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N. J. McAdam, appointed carpenter aboard the Confederate States gunboat Defiance, of the
Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

Sidney H. McAdam (surname also shown as McAdams), appointed from Tennessee; appointed acting
master in the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, April 2, 1863; appointed lieutenant for
the war on April 8, 1863; served as executive officer of the stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga,
Savannah squadron, 1863 - 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6,
1864; ordered to report for torpedo placing duties, Savannah squadron, July 29, 1864; ordered to
report to major general L. McLaws, of the Confederate Army for temporary duty, October 11, 1864; re-
assigned to torpedo placing duties, November 29, 1864; indicated as being very skilled in this particular
duty. [ORN 1, 15, 759 & 764; 1, 16, 456, 467 & 473 and 2, 1, 289; JCC 4, 122; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of
officers (L -- Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 74 and 76.]

Francis McAdams, Landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

Francis McAdams, original service in company E, 15th Louisiana Infantry; recruited as coal heaver
aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862, receiving a bounty of $50 (may be
the same person shown in the previous entry). [ORN 2, 1, 310; Tom Brooks; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page
878.]

H. McAdams
, served as 2nd class fireman 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.]

John McAlee, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama; born England; deserted January 21, 1863, at Kingston,
Jamaica. [William Marvel.]

Alexander McAlister, resided in, and enlisted at Yancey County, North Carolina, May 1, 1861, aged 23,
as private, company C, 16th Regiment North Carolina Troops; promoted corporal sometime in January
or February, 1863; captured at Falling Waters, Maryland, July 13 or 14, 1863; escaped from Point
Lookout, Maryland at an unspecified date; rejoined his company, September or October, 1863;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 3, 1864. [NCT 6, 33.]

John W. McAllister, 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, 277, 278 & 302.]

J.A. McAnally, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see entry for J.A.
McAnulty, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

John H. McAnally (surname also shown as McAnnally), enlisted by captain Thom, at Mobile, Alabama,
on July 18, 1863, as private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Mobile
station, 1863 - 1864, and at the Richmond station in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1070;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, pages 458 and 466.]

M. McAntee, served as quarter gunner, Confederate States Navy, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan on
December 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 118.]

J.A. McAnulty
, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864
(see entry for J.A. MCAnally, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]

John McArthur, born Alva, Scotland, August 27, 1835; resided as a ship's carpenter (occupation also
stated to have been timekeeper), in 1860, with his mother, Agnes, and two siblings, at Mobile,
Alabama; enlisted at Mobile, 1863, in the Scotch Guards; detailed to work at Navy Yard, Mobile; also
stated to have served on the steamer Dixie, and aboard the CSS Morgan; resided, in 1907, at Mobile.
[ADAH; 1860 U.S. Census.]


Peter McArthur
, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see also, next entry,
which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Peter McArthur, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864 (see also,
previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

J. McAvoy, originally served as private, company B, 18th Battalion, Georgia Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, entry for J. McEvoy, who may be the same
person). [Civil War Service Records.]

James McBaker, see James McCutcheon Baker.

Charles R. McBlair (middle initial also shown as F.), born Maryland, about 1848; son of Confederate
Naval commander, Charles H. McBlair, listed below, and his wife, Fanny; brother of Confederate Navy
officer, Duncan McBlair, listed below; resided with his parents and siblings, in 1860, at Cumberland,
Allegany County, Maryland; served as master's mate aboard the CSS Tennessee, from February 16,
1864; left the vessel, July 14, 1864, on detachment to Savannah, Georgia. [ORN 1, 21, 934 and 936; 1860
U.S. Census.]

Charles H. McBlair, born Maryland, about 1812; previously served in the United States Navy, from
March 4, 1823; resided with his wife, Fanny, in 1860, at Cumberland, Allegany county, Maryland; father
of Confederate Navy officers, Charles R. McBlair, listed above, and Duncan McBlair, listed below;
entered the Confederate States Navy, October 19, 1861, as commander; served on the Richmond
station, 1861; on duty at the Naval defenses at Fernandina, Florida, 1861 - 1862; served on the CSS
Capitol, 1862; commanded the CSS Arkansas, about April, 1862; later commanded side wheeled
gunboat CSS Morgan, and the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1862 - 1864;
stationed at Charlotte, North Carolina, 1865; enrolled as lieutenant colonel in Semmes' Naval Brigade,
April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as a clerk in
a railroad office, in 1880, with his wife, Fanny, and two children, at Washington, D.C. [ORN 1, 23, 698
and 2, 1, 292, 307 & 321; ORA 1, 53; Register1863; M1091; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, page 327.]

Duncan McBlair
(first name also shown as Dunkin), born Maryland, about 1842; son of Confederate
Naval commander, Charles H. McBlair, listed above, and his wife, Fanny; brother of Confederate Naval
officer, Charles R. McBlair, listed above; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States
Navy, at Savannah, on January 7, 1863; served on the stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which
operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), 1863, and the ironclad ram CSS
Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of
officers (L -- Z) - Revoked commissions, page 82.]

William McBlair, born Maryland, 1810; previous service in the United States Navy, from November 16,
1824; resided with his wife Virginia, and five children, in 1860, at Washington, D.C.; name stricken from
the rolls of the United States Navy, April 20, 1861; appointed as commander, Confederate States Navy,
June 10, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862; later commanded the CSS Atlanta,
Savannah station, 1863; died February 16, 1863; funeral held at St. John's Church, Savannah, on
Tuesday, February 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 13, 321 and 2, 1, 321; 1860 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond,
Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Register1863; Daily Morning News (Savannah) dated Tuesday, February
17, 1863.]

William McBlair, jr., appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond,
Virginia, July 25, 1862, and ordered to proceed to Savannah, Georgia, and report to flag officer Tattnall,
for duty; served aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, and later aboard the CSS Atlanta, on which
he was captured at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to
Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, July 4, 1863; placed in close confinement, at this facility, August, 1864, for
repeated attempts to pass the guards; paroled at Fort Warren, September 28, 1864; exchanged at
Cox's Wharf, Virginia, October 18, 1864, and sent on to Richmond; temporary duty at Drewry's Bluff,
James River, February, 1865; CSS Richmond, February, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 811; 1, 12, 187 & 1, 14, 268;
CSNRegister; Register1864; Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864;
New York Times dated November 18, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L -- Z) - Revoked
commissions, page 85.]

Timothy McBoy, 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 117.]

Francis McBride, served as ordinary seaman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, on the Mississippi
River, Louisiana, 1861-1862; captured and paroled, and subsequently sent to the Mobile station, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 291; St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1057.]

R. McBride
, surgeon's steward, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

Thomas McBride, ordinary seaman, CSS McRae, 1861 (see next entry). [St. Philip.]
Thomas McBride, born Alabama; aged 26 or 28; ordinary seaman, CSS Jackson, 1862; may be the same
person listed in the previous entry. [St. Philip.]

Thomas McBride, served as seaman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as
quartermaster on April 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1003.]

Thomas McBride, served as seaman aboard the Confederate States floating battery, New Orleans,
about 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 14.]

William E. McBride, born Kentucky, resided at Louisville; pre-war occupation, boatman; marital status,
single; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 2, 1861, aged 18, as private, company F, 1st (Nelligan's)
Louisiana Infantry; discharged February 3, 1862, having volunteered to go aboard the Merrimac (CSS
Virginia), at Hampton Roads, Virginia; served as landsman aboard this vessel, 1862. [Booth 2, 1127;
ORN 2, 1, 310.]

Israel McBright, previously served as Private in Company D, 4th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to
Confederate States Navy at Mobile, Alabama, February 15, 1864. [Information supplied by Arthur
Bergeron, Louisiana.]

Edward McCabe, served as seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as master at arms from
February 28, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]

John McCabe
, served as ordinary seaman aboard the stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga, Savannah
Squadron, 1864; rated as seaman from May 1, 1864, by order of captain J.S. Kennard; sent to the Naval
hospital, after the evacuation of Savannah, on account of being unable to march. [ORN 2, 1, 289;
Confederate States Navy subject files - NI; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ -
Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 543.]

Michael McCabe (surname also shown as McAbe), enlisted as a landsman in the Confederate States
Navy, in 1861, and later rated as coal heaver, 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. [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.]

Patrick McCabe (surname also shown as McCale and McCall), served as private, Confederate States
Marine Corps; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll and a Naval
document of the CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), indicate that he
also served aboard that vessel in 1863; also shown as having served aboard the side wheeled steamer
CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268 and 2, 1, 286-287 & 304; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, pages 519-523.].].

Richard McCabe, CSS Atlanta, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Sunday, May 17, 1863.]

William McCabe
, served as seaman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as
boatswain's mate on February 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 854.]

Patrick McCaffrey, seaman, side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated
in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS.]

Hugh McCaffry
, served as private in the Confederate States Marine corps, aboard the CSS Morgan,
Mobile station, in 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1182.]

James H. McCahan, recruited as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous,
Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863; later served, in 1864, as seaman aboard the CSS Albemarle, in the
sounds of North Carolina; deserted from the vessel, and was taken aboard the Union gunboat, USS
Mattabassett, and, after interrogation, was subsequently sent into the custody of the provost marshal
at New Berne, on May 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 444; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 515.]

Pat McCale, see Patrick McCabe.

Edward McCall, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; in 1864, served aboard the
ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, and the CSS Olustee, Cape Fear River, North Carolina; deserted from
the CSS Olustee, at Wilmington, on December 13, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277, 294 - 296; DANFS; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 849; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling,
Miscellaneous, page 530.]

J.V. McCall, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

Robert McCalla, originally served as seaman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS General
Polk in 1861; rated as boatswain's mate from October 1, 1861; returned to the rating of seaman aboard
the vessel as of March 15, 1862; later served as boatswain's mate on the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto
State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; promoted boatswain, February 2, 1864;
stationed aboard the prize steamer, Water Witch, for duty, June, 1864; ordered to be sent to the CSS
Savannah, Savannah squadron, June 9, 1864; ordered to report to Confederate Army lieutenant
general Hardee, at Charleston, South Carolina, for special duty, November, 1864. [ORN 1, 15, 741 and 2,
1, 298; ORN 1, 16, 460; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 471 and 484; Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-
59.]

M. McCanley, 2nd class boy, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

Francis McCann, born Ireland, about 1840; previously served as Private in Company A, 11th Battalion,
Georgia Infantry; transferred to Company A, 47th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, May 12, 1862; detailed
on gunboat service, November 1, 1862; served as seaman aboard the stern wheeled gunboat CSS
Isondiga, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1863 - 1864; admitted to the C.S. Naval hospital in Savannah, in
late September, 1863, for an unspecified reason, and discharged on October 16, 1863; in the early part
of 1864 (March 1st?), while visiting a brothel in Savannah, he was shot in the chest, from above, while
standing on the lower part of a stairway; he was then taken to the Naval Hospital, and placed in the
care of Naval surgeon R. W. Jeffery, who made a lengthy report of the subsequent treatment and
death of McCann; it was reported that McCann had been drinking freely before being shot about 12.30
at night; he was given morphine at the hospital, and surgeon Jeffery saw him at 6 o'clock that morning,
and from then on McCann's condition declined rapidly, and he was dead by 3.30 p.m. [Georgia
Rosters, 5, 8; ORN 2, 1, 288; Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal, volume 1, no. 3, March
1864, pages 39-40; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody
and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 371.]

J.H. McCann, resident of Baltimore, Maryland; previously engaged in blockade running at Charleston,
South Carolina; served as seaman, CSS Albemarle; deserted about May, 1864, and taken aboard the
USS Miami, Albemarle Sound, North Carolina. [ORN 1, 9, 763 - 764.]

James McCann, served as ordinary seaman, CSS Selma; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and
sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as a prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12, 1864
to Ship Island; died of dropsy, March 18, 1864; buried at Ship Island Cemetery, Mississippi (cemetery
no longer extant, due to the action of storms). [ORN 1, 21, 841 - 842; ADAH; James E. Ellis.]

John McCann, served as seaman and quartermaster, CSS Dodge, 1861- 1862; re-enlisted for
service, as seaman, Confederate States Navy, April 1, 1863, for 1 year, at the rate of $18 per
month; sent for duty to the plantation of colonel Hamilton Washington, on the Trinity River,
Polk County, Texas; reported, on January 15, 1863, to be very ill with pneumonia; sent aboard
the steamer Alamo, to report for duty aboard the CSS Harriet Lane, in Galveston Bay, Texas,
April 15, 1863; later that same year, sent to Shreveport, Louisiana, for service aboard the ironclad
ram CSS Missouri, under lieutenant J.H. Carter; paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865
(see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 19, 813, 815 & 816; 1, 20, 815; 1, 27,
231 and 2, 1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 289.]

John B. McCann, born Duplin County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlsited at Duplin
County, October 1, 1861, aged 18, as private, company A, 38th Regiment North Carolina Troops;
promoted corporal, July 26, 1862; wounded in action at Second Manassas, Virginia, August 30, 1862;
returned to duty prior to January 1, 1863; wounded in the right parietal bone at Chancellorsville,
Virginia, May 3, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 3, 1864, vide Special Order No.
89; served as landsman on the CSS Fredericksburg, 1865. [NCT 10, 16; ORN 1, 11, 794; also mentioned in
a war time letter of his fellow shipmate, Oliver Clark Hamilton, in the collections of the Department of
Cultural Resources, North Carolina.]

Patrick McCann, previously served as Private, Company M, 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars, June 7,
1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 2, 1864; shipped, as landsman, aboard the CSS
Chattahoochee, May 4, 1864; transferred from the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron,
in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina; took Oath of Allegiance at
Richmond, Virginia, April 21, 1865. [ORN 1, 17, 701 and 2, 1, 283; Georgia Rosters, 1, 371; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 575.]

G.M.D. McCants, Landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

James McCarrick, originally served as private, company H, 12th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, 6th Virginia Infantry). [Civil War Service
Records.]

James William McCarrick, born Virginia, 1843; son of Confederate States Navy officer, Patrick
McCarrick, listed below, and his wife, Margaret; brother of Patrick Henry McCarrick, also of the
Confederate States Navy; resided with his parents, in 1860, at Norfolk, Virginia; appointed acting
master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at Norfolk, Virginia, December 26, 1861, and ordered to
report to flag officer Lynch, at Newbern, North Carolina, for duty; captured at Roanoke Island, North
Carolina, February, 1862, and paroled; paid in full, as being on sea duty, on board the receiving vessel
Plymouth, up to April 30, 1862; later, as acting master, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa,
Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1862 - 1864; appointed master not in line of promotion, January 9, 1863; served
aboard the CSS Macon, 1864 - 1865; in command of a detachment at the Shell Bluff battery (45 miles
below Augusta, Georgia), Savannah River, January, 1865; relieved from command of the Shell Bluff
battery, March 20, 1865, and ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Macon; resided as a
steamboat agent, in 1880, with his wife, Georgia, and six children, at Norfolk, Virginia; in January, 1899
he was the general southern agent for Clyde's Coastwise and West India Lines company in Norfolk,
Virginia. [ORN 1, 16, 486, 501 & 511; 1, 21, 889 and 2, 1, 307; Register1862; Register1864; Scharf, 392; CSS
Macon Rolls; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and
Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 220; Confederate Navy subject file H - Battles and casualties to ships;
HA - engagements with enemy war vessels; Miscellaneous, pages 62-63; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of
officers (L -- Z) - Revoked commissions, page 89.]

Patrick McCarrick (name shown, incorrectly in Register1862, as P.M. Carrick), born Ireland, 1822;
naturalized citizen of the United States; resident of Norfolk, Virginia, since 1838, and had, for many
years, commanded a steamboat out of Norfolk; father of Confederate States Navy officers, James
William McCarrick, and Patrick Henry McCarrick; at the commencement of the war his boat was placed
in the Naval service, and he was appointed as acting master, Confederate States Navy; commanded
the side-wheeled steamer CSS Winslow, North Carolina waters, 1861; captured at Elizabeth City, North
Carolina, February 10, 1862; exchanged September, 1862 (however, he is shown as being paroled, and
paid in full for sea duty, up to April 30, 1862, aboard the receiving vessel Plymouth); appointed
lieutenant for the war, March 18, 1862; served on the Mississippi defenses, 1862 - 1863; involved in
Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January
6, 1864; later served on ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, and at the Wilmington station, North
Carolina, 1864 - 1865; after the surrender he took the oath on April 10, 1865; at the close of the war he
commanded the steamer Eolus; although his wife had remained in their residence at Norfolk, during
the war, the property was seized under the Confiscation Act, but was later restored; resided as captain
of a steamer, in 1880, with his wife, Margaret, and five daughters at Norfolk, Virginia. [ORN 1, 2, 824
and 2, 1, 293, 295, 312 & 323; ORA 2, 4; Register1862; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; Scharf 391; 1860 U.S.
Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Presidential Pardons; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and
Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 220; Confederate Navy subject file H - Battles and casualties to ships;
HA - engagements with enemy war vessels; Miscellaneous, pages 62-63.]

Patrick Henry McCarrick, born North Carolina; son of Confederate Navy officer, Patrick McCarrick, and
brother of Confederate Navy officer, James William McCarrick; original entry into Confederate States
Navy, as midshipman, 4th class, August 31, 1861; another Naval document indicates his appointment
date as midshipman, at Norfolk, was June 1, 1861, and that he was ordered to report aboard the CSS
Winslow for duty; served aboard the steamer, CSS Baltic, Mobile station, 1862 - 1863; served aboard
the school ship, CSS Patrick Henry, James River, 1864; later served as acting midshipman (temporary)
aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron, 1864; appointed passed midshipman in the
Provisional Navy, December 19, 1864; attached as 2nd lieutenant, to company C, Semmes' Naval
Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865.
[Register1863; Register1864; ORN 1, 10, 632; M1091; Confederate Navy subject file H - Battles and
casualties to ships; HA - engagements with enemy war vessels; Miscellaneous, pages 62-63;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L -- Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 92 and 93.]

Hugh McCarron
, served as fireman aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of the
prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of that
vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of
prize money - Miscellaneous, page 2.]

George McD. McCart, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina,
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294; DANFS.]

John McCarthey, fireman, CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]

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

James McCarthy
, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer; marital
status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 4, 1861, aged 25, as private, company I, 6th
Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy sometime between May and August,
1864. [Booth 2, 1137.]

John McCarthy, captain of foretop, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor,
South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

Lawrence Anthony McCarthy, born Georgia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd
assistant engineer, December 29, 1862; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, May 21, 1863; served aboard
the side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute and the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1862 -
1864; shown as a paroled prisoner, on the CSS Macon, at Augusta, Georgia, on April 15, 1865. [ORN 1,
14, 698 and 2, 1, 303; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL -
Paroles, A-W, page 119.]

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

Samuel McCarthy, sergeant, Confederate States Marine Corps; served aboard the CSS Savannah,
Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 305.]

W. McCarthy
, born Ireland; aged 30; coal heaver, receiving ship at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1862 (see
next entry). [St. Philip.]

William McCarthy (surname also shown as McCarty), born Ireland; aged 28; served as 2nd class
fireman aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, 1862; brought to New Orleans, aboard the CSS Pontchartrain,
from New Madrid, in March, 1862, and sent aboard the CSS St. Philip (probably the same person listed
in the previous entry). [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical, MM - Admissions to
hospitals; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 123 - 124.]

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

Andrew McCartney, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on September 4, 1861,
and served as boy aboard the CSS V.H. Ivy. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 844 and 846.]

Charles McCartney, enlisted, for one year, as waiter aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston,
South Carolina, on October 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1229; Alabama Claims 2,
(appendix 2), 133.]

Dennis McCarty
, served as a private in company D, 8th Georgia Volunteers; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209
dated at Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston,
South Carolina. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]

J. McCarty, Landsman, CSS Virginia II, January, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 794.]

J.A. McCarty
, appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, January 22,
1862, and ordered to report for duty to acting master Levine, at the New Orleans Quarantine Station;
also served on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) -
Revoked commissions, page 98.]

John McCarty
, shown on a Roll of Confederate Prisoners of War as being in the Confederate States
Navy; paroled at Grenada, Mississippi, May 19, 1865; resident of New Orleans, Louisiana. [Booth 2,
1141.]

John McCarty
, landsman, Confederate States Navy; captured aboard a boat from the CSS Oconee, at
Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, on August 20, 1863, by the USS Madgie; transferred to the USS Wamsutta
on August 21, 1863, to be sent north as a prisoner of war. [Confederate Navy subject file, R -
Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 488;
Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi
Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 616.]

John McCarty, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN
2, 1, 312.]

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

John McCarty, ordinary seaman, 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 553.]

John McCarty, served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, about 1863.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 647.]

Patrick McCarty (surname also shown as McCarthy), born about 1840; enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, as
a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on August 17, 1861; served in the Marine Guard
aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, and at the Marine Camp near Drewry's Bluff,
James River, Virginia, in 1862; personal description - 5 feet, 7 ¾ inches high, blue eyes, brown hair, fair
complexion; indicated to have deserted about July 30, 1862, and a reward of $30 was offered for his
apprehension and delivery to the Marine camp; also indicated to have served on the marine guard
aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston Station, in 1863. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated July
30, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 133 and 136-139; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 285.]

Robert McCarty, private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard the CSS
Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; also served in the Marine Guard on the CSS Richmond,
James River, 1864, and at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 280 & 314; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 390.]

Robert L. McCarty, born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as master not in line of
promotion, March 3, 1861; on special duty, 1862 - 1863. [Register1863.]

Walter McCarty, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to
April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, 1862-1863; rated as captain of after guard from May 13, 1863;
disrated to seaman from May 25, 1863; deserted about September, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297; DANFS;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 604 and 610;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 199.]

Benjamin P. McCaskey
(surname also shown as Mecaskey), Boatswain; born Louisiana; CSS Sumter,
May, 1861; sent to Liverpool, England, via London, April, 1862; CSS Alabama, 1864; captured by USS
Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, in action, off Cherbourg, France, and transported to Fort Warren, Boston,
where he was received November 11, 1864, released June 2, 1865. [ORN 1, 1, 614 & 684; CSS Sumter
Muster Roll; William Marvel; Fort Warren.]

T. McChee (McGhee?), served as fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1,
694.]

William McClain, see William McLain.

Austin McClanahan
, born Virginia, 1837; son of Augustine McClanahan; resided, as a mariner, in 1860,
with his father and siblings, at King George County, Virginia; originally served as private, company K,
30th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War
Service Records; 1860 U.S. Census.]

James McClaney, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863 (see next entry, which may be the same person).
[ORN 2, 1, 276.]

A. McClannahan
, served as landsman aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1864 (see also, entry for
Austin McClanahan, who may be the same person). [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA
- Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1233.]

James McClanney
, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North
Carolina, 1864 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 295; DANFS.]

Josiah McClanney
, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North
Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294; DANFS.]

Benjamin McClaron
, Second Class Fireman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

Robert McCleery
, born Ireland, April, 1828; indicated to have migrated to the United States in 1865,
and may have served only a few months in the Civil War (or the year of immigration may be
inaccurate); shown on a Roll of Confederate Prisoners of War as being a seaman in the Confederate
States Navy; stated to have served aboard the St. Morgan (probably the steamer CSS Morgan);
paroled at Montgomery, Alabama, May 11, 1865; married in 1870; resident of New Orleans, Louisiana;
resided as a sail manufacturer, in 1900, at Mobile, Alabama; his widow, Mary J. McCleery, applied for a
Confederate widow's pension from Mobile County, Alabama, in June, 1911. [Booth 2, 1146; ADAH;
1900 U.S. Census.]

E. McClellan, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the
steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864 (see entry for E.C. McClellan, listed
below, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 277 & 313.]

E.C. McClellan
, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see entry for E. McClellan,
listed above, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

John McClellan (surname also shown as McClelland), served as 2nd class boy at the New Orleans
station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 62 and 97.]

Thomas McClellan
, Captain, commanded tug Music, April, 1862. [ORN 1, 18, 249.]

William McClellan, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1863-4. [William Marvel.]

W. McClelland, landsman, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]

William F. McClenahan, born Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from February 28,
1833; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 9, 1861; original entry into
Confederate States Navy service, as surgeon, June 10, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861 -
1863; stationed at Charlotte, North Carolina, 1865; served as surgeon in Semmes' Naval Brigade, April,
1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 321;
Register1863; M1091; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861.]

A. McClennahan
, recruited as landsman at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2,
1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 955.]

Joseph McClenny, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North
Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 296.]

Thomas O. McCleskey
(surname also shown as McClesky and McClosky), born Georgia, 1829; son of
Thomas and Julia McCleskey; resided as an engineer, in 1850, at the home of his parents, in Chatham
County, Georgia; originally served as private, company A, 18th Battalion, Georgia Infantry (see also, 1st
(Olmstead's) Georgia Infantry); appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States
Navy, at Savannah, February 15, 1864; stationed at Savannah, Georgia, and served aboard the CSS
Sampson, 1864; on the fall of Savannah, stationed briefly at Charleston, South Carolina, 1864; served
aboard the CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls; ORN 1, 16, 492; CSN Register; Civil War Service Records;
1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 581; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) -
Revoked commissions, page 100.]

Horatio Gates McClintoc (surname also shown as McClintock and McClinton), born Alabama; previous
service in the United States Navy, as acting midshipman, from which he resigned, January 22, 1861;
later served as midshipman, Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Nashville, 1861. [ORN 1,
1, 752; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133; 36th Congress Report 25; Callahan.]

James D. McCloskey (surname also shown as McClosky and as McClusky), born Virginia; appointed
from civil life; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting gunner, July 1, 1861; served on the
Richmond station, and ordnance duty, 1861 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Register1862; Register1863;
Register1864.]

Michael McClure
, original service in company A, 15th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, and served as coal heaver aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton
Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Tom Brooks.]

William McClusky
, served as seaman aboard the Confederate States schooner, Dodge, in 1861.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 289.]

Daniel McColl
, born Cumberland County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, cooper; enlisted at
Cumberland County, March 17, 1864, aged 29, in the Confederate States Navy. [CSN Shipping Articles.]

John McCollum, 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.]

David G. McComb, born Alabama; appointed acting gunner in the Confederate States Navy, at
Richmond, Virginia, July 1, 1861, and ordered to proceed to New Orleans, and report to captain George
N. Hollins for duty; served at the Naval laboratory, New Orleans, and on the New Orleans station, 1861
- 1862; was dissatisfied with having to work under the direction of acting master Robbins, at the
laboratory, and was recommended for more active duty elsewhere; dismissed from the Naval service
on March 1, 1862; re-appointed gunner, September 20, 1862; served on the steamer, CSS Baltic, 1862 -
1863; resigned August 14, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 320 & 777; Register1862; Register1863; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 102 and 985.]

John McConghery, served as a private in company D, 1st Mississippi Volunteers; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209
dated at Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston,
South Carolina. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]

John McConnaher
, 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 117.]

David Porter McCorkle, born District of Columbia; original service in the United States Navy, from
September 21, 1841; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 17, 1861; entered
the Confederate States Navy, June 27, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; served on the Richmond station, 1861,
and on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, 1861; also served on the New
Orleans station, 1862; later served on the Jackson station, 1862; afterward served at the Naval works,
Atlanta, Georgia, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 299, 318, 320 & 321; Register1863; Daily Dispatch (Richmond,
Virginia) dated May 31, 1861.]

J.P. McCorkle, born Pennsylvania, appointed from Virginia; served as chief clerk, Office of Ordnance
and Hydrography, Confederate Navy Department, 1862 - 1864. [Register1862; Register1863;
Register1864.]

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

Charles McCormick, Confederate States Marine Corps; 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.]

Daniel McCormick, enlisted by captain Thom, at Mobile, Alabama, on March 6, 1863, as private in
company C, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Richmond Station, Virginia, 1863 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 435 and 466.]

Edward McCormick, originally served as private, company E, 33rd Mississippi Infantry; transferred to
the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Edward McCormick, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Baltic,
which operated in Alabama waters; 1862 - 1863; deserted about December, 1862, but was
apprehended and returned to service on December 16, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 451.]

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

Henry McCormick, served as carpenter aboard the Confederate States gunboat Warrior, Mississippi
River Defense Fleet, from March 14, 1862 to December 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file, X -
Supplies, XD - Claims, Miscellaneous, page 10; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

Harrison McCoy
, cook, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2,
1, 312.]

Henry McCoy, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1864; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off
Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

Henry McCoy, served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863; a list of "boarders" of the cruiser shows
McCoy holding the position of loader at the 2nd gun division. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

Joseph D. McCoy, appointed captain aboard the Confederate States gunboat Defiance, of the
Mississippi River Defense Fleet, on January 31, 1862. [ORN 1, 18, 249; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

Michael McCoy, Private, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Thomas McCoy, born Ireland, resident of New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer; marital
status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 35, as private, company G, 10th
Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, November, 1861; transferred to the
Merrimac (CSS Virginia), at Hampton Roads, Virginia, January 2, 1862; served as coal heaver on that
vessel. [Booth 2, 1160; ORN 2, 1, 309.]

John McCrady, boatswain's mate, CSS Baltic, Alabama waters; served during, or between the period,
August, 1862 and June, 1863 (see also entry for John McCredie, who may be the same person). [ORN
2, 1, 280.]

John McCrady, recruited as coal heaver aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862, and received a bounty of $50. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 878.]

John H. McCreary
(surname also shown as McCrevey), served in company F of the Confederate States
Marine Corps, at Mobile, in 1864; attached as private to company A, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April,
1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 1082.]

William McCreary, carpenter's mate, CSS Caswell (wooden sidewheeled steamer, which operated as
a tender on the Wilmington Station, North Carolina); served during, or sometime between the period,
July, 1861 to June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 282; DANFS.]

John McCredie, appointed from Alabama; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as boatswain,
January 16, 1864; served aboard the CSS Tennessee, from February 16, 1864; captured at Mobile Bay,
August 5, 1864; escaped from the barracks at the United States General Hospital, New Orleans, on
November 15, 1864 (see also, entry for John McCrady, who may be the same person). [ORN 1, 21,
406 & 934; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War
rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 601.]

James C. McCree, served in the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Fannie E. McCree, later applied
for a post war Confederate pension from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

John McCubbins
, recruited as coal heaver aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads,
Virginia, 1862, and received a bounty of $50. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 878.]

Patrick McCue, enlisted, for one year, as 1st class boy aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston,
South Carolina, on September 28, 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.]

E.D. McCulloch, 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. [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.]

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

William McCullough
, seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

John McCullum, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

Richard McCully
, CSN; born Truro, Nova Scotia, Canada; aged 26; whilst crewing a naval shore battery
at Fort Darling (Drewry's Bluff), Virginia, died of wounds, May 21, 1862, in Richmond, interred in
McCully family plot at Blandford Cemetery, Petersburg, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

H.H. McCune
, 2nd lieutenant, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, December, 1864. [ORN 2,
1, 313.]

John McCune, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

John McCunn, served aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1864; rated as quartermaster
from January 15, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1011.]

Samuel McCurdy
, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; promoted sergeant and
served on the Richmond station, in 1863; transferred aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia, about July, 1863;
transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 437.]

Dennis McCure, transferred, from the Confederate Army, to the CSS Spray, St. Mark's, Florida, as
seaman, on June 2, 1864; paroled at St. Marks, May 12, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 815;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and
Registers, page 663.]

John L. McCurry, enlisted October 6, 1864, in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served as
private in the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station; attached as private to
company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page
266.]

John McDade (surname also shown as McDede), private, company B, Confederate States Marine
Corps; transferred, on January 28, 1864, to the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River,
North Carolina; also stationed at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294, 296, 297 & 314; DANFS;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 212.]

W.H. McDade, coal heaver, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1,
313.]

---- McDaley, 1st class fireman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private to
company H, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

Andrew McDaniel, shipped at Shreveport, Louisiana, for three years or the war, as landsman in the
Confederate States Navy, on February 23, 1864; served aboard the CSS Missouri, but deserted from
the vessel, at Shreveport, on the night of May 20, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 398; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 508.]

B.F. McDaniel, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

G.R. McDaniel
, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

Henry C. McDaniel, born Tennessee, 1844; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman;
later served as acting midshipman, Confederate States Navy, 1862; resigned July 6, 1862. [1860 U.S.
Census; Register1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Hugh McDaniel, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of
the prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of
that vessel; deserted from the CSS Lady Davis about July, 1861, but was apprehended and lodged in
the Savannah jail, before being turned over to Naval authorities on July 23, 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous,
page 2; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous,
page 405.]

Hugh McDaniel, enlisted for the war in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on
July 31, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 168.]

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

William J. McDaniel, enlisted at the Naval Rendezvous, Raleigh, North Carolina, March 21 or 29, 1864,
aged 25, in the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station,
1864. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR -
Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 408.]

Zedekiah McDaniel, resident of Kentucky; appointed acting master, Confederate States Navy,
temporarily, for submarine purposes, August, 1862; served on special duty, Mississippi River defenses,
1862; in charge of submarine batteries at Jackson, Mississippi, in October, 1862; together with Francis
M. Ewing, also of the Confederate States Navy, succeeded in inventing a torpedo, and which device
was used in the destruction of the USS Cairo, on the Yazoo River, in December, 1862; the original plan
had been laid before the Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, but, because of the failure to obtain a
sufficient supply of gunpowder, the plan was then successfully taken elsewhere; also successful in
destroying three Northern railroad trains, between Nashville and Murfreesboro, in the summer of
1863; brought his inventions to the attention of the Virginia Legislature, in September, 1863; belonged
to the Torpedo company, at Richmond, Virginia, in 1864; charged upon a warrant with feloniously
stealing a breastpin of the value of three thousand dollars from E.L. Johnson, August, 1864; charge
dismissed by the judge on the same day; Confederate Congress had passed a bill in an attempt to
award McDaniel and Ewing a sum of money for their action in destroying the Cairo, but this was vetoed
by president Jefferson Davis, under the stipulation that the action was done in the line of duty. [CSN
Register; Richmond Daily Examiner dated September 15, 1863, June 6, 1864, August 27, 1864 and
November 30, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and
Provisions (July, 1862 - February, 1863), page 449.]

Hugh McDaniels, seaman, CSS Florida; also served on the captured vessels, Clarence, Archer and
Tacony; captured, June, 1863, and sent to Fort Warren for confinement. [Fort Warren.]

John A. McDaniels (surname also shown as McDaniel), served as a private in the Confederate States
Marine Corps, and aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron in 1863; also indicated
to have been attached to the ironclad CSS Atlanta, of which the commander of the Marine Guard,
lieutenant Thurston, brought unspecified charges against McDaniels, and recommended that he be
court martialled; deserted from the service about August or October, 1863. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
pages 519-523; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM -
Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 76; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 471.]


Charles McDavitte
, enlisted as private, 3rd Alabama Regiment; transferred to the Confederate States
Navy, January, 1862; served aboard the CSS Virginia (Merrimac). [ADAH; see also, roll of company D,
compiled by M.L. Stinson, and published in the Union Springs Herald, September, 1905.]

John McDede, see John McDade.

Edward J. McDermett (surname also shown as McDermott), born Texas, 1844 (another source shows
state of birth as Arkansas); previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from
September 23, 1858; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 2nd class, May
16, 1861; later, passed midshipman; served on the Richmond station, 1861; then on the Savannah
station, 1861 - 1862; later served aboard the CSS Louisiana, at New Orleans, Louisiana, 1862; given
permission by his immediate commander, John K. Mitchell, to abandon the vessel and to try and
escape capture, but was captured and paroled; served aboard the steamer CSS Tuscaloosa, 1862 -
1863; reported for duty aboard the CSS Harriet Lane, Galveston Bay, Texas, February, 1863; later
aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, and on the Mobile squadron, 1863 - 1864; promoted master
in line of promotion, January 7, 1864; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served
aboard the CSS Tennessee, Mobile squadron, Alabama; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and
sent to New Orleans as a prisoner of war; escaped from New Orleans, then proceeded to Lewisburg,
Louisiana, and from which point he took a wagon to Mobile, Alabama, arriving there on October 31,
1864; killed in action on Lake Maurepas, Louisiana, March 13, 1865, during the expedition to capture
the schooner James Stockton; buried at Springfield, [Louisiana?]. [ORN 1, 18, 299; 1, 19, 840; 1, 21, 406
& 610; 1, 22, 168 and 2, 1, 287, 321 & 322; Register1862; Register 1863; Register1864; ORA 1, 48/1; JCC 4,
122; Texas in the War, 1861 - 1865 57; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners
and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 425.]

Thomas McDermitt (surname also shown as McDermott), enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic,
Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862; rated as coal heaver from June 16, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers,
page 109.]

J.C. McDermott, Landsman, CSS Virginia II, wounded in action, James River, January 24, 1865. [ORN 1,
11, 689.]

Thomas McDermott, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865.
[ORN 2, 1, 312.]

Charles McDevitt, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]

John McDevitt
(surname also shown as McDervitt), born Ireland; ordinary seaman, CSS Atlanta, 1862;
aged 27 (in 1862); deserted May 8, 1863 (another source indicates that he had deserted since May 1,
1863). [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Monday, December 22, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 275; Confederate
States Navy subject file; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 78.]

William McDevitt, 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.]

Bird S. McDill, born Georgia, December, 1842; son of Milton and Eliza McDill; brother of Confederate
States Navy personnel, Newton and William McDill, listed below; resided, in 1850, with his parents and
siblings, at Forsyth County, Georgia; enlisted February, 1861, at Talladega County, Alabama, in the 5th
Alabama Infantry (Civil War Service Records shows service in company L, 18th Alabama Infantry);
transferred to Confederate States Navy, February, 1863; served on the floating battery at Mobile Bay,
under commander Brown; transferred to the 9th Alabama Infantry, December, 1863; married in 1869;
resided as a farmer, in 1900, with his wife, Mary, and three daughters at Chepultepec, Blount County,
Alabama. [ADAH - information secured in December, 1925, from G.W. Still, of Palestine, Texas, who
had also served in the Confederate States Navy; Civil War Service Records; 1850 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S.
Census.]

Newton McDill
, born Georgia, March, 1838; son of Milton and Eliza McDill; brother of Confederate
States Navy personnel, Bird McDill, listed above, and William McDill, listed below; resided, in 1850, with
his parents and siblings, at Forsyth county, Georgia; by 1860, the family were shown to have moved to
St. Clair County, Alabama, where Newton was employed as a grocer; enlisted at Talladega county,
Alabama, February, 1861, in 5th Alabama Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy,
February, 1863; served on the floating battery at Mobile Bay; transferred to the 9th Alabama Infantry,
December, 1863; married in 1865; resided as a farm hand, in 1880, with his wife, Nancy, and five
children, at Phillips, Etowah County, Alabama; shown, with his family, in 1900, as residents of Sulphur
Springs, Calhoun County, Alabama. [ADAH - information secured in December, 1925, from G.W. Still,
of Palestine, Texas, who had also served in the Confederate States Navy; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S.
Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]

William McDill, born Georgia, 1842; son of Milton and Eliza McDill; brother of Confederate States Navy
personnel, Bird and Newton McDill, listed above; resided, in 1850, with his parents and siblings, at
Forsyth County, Georgia; by 1860, his family were shown to have moved to St. Clair County, Alabama,
where William was employed as a farm laborer; enlisted February, 1861, at Talladega County, Alabama,
in the 5th Alabama Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, February, 1863; served on the
floating battery at Mobile Bay, under commander Brown; transferred to the 9th Alabama Infantry,
December, 1863; resided as a farmer, in 1870, with his wife, Missouri, and three children, at St. Clair
County, Alabama. [ADAH - information secured in December, 1925, from G.W. Still, of Palestine,
Texas, who had also served in the Confederate States Navy; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870
U.S. Census.]

John McDonal, Seaman; born Scotland; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 1, 976.]

Alexander McDonald
, served as seaman on the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863; a list of "boarders" of the
cruiser shows McDonald holding the position of handspikeman at the 1st 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.]

C.B. McDonald, originally served as private, company A, 24th South Carolina Infantry; transferred to the
"Navy Department" at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Daniel McDonald, appointed carpenter aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Bragg, 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 264.]

Donald McDonald, born Georgia; previous service in company A, 5th Georgia Cavalry ("Georgia
Hussars"); original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, July 20 (one source
shows date of appointment as July 31), 1863; served aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston station,
1863 - 1864; later reported for duty aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as
the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), on May 1, 1864; also served on the CSS Isondiga, Savannah,
Georgia; captured at Savannah, December, 1864. [ORN 1, 16, 493 and 2, 1, 286; Register1864; Georgia in
the War, 1861-1865, page 111; additional information from "Roll and Legend of the Georgia Hussars,"
by Alexander McC. Duncan, published 1906; see also web site, "The Outline History of the 5th Georgia
Cavalry Regiment, 1863-1865," at URL: http://pollette.com/5thcavalry/5thcav/companya.htm;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 661.]

Duncan McDonald, recruited at Mobile, Alabama, May 9, 1862, by captain George P. Turner, as private
in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1862; personal
description as blue eyes, brown hair 5 feet, 11 ¼ inches high and fair complexion; deserted October,
1862; reward of $30 offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff.
[Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 10, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1047.]

George McDonald, born Longford, Ireland, February 2, 1845; enlisted as seaman, Confederate States
Navy, at New Orleans, Louisiana, November 25, 1861; served aboard the CSS Gov. Moore, until the
vessel was sunk by the Varuna; captured at New Orleans, April, 1862, and sent north, where he
remained until the end of the war; resided, in 1907, at Mobile, Alabama. [Census or Enumeration of
Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, in 1907 at Ancestry.com.]

Hugh McDonald (surname also shown as McDonnell), served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862;
served as quarter gunner aboard the CSS Carondelet, at New Orleans, in 1862, and was rated as
gunner's mate, as from March 3, 1862; later on the Jackson station, 1862; afterwards on the Richmond
station, and at the Naval battery, Drewry's Bluff, 1863 - 1864; appointed from Louisiana as acting
gunner in the Confederate States Navy on September 26, 1863; another Naval document shows his
date of appointment, at New Orleans, as acting gunner, was on April 11, 1862, when he was ordered to
report to lieutenant McCorkle, ordnance officer at the Naval station, New Orleans; also served aboard
the CSS Albemarle, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 718 and 2, 1, 274, 319, 320 & 322; Register1864;
Booth 2, 1173; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 121; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked
commissions, page 104.]

I. K. McDonald, served as landsman aboard the CSS Virginia II, in 1865; was temporarily attached to the
CSS Beaufort, but ordered to return to the CSS Virginia II, 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.]

J.L. McDonald
, 3rd assistant engineer, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 -
1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

J.S. McDonald, Coal Heaver, CSS Webb, April, 1865 (see also, entry for John S. McDonald, who may be
the same person). [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

James McDonald, 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.]


James McDonald
, served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863-1864; also served aboard the
tender, Lapwing; returned to Liverpool, England, where he was paid off by paymaster Senac, but later
re-shipped on the CSS Florida, at Brest, France, about early 1864. [ORN 1, 2, 661; Alabama Claims
Correspondence 2, 656-657; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 362.]

James McDonald, born Scotland, about 1836 or 1836; served as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS McRae,
New Orleans station, Louisiana, 1861; admitted November 3, 1861, with intermittent fever, to the
Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana; discharged from hospital, November 30, 1861, back to CSS
McRae; probably captured at New Orleans in April, 1862, and paroled; in a dispatch sent by paymaster
Thomas R. Ware, dated at the Confederate Navy Paymaster's office at Mobile, Alabama, August 6,
1862, he notes, in part: "a person claiming to be McDonald has called at my Office several times during
the past five or six days, but as he had no evidence to show that he was the person whom he
represents himself to be. I have not noticed him, and I think he left on yesterday." [From the "Register
of Naval Patients in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, La., 1861", original copy at the University of
Virginia Library, and used with their kind permission; St. Philip; ORN 2, 1, 290; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
page 1052.]

James McDonald, served as seaman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as
boatswain's mate on March 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1001.]

James McDonald, served aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1863; deserted from the vessel,
but was apprehended, and ordered to be sent, on May 21, 1863, in custody of midshipman D. M. Lee,
from Richmond to Charleston, and to be delivered to captain John R. Tucker. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 200.]

James L. McDonald, enlisted April 20, 1861, as private, company B, 2nd Battalion Georgia Volunteer
Infantry; appointed third assistant Engineer in the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS
Virginia II, May, 1864. [Georgia Rosters 6, 790; ORN 1, 10, 671 and 1, 11, 690.]

John McDonald, served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Pontchartrain, 1862 - 1863; rated as
boatswain's mate from August 1, 1862; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 117
and 2, 1, 299; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 341.]

John McDonald
, quartermaster, CSS Macon, 1865; shown as being detailed and left in Savannah,
January, 1865; possibly captured there. [CSS Macon Rolls.]

John McDonald, born Ireland; aged 25; served as coal heaver aboard the receiving ship at New
Orleans, Louisiana, 1861; later rated as 1st class fireman at New Orleans, in 1862. [St. Philip;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, pages 123 - 124.]

John S. McDonald, originally served as private, company E, 2nd Texas Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, entry for J.S. McDonald, who may be the
same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

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

John W. McDonald
, served as seaman aboard the CSS Florida, and then aboard the tender, Lapwing,
1863; returned to Liverpool, England, where he was paid off, about September, 1863; re-shipped
aboard the CSS Florida, at Brest, France, January, 1864, and was appointed as boatswain's mate on the
cruiser on January 2, 1864; captured at Bahia, Brazil on October 7, 1864; received at Fort Warren,
Boston Harbor, November 11, 1864; released February 1, 1865. [ORN 1, 2, 661 and 1, 3, 256; Fort
Warren; Alabama Claims Correspondence 2, 656-657; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA
- Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 362 and 390.]

John W. McDonald
, served as captain of foretop on the CSS McRae, New Orleans station; captured in
April, 1862, and paroled; subsequently sent to the Mobile station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page
1057.]

M.A. McDonald
, resident of Moore County, North Carolina; enlisted in the Confederate States Marine
Corps, October 6, 1864; left Moore County and sent to Camp Holmes, where he was instructed for a
short time, then sent to Charleston, aboard the CSS Indian Chief, arriving there on Sunday, November
6, 1864, for further drill and instruction as a marine; later sent aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston
station; also served as a private in the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station;
deserted on January 5, 1865. [Fayetteville Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina) dated November 24,
1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 266.]

Michael McDonald, 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.]

Thomas McDonald
, originally served as private, company E, 10th Virginia Cavalry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

William McDonald, served as 1st class fireman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and later aboard
the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

William McDonald
, 1st class boy, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina,
1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

William McDonald, seaman, CSS Sea Bird, 1861; captured aboard the vessel in February, 1862, and
took the oath. [ORN 2, 1, 306; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 779.]

William McDonald
, seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

William McDonell
, 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
83.]

John McDonnald
(surname also shown as McDonalds), CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863. [Atlanta Medical
Journal, entry dated Tuesday, December 2, 1862 and Friday, March 13, 1863.]
J.K. McDonnel, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN
2, 1, 312.]

Harmon P. McDonnell
, served at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 569.]

Hugh McDonnell
, see Hugh McDonald.

John McDonnell
, 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
110.]

Peter McDonnell
, originally served as private, company A, 1st Missouri Infantry; transferred to the
Co
nfederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

R. McDonnell
, appointed captain's clerk in the Confederate States Navy, December 24, 1861, aboard
the receiving ship, St. Phillip; later appointed acting master, at New Orleans, January 31, 1862, and
reported for duty aboard the CSS Maurepas; also served on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 106 and 764.]

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

William McDonnell
, served 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 115.]
Angus McDonough, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1,
300.]

Peter McDonough, served as private (?) in the Navy Department of the Confederate States; paroled at
Albany, Georgia, May 7, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 663.]

William McDougall, 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 83.]

Jeremiah McDowell, recruited aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, on September 30, 1864,
and transferred, as landsman, on October 6, 1864, from that vessel to the ironclad floating battery CSS
Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), also in the same squadron; also shown
to have served on the Charleston station at an unspecified date; deserted on October 17, 1864. [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 674; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 527.]

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

L.M. McDowell, recruited aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, in 1864, and transferred, as
landsman, on October 6, 1864, from that vessel to the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also
known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), also in the samesquadron; 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.]

John McDred, born about 1830; personal description shown as 5 feet 5 inches in height, florid
complexion, hazel eyes and brown hair; served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at
Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1863; deserted in May, 1863; a reward of $30 was offered for his
apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia)
dated May 30, 1863.]

Daniel A. McDuffie, previously served as Private, Company L, 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars, March,
1861; promoted corporal; transferred to Confederate States Navy, May 2, 1864; served as Landsman at
Savannah, Georgia, 1864; captured as Seaman at Jetersville, Virginia, April 6, 1865 and released from
Point Lookout, Maryland, June 29, 1865. [Georgia Rosters 1, 365; Civil War Service Records.]

H.E. McDuffie (surname also shown as McDuffle), born Maryland; appointed from Louisiana; acting
master, Confederate States Navy, January 29, 1862; served on the steamers CSS Slidell, CSS Maurepas
and CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1862; later served on the Jackson station, 1862; participated in the
land battles around Richmond, Virginia, in May-June, 1862, and also assisted in the military hospital
duties (assisting Dr. Parke) immediately after the battles on the Chickahominy; later appointed
assistant paymaster, February 26, 1863; served on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, James River,
Virginia, 1862 - 1864; filed a libel in the District Court of the Confederate States for the Eastern District
of Virginia on February 19, 1864, on behalf of himself, and the engineer and twenty-four men of the
Confederate States steamer North Carolina; libel was taken out against the machinery of the steamer
Kate (no further details); appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served on the
steamers CSS North Carolina and CSS Raleigh (ironclad), Wilmington station, 1863 - 1864; Mobile
squadron, 1864 - 1865; surrendered May 4, 1865, and paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10,
1865. [ORN 2, 1, 301 & 319; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 6,
1862; Booth 2, 1184; CSNRegister; Porter's Naval History, 785; Daily Richmond Examiner (Virginia) dated
March 8, 1864.]

M. McDuffie (surname also shown as McDuffy), 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; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 30, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 118 and 762.]

William McDugal (surname also shown as McDougall), shipped as 2nd class boy (aged between 14 and
17) aboard the Confederate States floating battery New Orleans, on October 22, 1861; rated as 1st class
boy aboard the same vessel, off Columbus, Kentucky, from January 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, pages 9, 12 and 61.]


James McElasher
, served as seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River,
Virginia, 1862; appeared as a defendant in a Naval General Court Martial, held at Richmond, Virginia, in
July, 1862, specification of charges not shown. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 181.]

Robert McElwee, Landsman, CSS Alert, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]

Joseph McElwell, 1st class fireman; served aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Winslow, North
Carolina waters, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

Michael McEntee (surname also shown as McIntee), born Ireland, about 1818; landsman and quarter
gunner; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll and a Naval
document of the CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), indicate that he
also served from October 19, 1863, aboard that vessel, as ordinary seaman and quarter gunner;
transferred, in 1864, to the Wilmington station; also shown to have served on the Charleston station at
an unspecified date. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275 & 286-287; Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry dated
Tuesday, June 2, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 235 and 523; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005.]

John McEurin, served as carpenter's mate aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863; a list of "boarders"
shows McEurin in the master's division. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

Charles Ambrose McEvoy (surname shown, in Register1862, as McIvoy), born Scotland, about 1826
(1863 Register shows place of birth as Virginia); parents were Irish; taken to America as a child, and
spent the first 40 years of his life there; was present at the capture of John Brown at Harper's Ferry;
resided as a teacher, in 1860, at Richmond, Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as
master not in line of promotion, March 10, 1862; served on the Richmond station and at the Office of
Ordnance & Hydrography, 1862 - 1865; considered as an authority on the torpedo and the submarine
mine; died Codicote, Hertfordshire, United Kingdom, Wednesday, April 12, 1905. [ORN 2, 1, 321;
Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census; London Times (London, England) dated
Monday, April 17, 1905, page 11.]

John McEvoy, served as seaman on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga , Savannah squadron 1863,
and later as boatswain's mate; deserted from the vessel June 6, 1863; an advertisement was placed in
the newspaper, the 'Savannah Republican' offering a reward of $35 for his apprehension; returned on
board July 18, 1863; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863, and served aboard
the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, at Charleston, 1863-1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284 and 288; DANFS; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, pages 773, 775 and 779; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and
straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 202 and 464.]

Thomas McEvoy
, enlisted, for one year, as baker aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South
Carolina, on September 20, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1229; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

D. McEwin (surname also shown as McEwan), private, Confederate States Marine Corps, side wheeled
gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
page 1181.]

James McFadden, Fireman, CSS Alabama; born Liverpool; enlisted for six months, and discharged at
sea, February 27, 1863. [William Marvel.]

William McFadden, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the
Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861; also served in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Resolute in
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 317; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 371.]

John McFaden
(first name also shown as Jos.; surname also shown as McFadden), 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, pages 62 and 99.]

Leander McFalls, served aboard the receiving ship CSS Arctic, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864; died
January 27, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody
and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 172.]

Duncan B. McFarland, served as landsman on the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863;
confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he died and is buried. [Point Lookout; ORN 2, 1, 278.]

George McFarland, Landsman, CSS Alert, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]

George McFarland, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

George McFarland, served aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as coal heaver on
February 11, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 854 and 856.]

Malcolm McFarland, Coal Trimmer, CSS Alabama; born Scotland; rated Fireman, December 20, 1863;
wounded in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864. [William Marvel.]

W.A. McFarland, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see entry for William A.
McFarland, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

William McFarland, born New Orleans, Louisiana; 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; sent to Old Capitol Prison, Washington,
D.C.; resident of New Orleans, Louisiana. [Booth 2, 1189; 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.]

William A. McFarland, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862
- 1864 (see entry for W.A. McFarland, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]

George C . McFarlane, coxswain, 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.]

Thomas McFarlane, 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 37.]

James McFee
, served 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 90.]

James McFely, 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.]

B. McFernan, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863.
[ORN 2, 1, 308.]

---- McFerrell, resided in, and enlisted at New Hanover County, North Carolina, July 1, 1863, aged 25,
as private, company F, 31st Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States
Navy prior to May 1, 1864. [NCT 8, 477.]

John McGadock
, see John McGavock.

C.N. McGaffrey, born Baltimore, Maryland, September 19, 1830; served in the Confederate Navy,
under Admiral Semmes; last surviving crew member of the CSS Sumter; died at Luling, Texas, May 18,
1897, aged 67; buried in the Luling Cemetery. [Dallas Morning News (of Texas), dated May 20, 1897,
courtesy of Ken Jones, in an e-mail (kjones@tarleton.edu) dated Wednesday, April 20, 2005.]

Michael McGanhan (surname also shown as McGannan), enlisted by captain Holmes, at New Orleans,
Louisiana, on April 27, 1861, as a private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the
Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861; also shown on a roll of Marines and served at the Richmond
station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314 & 317; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 468.]

James McGarrity, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864; deserted
from the vessel on November 10, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions
and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 204.]

J. McGarvey, commanded the gunboat Bayou City of the Texas Marine Department, operating in
Galveston Bay, in late 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet
units; OD - Distribution, Miscellaneous, page 9.]

Charles P. McGary
, born Maryland; citizen of, and appointed from, North Carolina; original service in
the United States Navy, from October 19, 1841; entered the Confederate States Navy, June 27, 1861,
as 1st lieutenant; served on the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS Jackson, from which he was
detached on October 17, 1861, and the CSS Tuscarora, 1861; commanded the CSS Spray, St. Mark's,
Florida, 1862; afterward on leave of absence, 1862; in command of the tender Clinch, Charleston
station, April, 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; paroled at
Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [ORN 1, 13, 823 and 2, 1, 320; ORA 2, 3; Register1863; JCC 4,
121; Porter's Naval History, 785; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat,
Accounts for expenditures, page 654; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 890; Confederate Navy
subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OX - Lines of supply and supply ships; Canals
- railroads, page 386.]

David McGauley, originally served as private, company C, 10th Florida Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

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

John McGavock
(surname also shown as McGadock), served as seaman and captain of the after guard
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 90.]

Edward McGee, coal heaver, CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863; captured aboard that vessel at Wassaw Sound,
June 17, 1863; also served as coal heaver aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron,
in 1863, and was transferred to the Charleston station about August, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523.].]

James McGee
, enlisted in New Hanover County, North Carolina, March 6, 1862, as private, 2nd
company D, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy,
February 18, 1863. [NCT 1, 242.]

Patrick McGee
, enlisted as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and later
served aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the
Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 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.]

Andrew McGeehan (surname also shown as McGaohogan), native of Ireland; claimed to have been in
New Orleans at the start of the war, and had had to enlist, or starve; enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, as a
private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on August 21, 1861; served in the Marine Guard
aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, in 1862, and later in company C, Confederate
States Marine Corps; transferred, on January 28, 1864, to the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape
Fear River, North Carolina; at the beginning of January, 1865, while on picket duty outside of Battery
Buchanan, McGeehan, with five others, decided to steal a boat and desert; they rowed over to the
Union vessels, off New Inlet, and were taken aboard the USS Pontoosuc, on January 2, 1865, and
subsequently sent to rear admiral David D. Porter for further questioning. [ORN 2, 1, 294, 296 & 297;
DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 212 and 285; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ -
Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 539 - 540.]

Peter McGenity
, served as a crew member aboard the schooner Royal Yacht, at Galveston, Texas,
October, 1861, subject to the Naval laws of the Confederate States of America. [ORN 1, 16, 844.]

Andrew McGillaway (surname also shown as McGilloway), born Donegal, Ireland, about 1814;
previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on
April 9, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS
Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, on May 4, 1864, to the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron;
later served as quarter gunner aboard the CSS Macon, in 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls; 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.]

William McGinley
, Seaman, CSS Alabama; born England; rated Coxswain, July 1, 1863; wounded in
action and captured by USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864. [William Marvel.]

Peter McGinn, 1st class fireman, CSS Bradford (used as a storeship at Pensacola, Florida). [ORN 2, 1,
282; DANFS.]

James McGinnes, served as seaman on the Mobile station, 1862; arrested as a deserter at Mobile, by
the Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]

James McGinness, Fireman, CSS Governor Moore, captured April, 1862, off Forts Jackson and St.
Philips, Louisiana. [ORN 1, 18, 723.]

James McGinnis
, native of Liverpool, England; came to America as a child; entered the Confederate
States Navy at the age of 12 (about 1861), and served aboard the Little Rebel, on the Mississippi River
defense fleet; died in New Orleans, Louisiana, January 2, 1904, at the age of 55. [New York Sun dated
January 3, 1904, page 7.]

James McGinnis
, enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
pages 420-422.]

Pat McGinnis, received aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on June 19, 1862; rated ship's
cook on August 15, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 750 and 751.]

Patrick McGinnis (surname also shown as Megginnis), private, company C, Confederate States Marine
Corps; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; also stationed
aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864, and in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS
Richmond, James River, 1864; captured at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, January 15, 1865, and sent as a
prisoner of war to Point Lookout, Maryland; wrote to Union authorities, from prison, stating that he
was a foreigner who had been conscripted into the service of the Confederate States, and that he
wished to take the oath of allegiance. [ORN 2, 1, 280, 310 & 315; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 390;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and
Registers, page 651.]

Patrick McGinnis
, enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862; rated as
2nd class fireman from June 16, 1862; deserted from the vessel in November, 1862, but was
apprehended and returned on board on November 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 109; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 448.]

John McGinty
, enlisted as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages
420-422; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100.]

J. McGivern, Quartermaster, CSS Alert, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]

James McGlennon, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

Thomas McGlinn
, indicated to have been a blacksmith in the Navy Department, at Mobile, Alabama;
his widow, Ann McGlinn, applied for a Confederate pension from Mobile, in July, 1899. [ADAH.]

Roger McGloin, 1st class fireman, side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior
to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, 1862 - 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 304; DANFS.]

James McGlone, boatswain's mate, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay,
Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

James McGlone, seaman, steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; later served at the
Jackson station, in 1862; named his next of kin as Catherine McGlone. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 894.]

John McGoffin, coal heaver, ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October - December, 1863 (see also, entry for
John Magoffin, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

John McGovern, captain of forecastle, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor,
South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN
2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

John McGovern, originally served as private, company A, 1st Missouri Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see previous entry, which may be the same person).
[Civil War Service Records.]

John McGovern, indicated to have been a Confederate marine; buried at the Catholic Cemetery,
Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

John McGovern, served as 3rd class boy 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 38.]

Michael McGovern, 1st class fireman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama,
1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

Peter McGovern, landsman, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]

James McGowan, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, April 19, 1861, as private, company G, 1st
(Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by order of the
Secretary of War, April 11, 1864. [Booth 2, 1200.]

John McGowan
, born Ireland, resided New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, seaman; marital
status, single; enlisted at New Orleans, May 2, 1861, aged 30, as private, company F, 1st (Nelligan's)
Louisiana Infantry; discharged January 30, 1862, on volunteering to join the Merrimac (CSS Virginia), at
Hampton Roads, Virginia; served as quarter gunner on that ironclad ram. [Booth 2, 1200; ORN 2, 1,
309.]

John C. McGowan
, previously served as Private, Company F, First Regiment Georgia Regulars,
February, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy in 1864; served at Naval Battery, Drewry's
Bluff, Virginia, March 3, 1864. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 341.]

Dennis McGowen, served aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron; his widow, Mary McGowen,
applied for a Confederate pension from Mobile County, Alabama, in 1899. [ADAH.]

J.W. McGrath
, born Georgia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer,
August 5, 1863; accepted his appointment on November 20, 1863; served aboard the CSS Savannah,
Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863 - 1864; captured at Savannah, December, 1864; shown as a paroled
prisoner, aboard the CSS Macon, at Augusta, Georgia, on April 15, 1865. [ORN 1, 16, 493 and 2, 1, 304;
Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 119;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 110.]

John A. McGrath, enlisted, for one year, as coal passer aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston,
South Carolina, on September 24, 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 J. McGrath, born Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; pre-war occupation, machinist; enlisted at the age
of 26, in New Hanover County, North Carolina, May 31, 1861, as private in company E, 1st Regiment,
North Carolina Artillery; detailed on engineering duty at Fayetteville Arsenal and Armory, May 23,
1862; temporarily attached to company A, 2nd Battalion North Carolina Local Defense Troops;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, December 7, 1863, and appointed 3rd assistant engineer;
served on the CSS Raleigh and the CSS Arctic, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [NCT 1, 97; CSN
Register; ORN 2, 1, 275 & 301.]

Owen McGrath, served as landsman and surgeon's steward aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans
station, Louisiana, 1861 - 1862; wounded in action, April 24-25, 1862, below New Orleans. [Daily
Picayune, Tuesday, April 29, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 87.]

Thomas McGrath
, served as seaman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 -
1862; rated as boatswain's mate in 1861; died on April 3, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 990; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 88.]

Patrick McGraw
, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]

Walter McGraw
, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 4, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 51.]

Walter McGraw
, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on
March 8, 1862, and was ordered to report for duty aboard Launch No. 4; also served on the Jackson
station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked
commissions, page 112.]

William McGraw, appointed first assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Warrior,
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 265.]

John H. McGreary
, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia,
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315.]

J. McGreen, served in the Confederate States Navy; died March 23, 1865; buried Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

Richard McGregor
, born about 1839; served as private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps,
aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, James River, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; personal
description as 5 feet 10 ½ inches high, blue eye, brown hair, fresh complexion; promoted corporal at a
later date; deserted from Drewry's Bluff, James River, in June, 1862; a reward of $30 was offered for
his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff, June 12, 1862; had obviously
returned to his unit, as he is also shown as having served on the Richmond Station, Virginia, in 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 290 & 315; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 12, 1862.]

William McGregor
, originally served as private, company G, 3rd South Carolina Cavalry; transferred to
the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

William McGregor, served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay,
Alabama, 1863; deserted about April, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 206.]

J.M. McGruder, private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864. [ORN
2, 1, 315.]

William McGuckin (surname also shown as McGuchen), served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram
CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1863 - 1864; rated as ward room cook from May 1, 1864. [ORN 2,
1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1017.]

Francis McGuffney, see J. Ernest Mugguffeney.

Edward McGuire, born Virginia; resident of Hog Island (north of Cape Charles), Virginia; original entry
into Confederate States Navy, as master not in line of promotion, August 14, 1863; captured October,
1863; confined at Fort McHenry, as prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 9, 206; ORA 2, 6; Register1864.]

Edward McGuire, served at the Mobile station, as a private in company F of the Confederate States
Marine Corps, 1864; later served in company A of the Corps, 1864; ordered, on May 19, 1864, to report
for temporary duty aboard the CSS Morgan at Mobile. [ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file N
- Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1072 and
1074.]

H. McGuire
, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Alert, 1861-1862. [ORN 2, 1, 275; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 1066.]

Henry McGuire, born Mobile, Alabama, about 1842; unmarried; served as private in the Confederate
States Marine Corps; captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864; died of syphilis at the St. Louis
Military Hospital, New Orleans, December 11, 1864; buried Cypress Grove Cemetery (Monument
National Cemetery), New Orleans, Louisiana; next of kin listed as John McGuire of Mobile, Alabama.
[Confederate Burials, 69; some additional data provided by Terry and Theresa Scriber, of Knoxville,
Tennessee, in an e-mail (La27Infantry@wmconnect.com) dated January 8, 2007 (info as obtained from
National Archives microfilm roll); Tom Brooks; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MV -
Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 27.]

James McGuire
, 1st class boy, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863
- 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

James McGuire, served as 3rd class boy 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 208.]

John McGuire, born Graysville, Catoosa County, Georgia, 1836; enlisted at Graysville, Georgia, April,
1861, as private, company B, 1st Georgia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, and
served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan; captured and paroled at Demopolis, Alabama, April, 1865;
resided, in 1907, at Mobile, Alabama. [ADAH; . Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing
in Alabama, in 1907 at Ancestry.com]

John McGuire
, served as landsman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron in 1863, and later
served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St.
Augustine Creek, Florida), 1864; transferred to the CSS Chicora, Charleston station, in 1864. [ORN 2, 1,
289 & 305; DANFS; Confederate Navy Subject file, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 609.]

John McGuire
, served as landsman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861;
later rated as 2nd class fireman, and subsequently rated 1st class fireman from November 20, 1861.
[ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 986.]

John McGuire
, master at arms, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861.
[ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 484 - 487.]

M. McGuire, 2nd class fireman, CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 304.]

Martin McGuire, resident of Memphis, Tennessee; served aboard the Confederate States floating
battery, New Orleans, about 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 14.]

Michael McGuire, previously served as Private in Company A, 11th Battalion, Georgia Infantry;
transferred to Company A, 47th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, May 12, 1862; detailed on gunboat
service, November, 1862; served as ordinary seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee
(originally named the CSS Savannah), Savannah River, Georgia, 1862. [Georgia Rosters, 5, 9; ORN 2, 1,
297.]

Michael McGuire, shipped as boy (aged between 14 and 17) aboard the Confederate States floating
battery, New Orleans, on November 28, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 12.]

Thomas McGuire, ship's yeoman and quartermaster; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw
Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll and a Naval document of the CSS Georgia, show that he also served
aboard that vessel, as quartermaster, in 1863; also served as yeoman aboard the CSS Sampson,
Savannah squadron, 1863; later served on the CSS Columbia, Charleston station in 1865; transferred to
the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 1, 14, 268 and 2, 1, 286-287 & 303; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
pages 270 - 271 and 520.]




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