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Charles Oakes (surname also shown as Oaks), born Liverpool, England; resident of Mobile County, Alabama; served in the Confederate States Navy, December, 1862 - May 10, 1865, and was boatswain's mate aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865 (also shown as having surrendered and paroled at Irvin's Bluff, Louisiana); took the amnesty oath at St. Louis, Missouri, July 5, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 664.]
Frank Oakes (surname also shown as Oaks), resident of Mobile, Alabama; entered the Confederate States Navy in December, 1862, at Mobile, and served as landsman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865 (also shown as having surrendered and paroled at Irvin's Bluff, Louisiana, May 10, 1865); took the amnesty oath at St. Louis, Missouri, June 5, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 665.]
Charles Oakey, Pilot, CSS Webb, February, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 407.]
Francis Oakley (first name also shown as Frank), claimed to have been in New Orleans at the start of the war, and that he had had to enlist, or starve; served as private, company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861; later stationed aboard the receiving ship CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, April-June, 1864; also served, in 1864, aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, and aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters; also served at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864; while on picket duty outside Battery Buchanan, in early January, 1865, deserted, and with five other deserters, took a boat and rowed out to the Union vessels, off Wilmington, on January 2, 1865, and were then taken aboard the USS Pontoosuc. [ORN 2, 1, 280, 297, 302, 314, 316 & 317; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 539 - 540.]
James Oar, see James Ore.
Laurence Oates, enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, August 3, 1861, as private, company B, 13th Louisiana Infantry; may have been temporarily detached to the 11th Louisiana Infantry, in 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy by order of the Secretary of War, and General Johnston, dated at the Headquarters, Army of Tennessee, Dalton, Georgia, April 10, 1864. [Booth 2, 1309-1310.]
John W. Oats, recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on July 31, 1863, as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps; attended a Naval General Court Martial, as defendant, at Savannah, August, 1864, specification of charges and sentence not shown; his widow, Martha A. Oats filed for a post war Confederate pension from Walton County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 721; ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 688; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 249.]
Lawrence Oats, served as fireman (also shown as landsman) aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 700 and 2, 1, 283.]
F.A. Ober, landsman, CSS Richmond, January, 1865; attached as orderly sergeant to company I, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 794; M1091.]
Jacob Ober, served as a private in company A, 5th 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; served as landsman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Civil War Service Records; Confederate States Navy subject file.]
---- Oberhartz, served aboard the CSS Governor Moore, at New Orleans, April, 1862; killed in action. [ORN 1, 18, 308.]
Thomas O'Boy, served as 2nd class boy on the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 93.]
Michael O'Brian, see Michael O'Bryan
Thomas O'Brian, served as seaman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 (see Thomas O'Brien, listed below, who may be the same person); died July 13, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 277; Confederate Navy Subject File, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, etc., page 998; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 198.]
Francis O'Brien, shipped as boy (aged between 14 and 17) aboard the Confederate States floating battery New Orleans on October 30, 1861; rated as 1st class boy aboard the same vessel, 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 9 and 12.]
Hugh O'Brien (surname also shown as O'Brine), served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861, and aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1862; also served in the marine guard aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston station in 1863-1864. [ORN 2, 1, 317; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 133, 136-139 and 153; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 573.]
James O'Brien, previously served as sergeant, company A, 1st Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry (Olmstead's), February 14, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 6, 1864; captured at Savannah, Georgia, December 21, 1864; sent north from Fort Pulaski, Georgia, and took the Oath of Allegiance, March 4, 1865; received at New York City, at an unspecified date. [Georgia Rosters 1, 116.]
John O'Brien, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Arctic, 1863; deserted but was apprehended and returned to the custody of Naval authorities at Wilmington, on September 23, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 469.]
John O'Brien, served as 3rd class boy in the Confederate States Navy, 1862; deserted about September, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 271.]
John O'Brien, served as fireman on the CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100 and 261.]
John O'Brien, ordinary seaman and officers' cook, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]
John O'Brien, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298.]
John O'Brien, enlisted for three years in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on August 20, 1862, and served aboard the CSS Huntress. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 174 and 753.]
John O'Brien, served as a private in company F of the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Mobile, Alabama, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1072.]
Laurence O'Brien (name also shown as Laurens O'Bryan; first name also shown as Lamans), served as seaman and coal heaver aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station 1861 - 1862; wounded in action, April 24-25, 1862, and sent to the Marine Hospital at New Orleans. [Daily Picayune, Tuesday, April 29, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 88.]
Martin O'Brien, ordinary seaman, wooden gunboat CSS Drewry, James River, Virginia, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS.]
Martin O'Brien, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 291.]
Martin O'Brien, served as seaman aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile station, 1863; deserted about December, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 273.]
Matthew O'Brien (first name also shown as Nathan in Register1862 and Register1863), born Louisiana, about 1838 (birthplace also shown as Limerick, Ireland, and residing in Louisiana; Raphael Semmes himself, in a dispatch dated at New Orleans, May 16, 1861, mentions the fact that O'Brien was a native of Ireland, but had come to America as a small boy, and had been domiciled, ever since, in the Confederate States; Semmes also indicated that O'Brien had been highly recommended to him by engineer Freeman); original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, May 20, 1861; served on the CSS Sumter, 1861 - 1863; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, May 21, 1863; sent to Liverpool, England, via London, April, 1862; served aboard the CSS Alabama, 1862 - 1864; involved in the engagement with the USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France; rescued by the English yacht Deerhound; appointed acting Chief Engineer (appointed by Lieutenant James I. Waddell, Confederate States Navy), October 8, 1864; served aboard the CSS Shenandoah, 1864-1865; post war occupation as supervising inspector of steam vessels at New Orleans; died New Orleans, Louisiana, January 27, 1898. [Booth 3, 5; Alabama Claims 1, 974; ORN 1, 1, 614 & 684 and 1, 3, 757; CSS Sumter Muster Roll; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; William Marvel; Sheppard - Atlanta Constitution dated January 28, 1898; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 205.]
Michael O'Brien, served as 1st class boy aboard Launch No. 3, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 47.]
Michael O'Brien, Landsman, Savannah, Georgia, 1863-1864; previously served as Private in Company A, First Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, May 3, 1863. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 122.]
Michael O'Brien, served as coal heaver aboard the side-wheeled steamer CSS Jamestown, 1861 - 1862; rated as 2nd class fireman from January 1, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 289; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 947.]
Michael O'Brien, served aboard the CSS Olustee, 1864; discharged from the Naval service on December 14, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 968.]
Michael O'Brien, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, 1864; sentenced, by a Naval Court Martial, in April, 1864, to confinement at hard labor, and sent to Drewry's Bluff, James River, under arrest. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 236.]
Michael J. O'Brien, born Baltimore, Maryland, September 15, 1836; employed, in his youth, in a publishing house in Baltimore; later a clerk in a drug store and also driver of an express wagon for the Southern Express Company, in Memphis, Tennessee; later a cashier of the New Orleans office of the Southern Express Company; when the Civil War began he enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, and served under lieutenant Poindexter, at New Orleans; later reported to Richmond, and sent back to the express company to give special attention to the transportation of Confederate government finances; also assisted in the exchange of prisoners, having been appointed Commissioner of Exchange by Mayor Hatch for Confederate prisoners; sent to Augusta, Georgia, at the close of the war; appointed general superintendent of the Southern Express Company; later appointed vice president and general manager of the company, in 1888; remained in that position until July, 1899; died of pleural pneumonia, after an illness of three weeks, on September 11, 1909, (at New York?); remains sent to Chattanooga, Tennessee, for burial. [New York Times dated Sunday, September 12, 1909.]
Nathan O'Brien, see Matthew O'Brien.
Patrick O'Brien, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, on August 9, 1861, as private in company B, Confederate States Marine Corps; served at the Richmond station in 1863, and at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864, and in the marine guard aboard the CSS Drewry, James River squadron. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 308; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 441 and 466.]
R. O'Brien, Landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]
Thomas O'Brien, served as seaman aboard the CSS Mobile, in 1861; rated as boatswain's mate on October 31, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1029.]
Thomas O'Brien, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 6, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 49 and 108.]
Thomas O'Brien, seaman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864 (see Thomas O'Brian, listed above, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302.]
Timothy O'Brien, served as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863 - 1864; sentenced, by a Naval Court Martial, to be sent for confinement to Drewry's Bluff, James River, May, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 305; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 238.]
William O'Brien, served as coal heaver aboard the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, 1863 - 1864; rated as 2nd class fireman from January 15, 1864 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 292; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1013.]
William O'Brien, Master at Arms, CSS Missouri, resident of Galveston, Texas; surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana, May 26, 1865; paroled, June 7, 1865 (see previous entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 1, 27, 234.]
Jim O'Bryan, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, for the war, on October 22, 1863, and served as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah; condemned to be sent to Drewry's Bluff, James River, as a prisoner, by sentence of a Court Martial, May 1, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 77.]
Laurens O'Bryan, see Laurence O'Brien.
Michael O'Bryan (surname also shown as O'Brian), shipped for the war, as seaman aboard the side wheeled steamer CSS Oconee (originally the CSS Savannah prior to April, 1863), Savannah River, Georgia, on May 1, 1863; also served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah Squadron, Georgia, 1863; condemned to be sent to Drewry's Bluff, James River, by sentence of a Court Martial, May 10, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 304; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 602; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 75.]
George O'Bryon, served as 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 110.]
Peter Ochlivitch (surname also shown as Ochilivich), served as seaman aboard the Confederate States floating battery New Orleans, at Columbus, Kentucky, 1862; deserted at an unspecified date. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 6 and 14.]
John Ocho (also shown as Juan Ochoa/Ochure), born at Bilbao, Spain, about 1843; served as ordinary seaman aboard the cruiser CSS Alabama, 1862 - 1864; rated as seaman from August 22, 1863; captured after the engagement, with the USS Kearsarge, off Cherbourg, France, June 19, 1864; paroled, and later served aboard several other vessels; arrived in Sydney, New South Wales, May 8, 1865, aboard the ABROLHOS, of Liverpool; later settled in New Zealand, and worked as a handcart man in Auckland; died at the Lunatic Asylum in Auckland, May 16, 1889; buried at the Waikumete Cemetery, Auckland. [New Zealand Observer; Mariners and Ships in Australian Waters web site; William Marvel; CSS Alabama rolls.]
M. O'Connel, Fireman, temporary duty at Drewry's Bluff, James River, February, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 812.]
John C. O'Connell, born Alabama, 1838; son of Bernard and Catherine O'Connell; resided as an engineer, in 1860, with his parents and siblings at Mobile, Alabama; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, March 17, 1862 (another Naval document shows his appointment date as August 13, 1862); served on the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1862 - 1863; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, May 21, 1863; transferred to the CSS Tennessee, February 16, 1864; wounded in action and captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; sent to hospital at Pensacola; later served aboard the gunboat CSS Huntsville; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; post war, served as vice president of the First National Bank, Montgomery, Alabama; offered his services to the United States government, during the Spanish American War, but offer was not taken up. [ORN 1, 21, 406, 578 & 934 and 2, 1, 292; Porter's Naval History, 785; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; Sheppard - Atlanta Constitution dated May 6, 1898; 1860 U.S. Census ; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 549; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 208.]
Daniel O'Conner, landsman, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]
Michael O'Conner, served as master at arms aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1223.]
Patrick O'Conner (name also shown as P.O. Connor; surname also shown as O'Connor), enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862; deserted from the vessel about June, 1863, but was apprehended by (policeman?) H. G. Blount, and returned aboard the vessel on June 5, 1863, and for which Blount received a reward of $30. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 275.]
Charles O'Connor, born October 21, 1824, County Cork, Ireland; enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, May 8, 1862, in the Confederate States Navy; served on the CSS Selma; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864; sent as a prisoner of war to Ship Island for six months, then to Union controlled Mobile, Alabama, February 9, 1865; indicated that he was transferred to the Army [not indicated which army] for secret service at the seige of Spanish Fort and Blakely; mustered out at Mobile; served under General A.L. Gibson, Louisiana Tigers Brigade at Spanish Fort; was residing in Pensacola in 1902. [Florida Confederate Pension File No. A12749.]
John H. O'Connor, paymaster's clerk, ironclad ram CSS Raleigh, North Carolina,1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]
Michael O'Connor, 2nd class fireman and coal heaver, screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]
P. O'Connor, see Patrick O'Conner.
Patrick O'Connor, served as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, Mobile squadron, 1864; died at the Naval Hospital, Mobile, about April 11, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 33.]
William O'Daniel, originally served as private, company H, 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
George W. Oden, born October 11, 1841 (1900 U.S. Census shows month of birth as November, 1841), North Carolina; enlisted in the Confederate States Marine Corps on October 6, 1864; served as a private in the marine guard aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station; shown residing, in 1900, as a farmer, with his second wife, Mary (whom he married in 1896), and grown children from his first marriage, at Bath township, North Carolina; died March 1, 1906; buried Athens Chapel Cemetery, Whitepost Community, near Bath, Beaufort County, North Carolina. [Confederate Burials, 69; 1900 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 266.]
William H. Odenheimer, jr., born Virginia; captain's clerk, served on the Savannah station, 1861; appointed master not in line of promotion, April 16, 1862; served on the Charleston station, 1862, and as executive officer of gunboat No. 3; later served at Drewry's Bluff, James River Squadron, 1862; then on the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, 1862; transferred to the CSS Indian Chief, September, 1862; as lieutenant, on the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298 & 317 and 1, 13, 807; Register1863; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (January - June, 1862), page 697.]
John O'Donnel, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864 (see entry for John O'Donnell, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 295; DANFS.]
Francis O'Donnell, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 301.]
James O'Donnell (surname also shown as O'Donnel), served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864 (operated on the Apalachicola and Chattahoochee Rivers, Florida/Georgia); also served aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (which was also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865; served in the Confederate States Naval Battalion, at the fall of Richmond; deserted and surrendered himself, together with his arms, aboard the Union vessel, USS Onondaga, on the James River, on April 4, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 283 & 286; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271 and 608; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 554.]
John O'Donnell, 2nd class fireman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864 (see next entry, which may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 296.]
John O'Donnell, resided in New Hanover County, North Carolina; enlisted at Brunswick County, North Carolina, June 2, 1861, aged 30, as private, 2nd company H, 3rd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; in confinement, June, 1863, for mutinous conduct; transferred to company E, 31st Regiment North Carolina Troops, July, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 6, 1864 (a Naval document shows that O'Donnell was shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 1, 1864, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle, at Plymouth Sound, North Carolina - also, see entry for John O'Donnel, and previous entry, which may be the same person). [NCT 1, 486 & 8, 468; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38.]
John O'Donnell, served at the Mobile station, in 1863,as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; later shown as 2nd corporal in the Corps, in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1070.]
R. O'Donnell, see R.O. Donnell.
William O'Donnell, transferred, from the Confederate Army, to the CSS Spray, St. Mark's, Florida, as ordinary seaman, on June 2, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 815.]
William O'Donnell, ordinary 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 553.]
William O'Donnell, 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.]
Z.A. Offutt, born District of Columbia; citizen of, and appointed from, Virginia; appointed from civil life; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting gunner, July 11, 1861; served on the Richmond station, and on the side wheeled steamer CSS Rappahannock, Potomac and Rappahannock Rivers, Virginia, 1861 - 1863; sick leave, 1862 - 1863; later served at the Mobile station, and aboard the steamer, CSS Gaines, 1863-1864; after the battle of Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, he reported for duty aboard the CSS Nashville, Charles C. Simms commanding; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [ORN 1, 21, 593 and 2, 1, 303 & 321; Porter's Naval History 785; ORA 1, 39; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 1127.]
O.S. Oglehart, see Osborn S. Iglehart.
W.F. O'Grady, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315.]
Dixon Richard O'Haloran (surname also shown as O'Halloran), Private, Company A, 22nd Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, August 31, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, September 1861; paid for services as ordinary seaman, C.S. Navy, on ironclad CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, from January 16 to February 18, 1862; no later record. [Georgia Rosters 2, 940; ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Michael O'Hara, enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, May 1, 1862, as private, companies D, B and C, 30th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to company H, by order of colonel J.A. Breaux, commanding, November 1, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by order of general Maury, Mobile, Alabama, March 24, 1864. [Booth 3, 22.]
Patrick Henry O'Hara, Lieutenant; previously served as Private, Company C, First Regiment Georgia Regulars, March, 1861; transferred to Confederate States Navy, May 2, 1864; served on Indian Chief, at Charleston, South Carolina; surrendered at Charleston, May, 1865. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 323.]
Theodore Ohse, born Germany, 1844 (1860 U.S. Census shows his place of birth as New Orleans); son of Augustus and Kelia (Juliana) Ohse; resided with his parents, in 1850 - 1860, at New Orleans, Louisiana; in 1860, his occupation is shown as rope maker; served as boy aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as landsman on April 1, 1862; later served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1003.]
Daniel O'Keefe, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile station, June 15, 1862; discharged by medical survey, November 29, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MX - Medical Surveys and Examinations of Individuals; B - Miscellaneous, page 31; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]
James O'Keefe (surname is also shown as O'Kafe), private, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Baltic, which operated in Alabama waters; served during, or between the period, August, 1862 and 1864; captured at Fort Gaines, Alabama, August 8, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 224.]
Edward O'Kiefe, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]
---- Old, native of England; served as a seaman aboard the privateer CSS Sumter, 1861; deserted at Curacoa, about August 7, 1861. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated August 21, 1861.]
Andrew Holstead Olds, born Green County, North Carolina, March 9, 1843; landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; also served as surgeon's steward on the CSS Savannah, 1863; Olds is shown, on Naval documents, as being paid by the Navy Department for the transportation of sick personnel from the CSS Savannah to the Naval hospital at Savannah; later attached to the Naval Brigade at Richmond, Virginia, 1865; paroled at Appomattox, Virginia, April, 1865; resided as a farm laborer, in 1870, with his wife, Sarah R. Olds, and daughter, at Jackson County, Florida; moved to Alabama sometime after 1870; shown to be residing at Louisville, Barbour County, Alabama, in 1907. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Appomattox Paroles; ORN 2, 1, 305; ADAH; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OX - Lines of supply and supply ships; Ships - Miscellaneous, page 526.]
I. P. Oldham, appointed pilot aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Beauregard, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 265.]
J. P. Oldham, enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, June 4, 1861, as private, company H, 5th Louisiana Infantry; discharged, about January or February, 1862, by order of the Secretary of War, to serve on flotilla defenses in Louisiana. [Booth 3, 24.]
David O'Leary, served as quartermaster aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1863; signed on for the war on July 1, 1863, and, as seaman, was granted a fourteen day furlough on July 4, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 514.]
James O'Leary, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, June 21, 1861, as private, company F, 15th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February, 1862; same source also seems to indicate that he had either returned to, or continued in the unit until his desertion, July 4, 1863. [Booth 3, 24.]
William D. Oliveira (surname also shown as Oliveric), born May 31, 1833, Chatham County, Georgia; enlisted at Savannah, Georgia, as private, in Oglethorpe Light Infantry, afterwards company G, 25th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry; transferred to the Navy about the end of 1861 or early 1862, as master's mate; appointed master (rank also shown as master's mate) in the Confederate States Navy, September 3, 1863, and ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Savannah; served aboard, and later ordered to command the CSS Resolute, September, 1863; captured, December 13, 1864, on the Savannah River, off Fort McAllister, Georgia (captured by Captain Henry G. Brigham, 107th New York Infantry, who later resided close to Oliveira, at Volusia County, Florida, after the war), sent to Hilton Head, and then imprisoned at the Old Capitol Prison, Washington, D.C., and later at Fort Delaware; paroled, February 27, 1865, and sent, on exchange, to Richmond, Virginia, thence to Augusta, Georgia; was a member of the Confederate Veterans Association, Camp 756, UCV, at Savannah, Georgia, in 1888; moved to Daytona Beach, Florida in 1888; Oliveira was never married, and was residing in the Old Soldier's Home, Jacksonville, Florida, in March, 1917; post-war occupation was as swimming instructor at the Florida Coast Resorts. [ORN 1, 14, 768 and 2, 1, 303; Georgia Rosters, 3, 152; Register1864; Florida Confederate Pension File no. A06711; Confederate Navy subject file, N - Personnel, NN - Acceptances, applications, appointments, etc., Acceptances - appointments of officers (A-K), page 33; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 212.]
C. J. Oliver, 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.]
Charles B. Oliver, born Massachusetts, 1822; citizen of, and appointed from, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, from May 3, 1843; resided as a mariner, in 1850, with his wife, Sarah, and daughter, Cornelia, at Norfolk, Virginia; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 21, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as gunner, June 11, 1861; served aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; also served on the CSS Richmond, 1862 - 1863; in a letter dated at Richmond, Virginia, March 4, 1863, and written jointly with boatswain Charles H. Hasker, both Oliver and Hasker made a mild protest about their having been outranked in the Confederate service, by midshipmen, who were permitted to take charge of a vessel, while they were not; Oliver stated that, while in the United States service, before the war, he had performed the duties of a lieutenant for some five months, at sea and in port; subsequently, he was promoted lieutenant, May 5, 1863; served on the Savannah station, 1863 - 1864, as ordnance officer; ordered to report for duty at Charleston, South Carolina, in July, 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; resided as a bank janitor, in 1880, at Norfolk, Virginia; shown as a widower, in 1880. [ORN 1, 7, 48; 1, 14, 724 & 727 and 2, 1, 308 & 322; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate States Navy subject files - NI.]
H. Oliver, Quartermaster, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]
Henry F. Oliver, born 1831; enlisted August 20, 1861, at Apalachicola, Florida, in Company B, 4th Florida Infantry; transferred to Confederate States Navy, April 10, 1864; served as seaman and gunner's mate on the CSS Chattahoochee, 1864; transferred from the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah River, in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina. [Hartman's Florida Rosters, 1, 382; ORN 1, 17, 700 and 2, 1, 283; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]
John Oliver, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]
Joseph L. Oliver, resided in, and enlisted at Washington County, North Carolina, June 24, 1861, aged 20 (1880 U.S. Census also shows his year of birth as 1829), as private, company G, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; discharged from his regiment, February 20, 1862, on being transferred to the Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS Virginia; wounded in the battle at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March 8-9, 1862, and discharged from the service, shortly after; resided, as a carpenter, with his wife, Mary J., and two children, in 1880, at Elizabeth City, Pasquotank County, North Carolina; post war occupation also shown as ship's carpenter; received a Confederate pension from North Carolina; a letter, dated January 19, 1897, states that the wounds he received in action, aboard the CSS Virginia, had never healed; admitted to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, in March, 1897; age, at time of admission, shown as 52; place of residence, at time of admission, shown as Norfolk, Virginia; died April 16, 1897; buried Norfolk County, Virginia. [NCT 3, 219; LVa; 1880 U.S. Census.]
Sandford C. Oliver, recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on July 31, 1863, as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps; attended, as defendant, a Naval Court Martial at Savannah, in August, 1864, specification of charges, and sentence not shown. [ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 688; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 249.]
William Oliver, Boatswain's Mate, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]
Marquis Olivera, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in December 1, 1861. [Soldiers of Florida, 49.]
James Olivia, 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.]
Jacob Ollsen, seaman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 309.]
Frank Olmstead, mate, side wheeled steamer CSS Talomico, Savannah, Georgia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]
Mack Olmstead, deckhand (?), side wheeled steamer CSS Talomico, Savannah, Georgia, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]
F. Olmsted, citizen who served as pilot aboard the Confederate States steamer Charm; paroled at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 9, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 665.]
Charles Olsen, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama; killed in action, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]
H.J. Olson, quartermaster, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]
Charles O'Maley, second class boy, CSS Macon, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls.]
Martin O'Meally (surname also shown as O'Mealy), served as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and aboard the steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 291 & 320; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 89.]
Caswell G. O'Neal, resident of Wake County, North Carolina; served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg; paroled at Raleigh, North Carolina, June 3, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 665.]
Christopher Thomas O'Neal, Jr., born August 2, 1826, Ocracoke, North Carolina; married Nancy O'Neal (seven children of this marriage, only three of whom survived a typhoid epidemic in the 1860's), November 26, 1846, at Ocracoke; occupation, pilot at Ocracoke Inlet; enlisted in Hyde County, North Carolina, October 17, 1861, as private in Company H, 33rd Regiment, North Carolina Troops, at age 44 [NCT source shows age at enlistment as 41]; reported absent without leave, March 14, 1862, but returned to duty sometime between March and August, 1863; transferred on or about April 3, 1864, to Confederate States Navy; buried, May 18, 1911, at the O'Neal family cemetery, Ocracoke Island, Hyde County, North Carolina. [Information supplied by his descendant, Ellen Cloud, of North Carolina; NCT 9, 216.]
George H. O'Neal, born July 24, 1822; appointed from Florida; resided at Pensacola, since 1850; originally served as paymaster's clerk, Savannah station, 1861 - 1862; promoted assistant paymaster, April 23, 1862; served on the Naval works, Selma, Alabama, 1862 - 1863, and at the Mobile station, 1864; on special service, 1864; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; after the war, he was confidential clerk of the timber shipping firm of Keyser, Judah & Company, and later of the firm of O'Neal, Chaffin & Company; was married with five children, at the time of his death; died at Rhea Springs, Tennessee, June 20, 1887; buried at the St. John's Cemetery, Pensacola, Florida. [ORN 2, 1, 319 & 323; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Porter's Naval History, 785; John E. Ellis; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated June 21, 1887.]
James William O'Neal, served as seaman, Confederate States Navy, at Mobile, Alabama, 1863; served in the secret service, and then aboard the torpedo boat St. Patrick, as pilot, 1864; transferred to Mobile, Alabama, 1865; resident of Baldwin County, Alabama, in 1907 (see also, entry for J.W. O'Neil, who may be the same person). [ADAH.]
Robert J. O'Neal (surname also shown as O'Neil), appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at Halifax, North Carolina, March 8, 1864; served aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1234; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 217.]
William O'Neal, resided in, and enlisted at Currituck County, North Carolina, October 11, 1862, aged 18, as private, company B, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; deserted to the Union at Sullivan's Island, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, August 20, 1863; confined at Fort Monroe, Virginia, and released September 13, 1863; rejoined his Confederate Army regiment about November or December, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 1, 1864. [NCT 4, 540.]
Cornelius O'Neil, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; listed his next of kin as Ellen O'Neil. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1005.]
Daniel O'Neil, recruited at Mobile, Alabama, by captain George P. Turner, into the Confederate States Marine Corps, May 12, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1047.]
J.W. O'Neil , indicated as being a seaman in the Confederate States Navy, when he was captured on board the schooner Hugo, off Pensacola, Florida, November 14, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then transferred to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, September 18, 1863; released and sent to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged. [Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864.]
John O'Neil, ship's corporal, steam sloop CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 291; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 111.]
John O'Neil, served as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1863; listed as missing from the vessel as of March 15, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 596.]
John O'Neil, seaman, ironclad ram CSS Missouri, October - December, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 291.]
John O'Neil, coal heaver, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 & 295; DANFS.]
John O'Neil, seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 296.]
William O'Neil, shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 1, 1864, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle, at Plymouth Sound, North Carolina (see also, the entry for William O'Neal, who may be the same person). [ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38.]
William O'Neil (surname also shown as O'Neill), resident of Manatee, Florida; married, with one child; originally served in company K, 7th Florida Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Savannah, March, 1864; sent, as quarter gunner, to Battery Buchanan on December 30, 1864. [Robert Watson Diary March 3, 1864 & October 4, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 118.]
Daniel O'Neill, originally served as private, company F, 1st South Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
James O'Neill, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862; rated as 2nd class fireman from June 16, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 109.]
John O'Neill, served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; listed his next of kin as Mary O'Neill. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1005.]
Samuel O'Neill, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]
Samuel O'Neill, served as seaman aboard the CSS Morgan, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Tombigbee River, Alabama, on May 10, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]
William B. O'Neill (surname also shown as O'Neil), landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863; also served as ordinary seaman aboard the steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278 & 302.]
John Orchard, originally served as private, company A, 24th South Carolina Infantry; stated to have transferred to the "Navy Department" at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
James Ore (surname also shown as Oar), born England; served as boy, CSS Shenandoah; triced up, April 12, 1865, for quarreling with fellow crew member, James Marlow, and neglect of duty. [Alabama Claims 1, 976; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; ORN 1, 3, 783; Whittle 235.]
William Orient, left London, England on January 16, 1864, for Brest, France, where he shipped aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 19, 1864, as landsman (however, a document signed by the commander, lieutenant Morris, shows that Orient was rated as captain's steward from January 17, 1864). [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 351 and 390.]
Thomas Orilby, see Thomas Crilley.
Thomas Ormand (surname also shown as Ormond), enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on April 29, 1864; served as landsman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, Chattahoochee River, 1864; transferred from the floating battery CSS Georgia, in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 283; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]
Frank Ormsby, coal heaver, Confederate States Navy; captured aboard a boat from the CSS Oconee, at Ossabaw Sound, Georgia, on August 20, 1863, by the USS Madgie; transferred to the USS Wamsutta on August 21, 1863, to be sent north as a prisoner of war. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 488; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 616.]
T.J. Orndorff (middle initial also shown as F.), enlisted as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, in March, 1864; served at the Richmond Station, Virginia, and on the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312 & 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 293.]
William Orne, appointed second assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States ram General Sterling Price, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, January 30 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]
Henry S. Orr, 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; Donnelly/Sullivan.]
John Orr, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861; Commander Semmes notes that he (Orr) was Northern-born and "worthless"; deserted at Santa Ana, Curacao, July 23, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll; ORN 1, 1, 632 & 698.]
Thomas Orr, enlisted for three years or the war, as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on August 13, 1862; deserted at Charleston, but was apprehended by the city police and returned to the CSS Indian Chief on October 25, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 172 and 759.]
Adolphus Lafayette Orrell, Sr., resided in Guilford County, North Carolina; enlisted at Fort Macon, Bogue Sound, North Carolina, April 20, 1861, aged 22, as private, company B, 27th Regiment North Carolina Troops; wounded at Bristoe Station, Virginia, October 14, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 1, 1864; served as landsman on the ironclad CSS Richmond, James River squadron, 1865; transferred, permanently, to the gunboat CSS Drewry, James River squadron, on January 4, 1865; married Margaret H. Banks, December 14, 1865, at St. Johns Church, Fayetteville, Cumberland County, North Carolina. [NCT 8, 27; marriage data from North Carolina Marriage Bonds, 1741 - 1868 available at the Ancestry.com web site; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 943.]
R.C. Orrell, served as landsman aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863; later served aboard the receiving vessel CSS Indian Chief, at Charleston, South Carolina, 1864, and aboard the CSS Columbia, also at Charleston, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 288; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]
William Osbarht (surname also shown as Osthard and Osbert), served at the Mobile station, 1863-1864, as private in company A of the Confederate States Marine Corps; later served in the marine guard aboard the CSS Olustee, Wilmington station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1063; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 850.]
David H. Osborn, born Hancock, Kentucky, about 1842; originally served as private in company K, 4th Kentucky Mounted Infantry; promoted sergeant at an unspecified date; 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. [Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 560.]
J.C. Osborne, served as ship's steward aboard the ironclad ram CSS Missouri, 1863; paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865; may be the same person listed in the next entry. [ORN 1, 27, 231 and 2, 1, 292.]
John C. Osborne, Paymaster's Steward, CSS Webb, captured below New Orleans, April 24, 1865, and sent to the provost marshal's office, at New Orleans, for interrogation, by detective Allan Pinkerton; may be the same person listed in the previous entry. [ORN 1, 22, 152 and 170.]
Seward Osborne, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
D. Osbrook, CSS Tennessee; buried at Ship Island Cemetery, Mississippi (cemetery no longer extant, due to the action of storms). [John E. Ellis.]
Henry Osen, served as landsman aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, off New Madrid, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 336.]
James Osgood, married Elizabeth Collins, January 10, 1861, at Harrison County, Mississippi;; enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, at Mississippi, November 9, 1862; served as landsman and later as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Morgan (his wife's pension application states, incorrectly, that he had served as Gunner), Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1863; surrendered at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; died at Harris County (probably at Cedar Bayou), Texas, November 13, 1907. [Pension Application, no. 31892, of Elizabeth Osgood, Harris County, Texas, from the Texas State Library and Archives Commission, Austin; ORN 2, 1, 293; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 1216 - 1218.]
John O'Shea (surname also shown as O'Shey), born Ireland (also indicated as being a citizen of New York); appointed acting carpenter in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Shenandoah, to date from October 8, 1864; severely reprimanded, November 4, 1864, for insubordination; resigned his position as carpenter on the Shenandoah, at Melbourne, February, 1865. [Alabama Claims 1, 975; Alabama Claims Correspondence 3, 400; Whittle 50 & 60; ORN 1, 3, 785; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 218.]
Henry Osman, enlisted for three years or the war, as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on September 22, 1862; served as officers' cook aboard the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston harbor, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 284; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 188.]
R.L. Osment, see Robert L. Ozment.
Robert Ostein (name also shown as Reuben Oustein or Ouctrin), resided in, and enlisted at Craven County, North Carolina, February, 1862, aged 32, as private (substitute), company K, 2nd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, May 7, 1862; served as seaman on the CSS Arctic and CSS Fanny, 1862; also indicated to have served as seaman aboard the CSS Beaufort, 1861 - 1862 (entry into service does not corroborate this data); also served as quarter gunner and seaman aboard the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [NCT 3, 476; ORN 1, 23, 703 and 2, 1, 279, 281, 285, 293, 295 & 296.]
Charles Osterberg, 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 41.]
Pat. O'Sullivan, enlisted at Vicksburg, Mississippi, March 18, 1862, as private, company A, 4th Battalion Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Naval Service, December 15, 1862. [Booth 3, 48.]
Theodore Oswald (surname also shown as Oswell), recruited as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Naval rendezvous, Richmond, Virginia, August 1, 1863; later served as captain of hold, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 444.]
Henry Otienhapp, Carpenter, CSS Dodge, December, 1862; sent for duty to the plantation of colonel Hamilton Washington, on the Trinity River, Polk County, Texas; sent aboard the steamer Alamo, to report for duty aboard the CSS Harriet Lane, in Galveston Bay, Texas, April 15, 1863. [ORN 1, 19, 813 & 816.]
William Otis, served as ordinary seaman 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.]
John B. Ott, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS New Orleans, in 1861; rated as 2nd class fireman from October 29, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 79 and 369.]
P.W. Ott, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war; sent aboard the steamer Stockdale, August 12, 1864. [ORN 1, 21, 841 - 842.]
Francis Ottendorfer (surname also shown as Otterdoffer and Ottendorffer), enlisted as 1st class boy in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861, and served aboard the CSS Florida (later renamed the CSS Selma); transferred to the receiving vessel CSS Dalman, at Mobile, on December 14, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422, 426 and 431.]
Rubn. Ouctrin (Oustien), see Robert Ostein.
William Outlaw, born Bertie County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Currituck County, North Carolina, May 13, 1861, aged 23, as private, company E, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy prior to July 28, 1861; served as landsman on the CSS Fanny, 1861-1862. [NCT 6, 154; ORN 2, 1, 285; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 330.]
T.C. Overacre, originally served as private, company G, 34th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]
J.M. Overman, landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 277.]
B.H. Owens, attached, as private, to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]
Benjamin Franklin Owens (surname also shown as Owen), born Gwinnett County, Georgia, 1848; son of T.D. and Caroline Owen; served in Company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; buried at Hopewell Cemetery, near Hampton, South Carolina. [John E. Ellis; M1091; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census.]
George Owens, seaman, screw steamer CSS Torpedo, James River, Virginia, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 307.]
James L. Owens, quartermaster, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]
John Owens (surname also shown as Owins), born Maryland; appointed from Virginia; resident of Portsmouth, Virginia; previous service in the United States Navy, as gunner, from March 7, 1842; dropped from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 20, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as gunner, June 11, 1861; served at the Gosport Navy Yard, Norfolk, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; stationed at the Naval works, Charlotte, North Carolina, 1864 - 1865; enrolled as lieutenant in Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 7, 765; Register1862; Register1864; M1091; Callahan; Norfolk County Record 221.]
John A. Owens, served as cooper in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Thomasville, Georgia, May 18, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 665.]
Joseph S. Owens, enlisted at Currituck County, North Carolina, May 13, 1861, as private, company E, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about September 11, 1861. [NCT 6, 154.]
Robert Owens, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1863; transferred to CSS Tuscaloosa, June 21, 1863, as Boatswain's Mate. [ORN 1, 2, 713; William Marvel.]
W.L. Owens, seaman, steam gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina and Virginia waters, 1862 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]
John Owins, see John Owens.
Robert L. Ozment (surname also shown as Osment), born North Carolina, 1841; served as landsman, CSS Arctic and CSS Yadkin, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Guilford County, North Carolina; married Emeline L. Stephenson at Guilford County, North Carolina, December 25, 1868; post war employment as a farmer; died Gates County, North Carolina, July 13, 1929. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 278 & 313; 1910 U.S. Census; marriage and death data from the North Carolina Marriage Collection, 1741 - 2000 and the North Carolina Death Collection, 1908 - 1996, available at the Ancestry.com web site.]