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Benjamin McHenry, seaman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]
Daniel McHenry, served as seaman at the New Orleans station in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page
85.]
Thomas McHenry, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 38.]
William McHenry, ordinary seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads,
Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Edmond McHorney, recruited as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval
rendezvous, Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863; served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Olustee,
Wilmington station, 1864, and later aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to
the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, pages 444 and 849.]
Noah McHorney, born North Carolina, February, 1842; son of Elizabeth McHorney; resided as a
waterman, in 1860, with his mother, and siblings, at Poplar Branch, Currituck County, North Carolina;
served as seaman aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina, 1862 - 1864; never married;
resided as a grocer, in 1900, at Norfolk, Virginia; still shown residing at Norfolk in 1910; boarded as a
lodger at the Mansion House in Norfolk. [ORN 2, 1, 301; 1860 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S.
Census.]
R. McHorney, seaman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]
C. McIlvee, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863.
[ORN 2, 1, 308.]
Ephraim McIlwain, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia,
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315.]
H. W. McIlwain, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna
Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 -
1218.]
Robert McIlwee, served as carpenter's mate aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile station, 1863;
deserted about December, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and
straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 212 - 213.]
Neill McInnis, born Cumberland County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, carpenter; enlisted at
Cumberland County, March 17, 1864, aged 37, in the Confederate States Navy. [CSN Shipping Articles.]
Michael McIntee, see Michael McEntee.
Charles F. McIntosh, born Norfolk, Virginia, October 21, 1813 (1850 U.S. Census shows year of birth as
1817); resided as a United States Navy officer, in 1850, with his wife, Isabella D., at the home of fellow
U.S. Navy officer, Thomas A. Dornin, in Norfolk, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy;
name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 20, 1861; served in the Virginia State
Navy, 1861, at Portsmouth, Virginia; later commander, Confederate States Navy; held command of
Fort Nelson, Virginia, 1862, with the rank of lieutenant-colonel; commanded CSS Louisiana, at New
Orleans, 1862; severely wounded (both arms broken and patella of right knee fractured; fracture of
right arm, involving the elbow joint made amputation necessary) in the action at Forts Jackson and St.
Philip, Louisiana, April 24 - 25, 1862; died at New Orleans, May 13 or 17, 1862; buried at Elmwood
Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia. [ORN 1, 18, 249 & 302 and 2, 1, 318 & 443; ORA 1, 6, chapter 16; some
additional data provided by David M. Sullivan, of Rutland, Massachusetts; 1850 U.S. Census; Daily
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated April 29, 1861 and May 31, 1861; Norfolk County Record 239.]
James W. McIntosh, previous service in Company M, 26th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, as
Private, August 13, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy in 1862; served as seaman and ship's
steward on the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; transferred to the Charleston
station on September 25, 1863, and served as seaman aboard the CSS Chicora, at Charleston, 1863-
1864; listed his next of kin, in 1864, as Mary A. Finney. [Georgia Rosters, 3, 276; ORN 2, 1, 284 and 289;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 779; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 699.]
W.F. McIntosh, Naval Battalion; confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he died and is buried.
[Point Lookout.]
John McIntyre, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, and was involved in the expedition
to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on
August 23, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc.,
Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]
Peter McIntyre, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as coal heaver, aboard
the CSS Pamlico, near New Orleans, on September 12, 1861; arrested by New Orleans police, for an
unspecified reason, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 17, 1862. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, pages 39, 55, 57 and 257; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and
straggling, Miscellaneous, page 430.]
Robert McIntyre, served as 3rd class boy in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about July,
1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous,
page 211.]
John McIver, landsman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private to company F,
2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North
Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]
C.A. McIvoy, see Charles Ambrose McEvoy.
James McKann, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Tennessee; wounded
in action, with a contusion of the shoulder, at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 578.]
J. W. McKay, served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond
station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]
James McKay, served as landsman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as 2nd class
fireman from September 2, 1861; later served aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1862 - 1864;
discharged in the 4th quarter of 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 838, 1064 and 1200.]
John A. McKay (surname also shown incorrectly as McRay), served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS
North Carolina and CSS Tallahassee, North Carolina, 1864; applied for a post war Confederate pension
from Cumberland County, North Carolina; attached as private to company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes'
Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865.
[ORN 2, 1, 294-296 and 307; M1091; NC State Archives.]
Patrick McKay, resided in, and enlisted at Warren County, North Carolina, March 5, 1862, aged 46, as
private, company C, 46th Regiment North Carolina Troops; promoted corporal, November or
December, 1862; promoted sergeant, January or February, 1864; transferred to the Confederate
States Navy, April 1, 1864. [NCT 11, 164.]
Edward McKean, born New Orleans, Louisiana, 1828; resided as a clerk, in 1850, at New Orleans,
Louisiana; shown in 1860, as a clerk, residing in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, at the residence of
Alphonso Barbot and his family, who was also later to become a Confederate Navy officer (McKean
and Barbot may have been brothers in law); appointed paymaster's clerk in the Confederate States
Navy, at New Orleans, aboard the receiving ship St. Phillip, on May 17, 1861, and subsequently at the
paymaster's office at the Naval station at New Orleans, on October 27, 1861; served on the New
Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; attached to the Jackson station, 1862; promoted assistant paymaster,
October 20, 1862; awaiting orders, 1862 - 1863; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October
- December, 1863; attached to the Naval station at Shreveport, Louisiana, 1864; appointed assistant
paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River,
Virginia, 1865; attached as quartermaster to the 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865;
surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 691 and 2, 1, 291,
318 & 320; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; M1091; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 766 and 768.]
Barney McKeenan, 1st class fireman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Edwin McKeever, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the CSS Sumter,
1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Daniel McKeillop, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 3, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 47.]
Archibald McKeller, 2nd class fireman and 1st class fireman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape
Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 & 295; DANFS.]
Michael McKeller, 1st class fireman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina,
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 296.]
John McKenna, 1st, enlisted as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and
served aboard the CSS V.H. Ivy; later served aboard the CSS Livingstone, as seaman, in 1862; lodged in
the parish prison at New Orleans, for an unspecified reason, for 70 days until January 21, 1862, and
then turned over to the Naval authorities; rated as quarter gunner on February 24, 1862; arrested
again, as a deserter, by corporal James McLaughlin of the New Orleans police, and turned over to the
Naval authorities on April 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422, 844 and 960; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 421 and 440.]
S. A. McKenney, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps aboard the CSS Tennessee,
1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; held as a prisoner of war aboard the USS Lackawanna, at
Mobile Bay, August 7, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner
of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 463.]
William H. McKenney (surname also shown as McKenny and McKinney), previously served as Private
in Company C, 27th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry; September 10, 1861; transferred to
Company H, 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars, on March 5, 1864; then to Confederate States Navy, April
4, 1864; shipped aboard CSS Chattahoochee, May 4, 1864, as Landsman; served at Shreveport Station;
also served aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1864;
transferred to the CSS Columbia, Charleston station in 1864; captured at Wilmington, North Carolina,
February 22, 1865; died of typhoid pneumonia, in Point Lookout, Maryland, hospital, April 27, 1865.
[ORN 1, 17, 701 and 2, 1, 283 & 287; Georgia Rosters, 1, 350 and 3, 303; Confederate Navy Subject file, N
- Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 608.]
Charles V. McKennie, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]
William F. McKensie, Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Andrew McKenzie, ordinary seaman, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River,
Louisiana, area); served July - November, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]
Daniel McKenzie (surname also shown as McKinzie), 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 same
squadron; transferred to the Richmond station by order of flag officer W.W. Hunter, dated October 19,
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 583; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 648.]
H. K. McKenzie, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna
Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 -
1218.]
Henry McKenzie, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 -
1218.]
Hugh A. McKenzie, recruited aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, in 1864, and was
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; 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.]
Robert McKenzie, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
William McKenzie, enlisted at Memphis, Tennessee, May 13, 1861, as private, company I, 1st
Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Regulars); sent on detached service to the Navy Yard [?], March 13, 1862;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy about May or June, 1862. [Booth 2, 1216.]
Barney McKinness (surname also shown as McKinney), 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, pages 111 and 117.]
Isaac M. McKinney, shipped on June 6, 1863, as landsman aboard the CSS Oconee, off Thunderbolt,
Savannah River, Georgia; also served aboard the CSS Resolute, in 1863, and was transferred, on June
12, 1863, to the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron; 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;
DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 780; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 373 and 612.]
Joseph McKinney, born Camden County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, sailor; enlisted at
Pasquotank County, North Carolina, May 4, 1861, aged 26, as private, company L, 17th Regiment North
Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, October 4, 1861, and
served as seaman aboard the CSS Curlew, 1861. [NCT 6, 197; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 278.]
Lewis M. McKinney, born in Alabama, served as private in company D of the Confederate States
Marine Corps, at Mobile, 1864-1865; served aboard the CSS Tennessee; paroled May 10, 1865, at Nanna
Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama; died on September 20, 1911; buried at the Catholic Cemetery,
Mobile, Alabama. [John E. Ellis; ADAH - parole submitted by his granddaughter, Dorothy McKinney
Martin, a member of the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Mobile, Alabama; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
page 1072.]
W.H. McKinney, see William H. McKenney.
Neil McKinnon, served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863-1864;
died June 30, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278; Confederate Navy Subject File, N - Personnel, NA - Complements,
rolls, etc., page 998; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody
and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 176.]
William McKinny (surname also shown as McKinney), served aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport,
Louisiana, 1864; rated coal heaver aboard the vessel on January 15, 1864; rated 2nd class fireman on July
1, 1864; later, as 1st class fireman, paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana on June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1013 and 1023.]
William McKinstry, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 -
1218.]
John McKue, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 309.]
J. McKyle, served as a private in company K, 19th Tennessee 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.]
Augustus McLain (surname also shown as McLaine), served as landsman aboard the side wheeled
steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, 1862;
rated as ordinary seaman from December 1, 1862; also served as ship's steward aboard the CSS
Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; also shown as landsman in the Savannah squadron in
1863; transferred, on May 18, 1863, to the CSS Atlanta. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 304; 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 589 and 605.]
William McLain (surname also shown as McClain), married; enlisted Mobile, Alabama, 1862, in
Confederate States Navy; served as fireman, CSS Tuscaloosa; wounded at Mobile Bay, Alabama,
August, 1864; discharged April, 1865; resided at Phoenix, Alabama, after the war; applied for a pension
from Lee County, in 1908 (aged 66?); his wife Mrs. N.A. McLain, also applied for a Confederate pension
(#36823). [ADAH.]
James McLane, served on the CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 783.]
Charles McLaren, born Scotland; captain of forecastle; rated as master at arms, CSS Shenandoah, July
15, 1865, by order of commander Waddell (in place of Michael Reid who had been disrated). [Alabama
Claims, 1, 975; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 177.]
George McLaren, 3rd assistant engineer; served aboard the CSS Drewry, 1864; ordered, on December
26, 1864, to report to the Office of Orders and Detail, for special service. [ORN 1, 11, 788.]
John McLaren, served as quartermaster aboard the CSS Spray, St. Marks, Florida, from January 1, 1863
to February 26, 1863, and as seaman aboard the same vessel, from February 28, 1863 to March 13,
1863, the date of his death; after his death his widow, Mrs. Courtney A. McLaren received the balance
of pay due him until the date of death. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges
from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 177-179.]
John M. McLaren, Coxswain, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled at St. Marks,
Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]
Augustus McLaughlin, born Maryland, 1826; appointed from Arkansas; original service in the United
States Navy, from January 11, 1840; entered the Confederate States Navy, June 15, 1861, as 1st
lieutenant; served on the Richmond station, and on the New Orleans station, 1861; later served at the
Naval works, Columbus, Georgia, 1861 - 1862; as a paroled prisoner, he was given passage aboard the
USS Union, New York Navy Yard, May 27, 1865, together with his wife; resided, in 1880, with his wife,
Henrietta, at Baltimore, Maryland; died at Baltimore, Tuesday, March 1, 1884. [ORN 1, 16, 838 and 2, 1,
320 & 321; Register1863; 1880 U.S. Census; New York Times dated Wednesday, March 2, 1884;
Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi
Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 627.]
Ephraim K. McLaughlin, born Baltimore, Maryland, about 1836; son of Andrew McLaughlin, proprietor
of the Barnum's City Hotel, in Baltimore, Maryland, and his wife, Elizabeth; Ephraim McLaughlin applied
for a U.S. passport, October 21, 1858, and his father signed as notary; personal description shown as
aged 23, 5 feet 5 ½ inches tall, high forehead, dark brown eyes, prominent nose, common mouth,
round chin, dark brown hair, fair complexion and thin face; appointed acting master's mate in the
Confederate States Navy, at the Norfolk Navy Yard, March 31, 1862; served aboard the ironclad ram
CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; was at Norfolk when Union general Wool marched upon
the city, and was arrested; took the oath of allegiance; sent to Fortress Monroe. [ORN 2, 1, 308; 1850
U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco, California) dated June 11, 1862;
see also, passport application of Ephraim K. McLaughlin, dated October 21, 1858, at the Ancestry.com
web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 114.]
J.M. McLaughlin, ordinary seaman, Confederate States Navy; attached as private to company E, 1st
Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North
Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]
James McLaughlin, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia.
[ORN 2, 1, 300.]
James H. McLaughlin, originally served in company H, 25th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
John McLaughlin, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, April 8, 1864; served as ordinary seaman
aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, Chattahoochee River, 1864; transferred from the floating battery CSS
Georgia, Savannah River, in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina. [ORN
2, 1, 283; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]
John McLaughlin, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans,
March 29, 1862, and served aboard Launch No. 2; 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 116.]
John D. McLaughlin, originally served as artificer, company C, 38th Battalion, Virginia Light Artillery;
recruited as landsman at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864, and served as
1st class fireman aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 955 and
1234; Civil War Service Records.]
Joseph McLaughlin, 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.]
Michael McLaughlin, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama
waters, 1862 - 1864; later, as corporal, taken captive at Fort Gaines, Alabama, August 8, 1864 [ORN 2, 1,
281; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W.
Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 224.]
Patrick McLaughlin, originally served as private in Captain Jones' Company, Texas Light Artillery;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as coal heaver aboard the
ironclad ram CSS Missouri, 1863, and aboard the CSS Webb, Shreveport, Louisiana, 1864 - 1865; rated
as 2nd class fireman from May 1, 1864; stated to have been well qualified to perform his duties. [Civil
War Service Records; ORN 1, 22, 170 and 2, 1, 292; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 962.]
Peter McLaughlin, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served at the New Orleans station, 1862,
and later aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 311;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 130.]
S.W. McLaughlin, landsman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
during July - December, 1863; later served aboard the receiving vessel CSS Indian Chief, at Charleston,
South Carolina, 1864; served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865; rated ship's
corporal from January 1, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 288;
DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 268 and 270-271.]
Thomas McLaughlin, 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.]
Thomas McLaughlin, Acting Third Assistant Engineer, CSS Nansemond, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 672.]
Abram McLean, British subject, forcibly impressed into Confederate Naval service in 1863; served at
Shreveport, Louisiana. [ORN 1, 20, 843.]
Hector McLean, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
John McLean, originally served as private, company F, 7th South Carolina Artillery; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Thomas McLean, First Class Fireman; born Scotland; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 1, 977.]
Robert McLeary, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 292.]
George M. McLellan, born Louisiana or Maine, about 1832 (1870 and 1880 U.S. Census records show
different places of birth); married Victoria DePass in 1859; appointed acting master in the Confederate
States Navy, August 19, 1861, and served on the CSS V.H. Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; later
at the Jackson station, in 1862; resigned from Naval service on January 29, 1862; resided as a
steamboat man at New Orleans in 1870; named his next of kin as T. McLellan. [ORN 2, 1, 320;
Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Accounts for expenditures, page
405; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 842 and 894; CSN Register; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]
John McLellan, served aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 318.]
Daniel McLeod, served as captain of forecastle, 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.]
Hiram A. McLeod, born Thomas County, Georgia, June 10, 1836; resided in Florida since the age of six;
enlisted June [or August] 1861, at Tampa, in Company K, Fourth Florida Infantry; transferred to
Confederate States Navy, January 9, 1864; served as quartermaster aboard the steam gunboat CSS
Yadkin, Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1864; wounded at Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864 (also
states that his war wounds were received at the battle of Murfreesboro), when a shell tore the flesh
off his right leg; at the end of the war, assisted in transporting former Confederate Secretary of State,
Judah P. Benjamin, to the Bahamas, to avoid arrest; post war was a member of E.A. Perry Camp No.
1489, United Confederate Veterans at Manatee County, Florida, 1907; shown as still residing in that
county in 1909; McLeod resided in Texas in 1870. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 455; Florida
Confederate Pension File No. A05102; ORN 2, 1, 313.]
James McLeod, served as seaman aboard the CSS Virginia; paroled at Mobile, Alabama, May 13, 1865.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and
Registers, page 663.]
John McLeod (shipped as James McLeod), seaman, CSS Florida; also served on the captured vessels,
Clarence, Archer and Tacony; captured, June, 1863, and sent to Fort Warren for confinement; may
have been elderly, as he was referred to as "Old McL."; released and sent to Richmond from City
Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged [Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond,
Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; see also, the entry dated May 21, 1863, in the journal of Albert L.
Drayton, held in the collections of the Library of Congress.]
William McLeod, resident of Moore County, North Carolina; enlisted on November 4, 1864, in
the Confederate States Marine Corps; 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 aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston
station. [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.]
Thomas McMahan (surname also shown as McMahon), 1st class boy, side wheeled steamer CSS
Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia; served May - June,
1862; also served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 305;
DANFS.]
Andy McMahon, stated to have been a sailor on the Orange Grove [no vessel of this name shown to
be in Confederate States Navy service], captain Carr commanding; wounded near Atlanta, Georgia,
while on a visit to his brother in the 2nd Alabama Regiment; resided in Gainesville, Alabama, after the
war; applied for a Confederate pension from Sumter County, Alabama, in 1897. [ADAH.]
Anthony McMahon, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer;
marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 27, as private, company D,
10th Louisiana Infantry; deserted his regiment and enlisted in the Confederate States Navy at an
unknown date (possibly after February, 1862). [Booth 2, 1229.]
F.T. McMahon, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Hugh McMahon, resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; served as private (?) in the Confederate States
Navy. [Norfolk County Record 202.]
Terrence McMahon (his first name is also shown as Terence and Terrance), served as seaman at the
New Orleans station, in 1861, and as ship's corporal (rated in this position from February 2, 1862)
aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, 1862 - 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 299;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 958; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 57, 60 and 340.]
Thomas McMahon, see Thomas McMahan.
C. McMan (surname also shown as McMann), served aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia,
Savannah squadron, in 1863, as gunner's mate; indicated to have been discharged about August, 1863.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 510, 519 and 647.]
Owen McManson (surname is also shown as McMannon), private, Confederate States Marine Corps,
CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and
1864; captured at Fort Gaines, Alabama, August 8, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file,
R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 224.]
James McManus, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown
(operated in James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia area); served sometime between January, 1861
and June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]
James McManus, enlisted, for one year, as officer's man aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston,
South Carolina, on September 23, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1229; Alabama Claims 2,
(appendix 2), 133.]
John McManus, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia,
1864; also served on the marine guard aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston station in 1863-1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 133, 136-139 and 153.]
Patrick McManus, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 7, 1861, as private, company K, 5th
Louisiana Infantry; deserted, August 1, 1862, at Richmond, Virginia; returned from desertion, February
8, 1864; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 1, 1864, by order of the Secretary of War.
[Booth 2, 1232.]
Samuel H. McMaster (or McMasters), born Pennsylvania, February, 1823; in 1850, resided at
Montgomery, Alabama, as a merchant; resided as a clerk, in 1860, with his wife, Eliza, and three
children, at Mobile, Alabama; enlisted at Mobile, in the Confederate States Navy; served as
paymaster's clerk aboard the CSS Morgan; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865;
resided as a travelling salesman, in 1900, with his daughter, Medora B. McMaster, at Pass Christian,
Harrison County, Mississippi; shown as a widower in 1900; died October 25, 1904; buried at Beauvoir
Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi. [Porter's Naval History, 785; John E. Ellis; ADAH; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860
U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]
Dennis McMeurtagh, see Dennis Murtagh.
James McMickle, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital
status, single; enlisted at New Orleans, July 18, 1861, aged 28, as private, company D, 15th Louisiana
Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy sometime between May and October, 1862.
[Booth 2, 1233.]
A. McMillan, appointed master's mate on the Savannah squadron, February 26, 1864. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 586; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked
commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 119.]
Thomas McMillan, born England; served as coxswain aboard the CSS Alabama; reduced to seaman,
May 21, 1863. [William Marvel.]
William McMillen, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1,
301.]
James McMillian (surname may actually be McMillan), originally served as private, company K, 22nd
Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service
Records.]
Charles McMullen, originally served as private, company F, 35th Battalion, Virginia Cavalry; transferred
to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same
person). [Civil War Service Records.]
Charles McMullen, landsman, 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 (see previous entry, which may be the same person).
[M1091.]
Michael McMurrough, resident of Georgia; served as 2nd sergeant, company E, Confederate States
Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered
and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 315; M1091.]
W.F. McNabb, served as a private in company F, 11th 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.]
William McNally, born Ireland; pre-war occupation, steward; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, April
28, 1861, aged 26, as private, company D, 1st (Nelligan's) Louisiana Infantry; discharged from his
regiment, by order of Major General Huger, February 3, 1862, on transfer to the Confederate States
Navy. [Booth 2, 1237.]
Martin McNamara, served at the Mobile station, in 1863, as a private in the Confederate States Marine
Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061.]
Michael McNamara, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; captured at Fort Gaines, Alabama on
August 8, 1864. [Donnelly/Sullivan; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB -
Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 224.]
Tim McNamara, ordinary seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama,
1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]
Christopher McNamee, previous service in company A, 15th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, and served as 1st class fireman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia,
Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Tom Brooks.]
R. McNeely, served as private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, from Georgia. [Civil War
Service Records.]
Hector McNeil (surname also shown as McNeill), enlisted as seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile
squadron, June 15, 1862; rated as captain of forecastle on June 16, 1862; later rated as boatswain's
mate. [ORN 2, 1, 280; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108.]
John McNeill, landsman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private to company
G, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North
Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]
John T. McNeill, served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863; classified as a deserter from the Army about August, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 127.]
William J. McNelty, supposed to have enlisted, 1861 in the Confederate States Navy; his wife's
pension application states that he was a Captain in the Navy, although this is not confirmed by official
records; served on the Etowan (Etiwan, a transport and cargo vessel, not officially a vessel in the
Confederate Navy); his wife indicates that he removed ammunition from Fort Sumter, with the help of
a colored fireman only in his boat, under fire from the enemy; served at Port Royal and Charleston,
South Carolina; surrendered at North Carolina at the end of the war; married Elizabeth Buffington at
St. Augustine, Florida, November 9, 1869 (also shown as at New York, in 1870); died at Jacksonville,
Duval County, Florida, April 22, 1903. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A03343.]
John McNeven (surname also shown as McNevin), served as landsman 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.]
William McNorton, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863
- 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
F.J. McNulty, originally served as private, company F, 3rd Virginia Infantry, Local Defence; transferred
to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same
person). [Civil War Service Records.]
F. J. McNulty, served as clerk in the Navy Department at Richmond, Virginia, appointed from February
1, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, V - Governmental relationships, VA - Administration, etc.,
Miscellaneous, page 25.]
Frederick McNulty, recruited as landsman at the Confederate States Naval rendezvous, in Richmond,
Virginia, on October 31, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 448.]
Frederick J. McNulty (surname incorrectly shown, in one source, as McUlty), possibly a native of
Ireland (1880 U.S. Census shows his birthplace as New Brunswick, Canada); born 1835; appointed
acting assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Navy, to date from October 4, 1864, and served
aboard the CSS Shenandoah, 1864 - 1865; described as "a high minded, noble fellow"; also noted to
occasionally imbibe too freely (of alcohol); ordered confined to quarters, October 10, 1865, for
drunken and abusive conduct; released the next day; resided as a doctor, in 1880 and 1890, with his
wife, Maria M. McNulty, and four children (eldest child born 1858), at Boston, Suffolk County,
Massachusetts (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [Alabama Claims, 1, 974; ORN 1,
3, 782; Southern Historical Society Papers 21, 165; Whittle 73, 127 & 200; Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L
- Z) - Revoked commissions, page 120.]
Michael McNulty, served as 3rd class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861; also as ward room boy
aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, 1861 - 1862, and aboard the revenue cutter Morgan, Mobile,
Alabama, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1170; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 62, 320, 325 and 329.]
Felix McPherson, quarter gunner, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor,
South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]
John J. McPherson, born South Carolina; original entry into Confederate States Navy, April 23, 1862, as
assistant paymaster; served on Naval works, Atlanta, Georgia; later served aboard the steamer, CSS
Tennessee, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1864; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864;
captured at Richmond, Virginia on April 3, 1865; paroled as major and paymaster, Confederate States
Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, April 15, 1865. [Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; ORN 1, 21, 934;
ADAH - voucher for purchase of naval supplies for Mobile station, dated February 29, 1864, held in the
PAB collection, Alabama Department of Archives and History; Confederate Navy subject file, R -
Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 126.]
Phalin McPherson, rated as coxswain aboard the CSS Polk on April 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page
488.]
L. McQueen, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]
Henry McQuin, quarter gunner, 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.]
Donald McQuinn, captain's cook, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor,
South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]
James McQuinn, 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.]
John McQuinn (surname also shown as McQueen), previous service in company A, 15th Louisiana
Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, and served as 1st class fireman aboard the
ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Tom Brooks.]
C. J. McRae, Navy agent at Mobile, in 1861, during the construction of the CSS Gaines, and other
gunboats at that station. [Confederate Navy Subject File, A- Naval ships: design, construction, etc., AC
- Construction, Kinston - Nashville, pages 342 - 358.]
D.L. McRae, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN
2, 1, 294 & 295; DANFS.]
J.C. McRae (surname also shown as McRee), originally enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, date
unknown; served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863, and, as
ordinary seaman aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina, 1864; transferred to 2nd
company I, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery, March or April, 1864, as private; paroled at
Greensboro, North Carolina, May 1, 1865. [NCT 1, 155; ORN 2, 1, 277 & 302.]
Malcolm J. McRae, midshipman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 300.]
John A. McRay, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina,
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294; DANFS.]
L.L. McRea, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 296.]
Fergus McRee, see Fergus MacRae.
J.C. McRee, see J.C. McRae.
Thomas McReynolds, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia.
[ORN 2, 1, 301.]
J. McRoberts, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 849.]
William McTaggart, originally served as artificer, Captain Swett's Company, Mississippi Light Artillery;
discharged as private; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next
entry, which may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]
William McTaggert, boatswain's mate, CSS Macon, 1865 (see previous entry, which may be the same
person). [CSS Macon Rolls.]
James McTee, seaman, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River, Louisiana,
area); served July - November, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]
---- McThien, boy, cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]
Frederick McUlty, see Frederick J. McNulty.
William F. McVeal (name also shown as William F. M. Veal), enlisted at Savannah, Georgia, on April
10, 1863, as private, Confederate States Marine Corps, and received a bounty of $50 (which was paid
him on December 10, 1863); also shown as among a group of privates in the Marine Corps who were
transferred from the CSS Savannah to Richmond, Virginia, at an unspecified date; served on the CSS
Macon, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 316; CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 677 and 695;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page
240.]
John McVeigh, served as 2nd class fireman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about
October, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling,
Miscellaneous, page 217.]
Daniel McWilliams, appointed from Maryland; appointed as first assistant engineer, aboard the
cruiser CSS Florida, at Brest, France, October 1, 1863, and took the oath to the Confederate States on
November 8, 1863; served on CSS Florida, 1863-1864; resigned at St. Georges, Bermuda, June 18, 1864;
the commander of the CSS Florida, lieutenant C. Manigault Morris, stated, in a dispatch dated off
Bermuda, May 12, 1864, that Mc Williams "is dissatisfied and complains of ill health, and is not to be
depended upon". [CSN Register; ORN 1, 2, 681 & 1, 3, 611 & 620[Confederate Navy subject file, N -
Personnel, NN - Acceptances, applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances - appointments of
officers (A-K), page 28; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked
commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 988 and
1081.]
John Meacham (surname also shown as Meachan), served as landsman 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; deserted about November, 1863 [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764;
ORN 2, 1, 305; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling,
Miscellaneous, page 232.]
John Quincy Mead, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 76.]
Richard P. Meades (surname also shown as Meads), born Maryland, 1830; naval clerk, side wheeled
steamer CSS Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, 1862 - 1863; resided as a ship's carpenter, during 1870 to
1890, with his wife, Harriet, and four children, at Portsmouth, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 299; 1870 U.S. Census;
Norfolk, Virginia Directories 1888 - 1891 at the Ancestry.com web site.]
J.R. Meadows, 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.]
Charles C. Meads, born Virginia, January, 1838; son of Confederate Navy carpenter, James Meads,
listed below, and his wife, Harriet; Charles married prior to July, 1860; resided as a grocer, in 1860, with
his wife, Annie, at the home of his parents, at Portsmouth, Virginia; served as yeoman aboard the
ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; resided as a carpenter, in 1880, with his wife,
Annie, and four children, at Washington, D.C.; in 1900, shown as a builder and contractor, still residing
with his family, at Washington, D.C. [ORN 2, 1, 309; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S.
Census.]
James Meads (surname also shown as Meades), born Maryland, 1816; father of Confederate Navy
yeoman, Charles C. Meads, listed above; previous service as carpenter in the United States Navy, from
January 27, 1840; resided, in 1860, with his wife, Harriet, and six children, at Portsmouth, Virginia;
dismissed from United States Navy, April 20, 1861; appointed carpenter, Confederate States Navy;
assisted in the construction of the CSS Virginia, 1861 - 1862; served on the Richmond station, 1861 -
1863; resided as a ship's carpenter, in 1880, with his wife and two children, at Portsmouth, Virginia.
[ORN 2, 1, 321; Register1862; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Callahan; Norfolk County Record
334.]
Thomas Meagher, served as seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as quartermaster from
January 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]
Peter Meahan (surname also shown as Mehan and Meehan), enlisted at Mobile Alabama, as a private
in the Confederate States Marine Corps on September 10, 1861; served in the Marine Guard on the
CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, in 1862; appeared as a defendant in a Naval Court Martial
held at Richmond, Virginia, August - September, 1862, specification of charges not shown; later served
aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston station in 1863-1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 133, 136-
139 and 153; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 285; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court
Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 185.]
John Mealey, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 3, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 47.]
Thomas Mealy, served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863; deserted in the third quarter of 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 235.]
Edward J. Means, born Fairfield, South Carolina, 1831; appointed midshipman in the United States
Navy, October 12, 1848; resided, in 1850, with his mother, Fanny M. Means, and five siblings, at
Fairfield, South Carolina; resigned from United States Navy, June 19, 1854; married Martha J.
McPheeters, April 18, 1860, in South Carolina; original entry into the Confederate States Navy, July 7,
1863; promoted lieutenant for the war, January 7, 1864, to rank from July 7, 1863; commanded the
steamer, CSS Beaufort, 1863 - 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy of the Confederate
States, to rank from January 6, 1864; served on the Richmond station, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 322;
Register1864; JCC 4, 122; 1850 U.S. Census; South Carolina Marriages, 1641 - 1965 at the Ancestry.com
web site.]
B.P. Mecaskey, see Benjamin P. McCaskey.
Franklin Medaris (surname also shown as Maderis, Medans, Medaries, Medavis and Medearis), born
Carroll County, Georgia, about 1835; resident of Newnan, Coweta County, Georgia; originally enlisted
at Newnan, March 4, 1861, in the 2nd Regiment of Infantry, Georgia Army; later served as private,
company E, 1st Regiment, Georgia Regulars, March, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy,
May 3, 1864, to serve for three years or the war; personal description shown as hazel eyes, dark hair,
dark complexion, and standing 5 feet 10 inches tall; served as landsman on the CSS Chattahoochee,
Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Georgia, from May 4, 1864; also served aboard the ironclad
floating battery CSS Georgia (which was also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram),
Savannah, Georgia, 1864; transferred to the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron; transferred, at an
unspecified date, to the CSS Chicora, Charleston station; buried at Charleston Port Society Cemetery,
on the Ashley River, Charleston, South Carolina. [ORN 1, 17, 701 and 2, 1, 283 & 287; DANFS; Georgia
State Archives; Georgia Rosters 1, 337; name and service status inscribed on granite monument
unveiled December 10, 1922, by the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 716; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and
straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 537 - 538.]
J. Medearis, served in Confederate States Navy; buried at Charleston Port Society Cemetery, on
Ashley River, Charleston. [Name and service status inscribed on granite monument unveiled
December 10, 1922, by the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina.]
George Medham, 1st class fireman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters,
1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]
William Medlen, Landsman, CSS Virginia II, 1864; served at Battery Brooke, James River, in October,
1864. [ORN 1, 10, 805.]
John Medlin, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
Milas Medlin (surname also shown as Midlin), transferred as a conscript, from the command of
lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the
receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief; also indicated to have served, at an unspecified date, aboard the
CSS Chicora, Charleston station; served as landsman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron,
Georgia, 1863; rated as seaman, aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah Squadron, from May 1, 1864, by
order of captain J.S. Kennard; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Mecklenburg County,
North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; Confederate States Navy subject files - NI;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 716.]
Patrick Meehan, born Ireland, resided in Donaldsonville, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer;
marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 7, 1861, aged 20, as private (rank also
shown as musician - fifer), company F, 7th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States
Navy at an unspecified date (probably after February, 1864, when he is last shown on the company
rolls). [Booth 2, 936-937.]
George Meeker, landsman, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]
Norval Meeker, Assistant Engineer, CSS Savannah, November, 1861. [See article "THE REBEL NAVY" in
the Richmond, Virginia, Daily Examiner, Friday, November 29, 1861, page 1.]
Ural Meeker (first name also shown as Uzal), served as 2nd assistant engineer on the Savannah station,
and aboard the CSS Savannah, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 323; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of
Naval ships and fleet units; OL - Mobilization and demobilization; Purchase of arms for Indians - New
Orleans, page 114.]
A.S. Meekins, served at Charleston, South Carolina, July, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 717.]
William Meens, see William Myers.
Adam Megel, served as a private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, 1864, and in the
marine guard aboard the CSS Drewry, James River squadron. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page
308.]
Arthur Megell, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina
stations, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]
Patrick Megginnis, see Patrick McGinnis.
John Mehan, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1863. [William Marvel.]
Julius Earnest Meiere (middle name also shown as Ernest and surname also shown as Meire), born
Connecticut; appointed from Maryland; previous service in the United States Marine Corps, from April
16, 1855; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Marine Corps, May 6, 1861; original entry
into Confederate States Marine Corps, May 8, 1861; appointed captain, December 5, 1861; stationed at
Fort Gaines, Mobile Alabama, 1864; captured at Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent, as a
prisoner of war, to New Orleans; escaped from New Orleans October, 1864, then journeyed from
Lewisburg, Louisiana to Mobile, Alabama, between October 29, and November 6, 1864; as a paroled
prisoner, he was given passage aboard the USS Union, New York Navy Yard, on May 27, 1865; resided
in Leadville, Colorado and Nebraska, after the war; served, at one time, as acting consul at Vera Cruz,
Mexico; indicated to have been arrested, in April, 1885, at Leadville, for disorderly conduct, for which
he was locked up and released shortly after; within a month his wife, who was a daughter of Admiral
Franklin Buchanan, obtained a decree of divorce; selected as consul to Nagasaki, Japan, in May, 1885.
[ORN 1, 21, 610; ORA 1, 52/2; Register1864; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861;
New York Times dated May 3, 1885; Raleigh Register (Raleigh, North Carolina) dated May 13, 1885;
Rocky Mountain News (Denver, Colorado) dated May 3, 1885; Confederate Navy subject file, R -
Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 427;
Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi
Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 627.]
Frederick Meinkein (surname also shown as Menkien), born 1839; enlisted July 18, 1861, at
Apalachicola, Florida, in Company B, Fourth Florida Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy,
December 12, 1862, and sent from Murfreesboro, Tennessee, to Saffold, Georgia, in January, 1863, for
service as seaman on the CSS Chattahoochee; also served on the CSS Savannah. [Hartman's Florida
Rosters, 1, 382; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 304; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 246.]
A. Meirs, served at the Mobile station, in 1863, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1070.]
Claben M. Meisenheimer (surname also shown as Minhammer and Mercenheimer), transferred from
the CSS Charleston to the CSS Indian Chief on October 23, 1863; shown as seaman aboard the CSS
Arctic in 1863; also shown as having served as landsman aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah Squadron,
1863-1864; rated as ordinary seaman from May 1, 1864, by order of captain J.S. Kennard; served on the
CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865;
paroled at Salisbury, North Carolina, May 19, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 276 and 289; Confederate States Navy
subject files - NI; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271 and 764; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 663.]
Henry Melathorne, part of a group of Confederate Navy personnel, who attempted to seize steamer,
Salvador, running from Panama to the port of San Francisco in November, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 357.]
John Mellen, served as clerk for paymaster John DeBree, at Richmond, Virginia, 1863. [Confederate
Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PB - Administration of stations;
Petersburg - Yazoo City, page 262.]
Simon Mellon, born Sicily, about 1837; served as seaman aboard the side wheeled gunboat CSS
Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863; deserted from the vessel on April 27, 1863, and went
aboard a Union vessel of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron. [ORN 2, 1, 293; Confederate Navy
subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous,
page 644.]
W. Melloy, Pilot, Queen of the West, February, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 407.]
Thomas Melson (Nelson?), ordinary seaman, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown (operated in
James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia area); served sometime between January, 1861 and June,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]
George Melton, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served on the steam
gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302.]
Robert Melton, recruited into the Confederate States Navy, at Macon, Georgia, in June, 1864.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 975.]
Andrew Melville, born Scotland, about 1810; served as seaman aboard Launch No. 5, New Orleans
station in 1862; later served at the Jackson station, 1862; named his next of kin as Martha Melville. [St.
Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 894.]
Henry B. Melvin, born District of Columbia, 1840 [1850 U.S. Census and 1860 U.S. Census show birth
state as Virginia]; son of Samuel and Elizabeth Melvin; resident of Accomac County, Virginia; shown in
1860, as a resident of Washington, D.C.; graduated from the Medical College of Virginia, March, 1862;
remained as resident physician at the Medical College of Virginia hospital, 1862; appointed assistant
surgeon, Confederate States Navy, May 1, 1863; on special service, Richmond station, 1863 - 1864;
appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; attached as surgeon to the 2nd Regiment,
Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26,
1865. [CSN Register; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; M1091; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated March
7, 1862 and June 9, 1862; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census.]
Morris Menges, 2nd class boy, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]
Fred Menkien, see Frederick Meinkein.
Thomas A. Menzies, born Maryland, 1839; son of Thomas Menzies; resided, in 1850, with his father
and siblings, at Baltimore, Maryland; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant
engineer, shown as October 7, 1862; another Naval document shows his appointment date as March
13, 1862, when he was ordered to report aboard the CSS Bienville for duty; however he is shown as
having served aboard the CSS Manassas, and, as having been captured at New Orleans, April, 1862,
and held as prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, 1862; later served on the Charleston
station, 1862; also on the Jackson station, 1862; served on the CSS Savannah, Savannah station, 1863;
ordered to report for duty at Charleston, South Carolina, in July, 1863; later served aboard the CSS
Nansemond, 1862 - 1863; resigned January 4, 1864. [ORN 1, 14, 724; 1, 18, 318 and 2, 1, 317 & 319; ORA
2, 3; Register1863; 1850 U.S. Census; 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, page 156.]
William Menzies, first assistant engineer, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock
Muster Roll.]
C. Mercenheimer, see C. M. Meisenheimer.
H. Mercenheimer, ordinary seaman, served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia,
1863. [ORN 2, 1, 305.]
James A. Mercer, sergeant, Confederate States Marine Corps, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown
(operated in James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia area); served sometime between January, 1861
and June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]
James E. Mercer, seaman, side wheeled steam tug CSS Ellis (which operated in North Carolina waters);
served sometime in August - October, 1861, or January - May, 1862; also served aboard the ironclad
ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 285 & 309; DANFS.]
T.P. Mercer, seaman, side wheeled steam tug CSS Ellis (which operated in North Carolina waters);
served sometime in August - October, 1861, or January - May, 1862 (see also, next entry, which may
be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 285; DANFS.]
Thomas P. Mercer, born North Carolina, 1828; resided as a farmer, in 1860, with his wife, Mary, and
five children, at Narrow Shore, Currituck County, North Carolina; served as seaman aboard the ironclad
ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862 (see also, previous entry, which may be the same
person). [ORN 2, 1, 310; 1860 U.S. Census.]
William H. Mercer, born Brunswick County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; shipped in
the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval Rendezvous, at Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 21, 1864,
aged 37. [CSN Shipping Articles; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and
Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 407.]
Valentine Merchal (surname also shown as Murcheal), served as a private in the Confederate States
Marine Corps, Richmond station, 1863 - 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 441 and 452.]
David Merchant (surname also shown as Marchant and Marchmont), enlisted in the Confederate
States Navy, aboard the CSS Seabird, about December, 1861, and received a bonus of $20; appeared as
a defendant in a Naval Court Martial, held at Richmond, Virginia, August - September, 1862,
specification of charges not shown; his rating, at this time, in 1862, shown as quartermaster; listed as
quartermaster aboard the CSS Beaufort, in a muster roll of the vessel, dated March 31, 1864. [ORN 2, 1,
281; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 108 and 732; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 777; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 185.]
W. Meridew, served as boy, Confederate States Navy; attached as private to company B, Semmes'
Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865.
[M1091.]
Theodore Meridith (surname also shown as Meredith), served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS
V.H. Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; rated as seaman from March 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
pages 844 and 856.]
John Merison, served in the Confederate States Army, and was transferred to the Confederate States
Navy, June 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and Transfers.;
CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 88.]
James Merit, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 76.]
James A. Meriwether (surname also shown as Merriwether), born Georgia, 1842; previous service in
the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 29, 1858; original entry into Confederate
States Navy, as acting midshipman, May 16, 1861; served on the Savannah station, and aboard the CSS
Savannah, 1861 - 1862; appointed passed midshipman, October 3, 1862; also served on the steamer
CSS Gaines, 1862 - 1863; resigned February 11, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 322; Register1863; 1860 U.S. Census;
Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 112; see also, article "THE REBEL NAVY" in the Richmond, Virginia,
Daily Examiner, Friday, November 29, 1861, page 1.]
Valentine Merkel (surname also shown as Markil and MarKall), born Baden, Germany, 1830;
immigrated to the United States in 1854; enlisted by captain Holmes, at New Orleans, on May 1, 1861,
as a private in company A of the Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South
Carolina stations, 1861; also shown on a roll of Confederate States Marines, and served at the
Richmond station, 1864; resided as a laborer, in 1870, at Richmond, Virginia; later a resident of
Rochester, Monroe County, New York, in 1910. [ORN 2, 1, 313 & 317; 1870 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S.
Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 458 and 466.]
Charles Merkins, Ship's Steward, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Joseph Merky, officers' cook, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2,
1, 301.]
Peter D. Merovaux, private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, December, 1864. [ORN 2,
1, 314.]
James Merrell (surname also shown as Merrill), served as coxswain aboard the CSS Fanny, 1861.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 330-332.]
David Merriam, 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.]
E. Merrick, coxswain, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
G.H. Merrifield, appointed acting gunner in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, October 25,
1861, and ordered to report to the lieutenant in command of the Ordnance Department at New
Orleans, for duty; served at the Naval laboratory, New Orleans, and on the New Orleans station, 1861
- 1862; later on the Jackson station, 1862, and on the side wheeled steamer CSS Pontchartrain,
Arkansas waters, 1862 - 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 299, 318, 320 & 777; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L -
Z) - Revoked commissions, page 154.]
Augustus Merrilac (surname also shown as Murilao), originally in company K, 7th Florida Infantry;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March 3, 1864, aboard the CSS Savannah. [Robert
Watson Diary March 3 & 9, 1864.]
Daniel Merrill, born New York (resident of Long Island), about 1834; pre-war occupation, seaman;
resided in, and enlisted at Beaufort County, North Carolina, May 10, 1861, as private, company I, 3rd
Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 22, 1862;
served as seaman aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina; deserted on July 16 or 17,
1862. [NCT 3, 585; ORN 1, 7, 625 & 2, 1, 301.]
Samuel Merrill, seaman and purser's steward, CSS Sea Bird, 1861; wounded by musket ball and
captured at Elizabeth City/Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 10, 1862; paroled February 19,
1862, and returned to Norfolk, Virginia; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Wake
County, North Carolina; also applied to the Home for the Disabled. [ORN 2, 1, 306; ORA 2, 3; NC State
Archives; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February 19, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file, R
- Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 548.]
William T. Merrill, see William Thomas Morrill.
Daniel Merritt, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steam tug CSS Ellis (which operated in North Carolina
waters); served sometime in August - October, 1861, or January - May, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 285; DANFS.]
Daniel P. Merritt, enlisted in Craven County, North Carolina, March 10, 1862, as private, 1st company
H, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred on November 4, 1863, to company F, 13th
Battalion North Carolina Light Artillery; appointed corporal, November 20, 1863; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, April 6, 1864. [NCT 1, 473 & 600.]
James Merritt, seaman, screw steamer CSS Fanny (which operated in North Carolina waters); served
sometime in, or during the period September - December, 1861 and May, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 285;
DANFS.]
J.A. Merriwether, see James A. Meriwether.
Horatio N. Merry, recruited as seaman at the Confederate States Naval rendezvous, in Richmond,
Virginia, on October 31, 1863; served as ordinary seaman on the wooden gunboat CSS Drewry, James
River squadron, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 448.]
George H. Merryfield, Seaman, participated in expedition to capture US Army steamer Leviathan, at
the mouth of the Mississippi River, September 21, 1863. Recaptured the next day by USS De Soto.
[ORN 1, 20, 598.]
George W. Mertz, originally served as artificer, company A, Alabama State Artillery; discharged as
private; indicated to have entered the "Volunteer Navy" at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service
Records.]
Peter Mervieux (surname also shown as Merry), served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at
the New Orleans station, 1862; later served in the marine guard aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington
station, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 130 and 854.]
William H. Merwin (surname also shown as Murwin), originally served as private, company F, 2nd
Battalion, Georgia Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served
as carpenter's mate on the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 283; DANFS.]
Valentine Mesner, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1862-3; deserted January 21, 1863, at Kingston,
Jamaica. [William Marvel.]
Albert Messenger, 3rd class boy (later rated as landsman), 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.]
G. A. Messenger, landsman, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and
exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls..,
Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 554.]
Wesley Messex, served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads,
Virginia, 1862; appeared as a defendant in a Naval Court Martial held at Richmond, Virginia, August -
September, 1862, specification of charges not shown. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 185.]
Nehemiah M. Messick, born Virginia, 1835 (one source shows state of birth as Maryland); pre-war
occupation, sailor; enlisted, aged 23, in New Hanover County, North Carolina, June 4, 1861, as private,
company E, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery; promoted corporal at the end of 1862; transferred to
the Confederate States Navy, June 3, 1863; served as master at arms and quartermaster aboard the
CSS North Carolina, 1864; also served as quartermaster aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station,
1864; resided as a sailor, in 1880, with his wife Susanna, and five children (eldest child born 1858) at
Dames Quarter, Somerset County, Maryland. [NCT 1, 97; ORN 2, 1, 294-296; 1880 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 850.]
William J. Messick, originally served as private, company A, 6th Virginia Regiment; wounded June 21st,
1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, 1863. [Norfolk County Record 261.]
Antonio Messina, seaman, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]
Antonio Messina (name also shown as Antone Massena), born Italy, April 5, 1832; immigrated to the
United States in 1852; enlisted May 1861 in Captain J. Dunham's Company, Milton Artillery; discharged
at Muskegee, Georgia; also served, as captain's steward, in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the
CSS Chattahoochee; captured by an armed party from the USS Port Royal, April 20, 1863, at
Apalachicola, Florida; sent to Key West, Florida, aboard the USS Circassian, on April 25, 1863, then on to
Point Lookout, Maryland, later sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received September
23, 1864; released and sent to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being
exchanged; resided, as a fish dealer, in 1900, at Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida; shown as a
widower, in 1900. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A12620; see also the Florida Confederate
Pension file of Nicholas Demont (no. A11889), in which Messina states, in an affidavit, that he had
served on the CSS Chattahoochee; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 1, 17, 421; Fort Warren; 1900
U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; Confederate Navy subject
file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page
141.]
J. Metrovich, originally served as private, company D, 3rd (Palmetto) Battalion, South Carolina Light
Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service
Records.]
Peter Mett, Seaman, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]
Henry Metters, enlisted for three years or the war in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston,
South Carolina, on September 16, 1862, and served aboard the CSS Huntress. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
pages 182 and 753.]
R. D. Meveraux, served at the Mobile station, 1863, as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1069.]
John Mewers, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Zachariah Mewshaw, born Maryland, 1833; resided as a coach maker, in 1850, at Baltimore, Maryland;
resided as a painter, in 1860, at Monroe County, Mississippi; enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the
CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, July 22, 1862; later rated as quarter gunner. [ORN 2, 1, 280; 1850 U.S.
Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]
Cassius Meyer (surname shown, in Register1862, as Mayer), born Mississippi, 1844; resided as a clerk,
in 1860, at Natchez, Mississippi, prior to joining the United States Navy on September 20, 1860; original
entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 3rd class, July 8, 1861; served aboard the
side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma), which operated in the Lake
Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area; February - July, 1862, and on the Mississippi
defenses, 1862 - 1863; served aboard the CSS Patrick Henry and the CSS Beaufort, James River
squadron, 1864; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 632 and 2, 1, 286 & 306;
Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; see also article titled List of Confederate Officers captured at
Sailor's Creek, VA., April 6, 1865, published in the New York Herald, dated April 9, 1865; 1860 U.S.
Census.]
Henry Meyer, enlisted as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861, and later rated as coal
heaver, and then as 2nd class fireman 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.]
S.B. Meyer, originally served as private, Captain Melcher's Company (Company B, German Artillery),
South Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War
Service Records.]
William Meyer, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina
stations, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]
John Meyers, see John Myers (CSS St. Philip)
John A. Meyers, captain of hold, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina,
1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Thomas F. Meyers, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]
W.R. Meyo, see Wyndam R. Mayo.
Joseph Michels, originally served as private, company B, 2nd Texas Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
James Mickes, recruited as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous,
Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 444.]
William B. Micou, born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant paymaster,
September 30, 1862; served on the steamer CSS Atlanta, 1862 - 1863; captured aboard the vessel at
Wassaw Sound, Georgia, June 17, 1863, and sent, as prisoner of war, to Fort Lafayette, New York
Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, July 4, 1863; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional
Navy, June 2, 1864; paroled at Fort Warren on September 28, 1864; exchanged at Cox's Wharf, Virginia,
October 18, 1864; attached as quartermaster to the 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865;
surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 14, 267; CSNRegister;
Fort Warren; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; M1091.]
John A. Middleton, born Georgia, 1841; served at the Confederate Naval Laboratory (?); resided as a
coppersmith, in 1880, with his wife Mary, and stepdaughter, Sallie Thomas, at Atlanta, Fulton County,
Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index
668; 1880 U.S. Census.]
John S. Midgett, born Tyrrell County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, sailor; enlisted at
Pasquotank County, North Carolina, May 4, 1861, aged 22, as private, company L, 17th Regiment North
Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, October 4, 1861, and
served as seaman aboard the CSS Curlew, 1861. [NCT 6, 197; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 278.]
Martin Midich, see Match Madick.
F. Mier, ship's cook, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina),
July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 283; DANFS.]
Henrich Mier, served as seaman at the New Orleans station in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N
- Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 106.]
Robert Might, served as seaman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as
quartermaster on March 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1001.]
Charles W. Milburn, resident of St. Mary's County, Maryland; seaman, Confederate States Navy;
captured, together with James R. Milburn (who may have been a brother), of the Independent
Battalion of Virginia Cavalry, in Colbert County, Maryland, February 18, 1864, and sent to the Old
Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C.; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where they arrived, April 10,
1864, for confinement. [Fort Warren.]
Frank Miles, born Louisiana; aged 33; boatswain's mate, CSS St. Philip, 1862. [St. Philip.]
James Miles, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
Thomas B. Miles, see Thomas B. Mills.
W.H. Miles, served as a private in the 2nd North Carolina Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate
States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209 dated at
Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston, South
Carolina. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]
M. J. Miley, served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna
Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 -
1218.]
A.J. Millard, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
Kieran Millen, see Kieran Mullen.
William H. Millen, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]
A. W. Miller, served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond
station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]
Adolphus Miller, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina
stations, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]
Alexander Miller, served as seaman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as
quartermaster from September 1, 1861, and disrated on October 19, 1861; deserted from the vessel in
March, 1862, but was arrested by (policeman?) W. J. Colson, and returned aboard the vessel on March
5, 1862, and for which Colson received a reward of $10. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 840 and 848;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 237.]
Asa F. Miller, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on the Richmond station, in
1863; transferred aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, about July, 1863;
transferred, at an unknown date, to Richmond, Virginia; also indicated to have deserted after August,
1863. [ORN 2, 1, 305 & 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 437; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 33.]
Charles Miller, originally mustered in, December 15, 1861, as seaman in the Florida Volunteer Coast
Guards; transferred to company K, 7th Florida Infantry, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States
Navy, August 5, 1862, and sent from the Navy Yard to Columbus, Georgia, in November, 1862, for
service aboard the CSS Chattahoochee; also served as quarter gunner aboard the CSS Savannah,
Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1862 - 1863. [Soldiers of Florida, 49; Robert Watson Diary August 5, 1862;
ORN 2, 1, 304; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 242.]
Charles Miller, Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Charles Miller, ordinary seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served, in 1864,
aboard the ironclad sloop, CSS North Carolina, and the CSS Olustee, Cape Fear River; deserted from
the CSS Olustee, at Wilmington, on December 13, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 279 & 296; 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.]
Charles Miller, quartermaster, 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 551.]
Charles Miller, served as seaman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as
quartermaster from September 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 840.]
Charles Miller, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 6, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 49.]
Charles Miller, served as seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as quartermaster from
January 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]
E. Miller, recruited into the Confederate States Navy, at Macon, Georgia, in June, 1864. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 975.]
Felix G. Miller (1860 U.S. Census shows his middle initial as J.), born Virginia, 1842; resided as a
machinists' apprentice, in 1860, at Washington, D.C.; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as
3rd assistant engineer, November 2, 1861 (Register1864 shows entry date as January 10, 1863); served
on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862, and aboard the screw steamer CSS Fanny (which operated in
North Carolina waters); also served aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1862 - 1863; reported for duty at
Houston, Texas, February, 1863; served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, 1863 - 1864; ordered on
temporary duty at Richmond, Virginia, October 19, 1864. [ORN 1, 16, 457; 1, 19, 835 and 2, 1, 285 & 321;
Register1863; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census.]
Fonce Miller, ship's cook, side-wheeled steamer CSS Firefly (classed as a tender), Savannah station,
September - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 285; DANFS.]
Frank W. Miller (or Milton?), served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS St.
Mary, Brashear, Louisiana, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 110 and 547.]
George Miller, seaman, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown (operated in James River and
Hampton Roads, Virginia area); served sometime between January, 1861 and June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1,
289; DANFS.]
George D. Miller, landsman and ordinary seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; also served on the CSS
Savannah; died, and was buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, on April 5, 1864. [CSS
Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated May 19, 1866; ORN 2, 1,
304.]
Harriman Miller (first name also shown as Haman), recruited aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah
squadron, 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; transferred to the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, in 1864, but was reported to
have 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 608 and
674; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
New Orleans - Yorktown, page 648; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and
straggling, Miscellaneous, page 527.]
Henry Miller, enlisted as 2nd class boy in the Confederate States Navy, New Orleans station, in 1861;
later rated as landsman and 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 and 426.]
Hiram A. Miller, born North Carolina, about 1844; son of Joel and Harriette Miller; resided in, and
enlisted at Catawba County, North Carolina, March 15, 1862, as private, company C, 28th Regiment
North Carolina Troops; wounded in the hand at Frayser's Farm, Virginia, June 30, 1862; wounded again
at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 2 or 3, 1863; wounded and captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania,
sometime between July 1 and 5, 1863; hospitalized at Davids Island, New York Harbor between July 17
and 24, 1863; received September 16, 1863, at City Point, Virginia, for exchange; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, April 3, 1864; shown residing with his parents and family, in 1870, at Hickory
Tavern, Catawba County, North Carolina. [NCT 8, 148; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]
J. Miller, Navy Brigade; died Aplril 28, 1865; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom
Brooks.]
J. Miller, no rating shown; served aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North
Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 297.]
James Miller, seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 294 & 295; DANFS.]
John Miller, ordinary seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]
John Miller, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1863; deserted September 21, 1863, at Cape Town.
[William Marvel.]
John Miller, appointed from civil life, as acting gunner, Confederate States Navy, September 5, 1861
(however, a Naval document shows the date of acceptance of his appointment as July 11, 1861);
served on the New Orleans station, 1861; later on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318 & 320;
Register1862; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 35.]
John Miller, appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, December 14,
1861, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Livingston for duty. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L -
Z) - Revoked commissions, page 158.]
John Miller, served aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1862; discharged from the Naval
service, as unfit for service, on February 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked
commissions, page 920.]
John Miller (colored), served as landsman, 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.]
John H. Miller, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 314.]
John H. Miller, served as seaman aboard the CSS Manassas, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as
quartermaster from November 2, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 992.]
Joseph Miller, Landsman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Lafayette Miller, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Louis Miller, originally served as private, company C, 6th South Carolina Cavalry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as 1st class fireman at the New Orleans
station, in 1861. [Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 38.]
Marshall J. Miller, commanded the gunboat Grampus (under Army command); died November, 1906,
Memphis, Tennessee. [Confederate Veteran 15, 321.]
Martin Miller, served aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 510.]
Michael Miller, 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.]
Moody Miller, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in January 25, 1861 [1862?].
[Soldiers of Florida, 49.]
Phillip Miller, enlisted, 1861, at Mobile, Alabama, as private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served
aboard the ram CSS Tennessee; also served in companies I and F, 21st Alabama Regiment; his widow,
Celetia M. Miller, applied for a Confederate pension from Mobile County, Alabama, in August, 1903.
[ADAH.]
T.A. Miller, paymaster, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
W.A. Miller, Gunner's Mate, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
William Miller, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1863-4; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off
Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]
William Miller, enlisted as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and later
rated as quarter gunner, 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.]
William Miller, served as seaman aboard the CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, from October 15,
1861; rated as quartermaster from November 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 265 and 267.]
Alfred Millet (surname also shown as Millot), appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer in the
Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, March 13, 1862, and ordered to report for duty aboard the
CSS Bienville; also served on the Jackson station, 1862; shown still serving as a river pilot at New
Orleans, in 1894. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated Wednesday, July 4, 1894, page 10;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 162.]
William T. Millett, shipped as boy (aged between 14 and 17) aboard the CS floating battery New
Orleans, on November 16, 1861; rated as 1st class boy aboard the vessel from January 1, 1862, while the
vessel was stationed off Columbus, Kentucky. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 6, 9 and 12.]
E. Milligan, born Pennsylvania; previous occupation, brass founder; enlisted as landsman in the
Confederate States Navy, at the Macon, Georgia Naval rendezvous on March 18, 1864; sent to the
Mobile station, arriving there on March 27, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval
(including Navy Yards and Stations); PI - Industrial activity; Selma, page 669.]
Edward Milligan, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Selma, captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864,
and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12,
1864. [ORN 1, 21, 841 842.]
Edward Milligan (surname also shown as Millingen), born 1842; enlisted July 19, 1861, at Apalachicola,
Florida, as private in company B, 4th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on
April 8, 1864, and served as seaman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864; transferred from the
floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in September, 1864, to the Naval station at
Wilmington, North Carolina. [ORN 1, 17, 700 & 2, 1, 283; Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 382; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 575.]
Z. Milligan, Pilot, Queen of the West, February, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 407.]
Samuel Milliken, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans,
September 1, 1861; served aboard the CSS General Polk in 1861-1862, and aboard the CSS Arkansas,
1862; also served on the Jackson station, 1862; involved in the action of July 15, 1862, when the
Arkansas took passage from the Yazoo River, through the combined Union fleet above Vicksburg;
appointed master not in line of promotion, October 1, 1863; served on the Charleston station, 1863 -
1864; served aboard the CSS Charleston, mid-1864; ordered to report to Confederate Army lieutenant
general Hardee, at Charleston, South Carolina, for special duty, November, 1864. [ORN 1, 19, 132 and 2,
1, 318; ORA 1, 35 (part 2), 649; Register1864; Charleston Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862;
Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 148;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 476 and 479-480; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked
commissions, page 160.]
Liss Millikin, appointed pilot aboard the Confederate States ram General Sumter, of the Mississippi
River Defense fleet, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]
Alfred Millot, see Alfred Millet.
Benjamin B. Mills, resided in, and enlisted at Washington County, North Carolina, June 24, 1861, aged
18, as private, company G, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; discharged from his regiment,
February 3, 1862, on being transferred to the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman aboard
the CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [NCT 3, 218; ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Frank Mills, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 293.]
James Mills, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]
James Mills, resident of Richmond, Virginia, prior to the war; indicated as having served aboard the
CSS Hampton, James River Squadron; supposed to be residing in North Carolina in 1903. [LVa -
application of Charles R. Long for admission to the R.E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Soldiers'
Home, Richmond, Virginia, dated December, 1903.]
Frank Mills, served as captain of forecastle aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863; a list of "boarders" of
the cruiser shows Mills 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.]
Frank Mills, served aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, about 1863. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages
1204-1205.]
Frank Mills, served as ordinary seaman aboard the receiving vessel, CSS St. Philip, 1861; rated as
seaman from July 1, 1861, and as boatswain's mate from November 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, pages 555, 559 and 567.]
Thomas B. Mills (surname also shown as Miles), born Louisiana, 1836; son of attorney at law Archibald
Mills, and his wife, Alonira; resided, in 1850, with his parents, at Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama;
original service in the United States Navy, from May 31, 1852; appointed master, Confederate States
Navy, March 28, 1861; served at the Mount Vernon Arsenal, Alabama, and on the New Orleans station,
1861; ordered by secretary Mallory, on April 13, 1861, to proceed to Mobile and take charge of the
cutter Lewis Cass, which vessel had been turned over to the Navy Department by the Treasury
Department; acting lieutenant on the Richmond station, 1861; on duty in July, 1861, travelling through
Georgia, North and South Carolina, and Tennessee, purchasing rifles; later appointed 1st lieutenant,
February 8, 1862; served on the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (which was later renamed the CSS
Selma), operating in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama areas, 1862; on sick
leave, at the end of 1862; also served on ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North
Carolina, 1863 - 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; ordered
to assume command of the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, March 4, 1864; on leave of absence, for
one week, from August 29, 1864; relieved November 29, 1864. [ORN 1, 15, 717 & 766; 1, 16, 466 and 2,
1, 293, 306, 320 & 321; ORA 4, 1; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of
officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 164; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of
Naval ships and fleet units; OL - Mobilization and demobilization; Purchase of arms for Indians - New
Orleans, page 599.]
William L. Mills, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia.
[ORN 2, 1, 301.]
J.R. Milrovitch, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
F. Milsted, previously mustered in Company A (Pensacola Rifle Rangers), Second Florida Infantry, May
25, 1861; transferred to Confederate Navy in May, 1862. [Soldiers of Florida, 81]
David Richard Milton, born 1827; served in the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the floating
battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, about 1863; died 1880; buried at the Old Union Cemetery,
Quitman, Georgia 31643. [U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 647.]
Frank W. Milton, see Frank W. Miller.
J. R. Milton, served as yeoman aboard the CSS Georgia, Savannah station, 1863; paid off and
discharged from the Naval service on July 18, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked
commissions, page 922.]
Pinkney H. Milton (first name also shown as Pinckney), born North Carolina, April, 1840; son of
physician William H. Milton, and his wife, Elizabeth; resided, in 1850, with his parents, at Gilmer County,
Georgia; previous service in Company H, 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars, March, 1861; wounded in
action at Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; transferred to Confederate States Navy April 4,
1864; captured at Charleston, South Carolina; married in 1866; resided as a tax collector, in 1880, with
his wife, Nancy, and five children, at Ellijay, Gilmer County, Georgia; still shown residing with his family
at Gilmer County, in 1910. [Georgia Rosters 1, 349; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S.
Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]
Joseph Minchener, born England, December, 1836; immigrated to the United States, 1857; enlisted
March 25, 1862, at Burke County, Georgia, as private, company F, Cobb's Georgia Legion (Cavalry);
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 25, 1864, and appointed assistant engineer; served
aboard the CSS Hampton, October, 1864; married in 1866; resided as a spoke and handle
manufacturer, in 1900, with his wife Sarah, and five children, at Troy, Pike County, Alabama; died
December 11, 1913, at Jefferson County, Alabama; his widow, Sarah E. Minchener, applied for a
Confederate pension from Jefferson County, Alabama, in December, 1921. [ORN 1, 10, 766; Sierra;
ADAH; 1900 U.S. Census; Alabama Deaths, 1908 - 1959 at the Ancestry.com web site.]
Jerome G. Miner, appointed, by Secretary Stephen R. Mallory, as an agent of the Confederate States
Navy Department, March 19, 1862; involved in the procurement of supplies and material for the
Confederate States Navy, at Atlanta, 1862 - 1863. [ORN 1, 13, 816 - 817; Confederate Navy subject file,
X - Supplies, XS - Naval Supplies Ashore, New Orleans - Savannah, page 581; Confederate Navy
subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations; PB - Administration of stations; Albany
- Charlotte, pages 10 and 23.]
W. Minn, served in the Confederate States Army, and was transferred to the Confederate States
Navy, June 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and Transfers.;
CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 88.]
James Gibbon Minnegerode (surname also shown as Minnigerode), born Williamsburg, Virginia,
about 1849; son of Protestant minister, the reverend Charles Minnegerode, and his wife, Mary;
resided with his parents and siblings, in 1860, at Richmond, Virginia; original entry into Confederate
States Navy, as midshipman, March 26, 1863; served on the CSS Patrick Henry, 1863; also served
aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile squadron, 1863 - 1864; paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 18,
1865; nominated as deacon in the Protestant Episcopal church, in 1871; married to his second wife in
1879; resided as a clergyman, in 1910, with his wife, Ann, and three children, at Louisville, Jefferson
County, Kentucky. [Register1864; CSN Register; 1860 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Protestant
Episcopal Church Clerical Directory, 1898, at the Ancestry.com web site.]
John D. Minnex (surname also shown as Minnix, Minix and Minnox), shipped, on June 6, 1863, as
ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Oconee, off Thunderbolt, Savannah River, Georgia; also served
aboard the CSS Atlanta, 1863, and was captured aboard the vessel at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863;
later served aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863, and was
transferred as seaman to the side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, about August,
1863; died at Savannah and was buried, on August 2, 1864, at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah,
Georgia. [ORN 1, 14, 268 and 2, 1, 303; Daily News and Herald (Savannah newspaper) dated May 19,
1866; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
New Orleans - Yorktown, page 612.]
William R. Minnick, born Georgia, about 1831; resided at Shelby County, Alabama before enlistment
as a private in company D of the Confederate States Marine Corps; conscripted Talladega, Alabama,
March 14, 1863, and served at the Mobile station; died as a prisoner of war, of diarrhoea, at the St.
Louis Military Hospital in New Orleans, September 24, 1864, aged 33; buried Cypress Grove Cemetery
(Monument Cemetery), New Orleans, Louisiana; Young Sanders Center shows buried at Greenwood
Cemetery, New Orleans; at the time of his death, his widow, Catharine Minnick, was shown as a
resident of Sterret, Alabama. [Confederate Burials, 69; Young Sanders; Confederate Navy subject file
M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 183;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061.]
A. G. Minor, resident of Richmond, Virginia; appointed a special agent for the Navy Department's
office of the Superintendent of Coal Contracts, at Richmond, on January 22, 1863; ordered, by Naval
officer John K. Mitchell, who was superintendent of the office, to accompany a load of coal and deliver
the load to the Confederate States Naval Ordnance Works at Charlotte, North Carolina, and, on
completion of that task, to return to Richmond. [Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of
Naval ships and fleet units; OX - Lines of supply and supply ships; Canals - railroads, page 473.]
D. Minor, captain of hold, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as corporal, company
F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North
Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]
F.C. Minor, see Joseph F. Minor.
George Minor, born Virginia, 1810; previous service in the United States Navy, from April 1, 1827;
resided as a United States Naval officer, in 1860, with his wife, Ann, at Richmond, Virginia; appointed
commander, Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1863;
held the position of Chief of the Bureau of Ordnance and Hydrography, 1861 - 1863; duties included
the purchase of timber, etc., for ship building purposes; attached, as lieutenant colonel, to Semmes'
Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865;
resided as a broker, in 1870, with his wife and son at Fredericksburg, Virginia. [ORN 1, 7, 790 and 2, 1,
321 & 775; Register1862; Register1863; M1091; Daily Examiner (Richmond, Virginia) dated Monday,
February 9, 1863; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]
Hubbard Taylor Minor, jr. (first name also shown as Henry), born near Spotsylvania Court House,
Virginia, July 7, 1845 (one source shows state of birth as Missouri); son of lawyer Benjamin B. Minor,
and his wife, Virginia; cousin of Confederate Navy lieutenant Robert D. Minor; resided, in 1850 - 1860,
with his parents, at Richmond, Virginia; enlisted in company E, 42nd Tennessee Infantry; appointed
midshipman, Confederate States Navy, July 6, 1863; sent to Mobile, Alabama, then to Richmond,
Virginia, where he reported for duty, August 7, 1863, aboard the Navy school ship, CSS Patrick Henry;
ordered to the Savannah Squadron, December, 1863; served aboard the flagship, CSS Savannah, 1863
- 1864; met his future wife, Annie Lamar (whom he married in 1867), while stationed in Savannah;
participated in the taking out of the USS Water Witch, June 3, 1864, in which he was wounded in the
leg; ordered to report to Confederate Army lieutenant general Hardee, at Charleston, South Carolina,
for special duty, November, 1864; attached to the brigade of General Hugh W. Mercer, Confederate
States Army, at the evacuation of Savannah, December, 1864; sent to Charleston, South Carolina, and
assigned to duty aboard the CSS Indian Chief, December 24, 1864; sent to Richmond, Virginia, where
he arrived, January 1, 1865; assigned to the CSS Patrick Henry; at the evacuation of Richmond, April,
1865, he was attached to the battalion guarding the Confederate archives and treasury; after the war
he attended the University of Virginia; he and Annie had two children, Harriet and Benjamin; Annie
died 1870; H.T. Minor died in 1874. [ORN 1, 15, 491, 495 & 499 and 2, 1, 304; ORA 1, 35 (part 2), 649;
Register1864; a uniformed photo of Minor, taken at Savannah, Georgia, is included in the Confederate
Calendar, April, 1997, original in the possession of David Wynn Vaughan; see also his war journal, in the
collections of the United States Army Military History Institute, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, and published in
the Civil War Times Illustrated magazine, November and December, 1974; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S.
Census.]
John Chew Minor, born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting master's mate;
appointed master not in line of promotion, December 18, 1861; served in the Ordnance Department,
and on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1864; served on the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron,
Virginia, 1864; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 632 and 2, 1, 321; Register1863; Register1864;
M1091.]
Joshua F. Minor (name also incorrectly shown as F.C. Minor, and first name sometimes shown as
Joseph), born Virginia; had served aboard a whaler, prior to the Civil War, and had served on cruises in
the Pacific Ocean; originally served as seaman aboard the CSS Sumter and the CSS Alabama, 1861 -
1863; appointed master's mate and transferred to CSS Tuscaloosa, June 21, 1863; later served on CSS
Rappahannock, 1864, and CSS Shenandoah, 1864-1865 (aboard which he was re-appointed master's
mate, by lieutenant Waddell, on January 4, 1865. [ORN 1, 2, 713 & 1, 3, 757; Confederate Veteran
volume 3, no. 6, dated July 1895, page 211; William Marvel; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; Alabama
Claims 1, 975; Mason Journal entry for Sunday, June 4th, 1865; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L -
Z) - Revoked commissions, page 165.]
Lewis W. Minor, born Virginia, 1809; previous service in the United States Navy, from February 8, 1832;
resided as a surgeon, in 1850, with his wife Heloise and two children, at Norfolk, Virginia; name stricken
from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 7, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy
service, as surgeon, June 10, 1861; served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; later on the
Jackson station, 1862; afterward on the Richmond station, 1862; then on the Mobile station, 1862 -
1865; after the war, resided in Norfolk, Virginia, and in New Orleans, Louisiana. [ORN 2, 1, 318, 320 &
322; Register1863; for post war residence, see page 248 of Dabney Maury's "Recollections of a
Virginian" ; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S.
Census.]
P.B. Minor, shipped by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, as a private in company A,
Confederate States Marine Corps, in early 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 299.]
Robert Dabney Minor, born Virginia, 1826; original service in the United States Navy, from February 26,
1841; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 22, 1861; entered the Confederate
States Navy, June 10, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; attached to the Naval laboratory at New Orleans, 1861;
served on the Richmond station, and aboard the CSS St. Nicholas, later in 1861; ordered to proceed to
New Orleans on special duty, in January, 1862, and returned to Richmond, Virginia, shortly after; made
out a monthly allotment of $130, on March 31, 1862, to Mrs. L. R. Minor of Richmond, Virginia;
wounded in the left side, aboard the CSS Virginia, during the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia,
March 8, 1862; highly commended by his commander, for his actions during this engagement; also on
ordnance duty, 1862; ordered to proceed to Wilmington, on September 30, 1863, and to report to
lieutenant John Wilkinson, for duty; sent to Canada, and Bermuda, by order of the Confederate
government, on "special duty" appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864;
spent most of the war in charge of the Naval Ordnance Works, Richmond, Virginia; ordered to report,
for temporary duty as flag lieutenant, to flag officer John K. Mitchell, in May, 1864; held the post war
position of chief engineer of the James River improvement; resided as a clerk on the coal board, in
1870, at Richmond, Virginia; died at Richmond, Friday, November 24, 1871. [ORN 1, 4, 555; 1, 7, 42 & 48;
1, 10, 630; 1, 17, 162 and 2, 1, 308, 321 & 777; Virginia Historical Society; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; Daily
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; CSN-Museum; 1870 U.S. Census; Atlanta Daily Sun
dated Sunday, November 26, 1871; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 880.] [Confederate Navy subject file O -
Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous,
pages 380 - 387.]
M. Minot, Quartermaster, paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231.]
William F. Minson, born Virginia, June, 1845; son of pilot James Minson and his wife, Rebecca; resided
with his parents, in 1860, at Hampton, Elizabeth City County, Virginia; served aboard the CSS Hampton;
resided as a painter, in 1880, at the home of his parents, in Norfolk, Virginia; married in 1883; resided as
a grocery clerk, in 1900 - 1910, with his wife, Fannie, at Norfolk, Virginia. [LVa - see Robert E. Lee,
Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home record for George A. Bohannon; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S.
Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]
John Minter, aged 12 (in 1864); indicted at the city court, on Thursday, May 19, 1864, for breaking and
entering the premises of Charles Eckhart, at Richmond, Virginia; discharged from prosecution because
of his status, and because his parents had enlisted him in the Confederate States Navy for seven years
(as an apprentice). [Richmond Daily Examiner dated May 20, 1864.]
T.G. Minter, cooper, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1,
312.]
Jacob Frederick Mintzing, born South Carolina, 1835; son of Jacob Frederick and Louisa Thwing
Mintzing; resided as a clerk, in 1860, with his wife, Julia, at Charleston, South Carolina; served as acting
master on the Charleston station, 1862; executive officer and later in command of the CSS Indian Chief
in 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 317; 1860 U.S. Census; Family Data Collection from Ancestry.com web site;
Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, pages 140 and 200.]
John F. Miscally, born South Carolina, 1840; son of Daniel and Jane Miscally; pre-war employment as
engineer, at Charleston, South Carolina; appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer, Confederate States
Navy, July 27, 1863; served aboard the CSS Moultrie, Charleston station; discharged August 26, 1863;
resided, as a machinist, in 1880, with his wife Frances, at Charleston, South Carolina; employed at the
Berkeley Phos. Company; in 1910, shown to be residing, as a boarder, at Charleston; widowed; died at
Charleston, January 24, 1919. [CSNRegister; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; see
also online database titled On the Eve of the Civil War: the Charleston, South Carolina Directories for
the years 1859 and 1860, the Charleston, South Carolina Directory, 1888 - 1890, and the South Carolina
Death Index, 1915 - 1949 at the Ancestry.com web site.]
Clayborn Misenhimer (first name also shown as Claiborn), born North Carolina, 1820; shown in 1860,
with his wife Mary and two children, residing in Stanly County; served in the Confederate States Navy;
resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Mary A., and three children, at Risenhours, Stanly County,
North Carolina; his widow, Mary A. Misenhimer later applied for a post war Confederate pension from
Stanly County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]
G. (or J.) A. Missinger, served as landsman aboard the CSS Selma; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5,
1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August
12, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 841 - 842.]
John Mitchel, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 314.]
William H.H. Mitchel (surname also shown as Mitchell), appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer in the
Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on January 22, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS
Livingston for duty; also served on the Jackson station, 1862; discharged from the Naval service, below
Yazoo City, by reason of physical disability, and at his own request, on June 20, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 169; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments
of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 924.]
A.S. Mitchell, born Mississippi; served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North
Carolina, 1863; also served on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, and aboard the CSS Bombshell, North
Carolina, 1864; captured aboard the CSS Bombshell, during the engagement at Albemarle Sound, North
Carolina, May 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 9, 746 and 2, 1, 278 & 302; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners
and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 38.]
A. W. Mitchell, served as cooper in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Thomasville, Georgia,
May 12, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 663.]
Adam Mitchell, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond station, in 1863.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 441.]
Ben. B. Mitchell, shipped as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval Rendezvous at
Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 21, 1864; served aboard the CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864;
shown as being a resident of Wakefield, North Carolina, and aged 66, in July, 1909; applied for a post
war Confederate pension from Wake County, North Carolina; his widow, Sarah F. Mitchell, also later
applied for a pension from the same county. [ORN 2, 1, 274; see also the Tennessee Confederate
pension file, of M.A. Lynam, no. 11450, available from the Tennessee State Library and Archives; NC
State Archives; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping
articles; Miscellaneous, page 408.]
Charles Mitchell, served as landsman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as
officer's cook from October 8, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 860.]
Charles Mitchell, served as seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as quartermaster from
January 20, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]
Dennis Mitchell, enlisted, for one year, as fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South
Carolina, on September 26, 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.]
H.W. Mitchell, paymaster's clerk, served on the Charleston station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]
Isaac Mitchell, quarter gunner, screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2,
1, 307.]
J.H. Mitchell, served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863;
deserted about August, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ -
Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 239.]
James Mitchell, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension
from Iredell County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]
James Mitchell, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
James Mitchell, 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.]
James F. Mitchell, Landsman, CSS Alert, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]
John Mitchell, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and was attached to the
CSS Charleston, Charleston station in 1863-1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 133, 136-139 and 153.]
John Kirkwood Mitchell, born North Carolina, about 1810; citizen of Florida; indicated to have been
related to admiral David Glasgow Farragut, of the Union Navy; appointed from Florida; previously
served in the United States Navy, from February 1, 1825, and was in command of the USS Wyoming at
the commencement of the war, and when he resigned from the service; married in Norfolk, Virginia;
appointed Commander in the Confederate States Navy, October 23, 1862 to rank from March 26, 1861
(or November 11, 1861?); attached to the New Orleans station, December, 1861, as subordinate to
commander Hollins; later assumed command of this station, February 1, 1861 - March, 1862; captured
at New Orleans, April, 1862, and held as prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, 1862; also
served on the Jackson station, 1862; later served as aide to the Secretary of the Navy, and
commanded the Office of Orders and Detail, Richmond, Virginia, 1863 - 1864; promoted captain, to
rank from May 13, 1863; assumed command of the James River Squadron (with the exception of the
CSS Patrick Henry), May 7, 1864, with his flagship as the CSS Richmond, until May 18, 1864; later served
aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; detached from
command of the James River squadron, February 15, 1865, when the command was transferred to
Rear Admiral Raphael Semmes, February 18, 1865; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865;
surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; applied for a Presidential
pardon in 1865;; died at Richmond, Virginia, December 5, 1889 (another report indicates he died on
Thursday, December 6, 1889). [ORN 1, 10, 625, 722 & 765; 1, 11 690; 1, 12, 183; 1, 14, 686; 1, 18, 441 and
2, 1, 311, 318, 320, 435 & 452; ORA 2, 3; Register1862; Register1863; Florida Confederate Card File;
Virginia Historical Society; JCC 4, 121; M1091; New York Times dated December 7, 1889; Milwaukee
Daily Journal (Wisconsin) dated Saturday, December 7, 1889; Presidential Pardons.]
John W. Mitchell, resident of Granville County, North Carolina; enlisted at the Naval Rendezvous,
Raleigh, North Carolina, March 21 or 30, 1864, aged 29, in the Confederate States Navy; served as
landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864; applied for a post war Confederate pension from
Granville County, North Carolina. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274; see also Tennessee
Confederate pension record of M.A. Lynam, file no. 11450, available from the Tennessee State Library
and Archives, in which Mitchell signs an affidavit, in 1909, when he was aged 75; NC State Archives;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles;
Miscellaneous, page 408.]
Richard A. Mitchell, born Caswell County, North Carolina; resided in Alamance County, North Carolina,
as a laborer, where he enlisted, May 8, 1861, aged 25, as private, company E, 13th Regiment North
Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 19, 1862, for duty on the
Merrimac (CSS Virginia), at Hampton Roads, Virginia; served as landsman on that vessel. [NCT 5, 333;
ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Robert Mitchell, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served (as ship's
corporal or ship's cook?), aboard the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 278 & 313.]
Thomas F. Mitchell, appointed second assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat
General M. Jeff Thompson, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 24, 1862. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers,
page 263.]
W. A. Mitchell, sent from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Richmond station, and received aboard
the CSS Hampton, James River squadron, on October 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 744.]
W.T. Mitchell, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]
William Mitchell, served as a private in the 19th 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.]
William J. Mitchell, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia,
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314.]
W.H.H. Mitchell, see William H.H. Mitchel.
Langley Mixon, resided Wilson County, North Carolina; enlisted at Craven County, North Carolina, June
28, 1861, aged 22, as private, company F, 4th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; wounded in the
left thigh and captured at Fredericksburg, Virginia, May 3, 1863; hospitalized at Washington, D.C., and
transferred to Old Capitol Prison, Washington, June 16, 1863; exchanged at City Point, Virginia, about
June, 1863 and returned to his regiment; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864.
[NCT 4, 72.]