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Jesse C. Eads (surname also shown as Eades), born Georgia, 1847; paid transportation expenses of $9.50, on February 20, 1864, to travel from Jackson County, Georgia, to Savannah, to join his company; served as private in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps; resided as a mechanic, in 1880, with his wife Fannie, and five children (eldest child born1869), at Dawsonville, Dawson County, Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Dawson County, Georgia; later transferred to Jackson County, Georgia; shown as a widower, in 1910, residing with his brother in law at Nimblewill, Lumpkin County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 313; ORN 2, 1, 315; 1880 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 394.]
Joseph Eagan, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]
Patrick Eagan (surname also shown as Eagans), born Ireland, about 1826; served as landsman and ordinary seaman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll of the CSS Georgia, indicates that he also served aboard that vessel, in 1863; transferred to the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, in 1864, and was transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275 & 286-287; Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry dated Sunday, December 14, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270, 521 and 608.]
T.F. Eagan, served in Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Charleston, in 1864; died at the Naval hospital, Charleston, prior to October 14, 1864; buried at Charleston Port Society Cemetery, on Ashley River, Charleston; see next entry. [Name and service status inscribed on granite monument unveiled December 10, 1922, by the Ladies Memorial Association of Charleston, South Carolina; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 89.]
T.F. Eagan, (surname also shown as Egan) born Ireland; ordinary seaman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll of the CSS Charleston, dated October 31, 1863, indicates that he also served aboard that vessel; aged 27; may be the same person listed in the previous entry. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 282; Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry dated Monday, December 22, 1862.]
Thomas Eagins, ordinary seaman, CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 304.]
John Eakins, sr., born North Carolina, December, 1820; served in the Confederate States Navy; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Martha, and daughter Ethern (born 1866), at Columbia, Pender County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Pender County, North Carolina; shown as a farmer residing with his family at Pender County, in 1900; his widow, Martha Eakins, also later applied for a pension from the same county. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]
David Eamecker, ship's cook, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Charles P. Eanes, born Virginia, about 1845; originally served as sergeant, company K, 12th Virginia Infantry; later served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; resided as a carpenter, in 1880, with his wife, Sarah, and two children, at Petersburg, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Civil War Service Records; 1880 U.S. Census.]
John Earl, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 117.]
William Earnshaw, ordinary seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, April - June, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia); also served aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (which was also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1864; transferred, at an unspecified date, from the CSS Georgia to the Charleston station. [ORN 1, 17, 700 and 2, 1, 283 & 286; DANFS; Confederate Navy Subject file, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 605; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 716.]
David Earwicker, enlisted for three years or the war, as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on September 2, 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 180 and 753.]
John B. Eason, born North Carolina, about 1835; enlisted in Anson County, North Carolina, May 10, 1862, as private, company A, 4th Regiment North Carolina Cavalry; detailed as Commissary sergeant, October 31, 1862-February 28, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, September 3, 1863; served as landsman on the CSS Chicora, 1863 -1864; transferred back to company A, 4th Regiment North Carolina Cavalry, January 7, 1865; married in 1869; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Clia and children, at Thomas County, Georgia; still residing in Thomas County in 1900. [NCT 2, 271; ORN 2, 1, 284; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]
George S. East, 1st class boy, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]
James E. Easters, gunner's mate and carpenter's mate; served aboard the CSS Arctic, 1862; captured with five other personnel of the Confederate Navy, by Union sailors from the USS Pequot, on the Cape Fear River, North Carolina, February 19, 1865; sent north aboard the USS New Bern, to be delivered into the custody of the commanding officer of the USS Rhode Island, at Hampton Roads, on February 24, 1865. [ORN 1, 12, 42; 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 276.] [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 547.]
M. C. Easterwood, enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862; deserted in early July, 1862, after only 17 days of service. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]
E. Eastman, ordinary seaman, Confederate States Navy; captured aboard a boat from the CSS Oconee, at Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, on August 20, 1863, by the USS Madgie; transferred to the USS Wamsutta on August 21, 1863, to be sent north as a prisoner of war. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 488.]
Lewis Eastman, originally served as private, company D (Virginia Artillery), 9th Virginia Infantry, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy. [Norfolk County Record 76.]
James Eastus, born in Beaufort County, North Carolina, about 1832; pre-war occupation, sailor; enlisted at Beaufort County, October 21, 1861, as private, company C, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 8, 1862; probably the same person shown in the previous entry, James E. Easters. [NCT 1, 399.]
A. Eatman (Eastman?), landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
D.M. Eaton, boatswain's mate, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; indicated as having been captured prior to his exchange and arrival at Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]
H. Ebbe, second gunner; captured at Island No. 10, April, 1862. [Register1862.]
Fred Eberhard, landsman, served aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, during July - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS.]
Jerome Ebrio (surname also shown as Ebbrio, Abbereo and Abreo), sail master, cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863 (almost certainly the same Jerome Abrio, listed as sailmaker's mate on the CSS Sumter, 1861); while serving aboard the cruiser, Ebrio occupied the position of handspike at the 2nd gun division; a sailor named Jerome Abbereo, aged 45 (in 1877), and a native of Madeira, is listed as a seaman aboard the Harry S. Edwards, out of Liverpool, England, on June 28, 1877; he had previously served aboard the Memnon. [Alabama Claims 1, 694; CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Crew Lists of the United Kingdom, available at the Genealogy Department, State Library of Victoria, Melbourne; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]
James Eccles, born? 1837, Philadelphia, or February 2, 1833, Tyrone County, Indiana; enlisted June 12, 1861, at Warrington, in Company A, First Florida Infantry; mustered out April 6, 1862; reenlisted April 24, 1862 in Gamble's Artillery, at Tallahassee; transferred to Kilcrease Artillery, May 27, 1863; transferred to Confederate States Navy August 24, 1864; sent aboard the CSS Spray, St. Mark's, Florida, as seaman, in October, 1864, died September 11, 1867; buried in Old Warrington Cemetery, Escambia County, Florida. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 6; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 818.]
Charles Edd, born Virginia, about 1845; resided, in 1860, at Alexandria, Virginia; served as landsman on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, during the Civil War. [ORN 2, 1, 300; 1860 U.S. Census.]
J. Edgar, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]
J.M. Edgar, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Selma, captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 844.]
Henry B. Edinborough (surname also shown as Edenborough), native of Virginia; graduate of the Naval Academy, 1858 (not listed in Callahan); served as acting master, Confederate States Navy; captured the steamship Roanoke, during the war; served aboard the CSS Virginia II, 1864; post war service in the Egyptian army of the Khedive (where he was known as "Edinborough Bey"; later served in the Turkish army as a colonel of artillery; also saw service in the artillery service of the Russian army; also commanded a gunboat in the Chilian Navy; returned to the United States and served as paymaster's clerk in the United States Navy; reported missing from the Exchange Hotel at Richmond, Virginia, in January, 1886, at the age of 50; stated to be an extensive traveller; died at the Homeopathic Hospital on Ward's Island, of a complication of diseases, in January, 1890. [ORN 1, 10, 644; Daily Evening Bulletin (San Francisco) dated Saturday, January 2, 1886; Daily Picayune (New Orleans, Louisiana) dated January 15, 1890, page 6.]
R.A. Edmonston, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]
Edward Edmunds (surname also shown as Edmonds), served as seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as gunner's mate from February 24, 1862; summonsed to appear as a witness before a General Court Martial, at Jackson, Mississippi, on August 20, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 134.]
Nicholas C. Edmunds (surname also shown as Edmonds), born Virginia, 1834; son of Thomas and Frances A. Edmunds; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon for the war, August 5, 1862; served at Drewry's Bluff, James River, and on the Richmond station, 1862 - 1863; later served aboard the steamer CSS Morgan, 1863 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; resided as a doctor, unmarried, in 1880, at Roanoke, Charlotte County, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 321; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]
J.B. Edson, served as a private in company A, 69th (?) North Carolina Volunteers; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by command of the Confederate Secretary of War, Special Order No. 209 dated at Richmond, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer J.R. Tucker, at Charleston, South Carolina. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]
George L. Edward, born Jackson City, Florida, March 15, 1847; enlisted in Captain Murrells Company, in the spring of 1864 at Cedar Springs, Early County, Georgia; transferred to the Navy Yard on the Chattahoochee River; post war occupation, farmer; resided in Jackson City, Florida, in 1907, and was a member of Camp Milton No. 132, United Confederate Veterans, of Jackson County, Florida. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. D10068.]
George W. Edward (surname also shown as Edwards), Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in December 1, 1861; transferred, from the Confederate Army, to the CSS Spray, St. Mark's, Florida, as ordinary seaman, on June 2, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 815; Soldiers of Florida, 49.]
William Edward, seaman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]
A. G. W. Edwards, served as private (?) in Coopers (?), Navy Department of the Confederate States; paroled at Thomasville, Georgia, May 13, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 657.]
Charles Edwards (surname also shown as Edward), served as seaman (his rating is also shown as boy) aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862; discharged from the service on November 1, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 443.]
Charles Edwards, shipped for the war, as seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia on May 1, 1863;also served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 304; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 602.]
Charles Edwards, served as seaman aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1223.]
Edward Edwards, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 83 and 106.]
Edward C. Edwards, served as chief purser aboard the Confederate States gunboat Stonewall Jackson, Mississippi River Defense Fleet, from April 1, 1862 to December 1, 1862; captured and confined at New Orleans, but was able to escape shortly after capture, and returned into Confederate lines. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XD - Claims, Miscellaneous, pages 10 and 12.]
Edward C. Edwards, served as acting master in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Brownsville, Texas, July 27, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 657.]
Edward Harleston Edwards, born South Carolina, about 1844; originally enlisted at Charleston, South Carolina, as private in company L, 1st South Carolina Volunteer Infantry, August 27, 1861; entry into the Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 4th class, September 23, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861-1862; served as a midshipman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron, 1862-1863; treated for diarrhoea on Sunday, June 8, 1862; treated for a fever on Tuesday, August 5, 1862, and again, with the same condition, on Tuesday, August 26, 1862, Tuesday, October 14, 1862, and again, much later, on Monday, August 17, 1863; transferred, on Sunday, August 23, 1863, to the hospital on shore; on Thursday, August 27, 1863, the following notations were made in the CSS Gaines Medical journal, in relation to the death of midshipman Edwards: "On Saturday he was transferred to the Hospital, having been free from fever since Thursday afternoon. His bowels were actively moved Saturday night and Sunday morning. Fever set in again Saturday night and continued till yesterday at noon. On Sunday he was removed to a private residence in the city, and I was called in Monday morning to attend him. I found him worse, and sent for Dr. Ross of the city to consult with. His pulse was frequent, skin hot and dry, tongue much coated and a tendency to dryness. We gave him powders of Calomel, Pot. Nit. and Pulo: Dovin every 2 hours. Tuesday morning, his bowels not having been moved since Sunday, we gave rhubarb [?], and commenced with the neutrat [?] mixture. The rhubarb not having the desired effect, we directed a dose of salts yesterday morning. At 12 yesterday his fever left him, and skin became cool and moist. Immediately gave quinine gr v every 2 hours. The salts produced no action, and last night I was called about 10 o'clock, and found him vomiting large quantities of the most offensive matter, having the odour of decomposed flesh. He was in a state of collapse. Mustard plasters were immediately applied, followed by blisters to the abdomen and extremities. An enema of turpentine, castor oil and gruel was administered, but he rapidly sank, and died at 3 o'clock this morning". [CSS Gaines Medical Journal; ORN 2, 1, 322; South Carolina Library; Register1863; CSN Register; SC1st; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]
Evan Edwards, first class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
Francis M. Edwards, born North Carolina, 1840; served as officers' steward aboard the CSS North Carolina, 1864; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his second wife, Francis, at Beaufort County, North Carolina; married his third wife, Clia, about 1895; resided as a farmer, in 1910, with his family at Richland township, Beaufort County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Beaufort County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 294, 295 & 297; 1880 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]
G.W. Edwards, see William Edwards.
James Edwards, Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
James Edwards, born Alabama; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, June 10, 1863; served aboard the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292; Register1864.]
James Edwards, recruited as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862, receiving a bounty of $50. [ORN 2, 1, 310; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 878.]
Jasper Edwards, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard the receiving ship CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, April-June, 1864, and the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 280, 302 & 316.]
John Edwards, ordinary seaman, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River, Louisiana, area); served July - November, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS.]
John Edwards, served as private, company K, 3rd Mississippi Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
John Edwards, served as seaman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]
John Edwards, served as seaman and officer's cook at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 37 and 87.]
John H. Edwards, native of New York; served aboard privateer Petrel; captured 1862, and incarcerated at Fort Lafayette; requested Oath of Allegiance. [ORA 2, 3.]
Nicholas C. Edwards, Assistant Surgeon, paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785.]
O.E. Edwards, acting master, served on the Richmond station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 321.]
Robert E. Edwards, born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, November 9, 1863; served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron, 1863 - 1864; later served aboard the CSS Neuse, 1864. [Register1864; CSN Register.]
Thomas W. Edwards, served as sergeant, company G, 40th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
William Edwards (name also shown as G.W. Edwards), seaman, CSS Virginia II, wounded in action, James River, January 24, 1865 (temporarily aboard the torpedo boat Scorpion at the time). [ORN 1, 11, 684 & 689.]
William Edwards, served as seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; deserted in the third quarter of 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 91.]
William Edwards, served as private (?) in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Montgomery, Alabama, June 15, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 657.]
William E. Edwards, citizen who served as engineer aboard the Confederate States steamer Paul Jones; paroled at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 6, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 657.]
Z. Edwards, indicated to have previously been a private in an Infantry company; employed as a 2nd class ship's carpenter at Keserick (?), Powhatan County, Virginia for three weeks; died on August 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file P - Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and Stations); PL - Labor and civil personnel; Albany - Richmond, page 621.]
Daniel Egan, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; also on the Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 310 & 315.]
Henry Egan, enlisted, for one year, as fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, on September 24, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1227; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]
Jos. Egan, served as 1st class boy aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as landsman from February 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]
Owan Egan, served as landsman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1862; later rated as coal heaver, and was killed in action at Hampton Roads, March 8, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 301; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 282.]
Robert Egan, indicated as being from Liverpool, England; enlisted August 24, 1862, as boy, CSS Alabama; deserted September 21, 1863, at the Cape of Good Hope; also shown as a bit of a troublemaker, involved in several incidents, including one where he enclosed the cruiser's pet mascot, a cat, in the breech of a cannon, and sealed it with a tompion. [Sinclair 23-24, 95.]
T.F. Egan, ordinary seaman, CSS Charleston (ironclad steam sloop, which operated out of Charleston, South Carolina); shown on a muster roll of the vessel, dated October 31, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 282; DANFS.]
Thomas Egan, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the gunboat Sterling Price. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 676.]
F. Joseph Egbert, born Hanover, Germany, 1830; served as landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; resided as a grocer, in 1880, with his wife, Mary, and four children, at Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]
---- Egenton, see Thomas E. Hogg.
George Egerton (surname also shown as Edgerton), first class fireman (rating also shown as ordinary seaman), CSS Alabama, August 24, 1862; escaped, after the battle of June 19, 1864, aboard a French pilot boat, and taken into Cherbourg; paid off, and honorably discharged at Cherbourg, France, 1864. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 653.]
Everard T. Eggleston, born Virginia, 1842; appointed 2nd lieutenant, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, 1864; served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River Squadron, 1864; attached as 1st lieutenant, to company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as a life and fire insurance agent, in 1880, with his wife Kate B. Eggleston, at Austin, Travis County, Texas. [ORN 1, 10, 761 & 766 and 2, 1, 313; M1091; 1880 U.S. Census.]
John R. Eggleston, born Virginia, 1832; citizen of, and appointed from, Mississippi; original service in the United States Navy, from August 2, 1847; married in 1861; entered the Confederate States Navy, March 26, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; served on the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; later served on the CSS Virginia, and was involved in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; afterward on the Mobile station, 1862; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; paroled at Jackson, Mississippi, May 14, 1865; stated to have been on special service with general Maury at the time of his capture; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Sarah D. Eggleston, at Dry Grove, Hinds County, Mississippi; managing his own farm at the town of Raymond, Mississippi, in 1910. [ORN 1, 7, 47 & 2, 1, 290, 308 & 320; Register1863; 1880 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; JCC 4, 121; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 657.]
Victor Egly, born France, 1830; son of Jean and Verfrigue Egly; arrived as a migrant, with his family, from Le Havre, France, at New Orleans, Louisiana, aboard the Caroline Augusta, June 11, 1838; appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, January 18, 1862, and ordered to report for duty aboard the gunboat Slidell; also served aboard the CSS Pontchartrain and at the Jackson station, 1862; Egly's appointment in the Confederate States Navy was revoked on June 30, 1862; captured aboard the steamer Neptune, June 14, 1863; sent as a prisoner of war to Fort Lafayette; released on taking the Oath of Allegiance, August 22, 1863; resided as a blacksmith, in 1880, with his wife Catherine, and eight children (eldest child born in Louisiana, 1856; one child also born in Mexico, and his two youngest children born in Texas) in Brownsville, Cameron county, Texas; died at Cameron county, Texas, August 23, 1912. [ORN 1, 23, 203 and 2, 1, 319; 1880 U.S. Census; New Orleans Passenger Lists, 1820 - 1945, Louisiana Confederate Soldiers and Texas Death Index, 1903 - 2000 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 374; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 1123.]
William Ehlers, served as a private in company F of the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Mobile, Alabama, in 1864; later served in company A of the Corps, 1864; attached as private to company G, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 313; M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1072.]
Robert J. Eidson, recruited into company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, on April 14, 1863, at Savannah, Georgia, and served as private; served on the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1863; transferred, on March 22, 1863, to the CSS Atlanta; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; also served aboard the CSS Savannah; transferred to Richmond Station at an unspecified date. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 598 and 683.]
Philip Eifler, born Bavaria, 1831; served in company B, Naval Battalion (?); married at Charleston, South Carolina, July 18, 1859; resided as a gunsmith, in 1880, with his wife, Christine, and six children (eldest child born 1864), at Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia; his widow, Christina Eifler later filed for a post war Confederate pension from Muscogee County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 320; Georgia State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]
Henry Elbe, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, October 26, 1861, as private, company B, Captain James O'Hara's Company (Pelican Guards, company B), Louisiana; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, November 12, 1861 (?); however, a Naval document shows that he was shipped for the war, as seaman at New Orleans, on November 8, 1861, and rated as quarter gunner aboard the Confederate States floating battery, New Orleans, at Columbus, Kentucky, from November 9, 1861; captured at Island No. 10, April 8, 1862 and transferred to Camp Douglas, Illinois; released on taking the Oath of Allegiance, September 10, 1862. [Booth 1, 765; Confederate Navy subject file H - Battles and casualties to ships; HA - engagements with enemy war vessels; Miscellaneous, page 269; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 2 and 13.]
Peter Elden (surname also shown as Elder), served as seaman and quartermaster aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma), Mobile squadron, 1862 - 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 841 - 842 and 2, 1, 286 & 306; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 551.]
Augustus Eleison (surname also shown as Eliason and Elliasson), enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Seabird, about December, 1861, receiving a bonus of $20; served as seaman aboard the CSS Beaufort, 1861 - 1862; later served aboard the CSS Huntress, at Charleston, South Carolina, July, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 717 and 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 103, 732 and 765; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 777.]
Henry T. Ellett, jr. (middle intial also shown, in Register1864, as J.), born Mississippi; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, October 6, 1863, and ordered to report to lieutenant William H. Parker for duty; Ellett states that at the time he received the appointment, he was at Port Gibson, Mississippi; served aboard the school ship CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 299; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), pages 376 and 377.]
George Elliott, 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 75.]
George C. Elliot, served as seaman aboard the CSS Tuscarora, New Orleans station, 1861; rated as gunner's mate from November 1, 1861; rated as boatswain's mate aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, on February 2, 1862; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 117 and 2, 1, 299; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 340 and 876.]
Gilbert Elliott, volunteer aid to commander J.W. Cooke, aboard the CSS Albemarle during the attack on Plymouth, North Carolina, April 20, 1864; also "ran" the steamer Cora, by contract with the approval of flag officer W. F. Lynch, in September, 1863, and May and June of 1864, as well as other duties under the supervision of Lynch. [ORN 1, 9, 656 - 657; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OX - Lines of supply and supply ships; Ships - Miscellaneous, pages 66 and 68.]
Henry D. Elliott, enlisted as private, company E, 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars, April, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, April, 1864; served as landsman aboard CSS Chattahoochee, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 701 and 2, 1, 283; Georgia Rosters, 1, 336.]
James B. Elliott, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864 (see also James O. Elliott, listed below, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302.]
James O. Elliott, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see also, James B. Elliott, listed above, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
Joseph Elliott, appointed acting 3rd assistant Engineer, Confederate States Navy, October 30, 1861; served on floating Battery, New Orleans, 1862, and on CSS Louisiana; taken prisoner at Fort St. Philip, May, 1862; took the Oath of Allegiance on the passage to Fort Warren, Massachusetts; later served at the Jackson station, 1862, and on the CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; resigned, April 11, 1863. [Booth 1, 768; ORN 1, 18, 318 and 2, 1, 318; ORA 2, 3, 641; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 10; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 379.]
Phillip Elliott, seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
S. Elliott, served as an officer aboard the CSS Lady Davis; involved in the capture of the prize vessel, A.B. Thompson, May 19, 1861, and was awarded the sum of $304.37, 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 1.]
Thomas A. Elliott, appointed second officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Defiance, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]
William H. Elliott, served as sergeant, company K, 34th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
William P. Elliott, enlisted in New Hanover County, North Carolina, July 3, 1861, in 1st company A, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; mustered in as sergeant; captured at Kinston, December 14, 1862, and paroled the same day; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 27, 1863, on receiving an appointment as paymaster's clerk; served in that capacity aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston station, 1863-1864. [NCT 1, 177; ORN 2, 1, 298.]
Alexander Ellis, Coal Heaver, cruiser CSS Georgia; shipped from the prize vessel, Dictator, in April, 1863. [ORN 1, 2, 812; Alabama Claims 1, 694.]
Charles Ellis, served as private, company C, 1st (Charleston) Battalion, South Carolina Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Charles Ellis, coxswain, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. ; [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 550.]
Edward Ellis, enlisted as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861, and served aboard the CSS Florida (later re-named the CSS Selma); rated as coal passer from October 1, 1861; later served on the Jackson station, in 1862; named his next of kin as
Rebecca Ellis. [Confederate Navy subject file N -Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 428 and 894.]
J.S. Ellis, originally served as private, company A, 24th South Carolina Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy and served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; paroled, as ordinary seaman, at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 12, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 657.]
James Ellis, seaman, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River, Louisiana, area); served July - November, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS.]
James Ellis, served as boatswain's mate 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 90.]
John Ellis, 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 Ellis, served at the Mobile station, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, in 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 676.]
Michael Ellis, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, blacksmith; marital status, married; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 28, 1861, aged 26, as private, company D, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, aboard the Merrimac (CSS Virginia), January 2, 1862. [Booth 1, 771.]
Nicholas A. Ellis, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 13, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]
R.M. Ellis, enlisted at Granville County, North Carolina, March 21 or 29, 1864, aged 24, as landsman in the Confederate States Navy. [CSN Shipping Articles; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 408.]
William Ellis, served as landsman aboard the CSS Spray, St. Marks, Florida; paroled at St. Marks, May 12, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 657.]
William R. Ellis, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Tallahassee, Florida, May 13, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 657.]
Charles Ellswood, officers' cook, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]
William Ellsworthy, see William Elworthy.
Alfred Elrod, served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 640.]
Henry Else, seaman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 311.]
Henry B. Else, seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 294; DANFS.]
N. Else, Seaman, CSS Virginia II, January, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 794.]
George H. Elwell, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, February 11, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Livingston for duty; subsequently appointed as captain's clerk aboard the vessel, by the commander, R. F. Pinkney, on May 21, 1862; also served on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 381; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 722.]
William Elworthy (surname also shown as Ellsworthy and Elsworthy), served as seaman aboard the side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862; arrested as a deserter at Mobile, Alabama, by Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]
---- Ely, seaman, CSS Curlew; right arm fractured while in action at Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 7, 1862. [ORN 1, 6, 594.]
D. A. Emery, shipped aboard the revenue cutter Morgan, Mobile, Alabama, on September 9, 1861; rated as gunner's mate on September 10, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1162 and 1164.]
John Emery, ordinary seaman, CSS Alabama, August 24, 1862-1864; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; captured by the USS Kearsarge; paroled at Cherbourg on the same day; paid off, and honorably discharged at Cherbourg, 1864. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 72.]
George Emmerson, born about 1839; personal description shown as 5 feet, ? inches high, gray eyes and light hair; recruited at Mobile, Alabama, by captain George P. Turner, May 10, 1862, into the Confederate States Marine Corps, and served at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1862; deserted from Drewry's Bluff, June, 1862; a reward of $30 was offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff, June, 1862. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 12, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1047.]
William Emmerson, Quarter Gunner, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
John Emmit (surname also shown as Emmitt), served as private and orderly sergeant at the Mobile station, in 1863, in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1063; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 676.]
Robert Emmett, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Jamestown,1861; deserted at an unspecified date. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 416.]
Olan Emond, served as landsman aboard the CSS Missouri, 1864; deserted from the vessel, at Shreveport, Louisiana, on the night of June 2, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 510.]
Carrius Emory, served as private, company A, 35th Tennessee Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Thomas Emory, born Maryland, about 1842 (New York Times of November 18, 1864 indicates his place of birth as Washington, D.C., and the 1860 U.S. Census shows his place of birth as Pennsylvania); son of William Hemsley (a senior officer of the United States Army) and Matilta Emory; resident of Washington, D.C.; was in Richmond, Virginia, in July, 1861, as a visitor; graduated from the Medical College of Virginia, March, 1862; induced to stay in the South, by president Jefferson Davis and his wife, Varina Howell, and eventually appointed in the Confederate States Navy, as assistant surgeon for the war, March 15, 1862, and ordered to report to surgeon W.A.W. Spotswood for duty; served on the Jackson station, 1862; later aboard the steamer 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; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served aboard the cruiser, CSS Florida; captured aboard the cruiser off Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received November 26, 1864; released February 1, 1865; married in 1870. [ORN 1, 2, 681; 1, 3, 256 and 2, 1, 318; JCC 4, 123; Fort Warren; additional data from The Private Mary Chestnut: the Unpublished Civil War Diaries, edited by C. Vann Woodward and Elisabeth Muhlenfeld, published by Oxford University Press, 1984, page 97; Register1863; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census; Richmond Dispatch Friday, March 7, 1862; New York Times dated November 18, 1864 and July 7, 1907; 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 (A - K), page 383.]
W.E. Englett, served in company D, Confederate States Marine Corps and company B, 16th Georgia; served as witness for J.A. Parks of Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 326.]
George W. English, born Georgia, October, 1837; resident of Warren County, Georgia; married about 1861; originally served on the ironclad ram CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia, and the Ladies' Gunboat); transferred to the CSS Atlanta, as ordinary seaman; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; also served in company I, Georgia State Militia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Warren County, Georgia; resided as a farmer, in 1900, with his wife Victoria and three daughters at English, Warren County, Georgia; still residing with his wife, at Warren County, in 1920. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Friday, June 12, 1863; ORN 1, 14, 268; GA Pension Index 326; 1900 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census; Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated June 27, 1863.]
Richard English, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]
William B. Enloe, born York district, South Carolina, about 1844; son of John E. and Catharine Enloe; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Yorkville, York District, South Carolina; served as private, company H, 1st South Carolina Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records; 1850 U.S. Census.]
Robert H. Eno, born North Carolina, about 1845; served as ordinary seaman, screw steamer CSS Fanny, 1861 - 1862; also served aboard the CSS Albemarle, at at Halifax station, 1864; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Laura A. Eno, at Claiborne County, Mississippi. [ORN 2, 1, 274 & 285; 1880 U.S. Census.]
M. Eppes, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 850.]
Manuel Epps (first name also shown as Marvel), born Montgomery County, North Carolina, about 1841; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Montgomery County, March 1, 1862, as private, company F, 44th Regiment North Carolina Troops; reported to have been transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 1, 1864; resided as a farmer, in 1870, with his wife Cirona, and four children, at Eldorado township, Montgomery County, North Carolina; shown residing, in 1910, with his second wife Nancy (married in 1907) at Eldorado township. [NCT 10, 447; 1870 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]
Peter Erato, see Peter Evato.
William Ernshaw (also William Earnshaw), enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, April 24, 1861, as private, company G, 1st (Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 11, 1864. [Booth 1, 781.]
William Mayo Erslew, born New Orleans, Louisiana, May 4, 1842; son of Christian and Elizabeth Hughes Erslew; served as landsman aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; resided as an engineer, after the war, at New Orleans (where he is shown as residing in 1910); shown as a resident of Houston, Texas, in 1917 - 1920. [ORN 2, 1, 288; 1910 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census; New Orleans, Louisiana Birth Records Index, 1790 - 1899 and Houston, Texas City Directory, 1917 at the Ancestry.com web site.]
Charles H. Erwin, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, October 28, 1861; reported for special duty at New Orleans, Louisiana, on the same date, aboard the Confederate States floating battery New Orleans; served at the Jackson station, 1862. [Booth 1, 782; ORN 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 10.]
George C. Erwin, served, as captain's steward, aboard the CSS Hampton; attached as private to company B, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [LVa - see Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home record for George A. Bohannon; M1091.]
Arthur A. Esdra, born Charleston, South Carolina, 1844; son of Eugene Esdra, listed below; originally served as private, company C, 3rd (Palmetto) Battalion, South Carolina Light Artillery; later served as paymaster's clerk, Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Stono, Charleston station, 1863; discharged April 30, 1863; known to have served as a clerk to a Confederate Navy board of examiners at Charleston, in May, 1863; probably returned to the Confederate Army, as he is indicated to have participated in many battles, including Gettysburg; wounded on several occasions; indicated to have risen to the rank of colonel, but there is no official evidence of this; post war residence in New York; married Clara Moore, at Manhattan, New York, in 1876; member of the Southern Society of New York, and the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York; also held positions as president of the Mistletoe Dramatic Society, and the Knickerbocker Club, of New York; actively engaged in business up till his death; died at his home in Hackensack, New Jersey, Monday, July 13, 1895; funeral held at 43, Atlantic Street. [CSNRegister; Sierra; New York Times dated January 7, 1884 and Wednesday, July 15, 1895; 1900 U.S. Census; New York City Marriages, 1600s - 1800s at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NK- Technical and Professional examinations of individuals; Miscellaneous, page 21.]
Eugene Esdra, born France, 1817; immigrated to the United States, arriving at New York, January 6, 1841, aboard the Charles Carroll; served as paymaster's clerk on the Charleston station, 1862; resided, in 1870, as a broker's clerk, with his wife and three children at Charleston, South Carolina; also served as Consul, at Charleston, for Spain and Portugal, and later for Brazil. [ORN 2, 1, 317; 1870 U.S. Census; New York Passenger Lists, 1820 - 1957 at the Ancestry.com web site; New York Times dated July 15, 1895.]
Frank Eslava, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about November, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 95.]
Michael Eslava, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about July, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 97.]
John E. Esnard, original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 2nd assistant engineer, June 5, 1861; another document indicates that he was appointed on October 28, 1863; served on the Mississippi defenses, 1862 - 1863, and on the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, 1863 - 1864; paroled at Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231 and 2, 1, 291; Booth 1, 785; Register1862; Register1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 387.]
Benedicto Espagnol, shipped aboard the CSS Shenandoah, April 4, 1865, as landsman. [ORN 1, 3, 789; Whittle 235.]
---- Esson, see Thomas E. Hogg.
Ed. Estercamp (surname also shown as Estacombe), officers' steward, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 293; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1204-1205.]
Edward Estercamp, 3rd class boy, side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area; February - July, 1862 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 286; DANFS.]
Cornelius Etheredge, originally served as private, company B (Virginia Riflemen), 3rd Virginia Regiment; transferred to the Confederate States Navy. [Norfolk County Record 56.]
S. Adolphus Etheredge (surname also shown as Etheridge), born Currituck County, North Carolina, 1844; son of Nancy Etheredge; pre-war occupation, student; enlisted at Oregon Inlet, July 28, 1861, aged 17, as private, company E, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy on an unspecified date; served as seaman on the CSS Fanny, 1861-1862. [NCT 6, 151; ORN 2, 1, 285; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census.]
William A. Etheridge (surname also shown as Etherage), born Currituck County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, wheelwright or carpenter; enlisted at Currituck County, North Carolina, May 13, 1861, aged 17, as private, company E, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about October 25, 1861; served aboard the CSS Curlew, 1861. [NCT 6, 151; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 278.]
Walter Ethridge, First Class Boy, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
David M. Eton, mate?, Confederate States Navy; captured off Yazoo City, Mississippi, July 14, 1863; sent to Indianapolis, Indiana, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received September 23, 1864; exchanged October 1, 1864. [Fort Warren.]
Stephen Eugene, shipped for the war, as landsman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, January 10, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 370 and 372.]
Henry Eustachia (or Ustakan), see Henry Middleton Kernot.
D. Evans, Navy Brigade, died September 29, 1862; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]
David Evans, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Henry H. Evans, served as private, company C, 10th Virginia Infantry; transferred to company F of the same regiment, then to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; later transferred to company E, 28th Virginia Infantry; resided, post war, at Edinburg, Virginia. [Civil War Service Records; Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated September 16, 1900, page 15.]
James Evans, born South Carolina (another source shows birthplace as Ireland, and that he had resided in America since 1851), about 1837; gray eyes; described as brave and reckless, and a genius at vessel spotting; harbor pilot at Charleston, on the Rover, 1860; signed on as prizemaster aboard the privateer Savannah, May, 1861; captured by the USS Perry, and taken to New York, as a "pirate;" later released, and piloted the CSS Nashville, October, 1861; remained in England, after the CSS Nashville arrived there; master's mate, CSS Alabama, 1862-1864; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; rescued by the English yacht Deerhound; returned to the Confederate States and served on the Naval batteries, James River, until the evacuation of Richmond, Virginia; nicknamed "Red Hot" Jim Evans, and described as "one of Raphael Semmes's trusted sub-officers on the Alabama"; post war occupation, pilot at Charleston, South Carolina; died of aneurysm of the aorta, at Charleston, South Carolina, May 17, 1901; buried at the Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. [ORN 1, 1, 752; Alabama Claims 2 (appendix 2), 133; Sinclair 17-18; additional information provided by researcher, Roger DeMik, in an e-mail (rd1005476@uld.onemain.com) dated June 14, 2003; death details from the Dallas Morning News (of Texas), of May 18, 1901, courtesy of Ken Jones, in an e-mail (kjones@tarleton.edu) dated Tuesday, April 19, 2005; Sheppard - Atlanta Constitution dated May 18, 1901; New York Times dated July 9, 1893; South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 at Ancestry.com.]
John Evans, born Virginia, about 1828; served as seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for furunculus on Tuesday, July 7, 1863; in November, 1863, Evans was sent to report to midshipman Swain, for duty aboard the CSS Gunnison. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal; ORN 1, 20, 849.]
John Evans, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy at New Orleans, March 3, 1862, and ordered to report aboard Launch No. 6 for duty. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 389.]
Peter Evans, served as ordinary 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. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]
Richard Evans, enlisted September 25, 1863, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Alabama; in action off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; captured by the USS Kearsarge; paroled at Cherbourg on the same day. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 72.]
Richard Evans, born Virginia; previously served in the United States Revenue Service, as commander of the cutter Duane; resigned from the Revenue Service and then appointed into the Virginia State Navy, April, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as master not in line of promotion, December 6, 1861; served on the Naval works, and at the Navy Yard, Rocketts, Richmond, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [Register1863; Register1864; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated April 26, 1861.]
Robert Evans, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about December, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 99.]
T.M. Evans, served in the 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
Thomas Evans, born Wales; resided in Williamstown, Melbourne, Australia, in 1865; served as seaman aboard CSS Shenandoah, 1865; sent to the mast head, September 2, 1865, for fighting with Peter Raymond. [Alabama Claims 1, 882 and 976; Whittle 190.]
W.H. Evans, served as private, company A, 1st (Charleston) Battalion, South Carolina Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
W. H. Evans, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, aboard Gunboat No. 3, Charleston Harbor, March 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 393.]
William Evans, served as landsman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as seaman from February 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]
William Evans, born Ireland, about 1838; transferred, on July 14, 1862, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Thursday, June 18th, 1863; again treated for the same condition on Thursday, July 2, 1863, Monday, July 20, 1863, Friday, August 7, 1863, and Tuesday, August 25, 1863 (by which time he was rated as ship's steward). [CSS Gaines Medical Journal; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 467.]
William E. Evans, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served on the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277, 278 & 302.]
William E. Evans, born South Carolina, about 1837; original service in the United States Navy, from June 10, 1852; appointed 1st lieutenant, Confederate States Navy, March 26, 1861; service abroad, on the CSS Sumter, 1861 and the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; ordered to report to Confederate Army lieutenant general Hardee, at Charleston, South Carolina, for special duty, November, 1864; served aboard the CSS Charleston in late 1864; commanded the CSS Columbia, Charleston, 1864 - 1865; later served on the Naval batteries on the James River, Virginia. [ORN 1, 1, 614; 1, 2, 635 and 1, 11, 375; ORA 1, 35 (part 2), 648; Register1863; JCC 4, 121; CSS Sumter Muster Rolls; Alabama Claims 1, 694; Semmes 125 and 416; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 224.]
Frank Evansich, born Hungary, 1839; claimed to have served with admiral Semmes aboard the CSS Alabama, and to have received a bullet which he carried till the day he died; post war member of the fire department; died at Brenham, Texas, November 19, 1888. [Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas) dated November 21, 1888, page 2.]
Peter Evato (surname also shown as Erato), served as seaman aboard the CSS Morgan; deserted from that vessel, December 2, 1862, using a pass that was issued by his executive officer, Charles Graves. [ORN 1, 19, 733; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 93.]
Sam Everett, served in the Confederate States Army, and was transferred to the Confederate States Navy, June 30, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and Transfers.; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 88.]
Henry Every, seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
---- Ewan, joiner, cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]
Charles Ewart, second assistant engineer, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]
David E. Ewart (first name also shown as Daniel), born South Carolina, 1830; son of David and Sophia Ewart; resided as a medical student, in 1850, with his parents, at Columbia, Richland district, South Carolina; appointed assistant surgeon for the war, January 7, 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served on the CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1864; also aboard the CSS Chickamauga, 1864. [CSN Register; JCC 4, 123; Register1864; 1850 U.S. Census.]
Wellington P. Ewell, served as landsman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia; in a letter addressed from on board the CSS Patrick Henry, at the Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia, to secretary of the Navy, Mallory, dated March 25, 1862, Ewell states: "This is to inform you that I am a minor and shipped in the Virginia Navy without either the knowledge or consent of my parents who are violently opposed to my remaining and positively forbid my joining the C.S. Navy. I am here as a landsman and capable of serving in no other capacity. It will ever afford me infinite pleasure to serve my country in a volunteer company which I will join immediately if you will do me the great favour to release me from the Virginia Navy.". [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OO - Operations of large groups of vessels; Charleston - Miscellaneous, page 94.]
James B. Ewers, shipped, on August 16, 1864, by lieutenant Venable, as a private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Richmond station, and at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 472; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 443.]
Francis M. Ewing, appointed acting master, Confederate States Navy, temporarily, for submarine purposes, August, 1862; served on the Jackson station, 1862; together with Zedekiah McDaniel, also of the Confederate States Navy, succeeded in inventing a torpedo, and which device was used in the destruction of the USS Cairo, on the Yazoo River, in December, 1862; the original plan had been laid before the Mayor of Memphis, Tennessee, but, because of the failure to obtain a sufficient supply of gunpowder, the plan was then successfully taken elsewhere; Confederate Congress had passed a bill in an attempt to award McDaniel and Ewing a sum of money for their action in destroying the Cairo, but this was vetoed by president Jefferson Davis, under the stipulation that the action was done in the line of duty. [CSN Register; Richmond Daily Examiner dated September 15, 1863, June 6, 1864, August 27, 1864 and November 30, 1864.]
John P. Exnicios, born Louisiana, about 1844; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 1, 1862, as private, company B (or company E), 30th Louisiana Infantry; appointed sergeant major, June 23, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, on or about March 9, 1864; shown as a clerk, residing at New Orleans, in 1890; resided as an accountant and book keeper, in 1910, at Biloxi, Mississippi; shown as a widower in 1910. [Booth 1, 796; Civil War Service Records; 1910 U.S. Census; New Orleans, Louisiana Directories, 1890 - 1891 at the Ancestry.com web site.]
James A. Exshaw, Paymaster's Steward; born Ireland; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 975; ORN 1, 3, 783.]
Stratford Thomas Eyre (name is also shown as T.G. Eyre, or S.G. Eyre), appointed, by captain J.N. Barney, of the cruiser, CSS Florida, as master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, on September 16, 1863, and commenced his duties on the vessel on the same day; on November 5, 1863, Eyre addressed a letter to captain Barney, from an address, 13 Tempest Alley (?,or Ave.), Liverpool, England, tendering his resignation from the Naval service; served in a steamer operating out of Wellington, New Zealand, in 1876, at which time he was attempting to also get a position in the Customs service; died at Dartford, England, at the age of 68, in 1905. [Confederate Navy subject file, N - Personnel, NN - Acceptances, applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances - appointments of officers (A-K), page 11; letter of Eyre's in New Zealand collections, online; Free BMD web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 1016.]
John W. Ezzell, served in the Confederate States Navy; pension file, from New Hanover County, North Carolina, at NC State Archives. [NC State Archives.]