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George Pocklington (surname also shown as Pochlington), recruited as landsman at the Confederate States Naval rendezvous, in Richmond, Virginia, on October 31, 1863; served as captain of hold aboard the 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 448.]

Harper Poe, served as landsman aboard the CSS Drewry, James River squadron, 1864, under Lieutenant Wall. [Manuscript, dated 28 July, 1864, at Navy Department Library, Washington, D.C., allotting portion of his pay to Elizabeth Poe, probably his wife; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 464.]

C. A. Pohlman, citizen who served as engineer aboard the Confederate States steamer Charm; paroled at Vicksburg, Mississippi, July 7, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 666.]

Carter Braxton Poindexter, born Virginia, 1817; originally served in the United States Navy, from November 16, 1831; resident of Norfolk, Virginia, in 1850; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 18, 1861; entered the Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861, as 1st lieutenant; commanded the CSS Bienville, Lake Pontchartrain, 1862; served on the Jackson station, 1862; later on the Richmond station, 1862; advised, on August 2, 1862, to consider himself under arrest, and to appear at Jackson, Mississippi, on August 20, 1862, for his trial; specification of charges not shown; also shown as being suspended from duty for six months from September 10, 1862, no reason shown; commanded the CSS Arctic, Wilmington station, 1863; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as a farmer (widowed), in 1880, with his three children, at Washington, Norfolk County, Virginia. [ORN 1, 9, 798 and 2, 1, 275, 318 & 322; ORA 1, 6, chapter 16; Register1863; M1091; 1850 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, pages 81 and 158.]

John Poitevent (surname also shown as Poitevint), born Gainesville, Mississippi, June 4, 1840; son of captain William J. Poitevent, who operated vessels on the Pearl River; originally followed his father into the riverboat business, and earned his license as a pilot and master, before the war; served on or commanded several vessels, including the Ruby, A.G. Brown, W.J. Poitevent (named after his father), Virginia Pearl, W.G. Hancock, Earl and a number of others; at the outbreak of the war he was in the steamboat business, navigating the Pearl River and other tributaries of the Mississippi, and also on Lake Pontchartrain; volunteered for Confederate Naval service, and appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy at New Orleans, January 24, 1862, and ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Bienville; also served on the Jackson station, 1862; commanded the gunboat Carondelet on Lake Pontchartrain, also at the naval action in defense of Forts Jackson and St. Phillip, April, 1862; after the fall of New Orleans he was assigned to shore duty in the artillery service; participated in the battle of Mansfield, Louisiana, and other engagements in the region; after the war he resumed steamboat service, and later extended his business enterprises; branched out into the lumber business, and was a member of the firm of Poitevent and Favre; later appointed president of the company; known as the "lumber king of the South"; his company supplied the lumber for the structures of the World's Fair and Cotton Exposition, at New Orleans, in 1884; also extensive exports to foreign countries; married three times, first to Emily Toomer, then to Mary Handsboro (whom he married on October 3, 1874, at New Orleans), and finally to a Miss Cenas, who survived him; died at Abita Springs, St. Tammany parish, Louisiana, March 27, 1899; remains sent to Pearlington, Mississippi, for interrment; aged 58 years at the time of his death. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated March 28, 1899, page 4; New Orleans, Louisiana Marriage Records Index, 1831 - 1925 and U.S. Passport Applications 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 254.]

Randall Polk
(colored), enlisted in the Confederate States Navy, March 28, 1864, and served as landsman aboard the CSS Sampson, and also aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1864; discharged, at the order of flag officer W.W. Hunter, at Savannah, on November 14, 1864; Polk was paroled aboard the USS Stockdale, off Mobile, Alabama, on May 11, 1865, and was, at that time, declared to be the colored servant of Confederate Navy assistant surgeon W.C. Jones. [ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 143; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 671; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 582; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 936.]

Richard C. Pollard, born Virginia, 1842; son of Richard and Sarah Pollard; resided, in 1860, with his parents and siblings, at Henrico County, Virginia; originally served as private, company I, 6th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records; 1860 U.S. Census.]

W.L. Pollard, landsman/ordinary seaman; originally served aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston Squadron; captured September 7, 1863, and sent north as a prisoner of war; exchanged and arrived in Richmond, Virginia, October 26, 1864, then sent for service aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 145.]

William Winder Pollock, appointed from Maryland; 1st lieutenant, served as executive officer aboard the partial ironclad, CSS Huntsville, (which operated in Mobile Bay, Alabama), 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; later served on the Savannah station, 1864; ordered to assume temporary command of the CSS Macon, Savannah squadron, September 8, 1864; commanded CSS Roanoke, 1865; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 12, 187; 1, 15, 768 and 2, 1, 287 & 322; JCC 4, 121; M1091.]

W.H. Pond, shipped, as landsman, aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, May 4, 1864; previously served in 5th Georgia Cavalry; also served aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1864; transferred, at an unspecified date, to the Charleston squadron. [ORN 1, 17, 701 and 2, 1, 283 & 287; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 716.]

B. F. Ponsby, 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.]

Anthony Ponse, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

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

James A. Pool (surname also shown as Poole), enlisted on April 10, 1863, at Savannah, Georgia, as a private in company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, and received a bounty of $50; served at Savannah, Georgia, 1864; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, at an unknown date. [ORN 2, 1, 315 & 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 677 and 683.]

Henry Poole, recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on September 1, 1863, as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 693.]

J.C. Poole, served in company F, Naval Battalion; captured in Virginia in April, 1865, and confined at Point Lookout, Maryland; died of chronic diarrhoea at Point Lookout, May 17, 1865. [Point Lookout; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 220.]

John H. Poor, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315.]
William H. Pope, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]

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

Eugenio Poppini,
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. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 353.]

Philip Porcher, born South Carolina, 1836; original service in the United States Navy, from October 2, 1851; shown as a lieutenant aboard the USS Pawnee, at the Philadelphia Navy Yard, in 1860; appointed 1st lieutenant, Confederate States Navy, March 26, 1861; served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1862; served in the defense of Port Royal, South Carolina, November, 1861; later on the CSS Palmetto State, and the ironclad ram CSS Chicora, Charleston station, 1862 - 1864; commanded CSS Juno, 1863, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, on the night of August 6, 1863, off Charleston; lost at sea, in a gale, aboard the steamer Helen, March 10, 1864, travelling from Charleston, South Carolina to Nassau; described as "one of the most efficient officers of the service, and his loss is deeply deplored". [ORN 1, 9, 802; 1, 12, 297; 1, 13, 619; 1, 14, 427 and 2, 1, 283 & 322; Register1863; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]

Charles E. Porter, born Dover, Delaware, August 10, 1842; moved to Virginia during the Civil War; appointed from Maryland, in the Confederate States Navy, at Aquia Creek, Virginia, May 24, 1861, as acting Gunner; served from that date to February, 1862, at Aquia Creek, and on the Richmond Station; resigned from the Naval service to help recruit regiments of Maryland Cavalry; joined Fluvanna Artillery (service also shown as private in Captain Snead's Company, Virginia Light Artillery), September, 1862, at Winchester, Virginia; transferred to the Navy, again, August, 1863, and served as seaman aboard the CSS Arctic, Wilmington, North Carolina; appointed gunner, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States, December 24, 1863; attached to the Naval Station, Wilmington, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864, and served aboard the CSS Neuse, in 1864; later on the James River Squadron; served aboard the CSS Richmond; attached as gunner to company I, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; married his first wife, Virginia A. Boatwright about 1866; practised as a school teacher, in 1880, at Cumberland County, Virginia, and then moved to Lynchburg; worked in the freight department of the railways, at Lynchburg; member of the College Hill Baptist Church, and also a mason; after the death of his first wife, about 1898, he married Blanche Johnson, in 1901; died at Lynchburg, Virginia, March 3, 1908, of pneumonia and a complication of heart trouble; buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, cemetery plot B, section 1, lot 8 quarters 1 & 3, with his second wife. [ORN 1, 11, 691 and 2, 1, 277 & 321; Civil War Service Records; Register1864; M1091; 1880 U.S. Census; Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated March 4, 1908, page 2; LVA (the information at the LVA was provided in 1924, by his daughter, Mrs. Mary Porter Barker, of Bristol, Tennessee); additional biographical data provided by his great, great grandson, Kim Porter Whitley, of Virginia Beach, Virginia, in e-mails (kpwhit@cox.net) dated June 2, 2007; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1232.]

Christopher Porter, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 310.]
David Porter, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; appointed paymaster's steward, Confederate States Navy, on August 25, 1861; captured off Forts Jackson and St. Philips, Louisiana, April, 1862; confined at Fort Warren, Boston harbor. [ORN 1, 18, 441; ORA 2, 3, 641; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 840.]

David Porter, served as private (?) in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Charlotte, North Carolina, May 11, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 666.]

George Porter, 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.]

Ira W. Porter, born Massachusetts, about 1832 (all census records, except the 1880 U.S. Census, show his place of birth as Massachusetts; 1880 U.S. Census shows place of birth as Scotland); son of Ira and Ulala Porter; resided with his parents, in 1850, at Randolph, Norfolk County, Massachusetts; resided as a merchant, in 1860, with his wife, Abby S. Porter, at Mobile, Alabama; served as acting gunner in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; continued to reside in Mobile after the war, as a hardware merchant, with his wife and children, and is shown in that occupation up till the early 1890's. [Porter's Naval History, 785; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Mobile, Alabama City Directories, 1890 - 1892 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

John Porter, appointed chief engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Bragg, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, February 3, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 264.]

John Luke Porter
, born Portsmouth, Virginia, 1813; previous service in the United States Navy; was on duty at the Gosport Navy Yard, Virginia, at the commencement of the war, and resigned his position to throw in his lot for the Confederacy; appointed constructor in the Confederate States Navy, June, 1861; served at the Norfolk Navy Yard, 1861 - 1862; assisted in the construction of the CSS Virginia, and several other ironclad vessels; later at Rocketts Yard, Richmond, Virginia, 1862 - 1864; sent to several Navy Yards to inspect Naval construction, including Savannah, Charleston and Selma; appointed chief constructor, January 7, 1864; later served on the Wilmington station, 1864 - 1865; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; applied for a Presidential pardon in 1865; indicated that he was in dire circumstances, as a result of the war, and his house and furniture had been seized by United States government authorities and sold; also stated that he had never physically bore arms against the United States, as his duties were only in the construction of vessels; continued to reside as a ship builder, after the war, with his wife, Susan, and four children, at Portsmouth, Virginia; died at Portsmouth, in 1893. [ORA 1, 46/2; ORN 2, 1, 802; Register1862; Register1864; M1091; CDAB 800; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Presidential Pardons.]
M.G. Porter (middle initial also shown as C.), served as master's mate aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Station, South Carolina, 1863; captured at Sailor's Creek, Virginia, April 6, 1865. [ORN 1, 13, 619; see also article titled List of Confederate Officers captured at Sailor's Creek, VA., April 6, 1865, published in the New York Herald, dated April 9, 1865.]

Moses Porter, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 & 295; DANFS.]

Sidney Dale Porter, born July 1, 1811; originally appointed carpenter in the United States Navy, August 29, 1837, from which he resigned December 29, 1837; served as Naval Constructor in the Confederate States Navy; served on the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; later on the Jackson station, 1862; served on the Mobile station, Alabama, 1864; died September 21, 1865; buried at the Magnolia Cemetery, 1202 Virginia Street, Mobile, Alabama 36604. [ORN 2, 1, 318 - 320; Callahan; U.S. Veterans Gravesites, circa 1775 - 2006 at the Ancestry.com web site.]

Thomas Kennedy Porter, originally appointed acting midshipman, United States Navy, May 20, 1852; dismissed as a lieutenant, July 18, 1861; later served, as lieutenant, in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the ironclad ram CSS Savannah, Savannah River, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; also served on the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; sent, in June, 1864, to report aboard the CSS Florida, as executive officer; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received November 26, 1864; released February 1, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 256, 273 & 613 and 2, 1, 293, 295 & 304; JCC 4, 121; Fort Warren; Callahan.]

W.G. Porter, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, on August 30, 1862; served 1862 - 1864. [Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 258.]

William D. Porter (middle initial also shown as G.), born Maryland; William D. Porter was a nephew of Union Navy commander David Dixon Porter; served as acting master's mate, Confederate States Navy; later appointed master not in line of promotion, August 27, 1862; served on ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1862 - 1863; later on the steamer CSS Richmond, James River squadron, 1864; captured and imprisoned at Richmond, Virginia, at the close of the war; paroled at Richmond, April 15, 1865; post war member of United Confederate Veterans, Camp No. 171, Washington, D.C.; died in 1921; buried in South Carolina. [ORN 1, 10, 671 and 2, 1, 298 & 317; Confederate Veteran 29 (1921), 27; Register1863; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, pages 157-159.]

Z.H. Porter, born Madison County, Georgia, 1831; resided as a shoemaker, in 1860, with his wife, Una, and three children, at District 385, Hall County, Georgia; originally served as private, Captain Maxwell's Regulars, Light Battery, Georgia Artillery; promoted corporal; transferred to the Confederate States Navy in 1864, in exchange for Carlton Morgan, and reported aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah River, on June 1, 1864, as landsman; rated as quarter gunner, July 1, 1864, on the CSS Georgia; transferred, in 1864, to the Wilmington station; also shown to have served on the Charleston station at an unspecified date; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 30, 1864; by 1880, he had moved with his family to Boston, Madison County, Arkansas, and was employed there as a farmer. [Civil War Service Records; ORN 2, 1, 287; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NF - Distribution and Transfers.; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 15; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 118, 235 and 666; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005.]

Joseph Posey, enlisted as a private in company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia, in March, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 315; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 293.]

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

Alvah T. Post, born South Carolina, about 1829; previous service in the United States Navy; resigned and joined the Confederate States Navy, at Mobile, in 1861; served as pilot aboard the CSS Gaines, and later on the CSS Tennessee, Mobile Bay; wounded in action and captured aboard that vessel, August 5, 1864; sent, as a prisoner of war, to Ship Island. [ORN 1, 21, 578; ADAH; CSS Gaines Medical Journal.].]

C. C. Post, appointed, by surgeon L. W. Minor, as surgeon's steward in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, aboard the floating battery New Orleans, on January 31, 1862, at a remuneration of $40 per month, and a ration; reported to commander William C. Whittle, commanding the Mississippi River flotilla, aboard the CSS General Polk, at New Madrid, on February 27, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 122; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 787.]

John Post (surname also shown as Poste), born Austria, about 1834; served as seaman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS Pickens, 1861-1862. [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 62.]

Oscar Postal, appointed pilot aboard the Confederate States ram General Sterling Price, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

Uriah W. Posten (name also shown as N. W. Poston, and N. N. Poster), recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on April 14, 1863, as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia, 1863; transferred, on March 22, 1863 (??), to the CSS Atlanta; captured aboard that vessel, at Wassaw Sound on June 17, 1863; released and later transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 1, 14, 268 and 2, 1, 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 598 and 683.]

A.E. Potter, originally served as private, company D, 2nd South Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Richard Potter, born Perquimans County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Perquimans County, May 20, 1861, aged 21; as private, company I, 17th Regiment North Carolina Troops (1st Organization); transferred to the Confederate States Navy prior to July 30, 1861; captured at Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862; paroled at Elizabeth City, February 21, 1862. [NCT 6. 185.]

Thomas Potter, 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. [Sinclair; ORN 1, 3, 72.]

Joseph Potts, 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.]

George Poulson, served on the CSS Shenandoah, 1865; see also, next entry, for Thomas Poulson, who may in fact be the same person. [ORN 1, 3, 783.]

Thomas Poulson, Private, CSMC; born England; CSS Shenandoah, 1865. [Alabama Claims, 977.]

E.P. Powell, 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.]

Elisha Powell, born Pensacola, Florida, about 1839; son of John and Anna Powell; resident of Santa Rosa County, Florida, in 1850, and of Apalachicola, Franklin County, Florida (as a laborer), in 1860; enlisted March 10, 1862, in the Milton Light Artillery, Company A, at Apalachicola, Florida; transferred to the CSS Chattahoochee October 20, 1862, as ordinary seaman; later served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, and on the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, in 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [See Biographical Roster of Union and Confederate Soldiers of Florida, published by the Florida State Archives. Information sent by Carolyn Nichols (TNCNOW@aol.com); ORN 2, 1, 304; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; 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, pages 270 - 271.]

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

George Powell, paymaster's clerk, ironclad ram CSS Raleigh, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 301; DANFS.]

Henry Powell, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; rated as seaman from June 14, 1861, and as quartermaster from July 5, 1861; disrated to seaman from October 1, 1861; deserted about February, 1862, but was apprehended by New Orleans policeman Henry White, and returned aboard the CSS Jackson on February 6, 1862, and for which White received a reward of $5. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 864, 872 and 884; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 122; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 425.]

John Powell, 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.]

Robert C. Powell, born Virginia, 1838; matriculated at the Virginia Military Institute, 1854; appointed from Kentucky, as assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Navy, January 8, 1863; served at the Naval Hospital, Mobile, Alabama, 1863-1864, and aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa; ordered, on April 1, 1864, to accompany acting master J. W. McCarrick, to Demopolis, Alabama, on Naval recruiting duties, and, on completion of these duties, to return to duty at Mobile; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; surrendered May 1, 1865, and paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; post war employment as a doctor at his home in Alexandra, Virginia; resided with his wife, Mary, and son William; died May 9, 1890. [Porter's Naval History, 785; Register1864; LVA; JCC 4, 123; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 411.]

Seaborn Powell, born Georgia, about 1831; son of Cadar and Celia Powell; resided as a planter, in 1860, with his wife, Amarintha, and three children, at District 68, Burke County, Georgia; served as private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps, Savannah, Georgia, 1864; continued to reside as a farmer, with his family, at Burke County, after the war. [ORN 2, 1, 315; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Thomas Powell, landsman, ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864; later served at the Richmond station in 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 296.]

Thomas Powell, originally served as private, company D, 18th Mississippi Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date. [Civil War Service Records.]

Thomas Powell, served as 1st class boy aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as landsman from February 24, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]

William Powell, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

William Llewellyn Powell, previous service in the United States Navy; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, April 20, 1861; appointed lieutenant, Confederate States Navy; served as executive officer on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, 1861; indicated to have been a first class artillerist; resigned from the Confederate Navy on July 1, 1862 (?), and appointed as colonel in the Confederate Army, November, 1861 (?), and ordered to report to general Braxton Bragg, at Pensacola; commanded Fort Morgan at Mobile Bay, Alabama; died of fever before Farragut's attack in August, 1864. [ORN 1, 16, 786 and 2, 1, 299; Register1862; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Parker 223-224; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330.]

Thomas Power, served as landsman aboard the CSS Savannah; discharged from Naval service on May 19, 1862, but re-enlisted for three years, or the war, on June 11, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 940.]

David Powers, born Ireland; aged 38; fireman, CSS Ivy; discharged from Naval service, April 19, 1862, after being admitted to the hospital vessel, CSS St. Philip, April 14, 1862, with varicose veins. [St. Philip.]

David Powers, seaman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

J.W. Powers, recruited at Savannah, Georgia, on April 14, 1863, as a private in company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps; stationed aboard CSS Savannah, Georgia; transferred to Richmond, Virginia, no dates shown. [ORN 2, 1, 316; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 683.]

James Powers
, landsman, served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Bay, Alabama, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 308.]

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

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

John Powers, served as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS Tennessee; 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.]

John Powers, served as seaman aboard the CSS Mobile, in 1861; rated as gunner'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.]

John Powers, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS New Orleans, in 1861; rated as 1st class fireman from November 12, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 79 and 369.]

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

John F. Powers, received aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on June 19, 1862, and served as ordinary seaman. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 750 and 751.]

Michael Powers, private, company B, Confederate States Marine Corps, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864; also served aboard the CSS Raleigh, in 1864; also stationed at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 297 & 314; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 348.]

Michael Powers, born about 1828; personal description shown as 5 feet 8 inches in height, fair complexion, blue eyes and gray hair; enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, as private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, on September 2, 1861 served in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River squadron, in 1862, and at Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, 1863; deserted in May, 1863; a reward of $30 was offered for his apprehension and delivery to the Marine Camp at Drewry's Bluff. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 30, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 285.]

Michael Powers, 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.]

Michael F. Powers, born about 1834; served as private in company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Marine Camp near Drewry's Bluff, James River, Virginia, in 1862; personal description - 5 feet, 7 inches high, hazel eyes, dark 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 (may be the same person previously, though some details do not match); ORN source indicates that he may have later been apprehended and returned to service in the Marine Corps, as he is shown as still serving in 1864, at the Richmond station. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated July 30, 1862; ORN 2, 1, 315.]

Phillip Powers, 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 85.]

Thomas Powers, enlisted for three years or the war, as 2nd class fireman in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 8, 1862; served aboard the ironclad ram CSS Palmetto State, Charleston Harbor, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 298; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 164.]

W.H. Powers, served as boatswain's mate, 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 Powers, served as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 866.]

William Powers, 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.]

William R. Powers, born, resided in, as a farmer, and enlisted at, Buncombe County, North Carolina, May 3, 1861, aged 21, as private, company F, 14th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 18, 1862, for duty on the Merrimac (CSS Virginia), at Hampton Roads, Virginia; served as landsman on this vessel. [NCT 5, 451; ORN 2, 1, 309.]

George F. Powledge, born Georgia, May, 1829; resident of Merriwether County, Georgia; married Mary A. Prickett at Meriwether County, Georgia, February 12, 1852; originally served aboard the ironclad battery, CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia, and the Ladies' Gunboat), Savannah Squadron, Georgia; transferred to the CSS Atlanta, and captured aboard that vessel, at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; deserted about October, 1863, but returned and later served as landsman aboard the CSS Sampson, 1863, and aboard the CSS Macon, 1865; also previously served on CSS Savannah; resided as a farmer after the war, with his wife and children at Meriwether County, Georgia. [CSS Macon Rolls; ORN 2, 1, 305; 1870 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; Georgia Marriages, 1851 - 1900 at the Ancestry.com web site; Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated June 27, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 630; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 285-286.]

Thomas Prain
(surname also shown as Crane), native of Scotland; claimed to have been in New Orleans at the start of the war, and that he had had to enlist, or starve; served as a private in company A, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the Georgia and South Carolina stations, 1861; also served in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Resolute in 1862; transferred, on January 28, 1864, to the the ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina; also served at Drewry's Bluff, Virginia, 1864; deserted the service, off New Inlet, on January 2, 1865, and was taken, with five other deserters, aboard the USS Pontoosuc, on that day. [ORN 2, 1, 294, 296, 297, 314 & 317; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 212 and 371.] [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 539 - 540.]

John Pratt, resident of 9, Llewellyn Street, Liverpool, England, in 1864; occupation, fireman; wife, Catharine; shipped aboard the CSS Rappahannock, at Calais, France, in February, 1864; deserted about seven weeks later. [Alabama Claims 2, 740, 751 and 753.]

Julius A. Pratt, born Pennsylvania, about 1815; employed in New Orleans at the start of the war; appointed from Louisiana, as acting master in the Confederate States Navy, August 14, 1861 (the date of his acceptance); served aboard the CSS Ivy, New Orleans station, in 1861; commanded Launch No. 2, New Orleans, 1861; executive officer aboard the CSS Livingston, New Orleans station, 1862, and later at the Jackson station, 1862; informed that his services were no longer required, and he was discharged from the Navy on June 19, 1862; however, he re-entered the service, and was appointed lieutenant for the war, February 26, 1863; served at Selma, Alabama, 1862-1863, and at the Jackson Station; ordered by his commanding officer, Eben Farrand, at Selma, on May 13, 1863, to proceed to Brownes Coal Mines and to ensure that coal was delivered to Selma, and then to return to his station once this duty was performed; resigned, January 27, 1864; resided as a sailor, in 1870, with his wife, Mary, and three children, at New Orleans, Louisiana. [Booth 3, 195; ORN 2, 1, 318; 1870 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, page 202; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, pages 527 and 617; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Accounts for expenditures, page 604; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 264 and 942.]

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

Samuel Pratt, seaman and pilot, CSS Arctic, August, 1862. [ORN 1, 23, 703.]

Thomas Pratt, Captain of Hold, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Thomas H. Pratt, originally served as private, company A, 2nd Battalion, Maryland Infantry; see also, Confederate States Marine Corps. [Civil War Service Records.]

Thomas St. George Pratt, born Maryland, about 1841; son of T.G., and Adaline M. Pratt; resided as a student at law, in 1860, at Annapolis, Maryland; appointed as 2nd lieutenant, Confederate States Marine Corps, February 9, 1864; served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1864; detailed for duty with a detachment guarding prisoners at Savannah, September 10, 1864; wounded at Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865, and captured; took the oath of allegiance at Fort Monroe, Virginia, May 26, 1865. [CSN Register; JCC 3, 697; ORN 1, 15, 770; 1860 U.S. Census.]

William Pratt, born and resided, as a seaman, at Charleston, South Carolina; enlisted at New Hanover County, North Carolina, August 4, 1861, aged 38, as private, company C, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; captured at Roanoke Island, February 8, 1862; exchanged August, 1862; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about May 24, 1864 (a Naval document actually shows that he was shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as seaman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 1, 1864, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle, at Plymouth Sound, North Carolina); later served as gunner's mate aboard the same vessel in 1864, and then on the CSS Arctic; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 13, 1864. [NCT 4, 549; ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38 and 117.]

Bernard A. Pratte, resident of St. Louis, Missouri; indicated to have served as master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, from September 15, 1864, but there is no other verification of such service; paroled at Augusta, Georgia, August 15, 1865, but indicated to have taken the oath of allegiance at St. Louis on June 8, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 666.]

Joseph Preble (first name also shown as James), born Virginia, about 1818; appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on October 5, 1861, and ordered to report to lieutenant Beverly Kennon for duty; served aboard the CSS Tuscarora, 1861-1862; also on the Jackson station, 1862, and aboard the CSS Pontchartrain, 1862 - 1863; captured at Arkansas Post, January 12, 1863; released and sent to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged; later paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865; resided as a branch pilot, in 1870, at Plaquemine parish, Louisiana. [ORN 1, 24, 117 and 2, 1, 299 & 318; Porter's Naval History, 785; St. Philip; 1870 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 266.]

A.A. Preddy, resided in Granville County, North Carolina; enlisted February 16, 1863, aged 37, as private, company G, 47th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 3, 1864. [NCT 11, 325.]

William Prendergast, served aboard the revenue cutter Pickens, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 318.]

G.E. Presnell, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

Charles Preston, born Missouri, about 1842; served as landsman (rating also shown as fireman), CSS Webb, April, 1865; remained aboard the vessel in her final moments, and was rescued by the Union gunboat USS Hollyhock; captured and sent aboard the USS Lackawanna, and then the USS Florida, as prisoner of war, on the same day; sent to Fort Columbus, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received May 20, 1865; released June 13, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 157, 167 & 170; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 245 - 247, where a clipping from the Galveston newspaper Daily News, dated September 17, 1893, describing the final account of the CSS Webb, down the Mississippi, is related.]

John Pretz, see John Peits.

C.P. Prevat (surname also shown as Prevett and Prevatt), served as landsman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later served aboard the CSS Savannah, and then transferred to the tender CSS Sampson, Savannah Station, Georgia, 1863; died in hospital at Savannah, August 18, 1863; buried at Laurel Grove Cemetery, Savannah, Georgia, on August 19, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 303; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Daily News and Herald (Savannah, Georgia) dated May 19, 1866; Honeycutt; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 222-225.]

Alexander Price
, private, Confederate States Marine Corps; served on the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

B.F. Price, ordinary seaman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 294 - 296; DANFS.]

Charles Price, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, in 1861, and as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Pamlico from December 13, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 76 and 268.]

Dudley Price, see Dudley Peed.

Edward Price, born Connecticut, about 1824; served as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; deserted from the vessel about September, 1862, but was apprehended by John J. Hogan, and returned aboard the vessel on November 6, 1862, and for which Hogan received a reward of $8.50; transferred, on December 8, 1862, to the CSS Atlanta; later rated as boatswain's mate aboard the CSS Atlanta, 1863; "expired" May 31, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entries dated Wednesday, December 17, 1862 and Tuesday, April 7, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 81; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 592; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 288.]

F.D. Price, landsman, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 295 & 297; DANFS.]

Fed. J. Price, born North Carolina, about 1825; resided, in 1860, at Flint Hill, Rutherford County, North Carolina; served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Rutherford County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1860 U.S. Census.]

George Price, originally belonged to captain White's steamboat battalion, stationed at Marksville, Louisiana; served as pilot aboard the CSS Webb, on the Red River; an incident was related by William Biggio, another crew member of the CSS Webb, that, during the final run down the Mississippi, in April, 1865, Price had raised a rifle to shoot at a Union Naval officer aboard the USS Fearnot, but was refrained by commander Read, because there was a lady standing beside the Union officer; Price then made the remark that it was the first time that he was ordered not to shoot at a Yankee; captured below New Orleans, April 24, 1865; sent, as a prisoner of war, to the provost marshal's office at New Orleans, for interrogation, by detective Allan Pinkerton. [ORN 1, 22, 152 - 153; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 245 - 247, where a clipping from the Galveston newspaper Daily News, dated September 17, 1893, describing the final account of the CSS Webb, down the Mississippi, is related.]

H. Price (also on Rolls as Horrice Price), born Ireland, resided at St. Landry Parish, Louisiana; pre-war occupation, laborer; marital status, single; enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, July 22, 1861, aged 30, as private, company E, 10th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January, 1863. [Booth 3, 201.]

Homer Price, served as seaman aboard the CSS Nansemond, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1223.]

Jacob A.S. Price, born North Carolina, 1825; resided as a pilot, in 1850, with his wife Catherine, and two sons, at Smithville, Brunswick County, North Carolina; served as pilot, Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Caswell, 1861-1862; his widow, Catherine Price, later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Brunswick County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 282; 1850 U.S. Census.]

James Price, coal heaver, side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia. [ORN 2, 1, 300.]

James Price, seaman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

James Price
, served as quartermaster 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.]

James B. Price, originally served as private, company K, 30th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date, and served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864. [Civil War Service Records; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1234.]

John Price, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and in the Marine Guard aboard the CSS Resolute, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 371.]

John Robert Price, born near Moulton, Lawrence County, Alabama, September 13, 1841; the family moved to South Florence, Alabama, in 1842; previous service as midshipman, in the United States Navy, from November 15, 1859; enlisted, April 1861, at Florence, Alabama, as private in captain McFarland's Company, 4th Alabama Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, and appointed acting midshipman, July 1, 1861 (one source shows appointment date as June 12, 1861); served on the New Orleans station, 1861; later served on the side wheeled gunboat CSS Florida (later re-named CSS Selma); then aboard the CSS Arctic, Wilmington station, 1862 - 1863; appointed passed midshipman, October 3, 1862 and master in line of promotion, January 7, 1864; on special service, 1864; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Peedee; on the destruction of this vessel, reported for duty at Augusta, Georgia, March 22, 1865, and assigned to the CSS Sampson; surrendered at Augusta, Georgia, May, 1865; married Susan Hill Jones, in 1883; resided in Florence, Alabama; employed as a coal store merchant; died at Florence, January 2, 1923; buried at Florence City Cemetery, at the same plot where his wife and son are also interred. [ORN 1, 16, 511 - 512 and 2, 1, 276, 286, 320 & 323; 1860 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; 1910 U.S. Census; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; Callahan; much additional information included in the Lauderdale County [Alabama] Confederate Veterans' Census for 1907, compiled by Pat M. Mahan, at URL: http://www.rootsweb.com/~allauder/1907confederatevetcensus.htm; see also the web site, Florence City Cemetery, with data compiled by Timothy McCord and Robert Ellington Torbert, at http://www.rootsweb.com/~allauder/cem-florence1.htm; Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 31 (1923), page 146.]

Joseph Price, born Wilmington, North Carolina, October 26, 1835; pre war service, as lieutenant, in United States Revenue Marine, from which he resigned April, 1861; previous service as lieutenant in Confederate Army; commissioned lieutenant, Confederate States Navy, May 5, 1863; appointed 1st lieutenant, Provisional Navy, to rank from January 6, 1864; served aboard CSS Georgia, then transferred, on May 1, 1864 to the CSS Sampson and later served aboard the CSS Neuse Savannah station, Georgia, 1863 - 1864; severely wounded in the taking out of the USS Water Witch, June 3, 1864, during which he succeeded to the command of the expedition, after the death of expedition commander, Thomas Pelot; promoted commander, Provisional Navy, for gallant and meritorious conduct, July, 1864; ordered to assume temporary command of the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, August 29, 1864; commanded the steamer CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1865; resided as a harbor master, in 1880, with his wife, Lassie, and two sons, at Wilmington, New Hanover County, North Carolina; died May 15, 1895; buried at the Oakdale Cemetery, Wilmington, North Carolina. [ORN 1, 12, 191 and 1, 15, 491, 499, 500, 505 & 766; JCC 4, 122; Register1864; 1880 U.S. Census; John E. Ellis; SHC-UNC; Charleston (South Carolina) Mercury dated Saturday, April 20, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 661.]

Joseph Price, Quartermaster, CSS Governor Moore, captured April, 1862, off Forts Jackson and St. Philips, Louisiana. [ORN 1, 18, 723.]

Joseph Price, served as a 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 666.]

M. Price, served as a 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 666.]

Sidney M. Price, private, company C, Confederate States Marine Corps, Richmond Station, Virginia, 1864; attached as private to company G, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 315; M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 472.]

Thomas Price, 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.]

W.T. Price, landsman, 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.]
William Price, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama, born in English Isles; discharged as invalid, November 26, 1862, at Blanquilla. [William Marvel.]

William Crapon Price was born in 1846 and died in 1932. He is buried at a private cemetery in Southport (formerly Smithville), North Carolina. His headstone mentions that he was a Captain in the Confederate Navy at the age of 18, but there is no official record of this. [John E. Ellis]

William M. Price, born, resided in as a carpenter or cabinetmaker, and enlisted at Edgecombe County, North Carolina, May 8, 1861, aged 24, as private, company G, 13th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 20, 1862; served as landsman on the CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862. [NCT 5, 353; ORN 2, 1, 309.]

J.H. Prickett, served as a private in company H, 19th 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; served as landsman, CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 278; Confederate States Navy subject file.]

R. A. Prickett, 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 650.]

David Pridgen, served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, and the CSS North Carolina, Wilmington Station, North Carolina, 1863 - 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

Henry D. Priest, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, May 29, 1862; rated as officer's cook from May 30, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 281; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108.]

Josiah Priest, landsman, ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312.]

John M. Prior, resident of Virginia; sergeant, Confederate States Marine Corps, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864; CSS Stonewall, 1865. [New York Herald, Friday, May 12, 1865, page 1; CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Adam Pritchet (surname also shown as Pritchard), resided in, and enlisted at Washington County, North Carolina, June 24, 1861, aged 25, as private, company G, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; discharged from his regiment, 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, 219; ORN 2, 1, 310.]

David Ham Pritchard (first name also shown as Daniel), born South Carolina, about 1835; resided as an engineer, in 1860, at Mobile, Alabama; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, January 23, 1863; however, a Naval document also shows his appointment date as May 30, 1862; served aboard the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, 1863 - 1864; promoted 2nd assistant engineer, May 21, 1863; resided as a steamboat engineer, after the war, with his wife and child, at the home of David and Jane Haig, in Mobile, Alabama; his widow, Cornelia J. Pritchard, applied for a Confederate pension from Mobile County, Alabama, December 3, 1920. [ORN 2, 1, 292; Register1864; ADAH; 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 273.]

John Pritchard, seaman, 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.]

Richard Pritchard, enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, June 9, 1862; deserted in early July, 1862, after only 23 days of service. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 109.]

Truman R. Pritchard, appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at Brashear City, Louisiana, on February 4, 1862; also served on the Jackson station, 1862; died at Yazoo City, Mississippi, on July 20, 1862. [ORN 2, 1, 319; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 229; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 275.]

Asa Pritchett, born Craven County, North Carolina, about 1834; resided in Greenville, Pitt County, North Carolina, as a coach mechanic, with his wife, Georgeanna, and son, in 1860; enlisted at Pitt County, January 27, 1862, as private, company D, 44th Regiment North Carolina Troops; promoted corporal, March 24, 1862; promoted sergeant, July 1, 1862; reduced to private sometime between September 1862 and February, 1863; reported to have been transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about April 1, 1864; continued to reside, after the war, at Greenville, with his family; employed in a coach shop. [NCT 10, 432; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census.]

M. Pritchett, served as a clerk in the Navy Department at Richmond, Virginia, March, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, V - Governmental relationships, VA - Administration, etc., Miscellaneous, page 27.]

Peter G. Pritchett, born North Carolina, 1846; served in the Confederate States Navy; resided as a practising physician, in 1880, with his wife, Lizie, and daughter Nancy (born 1878) at Allensville, Person County, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Person County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

H.B. Proctor, resident of Edgecombe County, North Carolina; served as landsman aboard the ironclad steam sloop CSS Virginia II, James River, Virginia, 1864 - 1865; paroled at Manchester, Virginia, April 22, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 312; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 666.]

T. P. Proctor, 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.]

William Prouse, indicated to have been a Confederate marine; buried at the Episcopal Cemetery, Galveston, Texas. [Galveston Daily News (Texas) dated Tuesday, May 31, 1887, page 1.]

Mario Provansana, previously served in Battery A, J.L. Dunham's (Florida) Light Artillery; transferred to Navy; served as seaman on the CSS Chattahoochee; wounded at Fort Fisher and disabled. [Soldiers of Florida, 305; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

John D. Provost (middle initial also shown as B.), served as landsman aboard the CSS Arctic, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1863- 1864; died January 23, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 278; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 231.]

Nicholas B. Pryde (middle initial also shown as P.), born New York, resided at New Orleans, Louisiana (Robert Hunt's account, in the Galveston Daily News, indicates that Pryde was a resident of Mobile, Alabama); pre-war occupation, sailor; marital status, married; enlisted at New Orleans, July 18, 1861, aged 22, as private, company D, 15th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February, 1862; served aboard CSS Virginia, as sailing master's mate, in 1862, and on the CSS Florida; appointed master's mate, May 6, 1863, by Lieutenant C.W. Read; also served aboard the captured vessels Clarence, Archer and Tacony; captured off Portland, Maine, June 27, 1863, and confined at Fort Warren; escaped, August 19, 1863, and made his way to Canada, then back to the CSS Florida, on which he reported aboard on November 9, 1863; (a document of the CSS Florida, dated January, 1864, shows Pryde as a quarter gunner aboard the cruiser); rated as gunner's mate from January 2, 1864; name mentioned in the court martial trial of fellow sailor, Guiseppi Mastreli, in September, 1864. [Booth 3, 213; ORN 1, 2, 657 and 2, 1, 310; see also the diary of landsman A.L. Drayton (entry for Saturday, June 20, 1863), at the Library of Congress; Fort Warren; court martial records of the CSS Florida, dated September, 1864, on National Archives microfilm copy T716, roll 3; Drayton; see also, the article titled "A Daring Capture," by Robert Hunt, in the Galveston Daily News of Monday, September 17, 1894, page 2; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 359, 390 and 415.]

John H. Pucket, born in, and a resident of North Carolina, had originally been a landsman aboard the CSS Raleigh, but had deserted and had been taken aboard the USS Niphon, in March, 1864, where he volunteered much information about the sounds in the Masonboro, North Carolina region. About a month later he, together with pilot Orrell, guided a Union expedition against saltworks at Masonboro. Pucket was appointed acting ensign and pilot in September, 1864, and served aboard the USS Monticello. He resigned his commission on March 8, 1865. [ORN 1, 9, 561 and 672-676; ORN 2, 1, 302; Callahan; Navy Register 1865.]

John Puckett, served aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston, South Carolina, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 753.]

James Pugh, resided in Currituck County, North Carolina; enlisted at Chowan County, North Carolina, June 1, 1861, aged 27, as private, company A, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; wounded in action at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, July 3, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 18, 1864; served as ship's cook aboard the gunboat CSS Raleigh, North Carolina, 1864, and also aboard the CSS Roanoke, 1864. [NCT 3, 151; ORN 2, 1, 301; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 542.]

James Pugh, served as a private in company H, 4th 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. [Confederate States Navy subject file.]

John W. Pugh, served as pilot on the Richmond station, and on the side wheeled steamer CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1861 - 1862; made an allotment of part of his pay, in 1861, to Mary L. Pugh. [ORN 2, 1, 299 & 322; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OL - Mobilization and demobilization; Norfolk - Miscellaneous, page 186.]

J.C. Pullen, ordinary seaman, side wheeled steamer CSS Resolute, Savannah river area, Georgia, 1862 - 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 303.]

Robert P. Pulliam, born Mississippi, about 1843; originally served as corporal, company C, 31st Mississippi Infantry; promoted sergeant; transferred to the Confederate States Navy at an unspecified date; resided as a school teacher, after the war, with his wife, Sarah, and six children, at Franklin County, Georgia. [Civil War Service Records; 1880 U.S. Census.]

John M. Pundt, jr. (middle initial also shown as W.), born in Charleston, South Carolina, about 1831; son of John M. Pundt and Susannah Burie; resided, as an engineer, in 1860, with his wife Emilie (or Amelia), and two children, at Charleston, South Carolina; at the secession of South Carolina, he formed, and commanded the militia group named as the "Richardson Guard" of Charleston; served as 3rd assistant engineer aboard the cruiser, CSS Alabama; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France; resided as a locomotive engineer, in 1870, with his wife and three children, at Wilmington, North Carolina. [William Marvel; some additional information from the "Pundt Family" web site, at http://vidas.rootsweb.com/pundt.html, administered by Cindy Griffin and Sherry Hicks, Mobile, Alabama; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; Charleston Mercury (South Carolina) dated Tuesday, January 1, 1861, page 2.]

Daniel Purcell, citizen of Wilmington, North Carolina; served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Neuse; after the destruction of that vessel, he was sent to Halifax, North Carolina, from which place he deserted on April 7, 1865; taken aboard the USS Shamrock, off Winton, North Carolina, on April 11, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 556.]

Philip Purcell, served on the James River squadron, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 296.]

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

John H. Purces, ship's corporal, ironclad sloop CSS North Carolina, Cape Fear River, North Carolina, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 296.]
William Purdy, Sailmaker's Mate, CSS Alabama, 1864; born Ireland. [William Marvel.]

J. L. Purnell, appointed second assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Earl Van Dorn, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, February 13, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

William C. Purse, resident of Georgia; previously served as Private in the Second Republican Blues, Independent Company of Georgia Volunteer Infantry; later enlisted in Company C, First Regiment Georgia Infantry; appointed 2nd assistant engineer in Confederate States Navy, 1862; a Naval document, however, shows his appointment, as acting 3rd assistant engineer, at Savannah, on February 9, 1864; served on the CSS Savannah, Savannah station, Georgia and South Carolina, 1862; then on CSS Savannah, 1864. [Georgia Rosters, 1, 136; Charleston Courier, Tri-Weekly (Charleston, South Carolina) dated August 13, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 277.]

Denin Purser, coal heaver, 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.]

M. Pursell, Ordinary Seaman, paroled Alexandria, Louisiana, June 3, 1865. [ORN 1, 27, 231.]

John Purtell, Seaman, CSS Governor Moore; at the destruction of his vessel, by enemy action, at New Orleans, April, 1862, he assisted in setting fire to the vessel to prevent her falling into enemy hands; captured April, 1862, off Forts Jackson and St. Philips, Louisiana; had also served aboard the CSS Tuscarora, before her destruction by fire at Helena, Arkansas, in November, 1861; Purtell was highly praised by his commander, Beverly Kennon. [ORN 1, 18, 307 & 723.]

J.H. Purvey
, see J. H. Pervey.

Cornelius Purvis (surname also shown as Pervis), recruited aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, in 1864, and was transferred as landsman, on October 6, 1864, from that vessel to the floating battery CSS Georgia, also in the same squadron; transferred to the Richmond station by order of flag officer W.W. Hunter, dated October 19, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 583; ORN 2, 1, 287; DANFS; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 648.]

William L. Purvis, served at the Mobile station, in 1863, as a corporal in company A of the Confederate States Marine Corps; later, in 1864, listed as 6th sergeant in the Corps. [ORN 2, 1, 313; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061.]

Christian Pust, Coal Trimmer, CSS Alabama, born in Germany; killed in action, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

D.L. Putnam, served as landsman and ordinary seaman aboard the ironclad floating battery CSS Georgia (also known as the State of Georgia and Ladies' Ram), Savannah, Georgia, 1861 - 1864; also served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1864-1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865; attached as private to company I, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 2, 1, 287; M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271 and 608.]

Samuel Putnam, 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 on parole, November 19, 1864. [Fort Warren.]

James A. Puttick, born, resided in, as a printer, and enlisted at Wake County, North Carolina, May 21, 1861, aged 18, as private, company K, 14th Regiment North Carolina Troops; promoted to musician sometime in July or August, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 15, 1862, for duty on the Merrimac (CSS Virginia). [NCT 5, 490.]

Francis Pyne, served as 2nd class fireman 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.]



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