NC Civil War Sailors Project

John Raabe, appointed from Georgia, as acting gunner, Confederate States Navy, May 15, 1863; served on the Savannah station, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 323; Register1864.]

Octave Rabby, served in company F of the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Mobile, Alabama, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1082.]

Laurence Rabitch, Captain's Mate, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]

James L. Radden (surname also shown as Raddon; headstone shows his first initial as A.), originally served as landsman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; later served in the same rating on the ironclad floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah Squadron; rated as a seaman on this vessel, to take effect from September 1, 1864, but was disrated to ordinary seaman on October 31, 1864, while the vessel was off Fort Jackson; no reason shown for his being disrated; he is also shown to have been at the Charleston station, and aboard the CSS Indian Chief, about October, 1863; sent to the Confederate States Naval Hospital at Savannah about November 9, 1864, and, at which facility, he died of pneumonia at 10.30 p.m. on November 15, 1864; buried Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 305; Honeycutt; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NI- Promotions......reinstatement; CSS Georgia - Miscellaneous, page 1; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 233; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764.]

Jovan Radetti, served as seaman on the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 357.]

Patrick Rafferty, Landsman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Patrick Rafferty, 1st class fireman, CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; later served on the CSS Tallahassee, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294-296 and 307.]

Edward Ragan, originally served as private, company D, 15th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

John Ragan, born Ireland; aged 36; coal heaver, CSS Louisiana, 1862. [St. Philip.]

John Ragan, served as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Montgomery, Alabama, May 11, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 666.]

Thomas R. Ragland (middle initial also shown as F.), enlisted at Richmond, Virginia, on March 3, 1864, in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and served as 4th corporal in company B of the Corps; served at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864, and also in the marine guard aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 461.]

E.L. Ragsdale, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, for the war, on June 1, 1863; served as ordinary seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia; also served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Sampson, Savannah, Georgia, 1863-1864; died on June 16, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 303; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 235-236.]

John Rahnwick, enlisted August, 1862, at Mobile, Alabama, as seaman, Confederate States Navy; served aboard the ram CSS Baltic and, as quarter gunner, aboard the ram CSS Nashville; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, May 10, 1865; received a Confederate pension from the state of Alabama, at Mobile; pension no. 16453. [ADAH.]

Henry Rahtert, enlisted, for one year, as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South Carolina, on September 28, 1861; discharged, sick, on October 19, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228.]

William Rainbow, seaman, CSS Bradford (used as a storeship at Pensacola, Florida). [ORN 2, 1, 282; DANFS.]

A.H. Rainey, appointed, by paymaster Felix Senac, as paymaster's clerk in the Confederate States Navy, at the New Orleans station, on January 1, 1862, at the rate of $60 per month; also served on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 789 and 791.]

Enoch Rainey, served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, about 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 651.]

H.P. Rainey, served in Confederate States Navy; buried at Charleston Port Society Cemetery, on Ashley River, Charleston. [Name and service status inscribed on granite monument unveiled December 10, 1922, by the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina.]

J.B.D. Rainey, served as seaman aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, in 1863, and sent on furlough about August, 1863; a Naval document indicates that he had deserted from the vessel on August 1, 1863, but he had obviously returned, as he was later transferred, at an unspecified date, to the CSS Chicora, Charleston squadron. [ORN 2, 1, 286; 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; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 471.]

Theophilus Rainey, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

V.M. Rainy, born Canwell County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, mariner; enlisted at Forsyth County, North Carolina, March 18, 1864, aged 26, in the Confederate States Navy. [CSN Shipping Articles.]

James Raleigh, Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1862-3; deserted September 19, 1863, at Cape Town. [William Marvel.]

Henry Ashton Ramsay, born District of Columbia, 1836; citizen of, and appointed from, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from May 24, 1853; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 6, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 1st assistant engineer (acting chief engineer), December 21, 1861 (Register1864 shows original entry as June 10, 1861); served aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; chief engineer, in charge, at Charlotte Naval Station, North Carolina, 1862 - 1865; enrolled as major in Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; immediate post war resident of Virginia; later resided as an iron worker (widowed), in 1880, with his four children (eldest child born North Carolina, 1863) at Baltimore, Maryland; died at his home in Baltimore, on March 25, 1916; survived by his wife, two sons and two daughters. [ORN 1, 7, 47 & 2, 1, 308; ORA 4, 3; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; M1091; 1880 U.S. Census; some additional data included in the pension papers of Arthur Sinclair; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 4, 1910; Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 24 (1916), page 274.]

J.W. Ramsay, Seaman, participated in expedition to capture US Army steamer Leviathan, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, September 21, 1863. Recaptured the next day by USS De Soto. [ORN 1, 20, 598.]

John Ramsay, appointed second assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States ram General Sumter, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, March 16, 1862; his appointment in the Naval service was revoked on June 30, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 1123.]

John Francis Ramsay (surname also shown as Ramsey), born Bumtisland, Fife, England, 1837; resided, in 1862, near Newcastle on Tyne; after an ordinary examination at London, he obtained his certificate of competency as master from the British Lords of the Committee of Privy Council for Trade on July 9, 1862; original entry into the Confederate States Navy, June 9, 1863; promoted lieutenant for the war, January 7, 1864, to rank from June 9, 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; served aboard the CSS Rappahannock, 1864; remained aboard the CSS Rappahannock, in August, 1864, after the majority of the officers and crew had been discharged or transferred, to look out for the public property on board. [Great Britain, Masters and Mates Certificates, 1850-1927, at Ancestry.com; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; ORN 1, 3, 701; Register1864; JCC 4, 122.]

Talcot William Ramsay, born Carteret County, North Carolina, about 1839; son of Nancy Ramsay; resided at Beaufort, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, fisherman; enlisted at Carteret County, May 25, 1861, as private, company H, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery; captured with his company at Fort Macon, April 26, 1862; exchanged August, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, September 3, 1863; transfer revoked December 4, 1863, and he returned to his unit. [NCT 1, 134; additional data from the North Carolina Birth Index, 1800 - 2000, available at the Ancestry.com web site; 1850 U.S. Census.]

John Ramsdale, Seaman; born England; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 976.]

F. W. Ramsey, served as a private in company H, 10th North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209 dated at Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston, South Carolina. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]

John T. Ramsey, originally enlisted in the 5th Alabama Infantry, February, 1861, from Talladega County, Alabama; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February, 1863; served aboard the floating battery, under commander Brown, at Mobile Bay; transferred to the 9th Alabama Infantry, December, 1863. [ADAH.]

Joseph N. Ramsey (middle initial also shown as W.), born Alabama; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, September 21, 1863 (service also shown aboard the CSS Maurepas, in June, 1862) ; appointment date also shown, in a Naval document, dated at New Orleans, as January 30, 1862, when he was ordered to report aboard the CSS Slidell for duty; indicated to have absented himself, without permission, in the action at St Charles, White River, Arkansas, June 17, 1862; served on the Mobile squadron, 1863 - 1864 (ORN 2, 1, 319 indicates that he served on the Jackson station in 1862); appointed 3rd assistant engineer in the Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864. [ORN 1, 23, 204 and 2, 1, 319; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 282.]

P. M. Ramsey, served as 2nd lieutenant in the Confederate States Marine Corps; dismissed from the service on July 9, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 329.]

P.C. Rand, seaman, 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.]

Peter E. Rand, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Mobile, in 1861; rated as carpenter's mate on October 31, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1029.]

Charles Randall, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, June 18, 1861, as private, company K (also served in company D), 22nd (Consolidated) Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by order, Department of the Gulf, No. 100, April 9, 1864. [Booth 3, 243.]

James Ryder Randall, born Baltimore, Maryland, January 1, 1839; studied at Georgetown University, Washington, D.C.; engaged in newspaper work in New Orleans, at the beginning of the war; also served as professor of English literature and the classics at Poydras College, Louisiana; brief service in the Confederate States Navy, as flag officer's secretary aboard the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, on the Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1864; resigned from the Naval service on August 2, 1864; later poet and newspaper editor, Baltimore, Maryland, and Augusta, Georgia; married Katherine Hammond of South Carolina; author of the famed song, Maryland, My Maryland; died from congestion of the lungs, at Augusta, Georgia, Tuesday, January 14, 1908. [SHC-UNC; ORN 2, 1, 313 & 323; New York Times dated Wednesday, May 4, 1884, Wednesday, December 24, 1895 and Wednesday, January 15, 1908; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 1056.]

Beverly Randolph, previous service in the United States Navy; served in the Virginia State Navy, 1861, but was never appointed in the Confederate States Navy; ordered to report, April 23, 1861, to the commander in chief of the Virginia Navy, captain Robert B. Pegram. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated April 23, 1861.]

D.N. Randolph, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316.]

Edward Randolph, appointed, by admiral Franklin Buchanan, as a surgeon's steward in the Confederate States Navy, at Mobile, Alabama, on May 25, 1863, and ordered to report to commander Charles H. McBlair, aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile River, for duty. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 793.]

Jesse Randolph, born North Carolina, 1824; son of Assenor Randolph; resided in, and enlisted at Pitt County, North Carolina, January 25, 1863, as private, company C, 44th Regiment North Carolina Troops; reported to have been transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 15, 1864. [NCT 10, 424; 1850 U.S. Census.]

Ryland Randolph (first name also shown as Reyland), born Alabama, October, 1837 (1900 U.S. Census shows his state of birth as Virginia); son of Naval officer, Victor M. Randolph, listed below; resided as a planter, in 1860, at his father's residence in Montgomery County, Alabama; originally served as private, Goldthwaite's Battery, Alabama Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as flag officer's secretary at Mobile, Alabama, in 1862; married about 1870; resided as editor of the Independent Monitor, in 1870, with his wife, Katie, at Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama; his father, Victor M. Randolph, is also shown at the same residence, in 1870; resided as an editor, in 1900, at Birmingham, Alabama. [Civil War Service Records; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; CSN Register.]

T. Randolph, served as coal heaver 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 850.]

Thomas E. Randolph, born Virginia, 1832; son of Elizabeth Randolph; resided with his mother and siblings, in 1850, at Greene County, Alabama; served as surgeon's steward aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863, and later aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama on May 10, 1865; resided as a clerk, in 1870, with his wife, Virginia, and two children, at Mobile, Alabama. [ORN 2, 1, 308; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]

Victor M. Randolph, born Virginia, about 1796; citizen of Alabama; previous service in the United States Navy, June 11, 1814, from which he resigned, January 10, 1861; entered the Confederate States Navy, March 26, 1861, with the rank of captain; served as captain of the Florida Navy, 1861, and later commanded the defenses of Alabama and Florida, 1862; commanded the Pensacola Navy Yard, Florida, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862; commanded the batteries of York River, Virginia, 1861; Naval commandant at Mobile, Alabama, 1862; because he was overlooked in several matters of Naval command, in 1861 and 1862, Randolph had his differences with secretary Mallory, and the two did not get along; in a letter to the member of congress from Louisiana, Randolph had complained that he was overlooked, despite his seniority, and despite the fact that he had served in the war of 1812, was with commodore Decatur when he punished the Algerines in 1815, served five years against the pirates in the West Indies, served in the Mexican War, and was the first Naval officer to haul down the Stars and Stripes on January 14, 1861; Randolph was advised, on August 27, 1862, that he was under arrest, and to attend a Court Martial being held at Jackson, Mississippi, specifications of charges and subsequent results not shown; paroled, at the close of the war, at Montgomery, Alabama, May 30, 1865; personal details, at the time of his parole shown as blue eyes, dark hair, fair complexion, and standing 5 feet 9 inches tall; shown residing as a "retired Naval Officer", in 1870, at the home of his son, Ryland Randolph, at Tuscaloosa, Alabama. [ORN 1, 6, 746; 1, 18, 840 and 2, 1, 321; Register1863; 36th Congress Report 7, 40 & 65; 1870 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 161; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 162; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations; PB - Administration of stations; Columbia - Pensacola, pages 863-864 and 867-867.]

David Greenway Raney, jr., born Apalachicola, Florida, October 29, 1839; son of David and Harriet Raney; enlisted April 4, 1861, in Company B, 1st Florida Infantry; later appointed 2nd lieutenant, Confederate States Marine Corps, April 22, 1861; promoted 1st lieutenant, November 22, 1861; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861; involved in the defense of Port Royal, South Carolina, November, 1861; served aboard the CSS Tennessee, Mobile squadron, 1863 - 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Richmond, as a prisoner of war; later sent to New Orleans, from where he escaped in October, 1864, then made his way to Lewisburg, Louisiana, and from where he proceeded, in a wagon, to Mobile, Alabama, arriving there on October 31, 1864; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; resided as a book keeper, in 1880, at Jacksonville, Duval County, Florida; unmarried; died at Apalachicola, February 26, 1903; buried Chestnut Cemetery, Apalachicola, Florida. [ORN 1, 12, 297; 1, 21, 579, 610 & 847 and 2, 1, 316; Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 12; JCC 1, 818; Register1864; Porter's Naval History, 785; John E. Ellis; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 425.]

Frank Ranger, appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on January 24, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Mason for duty; appointed acting master on March 1, 1862; served on the Jackson station, 1862, and on the side wheeled steamer, CSS Pontchartrain, 1862 - 1863; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863; tendered his resignation from the Naval service on December 17, 1863, which was accepted by the Department on January 4, 1864. [ORN 1, 24, 117 and 2, 1, 299 & 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 286, 288 and 1058.]

Richard Ranger (or Runger), appointed first officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat John C. Breckinridge, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

E.W. Rankin, seaman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

John Rankin, served as landsman and officer's steward aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 90.]

R. Rankin, Seaman, CSS Arkansas, killed in action, July 22, 1862. [ORN 1, 19, 70.]

William H. Rankin (middle initial also shown as L.), enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on July 5, 1861; served as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; transferred to the CSS Georgia, Savannah Squadron, on December 8, 1862; admitted to the marine hospital at Savannah in April, 1863, for an unspecified reason, but discharged on May 4, 1863; rated gunner's mate in 1864, but disrated to seaman on August 1, 1864, reason not shown; died of chronic hepatitis, aboard the CSS Georgia, on August 19, 1864; buried, August 20, 1864, at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. [Honeycutt; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated May 19, 1866; Confederate States Navy subject files - N Personnel - NI - Promotions ; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 343 and 376; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 590.]

Albert Ranlet, (surname also shown as Remlet and Randlet), enlisted as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy, and served on the New Orleans station in 1861; served aboard the CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma), and was rated as boatswain's mate, aboard the vessel, from September 18, 1861; disrated to seaman on January 12, 1862; also served at the Jackson station in 1862; named his next of kin as Eliza Ranlet. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422, 427, 436 and 894; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100.]

John Ransch, served as 3rd class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61.]

Henry Ransom, appointed, for one year, as boatswain (also shown, in another source, as acting boatswain's mate) aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South Carolina, on September 22, 1861; served 1861-1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1227; ORN 1, 1, 749; Alabama Claims, 2, (appendix volume 2) page 133.]

M. V. C. Ransom, enlisted October 6, 1864, in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served as private in the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 266.]

John Lawrence Rapier, born Mobile, Alabama, June 15, 1842; son of T.G. and Eveline Rapier; brother of Confederate States Navy clerk, Thomas Rapier, listed below; resided with his parents and siblings, pre war, at New Orleans, Louisiana; originally enlisted, April 22, 1861, as private in Captain Henri St. Paul's Company, Louisiana Foot Rifles, later 7th Battalion, Louisiana Infantry; promoted sergeant major, then 2nd lieutenant in Coppen's Battalion, Louisiana Zouaves; appointed from Louisiana, as second lieutenant, Confederate States Marine Corps, July 11, 1863; served at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1863-1864; ordered, on December 22, 1863, to proceed to Mobile and report to admiral Buchanan for duty with captain Meiere's company of Marines; captured at Fort Gaines, Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent as a prisoner of war, to New Orleans; escaped October 13, 1864; returned to Mobile for further service, and served aboard the CSS Morgan; surrendered May 4, 1865 and paroled May 10, 1865, at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama; post war occupation as a newspaperman, and later proprietor of the Mobile Register; also appointed postmaster at Mobile, December 11, 1894, but was removed before the completion of his term of service; died Mobile, May 7, 1905; buried at the Catholic Cemetery. [Booth 3, 248; ORN 1, 21, 610; Porter's Naval History, 785; Donnelly 242 - 244; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; New York Times dated Wednesday, January 16, 1898; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Charleston - Richmond (accounts), page 119.]

Thomas Gywnn Rapier (middle initial also shown, incorrectly, as J.), born Louisiana, August, 1847; son of T.G. and Eveline Rapier, brother of Confederate States Marine Corps officer, John Lawrence Rapier, listed above; resided, pre war, with his parents and siblings at New Orleans, Louisiana; served as clerk on the staff of the Secretary of the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, 1864; married Mary Ellen Green, at New Orleans, April 24, 1884; resided as a newspaper clerk, with his wife, Mary, in 1900, at New Orleans. [Register1864; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; marriage data from the Louisiana Marriages, 1718 - 1925 database at the Ancestry.com web site.]

James E. Rasini, originally served as captain's clerk aboard the CSS Florida (Selma), at Mobile, Alabama, in 1862; later, as seaman, participated in the expedition to capture US Army steamer Leviathan, at the mouth of the Mississippi River, September 21, 1863. Recaptured the next day by USS De Soto. [ORN 1, 20, 598.] [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (January - June, 1862), page 728.]

Andrew Rasmusan (name also shown as A. Rasmuzan and Rasmusson), enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, October 22, 1861, as sergeant, company E, 22nd and 23rd Louisiana Infantry; captured at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 4, 1863; exchanged October 19, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by order No. 46, of major general Dabney H. Maury, sometime in January or February, 1864; served as quartermaster aboard the CSS Tennessee, 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; held as a prisoner of war aboard the USS Lackawanna, at Mobile Bay, August 7, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 463; Booth 3, 250.]

J. Ratchford, seaman and ship's cook, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), sometime between January, 1863 and September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 288 & 289; DANFS.]

James B. Ratcliff (surname also shown as Ratcliffe), born Virginia, about 1844; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 4th class, July 12, 1861; a Naval document, however, shows Ratcliff as being appointed master's mate of the CSS Savannah, on May 16, 1861, with instructions that he was to accompany lieutenant J. N. Maffitt to Norfolk, Virginia, "for the purpose of aiding him in such duties as he may designate"; served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862, and aboard the CSS Savannah; reported to have bravely jumped overboard, from the CSS Savannah, off Pulaski, Georgia, July 30, 1861, to save the life of one of the boys (whose father was quartermaster on the same vessel), who had fallen overboard; complimented by his commander, J.N. Maffitt, for this brave act, on the quarter deck, in the presence of the crew; also on the Richmond station, 1862; later aboard the CSS Selma, the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, and the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile squadron, 1862 - 1864; served aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, 1864; later appointed passed midshipman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; served on the CSS Fredericksburg and the CSS Nansemond, James River squadron, 1864 - 1865; attached, as 1st lieutenant, to company K, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as a lawyer, in 1880, with his wife, Mary C. Ratcliff, and two children, at Baltimore, Maryland. [ORN 1, 10, 644; 1, 12, 187 and 2, 1, 287, 307, 321 & 322; Register1863; Register1864; M1091; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated August 8, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 291.]

Edward Rau, originally served as private, company D, 3rd (Palmetto) Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]
John Rauch, served as 2nd class boy aboard the CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, from October 28, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 268.]

John Ravenscroft, appointed carpenter aboard the Confederate States gunboat John C. Breckinridge, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, February 21, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

Edward Raw, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

James Rawlings, shown as being a Confederate Marine (Daily Dispatch shows him as a sailor in the Confederate Navy); tried, together with fellow Marine, Patrick Stack, at the court of judge Lyons, Richmond, Virginia, in June, 1864, for garroting David Gray and robbing him of $500; acquitted of such charge. [Article in Richmond, Virginia, Sentinel, dated Wednesday, June 22, 1864; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 22, 1864.]

William Rawlinson, born England (as indicated in William A. Temple's affidavit); originally engaged as fireman aboard the English steamer Laurel; shipped as fireman aboard the CSS Shenandoah, October 18th, 1864, at the rate of $33.95; placed his mark against his name; deck log entry of March 2nd, 1865, of the CSS Shenandoah, shows that he was, together with 3rd assistant engineer McGuffney, found under the influence of liquor, obtained through an ingenious method, as described in Whittle; examined in the London Court of Admiralty, in June, 1869, in relation to the Confederate government dealings in the United Kingdom, during the war; serving as fireman aboard the steamer Panama, in 1869. [Alabama Claims, 977; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 119; Morning Republican (Little Rock, Arkansas) dated June 25, 1869.]

T.J. Rawls, originally served as private, company C, 21st Alabama Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Edward Rawse, Ship's Corporal, CSS Alabama; born England; rated Master at Arms, June 1, 1863; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

John E. Rawson, appointed second officer 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.]

Benoist W. Ray, resident of New Orleans, Louisiana; served as pilot in the Confederate States Navy; paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865; wife - Eveline Cullum. [ORN 1, 27, 231; "New Orleans, Louisiana Birth Records Index, 1790 - 1899".]

David Ray, ordinary seaman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268.]

Henry W. Ray, born Louisiana; original entry into the Confederate States Navy, May 25, 1863 (one source shows him serving as acting master on the Charleston station in 1862); promoted lieutenant for the war, January 7, 1864, to rank from May 25, 1863; served on the CSS Chicora, Charleston Squadron, 1863-1864; commanded the steamer Antonica, at Charleston, in August, 1863; commanded receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief, Charleston station, South Carolina, 1864. [Booth 3, 255; ORN 2, 1, 283, 288 & 317; JCC 4, 122; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 144.]

Patrick Ray, 1st class fireman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

Richard Ray, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1863; deserted September 21, 1863, at Cape Town. [William Marvel.]

J.B. Rayfield, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Bladen County, North Carolina; his widow, Sarah A. Rayfield, also later applied for a pension from the same county. [NC State Archives.]

Peter Raymond, indicated as being a Frenchman; captured from aboard the bark Alina, October, 1864, by the CSS Shenandoah; shipped October 30, 1864; rated captain of foretop, November 9, 1864; placed in irons, November 24, 1864, for fighting with fellow crew member, Thomas Hall; released a few hours later; allowed liberty at Melbourne, Australia, returning aboard the cruiser, January 31, 1865; allowed liberty again, at Melbourne, returning aboard February 13, 1865; expiration of service, April 29, 1865; reshipped, June 13, 1865, for the cruise; sent to the mast head, September 2, 1865, as punishment for fighting with Thomas Evans. [Alabama Claims, 975; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 65, 75, 145, 162, 190 & 231; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

Charles William Read, born Mississippi, May 13, 1840; original service in the United States Navy, from September 20, 1856; entered the Confederate States Navy, April 13, 1861, as midshipman; appointed acting master aboard the CSS McRae on July 12, 1861; served as executive officer on the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; promoted lieutenant for the war, February 8, 1862; later served on the Jackson station, and on the Mississippi defenses, 1862; 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; reported for duty aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, November 4, 1862; commanded the prize vessels, Clarence, Archer and Tacony; captured, June, 1863 and confined at Fort Warren, Boston harbor; released 1864, and sent to the James River squadron, to take command of Battery Semmes; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; later assigned to command of Battery Wood, also on the James River, October, 1864; ordered to report to Confederate Army lieutenant general Hardee, at Charleston, South Carolina, for special duty, November, 1864; assigned to steam torpedo boat, James River Squadron, January, 1865; assumed command of the steamer CSS Webb, March 31, 1865; abandoned the vessel below New Orleans, and was captured by Union Navy personnel, April 25, 1865; sent aboard the USS Lackawanna, and then the USS Richmond, as prisoner of war, on the same day; sent to Florida, for transfer north, April 27, 1865; after the war he captained merchant steamers at New Orleans, and captained the City of Dallas, engaged in the Honduras fruit trade; made harbor master at New Orleans about 1888; died January 25, 1890; buried Rose Hill Cemetery, Meridian, Mississippi. [ORN 1, 1, 768; 1, 2, 673; 1, 10, 802; 1, 11, 664 & 747; 1, 19, 132; 1, 22, 155 & 167 - 168 and 2, 1, 290, 318 & 320; ORA 1, 35 (part 2), 649; 1, 48/1 and 2, 7; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; John E. Ellis; CDAB 829; Fort Warren; see also, his obituary in the New York Times, dated Wednesday, January 26, 1890, page 10; Charleston Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Accounts for expenditures, page 669; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 292.]

Edmund Gaines Read, born Virginia, about 1841; original service in the United States Navy, from September 25, 1855; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 1, 1861;entered the Confederate States Navy, June 11, 1861, as midshipman and acting master; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862, and on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861; promoted 2nd lieutenant, February 8, 1862; later served, on the Jackson station, 1862; service also, aboard the CSS Baltic, 1862 - 1863. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 2, 1, 299, 318, 321 & 322; Register1863; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861.]

J. Laurens Read, resident of Charleston, South Carolina; served as acting assistant paymaster, CSS Florida; stepson of Lieutenant John Newland Maffitt, died of yellow fever on August 30, 1862, off Cardenas, Cuba; buried Cardenas. [ORN 1, 1, 764-766; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 4, 1862, article titled The Daring Feat of the C.S. Steamer Florida.]

Jacob Read, born Drakies Plantation, Chatham County, Georgia, December 9, 1825; originally served in the United States Marine Corps, from March 3, 1847; promoted 1st lieutenant, August 19, 1855, and captain, February 17, 1861; resigned from the United States Marine Corps, 1861; then served in company D, 1st Georgia Regiment of field artillery, later Maxwell's Regular Georgia Light Battery, Confederate States Army; also in the Confederate States Marine Corps; dismissed from Confederate service, July 17, 1863, after a court martial, effective February 1, 1863, for neglect of duty, incompetency, conduct highly prejudicial to good order and military discipline, and conduct unbecoming an officer and a gentleman; died Luray, Page County, Virginia, May 13, 1864, of heart disease; buried at the Catholic Cathedral Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 113; Donnelly 253 - 254; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 329.]

John Read, served in the Confederate States Army, and was transferred to the Confederate States Navy, June 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and Transfers.; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 88.]

N.M. Read, born Maryland; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon for the war, November 26, 1862; served on the side wheeled steamer CSS Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, 1862 - 1863, and on the Mobile squadron, 1863 - 1864; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863; held as a prisoner of war at Fort McHenry, in October, 1863; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [ORN 1, 24, 117 and 2, 1, 299; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; Porter's Naval History, 785; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 6, 1863.]

William Read, enlisted sailor on the CSS Shenandoah; allowed liberty at Melbourne, Australia, returning aboard the cruiser, January 31, 1865. [CSS Shenandoah Deck Log.]

William Watkins Read, born North Carolina (JCC 4, 122 shows appointed from Virginia; 1860 U.S. Census shows birth state as Virginia), 1845; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 27, 1858; original entry into Confederate States Navy, June 11, 1861, as acting midshipman (one source shows appointment date as April 28, 1861); (his obituary in the New York Times of Wednesday, August 17, 1910, indicates that he had served aboard the CSS Virginia, during the action against the USS Monitor at Hampton Roads, in March, 1862, but this is not shown in official records); appointed passed midshipman, October 3, 1862; reported for duty aboard the CSS Harriet Lane, Galveston Bay, Texas, February, 1863; served aboard the steamer, CSS Patrick Henry; promoted master in line of promotion, January 7, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Nansemond and the CSS Richmond, James River squadron, 1864; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; attached, as captain, commanding company F, 2nd Regiment, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; member of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York; died at his home on 97th Street and Fort Hamilton Avenue, Brooklyn, Monday, August 15, 1910. [ORN 1, 10, 642; 1, 10, 671; 1, 11, 691 and 1, 19, 840; M1091; Confederate Veteran Camp of New York; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; M1091; 1860 U.S. Census; New York Times dated Wednesday, August 17, 1910.]

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

John Reagan, born Tipperary, Ireland, about 1822; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, September 11, 1861, as a private in company I of the 13th Louisiana Infantry; detailed, sometime in November or December, 1863, as teamster in the Cavalry Corps, by order of General Bragg; enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 9, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in July, 1864, as ordinary seaman, to the CSS Macon, and later served as ordinary seaman or 2nd class fireman aboard the vessel, 1864 - 1865. [Booth 3, 260; 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.]

T.M. Reams (Register1864 shows initials as J.T.), original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, August 3, 1863; served aboard the wooden gunboat CSS Drewry, 1863 - 1864; accepted an appointment as 2nd assistant engineer in the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States, on November 11, 1864, while serving aboard the CSS Shrapnel; served on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, for special service, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 190 & 633 and 2, 1, 284 & 300; Register1864; M1091; Confederate Navy subject file, N - Personnel, NN - Acceptances, applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances - appointments of officers (A-K), page 35.]

James S. Reamy, previously served in 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, and as private, company E, 9th Regiment Virginia Cavalry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, April 28, 1864. [Georgia Rosters 1, 621; Civil War Service Records.]

John W. Reardon, ordinary seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

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

Robert Reardon, originally served as private, company A, 1st (Charleston) Battalion, South Carolina Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Simeon B. Reardon (first name also shown as Simon), born Arkansas, 1842; son of editor L.J. Reardon, and his wife, Priscilla; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 20, 1856; appointed assistant paymaster, Confederate States Navy, February 26, 1863; served at the Naval ordnance works, Selma, Alabama, 1863 - 1864; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; captured at Richmond, Virginia, April 3, 1865 and paroled at Richmond, April 20, 1865; resided as a sawyer, in 1880, at Eureka Springs, Carroll County, Arkansas. [CSN Register; Register1864; Callahan; JCC 4, 122; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

John Rearnes, coal heaver, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]

Wright Reaves, see Wright Reeves.

Henry Redden, born England; claimed to have shipped aboard the 290 (later commissioned as the CSS Alabama), for four months, as boatswain, when she left Liverpool; left the cruiser, in the Bahama, August, 1862 (Redden claims to have left her in October or November of that year, but the facts do not support these claims); it is obvious that he had actually served on the cruiser just prior to her commissioning, but not as a member of the Confederate States Navy. [ORN 1, 1, 527.]

John Smith Reddick, served at the Naval Ordnance Works, North Carolina; his widow, Mary Reeves Reddick filed for a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 794.]

John Reddish, served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, about 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 651.]

W.H. Redditt (surname also shown as Reddit), served as seaman aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864; later served as captain of afterguard aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1232.]

Morgan Redman, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]

Robert Redman, seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 280.]

John Redmond, served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; lodged in the parish prison at New Orleans, for 70 days until January 21, 1862, for an unspecified reason, then turned over to the Naval authorities. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 421.]

William Redmond, appointed second officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Stonewall Jackson, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, March 16, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

James P. Redwood, born Alabama, about 1847; son of William H., and Lorna E. Redwood; resident of Mobile, Alabama, in 1860; clerk, Confederate States Navy; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; resided as a clerk, in 1880, at Court House, Tuscaloosa, Alabama. [Porter's Naval History, 785; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Alexander Reed, served as 2nd class boy at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

James Reed, served as a private in company K, 19th 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.]

John Reed, ordinary seaman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268.]

Peter Reed, seaman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

Thomas Reed, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1862; discharged in the 3rd quarter of 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1064 and 1178.]


W.B. Reed, seaman, Confederate States Navy; captured at Accomack County, Virginia, November 15, 1863; sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received September 23, 1864; exchanged October 1, 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.]

William H. Reeder, appointed second assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Little Rebel, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

Frank Reefe, 4th sergeant, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314.]

William Reems, citizen of Currituck County, North Carolina; served as seaman aboard the CSS Albemarle; after the destruction of that vessel, he was sent to Halifax, North Carolina, from which place he deserted on April 7, 1865; taken aboard the USS Shamrock, off Winton, North Carolina, on April 11, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 556.]

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

William H. Reeves, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314.]

Wright Reeves (surname also shown as Reaves), born North Carolina, 1847; served in the Confederate States Navy; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Nancy, and eight children (eldest child born 1861) at Eagle Mills, Iredell County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Davie County, North Carolina; his widow, Nancy Reeves, also later applied for a pension from the same county. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

J.W. Refe, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

J.R. Regan, served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863, and aboard the CSS Neuse, in 1864 (see also, entry for Josiah Rigon, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 277; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1233.]

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

James Regan, served aboard the CS floating battery New Orleans, at Columbus, Kentucky, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 6.]

John Regan, appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on October 22, 1861, and ordered to report for duty aboard Launch No. 5; tendered his resignation from the Naval service, which was accepted on December 9, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 299 and 1060.]

Monroe Reger, born Virginia, about 1838; seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia; also served as a private in company B, 25th Regiment, Virginia Infantry, enlisted May 1, 1862; promoted 2nd lieutenant on the same day; resided as a house painter, in 1870, with his wife, Susan, and two children, at Augusta County, Virginia; died at Staunton, Virginia, March 2, 1871. [ORN 2, 1, 301; 1870 U.S. Census; see also "American Civil War Soldiers" at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Henry B. Register, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277 & 302.]

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

Rudolph Rehwinkel (surname also shown as Rehnwinkle; first name also shown as Randolph), enlisted at Natchez, Mississippi, August 15, 1861, as private, company E, 4th Battalion Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Marine Corps, December 15, 1862; however, muster rolls of the CSS Isondiga, Naval documents of the Savannah squadron, dated 1863 - 1864, actually show him serving on that vessel as an ordinary seaman and gunner's mate; transferred, in 1864, to the Wilmington station. [Booth 3, 275; ORN 2, 1, 289; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530 and 793; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 754 and 1005.]

Alfred Reid (first name also shown as Albert), (colored) served as officer's cook and steward aboard the CSS Sea Bird, 1861 - 1862 captured at (Cobb's Point Battery) Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862; paroled and returned to Norfolk, Virginia, February 19, 1862. [Scharf, 392; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February 19, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 775.]

Allen Reid, 1st class boy, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

Daniel Reid, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]

James T. Reid, enlisted August 27, 1863, at Baldwin County, Alabama, as private, company A, 1st Battalion Cadets; also enlisted June 18, 1864, in the Confederate States Navy, and served as landsman aboard the receiving ship CSS Danube (the same source also shows that he enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, aged 16, in 1862, served aboard the Danube, and was transferred to Admiral Buchanan's headquarters at Mobile, Alabama, aboard the CSS Tennessee, as clerk; strained his back and was sent to the Marine Hospital at Mobile, sent home to Battle Wharf (on the eastern shore of Mobile Bay) on furlough; captured by Union cavalry and sent to Blakely, where he was paroled. [ADAH.]

Michael Reid (surname also incorrectly shown as Rose and Reed), master at arms, CSS Shenandoah; expiration of service, April 8, 1865; disrated, July 15, 1865, by order of commander Waddell, for improper conduct; and Charles McLaren rated in his place. [CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 72, 139 & 176 - 177.]

William C. Reid, originally served as private, St. Bride's Cavalry, company F, 15th Virginia Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy in 1862. [Norfolk County Record 208.]

A.G. Reids, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

F. Reiley, coal heaver, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

Henry Reiley, see Henry Riley.

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

John Reilley, seaman, served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 305.]

Joseph Reilley, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 291.]

John Reilly, previously served as Private in Company A, 11th Battalion, Georgia Infantry; transferred to Company A, 47th Regiment, Georgia Infantry, May 12, 1862; detailed on gunboat service, December, 1862; in hospital in October, 1863. [Georgia Rosters, 5, 10.]

John Reilly, born Ireland; resided in Warren County, North Carolina, as a laborer; enlisted at New Hanover County, North Carolina, August 7, 1861, aged 32, as private, company F, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; may have also enlisted in Lamb's Artillery 34th Regiment, sometime between October 31, 1861 and July 2, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy in March or April, 1863. [NCT 4, 579.]

Michael Reilly, served at the New Orleans station, 1862; arrested as a deserter, at New Orleans, by corporal James McLaughlin of the New Orleans police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on April 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 440.]

Albert Reinerth, landsman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]

John Reiper, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

Charles J. Relyea, born New York, October 2, 1844; served aboard the CSS Lady Davis, commanded by captain John Rutledge; Relyea indicates that he was captured and sent to Elmira Prison; paroled April 14, 1865; applied for a Confederate pension from Charleston, South Carolina, in 1919; may have also been the same C.J. Relyea, who commanded the Confederate army transport, Planter, in May, 1862, at the time that vessel was delivered over to the Union authorities, off Charleston, by Robert Smalls; Relyea also notes that he was shot in the head and hip during the war; resided as a sea captain, in 1880, with his wife, Hannah, and two children (eldest child born 1878) at Charleston, South Carolina; shown as a widower, in 1910. [South Carolina Confederate pension series S126088, item no. 01910, at "South Carolina Department of Archives and History: ON-LINE RECORDS INDEX," URL: http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/; ORN 1, 12, 825; 1880 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]

William Remick, served as seaman aboard the CSS Ponchartrain, Louisiana, 1862; died prior to March 17, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 332.]

A.H. Remington, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

F.B. Remington, resident of Lansingburg, New York; originally served as private, company A, 13th New York Regiment; captured by Confederate soldiers, near Fairfax, during a reconnaisance, about December, 1862; taken to Richmond, then to prison in North Carolina; escaped from Portsmouth, North Carolina, and made his way to Norfolk, Virginia, but returned to North Carolina, where he was offered employment on the gunboat CSS Fanny; employed in surveying inland waters; escaped and joined the forces of Union general Burnside, piloting the expedition to Roanoke Island; rejoined his regiment in January, 1862. [Newark Advocate (Newark, Ohio) dated February 28, 1862.]

Albert Remlet, see Albert Ranlet.

Francis C. Reneau, born Mississippi, about 1848; son of George G. and Emily W. Reneau; resided, in 1860, with his parents and siblings, at Pontotuc, Mississippi; appointed acting midshipman in the Confederate States Navy, November 29, 1864, and was ordered to report to lieutenant William H. Parker, aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, and who would assign Reneau to duty within ten days; Reneau was given leave of absence, in early December, 1864, and which was extended until December 14, 1864; died of typhoid fever, at the Naval Hospital, Richmond, Virginia, March 16, 1865. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated March 21, 1865; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 301.]

William Z. Renn, born North Carolina, 1828; served in the Confederate States Navy; resided as a mill wright, in 1880, with his wife, Mary E. Renn, and four children (eldest child born 1862) at E.D. 108, Fishing Creek, Granville, North Carolina; his widow later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Granville County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Francis B. Renshaw, born Pennsylvania, May 23, 1815; citizen of Florida; original service in the United States Navy, from November 1, 1828; married at Pensacola, Florida, prior to the war; entered the Confederate States Navy, March 26, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; served at the Pensacola Navy Yard, Warrington, Florida, 1861; commanding New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862, and in command of the steamers CSS Livingston, in early 1862, and later the CSS Jackson, at New Orleans, April, 1862; later on the Jackson station, 1862; afterwards on duty with the Confederate Army, 1862; promoted commander, May 13, 1863; served on the Naval defenses of Mobile, 1864, and was attached aboard the CSS Danube, until the sinking of that vessel on August 7, 1864, then sent ashore on duty; paroled, at the close of the war, at Montgomery, Alabama, May 20, 1865; personal details at the time of his parole shown as dark eyes, gray hair, dark complexion and standing 5 feet 10 inches tall; died June 9, 1867; buried St. Michael's Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida. [ORN 1, 18, 249 and 2, 1, 318, 320 & 323; ORA 1, 6; Register1863; 36th Congress Report 40; John E. Ellis; Florida Confederate Card File; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 163; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 631; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XP - Pay and Allowances, Paymaster's Accounts - Miscellaneous, page 529.]

William Renshaw, first class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

W. Renton, Seaman, CSS Alabama; transferred to CSS Tuscaloosa, June, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 713.]

John R. Respass, born North Carolina, 1838; son of Langly R. and Nancy Respass; resided as a farmer, in 1860, with his wife Harriet, and three children, at Washington County, North Carolina; serveed as landsman aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 297; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census.]

F. Reuben, served as coal heaver at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 39.]

Frank Reuben, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

George W. Revel, originally served as private, company F, 5th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad steam sloop, CSS Virginia II, James River Squadron, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [Civil War Service Records; ORN 2, 1, 312.]

Lawrence Revrich, 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.]

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

Augustus Reynard (surname also shown as Reynaud), born New Orleans, Louisiana, about 1828; 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 landsman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in July, 1864, to the CSS Macon, and later served as 1st class fireman 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.]

Alexander Reynolds, born Ireland; aged 28 (in 1861); served as 2nd class fireman aboard the receiving vessel, CSS St. Philip, 1861 - 1862; rated as 1st class fireman from August 1, 1861; discharged from Naval service, January 1, 1862, after being admitted to hospital, September 18, 1861, for dysentery. [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 555, 561 and 565.]

Isaac D. Reynolds (middle initial also shown as R.), born Brunswick County, North Carolina, 1833; resided and enlisted in Brunswick County, April 16, 1862, aged 29, as private (fifer), 3rd company G, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, August 5, 1863; served as coxswain, captain of afterguard and captain of foretop on CSS North Carolina, 1864; died 1914; buried at Bellevue Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina. [NCT 1, 286; ORN 2, 1, 294-296; Civil War Service Records; Wayne Carver.]

J.K. Reynolds, seaman, Confederate States Navy; enlisted at Portsmouth, Virginia; served aboard the CSS Virginia, 1862. [LVA.]

Jefferson Reynolds (surname also shown, incorrectly, as Riley), served as landsman and officers' steward in the Confederate States Navy, and at the Savannah squadron in 1863; served aboard the CSS Resolute in 1863; transferred to the CSS Oconee on July 25, 1863; however, indications are that he was transferred at an earlier date, as he was stated to have been reduced in rating, while aboard the CSS Oconee, on June 8, 1863; captured aboard a boat from the CSS Oconee, at Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, on August 20, 1863, by the USS Madgie; transferred to the USS Wamsutta on August 21, 1863, to be sent north as a prisoner of war. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 488; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 375, 379 and 614.]

John Reynolds, resident of New York City; enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, for the war, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on November 8, 1862; personal description shown as blue eyes, black hair, dark complexion and 5 feet, 6 inches in height; transferred from the Mobile station to the CSS Baltic, on January 20, 1863; captured at Fort Gaines, Alabama, August 8, 1864, and sent to New Orleans, Louisiana, where he was released January 21, 1865, by order of Union General Canby. [Scriber; 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; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 94 - 95.]

John Reynolds, served as seaman aboard the CSS Selma, 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 464.]

John Reynolds, served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863, and later in the same rating aboard the CSS Neuse, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1233.]

John W. Reynolds, born Wake County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, mason; enlisted at Cumberland County, North Carolina, March 17, 1864, aged 29, in the Confederate States Navy; served as master at arms, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864; engaged in the battles around Albemarle Sound, in 1864, and stated to "have had large experience in heavy contests with naval guns"; captured about November, 1864, and sent north as a prisoner of war; resided, in 1898, at 1831 Edmondson Avenue, Baltimore, Maryland. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274; New York Times dated Wednesday, May 5, 1898; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 461.]

Murdock C. Reynolds, resided and enlisted in Brunswick County, North Carolina, April 16, 1862, aged 26, as private, 3rd company G, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, August 5, 1863; served as ordinary seaman on the CSS North Carolina, 1864. [NCT 1, 287; ORN 2, 1, 294-296.]

Theodore Reynolds, 2nd class boy, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown (operated in James River and Hampton Roads, Virginia area); served sometime between January, 1861 and June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]

Thomas Reynolds, native of New Orleans, Louisiana; master's mate; involved in a plot to seize the Panama to San Francisco steamer, in October, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 302 & 357.]

Thomas Reynolds, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861, and served as 2nd class fireman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS St. Philip, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 81 and 555.]

W.H.C. Reynolds, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

William C. Reynolds, originally served as private, company B, 6th Virginia Infantry (Norfolk County Record 278 shows company H - Independent Grays, 6th Virginia Infantry); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209 dated at Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston, South Carolina. [Civil War Service Records; Norfolk County Record 278; Confederate States Navy subject file.]

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

Jacob Rhive, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

A.G. Rhodes, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

J.C. Rhodes, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

Jesse M. Rhodes, born Elizabeth City, North Carolina, 1828; took up a seafaring career at the age of 12, and occupied every position from cabin boy to captain; served as pilot in the Confederate States Navy, and was at Roanoke Island, at its capture; served as pilot aboard the CSS Curlew, 1861 - 1862; discharged February 10, 1862; post war employment as pilot and for the Old Dominion Company; shown residing as a sailor, in 1880, with his wife Mary, and two children, at Newbern; died at Newbern, North Carolina, December 17, 1882. [CSN Register; 1880 U.S. Census; News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) dated December 19, 1882; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 278.]

Julius J. Rhodes, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 & 295; DANFS.]

W.F. Rhodes, seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 280.]

Peter Rial, see Peter Ryal.

Antonio Ribet, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316.]

Alexander Rice, served as private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; wounded at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1863; applied for a Confederate pension from Clay County, Alabama, May 10, 1893. [ADAH.]

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

George R. Rice, born Marion County, Florida, January 6, 1846; enlisted June 6, 1861, at Tampa, in Company K, 4th Florida Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, at Dalton, Georgia, April 8, 1864, as ordinary seaman; sent to Savannah, Georgia, and served aboard the CSS Georgia; transferred, on May 4, 1864, to the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron; later served on the CSS Macon from which he was discharged at Augusta, Georgia, 1865; resided in Hillsborough County, Florida, in 1916; received Florida pension after the war. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 456; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A08385; CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 585.]

J. G. Rice, served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865; rated quartermaster from January 1, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 268.]

K.W. Rice, originally served as private, company F, 22nd Battalion, Georgia Heavy Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Robert J. Rice, served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; appeared as a defendant in a Naval Court Martial held at Richmond, Virginia, in July, 1862, specification of charges not shown. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 179.]

T.C. Rice, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

Ezekiel Rich, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861, and aboard the CSS Pamlico from October 15, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 54 and 268.]

Francis Rich, officers cook, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 550.]

Jabez C. Rich, born Gorham, Maine; previous service in the United States Marine Corps; appointed from Virginia, captain, Confederate States Marine Corps, October 26, 1861; dropped from the service of the Confederate States, October 10, 1862; arrested at Gorham, Maine, Tuesday, March 31, 1863, and sent to Fort Preble; claimed to be a paroled prisoner. [CSNRegister; New York Times dated Wednesday, April 1, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 329.]

William C. Rich, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Arctic, 1863; also served aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863, and aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865; he is also shown to have been aboard the CSS Indian Chief, Charleston, about October, 1863; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 276, 286 & 305; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271, 608 and 764.]

Hayward Richard, born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1812; enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston, South Carolina, October 19, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 243.]

Joseph N. Richard, born Alabama, about 1845; resided at Northport, Alabama; occupation - student; enlisted at Tuscaloosa, Tuscaloosa County, Alabama, June 11, 1861, as private, company G, 11th Alabama Infantry Regiment; fought at Seven Pines and Gettysburg; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, September 7, 1863. [ADAH.]

Charles C. Richards, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS St. Mary, Brashear, Louisiana, 1862; rated as quartermaster from February 27, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 111, 545 and 547.]

E. Richards (name also shown as A.P. Ritchard), served as carpenter's mate (rating also shown as "carpenter without appointment") aboard the CSS Webb, April, 1865; abandoned the vessel below New Orleans, and was captured, and sent aboard the USS Bermuda, to Philadelphia, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 22, 166 & 170.]

F. (or P.?) Richards, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

George Richards, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in December 24, 1861. [Soldiers of Florida, 49.]

Joseph W. Richards, served as a private in the 11th Alabama 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; served as landsman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate States Navy subject file.]

John Richards, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, June 11, 1862; rated as 2nd class fireman from June 12, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 109.]

John Richards, 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 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 297; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 602.]

John Richards (2), ordinary seaman, CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 305.]

John Richards, 1st captain of hold, CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 304.]

John Richards, ordinary seaman, Confederate States Navy; captured at Appomattox Court House, Virginia, April 9, 1865; sent from Emory Hospital to the Lincoln General Hospital in the District of Columbia, for an unknown reason, April 30, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RE - Release and Exchange, A-W, pages 124-125.]

Thomas Richards, resident of Charleston, South Carolina; landsman, CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia 1861. [Weber; ORN 2, 1, 301.]

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

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

George L. Richardson, appointed second officer aboard the Confederate States ram General Sterling Price, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

J.M. Richardson, served on the CSS Atlanta, 1863; also served as landsman on the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, in 1863; later served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, and deserted from the vessel on August 16, 1864, at Savannah. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Wednesday, January 7, 1863; ORN 2, 1, 278; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 565; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 295.]

J.P. Richardson, 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, at an unspecified date, to the Charleston squadron. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 648 and 716.]

J. P. Richardson, served in the Confederate States Naval Battalion, at the fall of Richmond; deserted and surrendered himself aboard the USS Onondaga, on the James River, on April 4, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 554.]

James L. Richardson, enlisted, on April 10, 1863, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and received a bounty of $50; served on the Richmond station, in 1863; transferred aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, about July, 1863; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, at an unknown date. [ORN 2, 1, 305 & 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 437 and 677.]

John Richardson, served as seaman aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, James River squadron, 1861 - 1862; deserted from the vessel on May 12, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 312; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 442.]

John Richardson, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 303; DANFS.]

John Richardson, enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on August 13, 1861; served as in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, in 1862, and aboard the CSS Richmond, James River, 1863 - 1864; lodged at Castle Thunder, in Richmond, Virginia, on February 27, 1863, as punishment for an unspecified offence. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February 28, 1863; ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 285, 386 and 387.]

John Richardson, shipped as seaman, for three years, aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on July 28, 1862; rated quartermaster on August 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 749 and 751.]

R. Richardson, captain of forecastle, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

Rawston Richardson (first name also shown as Roston), served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and aboard the CSS Mobile, New Orleans, in 1862; rated as boatswain's mate from January 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1035 and 1037; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61.]

T.W. Richardson, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Wilson G. Richardson (middle initial also shown as J.), born Mississippi; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant paymaster, October 18, 1862; served aboard the steamers CSS Selma and CSS Alert, 1862 - 1864; paid, out of his own pocket, for the funeral expenses of paymaster Richard L. MacKall, when MacKall died aboard the CSS Morgan in August, 1863; up to July, 1864, Richardson had not been reimbursed for these expenses; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; paroled, at the close of the war, at Grenada, Mississippi, May 18, 1865. [Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 166; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XP - Pay and Allowances, Paymaster's Accounts - Miscellaneous, page 483.]

O.L.P. Richblave, claimed to be an officer of the privateer, Tuscaloosa, accidentally left at St. Catherine's, Brazil, December 4, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 610-611.]

John H. Rickels (surname also shown as Rickles), received aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on June 19, 1862, and served as ordinary seaman. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 750 and 751.]

Owen Ricker, served as ordinary 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.]

F. H. Rickers, appointed chief engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Warrior, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

George W. Ricketts, born Anson County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Anson County, March 21 or 24, 1864, aged 22, in the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 407.]

John Stuart Rickey, born March 25, 1818; worked at the CSA Navy Yards; no further data; died July 16, 1871; buried at Pine Forest Cemetery, Hopkins County, Texas. [Information supplied by Ken Jones, in an e-mail (kjones@tarleton.edu) dated May 16, 2005.]

William H. Rickhow, born New York, about 1824 (1860 U.S. Census shows his year of birth as about 1836); son of Andrew and Magdelin Rickhow; in 1850 shown residing with his parents at Queens County, New York; previous service as landsman, United States Navy; in 1860, shown at the United States Navy Hospital at Norfolk County, Virginia; later served as ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia; also indicated to have served as purser's steward, Confederate States Navy; captured in Manchester, Virginia, April 4, 1865, sick; paroled April 20, 1865; post war occupation, steward; admitted to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, for general debility; register notes that he was "dismissed for cause, July 16, 1891"; died July 20, 1891. [ORN 2, 1, 300; LVa; Norfolk County Record 324; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census.]

William R. Ricks, resident of North Carolina; appointed acting midshipman in the Confederate States Navy on December 2, 1864, and ordered to report to lieutenant William H. Parker, aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, for duty; paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 11, 1865; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Nash County, North Carolina. [NC State Archive ; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 167; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 303.]

William Riddle, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 3, New Orleans station, 1861; arrested by New Orleans police, for an unspecified reason, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 17, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 47; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 430.]

William P. Riddle (surname is also shown as Ridle), 1st assistant engineer, served on the Savannah station, 1861; shown as acting chief engineer aboard the CSS Baltic, in 1862 - 1863; on sick leave, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 323; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, page 60; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 561.]

William H. Riddle, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on November 9, 1861, and ordered to report aboard the floating battery New Orleans, for duty; also served at the Jackson station, 1862; named his next of kin as Mary E. Riddle. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 895; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 305.]

Joseph Riddock, born New Jersey; moved to Charleston, South Carolina, as a child; employed as a gasfitter and plumber at the Charleston Gas Company; also held the position of vice president of the Palmetto Fire Engine Company; enlisted in the Richardson Guards, company I, 1st South Carolina (Gregg's) Volunteer Infantry; served as sergeant, and was stationed at Suffolk, Virginia; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 17, 1862; served as landsman, CSS Virginia, 1862; after the destruction of the Virginia, he served in the ordnance department, until the end of the war; resumed his job as gasfitter and plumber until he was called to accept a position in the Long Island Gas Company, at Brooklyn, New York, which position he held until the time of his death; was a member of Camp Sumter, No. 250, United Confederate Veterans; died at Brooklyn, Sunday, November 29, 1896; remains sent to Charleston, South Carolina for burial; survived by his widow and seven children. [SC1st; ORN 2, 1, 309; Weekly News and Courier (Charleston, South Carolina) dated December 9, 1896, page 12.]

Joseph H. Rider (surname also shown as Ryder), enlisted, for one year, as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South Carolina, on September 28, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

Charles Riders, 3rd corporal, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, December, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

Joseph Ridgaway (surname also shown, incorrectly, as Ridgeway and Ridgway), native of Talbot County, Maryland; shown as quartermaster on the Charleston station, 1862; aged in his late 20's (at the time of his death); died February 17, 1864, on the CSS H.L. Hunley, when that vessel attacked the USS Housatonic, off Charleston, South Carolina; his "sedimentary" remains were recovered, August, 2000, when the Hunley was retrieved from it's final position in Charleston Harbor; re-buried, April 17, 2004, at Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina. [ORN 1, 15, 337 and 2, 1, 317; Washington Times, report, titled "Civil War Submariners Home at last," March 27, 2004.]

T.G. Ridgely, born Missouri; original entry into Confederate States Navy, October 3, 1863; commissioned assistant paymaster, January 7, 1864, to rank from October 3, 1863; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served aboard the receiving vessel CSS Indian Chief, Charleston, South Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 288; Register1864; JCC 4, 122.]

C.M. Ridley, originally served as private, company K, 12th South Carolina Infantry; promoted sergeant; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as landsman aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River squadron, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [Civil War Service Records; ORN 2, 1, 312.]

John W. Ridling, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316.]

J.H. Riely, see James H. Riley.

Joseph W. Rife, enlisted at Natchez, Mississippi, August 15, 1861, as private, company E, 4th Battalion Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Marine Corps, December 15, 1862; muster rolls of the CSS Isondiga, 1863 - 1864, and other Naval documents actually show that he served on that vessel as ordinary seaman, and was transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863. [Booth 3, 321; ORN 2, 1, 289; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530 and 779.]

Joseph R. Riggan, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Alamance County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

James Riggins, quartermaster aboard the CSS Juno, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, on the night of August 6, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]

N.B. Riggins, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

Alpheus B. Riggs, resided in, and enlisted at Camden County, North Carolina, May 30, 1861, aged 22, as private, company M, 12th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to 2nd company B, 32nd Regiment North Carolina Troops, October, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, December 30, 1863; served as landsman on the CSS Arctic, 1864, and the CSS Raleigh, 1864. [NCT 5, 239 & 9, 27; ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302.]

James T. Riggs, 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, 278 & 302.]

Joseph Riggs, born Camden County, North Carolina; resided in Pasquotank County, North Carolina, as a mariner, prior to enlisting there, July 31, 1861, aged 27, 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 January 20, 1863; served as seaman aboard the CSS Arctic. [NCT 4, 530; ORN 2, 1, 279.]

Marshall P. Riggs, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

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

Albert Right, originally served as private, company A, 1st Battalion, Georgia Sharp Shooters; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as ordinary seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally known as the CSS Savannah), Savannah River, Georgia, 1862. [Civil War Service Records; ORN 2, 1, 297.]

C.W. Righter, appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy on August 19, 1861; served on the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862, and performed work upon the CSS Jackson, at New Orleans, in June, 1861; later on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318 & 320; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 849; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 842 and 866.]

John Rigney, born Ireland; resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at New Orleans, June 8, 1861, as private, company K, 15th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April, 1862. [Booth 3, 323.]

Josiah Rigon, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see also, entry for J.R. Regan, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

Barnard Riley (first name also shown as Bernard), enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861; later served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Florida (later renamed CSS Selma); arrested as a deserter at Mobile, by Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862; killed in action, Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 578 and 2, 1, 286 & 306; 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 427.]

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

Francis Riley, enlisted for three years or the war, as coal heaver in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on September 2, 1862; deserted at an unspecified date, but was apprehended by L. McCabe of the city police, and returned to the Naval authorities, and for which McCabe received a reward of $15. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 180; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 560.]

Henry Riley, born Canada; joined the CSS Shenandoah, February, 1865, at Melbourne, Australia; enlisted as private, Confederate States Marine Corps; confined in single irons, May 28, 1865, for drunkenness. [Alabama Claims, 977; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log.]

James Riley, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 316.]

James Riley, Private, Company E, CSMC; resided in New York before the war; enlisted Mobile, Alabama, December 6, 1862; died of wounds, May 22, 1863 (his headstone shows date of death as May 27, 1863); buried Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. [Confederate Burials, 70; Honeycutt.]

James A. Riley, acting master's mate, Confederate States Navy; served on the Mobile station, 1861 - 1864; served aboard the CSS Alert, 1861 - 1862; later served aboard the CSS Selma, 1863; appointed acting master's mate in the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States, June 2, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 275; CSN Register; Register1864.]

James H. Riley (surname also shown as Riely), appointed 3rd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, September 23, 1861; served on the CSS Jackson, from which he was detached on November 8, 1861, and also aboard the CSS Livingston and the CSS McRae, New Orleans station, Louisiana; tendered his resignation from the Naval service, which was accepted on November 8, 1861; however, he was obviously re-appointed, as he was later transferred to the CSS Louisiana, April 25, 1862; given permission by his immediate commander, John K. Mitchell, to abandon the vessel and to try and escape capture; escaped captivity, at the surrender of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, April 28, 1862; later served on the Jackson station. [Booth 3, 324; ORN 1, 18, 299 and 2, 1, 319; CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 890; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 1062.]

Jefferson Riley, see Jefferson Reynolds.

John Riley, born Ireland, resided as a laborer in Cumberland County, North Carolina, where he enlisted, May 29, 1861, aged 19, as private, company C, 3rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 29, 1862. [NCT 3, 519.]

John Riley, originally served as private, company E, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

John Riley, Fireman, CSS Alabama; disrated to Coal Trimmer, November 17, 1863; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel; ORN 1, 2, 784.]

John Riley, seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

John Riley, corporal, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]

John Riley, ordinary seaman, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 553.]

John Riley, served as officer's cook aboard the CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, in 1863; transferred to the CSS Oconee on July 25, 1863; indications are that he was transferred at an earlier date, as he was reduced in rating, aboard the CSS Oconee, on June 8, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 379 and 614.]

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

John G. Riley, ordinary seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

John G. Riley, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862 - 1863; deserted about January, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 297.]

Otey Riley, resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; served in the Confederate States Navy. [Norfolk County Record 202.]

Owen Riley, coal heaver, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

Peter Riley, served as seaman at the New Orleans station in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 106.]

T. Riley, served as landsman 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.]

Thomas Riley, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

Thomas Riley, enlisted for the war, as ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 30, 1862, and served aboard the CSS Huntress. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 166 and 751.]

Thomas Riley (2nd), 2nd class fireman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

Thomas Riley (surname also shown as Riely), served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; listed his next of kin as Catherine Riley. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1005; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 110.]

Thomas Riley, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862 - 1863; deserted about January, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 299.]

William Riley, appointed 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy on June 22, 1861, and served on the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 320; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 866.]

William D. Riley, served as landsman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as officers' steward from June 14, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 864.]

William P. Riley, Ordinary Seaman, paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231.]

Alex Rill, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314.]

George Rillarguis, ordinary seaman, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 552.]

John Rind, served on the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100.]

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

John L. Ring, enlisted at Richmond, Virginia, July 20, 1861, as private, company I, 1st South Carolina (Gregg's) Volunteer Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 17, 1862; served on the CSS Virginia, 1862. [SC1st.]

Charles Ringhill, born Chatham County, Georgia, 1846; resided with his mother, Susan Ringhill, at White Bluff district, Chatham County, Georgia, in 1860; served as landsman aboard the CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls; 1860 U.S. Census.]

William Rinton, Carpenter's Mate, CSS Alabama; born England; reduced to Seaman, January 31, 1863; transferred to CSS Tuscaloosa, June 21, 1863. [William Marvel.]

Daniel Riordan, born Ireland; aged 36 (in 1863); private, Confederate States Marine Corps; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, July 28, 1863; transferred, for exchange, October 1, 1864; released and sent to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged. [Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry for Friday, February 20, 1863; ORN 1, 14, 268; Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]

Charles Rios (surname also shown as Ryos and Ryas), served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and as cook aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, 1861 - 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 62, 320 and 325; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Richmond (provisions) - revenue marine, page 822.]

Thomas W. Ripert, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 26, as private, company H, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred for service aboard the Merrimac (CSS Virginia), January 2, 1862. [Booth 3, 329.]

Joseph B. Ripley (first name also shown as James), appointed as paymaster's clerk in the Confederate States Navy, at Savannah, Georgia, on April 7, 1864; served aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 286; Confederate Navy subject file, N - Personnel, NN - Acceptances, applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances - appointments of officers (A-K), page 36; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 544.]

W. B. Ripley, appointed purser 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.]

Samuel Beard Risien, born England; CSS Alabama; post-war resident of Mexia, Texas; member of Joe Johnston Confederate veterans camp 94; drowned, with his wife Emma, on the Titanic, when that vessel sank on it's maiden voyage in April, 1912. [Tom Brooks; see also the Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 20, 1912, page 579.]

Levi W. Risley, enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, August 13, 1861, as private, company A, 14th (Austin's) Battalion Louisiana Sharp Shooters; also served as corporal in the 11th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 12, 1864, by order of the War Department; served as ordinary seaman on the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864; later attached to the CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; admitted to the Confederate States Naval Hospital at Savannah on August 13, 1864, where he died at 7.30 a.m. on September 12, 1864 (another document shows date of death as September 13, 1864); buried, September 13, 1864, at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. [Booth 3, 330-331; ORN 2, 1, 283; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated May 19, 1866; Honeycutt; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 240-242.]

A.P. Ritchard, see E. Richards.

George H. Ritchie, born Virginia; graduated from the Virginia Military Institute, 1845; previous service in the United States Navy, as paymaster, from April 1, 1853; resigned, April 29, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as paymaster, October 11, 1861; ordered, on October 22, 1861, to proceed to Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and report to flag officer Lynch for duty; commissioned paymaster, October 23, 1862, to rank from March 26, 1861; settling accounts at Richmond, Virginia, 1862 - 1863; served at Charleston in 1863, and indicated, in a letter dated February 12, 1863, addressed to Bolling Baker, 1st auditor of the Treasury Department, that he had terminated his connection with the Charleston station as of that date, and that the reasons for his "remissions" were that he was, for some time, acting not only as paymaster of the station, but also as clerk, Navy agent, storekeeper and purser of the gunboats and vessels in the harbor, with only one clerk to assist him at $500 per annum; also served at Charlotte, North Carolina; served in the insurance business after the war; died April, 1870. [Register1863; Register1864; LVA; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 315; Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations; PB - Administration of stations; Albany - Charlotte, pages 326-327.]

J.R. Rittenberry (surname also shown as Rittenberg), served aboard the CSS Savannah, Squadron, 1863; landsman, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga, Savannah Squadron; 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; rated as seaman, May 1, 1864, by order of captain J.S. Kennard; also served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; Confederate States Navy subject files - N Personnel - NI - Promotions; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271 and 762.]

Charles Rivers (surname also shown as Rivas), private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; severely wounded in action, April 24-25, 1862, below New Orleans. [Daily Picayune, Tuesday, April 29, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 291 & 320.]

Francis River, see Francis Glassbrook.

Frank M. Rivers, previously served as Private in Company A, 4th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy at Mobile, Alabama, February 15, 1864; captured as a ship's painter, in late 1864 and imprisoned at New Orleans; escaped and then made his way from Lewisburg, Louisiana, to Mobile, Alabama, arriving at that place on November 30, 1864. [Information supplied by Arthur Bergeron, Louisiana; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 429.]

John Rivers, served as 2nd class boy aboard the CS floating battery New Orleans, at Columbus, Kentucky, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 6.]

William Rix, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]