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James J. Mobley, served in the Confederate States Navy at Savannah, Georgia; served as witness for
Sarah E. Ryals of Sumter County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 679.]
Murial Mobley, born Georgia; occupation, farmer; single; enlisted June 4, 1861, aged 18, at Cropwell,
Alabama, in company F, 10th Alabama Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, at an
unspecified date and place. [ADAH.]
James Mock, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile
Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]
Lorenzo Modlin, served as boatswain's mate, Confederate States Navy; wounded slightly and
captured aboard the CSS Sea Bird and paroled, Elizabeth City/Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February
10, 1862. [ORA 2, 3; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War
rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 204; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and
Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 548.]
Josh Moffat, served as landsman 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.]
Joshua Moffett, served as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, and transferred to the Mobile station
about January 22, 1864 (see entries for Josh Moffat and J.Y. Moffitt, who may be the same person).
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 100.]
J.Y. Moffitt (surname also shown as Moffet), 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.]
R.W. Moffitt, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]
John Mohr, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]
James Moldon (surname also shown as Maulden), served as 2nd class boy at the New Orleans station,
in 1861, and aboard the CSS Pamlico from October 28, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 79, 259
and 268.]
Peter Moline (surname also shown as Molenia and Mulina), ordinary seaman, ironclad steam sloop
CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; wounded in action by the explosion of a shell,
January 24, 1865, on the James River; attached as a private to company A, Semmes' Naval Brigade,
April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; see also, entry for
Peter Mulvone, who may be the same person. [ORN 1, 11, 689 and 2, 1, 312; M1091.]
Martin Molk, born England; Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1862-3; transferred to CSS Tuscaloosa,
June 21, 1863, as Boatswain's Mate; later served on CSS Rappahannock, 1864. [ORN 1, 2, 713; William
Marvel; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
John Molloy, see John Malloy.
Thomas Monagan, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; wounded in action, and captured aboard
the CSS Atlanta, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268.]
John Monahan, enlisted at Mobile, Alabama (enlistment place also shown as Richmond), by captain
George P. Turner, as private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, May 16, 1862; served at
the Richmond station, 1863, and in the marine guard aboard the CSS Drewry, James River squadron, in
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 308 and 1047; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 435
and 466.]
A.T. Mondon, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia;
transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316.]
John Money, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 301.]
Thomas J. Moniters, served as a private in company F, 5th Virginia 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.]
Hamilton Monk, originally served as private, company C, 10th Florida Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as landsman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee,
May 4, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 701; Civil War Service Records.]
Thomas Monk, resident of Portsmouth, Hampshire, England; married; shipped, as quartermaster and
boatswain's mate, aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia off the coast of France, about April, 1863; paid 5
pounds, 10 shillings for the first six months, and then 6 pounds; Monk is shown in a list of "boarders"
on the cruiser, holding the position of gun captain at the 2nd gun division; after a cruise of several
months in this vessel, returned to France, going into Cherbourg for repairs; sent to the CSS
Rappahannock, at Calais, then sent home for a week's leave; returned to the CSS Rappahannock
about the beginning of February, 1864, and promoted to boatswain, at the rate of 18 pounds per
month; discharged March 7, 1864. [Alabama Claims 1, 694 and 2, 750; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]
Thomas Monk, served as landsman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864 (operated on the
Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia); sent on furlough but did not return to duty.
[ORN 2, 1, 283; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 674.]
Alexander Monmiere, 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.]
James Monnehan (surname also shown as Minnehan and Monaghan), born Ireland; private,
Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863; aged 35; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta,
at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston
Harbor, September 6, 1863; released, December 10, 1864 (see also, entry for Thomas Monagan).
[Atlanta Medical Journal, entries dated Saturday, December 20, 1862 and Thursday, January 29, 1863;
Fort Warren.]
D. Monroe, Landsman, assigned, from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Battery Brooke, James River, Virginia,
October, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 805.]
G.D. Monroe, Confederate States Navy; confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, where he died and is
buried. [Point Lookout.]
James Monroe, served as seaman aboard the CSS Manassas, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as
quarter gunner from November 9, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 992.]
John A. Monroe (middle initial also shown as H.), ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina,
Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]
James Montague, shipped for the war, as seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee
(originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, on May 1, 1863. [ORN 2, 1,
297; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
New Orleans - Yorktown, page 602.]
W.P. Montague, sergeant, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS
Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
Charles Montedeoca (surname also shown as Montesdeoca), born Tampa, Florida, about 1844;
previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on
April 8, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia,
Savannah squadron; transferred, as seaman, in July, 1864, to the CSS Macon, and later served as
quartermaster aboard the vessel, 1864 - 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540
and 560.]
---- Montgomery, Pilot (civilian), CSS Arkansas, June, 1862. [ORN 1, 19, 132.]
James Montgomery, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863 (may be the same person listed in the next entry). [ORN 2, 1, 308.]
James Montgomery, served as seaman aboard the CSS Selma, killed in action, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
August 5, 1864 (may be the same person listed in the previous entry). [ORN 1, 21, 578.]
James Edward Montgomery, born Carrollton, Kentucky, 1817; engaged in river traffic, prior to the war;
indicated to have served in the Confederate States Navy, as captain; no official documentation of such
service, and may in fact have been in service of the Confederate Army, as commander of a vessel;
claimed to have almost captured general Ulysses S. Grant; appointed as senior captain in command of
the Mississippi River Defense Fleet on March 25, 1862; appointed by Confederate Army major general
M. Lovell, with the authority of the Confederate president; operated on the Mississippi River, from
Cairo to Mobile, Alabama; held as a prisoner of war, in January, 1865; lost his eyesight about 1890, and
moved to Chicago to live with his son, Dr. James Montgomery; died at the home of his son, August 4,
1902. [ORA 2, 8; Evening Times (Washington, D.C.) dated August 4, 1902; Washington Post dated
August 5, 1902, page 3; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked
commissions, page 170.]
John Montgomery, 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.]
M. Montos De Oka, ordinary seaman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached, as private,
company K, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]
P. Montrose, Engineer (civilian), Queen of the West, February, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 407.]
George Moody, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on April 8, 1864, and served as ordinary
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 and 2, 1, 283; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]
H.J. Moody, enlisted August 21, 1861, as private, 1st company A, 60th Regiment Georgia Infantry
(Bartow Artillery); transferred to company A, 22nd Battalion Georgia Heavy Artillery, November 26,
1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 15, 1864. [Georgia Rosters 6, 114.]
R.E. Moody, 2nd class fireman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the
steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302.]
Robert Moody, coal heaver, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865.
[ORN 2, 1, 312.]
Thomas Moody, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865 (see
next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 312.]
Thomas M. Moody, landsman, CSS Drewry, killed in action, James River, January 24, 1865 (see previous
entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 11, 679 & 689.]
S.K. Mooers, Third Assistant Engineer, CSS Virginia II, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 671.]
H.C. Moon, served as a private in company K, 2nd Georgia Volunteers; transferred to the Confederate
States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209 dated at
Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston, South
Carolina. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]
J. M. Moon, served at Savannah, Georgia, 1863, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 695.]
William S. Moon (surname also shown as Moore), citizen of Ohio; previous service in the United
States Navy, as acting midshipman, from which he resigned, November 30, 1860; appointed acting
master in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, November 1, 1861; served aboard the CSS
General Polk in 1861-1862, and on the Jackson station, 1862; discharged from the Naval service on June
19, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; 36th Congress Report 24; 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, pages 175 and 930.]
James Mooney, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 292.]
John Mooney, served as sergeant, Confederate States Marine Corps, 1861; assaulted and wounded by
Confederate States Navy sailor, John Burke, at Richmond, Virginia, June, 1861; Mooney was also
arrested for drunkenness and being in possession of a sling shot, on the same day. [Daily Dispatch
(Richmond, Virginia) dated June 18, 1861.]
John Mooney, served as coal heaver and 1st class fireman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS
Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 489.]
R. Mooney, shipped as seaman aboard the revenue cutter Morgan, Mobile, Alabama, in 1861.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1162.]
Richard Mooney, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, in 1861;
rated as seaman from June 14, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 864.]
A.J. Moore, indicated to have served as a Confederate marine; buried at the Catholic Cemetery,
Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]
Alfred Moore, ordinary seaman, served aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known
as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1863 - 1865; transferred, at an
unspecified date, to the Charleston station; died July 5, 1865; buried Laurel Grove Cemetery,
Savannah, Georgia. [ORN 2, 1, 287; Honeycutt; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 716.]
C. Moore, Acting Carpenter, paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231.]
Christopher Moore, 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, 289; DANFS.]
Daniel Moore, seaman, CSS Florida; also served on the captured vessels, Clarence, Archer and Tacony;
captured, June, 1863, and sent to Fort Warren for confinement. [Fort Warren.]
E.F. Moore, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia;
transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316.]
E.W. Moore, 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.]
Edward W. Moore, born Virginia, about 1814; resided, as a pilot, with his wife, Margaret, and daughter,
Mary, at Norfolk, in 1860; appointed from civil life; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as
acting boatswain and pilot, July 5, 1861; involved in an expedition to capture a Union vessel at Newport
News, Virginia, on October 10, 1861; allotment of part of his pay made, in 1861, to Maggie Moore;
served on the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, February, 1862; also served aboard the CSS
Beaufort, 1862 - 1863; resigned as boatswain in the Confederate States Navy on March 1, 1863; served
as pilot, 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; aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS
Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; in charge of the flag of truce boat Allison, on the James
River, Virginia, in February, 1865. [U.S. 1860 Census; ORN 1, 6, 304 and 767; 1, 10, 726 & 765; 1, 11, 690;
1, 12, 184 and 2, 1, 299 & 311; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file,
X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and
Registers, page 330; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OL -
Mobilization and demobilization; Norfolk - Miscellaneous, page 186.]
George Moore, previously served as Private, Company C, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry,
June 20, 1861; transferred to CSS Virginia, February 10, 1862; served as Officer's Cook in the James
River Squadron, 1864-65; listed as cabin cook aboard the CSS Nansemond, in 1864; deserted from the
vessel about May, 1864, but was captured and confined at one of the military prisons at Richmond,
Virginia, with two other deserters from the vessel; an officer and guard from the vessel were sent to
take them in custody, and return them to the vessel, on May 28, 1864; deserted, once again, at
Richmond, April 3, 1865; went into Union lines and took the Oath of Allegiance, April 17, 1865 and
transported to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, April 24, 1865. [Georgia Rosters 1, 577; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
page 1223; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling,
Miscellaneous, page 509.]
George Moore, 3rd class boy, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]
George Moore, served as landsman 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.]
George F. Moore (middle initial also shown as T.), ordinary seaman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta,
Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Tuesday, March 31, 1863; ORN 1,
14, 268.]
George T. Moore, resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; served as private (?) in the Confederate States
Navy. [Norfolk County Record 202.]
H. Moore, served as captain of forecastle 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.]
Hallette Moore, resident of Hennebec County, Maine; personal description shown as blue eyes, light
hair, light complexion and 5 feet, 2 inches in height; served as ordinary seaman in the Confederate
States Navy; captured by Union forces at an unknown place and date; sent to New Orleans, Louisiana,
where he was released October 3, 1864, by order of Union General Canby. [Scriber.]
Henry Moore, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
Henry Moore, served as 1st class boy in the Confederate States Navy; deserted about February, 1864,
but was apprehended and delivered up at Shreveport, Louisiana, on February 1, 1864. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 241.]
Henry Moore, served aboard the CSS Missouri, 1864; deserted from the vessel, at Shreveport,
Louisiana, on April 26, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and
straggling, Miscellaneous, page 506.]
Henry Moore, served as seaman and captain of forecastle aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS
Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1,
300; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 484 - 487.]
Henry Moore, quarter gunner, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865
(see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 312.]
Henry Moore, Confederate States Navy; captured, and confined at Camp Morton, Indiana; buried at
Green Lawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana. [Information as shown in an article, titled "Confederate
Dead Buried in Indiana," in the January (pages 24-29) and February (pages 76-83), 1914 issues (volume
XXII) of Confederate Veteran magazine.]
Hugh Moore, appointed second officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General M. Jeff
Thompson, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 28, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]
J.M. Moore, Landsman, CSS Georgia, July, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 715.]
James Moore, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
James Moore, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 292.]
James Moore, gunner's mate, 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.]
James A. Moore, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Georgia, Savannah Squadron, Georgia,
1863 - 1864; signed on for the war on July 1, 1863, and, as landsman, was granted a fourteen day
furlough from July 6, 1863; transferred to the military service (Confederate States Army), on May 5,
1864. [Confederate States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers, page 13; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 514.] [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked
commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 893 and
928.]
James D. Moore (colored), served as landsman aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also
known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 622.]
James O. Moore, born North Carolina; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant
paymaster, September 21, 1861; served on the steamer CSS Richmond, 1862 - 1864; commissioned
paymaster, February 6, 1863; served aboard the CSS Virginia II, James River squadron, 1864; appointed
paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865;
surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [Register1863; Register1864;
JCC 4, 122; M1091; ORN 1, 10, 671.]
James W. Moore, born North Carolina, 1846; resided in 1860, with his mother Martha, and siblings, at
Apalachicola, Florida; resided, in 1860, next door to John Theobald, who was later a fellow sailor aboard
the CSS Spray; enlisted, 1861, in Thigpen's (2nd Florida) Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States
Navy, and served, as seaman, on the CSS Spray; received the bounty of $50, for enlisting, in the
quarter ending September 30, 1863; surrendered, as ordinary seaman, aboard the vessel, May, 1865;
paroled at ST. Marks, Florida, May 12, 1865; resided as a sailor, in 1880, with his mother, Martha, at
Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida; married Mary Alice Johnston, April 15, 1884 (or 1883), at Franklin
County; died January 24, 1891, at Apalachicola. [Soldiers of Florida, 317; Florida Confederate Pension
File No. A00237; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 663; Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 367.]
John Moore, originally served as private, company L, Cobb's Legion, Georgia; transferred to the "Navy
Department" at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
John Moore, resided in, and enlisted at Wake County, North Carolina, September 23, 1862, aged 28, as
private, company I, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States
Navy on or about April 22, 1863. [NCT 4, 610.]
John Moore, received aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on June 19, 1862. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 750.]
John Moore, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]
Jordan M. Moore, born and resided in Harnett County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer;
enlisted at Harnett County, April 5, 1862, aged 20, as private, company B, 10th Battalion North Carolina
Heavy Artillery; transferred, May 23, 1863, to company D of the same Battalion; received bounty of $50
for his enlistment in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps, on December 4, 1863, at
Savannah; transferred to the CSS Indian Chief at Charleston, South Carolina, January 9, 1865; captured
in Harnett County, March 18, 1865 and confined at Point Lookout, Maryland, until released after taking
the Oath of Allegiance, June 29, 1865. [NCT 1, 528 & 546; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 240.]
Joseph Moore, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, 1862; lodged as a prisoner in the
Savannah jail, March 22, 1862 to March 25, 1862, for an unspecified reason. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 22.]
Joseph B. Moore, served as officers' steward, CSS Resolute, Savannah River squaqdron, Georgia, 1862
- 1864; described as being "an Indian by a white man"; deserted at Savannah, Georgia, May 1, 1864;
returned and surrendered himself sometime prior to May 6, 1864. [ORN 1, 1, 734 and 2, 1, 303.]
Lawrence Moore, served as coal heaver at the New Orleans station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 117.]
Luke Moore, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital
status, married; enlisted at New Orelans, July 18, 1861, aged 29, as private, company D, 15th Louisiana
Infantry; deserted sometime between May and October 31, 1862; same source also indicates he
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February, 1862. [Booth 2, 1034.]
Marshall Moore, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah
prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia; served May - June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 297.]
Martin Moore, sergeant, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama
waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and 1864; 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.]
Michael M. Moore, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Moses Moore, landsman, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around
Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), 1863; also served aboard the CSS Savannah,
Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H.
Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving
vessel, CSS Indian Chief. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764; ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; DANFS.]
Nathaniel Moore, originally served as private, company F, 40th Virginia Infantry; promoted corporal;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Oliver Moore, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
P.T. Moore, previously served as Private, Company C, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, June
20, 1861; transferred to CSS Virginia, February 10, 1862; served as Ordinary Seaman at Savannah,
Georgia, in 1864; died in service. [Georgia Rosters 1, 577.]
Preston B. Moore, born Arkansas; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman,
February 13, 1863; Moore stated that when he received the appointment, he was then at Davidson
College, North Carolina; served at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1863; also on the school ship, CSS Patrick
Henry, 1863; later on the Mobile squadron, 1863 - 1864; ordered for duty aboard the CSS Savannah,
Savannah squadron, August 26, 1864. [Register1864; CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L -
Z) - Revoked commissions, page 171.]
Robert W. Moore, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Samuel D. Moore, appointed quartermaster aboard the Confederate States gunboat General
Beauregard, 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.]
Scipio Moore, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
T.G. Moore, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
T.W.B. Moore, citizen of Mobile, but was in Savannah in 1863; aged 25 (in 1863); described as 5 feet 6
inches high, blue eyes, dark hair and light complexion; served aboard the CSS Atlanta; deserted in
June, 1863, and a reward of $50 was offered for his apprehension and delivery, or confinement in jail.
[Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated Tuesday, June 16, 1863.]
Thomas Moore, served as boy aboard the CSS Sumter, 1861 - 1862; joined the cruiser at the age of 15,
May 6, 1861; after the cruiser was disbanded and sold at Gibraltar, Moore made his way to London,
and then to Australia, "as special messenger for the English government"; remained in Australia for
two years, then went to New Orleans, where he arrived just after the close of the war; resident of
Galveston, Texas, in 1890, and, with Melville P. Beaufort, were the only survivors of the Sumter's crew,
in the state of Texas, at that time. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas)
dated August 4, 1890, page 8.]
Thomas Moore, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]
Thomas Moore, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina
stations, 1861, and aboard the CSS Savannah; admitted to the marine hospital at Savannah on October
28, 1861, for an unspecified reason, and where he died at on November 14, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 317;
Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page
29.]
Thomas Moore, served as seaman on the New Orleans station in 1861, and aboard the CSS Mobile, off
Yazoo City, Mississippi, in 1862; rated as quarter gunner from June 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page
1041; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
New Orleans - Yorktown, page 85.]
Thomas G. Moore, born North Carolina, 1830; served as landsman, CSS Arctic; resided as a farmer, in
1880, with his wife, Deacy (maiden name Wood), and three children (eldest child born 1862) at
Faucetts, Halifax County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Wake
County, North Carolina; his widow, Dacy Ann Moore, also later applied for a pension from the same
county. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 277; 1880 U.S. Census.]
Thomas J. Moore, served as landsman in the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; served
aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22,
1865; attached as private to company H, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865;
surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse,
pages 270 - 271.]
Thomas Longworth Moore, born at Mulberry Grove plantation, Hertford County, North Carolina,
February 22, 1847 (one source shows year of birth as 1845); son of Dr. Godwin Cotton Moore, and Julia
Munro Wheeler; educated at home, by private tutors; previous service in the United States Navy, as
midshipman, from September 30, 1857; resigned from United State Naval service, April 19, 1861;
assisted in the organization and drilling of the first company of soldiers raised in Murfreesboro, North
Carolina (see volume titled "Before the Rebel Flag Fell" by F. Roy Johnson); appointed acting
midshipman, Confederate States Navy, June 12, 1861, and served aboard the Confederate States
receiving ship, United States; captained the privateer Dixie, in November, 1861; served on the side-
wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (which was later re-named CSS Selma), Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana,
and Mobile Bay, Alabama, areas, 1862 - 1863; promoted acting master, October 4, 1862; sent for
service abroad, 1863, and was assigned to the cruiser CSS Texas, which never saw service afloat;
promoted 2nd lieutenant, January 7, 1864, to rank from April 29, 1863, then to 1st lieutenant, Provisional
Navy of the Confederate States, June 2, 1864, to rank from January 6, 1864; married Rose Standish
Ludlam, at Baden Germany, August 17 (or 22), 1864 (after her death at Baltimore, Maryland, in 1870,
he married Kate Ward, April 14, 1873); listed as awaiting duty, in Europe, in September, 1864; reported
for duty aboard the CSS Rappahannock, at Calais, France, on December 28, 1864; resided for a time, in
Richmond, Virginia; post war occupation as a businessman; in 1880, employed as a clerk in the house of
Representatives, in Washington, D.C.; in 1910, employed as a civil engineer in New York City; member
and adjutant of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York; awarded the United Daughters of the
Confederacy Cross of Honor; returned to Washington, D.C., and then finally settled down at
Portsmouth, Virginia, where he died May 17, 1926. [CSN Register; Register1863; JCC 4, 122; Forrest 201
& 275; ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; ORN 2, 2, 516, & 819-820; 1880 U.S. Census; some additional biographical
data provided by his descendants, Sally Moore Koestler, of College Station, Texas, in an e-mail
(sally@sallysfamilyplace.com) dated Saturday, March 4, 2006, and James Moore, resident of Clarksville,
Tennessee, and director of the Sink Library, Fort Campbell, Kentucky, in an e-mail
(laurencecromp@yahoo.com) dated Monday, March 6, 2006; see also, article titled "The Rebel Navy,"
in the Richmond, Virginia Daily Examiner, dated Friday, November 29, 1861, page 1; New York Times
dated October 30, 1895; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Veteran Camp of New York.]
W.S. Moore, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia;
transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316.]
Wesley W. Moore, resided in, and enlisted at Onslow County, North Carolina, March 24, 1862, as
private, company E, 3rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; wounded in action at Gettysburg,
Pennsylvania, July 3, 1863, and captured in hospital at Gettysburg, July 4-5, 1863; incarcerated at
DeCamp General Hospital, Davids Island, New York Harbor; exchanged at City Point, Virginia, August
28, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864. [NCT 3, 540.]
William Moore, officers' steward; disrated to landsman, April 13, 1863; resident of Florida; killed in
boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; buried at the
First United Methodist Church cemetery, Chattahoochee, Florida. [ORN 1, 17, 869; John E. Ellis; CSS
Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]
William Moore, originally served as private, company B, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
William Moore, seaman, CSS Tennessee, killed in action, Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864. [ORN 1,
21, 578.]
William Moore, served as landsman aboard the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron,
Alabama, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1064.]
William Moore, served as gunner's mate aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 -
1218.]
William Moore, served as landsman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as
officer's cook on March 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1001.]
William Moore, served aboard the cutter Morgan, New Orleans station, 1862; deserted, but was
apprehended by (policeman?) James Spellicy, and returned on board on March 6, 1862, and for which
Spellicy received a reward of $10; Moore deserted again in April, 1862, and was once again
apprehended, this time by policeman James Morrison, who returned Moore to the Morgan on April
18, 1862, and received a reward of $10. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions
and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 243 and 245.]
William B. Moore, seaman, ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia
and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia; served sometime between September, 1861 and December,
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 286; DANFS.]
William B. Moore, born Alabama, about 1837; resident of Savannah, Georgia; married; served as
seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; transferred on December 8, 1862, to the
CSS Atlanta; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll of the CSS
Georgia indicates that he also served aboard that vessel. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 286-287; Atlanta
Medical Journal, see entry for Monday, May 25, 1863; see also his letter addressed to Captain Arthur
Sinclair, CSS Atlanta, dated March 9, 1863, in the collection of the University of Southern Mississippi,
Hattiesburg; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 592.]
William B. Moore, private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 315.]
William H. Moore, originally served as private, company A, 2nd Virginia Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
William H. Moore, served as landsman aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River,
Virginia, 1864 - 1865; paroled at Winchester, Virginia, April 23, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page
664.]
William P. Moore (also shown as W. P. P. Moore), recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on July 31, 1863, as
a private in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps; filed for a post war Confederate pension
from Charlton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 688; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 688.]
William S. Moore, see William S. Moon.
Wyatt S. Moore, born Georgia, 1836; son of Arbin and Susanna Moore; resided, in 1850, with his
parents, at Gwinnett County, Georgia; served in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps; name
also shown on a list of Marine Corps personnel transferred from the CSS Savannah to Richmond,
Virginia, at an unspecified date; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Elizabeth, and nine children
(eldest child born 1859) at Goodwins, Gwinnett County, Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate
pension from Gwinnett County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 688; ORN 2, 1, 316; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880
U.S. Census.]
J.M. Moorecock, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see also, entry for A.M
Morecock, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
T. J. Moores, served as landsman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 849.]
William P. Moorman, born May 15, 1836, Pulaski County, Georgia; resided in Florida since 1857;
enlisted July 5, 1861, at Ocala, in Company E, Second Florida Infantry; contracted measles and typhoid
at Yorktown, Virginia in August, 1861; discharged December 17, 1861; re-enlisted April 24, 1862 in
Company H, Seventh Florida Infantry at Camp Lee, discharged December 10, 1862, at Knoxville;
reenlisted March 22, 1863 in Company G, Ninth Florida Infantry, at Ocala; transferred to Confederate
States Navy, May 1, 1864; served on the Receiving Ship, CSS Indian Chief; deserted March 24, 1865;
post war occupation, carpenter or mechanic; married Mary Gore, August 1, 1881, at Marion County,
Florida; died October 15, 1911, at Marion County, Florida. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 185; Florida
Confederate Pension File No. D18817.]
Charles W. Moran, originally served as private, company C, 21st Battalion, Georgia Cavalry; transferred
to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served, in 1862, as landsman aboard the CSS
Palmetto State, Charleston station; condemned by medical survey and discharged from the Naval
service on December 15, 1862. [Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 245.]
George W. Moran, appointed 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at Acquia Creek,
Virginia, September 19, 1861; also served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862, and aboard the CSS
Richmond. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked
commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 177.]
James Moran, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama
waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863 (see next entry, which
may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 281.]
James Moran, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile
Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 293.]
James Moran, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861; rated as 3rd class boy and later
promoted to 1st class boy, 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;
deserted about June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 247.]
John Baptiste Moran, served as ordinary seaman aboard the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan,
Mobile squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864; buried at Biloxi Cemetery, Biloxi, Mississippi. [ORN 2, 1, 293;
John E. Ellis.]
Joseph Moran, ordinary seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863
- 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]
Michael Moran, born Ireland; shipped aboard the CSS Shenandoah, October 18, 1864; rated as captain
of hold, November 9, 1864; disrated to seaman, November 21, 1864, as requested by Moran; (Whittle
describes Moran as "a hard working, quiet man"); rated as captain of forecastle, January 12, 1865, by
order of commander, James I. Waddell; reshipped April 18, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 1, 975; CSS
Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 65, 75, 103 & 235; ORN 1, 3, 783.]
Michael Moran (also on Rolls as M.T. Moran), born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war
occupation, laborer; marital status, single; enlisted at New Orleans, June 6, 1862, aged 30, as private,
company C, 14th Louisiana Infantry; deserted since August, 1862 and joined the Confederate States
Navy. [Booth 2, 1042.]
Patrick Moran, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina
stations, 1861, and aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; transferred, on December 8,
1862, to the CSS Atlanta. [ORN 2, 1, 317; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 592; Atlanta Medical
Journal, entry dated Saturday, January 17, 1863.]
Thomas Moran, shipped as boy (aged between 14 and 17) aboard the Confederate States floating
battery, New Orleans, on October 30, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 12.]
Thomas Moran, enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861; later rated as seaman
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.]
W. Moran, shown on a Roll of Confederate Prisoners of War as being a private [?] in the Mobile Navy
[Mobile Station, Confederate States Navy?], paroled at Lauderdale, Mississippi, May 4, 1865; resident
of New Orleans, Louisiana. [Booth 2, 1043.]
William Moran, landsman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]
James Morant, served as 3rd class boy aboard the CSS Alert, 1861 (see next entry, which may be the
same person). [ORN 2, 1, 275.]
James Morant, 3rd class boy, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 308.]
James More, Seaman, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]
Oscar Moreau (surname also shown as Morcau; his first name is also shown as Ferdinand), shipped at
Shreveport, Louisiana, for three years or the war, on February 20, 1864; served as landsman aboard
the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1864; deserted at Shreveport on the night of April 23, 1864.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1017; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and
Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 396; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 514.]
A.M. Morecock, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 -
1864; also served as ordinary seaman on the screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 -
1864?. (see also, entry for J.M. Moorecock, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 302 & 307;
DANFS.]
Franklin Cadwallader Morehead, born Kentucky, September, 1846; son of lawyer Charles Morehead,
and his wife, Margaret; resided, in 1850, with his parents and siblings at Franklin county, Kentucky;
previous service as midshipman at the United States Naval Academy, September 25, 1863, from which
he resigned; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman, 3rd class, February 19, 1863;
served aboard the school ship, CSS Patrick Henry, and aboard the CSS Nansemond, James River
squadron, 1864; assigned for duty at the Naval battery at Bishop's, James River, Virginia, October 5,
1864; later passed midshipman, Provisional Navy; attached, as lieutenant, to Semmes' Naval Brigade,
April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; never married;
resided as a bond broker, 1900 - 1910, at New York City; member of the Confederate Veteran Camp of
New York and the New York Southern Society; awarded the United Daughters of the Confederacy
Cross of Honor; died at his residence at 210 West 85th Street, New York, January 30, 1914; remains sent
to Frankfort, Kentucky, for interment. [ORN 1, 10, 642 & 772; Register1864; Confederate Veteran 22,
221; M1091; 1850 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Confederate Veteran Camp of New
York; New York Times dated Wednesday, October 6, 1863 and Sunday, February 1, 1914.]
W. W. Moreland (surname also shown as Morland), born Clayborn County, Mississippi, about 1841;
enlisted in Mississippi, February 15, 1862, as private, company D, 4th Battalion Louisiana Infantry;
promoted sergeant, January 9, 1863; transferred, at Dalton, Georgia, to the Confederate States Navy,
per order of the Secretary of War, on April 8, 1864; sent as landsman aboard the CSS Savannah;
transferred, on April 21, 1864, to the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, and later served as 2nd class
fireman on the same vessel, 1864; deserted from the CSS Isondiga on the night of the evacuation of
Savannah, Georgia. [Booth 2, 1047; ORN 2, 1, 289; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 801; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 642; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling,
Miscellaneous, page 543.]
Charles M. Morfit, born Maryland (1860 U.S. Census shows state of birth as Ohio, and 1880 U.S. Census
shows state of birth as District of Columbia), 1839; son of attorney Henry Morfit, and his wife, Cathrine;
resided, in 1860, as a student of medicine, with his parents and siblings, at Baltimore, Maryland;
original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon, June 10, 1861; served on the
New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; later on the Jackson station, 1862; served aboard the CSS Arkansas,
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; on special duty, 1862 - 1863; afterward on the
Wilmington station, 1863 - 1864; captured aboard a boat from the CSS Oconee, at Ossabaw Sound,
Georgia, by the USS Madgie, on August 20, 1863; transferred to the USS Wamsutta, to be sent north
on August 21, 1863; however protocol would have seen him, being a surgeon, released; served
aboard the CSS Albemarle, 1863 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864;
resided as a physician, in 1880, with his wife, Mary E. Morfit (maiden name Fisher), and three children,
at Baltimore, Maryland; in 1920, shown as a widower, residing with his sister, at Baltimore. [ORN 1, 19,
132 and 2, 1, 318, 320 & 323; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census;
1920 U.S. Census; Charleston Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file, R -
Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 488.]
B. L. Morgan, citizen, who commanded the Confederate States steamer Paul Jones; paroled at
Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 6, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 663.]
Carlton Morgan, served as landsman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863;
later served on the CSS Georgia, Savannah River, Georgia, in 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; transferred, on June 1, 1864, to the Confederate
States Army, in exchange for Z.H. Porter, by order of flag officer W.W. Hunter. [ORN 2, 1, 305;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and Transfers.; CSS Atlanta -
Miscellaneous, page 13; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 554, 664 and 763.]
D.A. Morgan, Master at Arms, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]
David Morgan, born Louisiana, resided at New Orleans; pre-war occupation, caulker; marital status,
single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 23, 1861, aged 17, as private, company B, 8th Louisiana
Infantry; deserted September, 1862 and joined the Confederate States Navy. [Booth 2, 1048.]
Felix Morgan, served as captain of afterguard aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863; a list of boarders
shows Morgan in the position of gun captain at the 2nd gun division on the cruiser. [Alabama Claims 1,
694; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]
Frank Morgan, served as 3rd class boy aboard the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile
Squadron, Alabama, 1862 - 1864; deserted about June, 1862, but was obviously returned to duty, as
he was later examined by a board of medical survey at the Confederate States Naval Hospital at
Mobile on April 26, 1864; found to be unfit for the service, due to chronic rheumatism, which
originated in the line of duty, and recommended for a discharge from the service. [ORN 2, 1, 293;
Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MX - Medical Surveys and Examinations of Individuals; B -
Miscellaneous, page 28; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling,
Miscellaneous, page 249.]
George Morgan, 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.]
H. C. Morgan, served as a marine aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of the
prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of that
vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of
prize money - Miscellaneous, page 2.]
Henry Morgan, boy, served on the receiving ship St. Phillip, (previously named the Star of the West);
drowned on the Mississippi River, May 17, 1861. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 24,
1861.]
James Morris Morgan (nicknamed "Little Morgan"), born New Orleans, Louisiana, March 10, 1845; son
of lawyer and judge, Thomas Gibbes Morgan and his wife Sarah; brother in law of Confederate Navy
master's mate Francis Warrington Dawson; later resided in Baton Rouge; attended Professor
Magruder's Academy at Baton Rouge; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 20,
1860; resigned from the United States Navy, April 16, 1861; original entry into Confederate States
Navy, as acting midshipman, 4th class, July 8, 1861; served on the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans
station, 1861; later served on the Jackson station, 1862; afterwards on the Richmond station, 1862; ran
the blockade, in October, 1862, as aide to commodore Mathew F. Maury, and, at Halifax, Nova Scotia,
took passage in the Cunard steamer, Arabia, for Liverpool; served on the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1862 -
1864; later returned to the Confederate States and served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS
Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864; assigned to guard the retreating group that included the
wife of Jefferson Davis, in 1865; sadly both his brothers, Thomas Gibbes Morgan, and George M.
Morgan, died during the war; married Frances Fincke, a daughter of Confederate treasury secretary,
George A. Trenholm; served as captain of marines, in the service of the Khedive of Egypt, 1870, at a
pay rate of 754 francs; was known as the best horseman in the Egyptian Army; later resided at
Washington, D.C; assisted in the erection of the Statue of Liberty in New York Harbor; authored the
book, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer; appointed American Consul General at Melbourne, Australia,
during the first administration of President Cleveland; later served as assistant manager of the
International Banking Corporation; died of a stroke, Saturday, April 21, 1928, at his residence in the
Toronto Apartments, Washington, D.C.; funeral services held at the Samson Funeral Chapel, in
Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on Monday, April 23, 1928; buried at the Allegheny Cemetery. [ORN 1, 2, 635
and 2, 1, 290, 300, 318 & 321; Register1863; Register1864; Morgan; Harrison 179 & 200; Alabama Claims
1, 694; CSN Register; Booth 2, 1049; Reminiscences xii & 43; CSN-Museum; 1860 U.S. Census; New York
Times dated Wednesday, August 26, 1870 and Monday, April 28, 1928; Washington Post dated
September 3, 1911, page 14; Daily South Carolinian (Columbia) dated Tuesday, May 3, 1864.]
John Morgan, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, January 17, 1862, as private, company K, 20th
Louisiana Infantry; had apparently served in the Confederate States Navy, and surrendered to the
Naval authorities, as a deserter from that branch of the service. [Booth 2, 1050.]
John Morgan, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; lodged in the New Orleans
parish prison in January, 1862, for four days, no reason shown. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 83;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 251.]
Matthew Morgan, served as seaman on Launch No. 5, New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 45.]
Peter Morgan, enlisted, for one year, as coal passer 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 1228; Alabama Claims 2,
(appendix 2), 133.]
Samuel Morgan, Coxswain, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in November 27, 1861;
transferred to company K, 7th Florida Infantry, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy,
August 5, 1862, as sailmaker, aboard the CSS Chattahoochee; later served as sailmaker's mate on CSS
Savannah. [Soldiers of Florida, 49; Robert Watson Diary August 5, 1862; CSS Chattahoochee Muster
Roll; ORN 2, 1, 304.]
Samuel Morgan, 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.]
Thomas Morgan, served as seaman and master at arms aboard the stern-wheeled gunboat CSS
Isondiga, Savannah squadron, in 1863; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863,
and served as ship's corporal aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, at Charleston, 1863-1864; listed his
next of kin, in 1864, as Margaret Morgan. [ORN 2, 1, 284 and 288; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 773;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 699.]
Thomas F. Morgan, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; captured at Fort Gaines, Alabama on
August 8, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls..,
A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 224.]
Van Rensselaer Morgan, born Kentucky, 1817; citizen of, and appointed from Virginia; original service
in the United States Navy, from December 8, 1836; entered the Confederate States Navy, June 18,
1861, as 1st lieutenant; stationed, in 1862, at the Naval works, Selma, Alabama; married Martha A
Moseley (daughter of Berwell Moseley), January 20, 1862, at Christ Church, Norfolk, Virginia; stationed
at the commandant's office, Naval station, Marion Court House, South Carolina, in mid 1864; attached
to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April
26, 1865; appointed Inspector of works and repairs on the roads and streets of the District of Columbia,
in August, 1877; resided as a clerk of the district government, in 1880, with his wife Martha A. Morgan,
and five children (eldest child born South Carolina, 1863), at Washington, District of Columbia; still
shown residing there in 1890. [Register1863; M1091; 1880 U.S. Census; Washington, D.C. City Directory,
1890; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated January 22, 1862; Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock,
Arkansas0 dated August 1, 1877; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat,
Stores for ships (1864), page 477.]
Wiley P. Morgan, jr., appointed captain's clerk in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on
September 23, 1861; served aboard the steamer CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, 1861; re-appointed
on April 11, 1862; later served on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject
file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (1861), page 514; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 266; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked
commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 774 and
776.]
William Morgan, Captain of Maintop, CSS Alabama; born Liverpool; reduced to Seaman, July 3, 1863;
Captain of Foretop, December 23, 1863; wounded in action and captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19,
1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]
William C. Morgan, served as Navy agent's clerk, Confederate States Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, in
1862. [Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OX - Lines of
supply and supply ships; Ships - Miscellaneous, page 452.]
Daniel Moriarty, born about 1839; personal description shown as 5 feet, 9 inches high, blue eyes, light
hair and light complexion; served as private, Confederate States Marine Corps, served at the New
Orleans station, 1862, and later aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, and at
Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1862; deserted from Drewry's Bluff, June, 1862; a reward of $30
was offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff, June, 1862; a
Confederate States Navy document shows a person of this name, who was attached to the Charleston
station, and who died about October, 1863; also indicated to have served in the marine guard aboard
the CSS Charleston at an unspecified date. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated
June 12 and June 16, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical
custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 184-185; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 133; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 130.]
John Moriaty (surname also shown, incorrectly, as Moarity), shipped as boy (aged between 14 and 17)
aboard the Confederate States floating battery New Orleans, on October 30, 1861; rated as landsman
aboard the same vessel, off Columbus, Kentucky, from January 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages
9 and 12.]
Jas. Morney, received aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on June 19, 1862. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 750.]
J.P. Morphy (surname may be Murphy), originally served as private, company D, 2nd Alabama Cavalry
(see also, Towber's Artillery); transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil
War Service Records.]
E. Morrell, Seaman, CSS Tuscaloosa, August, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 713.]
George B. Morrell, appointed gunner 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.]
Webb Morrill, pay steward, CSS Bradford (used as a storeship at Pensacola, Florida). [ORN 2, 1, 282;
DANFS.]
William Thomas Morrill, born Norfolk, Virginia, February 11, 1837 (one source shows state of birth as
Alabama; 1860 U.S. Census shows state of birth as Florida); resided as a machinist, in 1860, with his wife
Lizzie, and daughter at the Navy Yard, Escambia County, Florida; appointed from Florida; enlisted at
Pensacola Navy Yard, January, 1861, as orderly sergeant of Warrington Artillery, Pensacola Navy Yard;
detailed to work in the Ordnance Department; appointed Master Machinist at Pensacola, by Captain
Thomas W. Brent; appointed 3rd assistant Engineer, by Captain Brent, September 29, 1861, and
ordered for duty on the CSS Bradford; on the evacuation of the Pensacola Navy Yard in April, 1862,
ordered to Columbus, Georgia Naval Iron Works, serving there till September, 1862; appointed second
assistant Engineer, September 29, 1862 and ordered to proceed to Savannah and report for duty on
the CSS Atlanta; arrived at Savannah on October 10, 1862; volunteered and ordered from the Atlanta
for Special Torpedo Service at Charleston, South Carolina; while at Charleston he also served for a
short period on the CSS Stono; returned to Savannah and was captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, June
17, 1863, at Wassaw Sound; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, July 4, 1863;
exchanged at Cox's Wharf, James River, Virginia, October 17 or 18, 1864, and sent on to Richmond;
then ordered to the James River Squadron, and served on the CSS Fredericksburg as first assistant
Engineer, having been promoted, August 15, 1863,, while he was a prisoner of war, his commission
being dated August 15, 1863; volunteered, November, 1864 for Special Service under Lieutenant
Charles W. Read, and on the night of December 4, 1864, he assisted in the capture and destruction of
the schooner Nimrod and the steam tug Reliance; then returned to Richmond and was ordered back to
the CSS Fredericksburg; in December, 1864 he was ordered to take command of the Confederate
States Naval Establishment at Albany, Georgia; honorably discharged at Albany, Georgia, at the
surrender of General Johnston; paroled at Albany, Georgia on May 6, 1865; personal details at the time
of his parole shown as gray eyes, light hair, florid complexion and standing 5 feet 7 ½ inches tall;
resided in Florida since 1865 (another page in his pension papers shows 1854); resided as an engineer,
in 1880, with his wife, Elizabeth, and three children, at Santa Rosa County, Florida; was a resident of
Pensacola in 1911, and declared himself to be totally blind; member of Camp Cobb No. 538, United
Confederate Veterans, in 1907. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A12329; ORN 1, 14, 267;
CSNRegister; Register1863; Register1864; Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated
October 20, 1864; New York Herald dated October 27, 1862; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 133.]
Alfred Morris, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1862-3; deserted August 12, 1863, at Cape Town.
[William Marvel.]
Charles Manigault Morris, born South Carolina; citizen of, and appointed from, Georgia; original
service in the United States Navy, from December 15, 1837; entered the Confederate States Navy,
March 26, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; commanded the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, in late 1861;
served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1863; placed an ad in the Savannah newspapers, in August,
1861, calling for able bodied men to serve as seamen, ordinary seamen and landsmen in the
Confederate States Navy; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864;
assumed command of the cruiser, CSS Florida, in January, 1864. [ORN 1, 2, 662 and 2, 1, 322;
Register1863; JCC 4, 121; Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated Thursday, August 22, 1861;
Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 9.]
Daniel R. Morris, appointed carpenter aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Beauregard, 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.]
F. B. Morris, 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.]
H. Morris, originally served as private, Captain Stuart's Company (Beaufort Volunteer Artillery), South
Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, Howard
Morris, 11th South Carolina Infantry). [Civil War Service Records.]
Henry Morris, enlisted, for one year, as water tender aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston,
South Carolina, on September 24, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228; Alabama Claims 2,
(appendix 2), 133.]
J.H. Morris, served as landsman, CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; applied for
a post war Confederate pension from Granville County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1,
294-296.]
J. W. Morris, 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 Morris, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Selma; captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama,
August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 844.]
James Morris, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
James Morris, ship's cook, CSS North Carolina and seaman, CSS Tallahassee, Cape Fear River, North
Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294-296 and 307.]
James Morris, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Tallahassee, Wilmington station, 1864; rated as
2nd class fireman from October 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 845.]
John Morris, born Portugal; shipped, from prize vessel Hector, as seaman aboard the CSS Shenandoah,
April 6, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 139.]
John H. Morris, 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.]
Junius A. Morris, born Virginia, 1840; son of Albert and Sarah Morris; resided, in 1850, with his parents
at Henrico County, Virginia; served as captain's clerk on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1,
321; 1850 U.S. Census.]
Michael Morris, born Louisville, Kentucky, about 1842; previous service as a private in company K, 2nd
Kentucky Mounted Infantry, Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes,
on April 8, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as landsman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia,
Savannah squadron; transferred from the vessel later in April, 1864; transferred, on May 4, 1864, to
the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron; permission given at Augusta, Georgia, on May 2, 1865, for him
to go to his home in Kentucky, where he took the oath of allegiance on June 2, 1865; final rating shown
as seaman. [Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 551;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 585; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 664.]
Richard Morris, served as landsman and yeoman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, 1861-1862; later
captured, April, 1862, as yeoman of the CSS McRae, while serving aboard the steamer Bartow; paroled
as a prisoner of war on the steamer Landers, at New Orleans, May 2, 1862, but which parole was
subsequently overturned, and Morris was confined to Fort Jackson, Mississippi River, for one year for
attempting to cross the lines. [ORN 2, 1, 290; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and
Prisons, RE - Release and Exchange, A-W, pages 101-104; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 90.]
W.J. Morris, landsman, CSS Beaufort; September, 1861 - April, 1862; vessel operated in North Carolina
and Virginia waters. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]
William Morris, served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also
known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, in 1863; transferred, at an
unspecified date, to the Charleston station. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, page 716.]
William Morris, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]
William Morris, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Fredericksburg, January, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 794.]
William Morris, resided in Tyrrell County, North Carolina; enlisted at Washington County, North
Carolina, June 24, 1861, aged 25, 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.
[NCT 3, 218.]
William P. Morris, born at Milford, Wales; resided, as a miner, in Pasquotank County, North Carolina,
where he enlisted, August 14, 1861, aged 24, as private, company A, 8th Regiment North Carolina State
Troops; captured at Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862; exchanged August, 1862; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, on or about February 2, 1863; served as master at arms aboard the CSS
Arctic, 1863. [NCT 4, 529; ORN 2, 1, 276.]
Asa Morrisett, 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.]
John Morrisey, born Ireland, resided in Donaldsonville, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer; marital
status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 7, 1861, aged 23, as private, company F, 7th
Louisiana Infantry; deserted from near Guinea Station, January, 1863; same source also indicates that
he joined the Confederate States Navy. [Booth 2, 1062.]
John Morrisey, enlisted, for one year, as fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South
Carolina, on October 3, 1861; notation under the date of October 24, 1861, with the letter "R" shown.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228.]
M. Morrisey, resident of Tennessee; landsman, Confederate States Navy; captured, and confined at
Camp Morton, Indiana; died September 2, 1864; buried at Green Lawn Cemetery, Indianapolis,
Indiana. [Information as shown in an article, titled "Confederate Dead Buried in Indiana," in the
January (pages 24-29) and February (pages 76-83), 1914 issues (volume XXII) of Confederate Veteran
magazine.]
William Morrisey, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture
of the prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of
that vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution
of prize money - Miscellaneous, page 2.]
Benjamin Morrison, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
Henry Morrison, born Ireland; resided in Cumberland County, North Carolina, as a laborer, where he
enlisted, May 29, 1861, aged 23, as private, company C, 3rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 1, 1862. [NCT 3, 518.]
James J. Morrison (first name also incorrectly shown as John), born Georgia, about 1815; previous
service as captain, United States Revenue Marine service; resided, in 1860, as Captain, Revenue cutter,
with his wife, Elizabeth, and two children, at Baldwin county, Alabama; commanded the revenue
cutter Lewis Cass, at Mobile, Alabama; resigned from the United States Revenue service, January 30,
1861; appointed as captain in the Confederate States Revenue Marine service; served on the New
Orleans and Mobile stations, 1861 - 1864; served aboard the Confederate revenue cutter, Morgan,
1861 - 1862; served in the defense of New Orleans in 1862, and later on the Mississippi River defenses,
1863 - 1864. [CSNRegister; 1860 U.S. Census; Kern 3-4 and 3-5; Confederate Navy subject file O -
Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Richmond (provisions) - revenue
marine, page 828.]
John Morrison, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 292.]
John Morrison, served as seaman aboard the CSS Oconee (also known as the CSS Savannah),
Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1862-1863; transferred, on May 18, 1863, to the CSS Atlanta; rated as
coxswain (in place of Robert Johnson, who was disrated), January 4, 1864, by order of lieutenant
commanding Thomas P. Pelot. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 304; Confederate States Navy subject files - N
Personnel - NI - Promotions; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 605.]
John Morrison, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, 1863; deserted about October,
1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous,
page 254.]
John B. Morrison, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in December 15, 1861. [Soldiers
of Florida, 49.]
John J. Morrison, see James J. Morrison.
Pat. Morrison, seaman, CSS General Polk, 1861. [St. Philip.]
Samuel N. Morrison, born December 28, 1828; resident of Moore County, North Carolina; enlisted
October 6, 1864, in the Confederate States Marine Corps; sent from Moore County to Camp Holmes
for instruction, and then on to Charleston, South Carolina, aboard the CSS Indian Chief, Charleston
station, for additional drilling and instruction, as a marine, arriving there on Sunday, November 6, 1864;
later sent aboard the CSS Chicora; also served as a private in the marine guard aboard the CSS
Columbia, Charleston station; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 9, 1865; died October 17,
1907; buried Bensalem Church Cemetery, Eagle Springs, Moore County North Carolina. [Confederate
Burials, 69; Fayetteville Observer (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;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and
Registers, page 651.]
W. Morrison, originally served in the 15th Louisiana Volunteers; transferred from lieutenant general
Polk's Army at Brandon, Mississippi, to the Confederate States Navy, by special order no. 309,
Adjutant and Inspector General's office, dated at Richmond, Virginia, December 30, 1863, and ordered
to report to flag officer William F. Lynch, at Wilmington, North Carolina; sent on to report to admiral
Franklin Buchanan's command at Mobile, Alabama, by another order dated at Richmond, on January 7,
1864. [Confederate States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers.]
William H. Morrison, private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, December, 1864. [ORN 2,
1, 314.]
John Morrissey, enlisted, at Mobile, as private, company A (Garde Lafayette), 12th Alabama Regiment;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February, 1862. [ADAH.]
John Morrissey, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, and was ordered, in April, 1862,
from Norfolk, Virginia, to report aboard the CSS Gaines, at Mobile, Alabama, for duty, and aboard
which he reported on April 29, 1862. [ Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 466.]
Mat. Morrissey, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on November 8, 1861, and served as
landsman aboard the CSS General Polk, in 1861-1862; rated as officers'/ward room steward from
November 10, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 471, 476 and 479-480 and 495.]
Patrick Morrissey, served as 1st class fireman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and later aboard the
ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-59.]
John Morrity, served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863;
deserted about December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ -
Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 256.]
Thomas W. Morrow, see Thomas M. Gommow.
Curtis Morse, appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, October 25,
1861; served aboard the CSS Tuscarora, New Orleans station, 1861; appointed acting master on
January 18, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Bienville for duty; at the Jackson station, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 874; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN-
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked
commissions, pages 181 and 183.]
Edward Dudley Morse (one source shows his middle initial as W.), born North Carolina, August, 1836;
served as seaman aboard the CSS Palmetto State (also as pilot?), and on the submarine David; married
November 5, 1868; resided as a pilot, in 1900, at Charleston, South Carolina; his wife, Alice A. Morse
applied for a Confederate widow's pension, at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1919, after the death of
her husband, October 16, 1912; buried at the Magnolia Cemetery, 70 Cunnington Avenue North,
Charleston, South Carolina 29405. [South Carolina Confederate pension series S 126088, item no.
08001, at "South Carolina Department of Archives and History: ON-LINE RECORDS INDEX," URL:
http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/; 1900 U.S. Census; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the
Ancestry.com web site.]
William Morse, shipped as seaman aboard the revenue cutter Morgan, Mobile, Alabama, in 1861.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1162.]
Alfred Mortalant, served as seaman aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1864; deserted
at Shreveport on April 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1017.]
Edward Morten, see Edward Morton.
R.V. Mortimer, served in the Confederate States Navy; stationed at Arkansas Post, and served aboard
the CSS Pontchartrain; post war occupation in the theater business, in the "Roladd Reed Comedy
Company". [Daily Arkansas Gazette (Little Rock) dated Thursday, February 8, 1883.]
---- Morton, boatswain, CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]
Charles H. Morton, Seaman; CSS Shenandoah; transferred to the Marine Guard aboard the cruiser,
February 23, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783.]
Edwin Morton (name also shown as Edward Morten), enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 27,
1861, as corporal, company C, 1st (Nelligan's) Louisiana Infantry; promoted sergeant at an unknown
date; reduced to private, November 15, 1861; discharged by Special Order of General Huger, to join
the Merrimac (CSS Virginia), sometime in January or February, 1863 [1862?]; shown as an ordinary
seaman on the CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862, and in the same rating aboard the CSS
Albemarle and at Halifax Station, 1864; captured as ship's steward on the CSS Albemarle, about
November, 1864, and sent north as a prisoner of war. [Booth 2, 1068; ORN 2, 1, 274 & 309; Confederate
Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-
Miscellaneous, page 461.]
Fred Morton, Private, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
John A. Morton, served as seaman(or landsman) on the CSS Jamestown, Richmond station, 1861; died
of disease at an unspecified date; his cloths were ordered to be thrown overboard, after his death.
[Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XA - Accounting and finance, Miscellaneous, page 144;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 416.]
William A. Morton, born Brants Island; shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the
Confederate States Navy, on April 12, 1864, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle, at Plymouth
Sound, North Carolina; later served as a crew member of the CSS Bombshell; captured aboard the
vessel during the engagement at Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, May 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 9, 746;
Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker -
U.S.S. Minnesota, page 38; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38.]
Terville Morvaul, shown as a Private aboard Gunboat J.A. Cotton; listed as deserter, December 9,
1862. [Information supplied by Arthur Bergeron, Louisiana.]
J. Moses, shipped by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, on August 16, 1864, as a recruit for the
Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and
Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 443.]
J. Calhoun Moses, see Perry M. DeLeon.
James B. Moses, born Augusta, Virginia, April 1,1844; enlisted, at Richmond, Virginia, in the
Confederate States Navy, 1862; served, as drummer, aboard the flagship CSS Virginia (probably the
second ironclad of this name, CSS Virginia II - ORN source shows a musician named James Moses in
company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864); surrendered, 1865;
post war residence, Augusta County, Virginia; occupation, brick layer; admitted to the Robert E. Lee,
Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, August, 1921; died June 11, 1937; buried
Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [LVa; ORN 2, 1, 315.]
Lee Moses, master, Confederate States Navy; listed amongst other Confederate Navy officers who
were ordered to report to lieutenant general W.J. Hardee, of the Confederate Army, for special
service at Charleston, South Carolina, in November, 1864. [ORN 1, 16, 460.]
Raphael Jacob Moses, jr., born Florida, 1844 (New York Times dated December 14, 1909 shows place of
birth as Macon, Georgia); son of Raphael and Eliza Moses; resided, in 1850, with his parents, at
Columbus, Muskogee County, Georgia; appointed from Georgia; previous service in the United States
Navy, as midshipman, from September 27, 1860; served in the Confederate States Army, April 15,
1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 3rd class, July 8, 1861; served
on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862; served aboard the CSS Savannah, in defense of Port Royal,
South Carolina, November, 1861; later on the Wilmington station, 1862; returned to the Savannah
station, 1862 - 1863; served on the CSS Arctic, 1863; promoted lieutenant; service abroad, 1864; then
sent to the James River Squadron, October 1, 1864; captured at Dutch Gap, Virginia, December 22,
1864, and sent first to the Old Capital Prison, Washington, D.C., then to Fort Delaware; paroled and
assigned, as courier, to the 20th Georgia Regiment, Benning's Brigade, Army of Northern Virginia;
captured and paroled at Appomattox Court House, April 9, 1865; returned home to Columbus,
Georgia; married Eliza Moses; also married Brazilian born Georginia Samuel; moved to New York in
1872; resided as a lawyer, in 1880, with wife Georginia, and three children at New York City; involved,
in 1881, in speculation for Confederate bonds, placing a number of advertisements in newspapers,
offering to buy up Confederate bonds at the rate of $2.50 per $1000 worth of such bonds; member of
the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York; awarded the United Daughters of the Confederacy Cross
of Honor; also a member of the Lotos and Reform Clubs, and secretary of the Aero Club of America;
member of the American Geographical Society; died at his home at 46 West 97th Street, New York,
Sunday, December 12, 1909; remains sent to Columbus, Georgia, for interment. [Georgia in the War,
1861-1865, page 112; ORN 1, 10, 767; 1, 12, 296 and 2, 1, 275, 322 & 323; Register1863; Register1864;
additional information from an article titled "Adventures of a Teenage Confederate Naval Officer - The
USNA Connection," by Mel Young, in Shipmate magazine, March, 1995; Appomattox Paroles; 1850 U.S.
Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Veteran Camp of New York; New York Times dated December
14, 1909; Daily Inter Ocean (Chicago, Illinois) dated October 14, 1881, page 5.]
Simon P. Moses (first initial incorrectly shown, in Register1862, Register1863 and Register1864 as Z.),
born South Carolina, 1823; resided as a clerk, in 1860, with his wife, Elizabeth, and five children, at
Washington, D.C.; served as a clerk to the Secretary of the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond,
Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census.]
John Moss, born Ireland; Seaman (later a private in the Marine Guard), CSS Shenandoah; joined the
vessel at Melbourne, Australia; triced up, March 12, 1865, for insolence to the corporal. [Alabama
Claims, 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783]
Joseph Henry Moss (first name also shown as Josephus), born Bahamas, 1846; resided, in 1860, with
his mother, Sarah, at Key West, Monroe County, Florida; enlisted, December 31, 1861, in Captain
Mulrenan's Florida Coast Guard; mustered out, March, 1862; enlisted April 25, 1862, in company K, 7th
Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March 3, 1864; served aboard the CSS
Savannah; sent, as ordinary seaman, to Battery Buchanan on December 30, 1864; captured in Virginia,
shortly before the surrender, 1865, and was confined at Point Lookout, Maryland; paroled at Point
Lookout, June 15, 1865; married Lydia Esther (surname not shown), at Key West, February 17, 1873;
resided as a carpenter, in 1880, with his wife, Lydia, and child, Lewis, at Key West; died at Jupiter Light
Station, Dade County, Florida, May 22, 1885. [Soldiers of Florida, 49; Florida Confederate Pension File
No. A00538; Robert Watson Diary March 3, 1864; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS
Neuse, page 118.]
Mack Moss, born New Jersey, about 1845; previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and was
enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 8, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as ordinary
seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, on May 4, 1864, to
the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA -
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans -
Yorktown, page 585.]
Thomas Moss, (rank shown as acting master, but this is almost certainly incorrect; rating may actually
be quartermaster), ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1,
312.]
Walter Moss, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]
William T. Moss, shipped as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval Rendezvous at
Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 21, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR -
Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 408.]
William Mothersead, served as quartermaster aboard the CSS Juno, 1863, and was involved in the
capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, South Carolina, on the night of August 6,
1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize
Money - Miscellaneous, page 20; ORN 1, 14, 717.]
Peter Mott, seaman, CSS Florida; captured October 7, 1864 (at Bahia, Brazil); received at Fort Warren,
Boston Harbor, November 11, 1864; released February 1, 1865. [Fort Warren.]
Joseph Mottue, Seaman, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]
Robert Moudway, see Robert Broadway.
William Moulten (surname also shown as Moulton), listed as a seaman in the Confederate States
Navy; captured at Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, May 5, 1864; sent to Point Lookout, Maryland,
then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received, September 23, 1864; released and sent
to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged. [Fort Warren; Daily
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]
M. Mountain, surgeon's steward, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached, as private,
company K, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]
J.R. Mountcastle, born Virginia, 1844; landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also
served on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864; resided, in 1880, as
a tinner, with his wife, Sarah, and 2 children, at Tuckahoe, Henrico County, Virginia; a John R.
Mountcastle is shown to have served as private, company F, 21st Virginia Infantry. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302;
1880 U.S. Census; Sierra.]
Miles Mountier, 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.]
Jacob R. Mowle, born about 1836 (1880 U.S. Census shows his date and place of birth as 1845, in New
York); enlisted, April 9, 1861, as private, United Artillery; also served in the Confederate States Navy,
aboard the CSS Virginia, 1862; captured April, 1865, and sent as prisoner of war, to Washington, D.C.;
resided as a policeman, in 1880, with his wife, Emma, at Norfolk, Virginia; admitted to the Robert E.
Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, in May, 1902; resident of Norfolk,
Virginia, at the time of admission; died May 5, 1913; buried Soldier's Section, Hollywood Cemetery,
Richmond, Virginia. [LVa; 1880 U.S. Census.]
James Edward Moyler, appointed from Arkansas; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June
2, 1864; served aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865;
attached as 1st lieutenant to Semmes' Naval Brigade, for special service, April, 1865; surrendered and
paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; died at Petersburg, Virginia, end of March, 1909;
two weeks later, on April 10, 1909, his wife also passed away. [ORN 1, 10, 671; 1, 11, 690 and 2, 1, 311;
JCC 4, 123; M1091; Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) dated June 11, 1903 and April 12, 1909, page
3.]