NC Civil War Sailors Project

John C. Head, shipped, on June 6, 1863, as landsman on the CSS Oconee, off Thunderbolt, Georgia; also served aboard the CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, in 1863, and was transferred, on June 12, 1863, to the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863, and served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, at Charleston, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 780; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 373 and 612.]

Daniel Headley (first name also shown as David), born Finland; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana; served as seaman aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, 1862 - 1863; wounded in action on the White River; may have been captured, as he was later listed as being deranged and sent to the Insane Asylum, in Washington, D.C.; later listed as an indigent in the Asylum. [Information sent by Ed Milligan, Alexandria, Virginia, in an e-mail (emilligan@earthlink.net), dated December 22, 2002, and obtained from files in National Archives Record Group 48 (Interior), entry 298 (St. Es); ORN 2, 1, 299.]

Hamilton D. Heady, born North Carolina, 1836; son of Ann Heady; resided as a mariner, in 1860, with his wife, Elizabeth, and two children, at Swansboro, Onslow county, North Carolina; enlisted at Carteret County, North Carolina, May 22, 1861, as sergeant, company G, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery, reduced to private, about January or February, 1862; re-appointed sergeant, March or April, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, September 3, 1863; transfer revoked, December 4, 1863, and returned to his unit as a private; continued to reside in Swansboro, after the war, and is shown residing there, in 1880, as a fisherman. [NCT 1, 118; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Joseph Heaffey (first name also shown as John; surname also shown as Heaffry), enlisted for three years or the war, as ordinary seaman, in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Huntress, at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 8, 1862; received a bonus of $50 at enlistment; deserted from the vessel about August, 1862, but was apprehended by Charleston policeman lieutenant Caldwell, and returned aboard on September 1, 1862; lieutenant Caldwell received a reward of $10; deserted, again, about October, 1862, and was apprehended by policeman McDowell, and returned to the vessel on October 7, 1862, for which McDowell received a reward of $10; Heaffrey later served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 164 and 747; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 141 and 143.]

Edward Redmore Heald, born England, 1823 (christened September 1823, at Hull, East Yorkshire, England); son of Charles Heald and Sophia Redmore; married Emma Postill, August 14, 1842, at Hull, England; occupation at the time of this first marriage shown as shipwright; served as carpenter aboard the Confederate States Navy cruiser, CSS Rappahannock, Calais, France, May, 1864; second marriage to Mary Ann Clone (?), at Calais, France, 1864; shown as residing at Wigan, Lancashire, England, as a shipwright, with wife Mary and four children, in 1881 British Census; migrated, with his wife, Mary, to Australia, in August, 1891, aboard the Oruba (his two sons, George and Thomas, had already arrived in Victoria, aboard the Lusitania, in April, 1889; family resided at Echuca, Victoria; Edward may have applied for a Victorian government pension (as indicated in his obituary); died January 16, 1911, at Echuca, Victoria, Australia; buried at Echuca Cemetery. [Len Traynor, of Sydney, New South Wales, Australia provided original basic data of service; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; Latter Day Saints Ancestral File and British Census (at http://www.familysearch.org); marriage certificate of Edward Redmore Heald and Emma Postill dated 1842; death certificate of Edward Redmore Heald, 1911.]

Francis T. Healy, seaman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]

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


M.J. Healy, 2nd class fireman, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

M.J. Healy, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

David Hean, served 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.]

David Heans (surname also shown as Hean and Heane), born Dundee, Scotland, about 1823; citizen of America for some time; served as seaman and purser's steward, CSS Arctic, 1862 - 1863; deserted but was apprehended and returned aboard on May 28, 1863; died at the General Hospital in Wilmington, North Carolina, July 30, 1863 (a Naval document indicates that he died in August, 1863). [ORN 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 276; Fayetteville Observer (North Carolina) dated Monday, August 3, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 130; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 456.]

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

Harry H. Heard, 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.]

David Hearn (surname also shown as Hearne), served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, 1862; rated as ordinary seaman from June 1, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 299; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 123 - 124.]

William Hearn, Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1864; born Liverpool, England. [William Marvel.]

William A. Hearn, CSS Patrick Henry; named as being the best friend of George Weber, another sailor on the same vessel; may be the same person listed in the next entry. [Weber.]

William A. Hearn (surname also shown as Hearne), mentioned as being the clerk to paymaster James K. Harwood, at Richmond, Virginia, in January, 1864; appointed from Arkansas, as Assistant Paymaster, Confederate States Navy; paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865; see previous entry. [ORN 1, 27, 231; JCC 4, 176; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XA - Accounting and finance, Miscellaneous, page 543.]

David Hearne, seaman, 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. [ORN 2, 1, 282; DANFS.]

James Hearsman, recruited as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous, Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 445.]

Joseph Heasalton, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Robert Heath, born North Carolina, 1828; served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Greene County, North Carolina; resided as a laborer, in 1880, at Bull Head, Greene county. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Thomas Heath, born England; pre-war occupation, blacksmith; enlisted at Greene County, North Carolina, March 17, 1864, aged 25, in the Confederate States Navy; name is crossed out in the CSN Shipping Articles (possibly because of desertion or non-appearance). [CSN Shipping Articles.]

Amaziah R. Heaton (first name also shown as Amosa and Ameriah; surname also incorrectly shown, in one source, as Hilton), born South Carolina, March, 1848; served in the Confederate States Navy, on the Savannah station, 1863; served as ordinary seaman on the CSS Resolute, and later attached to the floating battery, CSS Georgia; surveyed by a medical board, at the Naval hospital, in Savannah, on August 17, 1863, and declared as being unfit for the service; discharged from the service on August 18, 1863; married in 1870; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Sarah E. Heaton, and five children (eldest child born 1869), at Town, Hart County, Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Hart County, Georgia; still living in Hart County, in 1920. [GA Pension Index 452; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1920 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MX - Medical Surveys and Examinations of Individuals; B - Miscellaneous, pages 11-12; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 375.]

Samuel Heaton, Officer's Steward, CSS Arkansas, killed in action, July 22, 1862. [ORN 1, 19, 70.]

Samuel C. Heaton, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS General Polk, in 1861-1862; rated as ship's cook from October 20, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 471 and 479-480; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-59.]


Teddy Heay, served as 1st class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 69.]

John W. Hebb, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy; captured on November 8, 1863, on the Eastern Shore, Maryland, accused of recruiting for the Confederate States Navy, within Federal lines and gathering and secreting arms for privateers; appointment revoked December 7, 1863; escaped from Fort McHenry, December 26, 1863. [CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

J.F. Hebbard, served aboard the CSS Firefly, from which he deserted, July 10, 1864; a reward if $60 was offered for information that would lead to his apprehension, and delivery to the commanding officer of the CSS Savannah, at Savannah, Georgia. [Daily Morning News (Savannah) dated Wednesday, July 13, 1864.]

Samuel F. Hebbard, born Georgia, 1826; resided as the captain of a steamer, in 1850, at Chatham County, Georgia; appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at Savannah, on December 15, 1863; served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), 1863; also commanded the side wheeled steamer CSS Sampson, Savannah, Georgia, 1863; ordered to assume command of the CSS Firefly, Savannah squadron, February 15, 1864; temporarily relinquished command, May, 1864, due to ill health; relieved of command of the CSS Firefly, July 11, 1864; transferred, in 1864, to the Wilmington station; resided as a pilot, in 1880, with his wife, Anna, and five children, at Darien, McIntosh County, Georgia. [ORN 1, 15, 712, 737 & 752 and 2, 1, 289 & 303; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, N - Personnel, NN - Acceptances, applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances - appointments of officers (A-K), page 20; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005.]

Andrew Hebden, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

Anton Hebert, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 679.]

Daniel Hederman, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; listed his next of kin as Mary Hederman. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1005.]

Joseph S. Hedgepeth (surname also shown as Hedgepath), resided as a farmer in Edgecombe County, North Carolina; enlisted there, May 8, 1861, aged 18, as private, company G, 13th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 20, 1862; served as landsman aboard the CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [NCT 5, 350; ORN 2, 1, 309; M1091.]

Samuel Hedrick, see Samuel Hendrick.

Thomas Hedricks, born North Carolina, 1808; resided as a carpenter, in 1850, with his wife, Margaret, and five children, at Edenton district, Chowan County, North Carolina; enlisted at Chowan County, February 15, 1862, as private, company F, 11th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 1, 1864. [NCT 5, 61; 1850 U.S. Census.]

George Heenan, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862, and aboard the CSS Pamlico from October 15, 1861; arrested as a deserter, by New Orleans police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 28, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 54, 108 and 268; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 432.]

Stephen Heflin (surname also incorrectly shown as Heffron), recruited as landsman at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864, and served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 955 and 1234.]

Wallace Heflin, born Virginia, 1833; son of Thomas and Philadelphia Heflin; resided as a farmer, with his parents and siblings, in 1850, at Stafford County, Virginia; served as landsman on the side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; later served, in 1864, as quartermaster aboard the CSS Nansemond. [ORN 2, 1, 303; 1850 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1223.]

William Heflin, 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.]

Fritz Hegere, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Lady Davis, and was involved in the capture of the prize A.B. Thompson, on May 19, 1861; received the sum of $85.63 as his share in the capture of that vessel. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, page 2.]

William Heideman, original service as private, captain Jones' Company, Texas Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, service in the 1st Texas Heavy Artillery). [Civil War Service Records.]

Henry Heine (surname also shown as Hines and as Hyner), born New Orleans, about 1850; served as 1st class boy aboard the CSS Webb, Red River, April, 1865; remained aboard the vessel in her final moments, and was rescued by the USS Hollyhock; captured and sent aboard the USS Lackawanna, and then the USS Florida, as prisoner of war, on the same day; sent to Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received May 20, 1865; released June 13, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 157, 167 & 170; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 245 - 247, where a clipping from the Galveston newspaper Daily News, dated September 17, 1893, describing the final account of the CSS Webb, down the Mississippi, is related.]

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

J.H. Heitzel, served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Army, as a deserted, about August, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 149.]

Fred. Heizel, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard the gunboat General Sterling Price. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 679.]

Charles J. Helm, Navy agent at Havana, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (January - June, 1864), page 767.]

Louis Helmock; Union Prisoner of War Records show him as being a member of the 28th (Thomas') Louisiana Infantry; captured December 28, 1862, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, and sent to Camp Douglas, Illinois, February 8, 1863; paroled, April 3, 1863, and sent to City Point, Virginia, April 10, 1863; a notation also indicates service in the Confederate States Navy. [Booth 2, 261.]

John Helms born November 7, 1837, Union County, North Carolina; worked at the Army Gun Shop, James Town, North Carolina; then enlisted at Raleigh, North Carolina, in August or September, 1863, as ordinary seaman on the CSS Arctic (under captain C.B. Poindexter); was on sick furlough at home in Monroe, North Carolina, when the war ended; resided in Florida since December, 1872; died on November 3, 1920, and is buried at the Good Hope Cemetery, Bunnell, Flagler County, Florida. [John E. Ellis; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A06116; ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Lewellen D. Helms, born North Carolina, 1838; son of Green B., and Nelly Helms; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Union County, North Carolina; married Mary Ann Bass at Union County, November 10, 1854; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Union County, April 8, 1862, as private, company I, 53rd Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 18, 1864. [NCT 13, 154; 1850 U.S. Census; North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741 - 2000 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

John Hembree (or Hembry; surname also shown as Hembee and Himbrey), born South Carolina, 1844; enlisted as private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, on April 10, 1863, receiving a bounty of $50; transferred from CSS Savannah to Richmond, Virginia, date unknown (rank aboard the CSS Savannah shown as corporal); married November, 1865; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife, Ema J. Hembree, and married daughter, Elizabeth (born 1867; wife of John C. Sullivan), at Fork, Anderson County, South Carolina; wife, Emaline J. Hembree, applied for a Confederate widow's pension, from Townville, Anderson County, South Carolina, in 1919, after the death of her husband in October 20, 1917. [South Carolina Confederate pension series S126088, item no. 00864, at "South Carolina Department of Archives and History: ON-LINE RECORDS INDEX," URL: http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/; ORN 2, 1, 305, 315 & 316; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 677.]

James Heming, Landsman, CSS Alert, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]

Benjamin Hemming, served as ordinary seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; deserted about August, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 151.]

James A. Hemphill, born, South Carolina, August 12, 1828; previous service, company G, 13th Arkansas Miliia; private, Dunnington's company, CSS Arkansas; married Sarah (surname not listed), of South Carolina, and later, Martha A. Clements; died July 30, 1889; buried Bethel Cemetery, Pulaski County, Arkansas (Hemphill may have, in fact, been in the Confederate Army, and not the Navy, details, when known, will be confirmed). [Information from the publication, "Confederate Soldiers Buried in Arkansas," no publication details, and sent by e-mail, from Alan, August 14, 2003, through the Civil War Navies Message Board.]

George Henan, born Ireland or Quebec, Canada; aged 28 or 30; landsman, CSS Pamlico, 1862. [St. Philip.]

Eugene Henderson, Paymaster's Clerk, resident of Tuskegee, Alabama; killed in boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; buried at the First United Methodist Church cemetery, Chattahoochee, Florida (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 17, 869; John E. Ellis]

Eugene T. Henderson, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 309.]

Frank Henderson, first class boy, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

J.J. Henderson, appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at Salisbury, North Carolina, November 2, 1861; served aboard the CSS Sea Bird; wounded in action, Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February 10, 1862; captured and paroled; resigned November 14, 1862. [ORN 1, 6, 596; Register1862; Scharf 392; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 548.]

Jackson B. Henderson, resided in, and enlisted at Caldwell County, North Carolina, July 26, 1861, aged 30, as sergeant, company I, 26th Regiment North Carolina Troops; wounded and captured at or near Gettysburg, Pennsylvania sometime between July 1 and 5, 1863; confined at Davids Island, New York Harbor; received at City Point, Virginia, September 16, 1863, for exchange; reduced to private at an unspecified date; transferred to the Confederate States Navy sometime in January or February, 1864. [NCT 7, 579.]

James Henderson, Second Class Boy, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

James L. Henderson, born and appointed from Virginia; previously served in the United States Navy, from June 1, 1828; appointed commander in the Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861; served at the Yorktown battery, Virginia, 1861, and on the Richmond station, 1862 - 1864; served with the Confederate States Army, 1863. [Register1863; ORN 1, 6, 724 and 2, 1, 321.]

James M. Henderson, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 10, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

Jones S. Henderson, enlisted at Beaufort County, North Carolina, July 15, 1861, aged 20, as private, company G, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Cavalry; wounded in action at Pollocksville, North Carolina, May, 1862, and again at Brandy Station, Virginia, June 9, 1863; transferred as private, to company E, 4th Regiment North Carolina State Troops, January 16, 1864; transferred, again, April 5, 1864, to the Confederate States Navy. [NCT 2, 153 & 4, 60.]

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

Nathaniel P. Henderson (middle initial also shown as K.), appointed from Florida, in the Confederate States Navy; appointed assistant surgeon, February, 1864; served on the CSS Chicora, 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; ordered, on September 27, 1864, to accompany 2nd lieutenant A. S. Berry, of the Confederate States Marine Corps, on recruiting duties at the conscript camps at Raleigh, North Carolina, and Columbia, South Carolina. [Florida Confederate Card File; JCC 4, 123; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 155.]

Richard H. Henderson, born District of Columbia; appointed from Virginia; served as an officer in a battery of the Confederate Army, at Pensacola, in 1861; applied for the position of 1st lieutenant in the Confederate Army on September 18, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Marine Corps, as 1st lieutenant, April 16, 1861; served on the CSS Patrick Henry, 1861; served aboard the CSS Arctic and the CSS Raleigh, 1863 - 1864; later served at Drewry's Bluff, James River squadron, 1864, and aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 275, 301 & 315; Scharf, 193; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 679; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 171.]

T.S. Henderson, served as landsman, Confederate States Navy; attached as 1st sergeant to company C, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

George Hendrick, served as seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, Alabama, 1862; discharged by medical survey, October 29, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MX - Medical Surveys and Examinations of Individuals; B - Miscellaneous, page 10.]

J. Hendrick, served in the Confederate States Navy, Mobile Squadron, 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and paroled the next day. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 646.]

Samuel Hendrick (surname also shown as Hedrick), served as private, company F, Confederate Naval Battalion (?); died as a prisoner of war, of chronic diarrhoea, on June 20, 1865, and buried at the Prisoner of War Grave Yard, Point Lookout, Maryland. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 131-132.]

James Hendricks, 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.]

Thomas J. Hendricks, born North Carolina, February, 1841; son of Jonah and Mary Hendricks; resided, in 1850, with his parents, at Up River district, Perquimans County, North Carolina; served as ordinary seaman on the CSS North Carolina and CSS Tallahassee, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865; married in 1868; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Perquimans County; resided as a farmer, in 1900, with his wife, Mary, at Belvidere precinct, Perquimans County; died Perquimans County, May 20, 1916. [ORN 2, 1, 294-296 and 307; NC State Archives; 1850 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; North Carolina Death Collection, 1908 - 1996 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]

James Hendry, served as quartermaster aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, 1863; a list of "boarders" of the cruiser shows Hendry in the position of handspikeman at the 1st gun division. [Alabama Claims 1, 694; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

Pat. Henecy, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 679.]

Edward Heney (surname may have actually been Henry), original service as private, company H, 1st (McCreary's) South Carolina Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

---- Hengland, see John Hagland.

John Henley, original service as private, company F, 8th Texas Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

John Henley, appointed surgeon aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Earl Van Dorn, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on March 25, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

John L. Henley, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on January 20, 1862, and was ordered to report to lieutenant commanding W. Gwathmey, on board the Confederate States steamer Trent, for duty; later served at the Jackson station, 1862; also served on the CSS Carondelet, New Orleans station, Louisiana, 1862 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate States Navy subject file - N - NF - Distributions and transfers; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 550.]

N.L. Henley, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 279.]

John Hennessey, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 28, as private, company D, 10th Louisiana Infantry; captured at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1863; sent to Fort Delaware, Delaware, July 7, 1863; deserted his regiment and joined the Confederate States Navy [Another notation indicates that he entered the service of the United States, August 30, 1863.] [Booth 2, 270.]

John Hennessey, coal heaver, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Matthew Hennessy, born Ireland; ordinary seaman; aged 25; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268; Atlanta Medical Journal, see entry for Thursday, January 15, 1863.]

Peter Henney, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama; born Liverpool, England; deserted at Bahia, Brazil, May 17, 1863. [William Marvel.]

Thomas Henney, ordinary seaman, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), sometime between January, 1863 and September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS.]

John Hennighan, served as fireman aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, 1862; deserted from the vessel on August 14, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 443.]

A.B. Henning, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Charles Henning, captured from aboard the American bark, Delphine, December 29, 1864, and shipped aboard the CSS Shenandoah. [Whittle 98 and note 2.]

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

William Henning, rated, from September 5, 1863, as officer's cook aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1863; paid off and discharged from the service on September 22, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 524.]

Jacob Hennson, see Jacob Hansen.

Peter Henrietta, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, 1862; rated as carpenter's mate from February 2, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 123 - 124 and 340.]

Archibald Henry, served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863-1864; died April 14, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 134.]

D. Henry, served in the Confederate States Navy; died December 24, 1864; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

David Henry, born Pennsylvania; crew member of the CSS Bombshell; captured aboard the vessel during the engagement at Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, May 5, 1864, and transferred, the same day, from the USS Ceres to the USS Sassacus, then to the steamer Lockwood, on May 10, 1864, for transportation to a prisoner of war facility. [ORN 1, 9, 746; deck log entries of the USS Sassacus dated May 5, 1864 and May 10, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 38.]

Edward Henry, see Edward Heney.

John Henry, served as gunner's mate aboard the CSS Nansemond in 1864; attached as private to company C, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1223.]

John Henry, born Germany, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 19, 1861, aged 40, as private, company D, 8th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Booth 2, 274.]

John Henry, quarter gunner, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313.]

John F. Henry, seaman; 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. [ORN 1, 12, 42.]

John T. Henry, originally served in company B, 21st Louisiana Volunteers; transferred from lieutenant general Polk's Army at Brandon, Mississippi, to the Confederate States Navy, by special order no. 309, Adjutant and Inspector General's office, dated at Richmond, Virginia, December 30, 1863, and ordered to report to flag officer William F. Lynch, at Wilmington, North Carolina; sent on to report to admiral Franklin Buchanan's command at Mobile, Alabama, by another order dated at Richmond, on January 7, 1864. [Confederate States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers.]

Samuel Henry, 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. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 72.]

Thomas Henry, 1st class fireman, CSS St. Philip and CSS McRae, age shown variously as 24, 25, or 27, born Ireland, admitted to Charity Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana, on November 3, 1861, with syphilis; continued to served on the New Orleans station in 1862. [From the "Register of Naval Patients in the Charity Hospital at New Orleans, La., 1861", original copy at the University of Virginia Library, and used with their kind permission; St. Philip; ORN 2, 1, 290; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 115.]

William Henry, see James King.

William C. Henry, originally served as private, Craney Island Artillery, company I, 9th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 18th, 1862. [Norfolk County Record 91.]

G. M. Henshaw, coal heaver, 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 554.]

Meton Henshaw, coal heaver, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged (see next entry, which may be the same person). [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 554.]

Milton Henshaw, born North Carolina, about 1842; resident of North Carolina, before enlistment; marital status shown as single; served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, 1864; died as a prisoner of war, of remittent fever, on November 7, 1864, at the ST. Louis Military Hospital, New Orleans; buried on November 8, 1864, at the Monument National Cemetery, Chalmette (New Orleans), Louisiana (see previous entry, which may be the same person); next of kin listed as Zebedee Henshaw of New Salem, North Carolina. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 136; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 24.]

John Henslee, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Resolute, in 1863, and was transferred to the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, on June 12, 1863; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863, and served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 779; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 373.]

N. J. Henthorn, appointed second officer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Beauregard, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, February 6, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

Thomas E. Henthorne, appointed first officer aboard the Confederate States ram General Sterling Price, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 2, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

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

John Herard, original service as private, company H, 3rd Missouri Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see also, service in Clark Battery and 4th Division, Missouri State Guard). [Civil War Service Records.]

Charles Herbert, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 60-61.]

William Herd, born Illinois, resided in Alexandria, Louisiana; marital status, single; enlisted at New Orleans, August 2, 1861, aged 24, as private, company B, 1st (Nelligan's) Louisiana Infantry; discharged, January 29, 1862, by order of General Huger, as Herd had already entered the Confederate States Navy (another note indicates that he deserted, 1862, at Bunkers Hill, Virginia). [Booth 2, 281.]

Basil M. Heriot (first name also shown as Basel; surname also shown as Herriot), born Charleston, South Carolina, about 1840; son of notary public William B. Herriot and his wife, Katherine; resided as a book keeper, with his parents and siblings, at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860; previous service in the United States Navy Department, as Navy agent, from which he resigned December 31, 1860; served on detached service in the assistant adjutant general's office (at Charleston?), from March 24, 1862 to July 7, 1862; later assistant paymaster, Confederate States Navy; served on the Charleston station, 1862 [may have served, at this time, as paymaster's clerk, as ORN 2, 1, 317, shows his rating as cl. (?)]; served aboard the CSS Arctic, 1863; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; post war occupation as a merchant at Charleston; died of consumption, at Charleston, on March 21, 1874; buried at the Magnolia Cemetery, Charleston. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 2, 1, 275 & 317; 36th Congress Report 24; JCC 4, 122.] [Civil War Service Records, Confederate Records, Miscellaneous, Heriot, B.M., page 2; South Carolina Death Records, 1821-1955 at Ancestry.com.]

Benjamin G. Heriot, in charge of the Confederate States Navy Depot, Charleston, 1862 [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 1062.]

Edward Hern, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 679.]

Francis Hernandez, pilot, served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 323.]

Thomas L. Hernandez, born Fernandina, Florida, November, 1823 (one source shows date of birth as November 15, 1821); enlisted August 6, 1861, as private in Captain Gordon's Company, 1st (Olmstead"s) Georgia Infantry; transferred to company C, 13th Battalion Georgia Infantry; appointed corporal, July or August, 1862; transferred to company B, 63rd Regiment Georgia Infantry, December, 1862; then to company D, 63rd Regiment Georgia Infantry, December 4, 1862, and reduced to private; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 1, 1864; although the dates conflict, he was obviously the same person who served as chief pilot on the CSS Atlanta, and was wounded and captured aboard that vessel, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, July 28, 1863; paroled September 28, 1864; exchanged at Cox's Wharf, Virginia, October 18, 1864, and sent to Richmond; returned to service at Savannah, and, on the fall of that city, was ordered to report to Augusta, Georgia, December, 1864; married Jane Muse, 1864; in a dispatch sent by flag officer W.W. Hunter, dated at Augusta, Georgia, April 13, 1865, Hernandez is stated to be unfit to continue in his acting appointment in the Confederate States Navy, as he had, by then, overstayed his leave of absence; post war occupation as a pilot at Savannah Harbor, Georgia; was an acquaintance, since 1845, of Lewis Wiggins, also of the Confederate States Navy, who had served aboard the CSS Shenandoah; declared totally blind in 1895; shown, in 1900, to be earning an income on rental payments for his property ownership; died at Savannah, March 7, 1903; buried at the Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia 31401. [Georgia Rosters 6, 395; ORN 1, 14, 268 and 1, 16, 493; CSN Register; Georgia Confederate Pension files for William W. Austin and Thomas L. Hernandez, Chatham County; Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; 1900 U.S. Census; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate States Navy subject files - NP.]

V. Hernandez, enlisted, for one year, as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South Carolina, on September 28, 1861; remarks column also notes, against the letter "R", the date of October 11, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228.]

J.R. Herndon, born Virginia; pre-war occupation, mariner; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, March 18, 1864, aged 29, at Forsyth County, North Carolina. [CSN Shipping Articles.]

James Heron, born Ireland, about 1836? (another entry shows his age as being 34, in 1863); served as seaman aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron; treated for a fever on Wednesday, August 20, 1862; treated, on Thursday, April 16, 1863, for synovitis of the knee, after he had hurt it two nights before; treated again, for synovitis of the right knee joint on Wednesday, July 29, 1863; treated for a fever on Thursday, August 20, 1863, and again, for the same condition on Monday, August 24, 1863. [CSS Gaines Medical Journal.]

William Heron, appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on November 5, 1861; reported for duty aboard the CSS Red Rover, November 6, 1861; served on the Jackson station, 1862; honourably discharged from the Naval service, "there being no duty to assign him", on April 19, 1862. [ORN 1, 22, 800 and 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 552; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 912.]

William Heron, landsman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Edward Peter Herpin, born in Greensboro, Alabama, July 29, 1830; resided in Mobile, Alabama, since about 1834, and shown as a merchant there, in 1860; appointed paymaster's clerk, Confederate States Navy; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; resided as a dry goods merchant, in 1870, with his wife, Mary, and children, at Mobile; member of the Lee Association, and the "Can't Get Away Club"; lifelong member of the Catholic Church; died at the Providence Infirmary, Mobile, Alabama, March 24, 1894; survived by eight daughters and two sons. [CSN Register; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated March 24, 1894, page 8.]

Stephen Solon Herrick, born Mississippi (Appletons shows place of birth as West Randolph, Vermont), December 11, 1833; graduated from Dartmouth college, 1854; taught in Kentucky and Mississippi, prior to the Civil War; studied medicine and graduated at University of Louisiana, 1861; previous service in the Confederate Army; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon for the war, November 21, 1862; served on the Mobile station, 1862 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; practised medicine, post war, at New Orleans; married Julia Cowand, 1867; published several treatises on the medical profession; also later served as secretary of the State Board of Health, Louisiana. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Register1863; JCC 4, 123; Appletons 3, 187 - 188; 1880 U.S. Census; see also Cowand Genealogy web site, at URL: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~mcclell2/homepage/david/cowand.htm; Porter's Naval History, 785.]

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

Benjamin Simms Herring, born Duplin County, North Carolina, March 4, 1837 (the medical journal of the CSS Gaines notes his birth state as South Carolina); son of Bryan Whitfield and Penelope Herring; brother of Confederate Navy officer, Robert S. Herring, listed below; studied at the University of Mississippi; resided, as an engineer, with his parents and siblings, in June, 1860, at Duplin County, North Carolina; previous service in the United States Navy, from August 11, 1860; may have then served in the Virginia Navy, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, July 23, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862; appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer, November 29, 1861; served aboard the CSS Jamestown, 1861; served aboard the CSS Virginia, December 1, 1861 to May 12, 1862; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in March, 1862; assigned to the Naval Works at Columbus, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; served as engineer aboard the CSS Gaines, Mobile Squadron, 1863; treated for syphillis, and also a bubo in the right groin, on Monday, April 6th, 1863; transferred, on Saturday, April 18, 1863, to the hospital ashore at Mobile; promoted 1st assistant engineer, August 15, 1863; served aboard the CSS Webb, at Shreveport, Louisiana, in early 1864; later served on the CSS Tennessee, at Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863 - 1864; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; married Rosalie Reynolds (1880 U.S. Census shows her first name as Ruth) at Corinth, Mississippi, April 3, 1873; resided with his wife and three daughters (eldest daughter born Mississippi, 1874), at Precinct 13, Leon County, Florida; moved from Mississippi to Florida sometime between 1874 and 1876; died September 7, 1915, in Tallahassee, Florida. [ORN 1, 7, 48 & 2, 1, 308 & 321; Register1862; CSS Gaines Medical Journal; Register1863; Register1864; Porter's Naval History, 785; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A04942; Confederate Veteran 23 (November, 1915), 513; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (1864), page 162; Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 23 (1915), page 513; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 554.]

J.B. Herring, ordinary seaman, served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), 1863; also served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief; transferred as quartermaster on the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, on October 18, 1864, to Wilmington, North Carolina, on the orders of the Secretary of the Navy. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764 and 815; ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; DANFS.]

J.J. Herring, served as seaman aboard the CSS Arctic, 1863 (see next two entries, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

J.J. Herring, original service as private in Captain Mayham Ward's Company, South Carolina Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see previous entry, as well as next entry, which may be the same person). [Civil War Service Records.]

J.J. Herring, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865 (see previous two entries, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

J.T. Herring, Landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

John Herring, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (may be the same person listed in the next entry). [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

John Herring, carpenter's mate, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864 (may be the same person listed in the previous entry). [ORN 2, 1, 302; DANFS.]

Robert S. Herring, born North Carolina, November, 1841; son of Bryan W. and Penelope Herring; brother of Confederate States Navy officer, Benjamin Simms Herring, listed above; resided as a school student, with his parents and siblings, in June, 1860, at Duplin county, North Carolina; originally served as private in Captain William S. Devane's Independent Company, North Carolina Troops; transferred to company A, 61st Regiment North Carolina Troops, September, 1862; detached for duty with the Signal Corps in the Cape Fear District, September 12, 1862 through April 30, 1863; transferred, as private, to company F, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery, May 18, 1863; appointed 3rd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, August 1, 1863; served aboard the CSS Raleigh, CSS North Carolina, and the CSS Yadkin, Wilmington station, North Carolina, during 1863 - 1864; resided as a machinist, in 1900, with his wife, Jennie, and three children, at Water Valley, Yalobusha County, Mississippi. [NCT 1, 262 & 14, 657; ORN 1, 10, 767 and 2, 1, 296, 301, 313 & 323; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]

William B. Herrington, private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315.]

William M. Herrington, served in company C or K, 32nd Georgia Infantry Regiment, then transferred to the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Mary E. Herrington filed for a post war Confederate pension from Burke County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 462.]

D. A. Herron, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 27, 1861, as private, company C, 1st (Nelligan's) Louisiana Infantry; ordered by the Secretary of War, to proceed to Richmond, Virginia, May 27, 1861; discharged on Special Order of General Huger, about January or February, 1862, to join the Merrimac (CSS Virginia). [Booth 2, 288.]

William A. Herrone, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoners of war. [ORN 1, 21, 841.]

William Herrymand, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in January 1, 1861. [Soldiers of Florida, 49.]

Edward P. Herssend, paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785.]

J.B. Hershey, Ship's Cook, CSS Governor Moore, captured April, 1862, off Forts Jackson and St. Philips, Louisiana. [ORN 1, 18, 723.]

James W. Herty, born Georgia, 1837 or 1839; son of James and Frances Herty, of Milledgeville, Georgia; previous service in the United States Navy, as assistant surgeon, from November 30, 1859; served at the Portsmouth Navy Yard, Virginia, in 1860; Herty was actually serving aboard the USS San Jacinto, under the command of captain Charles Wilkes, at the time that vessel seized the Confederate Commissioners, Mason and Slidell, aboard the Trent, in November, 1861; dismissed from the United States Naval service, December 17, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant surgeon, February 10, 1862; served on the steamer CSS Richmond, James River, Virginia, 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; later served aboard the cruiser CSS Rappahannock, 1863 - 1864; appointed passed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; remained aboard the CSS Rappahannock, in August, 1864, after the majority of the officers and crew had been discharged or transferred, to look out for the public property on board; sent aboard the CSS Stonewall, January, 1865; resided as a physician, in 1870, with his wife, Frances, and two children, at Milledgeville, Baldwin County, Georgia. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 110; New York Herald Friday, May 12, 1865, page 1; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; ORN 1, 3, 701 & 730; ORA 2, 3; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 123; Callahan; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; New York Times dated Wednesday, November 26, 1861; 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.]

William Hervey, 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.]

Clinton Heslip (surname also shown as Heslep and Heslop), born Pennsylvania, 1810; married Elizabeth C. Allen, at Lauderdale County, Alabama, in 1833 or 1834; appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, from Alabama, on February 24, 1862; served aboard the CSS Red Rover, and, from May 1, 1862, aboard the CSS Polk; later served on the Mississippi River defences, and at the Jackson station, 1862; discharged on June 19, 1862, with the following notation in a dispatch from the Navy Department: "As the exigencies of the service which induced your appointment as acting master in the Navy of the Confederate States, no longer exist, the Department regrets to say that your services are no longer required"; resided as a steam boat captain, in 1870, at Lauderdale County, Alabama. [Ancestry.com; ORN 2, 1, 319; 1870 U.S. Census; CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 495; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 907.]

J.C. Hester, ordinary seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Joseph Goodwyn Hester, born Granville County, North Carolina, August 28, 1840 (other sources incorrectly show him as a native of Georgia or South Carolina); son of farmer Benjamin Hester, and his wife, Charity; served as master's mate, CSS Sumter, 1861 - 1862; murdered Acting Midshipman William Andrews, off Gibraltar, in October, 1862; because he was refused entry to the Confederate States, by Union blockading vessels, he was never charged for this crime; married at Columbia, South Carolina, June 18, 1864; captured July 8, 1864, as captain of the blockade runner, Pocahontas, off Charleston, South Carolina, and sent north as prisoner of war; in 1870, shown as an auctioneer, residing with his wife, Josephine, at Raleigh, North Carolina; applied for a United States passport on March 25, 1873; member of the Methodist Church; served as an agent of the Post Office, till November 30, 1874; employed, since December 1, 1874, by General Healy, in Alabama, as a deputy marshall and government detective, who was "waging a war on the Kuklux of North and South Carolina" (however, a newspaper report dated in October, 1874, shows him as already being a United States detective; at this particular trial, Hester came face to face with his former Confederate Navy commander, Raphael Semmes; Semmes described the incident on the CSS Sumter, to the reporter, as "a most foul and brutal murder"); described as "a young, handsome, brave and intelligent man" who was "rapidly achieving an enviable reputation…In the discharge of his duties he has made his name a terror to traitors and assassins"; resided as a real estate dealer, in 1880 - 1900, with his wife, Josephine, at Washington, D.C. [ORN 1, 1, 509 & 690 and 1, 15, 563 - 564 & 594; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; U.S. Passport Applications, 1795 - 1925 (from National Archives Microfilm Publication M1372) at the Ancestry.com web site; New York Times dated September 2, 1872; Georgia Weekly Telegraph and Georgia Journal & Messenger (Macon, Georgia) dated October 27, 1874; Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas) dated Saturday, March 27, 1875.]

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

---- Heugland, see John Hagland.

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

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

James Hewett, served as landsman and ordinary seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863-1864. [ORN 1, 2, 661; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 359-360.]

Joseph Hewett, appointed second assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat Stonewall Jackson, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on March 3, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]

William Hewitt, first class fireman, CSS Florida, 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.]

Henry C. Hewlett, shipped as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval Rendezvous at Raleigh, North Carolina, on March 21, 1864; later served as seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 407.]

George F. Hexter, original service as private, company H, (Turney's) Tennessee Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

August Heyer, born Norway; aged 35; seaman, CSS Livingstone, 1862. [St. Philip.]

Richard Heyward, captain's steward, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]

M. C. Hibler, recruited into the Confederate States Navy, at Macon, Georgia, in June, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 975.]

Daniel Hickey, original service as private, company K, 1st (McCreary's) South Carolina Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

David Hickey, coal heaver, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

John Hickey, served as seaman and ordinary seaman Launch No. 1, and Launch No. 5, New Orleans station, 1861. [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 41 and 45.]

John Hickey, served as 1st class boy aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; listed his next of kin as Maria Riley. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1005.]

John Hickey, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

John Hickey, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; transferred, on January 28, 1864, aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina; also served on the Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294, 296, 297, 310 & 315; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 212.]

M. Hickey, ordinary seaman, side-wheeled gunboat CSS Selma, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 306.]

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

William Hickey, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861; served as seaman, side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain, Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 286 & 306; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422.]

Charles Carroll Hicks, born in Columbus, Georgia, about 1827; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, and served aboard a blockade runner; after the war he went to Italy and served as an officer under Garibaldi, receiving a colonel's commission in that service; after many years of wandering throughout Europe, he returned to America, and his friends placed him in a home; died Tuesday, November, 1906, at the Old Men's Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; buried at Greenwood Cemetery, New York. [Washington Herald (D.C.) dated December 1, 1906.]

James Hicks, born in Hampton, Virginia, June 14, 1805; listed as being a Captain in the Confederate States Navy, but this is not borne out in official documents; died in Mathews County, Virginia, September 5, 1872; buried at St. John's Episcopal Church Cemetery, Hampton, Virginia. [Confederate Burials, 5.]

James M. Hicks, born Mississippi; original entry into Confederate States Navy, August 31, 1863; commissioned assistant surgeon for the war, January 7, 1864, to rank from August 31, 1863; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served on the Mobile squadron, 1863 - 1864, and was attached to the Confederate States Naval Hospital at Mobile, later in 1864; Wilmington station, 1864; captured at Fort Fisher, North Carolina, January 15, 1865; transferred to City Point, Virginia, for exchange, February 25, 1865. [CSN Register; JCC 4, 123; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NK- Technical and Professional examinations of individuals; Miscellaneous, page 45.]

Joseph Hicks, First Class Fireman, resident of Georgia; killed in boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; buried at the First United Methodist Church cemetery, Chattahoochee, Florida. [ORN 1, 17, 869; John E. Ellis]

R. Hicks, served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, in 1863, and aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1232.]

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

William Anderson Hicks, born Mississippi, 1843; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman; later served as midshipman aboard the CSS Sumter, 1861; ordered by his commander, Raphael Semmes, in July, 1861, to take charge of the prize bark Joseph Maxwell, and proceed to a port in Cuba, for adjudication, by an agent of the Confederate States, in that port, and then to proceed to the Confederate States and report to the Secretary of the Navy, for further orders; captured, while in command of the prize vessel, and sent as a prisoner of war, to New York; appointed acting master in the line of promotion on September 24, 1861; later served as lieutenant on the Jackson station, 1862; awaiting orders, February 8, 1862 to March 26, 1862; Hicks had been appointed lieutenant for the war, at Vicksburg, Mississippi, on February 8, 1862; attached to the gunboat CSS Arkansas, March 27, 1862, and died on the steamer CSS Capitol, at Yazoo City, Mississippi, on April 29, 1862; after his death, his mother, Mrs. Martha M. Hicks, made claims for his back pay. [1860 U.S. Census; ORN 1, 1, 614 & 625; 1, 16, 738 and 2, 1, 318; ORA 2, 3; CSS Sumter Muster Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 137-139; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), pages 556 and 557.]

John Hiddle, see John Smith, engineer.

Joseph Higgin, paymaster's clerk; attempted to seize steamer, Salvador, running from Panama to the port of San Francisco; captured by the USS Lancaster, November, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 302 & 355.]

John Higgins, born Ireland, resided in New Orleans, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June, 1861, aged 35, as private, company C, 7th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy about January or February, 1864. [Booth 2, 301.]

John Francis Higgins, sr., born St. Mary's Maryland, June 1, 1842; originally served as private, company F, 9th Virginia Infantry; transferred t the Confederate States Navy, February 19, 1862, and served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; involved in the battle at Hampton Roads, March, 1862, against the USS Monitor; after the destruction of the CSS Virginia, May, 1862, Higgins was assigned to other duties, and lost a leg, which incapacitated from further service; wife was Mary F. Higgins; John died December 19, 1924; buried at Mount Zion Christian Church Cemetery, Crittenden, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Nansemond.]

Henry Higgins, Ordinary Seaman, later reduced to Landsman; shipped aboard CSS Alabama, December 24, 1863, at Singapore; born Liverpool, England; captured in the engagement with the USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

John Higgins, enlisted for the war, in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 31, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 168.]

John Higgins, a resident of Maryland or Louisiana; stated to have served in the Confederate States Navy; died in Louisiana, prior to 1916. [Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 24 (1916), page 94.]

Robert Higgins, indicated to have served in the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 679.]

Samuel Higgins, Coal Heaver, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Thomas Higgins, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia; served 1862 - 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 297; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 615.]

James Higgs, native of Southampton, England (another source shows Liverpool); joined the CSS Alabama from the commencement of her cruise, in 1862; Captain of the forecastle, port watch, later reduced to Seaman; captured off Cherbourg, France, on June 19, 1864, in the engagement with the USS Kearsarge, and paroled. [William Marvel; sworn affidavit, by James Higgs, dated September 8, 1864, at London, copy of which is in the possession of this author.]

William B. High (surname also shown as Highe), born Florida, April, 1844; enlisted August 15, 1861, at Lowes Spring, Florida, in company C, 10th Florida Infantry; mustered in September 28, 1861, at Fernandina; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 14, 1864; sent from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Richmond station, and received aboard the CSS Hampton, James River squadron, on October 24, 1864; paroled at Appomattox, April, 1865, as a member of the Naval Brigade; married his first wife in 1865; resided with his first wife, Anne, at Suwannee County, Florida, and also at Lake Park, Lowdnes County, Georgia, during 1880 to 1900; second marriage to Eliza T. Jordan, July 23, 1905, at Pinetta, Madison County, Florida; post war occupation as farmer and preacher; died May 2, 1910, at Pinetta. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A02425; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 744.]

B.L. Hight, Ordinary Seaman, paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231.]

H.C. Hight (see also Henry Kight), Landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274.]

John Hilcox, Seaman; born England; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 1, 976.]

F. Hildebrandt (surname also shown as Hildebrand), recruited at Richmond, Virginia, by lieutenant Venable, on August 16, 1864, for service in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and served as a private in company A, at the Richmond station, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313; 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.]

Chares [Charles?] Hiler, second class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Thomas R. Hiley, Boatswain's Mate, CSS Sumter, 1861 (probably the same person, listed as Thomas Hiley, who served as quartermaster on the CSS Georgia in 1863). [CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Alabama Claims 1, 694.]

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

Andrew F. Hill, married Jane V. Snelling Hill, August 3, 1858, at Richland, Georgia; enlisted April 27, 1861, at Americus, Georgia, as 2nd Sergeant, Company K, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Sumter Light Guard); transferred to 1st Regiment Naval Brigade, April 5, 1864, as Yeoman and Acting Quartermaster Sergeant; attached to the CSS Beaufort, as landsman, in mid-1864, and had apparently applied for a transfer to the Savannah squadron, which application was rejected, in the interests of the service, June 24, 1864; served aboard CSS Virginia II, James River Squadron, 1864 - 1865; attached, as quartermaster sergeant, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; died at Confederate Soldier's Home, Atlanta, Georgia, July 19, 1914; may be buried at Richland. [Georgia Rosters 1, 632; M1091; ORN 2, 1, 311; additional information provided by Mr. Sam Snelling, Fort Myers, Florida, e-mail address: FSUSAM@AOL.COM; see also Florida Confederate Pension File for Jennie V. Snelling (A04888), available at Florida State Archives, Tallahassee, FL, and Rocker, W.R., "Marriages and Obituaries from the Macon (Ga) Messenger, 1818-1865", Easley, SC: Southern Historical Press, 1988 (page 507); Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 109.]

Caleb R. Hill, appointed, at Canton, Mississippi, as assistant paymaster in the Confederate States Navy, April 23, 1862. [Register1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 559.]

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

J. C. Hill, served as boatswain's mate 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.]

Jacob Hill, served as officer's cook aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863 - 1864; deserted about April, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 305; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 153.]

James Hill, shown to have been a deserter from the steamer CSS Raleigh, James River Squadron, 1862 - 1863; recaptured and sent to Castle Thunder, Richmond, Virginia, December 31, 1862. [From a news item in the Daily Richmond Examiner, Thursday, January 1, 1863, page 1, column 2, under the heading "Castle Thunder Items."]

James Hill, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 79.]

James Hill, served as 1st class fireman 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 14.]

James C. Hill, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, March 9, 1864; served at the Naval Works, Halifax, North Carolina, and aboard the CSS Albemarle, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 718 and 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 561.]

John Hill, Seaman; born Ireland; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 1, 975; ORN 1, 3, 783.]

John G. Hill, served as seaman at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1863, and aboard the CSS Roanoke, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XA - Accounting and finance, Miscellaneous, page 483; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 542.]

John Thomas Hill, previously served as Private and Sergeant Major, Company D, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, April 26, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, 1864; surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; died in Arkansas, 1895. [Georgia Rosters 1, 583.]

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

Lewis Rawlings Hill, born Virginia, 1838; son of R. and Anne E. Hill; resided as a sailor, in 1860, with his parents, at Richmond, Virginia; enlisted from Alabama, as seaman/master at arms, aboard the CSS Nashville, on September 28, 1861; recommended for promotion to master's mate by commander of vessel, Lieutenant R.B. Pegram, March, 1862; served at the Jackson station, and aboard the CSS Bienville, 1862, and also on the Charleston station, 1862; attempted, in July, 1862, to obtain a letter of marque to operate a privateer against Union shipping; ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah station, July, 1863; temporarily transferred back to the Charleston station, in September, 1863; promoted lieutenant for the war, January 7, 1864, to rank from June 29, 1863; served aboard the steamer CSS Torch, 1863 - 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; served aboard the CSS Richmond, James River squadron, 1865. [ORN 1, 1, 748; 1, 11, 691; 1, 12, 187; 1, 14, 724, 726 & 765 and 2, 1, 317, 319 & 401; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133; ADAH; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228.]

Phelix Hill (first name also shown as Phelin and Philix), served as landsman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief; deserted about November, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764; ORN 2, 1, 305; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 155.]

Reuben Lamar Hill, born October 15, 1837, Montgomery County, Alabama, or 1841, Wetumpka, Alabama (1900 U.S. Census shows year and place of birth as 1839, in Florida); enlisted April 4, 1861, at Apalachicola, Florida, in company B, First Florida Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, April 10, 1864; shown as a seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1864; also served on the CSS Columbia, and, after that vessel was wrecked at Charleston, South Carolina, he was sent to Fort Darien, near Drewry's Bluff, on the James River, Virginia, where he was captured and sent to Washington, D.C.; a Naval document shows that he had surrendered himself, as a member of the Confederate States Naval Battalion, after the fall of Richmond, aboard the Union vessel, USS Onondaga, on April 4, 1865; paroled at Washington at the end of the war; married Nancy Margaret Pearson, at Apalachicola, Florida, on November 28, 1866; post war occupation, tug boat captain and pilot; shown as a boarder at a hotel in Carrabelle, Franklin County, Florida, in 1900 (another boarder at the same hotel, was fellow Confederate sailor, John H. Shipke); occupation at this time was shown as engineer; died July 2, 1907, Franklin County, Florida, buried Magnolia Cemetery, Apalachicola. [ORN 1, 17, 700 and 2, 1, 283; Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 14; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A00222; some details of his naval career are also included in an affidavit included in the pension file of fellow crew member, George Edward Sharitt, Florida Confederate Pension File No. A00782 (see especially page 021); 1900 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 554.]

William Hill, served as seaman aboard the ironclad steam sloop, CSS Virginia II, James River squadron, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; served at Battery Brooke, James River, in October, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 805 and 2, 1, 311.]

William Hill, left London, England on January 16, 1864, for Brest, France, where he shipped aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 19, 1864, as coal heaver; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, for confinement; released February 1, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 256; Florida Medical Journal, see the list of personnel in the Engineer's Department, CSS Florida, dated at St. George's, Bermuda, June 27, 1864; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 351.]

William Hill, landsman, CSS Atlanta, 1862; aged 30. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Monday, December 8, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 275.]

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

William Hill, 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, 278 & 302.]

William Hill, seaman, CSS Beaufort; September, 1861 - April, 1862; vessel operated in North Carolina and Virginia waters. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]

William Hill, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, 1863; discharged, by order of flag officer W.W. Hunter, August 3, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 966.]

William Hillan, Captain Afterguard, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]

William Hilliard, Ordinary Seaman and Landsman, CSS Sumter, 1861; see also next entry. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

William Hilliard, served as seaman and ordinary seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864; captured October 7, 1864 (at Bahia, Brazil); received at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, November 11, 1864; released February 1, 1865; possibly the same person listed in the previous entry. [Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 357.]

Jeremiah L. Hilsman (surname also shown as Hilleman), enlisted, on April 10, 1863, as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps, and received a bounty of $50; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia; also shown as being stationed at Atlanta, Georgia, in August, 1863; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 677; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Richmond (provisions) - revenue marine, page 616.]

Cyrus Hilton, born North Carolina, June, 1843; served as landsman, CSS Yadkin, Wilmington station, North Carolina, 1864; married in 1871; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Jane, and son Mayfield (born 1870), at Thomasville, Davidson county, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Davidson County, North Carolina; still shown as a resident of Thomasville, in 1900; his widow, Jane Hilton, also later applied for a pension from the same county. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 313; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]

James F. Hilton, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 297.]

T. T. Himmelwright, served in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Winchester, Virginia, April 21, 1865 (a notation is made that "Frederick County written at bottom of sheet"). [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 660.]

Louis Hinckle, see Louis Hinkle.

Lawrence Hinds (first name also shown as Laurence), served as quartermaster aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, at Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1862, receiving a bounty of $50; later served as seaman aboard the ironclad CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron, 1864; wounded in action (in the left hand and forearm), James River, October 22, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 589 and 2, 1, 309; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 878.]

Frederick Hines, served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863; a list of "boarders" on the cruiser shows Hines in the position of sponger at the 3rd gun division. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 604.]

H. Hines, see Henry Heine.

J. Hines, CSN; died April 2, 1865; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks.]

J.C. Hines, previously stationed at a Confederate hospital at Shreveport, Louisiana; served as hospital steward aboard the CSS Webb, on the Red River; captured below New Orleans, Louisiana, April 24, 1865, and sent to the provost marshal's office at New Orleans, for interrogation by detective Allan Pinkerton. [ORN 1, 22, 152 - 154.]

William A. Hines (name also shown as W.H. Hinds), served as seaman aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia; later appointed acting master and pilot; served on the Confederate States Navy 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; also involved in the destruction of the schooner, Jane Duffield, on the Warwick River, Virginia, September 17, 1864, and in destroying the tugboat Lizzie Freeman, off Pagan Creek, Virginia, December, 1864; captured on the banks of the James River, near Chuckatuck, by an expeditionary force from the USS Powhatan, February 5, 1865. [ORN 1, 9, 604; 1, 12, 11 and 2, 1, 301; ORA 1, 42/1.]

Lewis Hinkle (first name also shown as Louis; surname also shown as Hinckle), born Germany, about 1834; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, May 28, 1861, and mustered in as sergeant, companies K, G and E, 1st (Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry, and served in the Army of Tennessee; was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 8, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as landsman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in July, 1864, as landsman to the CSS Macon, and later served as 2nd class fireman aboard the vessel, 1864 - 1865. [Booth 2, 316; CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 560.]

G.M. Hinshaw, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see also, Milton Hinslaw). [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Milton Hinslaw, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see also, G.M. Hinshaw). [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Addison Hinton, landsman, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 293.]

Gustavus A. Hinton, born Louisiana, about 1840; appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, January 10, 1861, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Livingston for duty; also served at the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 563.]

Stephen A. Hinton, appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, September 30, 1861; served aboard the CSS Seger, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862, and later at the Jackson station, 1862, and aboard the CSS St. Mary, Brashear, Louisiana, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 545 and 791; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (A - K), page 565.]

Lewis N. Hirshberg, recruited at Mobile, Alabama, by captain George P. Turner, into the Confederate States Marine Corps, May 3, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1047.]


C. Hirt, served as landsman on the CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 586.]

L.M. Hitchcock, indicated to have been a "gallant and useful member of the engineers' corps of the Naval department"; also shown as a Confederate marine captain; resided, in 1895, at Houston, Texas; buried at the Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Texas (the 1887 issue of the Galveston Daily News indicates that Hitchcock died before that date, and was buried at the Episcopal Cemetery, but the 1895 issue contradicts this by indicating he was still alive). [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1; Galveston Daily News (Houston, Texas) dated May 25, 1895, page 5.]

C. Hite, recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on July 31, 1863, as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 688.]

C.M. Hite, born Texas; appointed master not in line of promotion, December 18, 1863; special service, 1863 - 1864. [Texas in the War, 1861-1865, page 56; Register1864.]

Robert N. Hite, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

Charles Hizer, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 311.]

Horatio Hjort (surname also shown as Hjorth), previously served on board a Norwegian vessel, from which he deserted at the port of Havre, France, then joined the cruiser, CSS Florida, in early 1864, as seaman; rated coxswain on the cruiser on January 2, 1864; captured off Bahia, Brazil, October, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RV - Miscellaneous, page 81; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 359-360 and 390.]