States Marine Corps, 1861;
served with the Confederate States Army at Pensacola, Florida, 1861; resigned from service,
November 22, 1861; post war occupation as a planter; died of kidney disease, at Charleston, on July 9,
1878. [JCC 1, 818; CSN Register; 1860 U.S. Census; South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 at
Ancestry.com; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; Lists and Registers, page 329.]
J.J. Ingraham, appointed from Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as boatswain,
January 16, 1864 (however, one source shows him serving as boatswain aboard the CSS Arctic, in 1863);
served on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, and the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, and the
Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Chickamauga, 1864. [ORN 1, 3,
710 and 2, 1, 275, 295, 296, 301 & 323; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 617.]
John Hazelhurst Ingraham (surname also shown as Ingram), born South Carolina, about 1842; son of
Confederate States Navy officer, Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham, listed above, and his wife, Harriett;
brother of Confederate States Marine Corps lieutenant, Henry Laurens Ingraham, listed above; original
service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from October 23, 1857; resigned February, 1861;
entered the Confederate States Navy, April 15, 1861; served as sailing master aboard the CSS
Nashville, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861; also served on the Jackson station, 1862;
promoted 2nd lieutenant, February 8, 1862; assigned to command of the Naval defenses of South
Carolina, May, 1862; served aboard the CSS Chicora, 1862 - 1863; served in the capacity of acting Naval
Storekeeper at Charleston, in 1862; also served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863 - 1864; ORN 2, 1,
308 also indicates that he had served on the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, at Hampton Roads, Virginia,
though this is not borne out by other sources; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from
January 6, 1864; commanded Battery Wood, James River, Virginia, 1864; relieved of command of this
Battery in October, 1864. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 1, 752; 1, 2, 635; 1, 7, 801; 1, 10, 804 and 2, 1, 308,
318 & 322; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; CSN Register; Alabama Claims 1, 694 and 2 (appendix
2), 133; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions
(July, 1862 - February, 1863), page 540.]
James W. Ingram, resided in Davidson County, North Carolina, as a miner, prior to enlisting there, May
14, 1861, aged 21, as private, company I, 14th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy on or about April 5, 1864. [NCT 5, 477.]
John W. Ingram, previous service in Company M, 26th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, as
Private, August 13, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, April 8, 1864; paroled at Alexandria,
Virginia, May 9, 1865. [Georgia Rosters, 3, 275.]
John G. Inman, served as a private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Richmond
station, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 441.]
J. P. Insley, served as quartermaster aboard the CSS Tennessee, 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August
5, 1864; held as a prisoner of war aboard the USS Lackawanna, at Mobile Bay, August 7, 1864 (see next
entry, for S.P. Insley, who may be the same person). [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners
and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 463.]
S.P. Insley, previously served as Private in Company B, 4th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to
Confederate States Navy at Mobile, Alabama, February 15, 1864 (see previous entry, for J.P. Insley,
who may be the same person). [Information supplied by Arthur Bergeron, Louisiana.]
J.A. Ireland, original service as private, company C, 29th Battalion, Georgia Cavalry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
J.E. Irons, seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or
between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 280.]
James Irvin, served as landsman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as 1st class
fireman from September 2, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 838.]
James Irvin, appointed second assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General
Bragg, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 7, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]
William H. Irvin, appointed chief engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General M. Jeff
Thompson, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on January 27, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]
George H. Irvine, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]
George W. Irvine (surname also shown as Irwin), shipped as landsman aboard the CSS Jackson, New
Orleans station, on October 19, 1861; rated as hospital steward from October 20, 1861. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 886; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 87.]
James McDowell Irving (surname also shown as Irvine; first name also shown as Joseph), served as
private in company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, in
1861; arrested (for an unknown reason), and sent, under guard of Marine Corps lieutenant Richard H.
Henderson, and sergeant Thomas Grogan, into the custody of flag officer Forrest, at Norfolk, Virginia,
on December 17, 1861; also shown as being shipped at Richmond, Virginia, by lieutenant Venable, on
September30, 1864, for service in the Marine Corps; served at the Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry -
Military Commissions, page 171; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and
Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 445.]
Henry Irwin (surname also shown as Irvine), enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, in
1861, and later rated as 2nd class fireman, from September 18, 1861, aboard the side-wheeled gunboat
CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay,
Alabama area, 1862; arrested as a deserter, at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile police and turned over to
the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-
422 and 427; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling,
Miscellaneous, page 427.]
Jefferson D. Irwin, 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.]
Lee Fearn Irwin, born Mobile, Alabama, November 27, 1840; originally enlisted at Montgomery,
Alabama, in 1861, in company E, 3rd Alabama Infantry, and served as 1st corporal; discharged in 1862;
appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, January 31, 1862, and ordered to
report aboard the receiving vessel, Danube, for duty; subsequently appointed paymaster's clerk, on
March 17, 1862, and was ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Morgan; continued service in the
Navy for several months until discharged; re-enlisted as ordnance sergeant in the 38th Alabama, at
Mobile, in 1863; served as volunteer aide to general Leadbetter during the Kirby Smith campaign in
Kentucky; wounded at Resaca, Georgia, May 14, 1864; paroled at Meridian, Mississippi, May 10, 1865;
married in 1866; resided as a book keeper, in 1900, with his wife, Mary, and four children, at Mobile,
Alabama; still residing at Mobile in 1920. [ADAH; 1900 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census; Census or
Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, in 1907 at Ancestry.com; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments
of officers (A - K), page 619; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked
commissions, page 743.]
Lewis Irwin, served in the Confederate States Navy; stated to have been an educated gentleman;
post war occupation as a correspondent of the Galveston News; inmate of the Confederate Home at
Austin, Texas, in 1889. [Atchison Daily Globe (Atchison, Kansas) dated April 17, 1889.]
Stephen Irwin, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina,
1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Andrew I. Isaacs (middle initial also shown as J.), born Louisiana, 1836; son of Samuel and Martha
Isaacs; brother of Wesley C. Isaacs, listed below; served as seaman aboard the CSS Dodge, December,
1862; sent for duty to the plantation of colonel Hamilton Washington, on the Trinity River, Polk County,
Texas; sent aboard the steamer Alamo, to report for duty aboard the CSS Harriet Lane, in Galveston
Bay, Texas, April 15, 1863. [ORN 1, 19, 813 & 816; 1850 U.S. Census.]
Wesley C. Isaacs, born Louisiana, 1832; son of Samuel and Martha Isaacs; brother of Confederate
States Navy seaman, Andrew I. Isaacs, listed above; resided as a farmer, in 1850, with his parents, at
Liberty County, Texas; went to San Jacinto, Texas, in September, 1862, in an attempt to enter the
Confederate States Navy; enlisted as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, December 1, 1862;
employed on the Trinity River, Texas; although he suffered from bad health, he was stated to have
been a "good woodsman, well acquainted with the [Trinity] river and cane brakes, and a young man
of fine principles and character and entirely reliable"; his commander also noted that Wesley Isaac's
"services are essential in my duties barricading the Trinity River"; on January 2, 1863, Isaacs was paid
$20 for a beef for rations for the Naval personnel of commander Hunter; sent aboard the steamer
Alamo, to report for duty aboard the CSS Harriet Lane, in Galveston Bay, Texas, April 15, 1863. [ORN 1,
19, 805, 814 & 816; 1850 U.S. Census.]
---- Isard, Master's Mate, CSS Sumter, May, 1861; on leave, tendered resignation which was not
accepted; marked on rolls as 'absent without leave. [ORN 1, 1, 618.]
George Ishen, served as a private in Company C, 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.]
George Isherwood, enlisted for three years or the war in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston,
South Carolina, on September 30, 1862; served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State,
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 190.]
William Isherwood, first class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster
Roll.]
J.W. Israel, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; attached
as private to company E, 1st Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311; M1091.]
Emerson Ivas, seaman, CSS Virginia; wounded in action at Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862. [ORN 1, 7,
43.]
William Iverson (William A. Temple incorrectly shows his name as John Ivors), born Ireland (as
indicated in William A. Temple's affidavit); shipped as private, Confederate States Marine Corps
aboard the CSS Shenandoah, June 29th, 1865, at the rate of $18.00; placed his mark against his name.
[Alabama Claims, 1, 977.]
E.H. Ives, quartermaster, side wheeled steam tug CSS Ellis (which operated in North Carolina waters);
served sometime in August - October, 1861, or January - May, 1862; also served aboard the ironclad
ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 285 & 309; DANFS.]
Edward T. Ives, enlisted Camden County, North Carolina, July 7, 1863, aged 55, as private, company B,
68th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864 (one
document shows that he was shipped on April 8, 1864, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, and
sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle at Plymouth Sound). [NCT 15, 537; ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, pages 37-38.]
Norman M. Ives, born Florida, 1846; son of Edward M. and Mary J. Ives; resided with his parents, in
1860, at Lake City, Columbia county, Florida; enlisted early in the war, served at Charleston up to
evacuation, was aboard the CSS Indian Chief with the rank of Midshipman (no record of a Norman M.
Ives having served as midshipman in the Confederates States Navy exists); after the evacuation of
Charleston in early 1865, he served under General Lee, with the 2nd Florida Regiment until the
surrender; then returned to his home at Lake City, Florida; resided as a farm laborer, in 1870, at Lake
City. [Florida Confederate Card File, information provided 1924, by his brother Albert M. Ives of
Jacksonville, Florida; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]
John D. Ivey, born Georgia, 1825; married prior to the war (as his two eldest children were born in 1856
and 1858); previously served as Private in Company I, 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars, February, 1861;
transferred to Confederate States Navy, May 2, 1864; served as Coal Heaver and Landsman on CSS
Chicora, June 1-August 31, 1864; moved to Texas, from Georgia, sometime after 1866; resided as a
farmer, in 1870, with his wife, Emelie, and five children, in 1870, east of the Brazos River, McLennan
County, Texas. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 354; 1870 U.S. Census.]
Norton Ivey, served as seaman aboard the CSS Arctic, 1863 and aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North
Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 276 & 294.]
Thomas F. Ivey, appointed midshipman in the Confederate States Navy; appointment revoked
November 12, 1863. [CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]
John Ivors, see William Iverson.