NC Civil War Sailors Project

Jerry Woddel (surname also shown as Woodell), born Robertson County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, yeoman; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, at Robertson County, March 18, 1864, aged 44; served as landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274.]

John P. Wohmsley, Third Assistant Engineer, CSS Ellis, August, 1861; captured and paroled at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862. [ORN 1, 6, 781; Scharf, 391.]

Gotleib Wolf, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 12, 1862, as private, company C, 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the gunboat CSS Arkansas, July 21, 1862. [Booth 3, 1146.]

Samuel Wolf, served at Mobile, Alabama, in 1865; involved in expedition under Lieutenants McDermott and Wilkinson, in March, 1865; deserted at Amite Station, March, 1865. [ORA 1, 48.]

S. Wolff, previously served as Private in Company B, 4th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy at Mobile, Alabama, March 26, 1864. [Information supplied by Arthur Bergeron, Louisiana.]

W. Wolff, 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 37.]

G. L. Wolland, 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.]

John J. Womble (surname also shown as Wamble), served in company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; captured at an specified date and place, and sent as a prisoner of war to Point Lookout, Maryland; died at Point Lookout, of typhoid fever, on May 17, 1865; buried at the National Cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland. [Tom Brooks; Point Lookout; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 296.]

Frank Wood, 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.]

Henry Wood, shipped for three years, as landsman aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on July 17, 1862, and served as ward room boy. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 749.]

Isaac Wood, served as cabin steward aboard the CSS Roanoke, in 1864, and later as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864, and aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 542 and 849.]

J.B. Wood, resident of Green County, Georgia; originally served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia, and the Ladies' Ram), Savannah squadron, Georgia; transferred to the CSS Atlanta; captured aboard that vessel, at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated June 27, 1863.]

J. B. Wood, served as landsman, Confederate States Navy, at the Savannah squadron, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 118; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005.]

J. R. Wood, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; captured at Fort Gaines, Alabama on August 8, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 224.]

James Wood, First Class Fireman, CSS Georgia, July, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 715.]

James E. Wood, served as ordinary 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.]

John K. Wood (1880 U.S. Census shows first name as James), born North Carolina, 1845; resident of Oxford, North Carolina; served as ordinary seaman and yeoman, CSS North Carolina, 1864; paroled at Richmond, Virginia, April 20, 1865; resided as an undertaker, in 1880, with his wife Fannie J. Wood, and six children (eldest child born 1866) at Oxford, Granville County, North Carolina; his widow, Fannie J. Wood, later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Granville County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 294 & 295; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 672.]

John N. Wood, previously served in 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars, Milledge's Battery Georgia Light Artillery, 11th Battalion Georgia Artillery; 3rd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry and 9th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, October 31, 1863; deserted to the enemy at Savannah, Georgia and sent to New York City, March 6, 1865. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 523 and 1020.]

John Taylor Wood, born Fort Snelling, Minnesota, 1830 (birthplace also shown as Louisiana); appointed from the state of Louisiana in the US Navy before the war. He resigned in April, 1861, and was commissioned in the Confederate Navy, October 4, 1861; served aboard the CSS Virginia, 1862; promoted to Commander, September 21, 1863, to rank from August 23, 1863, and then to captain on February 10, 1865, "for gallant and meritorious conduct in command of the naval expedition which, on the night of the first of February, 1864, cut out from under the guns of the enemy at New Berne, N.C., the Federal gunboat Underwriter and destroyed her..."; participated in the expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, Rappahannock River, Virginia, August 23, 1863; commanded the CSS Tallahassee, in 1864; also held the rank of a Confederate Army colonel; at the fall of Richmond, Virginia, April, 1865, accompanied President Jefferson Davis, and the presidential party; escaped to Cuba, then to Canada; married Lola MacKubin, date unknown; resided in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada, where he formed a business partnership with ex-Confederate Navy officer, John Wilkinson; died 1904, buried Halifax. [Details from Internet Site VETERANS OF THE AMERICAN CIVIL WAR BURIED IN CANADA at URL: http://207.82.250.251/cgi-bin/linkrd?hm___action=http%3a%2f%2fwww%2egeocities%2ecom%2fHeartland%2fValley%2f9931%2f and used with the kind permission of Dan Doyle; CDAB, 1203; Booth 3, 1152; SHC-UNC; ORN 2, 1, 307; CSN-Museum; Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco) dated August 29, 1871; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 642.]

Levin H. Wood, born Alamance County, North Carolina; resided in, as a grocer, and enlisted at Caswell County, April 29, 1861, aged 27, as private, company A, 13th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 19, 1862, for duty on the Merrimac (CSS Virginia); served as landsman on that vessel. [NCT 5, 297; ORN 2, 1, 310.]

M.W. Wood, served as private, Confederate States Marine Corps, at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1862; personal description as gray eyes, light hair 6 feet, 8 inches high and light complexion; deserted October, 1862; reward of $30 offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 10, 1862.]

Matthew Wood (surname also shown as Woods), served as 1st class fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863-1864. [Florida Medical Journal, see the list of personnel in the Engineer's Department, CSS Florida, dated at St. George's, Bermuda, June 27, 1864; ORN 1, 2, 661; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 362.]

N. A. Wood, served as seaman aboard the CSS Juno, 1863, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, South Carolina, on the night of August 6, 1863; later captured off Morris Island, September 7, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]

Samuel W. Wood, pilot, James River Squadron, October, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 766 and 1, 11, 671 & 690.]

Thomas Wood, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 3, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 47.]
William F. Wood, seaman, captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 20, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]
J.C. Woodcock, born North Carolina, 1825; served in the Confederate States Navy; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Susan, and six children (eldest child born 1859) at Caswell, Pender County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Pender County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

James S. Wooddell, born Alabama, 1830; served as paymaster's clerk, Confederate States Navy; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; resided as a book keeper, in 1880, with his wife, Eliza, and daughter, Mary (born Alabama, 1862) at Florence, Lauderdale County, Alabama. [Porter's Naval History, 785; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Jerry Woodell, see Jerry Woddel.

Samuel Woodhouse, served as seaman aboard the screw steamer CSS Fanny (which operated in North Carolina waters); served 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 285; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 330.]

David Woods, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 5, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 45.]

James Woods, served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, in 1863; also shown to have served on the Charleston station at an unspecified date. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 235 and 521.]

James K. Woods, yeoman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 296.]
John Woods, ordinary seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

John Woods (1), ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 296.]

John Woods (2), 1st class boy, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 296.]

John Woods, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 38.]

John Woods, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Matt. Woods, see Matthew Wood.

Patrick Woods (surname also shown as Wood), resident of Trenton; served as a private in company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, April-June, 1864, and the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864; deserted at the beginning of January, 1865, with five others who were also on picket with him, outside Battery Buchanan; they stole a boat and rowed to the Union vessels off New Inlet, and were taken aboard USS Pontoosuc, on January 2, 1865, and subsequently sent to rear admiral David D. Porter for further questioning. [ORN 2, 1, 280 & 302; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 539 - 540.]

Thomas Woods, native of Liverpool, England; served aboard privateer Petrel; captured 1862, and incarcerated at Fort Lafayette; requested Oath of Allegiance (may be the same person listed in the next entry). [ORA 2, 3.]

Thomas Woods, resident of Liverpool, England; shipped aboard the CSS Rappahannock, at Calais, France, in February, 1864; deserted March 25, 1864 (may be the same person listed in the previous entry). [Alabama Claims 2, 751 and 753.]

Thomas Woods, Seaman, CSS Gaines, wounded in action, Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 591.]

David Staples Woodson, born Appomattox County, Virginia, February 22, 1839; enlisted by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, in early 1864, and served as private, Company C, Confederate States Marine Corps; married about 1861; resided as a merchant, in 1880, with his wife, Isabella, and four children, at Temperance district, Amherst County, Virginia; shown to be a widower in 1930; died March 27, 1938; buried Harewood Cemetery, between Loweville and Piney River, Virginia. [Confederate Burials, 71; 1880 U.S. Census; 1930 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 299.]

Pryor Woodson, qualified, on May 2, 1864, to serve in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Richmond station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 460.]

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

John Woodward, landsman, CSS Caswell (wooden sidewheeled steamer, which operated as a tender on the Wilmington Station, North Carolina; served during, or sometime between the period July, 1861 to June, 1862; later served on the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1862 -1863; in 1864, as ordinary seaman on the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina. [ORN 1, 23, 703; 2, 1, 279, 282 & 293; DANFS.]

John Woodward, served as powder boy aboard the Confederate States floating battery, New Orleans, about 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 11.]

Aaron Woolard, born February 11, 1845; enlisted October 6, 1864, as a private in company A of the Confederate States Marine Corps; served in the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station; married Sarah E. McKeel in Beaufort County, North Carolina, February 24, 1875; died January 20, 1904; buried Asbury Methodist Church Cemetery, Bunyon, North Carolina. [Confederate Burials, 71; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 266.]

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

Martin B. Woolfley, born Switzerland; appointed from Louisiana as acting 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy on August 19, 1861; served on the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861-1862, and at the Jackson station in 1862; discharged from the service on May 2, 1862; may have been the same person, Martin Bodmer Woolfley, who later served, in 1863, on United States transport vessels, the America, and the Leviathan; this Union transport sailor was employed by colonel S. B. Holabird, chief quartermaster, Department of the Gulf, as chief engineer at $100 per month on the United States tugboat Leviathan from July 15 to August 11, 1863,and on the United States tugboat (America?) in the same capacity from August 12 to November 14, 1863, when he was discharged, having been paid at the rate of $150 per month; Martin Bodmer Woolfley is shown, as an engineer, residing with his wife Lucy, and three children, at New Orleans, 1870; he died in that city at the age of 59, on October 28, 1896; Martin Bodmer Woolfley made an application for a United States government pension just a few months prior to his death, but this was rejected on the grounds that he was "not appointed or enlisted in the army or navy of the United States, and therefore not entitled to pension under the act of June 27, 1890". [1860 U.S.Census; 1870 U.S. Census; CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 842; New Orleans, Louisiana Death Records Index, 1804 -1949, at Ancestry.com; pension application of M. B. Woolfley, no. 1175866.]

Henry Woolsey, born England, resident of New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 23, 1861, aged 22, as private, company D, 8th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, at Manassas, 1861. [Booth 3, 1162.]

John J. Woolvin, born North Carolina, 1823; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, date unknown; served as landsman on the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863, and the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864; transferred, February 26, 1864, to 2nd company I, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery, as private; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Martha E. Woolvin, and son, Charles W. Woolvin (born 1860) at Rocky Point, Pender County, North Carolina. [NCT 1, 157; ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Ed. Wooster, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]

Thomas O. Wooten, see Thomas O. Wroton.

David Worrall, served 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 115.]

C. Worrell, Wardroom Steward, cruiser CSS Florida, died of yellow fever, August 15, 1862, off Nassau, New Providence; buried Green Cay. [ORN 1, 1, 764.]

William E. Worsham, see William E. Wysham.

Alexander C. Worth (surname also shown as Worht), served as seaman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the flag ship CSS St. Philip, 1861; rated as quartermaster from November 1, 1861; later served as quartermaster aboard the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 293; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61 and 567.]

Algernon Sydney Worth, born Virginia, about 1841; son of United States Naval officer, Algernon S. Worth (died 1841), and his wife, Mary; resided with his mother, and other siblings, in 1850 and 1860, at the home of United States Naval sailing master H.A.F. Young (who also later served in the Confederate States Navy), in Portsmouth, Norfolk County, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 21, 1858; original entry into the Confederate States Navy, June 11, 1861, as acting midshipman; appointed passed midshipman, October 3, 1862; served aboard the steamer, CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1863; reported for duty at Houston, Texas, February, 1863; promoted master in line of promotion, January 7, 1864; served aboard the CSS Hampton, James River squadron, 1864; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; shown as residing (with M.A. Worth, who may have been his sister) at Brooklyn, New York, as a clerk, in 1870; resided as a Naval store clerk, in 1880, with his wife Idella, and two daughters (eldest daughter born 1875) at Savannah, Georgia. [ORN 1, 19, 835 and 2, 1, 299; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Callahan; Norfolk County Record 221.]

James M. Worth (first name also shown as John), enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 4, 1861, as private (later appointed quartermaster sergeant), company I, 1st (Nelligan's) Louisiana Infantry; resigned from Staff and transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, 1862 - 1863; appointed, by assistant paymaster Charles W. Keim, as paymaster's clerk aboard the ironclad ram CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, on August 26, 1863. [Booth 3, 1165; ORN 2, 1, 304; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1064; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 870.]

David Worvall, 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 83.]

Thomas L. Wragg, born Georgia, 1843; previously served as Private, Company B, 8th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, May 21, 1861; appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at Savannah, Georgia, on December 25, 1862, with additional instructions that he was the perform the duties of midshipman, and assigned to their quarters; on December 26, 1862, Wragg was instructed to report to lieutenant J.P. Jones, aboard the CSS Georgia, off Elba Island, for duty; appointed acting master, May 27, 1863; served aboard CSS Atlanta, on which he was captured at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, July 4, 1863; exchanged October 1, 1864; later served on the CSS Fredericksburg, Battery Semmes and CSS Richmond; wife, Josie Cooper Wragg; resided as a physician, in 1880, with his wife, Josie, and three children (eldest child born Georgia, 1870) at Precinct 3, Gadsden County, Florida; shot in a murder attack, April 10, 1889, and died the next day; buried at the Eastern Cemetery, Quincy, Florida. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 1, 12, 187 and Georgia Rosters 1, 933; Register1864; death and burial information provided by descendant, Pam Wragg Hain, in an e-mail (WraggHain@aol.com) dated Sunday, May 4, 2003; Fort Warren; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 648 and 650.]

Lawrence Wraivich, born about 1837; left London, England on January 21, 1864, for Brest, France, where he was shipped for service aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, as seaman, on January 24, 1864; rated as carpenter's mate from January 22, 1864; deserted from the cruiser in early or mid-1864; physical description of Wraivich, at the time he deserted shown as 5 feet 7 inches tall, dark skin, black eyes, black hair, black side whiskers and moustache and beard on his chin; dressed in citizen's clothing at the time he deserted. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 353, 376 and 390.]

James W. Wren, enlisted as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, Tuscaloosa, Alabama, March 20, 1863; served at the Mobile station, in companies F and A of the Corps; died Confederate Hospital, Farmville, Virginia, April, 1865; buried in hospital cemetery. [Confederate Burials, 71; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061.]

A. Wright, 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.]

Albert W. Wright, previously served as Private, Company B, First Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry; later transferred to First Battalion Georgia Sharpshooters; transferred to Confederate States Navy, 1863. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 131.]

Alex. Wright, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, 1861; rated as coal heaver from October 8, 1861; named his next of kin as Julia Pender. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, paged 882 and 894.]

Alexander P. Wright, previous serviced as sergeant in company H, 63rd Georgia Infantry; appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, April 2, 1864; served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 809; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 652.]

Augustus O. Wright, born March 18, 1844 in Hale County, Alabama; son of Pleasant T. Wright; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 29, 1860; original entry into the Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, December 7, 1861; reported for duty at Savannah, Georgia, 1861, and served aboard the CSS Savannah, 1862 - 1863; ordered to report for temporary duty at Charleston, South Carolina, in July, 1863; was in the battle of Battery Wagner, July, 1863; also served on the stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), sometime between January, 1863 and September, 1864; served at Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher, North Carolina, November, 1864; served on the school ship, CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, sometime in 1864; commissioned Master in March, 1865, and reported for duty at Richmond, Virginia, March 18, 1865; sent aboard the CSS Hampton; also indicated to have served on the blockade runner Owl, under captain Dunnington; attached, as 2nd lieutenant, commanding company A, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided in Florida from 1869; shown to be residing as a school teacher, in 1880, with wife, Ida, and three children at Precinct 1, Santa Rosa County, Florida; resident of Jacksonville, Florida, in 1907, and was a member of the R.E. Lee Camp No. 58, United Confederate Veterans; shown as one of the few members of the Association of the Survivors of the Confederate States Navy, when they met up at Murphy's Hotel, Richmond, Virginia, in June, 1907; member of the Episcopal Church; also served as a Municipal Judge in Jacksonville; devoted many years to the collection of records of the Confederate States Navy, and also to prevail upon the United States Congress to pass legislation to "correct" the records of the Southern officers (i.e. to show that they had resigned from U.S. service, instead of being dismissed, at the commencement of the war); died at the Flagler Hospital, St. Augustine, Florida, Wednesday, September 5, 1928. [ORN 1, 11, 772; 1, 14, 694 & 724 and 2, 1, 289 & 322; Register1863; Register1864; M1091; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A 07427; see also the Florida Confederate Pension file of John O'Brien, no. A 02957, and especially letter dated August 19, 1927; Confederate Sailor 8; 1880 U.S. Census; New York Times dated Friday, September 7, 1928; Washington Post dated June 18, 1917.]

Charles Wright, served aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile, Alabama, 1864; discharged in the final quarter of 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1200.]
D. Wright, died April 2, 1865; buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

David Wright, Pilot, CSS Virginia, July, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 726.]

George Wright, pilot; served aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; also served aboard the CSS Richmond, James River, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 1, 7, 48 & 1, 10, 671.]

Henry Wright, appointed acting master and pilot in the Confederate States Navy, on November 14, 1861, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Red Rover for duty; also served aboard the CSS Maurepas, 1862; indicated to have absented himself, without permission, in the action at St Charles, White River, Arkansas, June 17, 1862; appointment in the Naval service revoked on June 30, 1862. [ORN 1, 23, 204; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 661 and 1123.]

Henry X. Wright, served as 3rd assistant engineer aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; made an allotment of part of his pay, in 1861, to Louisa Wright; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, September 1, 1861, and 1st assistant engineer, August 15, 1863; served aboard the CSS Richmond, and the CSS Capitol, 1862; detached from the James River squadron, on September 23, 1863, and was ordered to proceed to Wilmington, and await further orders; sent to Canada and Bermuda, on the authority of the Confederate government, and was involved in the Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863; CSN Submarine Battery Defenses, James River, Virginia, April, 1864; involved in an unsuccessful torpedo attack on the USS Minnesota, off Newport News, Virginia, April 9, 1864; later served as chief engineer aboard the CSS Richmond, and the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 1, 2, 824; 1, 9, 604; 1, 10, 671; 1, 11 690; 1, 23, 698 and 2, 1, 299 & 311; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 834; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OL - Mobilization and demobilization; Norfolk - Miscellaneous, page 186; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 501 - 511.]

J. W. Wright, served as ordinary 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 37.]

John Wright, shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 8, 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.]

John Wright, shipped and rated as ward room steward aboard the revenue cutter Morgan, Mobile, Alabama, on September 1, 1861; served aboard the vessel 1861-1862; discharged by order of commander Mitchell on February 18, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1162, 1166 and 1170.]

Joshua Creacy Wright, originally served in the 3rd battalion, North Carolina Artillery; attached to the staff of general Whiting as post courier, in December, 1863; on the recommendation of general Whiting, Wright was appointed by president Davis as a midshipman in the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1864; resigned from Naval service in early 1865, and joined the 15th Battalion, North Carolina Cavalry, and served in the company commanded by captain Thomas S. Capeheart; disbanded in the trans-Mississippi department, at the close of the war; made his way back to his old home at Norfolk, Virginia; shown, in 1899, as a resident of Houston, Texas. [ORN 2, 1, 300; News and Observer (Raleigh, North Carolina) dated May 28, 1899, page 8.]

Milton Wright, born North Carolina, 1846; served in the Confederate States Navy; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Eliza, and five children (eldest child born 1871) at Smiths, Robeson County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Robeson County, North Carolina; his widow, Eliza J. Wright, also later applied for a pension from Wake County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

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

R. Wright, 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 43.]

Richard B. Wright, appointed acting 1st assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at Norfolk, Virginia, on September 18, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 663.]

Robert Wright, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 9, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

Robert Wright, Seaman, CSS Alabama; born England; rated Captain of Maintop, March 1, 1863; wounded in action and captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

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

Robert Wright (nicknamed "Fighting Bob"), born Norfolk, Virginia, April 16, 1840; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, November 30, 1861; served on the Richmond station, and aboard the CSS Richmond, 1861 - 1863; served aboard the CSS Jamestown, during the action at Hampton Roads, between the USS Monitor and CSS Virginia, March 9, 1862; indicated to have seen service in many other important engagements on the water, and was regarded as one of the "best posted men in the State with reference to the naval battles of the war"; resigned from the Confederate States Navy on September 21, 1863; post war resident of the East End of Richmond, Virginia, and a member of the Widewater Fishing Club of Richmond; continued a seafaring career, and held positions with various steamship companies plying between Richmond and Norfolk, and between Norfolk and New York; announced himself as candidate for the position of sheriff of Richmond, Virginia, on November 15, 1907; comrade and warm personal friend of fellow ex-Confederate Navy officers, Daniel M. Lee, of Stafford, and Daniel Trigg, of Abingdon. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Register1862; Register1863; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated April 30, 1907, page 6 and November 16, 1907, page 10 (includes photo); Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Sidney Robert Wright (middle initial also incorrectly shown as W), born, resided in, as a painter or carpenter, and enlisted at Caswell County, North Carolina; May 1, 1861, aged 25, as sergeant, company E, 13th Regiment North Carolina Troops; reduced to private, October 31, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 15, 1862, for duty on the Merrimac (ironclad ram CSS Virginia), Hampton Roads, Virginia; served as landsman on that vessel. [NCT 5, 326; ORN 2, 1, 310.]

William H. Wright, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Navy; resided, post war, at New Orleans, Louisiana; member of Camp No. 2, Army of Tennessee, United Confederate Veterans of New Orleans;died in March, 1897. [Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated Wednesday, March 10, 1897.]

Thomas O. Wroton (surname also shown as Wroten and Wooten), born North Carolina, 1842; enlisted in Beaufort County, North Carolina, April 22, 1861, aged 22, as private, company K, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery; captured at Fort Hatteras, August 29, 1861, and incarcerated at Fort Warren, Massachusetts; exchanged February, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, July 19, 1863; served as ship's steward and seaman aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; highly commended by his commander, James W. Cooke, in a dispatch dated at Plymouth, North Carolina, May 7, 1864, while serving aboard the CSS Albemarle; later served aboard the CSS Tallahassee, and was rated as captain of the afterguard from October 1, 1864; shown to be residing as a harness maker, in 1880, with his wife, Virginia A. Wroten, and son Walter H. Wroten (born North Carolina, 1868) at Sumter, Sumter County, South Carolina; his widow, Virginia Wroton, later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Durham County, North Carolina. [NCT 1, 171; ORN 1, 9, 770 & 771 and 2, 1, 294-296, 307; NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 843.]

Edward Winslow Wyatt, first served as paymaster's clerk, Savannah station, 1862 - 1864; later appointed master's mate, July 11, 1864, and reported on the same day, aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia; after the fall of Savannah, he reported for duty at Hardeeville, in December, 1864; post war business partnership in the firm of J.T. Thomas & Company, of Savannah, and then in business on his own, in January, 1866; died of typhoid fever, August 9, 1866, at the age of 40, at Savannah. [ORN 1, 16, 493 - 494 and 2, 1, 286 & 323; CSN Register; Savannah Daily Herald dated Thursday, February 1, 1866; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated August 15, 1866; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 661.]

J.A. Wyatt, quartermaster, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

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

J. H. Wyatt, served as master carpenter in the Confederate States Navy, Richmond, Virginia, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 631.]

J.W. Wyatt, quarter gunner, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

William H. Wyatt, appointed, by lieutenant F. B. Renshaw, commanding the CSS Livingston, at New Orleans, as captain's clerk aboard that vessel, on December 16, 1861; tendered his resignation from the Naval service, which was accepted on January 14, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 872 and 1082.]

Wyley A. Wyatt, resided in, and enlisted at Gaston County, North Carolina, July 30, 1861, aged 21, as private, company B, 28th Regiment North Carolina Troops; captured at Hanover Court House, Virginia, May 27, 1862; confined at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and at Fort Columbus, New York Harbor; exchanged at Aiken's Landing, James River, Virginia, August 5, 1862; captured again at Fredericksburg, Virginia, December 13, 1862; exchanged on or about December 17, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 3, 1864; served as landsman on the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864-1865; attached as private to company E, 1st Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [NCT 8, 139; ORN 2, 1, 312; M1091.]

Charles Wyman, Acting Marine Officer and captain's clerk, CSS Florida, 1862; indicated as having left the vessel, aboard the Eagle, for New York, exact date and reason not shown. [ORN 1, 1, 764; additional information provided by researcher David M. Sullivan, in an e-mail (DSulli7875@aol.com) dated March 25, 2004.]

James Wymer, appointed pilot aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Bragg, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]
Abner Wynkoop, landsman, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River, Louisiana, area); served July - November, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]

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

Theophilus Wynn, previously served as Private in Company A, 1st Confederate Regiment Volunteer Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, March 23, 1864; surrendered as a member of Company I, 2nd Regiment Naval Brigade at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 11.]

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

William E. Wysham (surname also shown as Worsham), born Maryland, 1827; son of Ezekiel C. and Jane Wysham; practising physician in Baltimore, in 1850; previous service in the United States Navy, from September 24, 1851; resided as United States Navy surgeon, in 1860, with his wife and children, 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 at the Naval Hospital, Mobile station, Alabama, 1862 - 1864; paroled on board the United States flagship off Mobile, Alabama, May 11, 1865; resided in Alabama, in 1866; moved to Maryland about 1868; resided as a physician, in 1880, with his wife, Mary E. Wysham, and eight children (eldest child born Virginia, 1856) in Baltimore, Maryland. [Register1863; Register1864; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Norfolk County Record 221; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 218.]