NC Civil War Sailors Project

Michael Lochlan, coal heaver, 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 554.]

James E. Lochlinson (or Lachlison), see James E. Lacklison.

Charles Lockabee, 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.]

Vernon G. Locke, enlisted, for one year, as ship’s steward aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston,
South Carolina, on October 4, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1228.]

David Locker, enlisted by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, as private, company C,
Confederate States Marine Corps, about March, 1864; served on the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia
II, James River, Virginia, and on the Richmond Station, 1864 – 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312 & 315; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps – Miscellaneous, page 297.]

H.C. Lockett, see Henry C. Lockheart.

Abram Lockham (first name also shown as Abraham), born Hull, York County, England, about 1837;
served as first class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864; resided as a locomotive engine driver,
in 1881, with his wife Mary, at 53 St. Luke Street, Kingston-upon-Hull, York County, England. [CSS
Rappahannock Muster Roll; 1881 U.K. Census.]

James F. Lockhart (name also shown as J.P. Lockhardt), served as coal heaver aboard the ironclad CSS
Atlanta, 1862-1863; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; also served
aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863; deserted about August, 1863.
[Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Saturday, December 20, 1862; ORN 1, 14, 268; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse,
pages 519-523.]

Charles Lockhead, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and aboard the CSS
General Polk in 1862; rated as ordinary seaman from January 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N
- Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 479-480;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans – Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

Henry C. Lockheart (surname also shown as Lockett), born, resided in, and enlisted at Craven County,
North Carolina, June 11, 1861, aged 18, as private, company D, 5th Regiment North Carolina State
Troops; pre-war occupation, laborer; deserted, or was captured, September 17, 1862, at Sharpsburg,
Maryland; later assumed to have joined the Confederate States Navy at Wilmington, North Carolina;
muster rolls of the CSS Arctic show the name of a seaman, H.C. Lockett, serving on that vessel, in 1864.
[NCT 4, 179; ORN 2, 1, 276.]

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

L. A. Lockling, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 43.]

Charles Lockyer, seaman, CSS Beaufort; September, 1861 - April, 1862; vessel operated in North
Carolina and Virginia waters; also served as (p.s.?) aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief, about
1864 [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 765-766; ORN 2, 1, 281.]

James Locque, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 55.]

Charles Loewenberg, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1862; later, as ship’s cook,
captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 117; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 123 -
124.]

John Loflin (surname also shown as Loftin), originally served as private, company H, 1st Regiment,
Alabama Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry,
which may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

John Loflin, landsman, 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 554.]

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

R.H. Lofton, originally served as private, company A, 7th Georgia Cavalry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Patrick Loftus (surname also shown as Loftis), originally served as private, company F, 22nd Battalion,
Georgia Heavy Artillery (see also, 1st (Olmstead’s) Georgia Infantry); transferred to the Confederate
States Navy, May 1, 1863, and served as seaman, and quarter gunner, aboard the CSS Savannah (later
renamed the CSS Oconee), Savannah squadron; Loftus was detained in the Savannah jail, on shore, for
eighteen days up to August 2, 1863, for an unknown incident; killed in action, June 3, 1864, during the
expedition which captured the USS Water Witch, near Ossabaw Sound, Georgia; buried, June 4, 1864,
at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. [ORN 1, 15, 495 and 2, 1, 297 & 304; Daily News and
Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated May 19, 1866; Honeycutt; Civil War Service Records; Confederate
States Navy subject file N – NJ – Discipline; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 602.]

Matthew D. Logan, born Ireland, 1829; migrated to New Orleans, Louisiana, in 1843; served in the
Confederate States Navy, and was captured at the fall of New Orleans in 1862; member of the New
Orleans City Council in 1867; reorganized the Democratic Party in the campaign of 1868; member of the
Constitutional Convention of 1879, and of the School Board and City Council; also served as president
of the Board of Aldermen; employed as a hardware merchant and ship chandler; nominated for
Congress at the 2nd District Democratic Congressional Convention, at New Orleans, on October 2, 1886.
[New York Times dated Wednesday, October 3, 1886.]

Patrick H. Logan, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 27, 1861, as private, company C, 1st
(Nelligan’s) Louisiana Infantry; discharged, about January or February, 1862, by Special Order of
General Huger, to join the Merrimac (CSS Virginia), Hampton Roads, Virginia; served as landsman on
that vessel, 1862. [Booth 2, 781; ORN 2, 1, 309.]

W. S. Logan, indicated to have served as an engineer in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at
Montgomery, Alabama, June 1, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 662.]

John C. Loggins, born Alabama, March, 1832; son of Charles and Sarah Loggins; brother of Major
Loggins, listed below; married in 1858; resided as a farmer, in 1860, at Blount County, Alabama; enlisted
April 10, 1862, as private in company B, Confederate States Marine Corps, at Mobile, Alabama; resided
as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Sarah, and nine children, at Blount County, Alabama; applied for a
Confederate pension from Selfville, Blount County, Alabama, in 1906. [ADAH; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880
U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]

Major Loggins, born Alabama, April, 1843 (one source shows year of birth as 1840); son of Charles and
Sarah Loggins; brother of John C. Loggins, listed above; resided as a farmer, in 1860, with his parents, at
Blount County, Alabama; enlisted August, 1862, at Mobile, Alabama, in company B, Confederate States
Marine Corps; promoted corporal; wounded in action at Fort Morgan, Alabama, August 7, 1864;
discharged May 10, 1865; first marriage to Evaline Marsh, at Blount County, on September 30, 1866;
second marriage in 1888; resided as a farmer, in 1900, with his wife, Dora, and seven children, at
Compton, Blount County, Alabama; his widow, Dora Loggins, applied for a pension, from Blount
County, Alabama, in 1918. [ADAH; 1860 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; Alabama Marriage Collection,
1800 – 1969 database at the Ancestry.com web site.]

John Tayloe Lomax, born Alabama, 1846; son of attorney at law John T. Lomax, and his wife, Evaline;
resided, in 1850, with his parents, at Mobile, Alabama; later shown as a resident of Demopolis,
Alabama; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman, September 5, 1863; served in
the Mobile Squadron, 1863-1864; paroled aboard USS Stockdale, May 22, 1865. [Register1864; ADAH;
1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked
commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked commissions, page 51.]

A. Lombard, enlisted at Selma, Alabama, April 1, 1863, as private, company D, 22nd and 23rd Louisiana
Infantry; also on the rolls of company D, 22nd Consolidated Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, about January or February, 1864, order of General Maury. [Booth 2, 783.]

Frederick Achilles Lombard, born Louisiana, May, 1839; served as 3rd assistant engineer in the
Confederate States Navy; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; resided as an
engineer, in 1900, with his three sons, at New Orleans, Louisiana; shown as a widower, in 1900.
[Porter's Naval History, 785; 1900 U.S. Census.]

Andrew Long, originally served in company I, 2nd Virginia Infantry, Local Defence; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

C. W. Long, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina,
May 26, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 662.]

Charles R. Long, born Richmond, Virginia, 1844; employed at the Old Dominion Iron Works, Richmond,
Virginia, prior to enlisting; enlisted at Richmond, in the Confederate States Navy, 1863; served aboard
the CSS Hampton, 1865; later a resident of Bellaire, Ohio; resided in the R.E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate
Veterans’ Soldiers’ Home, at Richmond, Virginia, on two separate occasions; died May 4, 1928. [LVa -
application of Charles R. Long for admission to the R.E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans’ Soldiers’
Home, Richmond, Virginia, dated December, 1903.]

Edward Long, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and on the CSS Seger, in 1861.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans – Yorktown, pages 71 and 787.]

Edward Long, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arkansas, wounded in action, Yazoo River, July 15, 1862. [ORN 1,
19, 69]

James Crosby Long, born Chattanooga, Tennessee, December, 1844; previous service in the United
States Navy, from November 21, 1859; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting
midshipman, 3rd class, July 3, 1861; served on the CSS Curlew, 1861, and later aboard the CSS Virginia;
participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; served aboard the CSS
Richmond, 1862 – 1863; also served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863 -
1864; promoted passed midshipman, January 8, 1864, to date from December 5, 1863; appointed
master, in the line of promotion, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Albemarle,
North Carolina, 1864; resided as a civil engineer, in 1880, with his wife, Fanny, and three children, at
Birmingham, Jefferson County, Alabama, and, in 1900, at a hotel on North Main Street, Princeton
township (Tiskilwa), Bureau County, Illinois; shown as one of the few members of the Association of
Survivors of the Confederate States Navy, when they met up at Murphy’s Hotel, in Richmond, Virginia,
in May, 1907. [ORN 1, 7, 47; 1, 10, 718 and 2, 1, 274, 304 & 308; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122;
1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; New York Times dated Wednesday, February 20, 1898; Times
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 1, 1907, page 3; 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 (L -- Z) – Revoked commissions, page 53.]

Joseph Long, born Sandwich Islands; shipped from the prize bark, Abigail, as seaman aboard the CSS
Shenandoah, June 12, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 161.]

Joseph Long, born 1808; enlisted March 21, 1862, at Milton, Florida, in Company F, 1st Florida Infantry;
transferred to Confederate States Navy, early 1863. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 113.]

Napoleon Long, first class boy aboard the CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served
during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]

Nathan C. Long, coal heaver, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
W.H. Long, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina),
July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

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

A.W. Longer, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 314.]

Thomas Longmain, Seaman, CSS Virginia II; born England, aged 22 (in December, 1864); twelve months
in Confederate service; came to Wilmington, North Carolina, in a blockade runner. [ORN 1, 11, 383.]
Charles H. Longman, Boy, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Charles H. Longman, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Juno, and was involved in the capture
of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, on the night of August 6, 1863; later served as
seaman on the CSS Chicora, at Charleston; captured off 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; then sent aboard the CSS Virginia II, James River squadron, aboard which he served
1864-1865. [Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; ORN 2, 1, 312;
Confederate Navy subject file, R – Prisoners and Prisons, RB – Prisoner of War rolls.., A – A.W. Baker –
U.S.S. Minnesota, page 145; Confederate Navy subject file, X – Supplies, XZ – Prizes, prize money, etc.,
Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]

James Longman, seaman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 – 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]

Robert Longshaw, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama; born Savannah, Georgia. [William Marvel.]

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

J.J. Loogenbahl, see John Julius Lugenbuhl.

J.F. Lookabill, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 – 1865;
attached as private to company D, 1st Regiment, Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and
paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312; M1091.]

John Loomis, deserted May, 1864, from the steamer CSS Hampton, James River, Virginia, and was
taken aboard the USS Hunchback, at Deep Bottom. [ORN 1, 10, 111 – 112.]

John H. Loper, born South Carolina; resident of Charleston, South Carolina, 1861; original entry into
Confederate States Navy, as acting 1st assistant engineer, April 23, 1861; detailed from duty, at the
New Orleans Navy Station, and ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS McRae, November 11, 1861;
served aboard the CSS Bienville, and on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; responsible for fitting
the engineers departments of the Confederate vessels, Sumter, McRae, Florida, Pamplico, Mobile,
Segar, Maurepas, Pontchartrain and Bienville; later served on the Jackson, and then Charleston
station, 1862; not highly recommended by N. & A.F. Tift, Naval builders at New Orleans; served aboard
the steamer CSS Spray, 1862 – 1864; paroled, at the close of the war, at St. Marks, Florida, May 12,
1865; personal details at the time of his parole, shown as blue eyes, dark hair, fair complexion and
standing 5 feet 8 inches tall; his widow, Belle Loper, filed for a post war Confederate pension from
Fulton, County, Georgia. [Letter from John H. Loper to his father, dated aboard the CSS Bienville, at
Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana, April 4, 1862, in the collections of the Library of Congress; GA Pension
Index 599; ORN 1, 16, 828 and 2, 1, 318, 320, 533 & 576; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; Daily
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated April 26, 1861 and November 11, 1861; Confederate Navy subject
file, R – Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 112.]

Robert E. Loper (name also shown as Robert S. Luper), served as landsman aboard the side wheeled
steamer CSS Resolute, Savannah river area, Georgia, 1862 – 1863; also served aboard the CSS
Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; transferred as a conscript, from the command of
lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the
receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 762-764; ORN 2, 1, 303 & 305.]

Francis Lopias, 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.]

A. Loping, served in the Confederate States Navy; died January 3, 1863; buried Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

Peter Lorens, 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 69.]

Wilhelm G. Lorens, shipped, by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, as a recruit into the
Confederate States Marine Corps, April 28, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV -
Miscellaneous; Marine Corps – Miscellaneous, page 303.]

John Lory, appointed acting master’s mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, March 25,
1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked commissions, page 62.]

Detmer Loshe, 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.]

George Loskie, 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.]

Charles Loughlin, resided in, and enlisted at Warren County, North Carolina, August 16, 1861, aged 17,
as musician (drummer), company B, 30th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy on or about April 10, 1862. [NCT 8, 338.]

Albert Louis, Landsman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Charles Louis, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 76.]
Thomas Lounsborough, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 –
1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

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

William C. Love, born about 1848; resident of North Carolina; appointed acting midshipman in the
Confederate States Navy, December 18, 1864, and ordered to proceed to Richmond, Virginia, and
report to lieutenant William H. Parker, aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, for duty; paroled, at the close of
the war, at Staunton, Virginia, May 24, 1865; personal details at the time of his parole shown as hazel
eyes, brown hair, dark complexion, and standing 5 feet 6 inches tall. [Confederate Navy subject file, R
– Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 114; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked
commissions, page 64.]

James Lovett, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in December 20, 1861. [Soldiers of
Florida, 49.]

John Lovett, served as ordinary seaman at the Savannah squadron, in 1864; stated to have been
“turned over to the Army”, about the 1st quarter of 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 581.]

John A. Lovett (surname also shown incorrectly, in Register1862, as Lovell and as Lovitt; first name also
shown, in Register1863, as James), born Massachusetts (1870 U.S. Census shows place of birth as New
Brunswick), about 1830; citizen of, and appointed from, Virginia; resident of Portsmouth, Virginia;
previous service in the United States Navy, from September 1, 1857; original entry into Confederate
States Navy, as gunner, June 20, 1861; served on the Richmond station, and on the side wheeled
steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861 – 1862; allotment of part of his pay made, in
1861, to Margaret A. Lovett; later on the steamer CSS Chattahoochee, 1862 - 1863; then on the ironclad
sloop CSS North Carolina, and at the Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1863 – 1864; resided as a
restaurant owner, in 1870, with his wife, Margaret, and five children, at Portsmouth, Virginia; died July
13, 1905, Portsmouth, Virginia, aged 77. [ORN 2, 1, 293, 295, 296, 299, 322 & 323; Confederate Veteran
13, 375; Register1862; Register1863; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; 1870 U.S. Census; Norfolk County
Record 326; Confederate Navy subject file O – Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OL –
Mobilization and demobilization; Norfolk - Miscellaneous, page 186.]

John Low, born in Aberdeen, Scotland, January 24, 1836 (Register1863 and JCC 4, 122 incorrectly show
his state of birth as Georgia); previous service in the English Royal Naval Reserve; resided in, and
appointed from Georgia; joined a Georgia cavalry unit at the start of the war, but resigned to accept an
appointment in the Confederate States Navy, November 19, 1861; promoted master not in line of
promotion, November 19, 1862; served as 4th lieutenant, CSS Alabama, 1862-3; transferred, June 21,
1863, to the command of the tender, CSS Tuscaloosa (formerly the prize vessel, Conrad); appointed 1st
lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; died at Liverpool, England, September 6,
1906; buried at Golborne Parish Churchyard, Newton-le-Willows, England; described as “the only
foreigner to hold a commission on the Alabama”. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 111; William
Marvel; Chris Old; Register1862; Register1863; Sinclair 12n & 115; Dallas Morning News (of Texas),
dated September 8, 1906, courtesy of Ken Jones, in an e-mail (kjones@tarleton.edu) dated Tuesday,
April 19, 2005; JCC 4, 122.]

Alfred B. Lowe, born Bahamas, July 20, 1840; son of William (a mariner) and Caroline Lowe; moved to
Key West, Florida, with his family, at the age of six months; resided as a clerk, in 1860, at Key West;
joined Captain Mulrenan’s Coast Guard service, December 13, 1861; enlisted April 25, 1862, at Tampa,
Florida in company K, 7th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, at Dalton,
Georgia, March 13 (Robert Watson Diary shows date of transfer as March 3), 1864; served on the ram
CSS Savannah; after the fall of Savannah, sent to Charleston, South Carolina, then to Wilmington,
North Carolina; sent to Battery Buchanan, as landsman, on December 30, 1864; served at Fort Fisher,
and after the fall of the fort, escaped and went to Wilmington, then to Richmond, Virginia; stationed at
Drewry’s Bluff; surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, April, 1865, while a member of Tucker’s Naval
Brigade; discharged at Burkesville Junction, Virginia, April 14, 1865; married Mary J. Whitehurst, at
Hillsboro County, Florida, October 10, 1867; was a member of Camp Franklin Buchanan No. 1214,
United Confederate Veterans, of Monroe County, Florida, in June, 1907; occupation shown, in 1900, as
book keeper; died December 1, 1921, at Monroe County. [Soldiers of Florida, 186; Florida Confederate
Pension File No. A02364; Robert Watson Diary March 3 & 9, 1864; 1860 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 118.]

John T. Lowe, born Bahamas Island, February 15, 1830; resided in Hillsboro County, Florida since
January, 1847; enlisted at Tampa, April 25, 1862, in company K, Seventh Florida Infantry; ordered,
about 1863 on board the CSS Tallahassee, and served in the Confederate States Navy “about ten
months;” also indicates that he was transferred, February, 1864 (Robert Watson Diary indicates that he
was transferred on March 3, 1864), aboard the CSS Savannah, and that he was involved in the capture
of the USS Water Witch; pension file shows him as being discharged at Savannah, Georgia, 1865, and
also paroled at Tampa, Florida; post war occupation, farmer; resided in Anona, Hillsboro County, in
1913. [Soldiers of Florida, 186; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A05782; Robert Watson Diary
March 3, 1864.]

William E. Lowe, born Nassau, N.P., 1841 (one source shows date of birth as November 23, 1839); son
of William and Sarah Lowe; resided, in 1860, with his parents at Manatee County, Florida; originally
enlisted in company K, 7th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March 3, 1864;
served as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah; discharged by medical survey at Savannah, June 2, 1864;
died April 16, 1926; buried at the Key West Cemetery, 710 Passover Lane, Key West, Florida 33040.
[Robert Watson Diary March 3, 1864; 1860 U.S. Census; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 – 2006 at
the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MX – Medical Surveys and
Examinations of Individuals; B - Miscellaneous, page 20.]

J. Lowman, seaman, CSS Florida; died, June 4, 1863, aboard the vessel, off the island of Ceras; the
islanders refused to allow his remains to be buried there, and he was buried at sea the next day.
[Quinn Journal.]

Patrick Lowney, born about 1838; personal description shown as 6 feet, 9 ½ inches high, hazel eyes,
auburn hair and fair complexion; enlisted at Montgomery, Alabama, as a private in the Confederate
States Marine Corps, on April 16, 1861; served in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Patrick Henry,
James River squadron, and at Drewry’s Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1862; deserted from Drewry’s Bluff,
June, 1862; a reward of $30 was offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at
Drewry’s Bluff, June, 1862. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 12, 1862; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 285.]

H.H. Lowray, appointed paymaster’s clerk in the Confederate States Navy, at Mobile, Alabama, on
May 12, 1863, and served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay; discharged prior to
June13, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 307; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L – Z) – Revoked
commissions, pages 712 and 759.]

John G. Lowrey, officers’ cook, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served as
landsman on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278 &
302.]

Samuel J. Lowrie, shown as being transferred from the CSS Indian Chief, January 9, 1865, to company
D, 10th Battalion North Carolina Heavy Artillery, as private; never recorded as having joined company.
[NCT 1, 546.]

Benjamin Pollard Loyall, born Virginia, 1833; original service in the United States Navy, from March 5,
1849; resident of Norfolk, Virginia, 1861; arrested for disloyalty and sent to Fort Lafayette, New York,
October 2, 1861; entered the Confederate States Navy, November 26, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; assigned
to Roanoke Island, North Carolina, with the army rank of captain, 1862 (an act of the Confederate
Congress allowed army rank to Naval officers who were assigned to work with the army); captured at
Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862; paroled, and later exchanged, April, 1862; served on
the steamer CSS Richmond, 1862 – 1863; detached from the vessel on September 23, 1863, and was
ordered to proceed to Wilmington, to await further orders; sent to Canada and Bermuda on
assignment from the Confederate government; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank
from January 6, 1864; served aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864; later aboard the side
wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864; promoted commander, Provisional
Navy of the Confederate States, February 10, 1865, “for gallant and meritorious conduct as second in
command and executive officer of the naval expedition which, on the night of the 1st of February,
1864, cut out from under the guns of the enemy at New Berne, N.C., the Federal gunboat Underwriter
and destroyed her”; also involved in the Johnson’s Island expedition, in late 1863; attached to
Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26,
1865; second marriage in 1882; resided as a grocer, in 1910, with his second wife, Cornelia, at Norfolk,
Virginia; still shown residing in Norfolk in 1920. [ORN 1, 2, 824; 1, 12, 181 and 2, 1, 300; ORA 2, 3;
Register1862; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; M1091; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census;
Norfolk County Record 240; New York Times dated Wednesday, October 7, 1861; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse,
page 1231; Confederate Navy subject file O – Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM – Routine
Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 359 - 365.]

A.F. Loyd, 2nd class boy, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 – 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]

John Loyd, 2nd class boy, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 – 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]

John T. Loyd, ordinary seaman, screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2,
1, 307.]

William Loyd, coal heaver, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]

John Luark, born North Carolina, 1842; served as seaman aboard the CSS Sea Bird; resided as a
fisherman, in 1870, with his wife, Frances, and three children, at Nags Head, Currituck County, North
Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 306; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Henry S. Lubbock, born Charleston, South Carolina; went to California in 1850, via the Isthmus of
Panama; at the commencement of the Civil War he returned south, and enlisted in the Confederate
army; appointed from Texas, as master, in command of the CSS Bayou City; involved in the re-capture
of Galveston, Texas, January 1, 1863; later served in the Texas Marine Department, 1863 – 1864;
commanded the gunboat Clifton, of the Texas Marine Department, operating in Texas waters, in late
1863; paroled, at the close of the war, at Houston, Texas, June 22, 1865; at the time of his parole, his
residence was shown as Harris County, Texas; was inspector of hulls and boilers in San Francisco;
resided in Alameda since about 1879; member of the Masonic fraternity; died at the home of his
daughter, Mrs. Adele Arnold, Alameda, California, Tuesday, December 8, 1908, aged 87 years.. [CSN
Register; San Frincisco Call (California) dated Wednesday, December 9, 1908, page 4; Confederate
Navy subject file, R – Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 118; Confederate Navy subject file
O – Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OD - Distribution, Miscellaneous, page 9.]

F.J. Lucar (surname may actually be Lucas), Quarter Gunner, paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3,
1865 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 27, 231.]

Frederick J. Lucas, originally served as private, company I, 2nd Texas Cavalry; promoted sergeant;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see previous entry, which may be
the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

John Lucas, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna
Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 1216 -
1218.]

John A. Lucas, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later served on the CSS Savannah, Savannah
Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 304 & 305.]

S. Lucas, served as landsman aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River Squadron, Confederate States
Navy, 1864; died of disease on July 15, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN –
Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 168.]

Sherrod Lucas, born Sampson County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at
Sampson County, March 3, 1862, aged 25, as private, company I, 46th Regiment North Carolina Troops;
hospitalized at Charlottesville, Virginia, September 3, 1862, with a gunshot wound of the hand;
reported as absent without leave between November, 1862 and April, 1863; returned to duty
sometime between May and June, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April
1, 1864. [NCT 11, 224.]

Martin R. Lucien, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and aboard the CSS General
Polk in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 479-480; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

---- Lucin, see John Martin Lussen.

John Luck, pilot on (civilian transport?) E. Mills; served aboard the CSS Albemarle, and on the
Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1862 - 1864; involved in the attack on Plymouth, North Carolina,
April 20, 1864. [ORN 1, 9, 656 – 657; 1, 10, 718 and 2, 1, 274 & 323.]

R. Luck, landsman, Confederate States Navy; attached as 1st sergeant to company D, 1st Regiment,
Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26,
1865. [M1091.]

John Lucke, gunner’s mate, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 –
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]

Richard F. Luckett (middle initial also shown as T.), enlisted at Richmond, Virginia, on June 16, 1863, as a
private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served in the marine guard aboard the CSS
Fredericksburg, James River Squadron, in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 461.]

Robert Luckey, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 – 1865. [ORN
2, 1, 312.]

J. L. Lucy (surname also shown as Lucey), born Ireland, about 1825; previous service in the Army of
Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 9, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for
service as seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, on May
4, 1864, to the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron. [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.]

John Lucy, second class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
William A. Luddington, born Georgia; original service as 1st corporal, company C, 1st Regiment, Georgia
Volunteer Infantry, May, 1861; later transferred, as private, to company B, 8th Regiment, Georgia
Infantry, August, 1861; entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, July 4, 1863;
served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute, Savannah station, Georgia, 1863 – 1864; later
aboard the CSS Torch, 1864; appointed 2nd assistant engineer, Provisional Navy of the Confederate
States, on October 26, 1864; worked, post war, as engineer on the city water works of Savannah,
Georgia; Sophie M. Luddington shown as his widow, residing at Savannah, in 1891. [ORN 2, 1, 303;
Register1864; Georgia Rosters, 1, 138 and 930; data on post war employment as engineer from
Historical Record of the City of Savannah, (page 162) by F.D. Lee and J.L. Agnew, printed and published
1869 by J.H. Estill, Morning News Steam-Power Press, Savannah, Georgia; Savannah, Georgia
Directories, 1888 – 1891 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) –
Revoked commissions, page 68.]

P.C. Luddy, landsman, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]

Felix Ludlow, born Belgium; landsman and ordinary seaman, CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863; aged 31;
captured aboard that vessel at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry
dated Monday, December 8, 1862; ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275.]

Noah Kipp Ludlow, born May 24, 1824, at New Orleans, Louisiana; resided as an engineer, in 1860, with
his wife Elizabeth, and three children, at Stockton, Baldwin County, Alabama; enlisted at Mobile,
Alabama, 1861, as private in the Mobile Greys; detailed, April 20, 1861, as engineer, Confederate
States Navy; stated that he was appointed 1st assistant engineer, in August, 1861, at Mobile, on the
CSS Gaines , and, in January, 1862, he was commissioned as chief engineer in the Confederate States
Navy, for shore duty; captured on the ram CSS Tennessee, at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; paroled at
Pensacola, Florida, April, 1865; resided as a gas fitter, in 1870, with his wife, Elizabeth, and six children,
at Mobile, Alabama; still residing at Mobile, Alabama, in 1907. [ADAH; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S.
Census; Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, in 1907 at Ancestry.com.]

A.P. Lufkin, indicated to have been a Confederate marine captain; buried at the Episcopal Cemetery,
Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

John Julius Lugenbuhl (surname also shown variously as Loogenbahl and Sugenbuhl), born Louisiana,
resided in New Orleans; pre-war occupation, clerk; marital status, married; enlisted at Camp Moore,
Louisiana, June 23, 1861, aged 29, as private, company B, 8th Louisiana Infantry; detailed as Acting
Commissary, per Special Order No. 2, July 3, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy,
December, 1863; served as landsman on the CSS Arctic, 1863, and quartermaster on the CSS Raleigh,
North Carolina, 1864; captured aboard the CSS Bombshell 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; married Sophie Mary Rey;
resided as a clerk in court, in 1870, with his wife, at New Orleans; his wife later received a Confederate
pension from the state of Louisiana. [Booth 2, 810; ORN 1, 9, 746 & 2, 1, 278 & 301; Louisiana
Confederate Pension File No. CP1.87, microdex 4, sequence 24; 1870 U.S. Census; deck log entries for
the USS Sassacus dated May 5, 1864 and May 10, 1864.]

George W. Luke, born in Lowndes County, Georgia, December 6, 1836; previously served as Private in
Company F, 49th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, March, 1862; wounded in action at
Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862; pension records show he was transferred to Confederate
States Navy in 1864, and was at James River, Virginia, at the close of the war. [Georgia Rosters 5, 248.]

Augustus W. Lumbler (surname also shown as Lembler and Lemblom), served as seaman aboard the
CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; sent from Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia, to Saffold, Georgia, in
November, 1862, for service as seaman and captain of forecastle aboard the CSS Chattahoochee; later
served on CSS Savannah; may have also served in company E, 8th Alabama Infantry. [CSS
Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 304 & 309; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 244.]

Charles Lumpert, enlisted, for one year, as porter aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South
Carolina, on September 23, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1229.]

Cincinnatus Lumpkin, originally served as private, company K, 34th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as quarter gunner in the Naval battery at
Gloucester Point, Virginia, in 1861; also shown as quartermaster; died February 17, 1864; buried at the
Magnolia Cemetery, 70 Cunnington Avenue North, Charleston, South Carolina 29405. [Civil War Service
Records; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 – 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 398.]

Henry C. Lumsden, born New Hanover County, North Carolina, December, 1842; enlisted at New
Hanover County, June 6, 1861, as private, company E, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; pre-
war occupation, laborer; discharged at Skinker’s Neck, Virginia, February 11, 1863, for disability; later
conscripted at Pisgah Church, Virginia, February 14, 1864 (regiment not shown, probably his previous
unit); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 17, 1864, as ordinary seaman; also shown 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; attached as private to company H, 2nd Regiment, Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865;
surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided, as a widower, in 1900,
at Masonboro, New Hanover County, North Carolina. [NCT 3, 197; M1091; 1900 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 110.]

Frank Lunce, see Frank Lance.

Robert S. Luper, see Robert E. Loper.

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

William Albert Lurige, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1862. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, pages 123 - 124.]

L. Y. Lusk, appointed gunner aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Earl Van Dorn, of the
Mississippi River Defense fleet, on March 25, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA
– Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

John Martin Lussen (surname also shown as Lusin and Lucin), born France; educated in Germany;
previous service in the Peruvian Navy; commanded a privateer during the Crimean War; later served
aboard the privateer Jeff Davis, steamer Kate and the CSS Nashville, 1861 – 1862; captured aboard the
schooner Louisa, August 23, 1862, off Charleston, South Carolina; had been offered a commission
aboard the Oreto (cruiser CSS Florida), but refused; also stated to be a good navigator and seaman;
recommended for a position on a privateer, through a letter of marque, in July, 1862; almost definitely
the same person (named as captain Lussan) captured aboard the brig Atlantic, August 10, 1863, by the
USS Princess Royal, off the coast of Texas; sent as a prize vessel to New Orleans, under a prize crew,
but Lussen managed to recapture the Atlantic from the prize crew, August 23, 1863, and take her to
Havana. [ORN 1, 13, 289 – 291; 1, 20, 448 - 454 and 2, 1, 401.]

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

A.R. Luyster, appointed acting master’s mate, Confederate States Navy, January 17, 1862; served on
launch No. 2, New Orleans station, 1862; resigned March 27, 1862. [CSNRegister; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments
of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked commissions, page 70.]

John Lyden, indicated to have served as a fireman in the Confederate States Navy; died May 6, 1863;
buried at the Jefferson Barracks National Cemetery, 2900 Sheridan Road, St. Louis, Missouri 63125,
Section 22, Site 5257. [U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 – 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

John J. Lyell, born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer,
November 30, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861 – 1862; later on the ironclad ram CSS
Chicora, Charleston station, 1862 – 1864; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, May 21, 1863; served
aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 632 and 2, 1, 283 & 321;
Register1862; Register1863; Register1864.]

W. Lyerly, originally served in the Confederate States Navy; transferred, about March or April, 1864, to
company C, 13th Battalion North Carolina Light Artillery, as private; paroled at Greensboro, North
Carolina, May 1, 1865. [NCT 1, 572.]

Edward Bellons Lyman, born Mobile, Alabama, March 8, 1847 (1900 U.S. Census shows year of birth as
1849); enlisted July 5, 1864, at Mobile, Alabama, in the Confederate States Navy, as courier (?);
transferred, October 4, 1864, to the Engineer Corps on October 4, 1864; captured at Selma, Alabama,
May, 1865; married in 1873; resided as a checking clerk, in 1900, with his wife, Mary, and three children,
at Mobile, Alabama. [ADAH; Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, in
1907 at Ancestry.com; 1900 U.S. Census.]

James Lyman, served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863;
deserted about May, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ –
Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 197.]

Arthur M. Lynah (surname also shown as Lynch), born South Carolina, 1826; son of planter James
Lynah and his wife, Susan; resided as a physician, in 1850, with his parents, at St. Bartholomews,
Colleton County, South Carolina; previous service in the United States Navy, as passed assistant
surgeon, from October 12, 1850; resigned from the United States Navy, January 9, 1861; original entry
into Confederate States Navy service, as surgeon, March 26, 1861; served on the steam sloop CSS
McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; also served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston
Harbor, South Carolina, 1862 – 1864; served on the Savannah squadron, 1864; appointed surgeon,
Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; resided as a physician, in 1880, with his wife, Sally, and daughter Julia, at
Moultrieville, Charleston County, South Carolina. [ORN 1, 13, 619 and 2, 1, 290, 298 & 320; Register1863;
Register1864; JCC 4, 123; 36th Congress Report 24; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Somerset Lynah, born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1842; enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS
Palmetto State, Charleston, South Carolina, November 17, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 243.]

Marcus A. Lynam, born Granville County, North Carolina, 1845; enlisted at the Naval Rendezvous,
Raleigh, North Carolina, in the Confederate Navy, March 30, 1863, from North Carolina; served as
landsman aboard the CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864, after the destruction of the Albemarle;
post-war occupation, farmer; marital status, married; resided in Tennessee since 1870; second
marriage to Alice Measles, at DeKalb County, Tennessee, August 21, 1878; resided as a farmer, in 1910,
with his wife, and daughter Alia, at Liberty, DeKalb County, Tennessee. [ORN 2, 1, 274; see also his
Tennessee Confederate pension records, file no. 11450, available from the Tennessee State Library
and Archives; CSN Shipping Articles; 1910 U.S. Census; Tennessee Marriage, 1851 – 1900 at the
Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR – Recruiting and Enlistments,
shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 408.]

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

Edward Lynch, listed as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy; captured at Sabine Pass, Texas, April
10, 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.]

George Lynch, shipped as 2nd class boy aboard the CS floating battery New Orleans, on October 29,
1861; rated as 1st class boy aboard the vessel from January 1, 1862, while the vessel was off Columbus,
Kentucky. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 6, 9 and 12.]

J. Lynch, recruited into the Confederate States Navy, at Macon, Georgia, in June, 1864. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS
Neuse, page 975.]

J.H. Lynch, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Jerry Lynch, born Newfoundland, 1831 (1880 U.S. Census shows year of birth as 1835); moved to
Boston, Massachusetts, at age 4, with his parents, where he was apprenticed as a tailor; moved south
in 1853; enlisted, at Tuskegee, Alabama, as private, company B, 4th Alabama Regiment; served in the
Virginia campaign, and was severely wounded in the Seven Days fight, 1862; discharged for disability,
and, on recovering from his wounds, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS
Tuscaloosa, at Mobile, Alabama; surrendered at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, May,
1865; resided, at the end of the war, in Atlanta, Georgia; occupation, tailor; also served as assistant
chief of volunteer fire department; served as witness for Joseph H. Livington of Newton County,
Georgia, in his pension claim; married Ella Finn, at an unknown date (he may have been separated or
divorced from her, as he is shown, in the 1880 U.S. census, as residing in Atlanta, by himself, and his
wife is stated to have died in Boston, about 1888); two children from his marriage, both residents of
Atlanta; died Atlanta, Georgia, November 8, 1900, of paralysis; buried Westview Cemetery. [GA
Pension Index 606; Sheppard – Atlanta Constitution November 9, 1900; 1880 U.S. Census.]

John Lynch, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and aboard the ironclad ram CSS
Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 54.]

John Lynch, born Ireland, resided as a sail-maker in New Hanover County, North Carolina, where he
enlisted June 19, 1861, aged 22, as private, company F, 3rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 1, 1862. [NCT 3, 549.]

John C. Lynch, resident of New York; married to an English lady at Liverpool, sometime before the
cruise; served as 2nd carpenter, CSS Shenandoah, 1864 - 1865; confined in single irons, May 28, 1865,
for drunkenness; confined in single irons, again, May 29, 1865, for being intoxicated. [Alabama Claims,
1, 975; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 782; Whittle 154.]

Junius J. Lynch, born Maryland, 1836; resided as a book keeper, in 1860, at Baltimore, Maryland;
appointed from Virginia (also indicated to be a resident of North Carolina); original entry into
Confederate States Navy, as flag officer’s secretary aboard the CSS Sea Bird, having been appointed by
flag officer W.F. Lynch, commanding the Naval forces of North Carolina and Virginia, on September 7,
1861; later appointed assistant paymaster, March 18, 1862; served on the Richmond station, 1861 –
1862; later aboard the steamer CSS Florida, 1862 – 1863; died of consumption, July 13, 1863; buried in
the Episcopal graveyard at Bermuda. [ORN 1, 2, 654 & 673 and 2, 1, 322; Register1863; 1860 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L – Z) – Revoked commissions, pages 761 and 762.]

Rufus Lynch, born North Carolina, April, 1826; served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a
post war Confederate pension from Johnston County, North Carolina; resided as a mechanic, in 1900,
at Wilder, Johnston County; shown as a widower in 1900; still living in 1910. [NC State Archives; 1900
U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]

William Lynch, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 13, 1861, as private (later promoted
sergeant), companies D and A, 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Regulars); detached service aboard the
Confederate States Ram Arkansas, per Special Order from Brigade Headquarters, June 25, 1862;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, about July or August, 1862, by Special Order
Headquarters District of the Mississippi; source indicates “orders not received.” [Booth 2, 821.]

William Francis Lynch, born Virginia, 1801, and appointed from that state; entered the United States
Navy, as midshipman, January 26, 1819; promoted lieutenant, May, 1828; involved in an expedition to
explore the course of the Jordan River, and the shores of the Dead Sea, in 1847; promoted captain,
1856; resigned from the United States Navy, April 21, 1861; entered Confederate Naval service, June
10, 1861, as captain; served on the Richmond station, 1861 – 1862, and along the North Carolina Coast,
and commanded CSS Sea Bird; later commanded CS Naval forces on the Mississippi and its tributaries,
and on the Jackson station, 1862; later served on the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, and as commander of
the ironclad sloop, CSS North Carolina, Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1863 – 1864; also as flag
officer aboard the CSS Arctic, 1863; attached to the Cumming’s Point battery, Charleston station, South
Carolina, for a very brief period in April, 1863; ordered by President Jefferson Davis, in a dispatch dated
at Richmond, Virginia, March 9, 1864, to relinquish command of the Wilmington station, and
immediately report to the Navy Department, because his Naval command was on a collision course
with that of the Army command of general W.H.C. Whiting; died Baltimore, October 17, 1865; buried at
Mount Olivet Cemetery, Washington, D.C. [ORN 1, 11, 756; 1, 14, 78 & 686; 1, 19, 132 and 2, 1, 276, 306,
313, 318, 321 & 323; ORA 1, 18 and 1, 51 (part 2), 829; Scharf 377 (note); Register1863; burial data
provided by Cecilia Kirk in an e-mail (CeciliaKirk@msn.com) dated July 14, 2006, and from data
researched by descendant, lieutenant colonel John Shaw Lynch, USAF (ret.); additional data from The
Private Mary Chestnut: the Unpublished Civil War Diaries, edited by C. Vann Woodward and Elisabeth
Muhlenfeld, published by Oxford University Press, 1984, page 173; New York Times dated October 19,
1865.]

William F. Lynch, jr., appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at New
Orleans, on September 23, 1861; served on the CSS Mobile, New Orleans station, in 1861, and at the
Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1031; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L --
Z) – Revoked commissions, page 72.]

Andrew Lyng, see Andrew Ling.

John T. Lynn, recruited aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, in 1864, and transferred, as
landsman, on October 6, 1864, to the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of
Georgia and Ladies’ Ram), also in the same squadron; transferred to the Richmond station by order of
flag officer W.W. Hunter, dated October 19, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 583;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans – Yorktown, page 648.]

Joseph Lynn, ordinary seaman (also shown as wardroom steward), ironclad floating battery CSS
Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies’ Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1863 – 1864; signed
on for the war, and, as officer’s steward, he was granted a fourteen day furlough from July 6, 1863;
transferred, at an unspecified date, to the Charleston station. [ORN 1, 14, 715 and 2, 1, 287; DANFS;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 514; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 716.]

M.A. Lynum, see M.A. Lynam.

A. Lyon, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1863; listed as
missing from the vessel as of March 15, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 596.]

George C. Lyon, served as a private in company D, 4th Georgia Volunteers, from April 26, 1861;
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; appointed Master's Mate in Confederate States Navy, 1863;
surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, April 9, 1865. [Georgia Rosters 1, 584; Confederate States Navy
subject file.]

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

Robert B. Lyon, sailing master; 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 W. Lyon, born Caswell County, North Carolina; resided in, as a carpenter or mechanic, and
enlisted at, Rockingham County, North Carolina, May 30, 1861, aged 25, as private, company A, 13th
Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, for duty on the
Merrimac (CSS Virginia), at Hampton Roads, Virginia, February 14, 1862; served as landsman on that
vessel. [NCT 5, 293; ORN 2, 1, 309.]

Eugene Lyons, served as surgeon’s steward at the Richmond station, 1862. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 508.]

John Lyons, served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863; a list of “boarders” on the cruiser
shows Lyons holding the position of loader 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.]

Martin Lyons, served as 1st class boy at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 58-
59.]

Stephen Lyons, jr., landsman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
during July – December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

Thomas J. Lyons, enlisted, on April 10, 1863, as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and
received a bounty of $50; was amongst a group of Marine Corps personnel transferred from CSS
Savannah to Richmond, Virginia, at an unspecified date; his widow, Martha A. Lyons filed for a post
war Confederate pension from Rockdale County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 607; ORN 2, 1, 316;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans – Yorktown, page 677.]

William Lyons, originally served as private in captain Childs’ Company, South Carolina Artillery;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]