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Richard Unrue, recruited as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous, Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 445.]
Nathan Upchurch, born North Carolina, 1829; served as landsman, CSS Arctic and CSS Raleigh; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Martha and five sons (eldest son born 1858) at Houses Creek, Wake County, North Carolina; his widow, Martha A. Upchurch later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Wake County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 277 & 302; 1880 U.S. Census.]
James Upshaw, served as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863; paid off and discharged from the service on October 15, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 954.]
A.B. Upshur, born Virginia; served as clerk, Office of Ordnance and Hydrography, Confederate Navy Department, Richmond, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [Register1862; Register1863; Register1864.]
James W. Usher, served as seaman at the New Orleans station in 1861 (see John W. Usher, listed below, who may be the same person). [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 87.]
John W. Usher, served aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1066.]
Michael P. Usina, born St. Augustine, Florida, 1840; previously enlisted as Private, Company B, 8th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Oglethorpe Light Infantry), May 21, 1861; wounded in action, in one leg, at the battle of Manassas, July, 1861, was captured, but managed to escape with the help of an African American on horseback, who placed Usina upon his horse and took him back to southern lines; transferred to Confederate States Navy and ordered to report to Secretary Mallory at Richmond, Virginia, by special orders from Adjutant and Inspector General's Office, CSA, November 26, 1861; stationed at Savannah, Georgia; served as pilot aboard the CSS Talomico, 1862; also served on the blockade runners, Mary Celeste, Atalanta, Virginia, Armstrong and Rattlesnake; resided as a steamboat captain, in 1880, with his wife Camilla, and six children (eldest child born 1866) at Savannah, Georgia; died 1903. [Georgia Rosters 1, 933; CSN-Museum; CSN Register; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated October 4, 1861.]
John C. Usry, born North Carolina, 1830; served in the Confederate States Navy; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, E.J. Usry, and six children (eldest child born 1858) at Brassfield, Granville County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Granville County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]
Henry Ustakan (or Eustachia), see Henry Middleton Kernot.
William A. Vaden, born Virginia, 1841; resided, before the war, in Chesterfield County, Virginia; served as seaman, CSS Virginia II, 1864-1865; paroled at Manchester, Virginia, on April 22, 1865; married October 11, 1868; resided as a steamboat captain, in 1880, with his wife Mary, and four children (eldest child born 1869) at Charleston, South Carolina; post war, commanded the steamer Falcon; died December 16, 1910; wife, Mary C. Vaden, applied for a Confederate widow's pension, from Charleston, South Carolina, in 1919 (she incorrectly indicated his wartime rank as being a captain). [South Carolina Confederate pension series S126088, item no. 01948, at "South Carolina Department of Archives and History: ON-LINE RECORDS INDEX," URL: http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/; ORN 2, 1, 312; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 671.]
Edward Vail (first name also shown as Edwin), appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, on October 8, 1861, and served on the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; also served at the Jackson station in 1862; discharged from the Naval service on April 30, 1862. [CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 852; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 530.]
Samuel Valens, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama; deserted September 21, 1863, at Cape Town. [William Marvel.]
D. S. Valentine, served as landsman on the CSS Arctic, 1864; died on July 1, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 293.]
Conrad Valposna (surname also shown as Velfongir and Valpoujer), served as 1st class boy and landsman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, for confinement; released February 1, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 256; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 370.]
John Vanarery (surname also shown as Vanavery), born Canada; served as seaman aboard the CSS Shenandoah, 1865; sent to the mast head, September 1, 1865, for insolence; released the same day. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; Whittle 189.]
Frederick Van Biber, see Frederic Garretson.
Alfred C. Van Benthuysen, born in, and appointed from Louisiana, as captain, Confederate States Marine Corps, March 30, 1861; under arrest in 1864. [Booth 3, 905.]
William Van Comstock, born Louisiana; pre-war service in the United States Navy, as acting Midshipman, resigned January 30, 1861, and was appointed, from Louisiana, as acting Midshipman, in the Confederate States Navy, April 25, 1861; promoted acting Master, September 24, 1861; promoted Lieutenant, February 8, 1862; served on the CSS Oconee, then on the CSS Savannah, 1862-1863; CSS Patrick Henry, 1863-1864; CSS Macon, August 15, 1864-March 20, 1865. [Booth 3, 906; ORN 1, 14, 694.]
John S. Van de Graaff, appointed 2nd lieutenant, Confederate State Marine Corps, March 17, 1863; served on the Confederate States schooner Gallego, Richmond station, 1863; later served at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, and at Rockett's Navy Yard, Richmond, 1863; resigned September 11, 1863; post war residence at Richmond, Texas, and was arrested for an unspecified reason in February, 1877, but released shortly after. [Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas) dated February 22, 1877; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 329.]
Peter Vandeveer (surname also shown as Vandevor), born New Jersey, 1837; appointed acting 1st assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, June 12, 1861, and ordered to take charge of the Engineering department aboard the CSS Resolute; served on the steamers, CSS Resolute and the CSS Savannah (Oconee), Savannah station, Georgia, 1861 - 1863; captured August 20, 1863, near Savannah (at Ossabaw Sound), Georgia, by the USS Madgie; transferred to the USS Wamsutta on August 21, 1863, to be sent north as a prisoner of war; paroled at Fort Warren, September 28, 1864; exchanged at Cox's Wharf, Virginia; released and sent to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged; resided as an engineer, in 1880, with his wife Henrietta, and four children (eldest child born 1868) at Savannah, Chatham County, Georgia; his widow, Henrietta A. Vandeveer filed for a post war Confederate pension from Chatham County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 968; ORN 2, 1, 323; 1880 U.S. Census; CSN Register; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 488; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 532.]
C.A. Vanfelson, born New York, appointed from Alabama; served as messenger to the Secretary of the Confederate Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, 1862 - 1863. [Register1862; Register1863.]
Emil Van Graf, shipped for the war, as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, on March 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 398.]
P. Vanhaverbeker, second class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
W. Van Liew, indicated to have been a captain, Confederate marine; buried at the Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]
Walter Van Ness, Ordinary Seaman; rated Seaman, August 22, 1863; CSS Alabama; drowned June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]
Benton Vanoken (or Vanauken), Private, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Nicholas H. Van Zandt, born District of Columbia; original service in the United States Navy, from October 19, 1841; entered the Confederate States Navy, December 7, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; served on the Charleston station, 1862-1863; later on the Wilmington station, 1864; held as a prisoner of war at Johnsons Island, Ohio, and released June, 1865, on taking the oath; in 1886, his state senator, Randolph Tucker of Virginia, attempted to obtain a pension for Van Zandt of $75 a month, for deafness, contracted while he was in United States service, thirty years before. [ORN 2, 1, 317 & 323; Register1863; Los Angeles Daily Times dated Wednesday, July 21, 1886; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RE - Release and Exchange, A-W, pages 166-167; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 793.]
James Vassie, served as seaman aboard the CSS Mobile, in 1861; rated as master at arms on October 31, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1029.]
Elijah J. Vasser, assistant paymaster, Confederate States Navy; ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Webb, Red River, Louisiana, in April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 168.]
C. D. Vaughan, served as landsman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864, and later aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 849.]
Richard H. Vaughan, resident of Chesterfield County, Virginia; enlisted by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, on August 6, 1864, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Richmond station, 1864; paroled at Manchester, Virginia, April 27, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 468; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 652.]
Charles Vaughn, served as 2nd class boy aboard the CSS Jamestown, James River squadron, in 1862; rated as 1st class boy from April 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 947.]
Henry L. Vaughn (surname also shown as Vaughan), born Louisiana; previous service, from September 24, 1860, as acting Midshipman, in the United States Navy, from which he resigned, April 25, 1861; appointed from Louisiana, as acting midshipman in the Confederate States Navy, at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, July 8, 1861; appointed master, June 2, 1864; served on the Mississippi defenses, 1862-1863, and aboard the CSS Selma, 1863; ordered to the CSS Isondiga, December 14, 1863; Savannah Squadron, 1863-1864; CSS Chattahoochee, 1864; involved in the failed attempt to capture USS Adela, at St. George's Sound, Florida, May, 1864; ordered to report on board the captured vessel, the Water Witch, July 6, 1864, and took command of that vessel, September 9, 1864. [Booth 3, 914; ORN 1, 17, 698 and 1, 19, 627; Callahan; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 534.]
Peter Vaughn (surname also shown as Vaughan), served as landsman aboard the CSS Mobile, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as officer's steward on October 31, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1029; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 83.]
William F.M. Veal, see William F. McVeal.
John H. Vedder, claimed to have served on the cruiser CSS Alabama, and to have been in the battle against the USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; resided in Jersey City, New Jersey; died of heart failure, at the home of his brother, in New York City, June, 1893. [New York Times dated June 5, 1893.]
John M. Veige, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 79.]
Thomas Veitch, see Thomas Voitch.
Conrad Velfongir, see Conrad Valposna.
Howell A. Venable, appointed from Texas, as assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, September 6, 1864; served aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1864; attached as assistant surgeon, to the 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [CSN Register; M1091.]
Joseph P. Venable, shipped, by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, as a recruit into the Confederate States Marine Corps, April 23, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 303.]
Nathaniel E. Venable, born Prince Edward County, Virginia, about 1838; citizen of Victoria County, Texas; pre-war occupation as a teacher; originally served as a private and corporal in company I, 23rd Virginia Volunteers, where he had enlisted at Camp Bartow, Pocahontas County, Virginia, September 23, 1861; discharged October 17, 1862; appointed from Texas, as 2nd lieutenant in the Confederate States Marine Corps; Venable was placed on recruiting duty at Richmond, under special order dated December 29, 1863, by his immediate commander, colonel Lloyd J. Beall, with the following instruction: "Lt. Venable will from time to time call upon the commander of conscripts and ascertain whether there are any who desire to enter the Marine Corps. He will explain to them the nature of the Marine service, and inform them of the pay and allowances, they will receive as privates and non-commissioned officers of the Corps. None but able bodied active men free from appearances of intemperate habits will be received". [Texas in the War, 1861-1865, page 58; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 682; Compiled Service Military Record of Nathaniel E. Venable, 23rd Virginia Volunteers; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 180.]
James Vensie, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61.]
Jacob Verber, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1863-4; rated Seaman, August 22, 1863; wounded in action and captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]
Joseph Vermont, indicated to have been a sailor aboard the ship Mary; paroled at Montgomery, Alabama, May 9, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 671.]
Wilders Verner, served as 1st class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 69.]
William H. Vernon, appointed acting midshipman in the Confederate States Navy, July 20, 1861; served on the CSS Ellis and Edwards (Forrest), 1861 - 1862; participated in the battle at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 7 - 8, 1862; resigned from the Confederate Navy, February 28, 1862, to enter the Confederate Army. [CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]
Edward B. Veronee, born June 17, 1838, Charleston, South Carolina; claimed to have served in the Confederate States Navy, and served on the Victory (no vessel of this name is listed as belonging to the Confederate Navy); also claimed to have served on the Antonica; discharged at Bahamas (or Cuba) two weeks after Lee's surrender; also claims he was captured by the USS Santiago de Cuba, and paroled after being imprisoned at New York; resided at St. Augustine, Florida, 1919. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. D21518.]
A. Vesterling, see H. Westerling.
George Vetter, Chief Engineer, CSS Governor Moore, April, 1862. [ORN 1, 18, 308.]
John Vial, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama; deserted September 17, 1863, at Cape Town. [William Marvel.]
Henry W. Vick, recruited at Mobile, Alabama, by captain George P. Turner, into the Confederate States Marine Corps, May 9, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1047.]
James P. Vick, resided in, and enlisted at Nash County, North Carolina, March 1, 1862, aged 22, as private, 2nd company H, 12th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to 2nd company H, 32nd Regiment North Carolina Troops, July 22, 1862; wounded in the hip and captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania sometime between July 1 and 5, 1863; hospitalized at Gettysburg, then transferred to hospital at Davids Island, New York Harbor on or about July 23, 1863; received at City Point, Virginia, September 27, 1863, for exchange; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864. [NCT 5, 217 & 9, 86.]
J. C. Vickers, enlisted at Savannah, Georgia, for the war, as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps, on April 10, 1863, receiving a $50 bounty; transferred to the CSS Savannah, about June, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 677 and 693; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 315.]
Eli Vickery, Private, Company G, 14th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry, July 9, 1861; wounded at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862; transferred to Confederate States Navy and ordered to report to Frederick Chatard, Commander, CS Navy at Orange Court House, Virginia, April 16, 1864; no later record. [Georgia Rosters 2, 387.]
Edward Viclopusehi (surname also shown as Vickopuskis), served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 357.]
John Victorini (surname also shown as Winterin), born Austria, about 1839; left London, England on January 16, 1864, for Brest, France, where he shipped aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 19, 1864, as coal heaver, and later rated as fireman; deserted from the cruiser in early or mid-1864; physical description of Winterin, at the time of his desertion, shown as 5 feet 6 inches tall, dark skin, dark hair, dark eyes, a stout man with a very large head, large mouth and "a silly, foolish look when he is spoken to"; was dressed in blue sailor's clothing at the time of his desertion. [Florida Medical Journal, see entry dated March 22, 1864, and also the list of personnel in the Engineer's Department, CSS Florida, dated at St. George's, Bermuda, June 27, 1864, from the same source; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 351 and 375.]
John Vidovich, served as a sailor on the ram CSS Stonewall, 1865; resided, in 1895, at Houston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas) dated May 25, 1895, page 5.]
Joseph E. Viernelson, see Joseph H. Virnelson.
John W. Vight, served as officers' steward aboard the CSS Arctic, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 13, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 117.]
John Villa, Seaman, CSS Selma, wounded in action, Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 579.]
Michael Vincent, served as seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, 1864; served on the gun commanded by midshipman Eugene Phillips, and was killed in action at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864; buried at Fort Morgan. [ORN 1, 21, 591 and 594; see also, article titled "Afloat, Afield, Afloat" by George S. Waterman, in the Confederate Veteran magazine, dated January, 1899; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OO - Operations of large groups of vessels; Charleston - Miscellaneous, page 26.]
John Vines, born Barcelona, Spain, March 29, 1844; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, April, 1862, and served as steerage steward aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron; paroled at Mobile, April, 1865. [Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, in 1907 at Ancestry.com.]
Joshua Vines, served as landsman aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile station, 1863; deserted about May, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 358.]
John Vinsen, shown as a Private aboard Launch No. 1, Confederate States Navy; listed as a deserter, December 9, 1862. [Information supplied by Arthur Bergeron, Louisiana.]
Joseph H. Virnelson (name also shown as Joseph E. Viernelson), resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; originally served as private, Portsmouth Rifle Company, company G, 9th Virginia Regiment; detached to work in the Navy Yard (Gosport?), 1862, and later appointed engineer in the Confederate States Navy; served as 3rd assistant engineer, CSS Fredericksburg, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 632; Norfolk County Record 85 & 221.]
Jovan Viser, left London, England on December 30, 1863, for Brest, France, where he joined the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 2, 1864, for service as a seaman. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 347.]
Joseph Vitch, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 110.]
James Vitta, served as seaman (or landsman?) aboard the receiving vessel, CSS St. Philip, 1861 - 1862; rated as officer's cook from January 23, 1862; deserted about December, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 555, 561 and 571; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 360.]
Leopold Ramie Vogel (name also shown as Lionel Vogel), born Charleston, South Carolina, September 4, 1842; enlisted March, 1861, in Captain J.J. Pope's Artillery (Lafayette Artillery); later served as gunner on the privateer Gordon; then purser on the blockade runner Theodora; then served aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, as captain's clerk, and subsequently as acting master's mate, 1862-1863; tendered his resignation from the Naval service, at Brest, France, on December 10, 1863, and which was accepted December 18, 1863; in a notation made by lieutenant Averett, on the back of Vogel's application, Averett states: "Mr. Vogel states that he is offered an advanced position on board a Government vessel and in order to accept it he must get to his destination Tuesday"; Vogel later served aboard blockade runners Florie and the Lillian, and as Chief Officer on the Owl; married Maria C. Reeves, at Charleston, South Carolina, August 29, 1865; post war occupation in the merchant marine; member of the Survivor's Association of Charleston; resided in Florida since January 1886; died in 1907; buried at the San Lorenzo Cemetery, St. Augustine, Florida. [John E. Ellis; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A03234; ORN 1, 1, 770 and 1, 2, 673; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 1068.]
James Vogler, Ship's Cook, CSS Alert, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]
John Vogler, served as landsman at the New Orleans station in 1861; later served as ship's cook aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile station, 1863; deserted about May, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 91; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 362.]
Thomas Voitch (surname also shown as Veitch), born Ireland; aged 27 (in 1863); private, Confederate States Marine Corps; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll and a Naval document of the CSS Georgia, indicate that he also served aboard that vessel in 1863; based at Savannah Georgia, 1864; involved in the taking out of the USS Water Witch, at Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, June 3, 1864. [ORN 1, 15, 499; 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 286-287; Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry for Wednesday, April 22, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523.]
John C. Volentine, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 11, 1861, as private, company C, 2nd Louisiana Infantry; promoted corporal, November 1, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, to serve aboard the CSS Virginia, March 21, 1862; served as landsman aboard that vessel. [Booth 3, 944; ORN 2, 1, 310.]
F. Volk (surname also shown as Volch), born Germany, appointed from Virginia; served as draftsman, Office of Ordnance and Hydrography, Confederate Navy Department, Richmond, Virginia, 1862 - 1863. [Register1862; Register1863.]
John H. Volkhardt (middle initial also shown as M.; surname also shown as Volkhard), served as private, and later as corporal in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Mobile, Alabama, 1863-1864; served 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; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1070.]
Charles W. Volkman, born Holland, about 1824; resided as a clerk, with his wife, Martha and daughter, at Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1860; appointed paymaster's clerk, Confederate States Navy, October 26, 1861; served on the CSS Jamestown, Richmond station, 1861-1862, and at Drewry's Bluff, James River, 1862. [1860 U.S. Census; CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Accounts for expenditures, page 656.]
Maximilian Von Meulnier, Master's Mate, CSS Alabama, 1863-4; born Bremen, Prussia; appointed at Cape Town, September 25, 1863. [William Marvel; ORN 1, 2, 782; CSN Register.]
Owen (Oran) D. Vosmus, CSS Virginia; previous service in company D, 5th Louisiana Infantry. [Tom Brooks.]