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E.F. Labatut, ordinary seaman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863 - 1864; later served on CSS Georgia; returned
to the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864, after that vessel was raised; transferred, at an unspecified date, to
the Charleston station. [ORN 1, 17, 700 & 2, 1, 283, 286 & 306; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 716.]

John Laborde, served as 2nd class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page
75.]

Girolamo Lacama, served as seaman on the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 357.]

Patrick Lacy (surname also shown as Lacey), born Ireland, about 1829; enlisted at Camp Moore,
Louisiana, September 11, 1861, as private, 5th Company Battalion Washington Artillery of Louisiana, and
later as a private in company A, 13th Louisiana Infantry, Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval
lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 9, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as landsman aboard the
floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, on May 4, 1864, to the CSS Sampson,
Savannah squadron; later served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Macon, in 1865. [Booth 2, 610; CSS
Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 538-540; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 585.]

James E. Lacklison (surname also shown as Lachlison and Lochlinson), born Savannah, Georgia, 1841;
son of engineer James Lacklison, and his wife, Ann; previously served as private, company B, 8th
Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, May 21, 1861; appointed acting 3rd Assistant Engineer in the
Confederate States Navy, April 22, 1864; served aboard the CSS Isondiga, until transferred to CSS
Georgia, Savannah squadron, September 23, 1864; then to CSS Sampson, November 29, 1864, and CSS
Fredericksburg in 1865; resided as an engine builder, in 1870, at Savannah, Georgia. [Georgia Rosters 1,
929; ORN 1, 11, 691 and 2, 1, 286 & 289; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked commissions, page 2.]

Pierre Lackie, officers’ cook, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]

William M. Ladd, born Missouri; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant paymaster,
February 26, 1863; attached to the Confederate Naval Ordnance Works, Selma, Alabama, 1863 – 1864;
then aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, May, 1864; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June
2, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, Richmond station. [ORN 1, 10, 632 and 726;
Register1864; ADAH; JCC 4, 122.]

W. T. Lafavre, served as landsman on the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, about
1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 646.]

Lewis Lafoirre, recruited at Mobile, Alabama, by captain George P. Turner, into the Confederate States
Marine Corps, May 23, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1047.]

John Lain, enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, for the war, as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, on
April 27, 1864; sent aboard the receiving vessel CSS Danube; transferred to the CSS Morgan, at Mobile,
on May 13, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 1196 - 1199.]

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

John C. Lake, appointed 2nd assistant engineer aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1863-1864; tendered his
resignation on April 24, 1864, because of a medical affliction, which is indicated in the Florida Medical
Journal; Lake was considered, by the surgeon of the CSS Florida, Dr. Charlton, as totally unfit for duty;
Lake himself, in his resignation application, indicated that his health prevented him from performing
his duty in the heat of the engine room of the vessel; his resignation was accepted on April 28, 1864,
while the vessel was at St. Pierre, Martinique. [CSN Register; ORN 1, 2, 681 & 1, 3, 611; Florida Medical
Journal, entries dated March 27 and April 26, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L – Z) – Revoked
commissions, pages 1043 and 1044.]

Richard Lakeman, enlisted August 24, 1861, as Private in Company E, First Virginia Infantry; discharged,
April 19, 1862, to enlist in the Confederate Navy. [1st Virginia, 102]

Edward Lakin, born New York, 1833; resided as a tavern keeper, in 1860, with his wife, Frances (?), and
daughter, at Norfolk, Virginia; originally commissioned as lieutenant, in company D, 41st Virginia
Infantry Regiment, July 12, 1861 (Norfolk County Record 299 shows original service as 2nd lieutenant,
United Artillery, company A, 19th Virginia Battalion); detailed for service as captain of a gun aboard the
CSS Virginia, May 10, 1862; returned to his unit, November 15, 1862; later transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, and appointed 1st lieutenant in the Provisional Navy on July 26, 1864; served
aboard the CSS Albemarle, 1864; commanded CSS Drewry, 1864; ordered to report to the office of
Orders and Detail, for further orders, June 19, 1864; later assigned to the steam torpedo boat
Scorpion, in January, 1865; wounded in action, James River, January 24, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 704; 1, 11, 664
& 688 and 2, 1, 274; American Civil War Soldiers database at the Ancestry.com web site; 1860 U.S.
Census; Norfolk County Record 299; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked
commissions, page 4.]

Andrew J. Lamb, previously served as Private, Company C, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry,
April 25, 1861; transferred as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, February 10, 1862; also
served at Charleston, Virginia, and Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, in 1864. [Georgia Rosters 1, 576; ORN 2, 1,
309.]

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

Isham Lamb, born North Carolina, 1846; son of Thomas and Winnie Lamb; resided with his parents and
siblings, in 1860, at Robeson County, North Carolina; served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape
Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; later enlisted as private in company B, 50th North Carolina Infantry
Regiment, September 1, 1864; married Marietta Carter at Robeson County, October 3, 1870. [ORN 2, 1,
278; 1860 U.S. Census; American Civil War Soldiers and North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741 – 2000
databases, at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Peter Lamb, served as coal heaver and 2nd class fireman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick
Henry, James River, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 301; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 495.]

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

W. W. Lamb, appointed captain aboard the Confederate States ram General Sumter, 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 265.]

William A. Lamb, first class boy, CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw
Sound, June 17, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275.]

William S. Lamb, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps aboard the CSS Tennessee,
1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; held as a prisoner of war aboard the USS Lackawanna, at
Mobile Bay, August 7, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, R – Prisoners and Prisons, RB – Prisoner
of War rolls.., A – A.W. Baker – U.S.S. Minnesota, page 463.]

Edgar L. Lambert, (JCC 4, 122 shows middle initial as A.), born Virginia, 1839; resided as a railroad
engineer, in 1860, at Rockingham county, Virginia; at the outbreak of war, in 1861, he served as aide de
camp on general Letcher’s staff, and was later made major of the 10th Virginia; severely wounded in
the Shenandoah campaign, and was invalided for eleven months; original entry into the Confederate
States Navy, September 6, 1863; promoted lieutenant for the war, January 7, 1864, to rank from
September 6, 1863; served at the Naval battery, Drewry’s Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1863 – 1864;
appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; later served at Mobile Bay,
aboard the CSS Selma, and later the CSS Gaines, 1864; later took command of the CSS Tuscaloosa;
after the war he served in Mexico, under Maximillan; later a prominent member in Alexandria,
Virginia; died at New Orleans, February 13, 1901; buried at Metairie Cemetery, Metairie, Louisiana.
[ORN 1, 21, 919 and 2, 1, 322; ORA 1, 39; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Young Sanders; 1860 U.S. Census;
Richmond Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated Tuesday, February 19, 1901, page 3.]

J. Lambert (first initial also shown as T.), served as landsman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington
station, 1864; deserted from the vessel on December 13, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 849;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ – Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 530.]

James Lambert, served at the Mobile station, 1863-1864, as a private in the Confederate States Marine
Corps; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R –
Prisoners and Prisons, RB – Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 554;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1061.]

John Lambert, served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863; transferred to the Army as a deserter, about August, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NZ – Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 189.]

Patrick Lambert, born about 1832; served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, aboard
the side wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, James River, Virginia, and at the Marine Camp near
Drewry’s Bluff, James River, Virginia, in 1862; personal description – 5 feet, 11 inches high, hazel eyes,
black hair, dark complexion; indicated to have deserted about July 30, 1862, and a reward of $30 was
offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine camp; later served in company C,
Confederate States Marine Corps, at Richmond, Virginia, 1864. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia)
dated July 30, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 290 & 315.]

W. C. Lambert, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, Mobile, Alabama, in 1863;
on November 16, 1863, the paymaster’s account at the Mobile Station shows that private Lambert’s
affects were sold for $2.05, indicating that he had either deserted, or been deceased. [Confederate
Navy subject file, V – Governmental relationships, VN – Naval policy, Miscellaneous, page 384;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1061.]

William A. Lamkin, born Richmond, Virginia, about 1846; previous service as a soldier in the
Confederate States Army; appointed an acting master’s mate in the Confederate States Navy on
February 13, 1864; served as executive officer aboard the Confederate States steamer Equator, in
early 1864; served aboard the CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; later served
aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, 1865; attached to Semmes’ Naval Brigade, for special service, April,
1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 767; 1, 12, 187
and 2, 1, 293, 295 & 296; M1091; Confederate Navy subject file, N – Personnel, NN – Acceptances,
applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances – appointments of officers (A-K), page 26; Confederate
Navy subject file, X – Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (1864), page 192.]
Monmouth Tare Lamoreux, born 1842; indicated to have served in the Confederate States Navy,
during the Civil War; died 1865; buried at Log Pile Cemetery, Ray, Ohio 45672. [U.S. Veterans
Gravesites, circa 1775 – 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Amos Lamphere (surname also shown as Lamphen), served as landsman aboard the ironclad ram CSS
Chicora, Charleston harbor, South Carolina, 1863 – 1864; also served aboard the CSS Patrick Henry and
the CSS Virginia II, James River squadron, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; attached as private to company A,
Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26,
1865. [ORN 1, 11, 794 and 2, 1, 284, 300 & 312; M1091.]

John Lanahan (surname also shown as Lanaghan), enlisted as landsman (rating is also shown as
ordinary seaman) aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, May 15, 1862; rated as captain’s steward
from May 16, 1862; discharged by medical survey, October 13, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file M
- Medical; MX – Medical Surveys and Examinations of Individuals; B - Miscellaneous, page 14;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and
Registers, page 108.]

John Lanahan, served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865, and was rated as 1st
class fireman from January 1, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 268.]

L.H. Lancaster (first initial also shown as S.), born Franklin County, North Carolina; enlisted in Franklin
County, March 2 or 21, 1864, aged 29, in the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman, CSS
Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NR – Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 407.]

W.F. Lancaster, [first name probably William, born 1840-41.] enlisted as a Private with Company D of
the Confederate States Marine Corps, which was organized in Mobile, Alabama. Captured at Blakely,
Ala. on April 9, 1865. Held as a prisoner of war at Ship Island, Mississippi. Exchanged to Vicksburg May
1, 1865. Surrendered at Citronelle, Ala. on May 4, 1865. Paroled at Meridian, Missississippi, May 9,
1865. [Information provided by Hayes Lowe, author of "Civil War Soldiers of Pickens County,
Alabama," e-mail address: HALOWE@finance.vpad.uab.edu]

Frank Lance (surname also shown as Lunce), appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy,
at New Orleans, on January 17, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Slidell for duty; also served
on the gunboat CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, 1862, and later at the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN
2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file, X – Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April,
1862 – December, 1863), page 115; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked
commissions, page 10.]

Henry G. Land, born Texas, 1839 (1860 U.S. Census shows state of birth as Virginia, and 1870 U.S.
Census shows state of birth as North Carolina); resided as a medical student, in 1860, at Princess Anne
County, Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, August 31, 1863; commissioned assistant
surgeon, January 7, 1864, to rank from August 31, 1863; served aboard the CSS Richmond, James River
squadron, Virginia, 1863 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; later
served on the CSS Savannah and CSS Macon, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1864-1865; resided as a
physician, in 1870, with his wife, Sarah, and two children, at Poplar Branch, Currituck County, North
Carolina. [Texas in the War, 1861-1865, page 57; ORN 1, 10, 671; JCC 4, 123; Register1864; CSS Macon
Rolls; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]

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

James M. Landford (first name also shown as John; surname also shown as Lanford and Landsford),
served as ordinary seaman (rating also shown as coal heaver) aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North
Carolina, and the CSS Tallahassee, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; also served aboard the CSS
Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865; attached
as private to company D, 1st Regiment, Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 294 – 296 and 307; DANFS; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse,
pages 270 – 271.]

Alexander Landree (surname also shown as Landry), served as 3rd class boy aboard the CSS
Ponchartrain, Louisiana, 1862; died prior to March 17, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file M -
Medical; MN – Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 332;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans – Yorktown, pages 123 - 124.]

William S. Landt, Confederate States Marine Corps; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and
exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R – Prisoners and Prisons, RB – Prisoner of War rolls..,
Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 554.]

Daniel Lane, born Ireland; coal heaver; aged 31; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound,
June 17, 1863; also served as coal heaver aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah
squadron, 1863, and was transferred to the Charleston station about August, 1863. [Atlanta Medical
Journal, see entry for Thursday, February 19, 1863; ORN1, 14, 268; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 519-523.].]

George Mitchell Lane, born Wilkes County, Georgia, March 2, 1828 (1900 U.S. Census shows year of
birth as 1838); son of Baptist clergyman Micajah A. Lane, and his wife, Lucinda; enlisted at Richmond,
Virginia, April 14, 1864, and served as private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps, 1864;
married Mary Frances Dunn, May 28, 1874; practicing physician in Lincoln County, Georgia, after the
war; died April 12, 1911; buried Double Branches Church Cemetery, Lincoln County, Georgia.
[Confederate Burials, 69; ORN 2, 1, 313; 1850 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps – Miscellaneous, page 303.]

James Lane, quarter gunner, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

James Lane, served as seaman aboard the CSS Mobile, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as
captain forecastle on January 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1037; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 85.]

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

Morris Lane, born Ireland; aged 22; coal heaver, CSS Ponchatrain; admitted to the hospital vessel, CSS
St. Philip, March 28, 1862, for a gunshot wound, and died sometime after this date (one source shows
date of death as March 9, 1862); documentation shows that he was wounded in action at New Madrid,
March 6, 1862, and died at Memphis; buried Soldier's Rest, Elmwood Cemetery, 824 S. Dudley Street,
Memphis, Tennessee 38104. [Some details shown at Internet site CONFEDERATE SOLDIERS AND
VETERANS BURIED IN SOLDIER'S REST, ELMWOOD CEMETERY, MEMPHIS, TENNESSEE at URL:
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~jcothern/soldrest.htm, which shows his date of death as March
10, 1862; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 – 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site; see also St. Philips;
Confederate Navy subject file – M – Medical, MM – Admissions to hospitals.]

Peter Lanerty, see Peter Laverty.

J.M. Lanford
, see James M. Landford.

Charles Lang, 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.]

John Wesley Lang, born Barbour County, Alabama, on October 25, 1845; enlisted April 25, 1864 (ADAH
shows enlistment date as April 3, 1864), at Savannah, Georgia, as landsman aboard CSS Sampson
(Captain Thomas B. Mills, commanding); served at Savannah, Mobile and Demopolis; also served
aboard the CSS Huntsville; discharged aboard CSS Nashville; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama,
May 5, 1865 (ADAH shows date of parole as May 8, 1865; another Naval document shows that he was
paroled at Montgomery, Alabama on June 22, 1865); married Sophia Jane Heldreth in Butler County,
Alabama, on November 18, 1865; resided in Florida since December 1, 1887; applied for a Confederate
pension, from Escambia County, Florida, in July, 1907; died in Escambia County, Florida, on October 11,
1913. [Florida Confederate Pension file No.A 3969; ADAH; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 661.]

T. J. Lang, born Newberry, South Carolina, about 1816; previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and
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 aboard the CSS
Isondiga, also at Savannah, on April 21, 1864; transferred, on May 4, 1864, to the CSS Sampson,
Savannah squadron. [Confederate Navy subject file, X – Supplies, XO – Clothing and Food, Clothing
and Provisions (January – June, 1864), page 720; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 538-540; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 585.]

Thomas G. Lang, Third Assistant Engineer, paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865.
[Porter's Naval History, 785.]

W.A. Lang, see William Albert Lange.

George B.M. Langdon (Register1864 incorrectly shows his first name as John), born Alabama, 1832
(place of birth, in 1860 U.S. Census stated as “egican paupets Florence of Am”; 1880 U.S. Census shows
state of birth as New York); resided as a steamboat engineer, in 1860, at St. Louis, Missouri; original
entry into Confederate States Navy, December 29, 1862; appointed 2nd assistant engineer, May 21,
1863; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa and the CSS Selma, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863 –
1864; captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a
prisoner of war; resided as an engineer, in 1880, with his wife, Lavisa, and son, Willie, at Hannibal,
Marion County, Missouri. [ORN 1, 21, 844 and 2, 1, 307; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S.
Census.]

John Langdon (also borne on Rolls as Jacob Langen; John Langin), enlisted at Shreveport, Louisiana,
August 8, 1861, as private, company K, 20th Louisiana Infantry; missing in action (captured) since the
battle of Perryville, October 8, 1862; exchanged at Vicksburg, Mississippi, October, 1862; transferred to
the Confederate States Navy, per order of the Secretary of War, dated April 12, 1864 (see also, 11th
Louisiana Regiment). [Booth 2, 650; Civil War Service Records.]

John Langdon, 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.]

John Langdon, born Alabama; appointed, December 29, 1862; served as assistant engineer, CSS
Tuscaloosa, 1863-1864 (not listed in CSNRegister or Register1863). [ADAH.]

William Albert Lange, served as captain’s cook (rated in this position from February 7, 1862) and
captain’s steward, side wheeled steamer CSS Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, 1862 – 1863; captured at
Arkansas Post on 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 336
and 340.]

W.J. Langford, served in company B, Naval Battalion (?); served as witness for James L. Coppedge of
Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 574.]

William Langford, 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 H. Langford, CSS Atlanta, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Monday, March 30,
1863.]

B.F. Langham, 2nd class fireman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

James K. Langhorne
, born Virginia, 1839; son of Mary R. Langhorne; brother of John C. Langhorne,
listed below; resided as a machinist, in 1860, at Portsmouth, Virginia; enlisted as private, company C
(Virginia Defenders), 16th Virginia Infantry Regiment, April 20, 1861; wounded in action at the battle of
2nd Manassas, August 30, 1862; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer,
January 29, 1863 (Americn Civil War Soldiers indicates that he was detailed as acting 3rd assistant
engineer aboard the CSS Stono, at Charleston, South Carolina, on January 19, 1863, and that he
returned to his unit on February 15, 1864); served aboard the CSS Chicora, 1863 – 1864; also served
aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 – 1865; rejoined his old
company in 1865; paroled at Portsmouth, Virginia, April 17, 1865; resided as a machinist, in 1880, with
his wife, Elizabeth Langhorne, and daughter (born 1879) at Portsmouth, Norfolk County, Virginia; died
April 12, 1910. [ORN 1, 11, 664 & 690 and 2, 1, 283 & 311; Register1864; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S.
Census; American Civil War Soldiers database at the Ancestry.com web site; Norfolk County Record
131; Confederate Veteran magazine volume XIX, (1911) page 437.]

John C. Langhorne, born Virginia, 1836; son of Mary R. Langhorne; brother of James K. Langhorne,
listed above; resided as a clerk, in 1860, at Portsmouth, Virginia; originally served as private, Old
Dominion Guard, company K, 9th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, and
served as captain’s clerk, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 – 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 301; 1860 U.S. Census; Norfolk County Record 99.]

Charles Langley, born Sweden; resided in Mobile, Alabama; married; enlisted March 17, 1862, aged 30,
at Fort Pillow, Tennessee, as private, in company C, 1st Confederate Battalion; Confederate States
Army; transferred, April 2, 1862, to the Navy Department; recorded as being at Petersburg, Virginia,
December 30, 1864. [ADAH.]

Lemuel Langley, resident of Norfolk, Virginia; appointed master not in line of promotion, Provisional
Navy, June 2, 1864; served on the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston, South Carolina, 1864. [CSNRegister;
Norfolk County Record 313.]

Earnest Langlois (surname also shown as Langloi), shipped for the war, as landsman aboard the cruiser
CSS Florida, February 7, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 370 and 372.]

William J. Langston, served in Van Jenkins’ or Jackson’s Navy Battalion (?); his widow, Mattie E.
Langston filed for a post war Confederate pension from Fulton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index
575.]

E. W. Langstree, served as a private in company C, 21st Georgia 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.]

John W. Langtree, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS
Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

Benjamin F. Lanier, born Georgia, 1827; served in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps;
resided as a farmer (widowed), in 1880, with his four children (eldest child born 1855), at District 50,
Emanuel County, Georgia; served as witness for C.M. Williams of Emanuel County, Georgia. [GA
Pension Index 575; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Ira Lanier, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

David Lanihan, seaman, 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 552.]

Huron E. Lannan, recruited as ordinary seaman 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 444.]

Michael Lannan (surname also shown as Leanon), served as a private in company A, Confederate
States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861; served on the Marine
Guard aboard the CSS Resolute in 1862; also shown on a roll of Confederate States Marines, dated
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313 & 317; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 371.]

Michael J. Lannan, recruited as ordinary seaman 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 444.]

Enoch C. Lanpher, Second Class Fireman, resident of Columbus, 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]
Peter Laperty, see Peter Laverty.

---- Laplace, commanded CSS Star, April, 1862. [ORN 1, 18, 249.]

Frank La Porte, enlisted 1862, as machinist, in the Confederate Navy yard, at Selma, Alabama;
transferred, 1863, to a torpedo boat, and sent to Fort Morgan; then sent to the Navy yard at McIntosh
Bluff; took oath of allegiance to the United States, 1865. [ADAH.]

Alfred Larben, served as seaman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as ship’s cook
from October 8, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 860.]

Francois Lardinois, born Belgium, about 1822; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, September 11, 1861,
as a private in company E of the 13th Louisiana Infantry; detailed with the Engineer Corps, by order of
General Braxton Bragg, about March or April, 1863; enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April
9, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia,
Savannah squadron; transferred, on May 4, 1864, to the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron. [Booth 2,
660; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 538-540; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 585.]

Levi Larendi, served as landsman 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.]

Edward Larkin, 2nd class fireman, CSS Savannah; died January 2, 1865; buried, January 4, 1865, at Laurel
Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia. [ORN 2, 1, 304; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia)
dated May 19, 1866; Honeycutt.]

Edward Larkin, 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. [ORN 2, 1,
297; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
New Orleans – Yorktown, page 602.]

James Larkin, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 301.]
Thomas Larkin, landsman, steam sloop CSS McRae, (operated in the lower Mississippi River, Louisiana,
area); served July – November, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 290; DANFS.]

Robert B. Larmour, born Maryland; citizen of, and appointed from, Virginia; appointed from civil life;
original entry into Confederate States Navy, as gunner, December 18, 1861; served on the Richmond
station, at at Drewry’s Bluff, 1861 – 1863; later on the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, 1863 – 1864, as acting
master and ordnance officer; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; paroled at
Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231 and 2, 1, 291 & 321; Register1862; Register1863;
Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Confederate Navy subject file, X – Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores
for ships (1864), page 76.]

Armond Laroche, 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 118.]

Alfred Larter, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 6, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 49.]

James Lary, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 301.]

William Lash, served at the New Orleans station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 111.]

John Lashley, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Joseph F. Lasserre (surname may actually be Laperre), born Georgia, 1844; resided, in 1850, at the
home of John B. and Margaret A. Laperre, at Glynn County, Georgia; previous service in Company K,
26th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, as Private, May 29, 1861; transferred to Confederate States
Navy, April 3, 1864, as seaman; attached as private to company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes’ Naval
Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [Georgia
Rosters 3, 260; M1091; 1850 U.S. Census.]

W.C. Lassiter, landsman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private to company
G, 2nd Regiment, Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North
Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

Green F. Laster, appointed third assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General
M. Jeff Thompson, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on May 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page
263.]

John Latham (surname also shown, incorrectly, as Lattiam and Littiam), Fireman, CSS Alabama; born
Manchester, England; resided, in 1863, at 8, Douglas Street, Glasgow, Scotland; aged 28 in 1863;
deserted January 21, 1863, at Kingston, Jamaica; previous service, also, in the merchant marine.
[William Marvel; Alabama Claims 1, 362 and 567.]

Thomas W. Latham, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia.
[ORN 2, 1, 300.]

Charles W. Latimer, born about 1833; previous service in the United States Navy; originally served as
private, Virginia Defenders, company C, 16th Virginia Regiment; transferred to the Confederate States
Navy at an unspecified date; resided, after the war, near Hampton, Elizabeth City County, Virginia;
suffered from insomnia; died from the effects of an overdose of laudanum, September 11, 1903; his
widow survived him. [Norfolk County Record 131; Washington Times (D.C.) dated September 11, 1903,
page 9.]

Louis Lauff (first name also shown as Lewis), shipped as boy (aged between 14 and 17) aboard the
Confederate States floating battery New Orleans, on October 29, 1861; rated as 1st class boy aboard
the vessel, then stationed off Columbus, Kentucky, from January 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages
6, 9 and 12.]

Edward J. Laughinghouse (surname also shown as Lavinghouse), served as landsman aboard the CSS
Arctic, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1863; later attached to the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah
squadron, 1863; surveyed by a medical board at the Naval hospital at Savannah, on August 17, 1863,
and declared as being unfit for the service; ordered to discharged from the service, on the same day.
[ORN 2, 1, 279; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MX – Medical Surveys and Examinations of
Individuals; B - Miscellaneous, pages 15 - 16.]

P. Laughlan, coal heaver, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863.
[ORN 2, 1, 308.]

R. Laughlan, Coal Heaver, CSS Alert, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 275.]

Peter Lauren, served as seaman aboard the CSS Manassas, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as
quarter gunner from November 2, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 992.]

William Laurence, served as landsman aboard the CSS Tuscarora, New Orleans station, in 1861.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans – Yorktown, pages 75 and 874.]

John Laurens, served as Naval officer for the District of Charleston, South Carolina, 1864; his service
may not have been in the capacity of an officer of the Confederate States Navy. [Confederate Navy
subject file O – Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OP – Pilotage, port movements, port
changes; Miscellaneous, page 2.]

Henry Laurillard (or Lamilliard), served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington
station, 1864; on the expiration of his term of service, he was discharged from the Naval service, at
Wilmington, on November 25, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 850; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments
of officers (L – Z) – Revoked commissions, page 978.]

Mark Lavadari, born about 1835; served as cook aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864; deserted from
the cruiser in early or mid-1864; physical description of Lavadari, at the time he deserted was shown as
5 feet 6 inches tall, dark complexion, black eyes, black hair, black side whiskers, and dressed in citizen’s
clothing when he deserted. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 376.]

Peter Laverty (surname also shown as Laperty and Lanerty), born Glasgow; second class fireman, 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; later enlisted as fireman aboard the blockade
runner, Lelia; drowned when that vessel foundered, off Liverpool, England, January 14, 1865. [Sinclair;
ORN 1, 3, 72; some additional data from the publication, Lelia, by Chris Michael, published 2004, by
Countyvise Limited, 14 Appin Road, Birkenhead, Wirral CH41 9HH, England.]

George H. Law (also borne on Rolls as George W. Law), enlisted at Clear Creek, Louisiana, June 5, 1862,
as private, 5th Company Battalion Washington Artillery Louisiana; may have enlisted in the
Confederate States Navy sometime between May, 1864 and April, 1865; source states: “No official
notice been received;” see next entry. [Booth 2, 678.]

George M. Law (middle initial also shown as H.), appointed gunner in the Confederate States Navy, at
Savannah, July 5, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Macon, 1865; see previous entry, which may be the
same person. [CSS Macon Rolls; CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked
commissions, page 15.]

Napoleon F. Law, shipped as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, for three years or the war,
aboard the CSS Missouri, on February 18, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR –
Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 388.]

Thomas Lawler (surname also shown as Lawley and Lawlor), born Shelby County, Alabama; served as
corporal in company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; served one term as a volunteer, and was
subsequently conscripted; 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; also stationed at Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia, 1864; later stationed at Battery Buchanan, Fort Fisher,
North Carolina, from which he deserted, January, 1865, with five others, and who were taken aboard
the USS Pontoosuc, off New Inlet, on January 2, 1865; Lawler was described, after being interrogated,
as being intelligent and precise in his dates. [ORN 1, 11, 287-288 and 2, 1, 280, 302, 314 & 316;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ – Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 539
- 540.]

William Lawler, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 310.]

James Lawless, fireman, served aboard CSS David, 1864; assisted in the unsuccessful attempt to
destroy the USS Memphis, off Charleston, South Carolina, March 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 15, 359.]

John Lawless, born Rhode Island, about 1816; resided as a sea captain, in 1860, with his wife Harriet,
and children, at Galveston, Texas; indicated to have served as captain in the Confederate Marine
service; shown as a retired ship master, in the 1870 census; buried at the City Cemetery, Galveston,
Texas. [1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31,
1887, page 1.]

Richard Lawless, served as fireman aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, off Fort Jackson,
Savannah River, in 1863; paid off and discharged on August 11, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N
- Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 518.]

William Henry Lawless (surname also shown as Lawles, Lollis and Lawley), enlisted as a Private with
Company B (Van Benthuysen's Company) of the Confederate States Marine Corps (ORN shows service
in company C), which was organized at Pensacola. Source notes that he probably enlisted at
Wilmington, North Carolina. Was assigned as Marine Guard to the CSS Raleigh, April 19, 1864-May 31,
1864. However, the CSS Raleigh was sunk earlier in May, so he did not serve out this entire
assignment. He reported to the CSS Arctic on June 1, 1864 and served until September 30, 1864.
Captured January 15, 1865 at Fort Fisher. Held as POW at Camp Hoffman POW Prison, Point Lookout,
Maryland. Released on oath May 13, 1865. Moved from Pickens County to Johnson County, Arkansas
about 1880. [Son-in-law of James Polk Woodard of the 5th Alabama Infantry, Company H.]
[Information provided by Hayes Lowe, author of "Civil War Soldiers of Pickens County, Alabama," e-
mail address: HALOWE@finance.vpad.uab.edu; ORN 2, 1, 280, 302 & 316.]

Thomas Lawley, see Thomas Lawler.

Thomas Lawlor, see Thomas Lawler.

Drury Lawrence, served aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, about 1863.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 646.]

Frederick Lawrence, born Arkansas; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant
paymaster, October 15, 1862; on special duty, 1862 – 1863. [Register1863.]

Larry Lawrence, coal heaver, side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863 -
1864. [ORN 2, 1, 292.]

Y. S. Lawrence, sent from Charleston, South Carolina, to the Richmond station, and received aboard
the CSS Hampton, James River squadron, on October 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 744.]

James Lawshe, previous service in Company H, 1st Regiment Georgia Regulars, October, 1863;
transferred to Confederate States Navy April 4, 1864; served aboard CSS Chicora, September 30, 1864.
[Georgia Rosters 1, 350.]

Abraham Lawson, 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; vessel operated in
North Carolina and Virginia waters. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 732; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 777.]

Alfred W. Lawson, enlisted in New Hanover County, North Carolina, April 16, 1861, as corporal and
artificer, 1st company C, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; reduced to private, about July or
August, 1863; transferred to company C, 13th Battalion North Carolina Light Artillery, November 4,
1863; recruited as landsman at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864, and
served as quarter gunner 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 956
and 1234; NCT 1, 223 & 572.]

Canute Lawson (first name also shown as Conret), served as seaman at the New Orleans station in
1861, and later aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284;
DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 85.]

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

John Lawson, appointed acting 1st assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans,
November 1, 1861, and ordered to report aboard the CSS General Polk for duty; also served on the
Jackson station, 1862; tendered his resignation from the Confederate States Navy, at Memphis,
Tennessee, on November 18, 1861; in a dispatch sent by lieutenant J. H. Carter, commanding the CSS
General Polk, dated at Columbus, Kentucky, November 26, 1861, to paymaster J. W. Nixon, Carter
advises Nixon of the resignation of Lawson, and that Lawson was not to be allowed any pay for his
services; no reason is given for this decision. [ORN 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L --
Z) – Revoked commissions, pages 18, 1046 and 1047.]

Marcus Cicero Lawson, born Virginia, 1841; enlisted July 27, 1861, at Centreville, Virginia, as private,
company H, 1st Virginia Infantry; detached as printer at headquarters, September, 1861; discharged
May 2, 1862, to enter the Confederate States Navy; served as Ship's Steward; also as landsman aboard
the CS steamers Missouri, Webb and Cotton, 1863; paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865; resided
as a printer, in 1880, with his wife, Dethin, and four children, at Richmond, Virginia. [ORN 1, 27, 231 & 2,
1, 292; 1st Virginia, 102; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Peter Lawson, enlisted, for one year, as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South
Carolina, on September 21, 1861 (see also the entry for ---- Lucin). [Confederate Navy subject file N
- Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1228;
Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

William S. Lawson, born Person County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at
Person County, September 25, 1861, aged 18, as private, company E, 35th Regiment North Carolina
Troops; promoted sergeant sometime between May, 1862 and December, 1864; 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; captured at or near Fort Stedman, Virginia, March 25, 1865; confined at Point Lookout,
Maryland, until his release on June 28, 1865, after taking the Oath of Allegiance; the NCT source also
indicates that he may have served in the Confederate States Navy. [NCT 9, 405; Confederate States
Navy subject file.]

John Lawton, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278.]
William S. Layard, painter by trade; aged 19, at enlistment, April 21, 1861, as Private in Company G,
First Virginia Infantry; wounded and captured at Gettysburg; returned to duty, October 31, 1863;
transferred to Confederate Navy, April 10, 1864 (a document shows that he was shipped on April 12,
1864, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, in the Confederate States Navy, as landsman, and sent for duty
aboard the CSS Albemarle at Plymouth Sound); captured at Sayler's Creek; released at Newport News,
June 15, 1865, after taking oath; died February 11, 1893, at R.E. Lee Camp Soldiers' Home, aged 50;
buried in Hollywood Cemetery. [ORN 2, 1, 274; 1st Virginia, 102; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 37-38.]

Charles C. Layton, born Virginia, about 1819 (1860 U.S. Census shows year of birth as about 1824);
father of Confederate States Navy acting master’s mate, James T. Layton, listed below; resided as a
sea captain, in 1860, with his wife, Mary, and two sons, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; enlisted, April, 1861,
as pilot, at Richmond, Virginia, aboard the St. Nicholas; appointed from civil life; original entry into
Confederate States Navy, as acting boatswain, July 11, 1861; served on the Richmond station, 1861 –
1865; served as 2nd class pilot aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1862 - 1864; also aboard the CSS Beaufort,
and the CSS Richmond, 1864 - 1865; surrendered as a member of the Semmes Naval Brigade, 1865 (a
document in the Confederate States Navy subject files, however, indicates that he had left the CSS
Virginia II on the morning Richmond was evacuated, April 2, 1865, and was captured aboard a small
boat, on the Rappahannock River, in April, 1865, and was sent to the provost marshal at Point Lookout,
Maryland); post war occupation, seaman; post war member of Maury Camp, Confederate Veterans at
Fredericksburg, Virginia; later admitted to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans’ Home,
Richmond, Virginia, November 18, 1892; residence at time of admission, Middlesex County, Virginia;
died January 25, 1894; buried Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [ORN 1, 10, 642 & 765; 1, 11,
691 and 2, 1, 321; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; LVa; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy
subject file, R – Prisoners and Prisons, RB – Prisoner of War rolls.., A – A.W. Baker – U.S.S. Minnesota,
pages 164-165.]

J.H. Layton, served as landsman, Confederate States Navy; attached as 1st corporal to company C,
Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26,
1865. [M1091.]

James T. Layton, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and Rappahannock
Rivers, Virginia, 1861 – 1862 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 303; DANFS.]

James T. Layton, born Virginia, 1845; son of Confederate States Navy pilot, Charles C. Layton, listed
above, and his wife, Mary; resided with his parents, in 1860, at Fredericksburg, Virginia; originally
served as private, company F, 9th Virginia Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an
unspecified date; served as acting master’s mate aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II,
James River, Virginia 1864 - 1865; temporary duty at Drewry's Bluff, James River, February, 1865;
married Loulie (Louisa) C. Eddens, at Stafford County, Virginia, April 9, 1868; after the war he returned
home to Fredericksburg, where he resided as a dry goods merchant and travelling salesman, with his
wife, Louisa and children (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 10, 765; 1, 11,
690 & 812 and 2, 1, 311; Register1864; Civil War Service Records; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census;
1880 U.S. Census; Virginia Marriages, 1851 – 1929 database at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Joel Layton, served as ship’s steward aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page
1223.]

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

Samuel L. Lazenby, born Georgia, 1825; resided as a farmer, in 1850, with his wife, Mary, and two
children, at Newton County, Georgia; served in the Confederate States Navy, as ordinary seaman, CSS
Oconee (originally named the CSS Savannah), 1862 and CSS Sampson, 1863, Savannah, Georgia; his
widow, Mary Lazenby, filed for a post war Confederate pension from Newton County, Georgia. [GA
Pension Index 581; ORN 2, 1, 297 & 303; 1850 U.S. Census.]

Charles E. Lea (surname also shown as Lee), born South Carolina, 1826; son of William P., and Sarah L.
Lea; resided, as a pilot, with his parents, at Charleston, South Carolina, in 1860; served as pilot aboard
the ironclad ram CSS Chicora Charleston station, 1863 – 1864; master of the Issabel; died 1864; buried
at a private cemetery at Southport, (previously Smithville), North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 283; 1860 U.S.
Census; John E. Ellis.]

Michael Lea, landsman, CSS Atlanta, 1862; aged 40. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Monday,
December 1, 1862.]

N. Leach, resident of Moore County, North Carolina; served in the Confederate States Marine Corps;
left Moore County and sent to Camp Holmes, where he was instructed for a short time, then sent to
Charleston, aboard the CSS Indian Chief, arriving there on Sunday, November 6, 1864, for further drill
and instruction as a marine; later sent aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston station. [Fayetteville
Observer (Fayetteville, North Carolina) dated November 24, 1864.]

Thomas Leaden, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 4, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate
Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 51.]

George H. Leaf, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1862; appointed master’s mate in the
Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, February 1, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS
Livingston for duty; also served at the Jackson station, 1862; named his next of kin as Mrs. George H.
Leaf; “having no duty to assign him”, Leaf was discharged from the Naval service on April 14, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 895; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 106; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments
of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked commissions, pages 20 and 918.]

James Leahy (name also incorrectly shown as Jan. Leaby), born about 1839; personal description
shown as 5 feet, 5 inches high, blue eyes, sandy hair and fair complexion; served as private, company
C, Confederate States Marine Corps; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads,
Virginia, and also at Drewry’s Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1862; deserted from Drewry’s Bluff in June,
1862; a reward of $30 was offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry’s
Bluff, on June 12, 1862; he obviously returned to duty, or was apprehended, as he is also shown as
being stationed aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864, and in the Marine Guard
aboard the CSS Richmond, James River, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 280, 310 & 315; Daily Dispatch (Richmond,
Virginia) dated June 12 and June 13, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 390.]

Michael Leanon, see Michael Lannan.


Dennis Leary (name also shown as Denis Learr), enlisted by captain Hays, at Memphis, on August 21,
1861, as a private in company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; served at the Richmond station,
and 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, pages 458 and 466.]

James Leary, ordinary seaman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

James Leary, recruited as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads,
Virginia, 1862, receiving a bounty of $50. [ORN 2, 1, 309; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 878.]

John Leary, served as 2nd class fireman at the New Orleans station, 1862, and aboard the side wheeled
steamer CSS Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, 1862 – 1863; rated as 1st class fireman from June 1, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 299; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 958; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 106 and 341.]

John Leary, fireman, CSS Nashville, 1861. [Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

Charles P. Leavett (middle initial also shown as C., and surname also shown as Leavitt), born Kentucky;
original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, April 16, 1863; served on
the Charleston station, 1862; served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah station, 1863; ordered to
report for duty at Charleston, South Carolina, in July, 1863; served aboard the steamer CSS Torch, 1863
– 1864; post war resident of Spruce Pine, Alabama; applied for a Confederate pension from Franklin
County, Alabama, June, 1898. [ORN 1, 14, 724 and 2, 1, 317; Register1864.]

J. H. Leavy, served as coxswain aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1864. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse,
page 1233.]

O.S. Leavy, Seaman, CSS Georgia, July, 1863. [ORN 1, 14, 715.]

Adolph Leclere, indicated to have been a Confederate marine on the CSS Bayou City; buried at the
City Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Wednesday, June 1, 1887.]

Robert Ledamsky, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station in 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 91.]

James Leddon, 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 444.]

Andrew Leddy, previously served as Private, Company G, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, February,
1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy May 2, 1864; served aboard CSS Palmetto State, June 30,
1864. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 346.]

George Leders, landsman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Henry Leders, landsman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

David Ledwell, originally enlisted in the Confederate States Navy at an unknown date; transferred,
July 19, 1863, to company K, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery, as private; deserted from this unit,
September 21, 1863. [NCT 1, 164.]

J. T. Ledyard, served as 3rd lieutenant in the Confederate States Revenue service, and aboard the
revenue cutter Morgan, New Orleans, 1862; also served on the Mobile station, 1862. [Confederate
Navy subject file O – Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV – Miscellaneous; Richmond
(provisions) – revenue marine, pages 826 – 828 and 836.]

William J. Ledyard (surname also shown as Lediard), born Essex, England, 1844; ordinary seaman, CSS
Rappahannock, May 16, 1864; later served as boatswain in the Royal Navy, aboard the HMS Druid;
shown as married, in 1881. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll; 1881 British Census.]

Arthur Lee, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

Charles Lee, served as seaman 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 662.]

Charles E. Lee, see Charles E. Lea.

Daniel Murray Lee, born Alexandria, Virginia, July 14, 1844 (one source incorrectly shows year of birth
as 1832); son of Confederate States Navy captain, Sidney Smith Lee and his wife, Anne Marie Mason;
brother of Confederate States Navy acting master, Sidney Smith Lee, jr.; nephew of Confederate
Army general, Robert E. Lee; entered the Virginia Military Institute at the age of 16; at the outbreak of
the war, sent to Manassas as drill master in Whiting’s Brigade, Confederate Army of the Potomac;
appointed acting midshipman, Confederate States Navy, August 30, 1861, and ordered to report
aboard the Confederate States receiving ship United States, for duty; served at Norfolk, Virginia, and
on the Richmond station; also served aboard the CSS Richmond, 1861 - 1863; was in the action at
Drewry’s Bluff, May 15, 1862; then served on the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, South
Carolina, 1863 – 1864; also aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, in 1864; later served
aboard the CSS Chickamauga, Wilmington station, 1864 – 1865, and was stated to have also been
aboard the cruiser CSS Tallahassee; at the close of the war he joined his brother, Fitzhugh Lee’s cavalry
regiment, as a captain; surrendered at Appomattox, Virginia, April, 1865; post war occupation in the
merchant marine, at Baltimore, Maryland; later returned to Virginia; married Nannie E. Ficklin, October
14, 1874; involved in politics, for a brief period, at Stafford County, Virginia; shown as a member of the
Association of the Survivors of the Confederate States Navy, in June, 1907; died December 17, 1916,
on his farm, near Fredericksburg, Stafford County, Virginia. [LVa; ORN 1, 3, 710 and 2, 1, 283 & 321;
Sheppard – Atlanta Constitution dated December 18, 1916; Confederate Veteran 25, 84; Register1863;
Register1864; Harrison 156 & 198; New York Times dated Wednesday, September 13, 1905; Times
Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 1, 1907, page 3; Confederate Veteran magazine, volume
(1916?), page 84; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked
commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (A – K), page 437.]

Edward Lee, Officer's Steward, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Edwin G. Lee, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy; served on the Richmond
station, 1863; resigned July 21, 1863. [CSN Register; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Elias Lee, born Florida, 1833; pre war resident of Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida; served as
quartermaster aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; deserted to to the enemy, at Apalachicola,
Florida, June 20, 1863; taken aboard the USS Port Royal, off Apalachicola, and took the oath of
allegiance; cited as being “one of the best pilots not only in the sound but also on the coast”; employed
as pilot aboard the USS Port Royal; resided as a steam boat captain, in 1870, at Pensacola, Escambia
County, Florida. [ORN 1, 17, 475; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Eugene Lee, born Assumption, Louisiana, about 1837; enlisted at New Orleans, April 10, 1862, as
private in company C, 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, to the CSS
Macon. [Booth 2, 704; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 560.]

Francis Lee, shipped aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on July 22, 1862, as landsman, and
served as wardroom boy. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 749.]

James L. Lee, 1st class fireman, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown (operated in James River and
Hampton Roads, Virginia area), 1862; also indicated to have served as fireman aboard the CSS Indian
Chief, Charleston, South Carolina, about 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 765-766.]

John Lee, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, in 1862;
rated as ordinary seaman from June 1, 1862; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863. [ORN 1, 24,
117; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 123 – 124 and 341.]

John A. Lee, born Kentucky; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman, February 3,
1863; served on the Mobile squadron, 1864. [Register1864.]

John F. Lee, served as seaman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; rated as
boatswain’s mate aboard the vessel from June 8, 1861; later appointed boatswain, at New Orleans,
September 24, 1861, and ordered to report to lieutenant Gwathmey for duty; also served on the
Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 318; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 864; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L --
Z) – Revoked commissions, page 24.]

John H. Lee, seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2,
1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]

Robert Carter Lee, son of Sidney Smith Lee; served in Confederate States Navy; later served as aide to
his brother, General Fitz Lee. [William A. Turner.]

Sidney Smith Lee (first name also shown as Sydney), born Virginia, 1810; father of Confederate States
Navy lieutenant Sidney Smith Lee, jr., listed below, and midshipman Daniel Murray Lee, listed above;
elder brother of Confederate Army general, Robert E. Lee; previous service in the United States Navy;
resided as a United States Navy commander, in 1860, with his wife, Anna, and children, at Washington,
D.C.; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 22, 1861; entered the Confederate
States Navy as captain; served on the Richmond station, 1861 – 1865; executive officer of the Norfolk
(Gosport) Navy Yard, 1861; assumed command of the Norfolk Navy Yard, May 15, 1862; acted as one of
the pall bearers at the funeral of Confederate Army general J.E.B. Stuart, in May, 1864; in command of
the Office of Orders and Detail, Navy Department, Richmond, Virginia, 1865; attached, as colonel, to
Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26,
1865; died in Richland, Stafford County, Virginia, July, 1869. [ORN 1, 7, 790 and 2, 1, 322 & 634 – 635;
M1091; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861 and May 14, 1864; New York Times
dated July 26, 1869; CSN-Museum; 1860 U.S. Census; Norfolk County Record 22.]

Sidney Smith Lee, jr. (first name also shown as Sydney), born District of Columbia, 1838 (one source
shows state of birth as Virginia); son of Confederate States Navy captain, Sidney Smith Lee, listed
above, and brother of Confederate Navy midshipman, Daniel Murray Lee, listed above; resided as a
seaman, in 1860, with his parents at Washington, D.C.; original entry into Confederate States Navy,
March 22, 1862, as master not in line of promotion; served aboard the CSS Louisiana, at New Orleans,
and later at the Jackson station, 1862; given permission by his immediate commander, John K. Mitchell,
to abandon the vessel and to try and escape capture, but was captured, and later paroled and
exchanged September, 1862; later on the Richmond station, 1862; promoted lieutenant for the war,
November 1, 1862; served aboard the steamer CSS Atlanta, 1862 – 1863; served aboard the CSS
Georgia, 1863; served in several expeditions under John Taylor Wood; appointed 1st lieutenant,
Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; served aboard the cruiser CSS Shenandoah, 1864 -
1865; after the cruise of the Shenandoah, in November, 1865, he went to Argentina, then, in 1868,
returned to the United States and settled at Stafford County, Virginia; served as captain of the
steamer Ironsides, which ran between Washington and Aquia Creek; never married; died from an
attack of pneumonia, at 1255 Union Street, Washington, D.C., on Sunday, April 14, 1888; buried at
Christ Church cemetery, Alexandria, Virginia. [Alabama Claims, 1, 974; Confederate Sailor 17; Whittle
43; ORN 1, 3, 785; 1, 18, 299 and 2, 1, 319 & 321; ORA 2, 4; Register1862; Register1863; JCC 4, 122; 1860
U.S. Census; Washington Post (D.C.) dated April 17, 1888, page 2.]

Thomas J. Lee, resided in, and enlisted at Washington County, North Carolina, July 3, 1861, aged 21, as
private, company G, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; discharged February 3, 1862, on being
transferred to the Confederate States Navy; served as ordinary seaman on the CSS Virginia, Hampton
Roads, Virginia, 1862. [NCT 3, 217; ORN 2, 1, 310.]

W. Lee, ordinary seaman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached, as private, company
K, 2nd Regiment, Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North
Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

W.C.H. Lee, Boatswain's Mate, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 9,
1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

W.W. Lee, served as quarter gunner, Confederate States Navy; attached as private to company B,
Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26,
1865. [M1091.]

William Augustus Lee, born Missouri; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman,
April 10, 1863; served aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, and on the Wilmington station,
North Carolina, 1863 – 1864; post war member of R.E. Lee Camp, No. 1, United Confederate Veterans,
of Richmond, Virginia; died about 1906 or 1907. [ORN 1, 10, 767 and 2, 1, 295, 296 & 323; Register1864;
Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated January 11, 1907, page 9.]

William H. Lee, enlisted April 19, 1861, aged 21, as private, company A, 1st Virginia Infantry (re-
designated company G, 12th Virginia Infantry); special duty at Richmond Navy Yard, August 1861;
detached February 28, 1862, for service in the Navy Department. [1st Virginia, 103.]

William R. Lee, born Sampson County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at
Cumberland County, North Carolina, March 31, 1862, aged 19, as private, company I, 51st Regiment
North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 23, 1863; served as landsman
aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; his widow, Mary E.
Branch (who married Matthew D. Branch, after the death of William R. Lee, sometime prior to 1877),
applied for a post war Confederate pension from Sampson County, North Carolina. [NCT 12, 375; ORN
2, 1, 298; NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Willis Lee, born Currituck County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Currituck
County, May 13, 1861, aged 26, as private, company E, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st
Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy, September 11, 1861; served as landsman
on the CSS Fanny, North Carolina, 1861 - 1862. [NCT 6, 153; ORN 2, 1, 285.]

Moses Leeds, 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.]

Nicholas Leeds, 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 69.]

Thomas Leen, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served, as seaman
aboard the steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 313.]

Lewis Le Faivre (name also shown, incorrectly as Lewisle Faiver; name also shown as Louis Lefairre),
born about 1830; personal description shown as 5 feet, 7 inches high, hazel eyes, brown hair and dark
complexion; served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, 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; apprehended and sent on a Naval Court
Martial held at Richmond, Virginia in August – September, 1862, sentence not shown. [Daily Dispatch
(Richmond, Virginia) dated June 12, June 13, and June 17, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NO– Court Martial; Court of Inquiry – Military Commissions, page 185.]

Lincoln C. Leftwich, born Virginia, 1834; son of Augustine and Ann E.W. Leftwich; pre war resident of
Lynchburg, Virginia; served as lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy; captured aboard the
blockade runner Minnie, off the North Carolina coast, May 9, 1864, and held as a prisoner of war
aboard the USS Connecticut; resided as a farmer, in 1870, with his wife, Susan, at Lynchburg. [ORN 1,
10, 41; 1850 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Benjamin Leggett, rated as seaman, and served with lieutenant John Wilkinson, Confederate States
Navy, in October, 1863, on a “special expedition abroad”; sent to Canada on this expedition.
[Confederate Navy subject file O – Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM – Routine
Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 357.]

David Leggett (surname also shown as Legget), seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861; after his completion of
service on this cruiser, he joined the merchant service, September 29, 1862, aboard the Dunkirk, from
New York to Lisbon, Portugal; Dunkirk was taken as a prize vessel by the CSS Alabama, at which time
Leggett decided to rejoin the Confederate Navy; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off
Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel; Alabama Claims Correspondence 3, 81; CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

George Leggett, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on January
16, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the revenue cutter Morgan, for duty; also served at the
Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked
commissions, page 30.]

M. Benjamin Leggett, recruited as ordinary seaman 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 444.]

Michael Leglilan, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Selma, 1864; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5,
1864; held as a prisoner of war aboard the USS Lackawanna, at Mobile Bay, August 7, 1864.
[Confederate Navy subject file, R – Prisoners and Prisons, RB – Prisoner of War rolls.., A – A.W. Baker –
U.S.S. Minnesota, page 464.]

Joseph Legrasse, served as 2nd class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 76.]

James Legree, born Ireland; aged 44; ordinary seaman, CSS Pamlico; discharged from the Naval
service, January 1, 1862, after being hospitalized for rheumatism on the hospital ship, CSS St. Philip,
November 26, 1861. [St. Philip.]

Henry Legris, Seaman, CSS Alabama; transferred to CSS Tuscaloosa, June 21, 1863, as Quartermaster;
later served on the CSS Rappahannock, 1864. [ORN 1, 2, 713; William Marvel; CSS Rappahannock
Muster Roll.]

Samuel Lehen (surname also shown as Lehue and Lehew), landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River,
North Carolina, 1863; also served, in 1864, aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear
River, North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 278, 295 & 297; DANFS.]

Fred Lehman (first name may be Edward), served as private (?) in the Confederate States Navy;
paroled at Albany, Georgia, May 7, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 662.]

Hypolite Lehman, born Louisiana, resided in New Orleans; pre-war occupation, clerk; marital status,
single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 22, as private (later promoted sergeant),
company H, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified
date. [Booth 2, 716,]

Henry Leib, seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute, Savannah river area, Georgia, 1862 – 1863.
[ORN 2, 1, 303.]

Oscar Leibeg, served as surgeon’s steward aboard the CSS Polk, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page
492.]

Constance Leigalia, see Constance Segalia.

William Leigh, commander, Virginia Navy, West Point battery, Virginia, 1861. [ORN 1, 6, 724.]

William Leighton, served as seaman aboard the C.S. steamer Florida, about early 1864; on January 16,
1864, an overpaid allotment was repaid to the CS paymaster, Thomas R. Ware, at Mobile, by Leighton.
[Confederate Navy subject file, V – Governmental relationships, VN – Naval policy, Miscellaneous,
page 386.]

Justino G. Leitao, left London, England on January 21, 1864, for Brest, France, where he was shipped
for service aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, as seaman, on January 24, 1864; deserted from the cruiser at
Madeira on February 29, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 353 and 374.]

Henry Leman (or Lemend?), served as seaman aboard the CSS Manassas, New Orleans station, in
1861; rated as quartermaster from November 2, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 992; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 69.]

Louis A. Lemay, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 2, 1862;
rated as quarter gunner from June 3, 1862; discharged by medical survey, September 12, 1862.
[Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN – Discharges from medical custody and deaths;
Deaths - discharges, page 369; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108.]

August W. Lembler (or Lemblom), see Augustus Lumbler.

John B. Lemond, shipped in the Confederate States Navy, at Shreveport, Louisiana, for three years or
the war, on February 20, 1864; served as landsman aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in
1864; deserted at Shreveport on April 24, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1017; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NR – Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 396.]

Jacob K. Lenard, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

Samuel Lenard, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 309.]

Martin R. Lencim, served as seaman aboard the CSS General Polk, in 1861; rated as quartermaster
from October 10, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 471.]

John Lenehan (surname also shown as Lenahan), seaman and ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer
CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, 1862 – 1864;
listed his next of kin, in 1864, as Mary Sherdon (see entry for John Lanahan). [ORN 2, 1, 297; DANFS;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New
Orleans – Yorktown, page 699.]

Fred Lennon, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1864. [William Marvel.]

John Lennon, shipped at Savannah, for three years or the war, on May 21, 1863, as 1st class boy, and
served aboard the CSS Isondiga; transferred to the Charleston station on September 25, 1863.
[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, page 748.]

J.H. Lent, see John H. Dent.

Francis Lentz, previously served as Private, Company B, 8th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, May
21, 1861; discharged at Centreville, Virginia, January 1, 1862; enlisted in Confederate States Navy, 1862;
served as Ship's Steward at Savannah, Georgia, April-May, 1862. [Georgia Rosters 1, 929.]

Henry Leonard (colored), served as landsman at Drewry’s Bluff, and was ordered on May 9, 1864, to
be transferred to the James River squadron, for service aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II,
James River, Virginia, and on which he served 1864 – 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312; Confederate Navy subject
file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page
315.]

John H. Leonard (first name may, in fact, be Johnston), resident of Maryland; enlisted in Chowan
County, North Carolina, May 18, 1861, aged 25, as private, company A, 1st Regiment North Carolina
State Troops; discharged February 1, 1862, and transferred to the Confederate States Navy, receiving a
bounty of $50; served as seaman on the CSS Virginia (Merrimac), 1862; wounded, in one eye, in action
at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 8, 1862; discharged for disability, and later enlisted in the Surry Light
Artillery (company I, 3rd Virginia Infantry, afterward Captain T.W. Ruffin’s Company, Virginia Artillery);
personal description as 6 feet, 10 or 11 inches high, thick set, dark hair; deserted from his camp, near
Richmond, Virginia, on December 17 or 19, 1862; reward of $30 offered for his apprehension and
delivery to his company captain. [NCT 3, 149; ORN 1, 7, 43; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated
January 19, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 878.]

Patrick Leonard, originally served as private, company B, 2nd Battalion, Alabama Light Artillery;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Samuel A. Leonard, served as clerk in the office of the Naval storekeeper, S. Z. Gonzales, from May 19,
1862 until August 1, 1862, at the rate of $62.50 per month, and again from September 30, 1862 until
December 1, 1862, at the rate of $75.00 per month; also shown on a pay roll of officers stationed at
Pensacola, Florida, and on the gunboat, CSS Bradford (used as a storeship at Pensacola), in April, 1862.
[ORN 2, 1, 282; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file P – Bases, Naval (including Navy Yards and
Stations); PL – Labor and civil personnel; Albany - Richmond, pages 328 and 332.]

Thomas Leonard, private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama
waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]

W. Leonard, enlisted, for one year, as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South
Carolina, on September 28, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1228; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

W. H. H. Leonard, resident of New Orleans, Louisiana; appointed captain aboard the Confederate
States gunboat General Bragg, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, on February 1, 1862; paroled at
Jackson, Mississippi, May 30, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, pages 264 and 662.]

William Leonard, coal heaver, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Samuel Lessaine, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Chicora (which operated in Charleston Harbor, South
Carolina), July, 1863 - September, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]

Sidney Lester, enlisted February, 1861, at Talladega County, Alabama, in the 5th Alabama Infantry;
transferred to the Confederate States Navy, aboard a floating battery, February, 1863; transferred,
December, 1863, to the 9th Alabama Infantry. [ADAH.]

William E. Lester, served as a private in company I, 6th Virginia 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; later appointed an acting master’s mate, and served on the CSS Arctic, in 1863.
[Confederate States Navy subject file; ORN 2, 1, 275.]

Thomas Letford, seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

J. Edward Lettelle, officers’ steward, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia,
1861. [ORN 2, 1, 301; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 484 - 487.]

Charles Lettig (surname also shown as Letteg), rated, on February 5, 1862, as quartermaster on the
CSS Pontchartrain, off New Madrid; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863 (see also, entry for
Charles Littig, who may be the same person). [ORN 1, 24, 117; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 334
and 340.]

John Leums, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and
Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 – 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 303; DANFS.]

M. Levell, 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.]

William T. Levine (middle initial also shown as J.; surname also shown as Levin), resident of New
Orleans; appointed acting master, Confederate States Navy, October 19, 1861; served on the CSS
McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 – 1862; later served a pilot aboard the CSS Manassas, 1862 (his
commander, lieutenant A.F. Warley, states that he was indebted to Levine “for the working of the
vessel” and for his “coolness and skill”); later on the Jackson station, 1862. [ORN 1, 18, 303 & 337 and 2,
1, 318.]

William Levins, Coal Trimmer, CSS Alabama, 1864. [William Marvel.]

Marco Levivarri, left London, England on January 21, 1864, for Brest, France, where he was shipped for
service aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, as landsman, on January 24, 1864; however, a document signed
by the vessel’s commander, lieutenant Morris, indicates that Levivarri was rated as captain’s cook on
January 22, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 353 and 390.]

Benjamin Levy, ordinary seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads,
Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

Charles Harvey Levy (middle initial incorrectly shown as W. in one source), born Virginia, August 18,
1837; previous service in the United States Navy, from November 21, 1857; resident of Portsmouth,
Virginia; dismissed from United States Naval service, July, 1861; original entry into Confederate States
Navy, November 29, 1861 (another Naval document indicates he was appointed acting 1st assistant
engineer on November 25, 1861); appointed 2nd assistant engineer and served aboard the steam sloop
CSS McRae, Mississippi River, 1861; later served as acting 1st assistant engineer on the Jackson station,
1862 and on the Charleston station, 1862 - 1863; served aboard the steamer CSS Stono, Charleston, in
1863; also served aboard the CSS Jackson and the CSS Tallahassee; appointed chief engineer on
October 26, 1864; died January 17, 1926; buried at Forest Park Cemetery, Shreveport, Louisiana. [ORN
2, 1, 290, 317 & 318; Wayne Cosby; Young Sanders; Register1862 Register1863; Register1864; Norfolk
County Record 221; Confederate Navy subject file, X – Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for
ships (April, 1862 – December, 1863), page 884; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked
commissions, pages 34 and 36.]

Lewis P. Levy, born Missouri; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as midshipman, February 26,
1863; served on the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 283;
Register1864.]

Michael Levy, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina
stations, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 317.]

Charles Lewenberg, landsman, side wheeled steamer CSS Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, 1862 –
1863. [ORN 2, 1, 299.]

Benjamin S. Lewis, Acting Master's Mate, CSS Webb, April, 1865; abandoned the vessel below New
Orleans, and was captured, and sent aboard the USS Bermuda, to Philadelphia, as a prisoner of war.
[ORN 1, 22, 166 & 169.]

Charles Lewis, served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and later aboard the
CSS Arkansas; killed in action, Yazoo River, July 15, 1862. [ORN 1, 19, 69; Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 65.]

Emanuel Lewis, landsman, steam gunboat CSS Yadkin, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1,
313.]

Frank Lewis, 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 191.]

George Lewis, see Spencer Louis Houston.

Harry S. Lewis, appointed 3rd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy; served aboard the side
wheeled steamer CSS J.A. Cotton, 1863 – 1864, and aboard the CSS Webb, 1865; abandoned the vessel
below New Orleans, and was captured, and sent aboard the USS Bermuda, to Philadelphia, as a
prisoner of war (see next entry). [ORN 1, 22, 166 & 169 and 2, 1, 291.]

Harry S. Lewis, born Louisiana, resided in S. [?] Port, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, student; marital
status, single; enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, April 28, 1861, aged 17, as private, company A, 1st
(Nelligan’s) Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Navy Department (possibly sent aboard the gunboat
Louisiana), March, 1863, by order of the Secretary of War (see previous entry). [Booth 2, 749.]

Henry H. Lewis, born Virginia; originally served in the United States Navy, from May 1, 1828; name
stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 20, 1861; served in the Virginia States Navy, in
early 1861, then entered the Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; served on the
Richmond station, 1861 – 1864; commanded side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and
Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 – 1862; also shown as being on special duty, 1862; also held the
position of acting paymaster, 1864; commanded the CSS Spray, St. Marks, Florida, 1865; paroled at St.
Marks, May 12, 1865. [ORN 1, 4, 771 and 2, 1, 303 & 321; Register1863; Daily Dispatch (Richmond,
Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file, X – Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat,
Stores for ships (1864), page 379; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 662.]

Hogo Lewis, shipped as seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, on March 30, 1864; was arrested
ashore, on the island of Martinique, on April 29, 1864, while he was in a liquor store, by acting master
G.D. Bryan, but at first refused to go, and swore at Bryan, who then requested some accompanying
gendarmes (of the local police) to bind Lewis hand and foot, and carry him to the cruiser; Lewis cursed
Bryan in very abusive language, including calling the officer a “damn black son of a bitch”; Lewis had
also sworn that he would take Bryan’s life; all of which were witnessed by two other officers of the
CSS Florida, midshipmen W.B. Sinclair and J.H. Dyke; Bryan gave a description of the entire episode, in
writing, to his commanding officer, C.M. Morris. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NJ–
Discipline (minor); Miscellaneous, page 18; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 398.]

Ichabod N. Lewis, born Massachusetts, 1816; married Sarah G. Tripp, May 24, 1840, at Rochester,
Plymouth County, Massachusetts; appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at New
Orleans, on January 28, 1862; served aboard the CSS St. Mary, New Orleans station, 1862; later served
on the Jackson station, 1862; resided as a retired steamboat captain, in 1880, with his wife, Sarah, at
Marion, Plymouth County, Massachusetts. [CSNRegister; 1880 U.S. Census; marriage data from the
Massachusetts Marriages, 1633 – 1850 Record online database at the Ancestry.com web site;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions;
Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked commissions, page 38.]

J. H. Lewis, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at St. Marks, Florida, May 12,
1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
Lists and Registers, page 662.]

John Lewis, Pilot (civilian), CSS Webb, April, 1865; abandoned the vessel below New Orleans, and was
captured, and sent aboard the USS Bermuda, to Philadelphia, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 22, 166 &
169.]

John Lewis, enlisted in Beaufort County, North Carolina, July 3, 1861, aged 38, as private, company G,
2nd Regiment North Carolina Cavalry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 1, 1862.
[NCT 2, 154.]

John Lewis, born Canada, about 1837; served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans
station, 1861 – 1862; later served as seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated captain of the
after guard on February 24, 1862. [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 844 and 960.]

John Lewis, originally served as 2nd lieutenant in captain Young’s Company, Virginia Cavalry; transferred
to the Confederate States Navy, June 29, 1864; appointed 1st lieutenant in the Provisional Navy, July
26, 1864; served aboard the CSS Drewry, James River, 1864 and aboard the CSS Albemarle, North
Carolina, 1864; deserted, January, 1865, and took the oath of allegiance at Washington, D.C. [CSN
Register; Civil War Service Records; ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked
commissions, page 40.]

John Lewis, 3rd corporal, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864. [ORN
2, 1, 315.]

Joseph Lewis, cook, side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown (operated in James River and Hampton
Roads, Virginia area); served sometime between January, 1861 and June, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 289;
DANFS.]

Martin Lewis, served 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.]

N.H. Lewis, Signal Operator (CS Army?), James River Squadron, October, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 766.]

Richard Lewis, native of New York; served aboard privateer Petrel; captured 1862, and incarcerated at
Fort Lafayette; requested Oath of Allegiance. [ORA 2, 3.]

W.R. Lewis, ordinary seaman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as private to
company H, 2nd Regiment, Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at
Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

W.S. Lewis, served as servant to lieutenant James Thurston, aboard the CSS Atlanta; later as servant
to Edward N. Thurston, who may have been either the father or brother of James; resided in
Charleston, South Carolina 1923, as a Confederate pensioner. [South Carolina Confederate pension
series S126088, at “South Carolina Department of Archives and History: ON-LINE RECORDS INDEX,”
URL: http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/]

William M. Lewis, enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, September, 1862, in the Confederate States Marine
Corps; served aboard the CSS Tennessee; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and taken aboard
the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12, 1864; discharged
April, 1865; applied for a Confederate pension from Washington County, Alabama, in April, 1902, at the
age of 68. [ORN 1, 21, 841 - 842; ADAH.]

John Leyburn, born Texas; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant surgeon, January 8,
1863; served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, Georgia, 1863; on sick
leave, 1863 - 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served on the CSS
Fredericksburg, James River, Virginia, 1864, and aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, in 1865;
transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 632 and 2, 1, 289; Register1864;
JCC 4, 123; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.;
CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 270 – 271.]

Andrew Leyon, enlisted at Richmond, Louisiana, May 25, 1861, as private, company A, 4th Battalion
Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Naval Service, December 15, 1862. [Booth 2, 755.]

Charles Libbers, served as orderly sergeant, Confederate States Marine Corps aboard the side
wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 299; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 275.]

J.A. Libert
, Fireman, temporary duty at Drewry's Bluff, James River, February, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 812.]

Spence (Spencer) Lichfield, see Spencer Litchfield.

John Lidon, served as landsman aboard the CSS Mobile, in 1861; rated as 1st class fireman on
November 5, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of
persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1027.]

William R. Liggon (middle initial also shown as B. and surname also shown as Ligon), private, company
B, Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed at Drewry’s Bluff, Virginia, 1864; also served on the
ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 – 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312 & 314.]

William H. Lightbourn (surname also shown as Lightbourne), originally served as sergeant, company
D, 1st Battalion, Georgia Sharp Shooters; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified
date (see also, 13th Battalion, Georgia Volunteers and the 63rd Georgia Infantry); shipped for the war,
as seaman on the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863),
Savannah River, Georgia, on May 1, 1863, and later served as quartermaster; appointed acting
master’s mate, December 4, 1863; also served on stern-wheeled gunboat CSS Isondiga (which
operated around Savannah, Georgia and St. Augustine Creek, Florida), 1863 - 1864; also served aboard
the side wheeled steamer CSS Sampson, Savannah, Georgia, 1863, and the CSS Savannah, Savannah
Squadron, Georgia, 1863; transferred, in 1864, to the Wilmington station. [ORN 2, 1, 289, 297, 303 &
304; Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 602 and 1005; Confederate Navy subject file
N - Personnel; NN– Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L
-- Z) – Revoked commissions, pages 44 and 45.]

Beverly Ligon, served at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page s115
and 569.]

T. D. Ligon, served as seaman aboard the receiving vessel, CSS St. Philip, 1861; also indicated to have
served as captain of the Naval Atlanta Artillery; Ligon seems to have held a position of importance,
under lieutenant McCorkle, at Hillsboro, North Carolina, in March, 1865; paroled at Montgomery,
Alabama, May 23, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists
of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 563; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel;
NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 662; Confederate Navy
subject file O – Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OX – Lines of supply and supply ships; Ships -
Miscellaneous, page 440.]

William R. Ligon, shipped, by lieutenant Venable, at Richmond, Virginia, as a recruit into the
Confederate States Marine Corps, April 23, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV -
Miscellaneous; Marine Corps – Miscellaneous, page 303.]

J.W. Lillard, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864.
[ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]

Michael Lilles, 2nd class fireman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia,
1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]

George Lillie, served in the Eufaula Light Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy; applied
for a Confederate pension from Montgomery County, Alabama; pension no. 39192. [ADAH.]
Dave Linahan, see Daniel Linihan.

Jacob Lind, who served in the Confederate States Navy, is buried at Chestnut Street Cemetery,
Apalachicola, Florida. [John E. Ellis]

Francis Oscar Linden, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861, and as surgeon’s steward
aboard the CSS Pamlico from October 20, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, pages 79 and 268.]

G.H. Lindenberger, Mechanic, paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval
History, 785.]

Lewis Lindenburg, served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and aboard the side
wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, in 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 299; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, page 275.]

William Lindross (surname also shown as Lindrose and Lindroos), left London, England on January 21,
1864, for Brest, France, where he was shipped for service aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, as seaman,
on January 24, 1864; rated as quartermaster aboard the cruiser on March 1, 1864; captured at Bahia,
Brazil, October 7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, for confinement; released February 1,
1865. [ORN 1, 3, 256; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 353 and 390.]

David R. Lindsay, appointed from Alabama, 1863, as Naval Storekeeper, by the Confederate States
congress, but official documentation of the Confederate Navy shows that he was in that capacity as
early as November, 1862; shown as Naval Storekeeper at the Mobile Station in 1864; paroled at Nanna
Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785; ADAH; Confederate Navy subject
file, V – Governmental relationships, VN – Naval policy, Miscellaneous, page 374; Confederate Navy
subject file, X – Supplies, XF – Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, page 914.]

E.H. Lindsay, Navy, born North Carolina; died May 8, 1865; buried at Woodlawn Cemetery, Elmira, New
York. [Tom Brooks.]

E.R. Lindsay (middle initial also shown as K.), enlisted March 21 or 22, 1864, aged 20, in the Confederate
States Navy, at the Naval Rendezvous, Raleigh, North Carolina; served as landsman, CSS Albemarle,
and Halifax Station, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Arctic, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan on
December 13, 1864. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N –
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 117;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR – Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles;
Miscellaneous, page 407.]

Hugh Lindsay (surname also shown as Lindsley and Lindsey), born New York, 1803; resident of
Portsmouth, Virginia, in 1850, at the home of later Confederate Navy constructor, Joseph Pierce;
appointed from civil life; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as carpenter, August 14, 1861;
served aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March,
1862; aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, 1862 – 1863; later served on the Wilmington station, 1863. [ORN 1,
7, 48 and 2, 1, 308 & 323; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; 1850 U.S. Census; Norfolk County
Record 221.]

Jacob L. Lindsay, served as ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Savannah station,
1863; surveyed by a medical board at the Naval hospital in Savannah on August 17, 1863, and declared
as unfit for the service; ordered to be immediately discharged from Naval service. [Confederate Navy
subject file M - Medical; MX – Medical Surveys and Examinations of Individuals; B - Miscellaneous,
page 18.]

James E. Lindsay (surname also shown as Lindsey), born North Carolina, 1837; previous service in the
United States Navy, from May 2, 1860; orignal entry into Confederate States Navy service, as assistant
surgeon, January 23, 1862; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, and
at Drewry’s Bluff, 1862 – 1863; promoted passed assistant surgeon, 1863; appointed passed assistant
surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; shown as dean of the faculty of Washington University, 1875 –
1876; resided as a doctor, in 1880, with his wife Charlotte, and daughter, Margaret (born 1878), at
Baltimore, Maryland. [ORN 2, 1, 308 and 2, 2, 561; Register1863; JCC 4, 123; 1880 U.S. Census; see also
page 430 of the publication, The Monumental City, Its Past History and Present Resources, by George
W. Howard, published 1873, by J.D. Ehlers & Co., engravers and steam book printers, Baltimore.]

John Lindsay (surname also shown as Lindsey), served as seaman and quartermaster aboard the side
wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 300; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans –
Yorktown, pages 484 – 487.]

Toney Lindsay, landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or
between the period, August, 1862 and June, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 281.]

Hugh Lindsley, see Hugh Lindsay.

Andrew Ling (surname also shown as Lyng), served as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, 1862;
transferred to the CSS Georgia from December 8, 1862; later rated as master at arms in 1863; rated as
boatswain’s mate from July 1, 1863; indicated to have been in hospital about August, 1863. [ORN 2, 1,
287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons,
etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, pages 508, 512, 519 and 646; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 590.]

John Lingon, served as 2nd class fireman 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 587.]

Daniel Linihan (name also shown as Dave Linahan; surname also shown as Linnehan and Linnahan),
enlisted as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, in 1861, and served aboard the
side-wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); operated in the Lake Pontchartrain,
Louisiana and Mobile Bay, Alabama area, 1861-1862; rated as captain of the hold, aboard the vessel,
from September 18, 1861; disrated to seaman from February 1, 1862; arrested as a deserter at Mobile,
Alabama, by Mobile police, and turned over to the Naval authorities on February 12, 1862; wounded in
action at Mobile Bay, Alabama, on August 5, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 579 and 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, 427 and 443; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ –
Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 427.]

Charles Edward Lining, born South Carolina, January 6th, 1834; son of physician Thomas Lining, and his
wife, Sarah; brother of Confederate Navy engineer George Dent Lining, listed below; previous service
in the United States Navy, as assistant surgeon, from July 1, 1858; resigned from the United States
Naval service, January 11, 1861; original entry into Confederate Navy service, as passed assistant
surgeon, March 26, 1861; served on the New Orleans station, 1861; later served on the side wheeled
steamer CSS Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, 1862; also served on the Jackson station, 1862; ordered
to report to the Navy Department, Richmond, Virginia, 1862 – 1863; appointed passed assistant
surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served aboard the CSS Shenandoah, 1864 - 1865; after the
end of the cruise of the Shenandoah, he remained in England for a very short time, before going to
Argentina, where he was appointed government surgeon at Santiago del Estero, and remained there
until 1874; returned to the United States, and practiced medicine at Paducah, Kentucky, until his death
in 1897. [Alabama Claims, 1, 974; Whittle 43 & 188; ORN 1, 3, 785 and 2, 1, 299, 318 & 320; Register1863;
JCC 4, 123 36th Congress Report 24; 1850 U.S. Census; Lining Journal entry of Friday, January 6th, 1865.]


George Dent Lining
, born South Carolina, 1838; son of physician Thomas Lining, and his wife, Sarah;
brother of Confederate Navy surgeon Charles Edward Lining, listed above; previous service in the
United States Navy, from September 20, 1858; original entry into the Confederate States Navy, as 2nd
assistant engineer, August 26, 1861; appointed second assistant engineer, in the Confederate States
Navy, August 26 or 31, 1861, from South Carolina; promoted 1st assistant engineer, July 15, 1862;
served aboard the side wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later renamed the CSS Selma), 1862 – 1863;
transferred, June 2, 1864 (another source shows that he was assigned to the vessel on February 16,
1864, at her commissioning), to CSS Tennessee; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; sent to New
Orleans, then to Ship Island, Mississippi, November, 1864, where he was paroled and exchanged,
March 2, 1865; final parole at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; his widow, Kate Austill Lining
(widowed prior to 1910) applied for a Confederate pension, from Mobile County, Alabama,
September, 1929. [ORN 1, 21, 406 & 934 and 2, 1, 286 & 306; Porter’s Naval History, 785; ADAH;
Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; 1850 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census.]

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

Daniel Linnehan, see Daniel Linihan.

Isaac Linscott, originally served as private, company F, 5th Texas Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

J. Linsey, served at the Mobile station, 1863, as private, Confederate States Marine Corps.
[Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1070.]

Edward Linton, served as coal heaver aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James
River, Virginia; also shown as fireman on temporary duty at Drewry's Bluff, James River, February,
1865. [ORN 1, 11, 812 and 2, 1, 301.]

John P. Lipscomb, born North Carolina; appointed as assistant surgeon, Confederate States Navy,
March 26, 1863; served on the Charleston station, 1862, and on the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State,
Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 – 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2,
1864; later served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River, Virginia, 1865; attached, as surgeon, to
Semmes’ Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26,
1865. [ORN 1, 11, 691 and 2, 1, 298 & 317; JCC 4, 123; Register1864; M1091.]

John P. Lipscomb, originally served as private, company C, 10th Virginia Cavalry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date (see previous entry, which may be the same person).
[Civil War Service Records.]

Robert Lisk, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]

Orison Litchfield (first name also shown as Orson), born about 1839; pre war occupation, overseer;
originally enlisted, August 14, 1862, in company G, 61st North Carolina Infantry; also served as private,
Confederate States Marine Corps aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862;
absent without leave, September 15, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 311; Civil War Service Records.]

Spence (Spencer) Litchfield (surname also shown as Lichfield), born North Carolina, 1837; resided as a
mariner, in 1860, at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina; enlisted at Chowan County,
North Carolina, May 18, 1861, as private, company A, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops;
discharged February 1, 1862, and transferred to the Confederate States Navy; served as ordinary
seaman aboard the CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [1860 U.S. Census; NCT 3, 149; ORN 2,
1, 309.]

---- Littiam, see John Latham.

A. W. Littig, indicated to have served as engineer aboard the steamer Cotton Plant, of the trans-
Mississippi Department; paroled at Houston, Texas, May 26, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 662.]

Charles Litting (surname also shown as Littig), served as seaman aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae,
New Orleans station, in 1861; later served as quartermaster aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS
Pontchartrain, Arkansas waters, 1862 – 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 291 and 299; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 91.]

Christopher C. Little, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North
Carolina, 1863 – 1864; married Sarah E. Atkinson, of Fayetteville, North Carolina, at Cumberland
County, North Carolina, on October 29, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 294, 295 & 297; Fayetteville Observer (North
Carolina) dated Thursday, November 5, 1863.]

Isaac Little, 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, 276, 278 & 302.]

Joseph Little, shipped at Shreveport, Louisiana, for three years or the war, as landsman in the
Confederate States Navy, on March 6, 1864; served aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, in 1864;
rated 1st class fireman from January 15, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA –
Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1013; Confederate Navy
subject file N - Personnel; NR – Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 406.]

M. Little, served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama,
1863; deserted about August, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ –
Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 193.]

Nath Little, originally served as private, company H, 9th Kentucky Mounted Infantry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

William Little, born, resided in, as a laborer, and enlisted at, Wake County, North Carolina, May 21,
1861, aged 20, as private, company K, 14th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy, February 15, 1862, for duty on the Merrimac (CSS Virginia), at Hampton
Roads, Virginia, 1862; served as landsman on this vessel. [NCT 5, 488; ORN 2, 1, 309.]

Hardin Beverly Littlepage, born Virginia, March, 1842; previous service in the United States Navy, as
midshipman, from September 23, 1858; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting
midshipman, June 11, 1861; served aboard the CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862;
participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; appointed master in line of
promotion, October 15, 1862; appointed 2nd lieutenant on August 20, 1863; served on the steamer CSS
Atlanta, 1862 – 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864 (another
Naval document shows appointment as 1st lieutenant was on June 25, 1864); served abroad, 1864, and
was ordered to the Texas (Pampero), but the vessel was seized by the British authorities; later on duty
in the James River squadron, and assigned to the CSS Virginia II, January, 1865; married in 1870;
resided as an agent of the Treasury Department, in 1887, at King William County, Virginia; employed by
the Treasury Department, in 1887, to “assist in the prevention and detection of frauds upon the
customs revenue,” and to “recover such properties belonging to the late Confederate States as have
been fraudulently or improperly diverted or concealed”; resided as a Navy Department clerk, in 1900,
with his wife, Emily, and two daughters, at Washington, D.C; shown as one of the few members of the
Association of Survivors of the Confederate States Navy, when they met up at Murphy’s Hotel, in
Richmond, Virginia, in May, 1907; was also heavily involved in attempts to gather and copy records of
the Navy during the Civil War, for historical preservation; died at his home in Washington, Thursday,
December 14, 1911. [ORN 1, 7, 47; 1, 12, 182 & 187 and 2, 1, 308; Register1863; JCC 4, 122; 1860 U.S.
Census; 1900 U.S. Census; CSN-Museum; New York Times dated Wednesday, July 28, 1888 and
Saturday, December 16, 1911; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 1, 1907, page 3;
Washington Post dated December 6, 1908, page E2; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN–
Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances – Appointments of officers (L -- Z) – Revoked
commissions, pages 49 and 50.]

William B. Littlepage, originally served as private, Lee’s Battery, Alabama Light Artillery; transferred, as
acting master’s mate, to the Confederate States Navy, 1863; served aboard the CSS Richmond and CSS
Nansemond, James River squadron, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 671 and 727; Register1864; Civil War Service
Records.]

Amos C. Littleton, born Jones County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; resided in, and
enlisted at Jones County, January 22, 1862, aged 35, as private, company C, 61st Regiment North
Carolina Troops; deserted, August 27, 1862, but returned to duty, February 26, 1863; wounded in the
right shoulder at Morris Island, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina on or about August 26, 1863;
deserted at Kenansville, November 23, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, December
30, 1863. [NCT 14, 673.]

Thomas M. Liverman, resided in, and enlisted at Beaufort County, North Carolina, November 7, 1861,
aged 20, as private, company C, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate
States Navy, May 8, 1865 [1862?]; served as seaman on the CSS Arctic, 1862. [NCT 1, 401; ORN 1, 23, 703
& 2, 1, 276.]

William Liverman, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, April - June, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and
Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia); later served aboard the former Union vessel, the CSS Water
Witch, 1864; transferred to the CSS Georgia, Savannah Squadron, in place of Augustus L. Bradley, by
order of flag officer W.W. Hunter, dated November 14, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 283; Confederate States Navy
subject file N – NF – Distribution and Transfers.]

Angus Livingston (first name also shown as August), served as seaman and captain of foretop aboard
the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; captured and paroled, and subsequently
sent to the Mobile station in 1862; served as seaman and coxswain aboard the ironclad ram CSS
Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, 1863; deserted about April, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 291 and 308; DANFS;
Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS
Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1057; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements,
rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans – Yorktown, page 87; Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NZ – Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 195.]

Charles H. Livingston, originally served as private, company A, 10th Texas Cavalry; transferred to the
Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; served as ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad ram
CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [Civil War Service Records; ORN 2, 1, 308.]

George Livingston, captain’s clerk; served aboard the CSS Sea Bird, and was captured at (Cobb’s Point
Battery) Roanoke Island, North Carolina, February, 1862; paroled and later returned to Norfolk,
Virginia, February 19, 1862; paid in full, as being on sea duty, aboard the receiving vessel Plymouth, up
to April 30, 1862. [Register1862; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated February 19, 1862;
Confederate Navy subject file, R – Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 220.]

Joseph H. Livington, served in the Confederate States Navy, aboard gunboat, CSS Tuscaloosa; filed for
a post war Confederate pension from Newton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 595.]

J. R. Livingston, served as landsman 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.]

L. Livingston, pay clerk, CSS Chattahoochee, April - June, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and
Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia). [ORN 2, 1, 283; DANFS.]

Joseph L. Llambias (middle initial also shown as F.), born Florida, 1842; son of Joseph and Catharina
Llambias; resided, before the war, with his parents at St. Augustine, St. Johns County, Florida; enlisted
July 13, 1861, in the 2nd Florida Infantry; discharged at Richmond, July 17, 1862, for disability; enlisted in
the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Spray, St. Marks, Florida; married Rosalie M.
Reyes, at St. John’s County, Florida, October 28, 1877; died January 28, 1892, at St. John’s County.
[Florida Confederate Pension File No. A00451; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census.]

David Herbert Llewelyn, born Wiltshire, England; son of the reverend David Llewellyn, curate of
Euston Royal, Wilts, England; educated at Marlborough College, and subsequently studied his
profession at Charing Cross Hospital, from 1856 to 1859; silver medallist in surgery and chemistry;
served as assistant surgeon aboard the cruiser CSS Alabama; drowned June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg,
France. [ORN 1, 3, 70; Confederate States Medical and Surgical Journal, page 147.]

Charles Lloyd, served aboard the cruiser CSS Georgia, in 1863; a list of “boarders” on the cruiser shows
Lloyd holding the position of tackleman at the 3rd gun division. [Confederate Navy subject file N -
Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 604.]

F.G. Lloyd, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN
2, 1, 308.]

Robert Lloyd, recruited at Mobile, Alabama, by captain George P. Turner, into the Confederate States
Marine Corps, May 5, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA – Complements, rolls,
lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama – CSS Neuse, page 1047.]

William Lloyd, seaman, CSS Georgia, 1863. [Alabama Claims 1, 694.]


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