NC Civil War Sailors Project

Americus Vespucci Wiatt, born Independence, Gloucester County, Virginia, 1823 (another source incorrectly shows birth year as 1833); son of William Graham and Louisa Campbell Stubbs Wiatt; resided as a sea captain and slave owner, in 1850, with his wife Lucy Lee, at Gloucester County, Virginia; appointed acting master, Confederate States Navy, June 20, 1863, and ordered to proceed to Drewry's Bluff, James River, for duty; promoted lieutenant for the war, January 7, 1864, to rank from October 13, 1863; served on the Richmond station, 1863; later on the Wilmington station, 1863 - 1864, and on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh and ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Tallahassee, 1864, and at Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, 1864; attached as lieutenant to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; died at Baltimore, Maryland, 1870. [ORN 1, 10, 767; 1, 11, 772 and 2, 1, 295, 296, 301, 307, 322 & 323; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; M1091; 1850 U.S. Census and Slave Schedules; some additional data from the Family Data Collection at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 606.]

Herman Wicker (surname also shown as Wicke), native of Port Hanse, district Achem, Hanover, Germany; shipped in the merchant marine, October 5, 1864, at Newport, England, as boy, on the bark Alina; captured by the cruiser, CSS Shenandoah, October, 1864, and shipped as coal heaver; left at Melbourne, February 12, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 877-879; Whittle 56, 231.]

John Wicker, rated as 1st class boy aboard the CSS Tallahassee, Wilmington station, on October 1, 1864; deserted from the service on November 16, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 843; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 388.]

D. J. Wicks, born Louisiana, about 1843; son of Eliza Wicks; resided, in 1860, as a clerk, with his mother, at New Orleans; appointed, by lieutenant John W. Dunnington, commanding the CSS Mason, at New Orleans, as captain's clerk aboard the vessel on January 24, 1862; also served as captain's clerk aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, from which vessel he resigned the Naval service on February 17, 1862; Wicks continued to reside at New Orleans in the 1870's and 1880's. [1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 866 and 1079.]

Edward Wicks, Seaman; a negro; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 976.]

James Wicks, served as boatswain's mate aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief, about 1864 [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 765-766.]

James A. Wicks, CSS H.L. Hunley, died February 17, 1864, when that vessel attacked the USS Housatonic, off Charleston, South Carolina; buried at the Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston, South Carolina. [ORN 1, 15, 337; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Peter Wideman, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, April 27, 1861, as private, company G, 1st (Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry; wounded in action at Shiloh, Tennessee, April 6, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, General Orders dated March 1, 1864. [Booth 3, 1079.]

John Wiegand/Wigand, see Johann Weigand.

Lewis Wiggins, born Russia; CSS Shenandoah, 1864-1865; rated Signal Quartermaster, December 18, 1864; was residing in Savannah, Georgia, in 1897; died Saturday, August, 1903; buried at Columbus, Geirgia. [Alabama Claims 1, 975; Georgia Confederate Pension file for William W. Austin, Chatham County; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783; Gainesville Star (Florida) dated August 21, 1903.]

J. D. Wilbanks, 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.]

James Wilbur (surname also shown as Wilber), served as quartermaster at the New Orleans station in 1861; later, as seaman, in 1862, deserted the service about July, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 89; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 390.]

A. H. Wilcox, appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on March 26, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 611.]

C. H. Wilcox, served as a marine aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of the prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of that vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, page 3.]

Henry Wilcox, served as private in the Confederate States Marine corps, aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, in 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1181.]

B. F. Wild, appointed carpenter aboard the Confederate States ram General Sumter, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, February 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

Lewis C. Wild, Landsman, resident of Florida; killed in boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; buried at the First United Methodist Church cemetery, Chattahochee, Florida. [ORN 1, 17, 869; John E. Ellis]

J.H. Wilder, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, May, 1864; may be the same person listed in the next entry. [ORN 1, 17, 700.]

J. H. Wilder (surname also shown as Wilden), served as landsman aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1864; transferred, at an unspecified date, to the Charleston squadron. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 503; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 716.]

S.H. Wilder, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; may be the same person listed in the previous entry. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

Lewis C. Wilds, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

Nathaniel Wilds, served as landsman on the CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later, as ordinary seaman, served at the Savannah station; died at the Naval Hospital, Savannah, on July 30, 1863; buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia on July 31, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; 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 314-316 and 335.]

H.H. Wilers, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Atlanta, 1863. CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, letter, dated January 15, 1863, addressed to Flag Officer J. Tattnall, from surgeon J.J. Charlton.]

Samuel Wiles, transferred from the Signal Corps, December 1, 1862, to 2nd company A, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery, as private; detailed as telegraph operator on the Cape Fear River January 1, 1863; transferred to Captain Abner A. Moseley's Company North Carolina Troops (Sampson Artillery), December 1, 1863; appointed sergeant, February 5, 1864; reduced to ranks upon appointment as Surgeon's Steward and detailed to the Confederate States Navy, September 12, 1864; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 28, 1865 and noted as being on "detached service in the Confederate States Navy." [NCT 1, 197 & 612.]

Charles Wilhelms, enlisted as seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, June 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108.]

Wesley Wilkerson, 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 655.]

William Wilkerson, served as landsman aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1234.]
G.G. Wilkes, born in and appointed from Georgia, as midshipman in the Confederate States Navy. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 114.]

T. M. Wilkes, indicated to have been a midshipman in the Confederate States Navy; captured at Richmond, Virginia, April 3, 1865; paroled at Richmond, April 15, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 671.]

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

Gilbert A. Wilkins, born in and appointed from Georgia; appointed acting midshipman in the Confederate States Navy on October 14, 1862, and ordered to report to flag officer Tattnall at Savannah, Georgia, for duty; served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, 1863; examined by a board of medical survey on August 18, 1863, and found to be in ill health; ordered, on August 28, 1863, to report to Drewry's Bluff, James River, for duty under the command of commander S. S. Lee. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 114; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MX - Medical Surveys and Examinations of Individuals; B - Miscellaneous, page 35; 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 613.]

John Wilkins, shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 10, 1864, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle, at Plymouth Sound, North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38.]

Henry Wilkinson, born in, and appointed from Louisiana; appointed acting master (without pay) in the Confederate States Navy on June 5, 1863; ordered, on September 29, 1863, to report to lieutenant John Wilkinson, aboard the steamer R.E. Lee, at Wilmington, for duty; sent to Canada and Bermuda, on the authority of the Confederate government, and was involved in the Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863. [Booth 3, 1086; Register1864; ORN 1, 2, 824; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 615; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 479 - 485.]

James Wilkinson, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 76.]

John Wilkinson, born Amelia County, Virginia, November 6, 1821; previous service in the United States Navy, from December 18, 1837; commissioned 1st lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861; served on the Richmond Station, 1861 - 1862; later served at New Orleans, and aboard the CSS Louisiana; captured at the fall of Forts Jackson and St. Phillips, Mississippi River, April 28, 1862; confined Fort Warren, Boston Harbor; also served at the Jackson station, 1862; noted as being on special duty, in 1862; commanded the blockade runner, Giraffe, January, 1863; involved in Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863; sent March, 1864, from Richmond, Virginia, to Wilmington and the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, for special duty; commanded the ironclad ram CSS Raleigh, Wilmington, 1864; served aboard the CSS Chickamauga, September-December, 1864; also commanded the blockade runner, Robert E. Lee; considered as "the most successful blockade runner of the war"; lived in Halifax, Nova Scotia after the war, where he formed a business partnership with another ex-Confederate Navy officer, John Taylor Wood; later returned to Virginia, where he was involved in farming; then moved to Annapolis, Maryland, where he opened a school for the preparation of candidates for the Naval Academy; died on December 29, 1891; author, in 1877, of Narrative of a Blockade Runner. [ORN 1, 2, 669 & 824; 1, 3, 710; 1, 18, 317 and 2, 1, 301, 318, 321 & 323; ORA 2, 3;; CDAB, 1169; CSN-Museum; Register1862; Register1863; New York Times dated December 30, 1891; Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco) dated August 29, 1871.]

John P. Wilkinson, indicated to have originally enlisted in Mallett's Battalion; later enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, June 13, 1864, at Raleigh, North Carolina; served as seaman. [Data provided by descendant, Raymond Williams, in an e-mail (macqu@usit.net) dated May 16, 2006, from information obtained from shipping articles.]

Thomas Wilkinson, 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 Wilkinson, shipped for the war, as seaman aboard the CSS Oconee, on May 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 602.]

William A. Wilkinson, enlisted in New Hanover County, North Carolina, April 16, 1861, as private, 2nd company C, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to company C, 13th Battalion North Caroline Light Artillery, November 4, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, September 21, 1864. [NCT 1, 225 & 576.]

William W. Wilkinson, born South Carolina (birthplace shown, in Register1864, as Louisiana), about 1844; previous service in the United States Navy, from December 2, 1859; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 3rd class, June 12, 1861; served on the Savannah station, and aboard the CSS Georgia, Savannah Squadron, 1862 - 1863; by order of lieutenant commanding William P.A. Campbell, dated at Charleston, South Carolina, June 8, 1863, he was ordered to proceed to Wilmington, North Carolina, and there board the blockade runner Sirius, for Nassau, at which place he arrived on June 20, 1863; service abroad, 1864; served on the CSS Rappahannock, 1864, and as master aboard the CSS Stonewall, 1865. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 2, 1, 322; Register1863; Register1864; CSN Register; Florida Confederate Card File; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; see also the New York Herald dated Friday, May 12, 1865, front page; Confederate States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 237.]

Charles Willer, Seaman, CSS Selma, wounded in action and captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864; sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 844.]

H. B. Willey, served as 1st assistant engineer aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 975.]

A. Williams, Confederate States Navy; died January 30, 1865; buried, January 31, 1865, at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia (see entry for Antone Williams, which may be the same person). [Honeycutt; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated May 19, 1866.]

A. J. Williams, served at the Mobile station, in 1863, as a sergeant in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061.]

Antone Williams (first name also shown as Antonie), seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later served on CSS Savannah (see entry for A. Williams, which may be the same person). [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 304.]

Arad. {?} Williams, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

Austin Williams, shown on a Federal Roll of Confederate Prisoners of War as being a captain [?] in the Confederate States Navy; captured at Lindinola, Texas, April 6, 1864; paroled at New Orleans, Louisiana, June 4, 1864. [Booth 3, 1090.]

Austin C. Williams, served as seaman, Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston, South Carolina, in 1862; 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, pages 118 and 753.]

Benjamin A. Williams, previous service in Company K, 26th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, as Private, May 29, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, February 5, 1863; served as seaman, and was involved in the expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863. [Georgia Rosters 3, 26; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]

C. Williams, Seaman; died November 1, 1862; buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

Charles Williams, Seaman, captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 117.]

Charles Williams, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, and was involved in the expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]

Charles M. Williams, served in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Emanuel County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 1022; ORN 2, 1, 315.]

Daniel W. Williams, served as seaman and captain captain of top aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, 1861-1862; indicated as being a "leader" of several "wild and reckless fellows;" good natured person; heavily tattooed; may be the same person listed in the next entry. [Weber; ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 484 - 487.]

Daniel W. Williams, Seaman, CSS St. Nicholas, June, 1861; see also previous entry. [ORN 1, 4, 555.]

David Williams, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama; wounded in action and captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

David Williams, aged 24 (in 1862); ordinary sergeant, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Atlanta; captured aboard that vessel at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry for Wednesday, December 3, 1862; ORN 1. 14. 268.]

David Williams, Confederate States Marine Corps; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 555.]

E.M. Williams, served in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps; served as witness for M.M. Jenkins, who filed for a post war Confederate pension from Jenkins County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 1023.]

Eames Williams, served as landsman/seaman aboard the CSS Sea Bird; captured ( Cobb's Point Battery) Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862; paroled and returned to Norfolk, Virginia, February 19, 1862. [Scharf, 391; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February 19, 1862.]

Edward Williams, born about 1829; resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; warranted as carpenter, Confederate States Navy, September (?), 1861, at Richmond, Virginia; states that he served till the close of the war, but the official records indicate that he resigned, 1863; an official Confederate States Navy document shows Edward Williams as carpenter at the Wilmington Naval station, accepting an appropriation of deck buckets for the tender Yadkin, in January, 1864; post war occupation, carpenter; post war member of the Stonewall Camp, Confederate Veterans; admitted to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, September 13, 1889; place of residence at time of admission, Portsmouth, Virginia; dropped November 13, 1894. [LVa; CSN Register; Norfolk County Record 221; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (1864), page 12.

Elias Williams, Seaman, captured Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and paroled, February, 1862. [Scharf, 391.]

Eugene M. Williams, resided in Craven County, North Carolina; enlisted at Wayne County, North Carolina, May 1, 1862, aged 18, as private, company K, 2nd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, October 13, 1862; served as acting gunner on the CSS Richmond, and at the Richmond Station, 1864. [NCT 3, 479; ORN 1, 10, 671 & 2, 1, 322.]

Ezekiel Williams, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

Frederick Williams, resident of Boston, Massachusetts; enlisted at Charleston, South Carolina, September 25, 1861, as 2nd cook aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, 1861; deserted the vessel at Southampton, England, about December, 1861. [Alabama Claims 2, 144 and (appendix 2), 133; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228.]

George Williams, born New York, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 22, 1861, aged 28, as private, company G, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, November, 1861, and sent aboard the Merrimac (CSS Virginia), January 2, 1862. [Booth 3, 1094.]

George Williams (also shown with the middle initial of W.), appointed 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy on June 18, 1861 (a Naval appointment letter is actually dated August 18, 1861), and served aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station,1861; resigned December 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 876; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 617.]

George Williams, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as officer's cook from February 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]

Henry Williams, ship's cook, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

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

Henry S.H. Williams, born North Carolina; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 27, 1860, from which he resigned; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 3rd class, September 14, 1861, and ordered to proceed to Newbern, North Carolina, and report to flag officer Lynch for duty; on September 26, 1861, he was ordered by lieutenant William H. Parker, aboard the CSS Beaufort, at Newbern, to proceed to Norfolk, Virginia, and report to flag officer French Forrest, for transportation aboard the CSS Winslow to Roanoke Island, where he was to assume duty; served aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston station, 1862 - 1863; resigned January 14, 1864. [Register1862; Register1863; Callahan; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 619 and 620.]

Hezekiah Williams (first name also shown as Henry), born Virginia, 1817; resided as a pilot, in 1850, with his wife, Hannah, and daughter Rose, at Norfolk, Virginia; served, as pilot, aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; later served on the CSS Richmond, James River squadron, 1864; continued to reside, post war, as a pilot, in Norfolk, with his family; passed away prior to 1880. [ORN 1, 7, 48 and 1, 10, 629 & 726; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

J. B. Williams, served as clerk in Navy agent, William B. Howell's office at New Orleans, and later at Jackson, Mississippi, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations; PB - Administration of stations; Columbia - Pensacola, pages 535 and 550.]

J. D. M. W. S. S. (?) Williams, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Montgomery, Alabama, June 2, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 671.]

J.R. Williams, served in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps; served as witness for C.M. Williams, who filed for a post war Confederate pension from Emanuel County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 1025.]

Jack Williams, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Mobile, Alabama, 1863; deserted about September, 1863, but was apprehended and returned to the Mobile barracks on September 27, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 40.]

Jacob Williams, served aboard the CSS Beaufort, Newbern, 1861; deserted about September, 1861, but was apprehended by E. H. Hurtt, and returned aboard the vessel on September 24, 1861, and for which Hurtt received a reward of $20. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 392.]

James Williams, Seaman, CSS Alabama; rated Captain of Foretop, July 3, 1863; deserted December 23, 1863, at Singapore. [William Marvel.]

James Williams, no. 2, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 76.]

James Williams, enlisted as seaman in the Confederate States Navy in 1861; served aboard the CSS Florida (later renamed the CSS Selma), and was rated as gunner's mate aboard the vessel from September 18, 1861; 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 420-422, 427 and 1178.]

James Williams, served as quartermaster in the Confederate States Navy, 1863; declared to be a deserter at Shreveport, Louisiana, on November 19, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 476.]

James H. Williams, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on August 1, 1863; served as ordinary seaman aboard the battery CSS Georgia, Savannah station, 1863-1864; subsequently employed as a nurse at the Naval Hospital in Savannah, where he died of typhoid fever on August 20 or 21, 1864; buried, August 21, 1864, at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia; his widow, Nancy A. Williams, claimed his effects and balance of pay, as his lawful heir, on September 26, 1864. [Honeycutt; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated May 19, 1866; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 318-320 and 343; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523.]

James W. Williams, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, July 29, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]

John Williams, served as a private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, and aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1862; transferred, on January 28, 1864, to the CSS North Carolina. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 212 and 573.]

John Williams, served as quarter gunner aboard the CSS Jamestown, James River squadron, 1861 - 1862; rated as gunner's mate from January 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 947.]

John Williams, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama; rated Seaman, August 22, 1863; missing in action, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France, presumed drowned. [William Marvel.]

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

John Williams, African American; resident of 6, Richmond Street, Boston, Massachusetts; claimed to have served, originally, in the United States Navy, and had been on the USS Congress, in March, 1862, when that vessel was sunk at Hampton Roads, then discharged from the USS Minnesota; later served in the merchant marine, aboard the bark De Godfrey, sailing out of Boston, October 6, 1864; captured aboard that vessel, November 7, 1864, and impressed into service, as ship's cook on the cruiser, CSS Shenandoah; confined in irons and triced up, December 8, 1864, for fighting; released a few hours later; confined in irons and triced up, again, January 7 and 8, 1865, reason not stated; released a short time later; triced up, January 18, 1865, for stealing; given liberty, January 30, 1865, at Melbourne, Australia; left the vessel on Monday, February 6, 1865, by swimming ashore, at Melbourne, Australia, and taking refuge at the United States Consul's office, there; had been described by Whittle as "a great villain". [Alabama Claims 1, 874 and 975; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 86, 100, 101, 106.]

John Williams, Boy; born England; CSS Shenandoah, 1865; joined the vessel at Melbourne. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

John Williams, Seaman, CSS Georgia; shipped from the prize vessel, Dictator, in April, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 812.]

John Williams, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, June 21, 1861, as private, company F, 15th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February, 1862. [Booth 3, 1101.]

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

John Williams, served as seaman aboard the CSS Albemarle; deserted about May, 1864, and taken aboard the USS Miami, Albemarle Sound, North Carolina; subsequently sent, aboard the USS Mattabessett, on May 30, 1864, into the custody of the provost marshal at New Berne. [ORN 1, 9, 763 - 764; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 515.]

John Williams, appointed acting master, September 24, 1861, and served aboard Launch No. 4, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; Williams was instructed to ship 20 men for his launch, and also to select a good man as acting gunner aboard the launch, and that this acting gunner would also take up the duties of boatswain, as well; also served on the Jackson station, 1862; appointment revoked December 7, 1863. [CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Accounts for expenditures, page 601; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1039; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 625.]

John Williams, no. 3, served as 2nd class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 76.]

John Williams, served as seaman aboard the transport Danube; paroled at Mobile, Alabama, May 9, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 671.]

John Williams, served as seaman aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile station, 1863; deserted about December, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 394.]

John H. Williams, served aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1864; rated as quartermaster from January 15, 1864, but disrated to seaman at a later date; deserted at Shreveport on April 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1011 and 1017.]

John Q.A. Williams, resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; served as surgeon's steward aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Norfolk County Record 203.]

L. Williams, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

L. Williams, served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]

L.A. Williams, seaman, CSS Sea Bird, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 306.]

Lewis Williams, Acting Engineer, paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785.]

Lewis Williams, Landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

Lucian Williams, carpenter's mate, CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; disrated to ordinary seaman on May 25, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 304; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 610.]

M.C. Williams, Landsman, ironclad CSS Fredericksburg, wounded in action (in the dorsal region), James River, Virginia, October 22, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 589.]

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

Nathaniel Williams, shipped, on June 6, 1863, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Oconee, off Thunderbolt, Savannah River, Georgia; also served aboard the CSS Resolute 1863, and CSS Savannah, 1863; his widow, Mrs. S.F. Williams, filed for a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 1027; ORN 2, 1, 303 & 305; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 612.]

Newton Williams, Landsman, CSS Gaines, wounded in action, Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 591.]

Peter Williams, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in December 1, 1861. [Soldiers of Florida, 49.]

Peter Williams, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, July 18, 1861, as private, New company B, 20th Louisiana Infantry; appointed corporal, November 1, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, sometime in March or April, 1864, by order of General Johnston. [Booth 3, 1106.]

Peter Williams, served aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1864; rated as 1st class fireman aboard the vessel on January 15, 1864; paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1013.]

R.Y. Williams, Ship's Corporal, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]

Robert Williams, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on September 18, 1862; served as landsman aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston, South Carolina; discharged, by order of flag officer Ingraham, from the Naval service, at Charleston, on November 30, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 245.]

Robert Williams, Seaman, CSS Alabama; born England; transferred to CSS Tuscaloosa, June 21, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 713; William Marvel.]

Robert B. Williams, born Baltimore, Maryland; private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Atlanta, 1863; aged 25; later served on CSS Savannah, and at Richmond, Virginia. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Tuesday, January 27, 1863; ORN 2, 1, 316.]

Samuel Williams, appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, October 23, 1861; served aboard the CSS Manassas, New Orleans station, 1861; later aboard the CSS Florida (Selma), 1861 - 1863. [CSN Register; ORN 1, 19, 627 and 2, 1, 286 & 306.]

Samuel Williams, Fireman, CSS Alabama; born Wales (resided in Liverpool); wounded in action and captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

Thomas Williams, Seaman, CSS Alabama; born Liverpool; transferred to CSS Tuscaloosa, June 21, 1863, as Ship's Cook. [ORN 1, 2, 713; William Marvel.]

Thomas Williams, 1st, served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863; a list of "boarders" on the cruiser shows Williams as gun captain at the 1st gun division. [Confederate Navy Subject file, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

Thomas Williams, 2nd, served as boatswain's mate aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863, attached to the master's division aboard the cruiser. [Confederate Navy Subject file, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

Thomas Williams, served as quarter gunner on the Richmond station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 489.]

Thomas J. Williams, married Laura E. (surname not shown), at Beaufort, South Carolina, December 7, 1854; resided in South Carolina till 1858 or 1859; then in Georgia; enlisted in company D, 54th Georgia Infantry (roster of this unit does not indicate his service); enlisted in the Confederate Navy, 1862; honorably discharged at Savannah, Georgia, 1865; continued to reside in Georgia till 1868 or 1868, before moving to South Carolina, till 1875, then moved to Florida; died at the asylum at Gadsden County, Florida, March 4, 1903. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A03160.]

Thomas J. Williams, born about 1849; served as ward room boy aboard the CSS Beaufort; was in the Naval hospital when Richmond was evacuated in April, 1865; post war occupation, laborer; admitted to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, January 6, 1919; discharged at his own request, February 18, 1919; re-admitted November 3, 1922; died April 14, 1924. [LVa.]

W. Williams, served as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 362.]

William Williams, served as 1st class fireman 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 87.]

William Williams, served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863; a list of "boarders" on the cruiser shows Williams as sponger at the 2nd gun division. [Confederate Navy Subject file, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

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

---- Williamson, signal officer, CSS Drewry, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 190.]

Charles H. Williamson, born Virginia, 1827; son of Dr. Thomas Williamson, of the United States Navy; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 24, 1850; resided as an assistant surgeon in the United States Navy, in 1860, with his wife, Emily E. (maiden name Edelin), at the home of surgeon William E. Wysham, at Norfolk, Virginia; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 10, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as surgeon, June 10, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1862; later at the Naval Hospital, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1862 - 1863; also served on the Naval squadron, Charleston, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; appointed surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 322; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; 1860 U.S. Census; Norfolk County Record 221; Washington Post (Washington, D.C.) dated April 22, 1931, page 20.]

Eli Williamson, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Hertford County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

G.L. Williamson, recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on July 31, 1863, as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps; served as witness for W.H. Hawks of Jackson County, Georgia, who filed for a post war Confederate pension. [GA Pension Index 1030; ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 688.]

I.P. Williamson (first initial also shown as J.), originally served in company K, 7th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March 3, 1864, and served as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron. [Robert Watson Diary March 3, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 581.]

James Williamson, Boatswain, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 9, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

James Williamson, shipped at Shreveport, Louisiana, for three years or the war, as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, on March 8, 1864, and served aboard the CSS Missouri; deserted from the vessel, at Shreveport, on June 14, 1864, but was returned to duty on September 19, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 406; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 396 and 513.]

John A.G. Williamson, born Virginia; appointed acting midshipman in the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, on October 11, 1861, and ordered to proceed to Norfolk, Virginia, and report to flag officer French Forrest for assignment to duty; served aboard the CSS Atlanta, 1863; captured aboard that vessel at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, July 4, 1863; paroled, September 28, 1864, and exchanged at Cox's Wharf, Virginia, October 18, 1864; later appointed Master, and assigned to the CSS Virginia II, January, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 664 & 690 and 1, 14, 268; CSNRegister; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 629.]

P.D. Williamson, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Cleveland County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

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

W.A. Williamson, signal operator, James River Squadron, Virginia, 1865; attached, as private, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 693; M1091.]

Joseph D. Willink, born Georgia; appointed acting 1st assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, June 12, 1861; served aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah Squadron, 1861-1862; discharged from the service about March, 1862; constructed the steamer Milledgeville, at Savannah, but which vessel was destroyed at the evacuation of that city; resided as a machinist, with his wife Carrie, and three children, at Savannah, Georgia, in 1870; may have resided, at one time, in Rhode Island, as one of his children was born there. [CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Accounts for expenditures, page 802; 1870 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 15, 178; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 540; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OO - Operations of large groups of vessels; Charleston - Miscellaneous, page 76.]

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

Reuben F. Willis, born North Carolina, 1820; served as pilot, Confederate States Navy; captured and paroled at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862; paid in full, on the books of the receiving ship Plymouth, to April 30, 1862, as on sea duty; resided as a sailor, in 1880, with his wife, Aumariah, and other relatives at Straits, Carteret County, North Carolina. [Scharf, 392; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 220.]

John Willman, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 76.]

Robert H. Wills, see Robert H. Wallis.

Timothy R. Wills, born in Jackson County, Georgia in 1841; Private, Company A, 16th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, March 1862; discharged for disability, September 2, 1862; source shows that he enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, but he actually enlisted in the Confederate States Marine Corps, as a private, on April 10, 1863, receiving a bounty of $50; served as private, CSMC aboard the CSS Savannah, 1862-1863, and was transferred to the Marine Barracks at Richmond, Virginia on June 2, 1864; served as witness for Thomas S. Threlkeld, who filed for a post war Confederate pension from Madison County, Georgia. [Georgia Rosters 2, 491; ORN 2, 1, 305 & 316; GA Pension Index 1034; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 677; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 320.]

---- Wilson, Paymaster's Clerk, CSS Arkansas, June, 1862; see entry for Joseph L. Wilson, who may be the same person. [ORN 1, 19, 132.]

Archibald J. Wilson, of Virginia; served as boatswain in the Confederate States Navy, and was involved in the expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863; sent on special duty with Lieutenant Minor, as crew member of the CSS Bombshell; captured aboard that vessel during the engagement at Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, May 5, 1864, and transferred, the same day, from the USS Ceres to the USS Sassacus, then to the steamer Lockwood, on May 10, 1864, for transportation to a prisoner of war facility; confined at Fort Delaware; also served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, 1864-1865; Wilson sent a letter to secretary Mallory, dated from aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, March 31, 1865, attaching a diagram, with instructions for its use, showing submarine armor for attaching torpedoes to the bottom of the enemy's ships; however, it seems that this was just days before the evacuation of Richmond, indicates that it was not acted upon; in his letter, Wilson stated that he had had years of experience with marine armor; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, for special service, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 9, 746 & 1, 10, 632; ORA 2, 7, 1113; M1091; deck log of the USS Sassacus dated May 5, 1864 and May 10, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 38; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32; Confederate Navy subject file B - Ordnance; BM - Mines and torpedoes; Charleston - Miscellaneous, pages 493-496.]

B.K. Wilson, landsman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private to company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

Charles Wilson, enlisted in Beaufort County, North Carolina, May 8, 1861, aged 23, as private, company K, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy sometime between May 8 and July 25, 1861, and served as seaman aboard the CSS Curlew, 1861. [NCT 1, 170; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 278.]

Charles Wilson, served as seaman aboard the CSS Tuscarrora, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as quartermaster from November 8, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61, 108 and 870.]

Charles Wilson, enlisted for three years or the war in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on September 16, 1862, and served aboard the CSS Huntress. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 182 and 753.]

Charles Wilson, served as seaman 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 318 and 333.]

Francis Wilson, served as 1st class fireman 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.]

Frank Wilson, stated to be a member of the Confederate States Navy; charged in the Mayor's Court, Richmond, Virginia, Thursday, November 26, 1863, with drawing a knife on F.W.E. Lohman, and being very disorderly in Lohman's house; case was sent on to the Hustings Court. [Richmond Daily Examiner (Richmond, Virginia) dated Friday, November 27, 1863.]

H.J. Wilson, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Henry Wilson, enlisted as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy in 1861; served aboard the CSS Florida (later renamed the CSS Selma), and was rated as boatswain's mate aboard the vessel from September 18, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422 and 427.]

Henry Wilson, enlisted as seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, May 31, 1862; rated as coxswain from June 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108.]

Henry J. Wilson, born Alabama; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as boatswain, January 7, 1864; served on the Wilmington station, 1864, and aboard the CSS Neuse. [Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1231.]

Hez. Wilson, indicated to have served as captain in the Confederate Marine service; buried at the City Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

Holt Wilson, chief clerk and special agent of the agency of the Navy Department at Wilmington, North Carolina, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XV - Miscellaneous, page 126.]

J.K. Wilson, Landsman, CSS Fredericksburg, January, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 794.]

James Wilson, Private, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

James Wilson, served as gunner aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, 1861 and aboard the CSS Louisiana, 1862; captured off Forts Jackson and St. Philips, Louisiana, April, 1862; took the oath of allegiance; confined at Fort Warren, Boston harbor. [ORN 1, 18, 300 & 441; ORA 2, 3, 641; CSN Register.]

James Wilson, appointed acting boatswain in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on September 25, 1861, and ordered to report to acting master Frederick B. Sladden, aboard Launch No. 1, for duty. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 633.]

James Wilson, Boy, CSS Alabama; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 18, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

James Wilson, 1st class fireman, CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 304.]

James Wilson, 1st class fireman, CSS Chattahoochee; disrated to landsman, May 13, 1863; deserted May 13, 1863 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

James L. Wilson, born Sampson County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, seaman; enlisted at Wake County, North Carolina, March 15, 1864, aged 29, in the Confederate States Navy. [CSN Shipping Articles.]

John Wilson, of Westminster, London, England; engaged on board the CSS Alabama, 1863-4, as officers servant/boy; joined the vessel at the Cape of Good Hope; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, and taken to Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel; sworn affidavit, by John Wilson, dated August 4, 1864, at London, copy of which is in the possession of this author.]

John Wilson, born Germany, resided as a bridge carpenter in Onslow County, North Carolina, where he enlisted, May 13, 1861, aged 34, as private, company E, 3rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; discharged from the regiment January 29, 1862, on being transferred to the Confederate States Navy. [NCT 3, 543.]

John Wilson, born Mairmshere, Scotland, about 1813; previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 10, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in July, 1864, to the CSS Macon, and later served as gunner's mate 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.

John Wilson, indicated as being a Dutchman; captured from the bark Alina, October, 1864, by the CSS Shenandoah; shipped aboard the cruiser, October 30, 1864. [Whittle 231.]

John Wilson, originally in the merchant marine service, aboard the brig Gilmore Meredith; deserted at St. Thomas, West Indies, and joined the Confederate privateer Retribution. [ORN 1, 2, 66.]

John Wilson, served as seaman aboard the CSS Dodge; discharged from the Confederate States Navy (discharge signed by commander Henry S. Lubbock); received several large payments from persons in Houston, Texas, in April, 1863. [ORN 1, 21, 733.]

John Wilson, served as officers' steward 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 $108.70 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.]

John Wilson, served as ship's cook aboard the CSS Webb, 1864; deserted the vessel on September 28, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 523.]

John A. Wilson, seaman, served on the CSS Sea Bird, 1861; captured and paroled at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 306; Scharf, 391 (notes) & 392.]

John A. Wilson, born Maryland; previous service in company D, 1st Maryland Volunteers, Confederate States Army; transferred to Confederate States Navy, by Special Order No. 43, dated February 21, 1862; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, on February 21, 1862, and ordered to proceed to Evansport, Virginia, and report to commander F. Chatard for duty; served on the Richmond station, 1862; served aboard the CSS Capitol and the CSS Arkansas, in the western theater, 1862; wounded in action in the arm and leg, during the passage of the CSS Arkansas through the Union gunboats, from the Yazoo River, above Vicksburg, July 15, 1862; later appointed acting midshipman, 4th class, to date from July 15, 1862, "...the date of the engagement between the sloop 'Arkansas', and the enemy, off Vicksburg, in which you served..."; after the destruction of the CSS Arkansas, August 5, 1862, Wilson, in company with several other officers of the Arkansas, travelled through Louisiana, and, after crossing the Comite and Amite Rivers, reached Camp Moore, near Tangipahoa, where they took the train and arrived in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sunday, August 9, 1862; served on the Charleston station, 1862; then served at Drewry's Bluff, James River, 1862 - 1863; by order of lieutenant commanding William P.A. Campbell, dated at Charleston, South Carolina, June 8, 1863, he was ordered to proceed to Wilmington, North Carolina, and there board the blockade runner Sirius, for Nassau, at which place he arrived on June 20, 1863; service abroad, 1863 - 1864; served aboard the cruiser CSS Rappahannock, 1864. [ORN 1, 19, 69 & 136; 1, 23, 698 and 2, 1, 317, 321 & 322; Sierra; Register1863; Register1864; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; Charleston Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862; Confederate States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 237; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 635 and 637.]

John L. Wilson, Landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

John R. Wilson, shipped at the Naval Rendezvous, Raleigh, North Carolina, as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, on March 21, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 408.]
Jos. Wilson, served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia in 1863; a list of "boarders" on the cruiser shows Wilson in the position of handspikeman at the 3rd gun division. [Confederate Navy Subject file, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

Joseph David Wilson, born Florida, 1841; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 22, 1857; appointed midshipman, Confederate States Navy, and sent aboard the CSS Sumter, April 7, 1861; sent to Liverpool, England, via London, April, 1862; served as 3rd lieutenant, CSS Alabama; promoted 2nd lieutenant, February 8, 1862; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France; conducted himself with honor, and was highly commended for this, by captain John A. Winslow, of the USS Kearsarge; exchanged late 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; served aboard the CSS Virginia II and CSS Hampton, James River squadron, 1865; attached as captain, commanding, to company D, 1st Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; married Mary R. Wellford, Gadsden County, Florida, July 17, 1865; resided as a road master and civil engineer, in 1880, with his wife and five children (eldest child born 1867) at Tallahassee, Leon County, Florida; died in a railroad accident at Madison County, Florida, November 30, 1880. [ORN 1, 1, 614 & 684; 1, 3, 75-76 and 1, 11, 795; CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Register1863; JCC 4, 122; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A11979; Semmes 416; M1091; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Joseph L. Wilson, Paymaster's Clerk, paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785.]

M. Wilson, shown on a Federal Roll of Confederate Prisoners of War as being a seaman in the Confederate States Navy; captured at St. Bernard Parish [Louisiana], April 24, 1865; paroled in Military Barracks Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, May 31, 1865. [Booth 3, 1127.]

R. Wilson, shipped for the war, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Oconee, on May 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 602.]

Richard Wilson, Private, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Robert Wilson, shipped, by lieutenant F. L. Hoge, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 14, 1864, at the Naval rendezvous at Kinston, North Carolina; ordered, on May 12, 1864, to be entered on the books of the CSS Albemarle. [ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages35 and 956.]

Thomas Wilson, born Ireland, about 1831; appointed from Louisiana, and served as boatswain's mate aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; admitted November 3, 1861, with intermittent fever, to the Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana; discharged from hospital November 26, 1861, back to CSS McRae; later appointed boatswain and served aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston squadron, 1863; participated in the attack upon the Federal blockading fleet off Charleston, on January 31, 1863; resigned May 29, 1863. [From the "Register of Naval Patients in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, La., 1861", original copy at the University of Virginia Library, and used with their kind permission; St. Philip; ORN 1, 13, 619; CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Thomas Wilson, served as seaman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as gunner's mate on March 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1001; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 37.]

Thomas Wilson, served as seaman on the Richmond station, 1861, and as coal heaver aboard the CSS Jamestown, 1861; deserted at an unspecified date. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XA - Accounting and finance, Miscellaneous, page 144; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 412.]

Thomas Wilson, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, from October 15, 1861; rated as quartermaster from November 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 265 and 267.]

Thomas Wilson, served as landsman aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah station, 1864; deserted about April, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 398-399.]

Thomas H. Wilson, resided in, and enlisted at Hertford County, North Carolina, July 5, 1861, aged 18; as private, company F, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864. [NCT 3, 210.]

Thomas S. Wilson, born Tennessee; resided at Springfield, Missouri; appointed from Missouri; previous service in the United States Marine Corps, from December 13, 1857; arrested for disloyalty and sent to Fort Lafayette, New York, August 28, 1861; paroled and exchanged, January, 1862; original entry into Confederate States Marine Corps, as 1st lieutenant, January 24, 1862; appointed captain, October 10, 1862; later served in company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, and at Drewry's Bluff, James River squadron, 1864; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 315; ORA 2, 3 and 2, 1, 78; Register1864; see also article titled List of Confederate Officers captured at Sailor's Creek, VA., April 6, 1865, published in the New York Herald, dated April 9, 1865; New York Times dated Wednesday, October 7, 1861.]

William Wilson, born Caswell County, North Carolina; enlisted at Forsyth County, North Carolina, March 18 or 21, 1864, aged 30, in the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864; deserted about April, 1864, but was apprehended and lodged in the Halifax jail before being returned to Naval authorities on April 30, 1864. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 407; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 403.]

William Wilson, rated as captain of the top aboard the CSS Tallahassee, Wilmington station, on October 1, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 843.]

William Wilson, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy; captured on the Cape Fear River on February 19, 1865, with five other Naval personnel, and sent north aboard the USS New Berne, into the custody of the commander of the USS Rhode Island, at Hampton Roads, February 24, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 547.]

William Wilson, served as seaman and master at arms aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864; rated as captain of forecastle on February 1, 1864; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; received at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, November 11, 1865; 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, pages 359-360 and 390.]

William Wilson, Seaman, CSS Florida; also served aboard the tender, Lapwing, 1863; returned to Liverpool, England, where he was paid off, about September, 1863, by paymaster Senac. [ORN 1, 2, 661; Alabama Claims Correspondence 2, 656-657.]

William Wilson, Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1863-4; rated Coxswain, August 19, 1863; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

William Wilson, born Sweden, about 1837; served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and aboard the CSS Pickens, 1862. [St. Philips; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 62.]

William Wilson, served as landsman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, 1861; rated as ship's cook from October 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 884.]

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

William Wilson, served as quartermaster in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about November, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 401.]

William Wilson, served as "2nd master" at the Mobile station, 1862; arrested as a deserter at Mobile, by Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862 (this may, in fact, be midshipman William Francis Wilson, who was serving at the Mobile station about this time). [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]

William B. Wilson, originally served as private in Company G, 23rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, February 15, 1862; discharged for disability, May 17, 1862; enlisted in the Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah Station, March 25, 1863; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, March or April, 1863, and back to Savannah Station on CSS Savannah, June 30, 1863; on duty there September 30, 1864; however, one official record shows that he was transferred, again, to the Marine Barracks at Richmond, Virginia on June 2, 1864. [Georgia Rosters 2, 1063; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 437; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 320.]

William E. Wilson, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

William E. Wilson, served as seaman aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as ship's steward from November 9, 1861; disrated on April 1, 1862; captured and paroled, and subsequently sent to the Mobile station, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (January - June, 1862), page 232; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 988, 990 and 1056.]

William F. Wilson, enlisted, for the war, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on April 10, 1863, receiving a $50 bounty. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 677.]

William Francis Wilson, born Carrollton, Alabama, 1845; enlisted, at Carrollton, as private, in company H, 11th Alabama Volunteers, June 11, 1861; discharged from the Confederate Army, November 25, 1861, at Centreville, Virginia, on receiving an appointment as acting midshipman, 4th class, Confederate States Navy, (one source shows appointment date as November 19, 1861), and sent to Savannah, Georgia, where he served until 1862; involved in an incident, when on guard boat duty, in June, 1862, where he and several sailors were chased by Union Navy boats, but they were able to evade their potential captors, by steering for the Carolina shore, and then threw up several signal rockets, which attracted the attention of fellow Confederates who fired upon the Union vessels, and thus prevented the capture of Wilson and his men; the published account states, in part: "It is due to say that Midshipman Wilson is but sixteen years of age, a native of Alabama, and that to his courage and presence of mind is mainly attributable the escape of our picket boat from capture and the defeat of the Yankees in their daring reconnoisance. After the firing between the boats had ceased, our picket boat returned and took its usual station"; then served aboard the gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1862 - 1863; later served on CSS Richmond, and CSS Virginia II, James River Squadron, Virginia, 1864; submitted a plan for the destruction of a Union double ended gunboat, in November, 1864, to flag officer Mitchell; appointed passed midshipman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States, December, 12, 1864; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865, and confined at Johnson's Island, Ohio; released June, 1865; resided in Texas, since 1867; occupation, doctor; wife, Sallie, married at Marion County, Texas, December 3, 1868; died at Port Lavaca, Texas, February 3, 1919; buried at Linworth Cemetery, Calhoun County. [ORN 1, 10, 644 & 765; 1, 11, 769 and 2, 1, 292 & 322; Texas Confederate pension files of William Francis Wilson, number 28008, and his wife, Sallie Wilson, number 35763, both from Calhoun County, Texas; Register1863; Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated June 6, 1862.]

William G. Wilson, born in Charleston, South Carolina, about 1842; originally enlisted at Columbia, South Carolina, June 12, 1861, as a private in company A, Hampton Legion; personal description, at the time of enlistment in the Confederate Army, shown as 5 feet 8 inches tall, dark complexion, dark eyes, black hair; discharged from the Legion at Fredericksburg, Virginia; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, aboard gunboat No. 3, at Charleston harbor, on April 10, 1862. [Compiled Military Service Record of William G. Wilson, of company A, Hampton Legion; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 639.]

William H. Wilson, resident of the District of Columbia; served as captain's clerk aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; appointed paymaster's clerk aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, on July 5, 1862; subsequently served as paymaster's clerk aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863; appointment revoked on February 24, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 673; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (January - June, 1862), page 500; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 868; Journal of engineer Charles W. Quinn, entry dated February 24, 1863.]

Francis Wilton, seaman, CSS Florida; also served on the captured vessels, Clarence, Archer and Tacony; captured, June, 1863, and sent to Fort Warren for confinement; took the Oath of Allegiance, and released by order of the Union Secretary of the Navy, February 1, 1864, to enlist in the United States Navy; sent to report to Admiral Stringham, of the United States Navy, in early February, 1864. [Fort Warren.]

David C. Wiltz, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and as (quarter?) gunner aboard the CSS McRae; wounded in action, April 24-25, 1862, and died later of his wounds, below New Orleans. [Daily Picayune, Tuesday, April 29, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 62.]

Homer Wimberley (surname also shown as Wimberly), enlisted as private, company C, 32nd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, May 12, 1862; transferred to company E, sick in Georgia Hospital, Savannah, Georgia, August, 1862; also served as private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, 1864; paroled at Augusta, Georgia, 1865; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Maria, and ten children (eldest child born 1856) at District 68, Burke County, Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Jefferson County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 1039; ORN 2, 1, 315; Georgia Rosters 3, 695 & 708; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Philip Wimburn, married Mary A. Whitaker at Columbia County, Georgia, September 25, 1860; served as ordinary seaman, Confederate States Navy; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268; Georgia Marriages, 1699 - 1944 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Andrew J. Windam, served in company A, 13th Georgia (no record of his service can be found in the Georgia Rosters), company A, 1st Georgia Reserves & in lieutenant Thomas P. Pelot's command, on a gunboat at Savannah, Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Coweta County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 1039.]
H. Windens, Landsman, assigned, from Raleigh, North Carolina, to Battery Brooke, James River, Virginia, October, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 805.]

Edward Lloyd Winder, Lieutenant, Confederate States Navy; on Army duty, as a major, in 1863; commanding the vessel CSS Danube, at Mobile, in 1863; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 930.]

Edward P. Winder, previous service as Private, Company L, 26th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, July 19, 1861; appointed Acting Master's Mate in Confederate States Navy and discharged from the army, September 29, 1863; served in Charleston Squadron in 1864. [Georgia Rosters, 3, 271.]

Horace Winders (surname also shown as Windens), served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, and was attached to Battery Brooke, James River, Virginia, October, 1864; captured at an unspecified date and place, and sent, as a prisoner of war, to Point Lookout, Maryland, where he died of pneumonia on May 10, 1865; buried at the Point Lookout cemetery. [Tom Brooks; Point Lookout; ORN 1, 10, 805; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 322.]

Henry Winfield, Landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

James S. Winn, appointed pilot 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.]

Thomas Winn (surname also shown as Wynne and as Wynn), born Ireland; aged 31 (in 1862); served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; also served aboard the CSS Georgia and CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1863; attached as private to company I, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 286-287 & 304; M1091; Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry dated Thursday, December 25, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523.]

Thomas Winn, served as 2nd class boy aboard the Confederate States floating battery New Orleans, off Columbus, Kentucky, 1862; deserted at an unspecified date. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 6 and 14.]

John Winslow, seaman, Confederate States Navy; admitted to the hospital vessel, CSS St. Philip, November 10, 1861, for intermittent fever. [St. Philip.]

Charles Winslowe, enlisted as seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, June 11, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108.]

W.W. Winstead, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Avery Shall Winston, born New Orleans, Louisiana, April 4, 1842; son of Thomas Benjamin and Margaret Jane Shall Winston; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 6, 1862, as 2nd C. C. [?] private, 5th company, Battalion of Washington Artillery, Louisiana; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 15, 1864, by order of the Secretary of War; appointed an acting master's mate on November 21, 1863, and ordered to report to lieutenant Julian Myers, on board the CSS Huntsville, for duty; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Booth 3, 1139; ORN 2, 1, 287; Porter's Naval History, 785; New Orleans, Louisiana Birth Records Index, 1790 - 1899 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 641.]
Joseph B. Winston, shipped, by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, as a recruit into the Confederate States Marine Corps, April 28, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 303.]
John Winterin, see John Victorini.

Henry Winter, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 123 - 124.]

Thomas Winter, Coal Trimmer, CSS Alabama; born Liverpool; rated Fireman, March 1, 1863; wounded in action and captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

A. Winteringer, appointed chief engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Defiance, 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 264.]

William Wisdon, 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.]

A. Wise, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

Lawson Wise, born Lincoln County, North Carolina, May, 1838; resided in Gaston County, North Carolina, as a carriage maker, prior to enlisting in Lincoln County, September 11, 1861, as private, company E, 34th Regiment North Carolina Troops; wounded in the left thigh at Chancellorsville, Virginia sometime between May 1 and 4, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 3, 1864; married Ann Odum at Marshall County, Mississippi, August 8, 1868; resided as a farmer, in 1900, with his five children, at Marshall County, Mississippi; shown as a widower, in 1900. [NCT 9, 303; 1900 U.S. Census; Mississippi Marriages, 1776 - 1935 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Samuel A. Wise, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, and aboard the CSS Arctic; later served as a private in company F of the Naval battalion, and was captured in Virginia, in April, 1865, and sent as a prisoner of war to Point Lookout, Maryland; died of chronic dysentery at Point Lookout on May 3, 1865; buried at the Point Lookout cemetery. [ORN 2, 1, 278; Point Lookout; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 324.]

Richard P. Wish, born South Carolina, January, 1834; pre war employment as pilot at Charleston Harbor, South Carolina; served as pilot, ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston, 1863 - 1864; resided as a pilot, in 1880 and 1890, with his wife, Martha N. Wish, and children (eldest daughter born 1870) at Charleston, South Carolina (married about 1880). [ORN 2, 1, 283; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; see also online publication titled On the Eve of the Civil War: the Charleston, SC Directories for the years 1859 and 1860, at ancestry.com.]

R. E. Withers, recruited as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous, Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863; in a dispatch addressed to lieutenant commanding W.H. Parker, of the CSS Patrick Henry, at Richmond, Virginia, by flag officer J.R. Tucker, aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston station, and dated November 28, 1863, Tucker informs Parker that R. E. Withers had been discharged "on the 17th of October, 1863, by order of the Navy Department, having been condemned by Medical Survey as unfit for duty", and that Tucker could provide no information as to the whereabouts of Withers at that time. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 384; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 444.]

William Witz (surname also shown as Witts), born Germany, resident of New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 35, as private, company G, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred
to the Confederate States Navy, November, 1861, and sent aboard the Merrimac (CSS Virginia), January 2, 1862, as ordinary seaman; appeared as a defendant at a Naval Court Martial held at Richmond, Virginia, August - September, 1862, specification of charges not shown. [Booth 3, 1144; ORN 2, 1, 310; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 185.]