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John Banister Tabb, born at the old Tabb homestead "The Forest", Amelia County, Virginia, March 22, 1845; son of Thomas Yelverton, and Marianna Bertrand (Archer) Tabb; received his education at the hands of private tutors; resided with his family, in 1860, at Amelia County, Virginia; joined the Confederate States Navy at the age of seventeen, as captain's clerk aboard the Confederate States steamer Robert E. Lee, under the command of captain John Wilkinson; captured aboard that vessel, November 5, 1863, by the USS Keystone State; sent to Point Lookout, Maryland; made the acquaintance of Sidney Lanier, a future poet, at Point Lookout, and they became firm friends; released in 1865; took up the study of music, after the war, at Baltimore; then turned to teaching, and attended St. Paul's School, Baltimore, and Racine College, Michigan, as a teacher; pursued clerical studies in the Protestant Episcopal Church, but converted to Roman Catholicism in 1872, and spent two years at St. Charles' College, near Ellicott City, Howard County, Maryland, and later appointed to the chair at that institution; took up the priesthood in 1884; prolific writer of poetry, and was the author of several small volumes of verse; stricken by blindness in 1907; died at Ellicott City, Maryland, Friday, November 19, 1909. [Times Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated January 23, 1910, page 9; Washington Herald (Washington, D.C.) dated November 28, 1909, page 4; 1860 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census.]

Peter Tabot, served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as 2nd class fireman from February 10, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]

Michael Tad (alias Zart), left London, England on January 16, 1864, for Brest, France, where he shipped aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 19, 1864, as 2nd class fireman; captured October 7, 1864 (at Bahia, Brazil); received at Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, November 11, 1864; released February 1, 1865. [Florida Medical Journal, see the list of personnel in the Engineer's Department, CSS Florida, dated at St. George's, Bermuda, June 27, 1864; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 351.]

Peter Taff
, see Peter Taft.

William Taffe (also shown as Taaffe), Wardroom Steward, CSS Webb, April, 1865; resident of Galveston, Texas; surrendered at Shreveport, Louisiana, May 26, 1865; paroled, June 7, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170 and 1, 27, 234.]

Peter Taft (surname also shown as Taff), born about 1824; enlisted April, 1861, as private, at Richmond, Virginia; served as boatswain's mate, CSS Jamestown; also indicated to have served on the Thomas Jefferson, but this was the original name of the CSS Jamestown; surrendered at Charleston, South Carolina; post war occupation, seaman; admitted to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, October, 1887; residence, at time of admission, shown as Norfolk, Virginia; died December 16, 1893; buried Mount Cavalry Cemetery, Virginia. [LVa; ORN 2, 1, 289.]

John Wesley Tagert, born Belmont, Sumter County, Alabama, January 1, 1838; enlisted as a private in company I, 42nd Alabama Infantry, at Mobile, Alabama, in 1861; detailed to work in the Confederate Navy department, in June, 1863, and worked at Mobile until the end of the war. [Census or Enumeration of Confederate Soldiers Residing in Alabama, in 1907 at Ancestry.com.]

Joseph P. Tagle, enlisted as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422.]

Spencer Taite, served as landsman aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1233.]

Daniel B. Talbott, appointed acting midshipman in the Confederate States Navy, at Richmond, Virginia, on September 25, 1861, and ordered to proceed to New Orleans and report to captain George N. Hollins for duty; served aboard the CSS Mobile, and later aboard the CSS Arkansas, 1862; after the destruction of the CSS Arkansas, August 5, 1862, Talbott, in company with several other officers of the Arkansas, travelled through Louisiana, and, after crossing the Comite and Amite Rivers, reached Camp Moore, near Tangipahoa, where they took the train and arrived in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sunday, August 9, 1862; later served aboard the CSS Virginia II, James River Squadron, Virginia, 1864; subsequently appointed acting master's mate, on August 11, 1864, and sent to the Charleston station for duty; died at the Confederate States Naval Hospital at Charleston, South Carolina, prior to October 11, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 644 and 1, 19, 132 & 136; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 271; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 475 - 478.]

John Tall, second class boy, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

John Tallantine (or Tallantire), may have served aboard the CSS Alabama; died in England in 1913. [Information supplied, via e-mail dated January, 2001, by John Collier, address CollierJ7va@hotmail.com, from details as advised by Tallantine's grand-son.]

Daniel D. Talley, Assistant Paymaster, captured by Union naval personnel, May 7, 1865 near Cole's Creek, Louisiana. [ORN 1, 27, 194.]

Michael Taney, enlisted, for one year, as fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South Carolina, on September 23, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1227; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

Nathaniel Tanner (first name also shown as Ethan), born Wayne County, Georgia, about 1844; previous service in the Army of Tennessee, and was enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 8, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in July, 1864 to the CSS Macon, aboard which he served 1864 - 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540 and 560.]

Robert Tansill, born Occoquon, Prince William County, Virginia, June 12, 1812; enlisted in the United States Marine Corps, as private; promoted corporal and then sergeant; commissioned lieutenant, 1840; served in the Seminole War, and the war with Mexico; married Fannie Weems, who died in 1846; married Anna Lucinda Bender, at Washington, D.C., 1849; later promoted captain; sent in his resignation, May 17, 1861, but his name was stricken from the rolls, August 24, 1861 "by direction of the President"; arrested and sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor (in November, 1861); at the time of his imprisonment, he indicated that his wife and children were residing in Washington, D.C., and that he had not seen them for over twenty six months; paroled and exchanged, January 10, 1862, and arrived in Richmond, Virginia, January 20, 1862, where he was commissioned as captain, Confederate States Marine Corps; later appointed captain in the Confederate Regular Army, and resigned from the CSMC on February 15, 1862; promoted colonel, March, 1863; after distinguished service in the Confederate Army, he surrendered April 25, 1865, at Jamestown, North Carolina; paroled May 1, 1865, at Greensboro, North Carolina; resided as mayor, in 1880, with his wife Anna L. Tansill, and son, John B. Tansill (born District of Columbia, 1856) at Manassas, Prince William County, Virginia; died Alexandria, Virginia, February 5, 1890. [Information included in an article by Ralph W. Donnelly, in the Confederate Veteran magazine, March/April, 1990, page 18; ORA 1, 18, 922; 2, 1, 72 and 2, 2, 47, 76 & 155; 1880 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RE - Release and Exchange, A-W, page 150; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 329.]

James T. Tapper [ORN 1, 16, 189 shows surname as Tappan], 1st class fireman, CSS Macon, 1865; deserted January 28, 1865 and boarded the USS Pontiac, off Sister's Ferry, Savannah River, January 28, 1865. [CSS Macon Rolls; ORN 1, 16, 189.]

Frank Tapples (surname also shown as Tapllis), served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy; admitted to the hospital vessel, CSS St. Philip, November 11, 1861, for intermittent fever; later served as seaman aboard the CSS Livingstone, in 1862; rated as boatswain's mate from February 24, 1862. [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 960.]

Frank Tarbox, (used the alias of J.F. Carpenter), served at the Mobile squadron, from which he deserted in 1862; subsequently arrested at Savannah, and lodged in jail until December 8, 1862, then sent, as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, and transferred, the same day, to the CSS Atlanta; captured, as seaman, aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll of the CSS Charleston, dated October 31, 1863, indicates that he also served aboard that vessel (rating shown as carpenter's mate). [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 282; see also Atlanta Medical Journal, entry for Sunday, June 7, 1863, where his first name is shown as Franklin; 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, pages 339 and 340.]

Emile Tarlos, shipped for the war, as landsman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, December 26, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 370 and 372.]

A.B. Tarlton (surname also shown as Tarleton), served as landsman, CSS Isondiga and CSS Savannah, about 1863; transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief; also shown to have served aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston squadron, at an unspecified date; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Mecklenburg County, North Carolina; his widow, Mattie Tarlton, also later applied for a pension from Stanly County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 289 & 305; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 716.]

James Tarring, received aboard the CSS Huntress, Charleston station, on June 19, 1862, and served as seaman; deserted from the vessel about October, 1862, but was apprehended by policeman McDowell, and returned aboard on October 7, 1862, and for which McDowell received a reward of $10. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 750 and 751; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 143.]

Thomas Tart, served as landsman at the New Orleans station in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 88.]

Lugier Tassien (name is also shown as Levi Tassin), served as landsman aboard the CSS Missouri, Shreveport, Louisiana, in 1864; deserted at Shreveport on the night of April 23, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1017; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 514.]

Thomas Tate, born England; aged 35; seaman, Launch No. 2, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862. [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 43.]

John Rogers Fenwick Tattnall, (son of flag officer Josiah Tattnall, listed in the next entry) born Connecticut, 1832; resident of Savannah, Georgia; previous service in United States Marine Corps, from November 3, 1847; acted as volunteer aide de camp to general Robert E. Lee, at Savannah, Georgia, 1861; arrested by Union authorities, October 7, 1861, and held as prisoner of war at Fort Warren, Boston harbor; on release, original entry, as captain, Confederate States Marine Corps, January 22, 1862; commanded at Mobile, Alabama, 1862; sent to Savannah, Georgia, until 1864; stationed at the Marine barracks at Fair Lawn, Savannah; placed advertisement in the Savannah newspapers, requesting for forty able bodied men to join company E of the Confederate States Marine Corps, February, 1864; also appointed colonel in the Confederate States Army; on the Charleston station, 1865; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as the treasurer of a cotton program (unmarried), in 1880, at the residence of fellow ex-Confederate Marine officer, Edward F. Neufville, and his wife, at Savannah, Georgia. [ORN 1, 13, 767; 1, 19, 791 and 2, 1, 315; ORA 1, 6 chapter 15 and 2, 3; 1, 47/2; 2, 1, 72 and 2, 2, 155; M1091; Register1864; 1880 U.S. Census; Georgia in the War, 1861 - 1865 114; Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated February 23, 1864.]

Josiah Tattnall, born near Savannah, Georgia, November 9, 1795; previously entered the service of the United States Navy, January 1, 1812; resigned February 20, 1861; appointed flag officer in the Georgia Navy, and then captain in the Confederate States Navy, March 26, 1861; commanded naval defenses of Georgia and South Carolina, then commanded the naval forces in Virginia, before returning to his previous command; served on the CSS Virginia; placed on trial by a military court for the destruction of the CSS Virginia, but was acquitted of all charges on July 24, 1862; detached from the command of the Naval defences in Virginia, on May 19, 1862, and ordered to proceed to Savannah, to assume command of the Naval defences of Georgia, and served on the CSS Savannah; retreated to Augusta, at the fall of Savannah, and was captured there; paroled and released; moved to Halifax, Nova Scotia, where he resided for some years, before returning to Savannah, Georgia; employed as Inspector of the Port of Savannah; died July 14, 1871 (one source shows date of birth as June 14, 1871); buried at Bonaventure Cemetery, Savannah. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 114; CDAB, 1022; additional information included in an article, by M. Foster Farley, in the Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 2, 1995; Register1863; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OO - Operations of large groups of vessels; Charleston - Miscellaneous, pages 73 and 74.]

Paulding Tattnall, appointed, by flag officer Josiah Tattnall, commanding the Naval forces at Savannah, as his secretary and clerk, on June 16, 1862 (an earlier appointment, in the same grade, is dated March 2, 1862); served on the Savannah station, 1861 - 1864; also aboard the ironclad ram CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, in 1862; placed an ad in the Savannah newspapers, February, 1864, offering a reward for the apprehension of a deserter. [ORN 2, 1, 308 & 322; Daily Morning News (Savannah, Georgia) dated February 23, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 829 and 831.]

James W. Tatum, served at the Confederate Navy Yard at Edward's Ferry, North Carolina; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Durham County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

Washington A. Tatum, born North Carolina, 1822; served in the Confederate States Navy; resided as a blacksmith, in 1880, with his wife Emily F. Tatum, and daughter, Selonia F. Tatum (born 1859) at Holloways, Person County, North Carolina; his widow later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Person County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Peter Tausey, served in the Confederate States Navy; deserted at an unspecified date and place. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 341.]

James Langhorne Tayloe, born Roanoke, Virginia, 1840 or 1841; son of William Tayloe; attended Episcopal High School, Alexandria, Virginia; entered the United States Naval Academy; graduated 1860; resigned from the United States Navy, June 6, 1861, and entered the Confederate States Navy, July 8, 1861, as acting Midshipman; in command of the CSS Fanny, in 1861, and at the battle of Roanoke; promoted Master, September 24, 1861, and Lieutenant, February 10, 1862; killed in action aboard the CSS Raleigh, March 8, 1862, at Hampton Roads, Virginia, while attempting to assist wounded enemy sailors aboard the USS Congress. [Information from web site, James Langhorne Tayloe, at URL: http://www.gencircles.com/users/adgedge/1/data/233; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated March 12, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 330.]

A.S. Taylor, born Virginia; previous service in the United States Marine Corps, from February 21, 1839; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Marine Corps, May 6, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Marine Corps, December 3, 1861; appointed quartermaster, with rank of major, December 4, 1861; served at Richmond, Virginia, 1864; involved in politics, post war, as a representative of Maryland. [Register1864; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; New York Times dated Wednesday, April 30, 1874 (page 2).]

Andrew Taylor, born Louisiana; pre-war occupation, mechanic; resided in, and enlisted at Beaufort County, North Carolina, May 10, 1861, aged 23, as private, company I, 3rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 22, 1862. [NCT 3, 587.]

Archibald E. Taylor, pre-war occupation, carpenter; enlisted at Edgecombe County, North Carolina, March 18 or 21, 1864, aged 30, as landsman in the Confederate States Navy. [CSN Shipping Articles; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 407.]

Charles Taylor, second class fireman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Charles Taylor, served as seaman on the CSS McRae, New Orleans station; may have been captured in April, 1862, and paroled; subsequently sent to the Mobile station, in 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1049.]

Charles Taylor, served as landsman on the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile Station, 1863; transferred to the Army as a deserter, about December, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 343.]

Daniel Taylor, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy on January 24, 1862, and ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Ivy. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 482.]

Edward Taylor, shipped, by 2nd lieutenant F. M. Roby, as landsman, in the Confederate States Navy, on April 8, 1864, and sent for duty aboard the CSS Albemarle, at Plymouth Sound, North Carolina; also appointed as quartermaster aboard the same vessel. [ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 37-38.]

Edward Taylor, enlisted Camden County, North Carolina, November 1, 1863, as private, company B, 68th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 5, 1864. [NCT 15, 540.]

Frederick A. Taylor
, appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy on September 26, 1861, and ordered to report aboard Launch No. 6, New Orleans station, for duty; subsequently appointed acting master, February 6, 1862, and sent aboard the CSS Ivy for duty. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 484 and 486.]

George Taylor, appointed captain's clerk, October 31, 1861, and served aboard the CSS Tuscarora, New Orleans station, 1861, and aboard the CSS General Polk, 1861-1862; subsequently appointed, by commander C.F. McIntosh, commanding the CSS Louisiana, as his clerk, aboard that vessel, on April 2, 1862; captured Mississippi River, April, 1862; confined Fort Warren, Boston Harbor. [ORN 1, 18, 317; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 476 and 479-480; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 874; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 833 and 835.]

George Taylor, enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, September 11, 1861, as corporal (later reduced to private at an unspecified date), company I, 13th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 11, 1864, by order of the Secretary of War. [Booth 3, 776.]

George Taylor, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on April 8, 1864; served as seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]

George T. Taylor, born Macon County, Georgia; enlisted company K, 11th Florida Infantry, at Washington County, Florida, April, 1864 (one source shows 1862); pension file includes conflicting dates; served on CSS Chattahoochee, May, 1864; also shown to have been wounded at Ream's Station, Virginia, June 29, 1864, and then furloughed; another document in his pension file indicates that while serving on the CSS Chattahoochee (as landsman), his mother came and secured permission for him to come across the river at Saffold, Georgia, and he went home without leave; Governor of Florida later pardoned all those who were absent without leave, after which he enlisted in company K, 11th Florida Infantry; resided in Washington County, Florida, 1904; brother of landsman Libe Taylor. [Soldiers of Florida, 317; ORN 1, 17, 700; Florida Confederate Pension File No. A11938; Holcombe; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

Henry Taylor, served as seaman and quarter gunner aboard the CSS Fredericksburg, James River squadron, 1864; died at the Confederate States Naval Hospital at Richmond, Virginia on November 18, 1864; buried at Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia. [Tom Brooks; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 272-275.]

J.J. Taylor, surgeon's steward, Confederate States Navy; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

J.M. Taylor, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

James Taylor, Fireman, CSS Chattahoochee, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 700.]

James Taylor, enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, March 26, 1861, as private, companies A and C, 1st (Strawbridge's) Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, March or April, 1864, by order of the Secretary of War. [Booth 3, 778.]

James Taylor, served as gunner's mate on the Richmond station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 484 - 487.]

James B. Taylor, enlisted at Halifax County, North Carolina, April 19, 1861, aged 24, as private, company I, 1st Regiment North Carolina Infantry (6 months, 1861); mustered out on November 12 or 13, 1861; later enlisted, February 20, 1862, as private, company D, 43rd Regiment North Carolina Troops; reported to have been transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 10, 1864, to serve on the gunboat Patrick Henry; served as seaman on that vessel. [NCT 3, 50 & 10, 330; ORN 2, 1, 300.]

James K. Taylor, 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.]

John Taylor, served as seaman aboard the CSS Pickens, New Orleans station, 1861-1862; discharged from Naval service, January 1, 1862, after being admitted to the hospital vessel, CSS St. Philip, November 14, 1861, for syphilis. [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 81.]

John Taylor, enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, June 15, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]

John B. Taylor, private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; captured at Fort Gaines, Alabama on August 8, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., A - A.W. Baker - U.S.S. Minnesota, page 224.]

John C. Taylor, enlisted at Winnsboro, Louisiana, August 8, 1861, as private, company C, 4th Battalion Louisiana Infantry; transferred to Naval service, December 15, 1862. [Booth 3, 780.]

John C. Taylor, born Alabama; aged 27 (in 1863); landsman (also shown as ordinary seaman), CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863; captured aboard that vessel at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entries dated Saturday, December 27, 1862 and Sunday, February 22, 1863.]

Jonathan Taylor, appointed master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on September 23, 1861, and ordered to report to acting master Ducey, aboard Launch No. 2, for duty. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 488.]

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

Libe Taylor, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; brother of George T. Taylor. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

Richard Taylor, born Norfolk, Virginia; served as assistant paymaster aboard the CSS Nashville, 1861, CSS Capitol, May, 1862, CSS Arkansas, June, 1862, and at Yazoo City and the Mississippi River defences, 1862 - 1863; made an allotment of part of his pay, in 1861, to E. W. Taylor; by order of lieutenant commanding William P.A. Campbell, dated at Charleston, South Carolina, June 8, 1863, he was ordered to proceed to Wilmington, North Carolina, and there board the blockade runner Sirius, for Nassau, at which place he arrived on June 20, 1863; served as paymaster of the cruiser CSS Florida; evaded capture by the USS Wachusett, in October, 1864, as he was one of the officers who happened to be ashore, at Bahia, Brazil, at the time; married Fanny Willoughby Camp, March 30, 1865, at Sefton Parish Church, near Liverpool, England (witnesses to the marriage included Confederate Naval officers, Thomas Charlton, Samuel Barron, jr., and Charles Manigault Morris, all fellow officers from the CSS Florida); Richard Taylor's father is named in his marriage certificate as John C. Calvert Taylor, merchant (deceased). [ORN 1, 1, 752; 1, 3, 632; 1, 19, 132 and 1, 23, 698; additional information from Bob Jones, in an e-mail (bob_jones_liverpool@btopenworld.com) dated Friday, February 21, 2003; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133; Confederate States Navy subject file N - NF - Distribution and Transfers; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 237; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OJ - Joint military - Naval operations; Fort Pickens - Miscellaneous, page 36; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OL - Mobilization and demobilization; Norfolk - Miscellaneous, page 186.]

Robert Taylor, enlisted as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, June 9, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]

T. K. Taylor, 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.]

Thomas Taylor, served as landsman 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 106.]

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

William Taylor, served as seaman on the Richmond station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 489.]

William Alfred Taylor, born Nash County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Cumberland County, North Carolina, April 9, 1862, aged 46, as private, company I, 51st Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 18, 1863. [NCT 12, 379.]

J.N. Teague, Landsman, CSS Virginia II, wounded in action, James River, January 24, 1865. [ORN 1, 11, 689.]

Bernard Teets, served as 1st class fireman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864. [Florida Medical Journal, see the list of personnel in the Engineer's Department, CSS Florida, dated at St. George's, Bermuda, June 27, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 414.]

David Alexander Telfair, born North Carolina, 1844; previous service in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 23, 1858; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, May 23, 1861; served on the CSS Carondelet, and the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; later on the Jackson station, 1862; afterwards on the Richmond station, 1862; appointed passed midshipman, October 3, 1862; served on the steamer CSS Georgia, 1862 - 1863; promoted master in line of promotion, January 7, 1864; on special service, 1864; appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; involved in politics, post war, as a representative of North Carolina. [ORN 2, 1, 318, 320 & 321; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; M1091; 1860 U.S. Census; New York Times dated Wednesday, April 30, 1874 (page 2); Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 123.]

William A. Temple, see William John Jones.

John D. Tenbroeck (surname also shown as Ten Broeck), pilot, Confederate States Navy; served on the CSS Resolute, Savannah Squadron, 1862 - 1863; resided as a harbor master, in 1880, with his wife, Emily, and two daughters (eldest daughter born 1864) at Savannah, Georgia. [CSN Register; 1880 U.S. Census.]

Joseph N. Tenet
, transferred, from the Confederate Army, to the CSS Spray, St. Mark's, Florida, as surgeon's steward, in October, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 818.]

Samuel Tennant, 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.]

Samuel Tenneh, 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 552.]

George W. Tennent
, previous service in US Navy; appointed acting 3rd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, on March 22, 1862, and ordered to report to flag officer Randolph, at Mobile, Alabama, for duty; was based at Fort Pulaski, Georgia, at the time of his appointment; appointed 2nd assistant engineer on September 29, 1862; involved in the capture of the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863; appointed 1st assistant engineer August 15, 1863, and served aboard the CSS Atlanta, in 1863; reported by his commanding officer, commander W. A. Webb, for being drunk, on May 29, 1863; also served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg and CSS Virginia II, Richmond station, 1864; served aboard the CSS Chickamauga, September-December, 1864; paroled, at the close of the war, at Richmond, Virginia, April 15, 1865; died October 2, 1906, aged 73, of congestion of the brain; buried at the American National Cemetery, Mexico City, Mexico. His headstone mentions that he was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, but another source shows his birthplace as Georgia. [Information supplied by Mabry Tyson, Los Altos, California; ORN 1, 3, 710 & 1, 10, 671; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 194; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 492 - 497; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, page 56.]

John C. Tennent, First Assistant Engineer, CSS Fredericksburg, July, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 726.]

Patrick Tennyson, served as seaman aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River, Virginia, 1863; next of kin listed as Ann Tennyson. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 941.]

Nicholas Terp, Fireman, CSS Florida; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864. [ORN 1, 3, 256.]

Jonathan R. Terrell, resided in, and enlisted at Caswell County, North Carolina, July 1, 1861, aged 25, as private, company D, 13th Regiment North Carolina Troops; promoted sergeant, August 1, 1862; wounded at Sharpsburg, Maryland, September 17, 1862; wounded again, in the hand, at Chancellorsville, Virginia, May 3, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 3, 1864. [NCT 5, 325.]

George H. Terrett, born Virginia; previous service in United States Marine Corps, from April 1, 1830; original entry into Confederate States Marine Corps, as major, June 20, 1861; served at Drewry's Bluff, James River squadron, 1864; captured at Amelia Court House, Virginia, April 7, 1865; sent as a prisoner of war to Johnson Island, where he took the oath on July 25, 1865. [Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 682.]

Roff Tetterton, see William R. Tetterton.

Thomas Terrell (surname also shown as Terrill), enlisted in Rowan County, North Carolina, June 15, 1861, as a private in company D, 1st Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 6, 1864; shown as having served as landsman aboard the CSS Virginia II. [NCT 1, 87; ORN 2, 1, 312.]

William R. Tetterton (name also shown as Roff Tetterton, and surname also incorrectly shown as Tittleton and as Tittenton), enlisted at Washington County, North Carolina, July 29, 1861, as private, company H, 1st Regiment North Carolina State Troops; discharged from his regiment, February 3, 1862, on being transferred to the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman, CSS Virginia (Merrimac), and later aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864; his widow, Merinda Tetterton, later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Beaufort County, North Carolina. [NCT 3, 232; NC State Archives; ORN 2, 1, 309; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1231.]

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

J. C. Thacker, 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.]

Thomas A. Thackwell, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 83 and 115.]

Marcellus A. Tharpe (or Tharp), previously served as Private, Company C, 4th Regiment Georgia Volunteer Infantry, April 25, 1861; transferred to CSS Virginia, February 10, 1862; later also served aboard the CSS Virginia II, 1865; then to Company A, 1st Regiment Naval Brigade as Coxswain; appointed 1st Corporal; surrendered at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; died in Worth County, Georgia, in 1899. [Georgia Rosters 1, 578; ORN 1, 11, 794.]

John Theobald, born Yorkshire, England, October 8, 1836 (1860 U.S. Census shows his age, in 1860, as 33); resided in 1860, as a stevedore, with his wife Alice, and daughter Charlotte, at Apalochicola, Franklin County, Florida; was a next door neighbour, in 1860, of James W. Moore, who was later a fellow sailor aboard the CSS Spray; enrolled 1862; served on CSS Spray, St. Marks, Florida; mustered out, May, 1865; paroled at St. Marks, May 12, 1865; member, in 1904, of United Confederate Veteran's, Campt Tom Moore, No. 556, of Apalachicola; buried at Chestnut Street Cemetery, Apalachicola, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 317; John E. Ellis; Florida Confederate Pension file number A12527; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 669.]

George W. Thippins (surname also shown as Thippens and Tippens), enlisted, on April 10, 1863, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and received a bounty of $50; served on the Richmond station, in 1863; transferred, about July, 1863, to the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron; accompanied two prisoners of the Confederate Navy, in May, 1864, to Drewry's Bluff, James River, and, on completing his mission returned to Savannah. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 437 and 677; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NO- Court Martial; Court of Inquiry - Military Commissions, page 236.]

Reuben T. Thom, appointed, from Virginia, as captain in the Confederate States Marine Corps, March 25, 1861, and served at New Orleans, 1861; in late 1861 Thom left an unpaid mess bill, from Warrington, Florida, when he departed Virginia, and an attempt was made to retrieve this amount, from his future salary; Thom had promised to pay the bill, but failed to do so; served at the Mobile station in 1863; by a special order issued by colonel Beall, commanding the Marine Corps, Thom was allowed, because of the state of his health, which precluded his service in a cold climate during the winter season, to remain at Mobile, and seek duty with the Army, as his state of health would permit; Thom was also ordered to report in writing, to the adjutant of the Corps, on the last day of every month. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (1861), page 5; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 682; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, pages 15 and 17; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OV - Miscellaneous; Charleston - Richmond (accounts), page 450.]

B. Thomas, shown on a Roll of Confederate Prisoners of War paroled at Meridian, Mississippi, May 10, 1865, as being a private [?] in the Navy Department; resident of New Orleans, Louisiana. [Booth 3, 806.]

Benjamin F. Thomas, had previously served in the United States Navy, before the war, and was aboard the USS St. Louis, at Rio; later joined the Confederate States Navy, and served as quarter gunner at the Naval battery, Gloucester Point, Virginia, 1861; subsequently served as gunner's mate at Drewry's Bluff, in 1864, having charge of the magazine and ordnance stores for that station; being in ill health, he obtained permission to visit his family, then brought them into Union lines at Yorktown, about January, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 398; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, pages 344 - 345.]

C. Wesley Thomas, assistant surgeon, attached to the Savannah station, Georgia, 1863 - 1864; served aboard the CSS Georgia, in 1863; involved in the taking out of the USS Water Witch, June 3, 1864; described by a Union Navy prisoner of war as being "an honorable and gentlemanly adversary". [ORN 1, 15, 481, 491 & 499; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (March - August, 1863), page 552; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 519-523.]

Daniel Thomas, 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.]

David Thomas, born Frankfort, Kentucky, 1836; indicated to have served in the Confederate States Army and Confederate States Navy, as captain; died Black Rock, Arkansas, July 30, 1898. [Confederate Veteran magazine, volume 6, page 583.]

David Thomas, appointed pilot aboard the Confederate States gunboat General M. Jeff Thompson, 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.]

David Thomas, enlisted as a seaman in the Confederate States Navy in 1861; served aboard the CSS Florida (which was later re-named the CSS Selma), and was rated as captain of the forecastle from September 18, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422 and 427.]

Edmund Thomas, born, resided in as a blacksmith, and enlisted at Granville County, North Carolina, July 6, 1861, aged 22, as private, company D, 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 April 6, 1863. [NCT 4, 559.]

Francis Marion Thomas, born South Carolina; originally in the United States Naval Academy, Annapolis, as a cadet, 1859; resigned November 30, 1860; served as midshipman 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 $228.26 as his share in the capture of that vessel; later served aboard the CSS Nashville, 1861; Charleston Station, 1862; Savannah station and on CSS Virginia II, 1864 - 1865; after the close of the war he walked to Ridgeway from North Carolina; married June 16, 1889; resided in Lancaster, South Carolina; died May 15, 1898; wife, Mary Eliza Thomas, applied for a Confederate widow's pension in 1919; his wife's pension papers includes affidavits of his sisters, M.A. Thomas and Gabriella M. Thomas. [ORN 1, 1, 752; 1, 10, 767; 1, 11 690 and 1, 12, 187, & 2, 1, 311, 317 and 322; South Carolina Confederate pension file no. S126088, item no. 06900, at "South Carolina Department of Archives and History: ON-LINE RECORDS INDEX," URL: http://www.archivesindex.sc.gov/; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133; 36th Congress Report 24; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, page 1.]

Frank Thomas, served as 2nd class fireman in the Confederate States Navy; arrested as a deserter at New Orleans, by constable Jacobs, of the New Orleans police, and delivered aboard the CSS St. Philip, on April 21, 1862; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 554; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 438.]

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

G. Thomas, served as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, and was involved in the expedition to capture the USS Satellite and the USS Reliance, off Windmill Point, Rappahannock River, Virginia, on August 23, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of prize money - Miscellaneous, pages 30-32.]

George Thomas, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Alabama; deserted September 19, 1863, at Cape Town. [William Marvel.]

George Thomas, resided in, and enlisted at Wayne County, North Carolina, May 29, 1861, aged 21, as private, company D, 2nd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; discharged from regiment, January 28, 1862, on being transferred to the Confederate States Navy. [NCT 3, 420.]

George Thomas, seaman, CSS Florida; also served on the captured vessels, Clarence, Archer and Tacony; captured, June, 1863, and sent to Fort Warren for confinement. [Fort Warren.]

George Thomas, transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief; served as landsman aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1864; transferred to the CSS Columbia, Charleston station in 1864; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865; attached as corporal to company F, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, in April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270-271, 503, 608 and 762.]

Henry Thomas, enlisted for the war, in the Confederate States Navy, on October 18, 1862, and served as first class boy aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, 1862-1863; brother of James Thomas, listed below; died on that vessel on December 24, 1862; his mother was due to sign an affidavit indicating that she was due the balance of her deceased son's pay, but she had died, prior to March 2, 1863, before the affidavit could be brought to her by another son, James Thomas, also belonging to the CSS Chattahoochee, who had obtained leave of absence to visit his mother for that purpose. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 278-282.]

James Thomas, resident of Florida; brother of Henry Thomas, listed above; served as landsman aboard the CSS Chattahoochee, and was killed in boiler explosion aboard that vessel, on the Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; buried at the First United Methodist Church cemetery, Chattahoochee, Florida. [ORN 1, 17, 869; John E. Ellis; CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 278-280.]

James G. Thomas, appointed from North Carolina; assistant surgeon for the war, Confederate States Navy, nominated to rank from April 28, 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served at the Naval Ordnance Works, Selma, Alabama, 1864 - 1865; paroled at Selma, Alabama, May 27, 1865. [CSN Register; JCC 4, 123; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 196.]

John Thomas, enlisted at Camp Watt, Louisiana, March 18, 1864, as private, company B, 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Regulars); transferred to the Confederate States Navy by Special Order, Department Headquarters, Department of the Gulf, dated April 10, 1864. [Booth 3, 810.]

John Thomas, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on May 21, 1864, and served as a seaman on the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]

John Thomas, left London, England on December 30, 1863, for Brest, France, where he joined the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 2, 1864, for service as a seaman. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 347.]

John Thomas, enlisted as seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, June 15, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108.]

John C. Thomas, Seaman, Captain A.B. Noyes company of Coast Guards, enrolled, October 20, 1861, at St. Marks, Florida. [Soldiers of Florida, 52.]

M. D. Thomas, 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 552.]

Philip Thomas, enlisted in 1861, in Captain Lumden Andrews' Artillery Battalion, Maryland; also shown as a member of Walker's Artillery, A.P. Hill's Corps; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, 1863; married Louise E. Guenlens at Liverpool, England, December 12, 1865; resided in Virginia, 1870 to 1873, in Delaware from 1873 to 1877 and then in Florida; died at Fernandina, Florida, November 15, 1880. [Florida Confederate Pension file no. A12357.]

Philip W. Thomas, resident of Baltimore, Maryland; appointed 3rd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy; served aboard the CSS McRae, New Orleans station, 1861; while sleeping in his hammock aboard the CSS McRae, off Baton Rogue, on Sunday night, July 14, 1861, he was assumed to have got up in his sleep and fallen overboard and drowned; vessel was immediately stopped and an attempt made to rescue him, but his body was later recovered and he was buried at Baton Rogue. [ORN 2, 1, 320; Daily Picayune (New Orleans) dated Wednesday, July 17, 1861; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 284.]

W. G. Thomas, listed as quartermaster aboard the CSS Beaufort, in a muster roll of the vessel, dated March 31, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 108.]

W.W. Thomas, private?, Confederate States Navy; captured at Accomack County, Virginia, November 15, 1863; sent to Point Lookout, Maryland, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received September 23, 1864; exchanged October 1, 1864; 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.]

William H. Thomas, resident of Chesterfield County, Virginia; indicated to have served in company B of the Confederate States Marine Corps; paroled at Manchester, Virginia, April 25, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 651.]

H.J. Thomason (surname also shown as Thompson), Sergeant, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861; his commander, Raphael Semmes, recommended, after the abandonment of the Sumter, in April, 1862, that he be returned to the Confederate States. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll; ORN 1, 1, 684.]

Andrew Thompson, stated to be the boy of Charles Thompson (listed below, of the CSS Firefly); served as deckhand on the CSS Firefly, Savannah Squadron, November, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 338.]

C. B. Thompson, appointed 3rd assistant engineer, Savannah squadron, February 26, 1864, and which appointment he accepted on March 10, 1864; served on the CSS Resolute, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 581 and 586; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 499.]

C.F. Thompson, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Bladen County, North Carolina; his widow, Mrs. C.F. Thompson, also later applied for a pension from the same county. [NC State Archives.]

Charles Thompson, served, with his boy, Andrew Thompson, as deck hand on the CSS Firefly, Savannah squadron in November, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 338.]

Charles Thompson, born England, about 1817; served as seaman aboard the CSS Pamlico, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; captured and paroled, and subsequently sent to the Mobile station, in 1862. [St. Philip; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1054; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 54.]

Daniel Thompson (first name also shown as David), served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy (having enlisted for three years or the war), and was transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief; served as ship's steward aboard the CSS Isondiga, Savannah squadron, in 1864; transferred to Wilmington, North Carolina, with orders, dated September 17, 1864, to report to Naval constructor John L. Porter, to work in the ship yard. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 762-764, 806 and 813.]

E. C. Thompson, indicated to have served as private, and landsman, in the Navy of the Confederate States; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 17, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

Edward Thompson, born England; resident of Charleston, South Carolina; served aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston squadron; deserted at Charleston, and took the oath of allegiance on September 29, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

Edward T. Thompson, born Ireland; aged 30 (shown elsewhere as born England, aged 33); served as seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; transferred, on December 8, 1862, to the CSS Atlanta; later rated as boatswain's mate; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; muster roll of the CSS Charleston, dated October 31, 1863, indicates that he also served aboard that vessel. [ORN 2, 1, 282; Atlanta Medical Journal, see entries dated Thursday, December 11, 1862, and Saturday, February 28, 1863; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 592.]

George Thompson, served as landsman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; rated as officer's steward on March 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1001.]

George M. Thompson, appointed acting gunner in the Confederate States Navy, at Charlotte, North Carolina, on August 26, 1862, and ordered to proceed to Charleston, South Carolina, and report to captain D. W. Ingraham, for duty in the Ordnance Department; also served aboard the CSS Palmetto State, Charleston squadron, 1863. [ORN 1, 13, 619; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 501.]

Henry Thompson, enlisted for the war, as ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on August 5, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 170.]

Henry Thompson, enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, June 15, 1862; rated as coal heaver from June 16, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 109.]

Isaiah Thompson, seaman, CSS Sea Bird, 1861. [ORN 2, 1, 306.]

J. Thompson, served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]

J. P. Thompson, enlisted, on April 10, 1863, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps, and received a bounty of $50; served on the Richmond station, in 1863; transferred, about July 1863, to the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 437 and 677.]

J.W. Thompson, Ordinary Seaman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

J. W. Thompson, indicated to have served as private, and landsman, in the Navy of the Confederate States; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 17, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

James Thompson, Landsman, CSS St. Nicholas, June, 1861. [ORN 1, 4, 555.]
James Thompson, resided in, and enlisted at Bladen County, North Carolina, December 12, 1861, aged 22, as private, 3rd company B, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 11, 1864. [NCT 1, 217.]

James Thompson, citizen of Massachusetts; resided in New York city; previous service aboard the CSS Lady Davis, at Charleston, South Carolina, prior to joining as a crew member of the CSS Virginia (Merrimac), on March 5, 1862; served in the action at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 8-9, 1862; after the destruction of the Virginia, at the fall of Norfolk, on May 11, 1862, Thompson made his way to Norfolk, then to New York, where he arrived on Saturday, May 24, 1862. [Wisconsin State Register (Portage, WI) dated May 31, 1862.]

James Thompson, served at the Mobile station, 1863-1864, as a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps; paid the bounty of $50 on November 2, 1863, for enlisting in the Corps; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 554; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1061; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 240.]

James Thompson, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1862; transferred to the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, on December 8, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 653; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 590.]

James Thompson, enlisted as seaman, and served aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 581.]

James Thompson, appointed second assistant engineer aboard the Confederate States gunboat General Lovell, 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 264.]

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

John Thompson, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861, and aboard the CSS General Polk in 1862; rated as seaman from January 1, 1862; it was also noted, in the same dispatch, dated aboard the vessel, at New Madrid on March 4, 1862 that, by order of flag officer G. N. Hollins, the word General had been struck from the name of the vessel, and forthwith she was to be known as the CSS Polk. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 479-480 and 482; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

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

John W. Thompson, served as seaman aboard Launch No. 5, New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 45.]

John W. Thompson, previous service in the Confederate States Navy, before being transferred, August 5, 1863, as private, to 3rd company G, 2nd Regiment North Carolina Artillery; wounded and captured at Fort Fisher, January 15, 1865. [NCT 1, 288.]

Joseph Thompson, served in the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Mariah Thompson later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Brunswick County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

Joseph T. Thompson, served in the Confederate States Navy; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Brunswick County, North Carolina; his widow, Emma Thompson, also later applied for a pension from the same county. [NC State Archives.]

Josiah Thompson, born Alamance County, North Carolina; resided in, as a farmer, Orange County, North Carolina; enlisted at Warren County, North Carolina, August 26, 1861, aged 21, as private, company I, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, September, 1861. [NCT 4, 613.]

Lawrence Thompson, enlisted at Camp Moore, Louisiana, September 11, 1861, as private (later promoted sergeant), company F, 13th Louisiana Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, by order of General Johnston, dated April 11, 1864; served as seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, and was transferred, in September, 1864, to the Naval station at Wilmington, North Carolina. [Booth 3, 822; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 575.]

Lorenzo Thompson, shipped at Shreveport, Louisiana, for three years or the war, as landsman in the Confederate States Navy, on March 2, 1864; served aboard the CSS Missouri, but deserted from the vessel on the night of May 20, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NR - Recruiting and Enlistments, shipping articles; Miscellaneous, page 406; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 508.]

Patrick Thompson, served in the Confederate Navy, vessel unknown, and is buried at the National Cemetery, Little Rock, Arkansas. [Details from Internet Site ARKANSAS CONFEDERATE AND UNION SOLDIERS BURIAL PLACES at URL: http://www.insolwwb.net/~egerdes/cem-idx.html copyrighted, 1999 by Edward G. Gerdes and used with his kind permission. Details may be used for non-commercial historical and genealogical purposes only and with the consent of the page owner may be copied for the same purposes so long as this notice remains a part of the copied material.]

Patrick Thompson, 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 552.]

Peter Thompson, Seaman, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Peter Thompson (surname also shown as Thomson), enlisted as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy, in 1861; served aboard the CSS Florida (which was later renamed the CSS Selma), at Mobile, in 1861; deserted from the vessel on November 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 420-422 and 443; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 97 - 100.]

Robert Thompson, (1st) wardroom cook, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Robert Thompson, (2nd) landsman, CSS Rappahannock, May 16, 1864. [CSS Rappahannock Muster Roll.]

Robert Thompson, enlisted for three years or the war, as ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Huntress, at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 8, 1862; received a $50 bonus at enlistment. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 164 and 747.]

T.J. Thompson, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

Theodore A. Thompson, appointed acting 1st assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, November 5, 1861, and ordered to report aboard "Mr. Porter's gunboat" for duty, at New Orleans. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 504.]

Thomas Thompson, originally served in the United States Navy, under that name, aboard the USS Brooklyn; deserted to the Confederates, and served aboard the CSS Tennessee, under an assumed name; wounded in action, aboard the CSS Tennessee, at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and was captured by the Union Navy; two of his former Union Navy fellow crew members were sent to the Navy hospital at Pensacola, Florida to identify him for a court martial. [ORN 1, 21, 452.]

W. Thompson, served as a marine 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 3.]

William Thompson, enlisted for three years or the war in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on September 30, 1862; served as landsman and was transferred as a conscript, from the command of lieutenant J. H. Rochelle, on October 23, 1863, to the command of lieutenant W. G. Dozier, aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Indian Chief. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 190 and 762.]

William Thompson, resident of New York; served in the United States Navy, before the war; shipped at Mobile, Alabama, October 10, 1862, aboard the CSS Florida, as landsman or coal heaver, and received a bounty of $50 in Confederate currency; discharged at Brest, France, September 2, 1863, and made his way to Liverpool, England. [Alabama Claims 1, 354-355.]

William Thompson (surname also shown as Thomson), enlisted at Mobile, Alabama, as a 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; later attached to the marine guard aboard the CSS Charleston, Charleston station in 1863-1864. [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 285.]

William Thompson, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

William Thompson, enlisted as seaman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile Squadron, June 15, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 108.]

Winfield Scott Thompson (first name also shown as Wingfield), previously served in US Navy; served aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, 1862; appointed 1st assistant engineer on January 23, 1863, and served aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile squadron, 1863; ordered by Secretary of the Navy, Mallory, in June, 1864, to report as Chief Engineer, aboard the CSS Florida; reported aboard on June 27, 1864, at St. George, Bermuda; captured at Bahia, Brazil, October 7, 1864; sent to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received November 26, 1864; released, January 30, 1865, upon the express condition that he was to leave the United States within ten days of release; died September 26, 1890; buried at Loudon Park Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. [ORN 1, 3, 256, 613 & 620; Tom Brooks; Fort Warren; New York Times dated November 18, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water, Coal and Wood for ships, page 177; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 928; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 507.]

L. Thomson, Quartermaster, CSS Chattahoochee, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 700.]

L. M. Thomson (surname also shown as Thompson), appointed assistant paymaster for the war, in the Confederate States Navy, on September 30, 1862; letter from the Navy Department at Richmond, to Thomson, at Marion Court House, South Carolina, dated December 31, 1862, addresses the subject of his appointment and pay; Thomson was relieved of his paymaster duties by paymaster Deacon, at Marion Court House in August, 1863; died September 20, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XA - Accounting and finance, Miscellaneous, pages 227 and 426; Confederate Navy subject file A - Naval ships: Design, construction, etc. - AC - Construction; Kinson - Nashville, page 106; Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 288; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 503.]

Ruffin Thomson, born August 4, 1841, in Hinds County, Mississippi; studied at the University of Mississippi and the University of North Carolina; enlisted as private in the Brown Rebels, which later became company H, 18th Mississippi Infantry; commissioned Second Lieutenant in the Confederate States Marine Corps, February 11, 1864; studied medicine and practiced in Hinds County; went to Washington Territory, 1888, as clerk to the United States Indian Agency; died at Fort Somcoe, Washington Territory, March 17, 1888. [Information provided in an e-mail dated May 6, 2001 (CSMCSTU@aol.com) by Stu Samsel of Granite Falls, Washington State; SHC-UNC.]

William Thopsom (surname may actually be Thompson), rated as coxswain aboard the CSS Polk on April 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 488.]

Charles E. Thorburn, Lieutenant in Virginia Navy, CSS St. Nicholas, June, 1861; resided in New York, after the war; member and lieutenant commander of the Confederate Veteran Camp of New York. [ORN 1, 4, 555; New York Times dated October 30, 1895.]

Robert Donaldson Thorburn, born and appointed from Virginia; previously served in the United States Navy, from March 30, 1820; entered the Confederate States Navy, as commander, June 15, 1861; served at the Savannah station, 1863. [Register1863.]

John Thorhell, Fireman, CSS Arkansas, killed in action, July 22, 1862. [ORN 1, 19, 70.]

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

John Thornton, Ordinary Seaman, captured Roanoke Island, North Carolina, and paroled, February, 1862. [Scharf, 391.]

John Thornton, born, resided in and enlisted at Pasquotank County, North Carolina, August 1, 1861, aged 18, as private, company A, 8th Regiment North Carolina State Troops; pre-war occupation, mariner; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about January 9, 1863; shown as a seaman aboard the CSS North Carolina; also served aboard the CSS Sea Bird, 1861, prior to enlistment in the Army. [NCT 4, 532; ORN 2, 1, 293, 295, 297 & 306.]

James Walter Thorpe, qualified, on June 15, 1864, to serve in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Richmond station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 462.]

Wilson Thorpe, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later served, as ordinary seaman, on the CSS Savannah. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 305.]

T.S. Thrallkald, see Thomas S. Threlkeld.

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

Thomas S. Threlkeld (surname also shown as Thrallkald and Turkild), born Georgia, 1835; served as private, company E, Confederate States Marine Corps; served aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1863; transferred, on March 22, 1863, to the CSS Atlanta; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, Georgia, June 17, 1863; paid the bounty of $50, on October 30, 1863, for enlisting in the Corps; also served at the Richmond Station; later on the CSS Macon, 1865; resided as a farmer, in 1880, with his wife Martha I. Threlkeld, and seven children (eldest child born 1864) at Brookline, Madison County, Georgia; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Madison County, Georgia; died after 1900; his widow also later filed for a pension from the same county. [Atlanta Medical Journal, entry dated Friday, May 8, 1863; ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 316; CSS Macon Rolls; GA Pension Index 948; 1880 U.S. Census; 1900 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 598; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 240.]

James W. Thrift, listed as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Beaufort, in a muster roll of the vessel, dated March 31, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 108.]

Oliver P. Thrower, born Halifax County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Halifax County, February 14, 1862, aged 30, as private, company F, 43rd Regiment North Carolina Troops; reported on detached duty on a gunboat at Kinston, North Carolina during July to December, 1864; reported as having been transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 10, 1865; a Naval record indicates that he was actually recruited on May 2, 1864, as landsman, at the Naval rendezvous at Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864, and additional Naval documentation shows that he had served as coal heaver aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina in 1864. [NCT 10, 349; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 955 and 1233.]

A.H. Thurston, Landsman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

David Thurston, Seaman, CSS Alabama, 1862-4; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

James Thurston, born South Carolina, October 25, 1840; previous service as a private in the Confederate States Army, from which he was discharged November 1, 1861; served as 1st lieutenant, Confederate States Marine Corps; commanded the marine guard aboard the CSS Sampson, Savannah Squadron, in 1862; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, July 4, 1863; escaped for a brief period August 19, 1863, but was recaptured and later returned to Fort Warren; paroled on September 28, 1864, and exchanged at Cox's Wharf, Virginia; released and sent to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged; died at Catonsville, Maryland, on April 13, 1904; buried at Greenmount Cemetery, Baltimore, Maryland. [Donnelly, 229-230; ORN 1, 14, 268; Fort Warren; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XO - Clothing and Food, Clothing and Provisions (July, 1862 - February, 1863), page 579; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 682.]

Edward M. Tidball (middle initial also shown as N.), born Virginia; appointed March 13, 1861, as chief clerk to the Secretary of the Confederate Navy, at Richmond, Virginia. [Register1863; ORN 2, 1, 790.]

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

Jos. Tierney, 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.]

Nicholas Tierney (surname also shown as Tireney), served as landsman at the New Orleans station, 1861, and aboard the CSS Pamlico from October 15, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 54 and 268.]

Bernard Tietze, left London, England on December 30, 1863, for Brest, France, where he joined the cruiser CSS Florida, on January 2, 1864, for service as a 2nd class fireman. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 347.]

Asa F. Tift, indicated to have been an agent of the Navy Department of the Confederate States; paroled at Albany, Georgia, May 7, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

Nelson Tift, born 1810; resident of Albany, Baker County, Georgia; Assistant Paymaster; appointed from Georgia; paroled, at the close of the war, at Albany, Georgia, May 7, 1865; personal details, shown at the time of his parole as blue eyes, gray hair, fair complexion, and standing 5 feet 7 inches tall; post war state Congressman and later United States representative from Georgia, between 1868 and 1869; died 1891. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 113; some additional data provided by correspondent Hayes Lowe, August 13, 2003, through the Civil War Navies Message Board; some data also from volumes Historical Collections of Georgia, by the Rev. George White, published 1854, by Pudney & Russell, publishers, New York, and A Political Manual for the Campaign of 1868, by S.A. McPhetres, published 1868, by A. Williams and Company, Boston; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 200.]

Thomas Tigh (surname also shown as Tighe), served as 2nd class fireman aboard the CSS Maurepas, New Orleans station, in 1862; listed his next of kin as Catherine Tigh. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1005; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 110.]

Robert H. Tilford, appointed acting master in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on September 24, 1861, with instructions that he was to "...use all despatch in getting 20 men for your launch - you select them and the officer at the rendezvous has instructions to ship men especially for launches as they are brought to him by respective commanders of the boats"; commanded steam launches No. 2 and No. 3, New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862; later served at the Jackson station, 1862. [CSN Register; ORN 1, 18, 249; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 33; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 506.]

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

J.M. Tilton, served as surgeon's steward aboard the CSS Alert, 1861; later served as ship's steward aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile station, 1863; deserted about April, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 275; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 345.]

S.C. Timmons (middle initial also shown as E.), landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; later served as ordinary seaman on the CSS Savannah. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 2, 1, 304.]

James J. Tiner, resided in, and enlisted at Johnston County, North Carolina, June 12, 1861, aged 18, as private, company I, 24th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the CSS Albemarle, July 28, 1864, but was transferred back to his company at an unspecified date; paroled at Raleigh, North Carolina on or about May 6, 1865. [NCT 7, 339.]

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

C. H. H. Tinsley, resident of Hanover County, Virginia; indicated to have served as a private in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Ashland, Virginia, April 29, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

G. A. Tinsley, resident of Hanover County, Virginia; indicated to have served in the Navy Department of the Confederate States; paroled at Ashland, Virginia, April 27, 1865; parole no. 567. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

M. W. Tinsley, resident of Hanover County, Virginia; indicated to have served as a private in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Ashland, Virginia, April 28, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

W. T. Tinsley, resident of Hanover County, Virginia; indicated to have served in the Navy Department of the Confederate States; paroled at Ashland, Virginia, April 27, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

George A. Tinsly, resident of Hanover County, Virginia; indicated to have served as a private in the Navy Department, in Virginia; paroled at Ashland, Virginia, May 8, 1865; parole no. 374. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

George W. Tippens
, see George W. Thippins.

Joseph S. Tipton (Register1864 also shows his first name as James), born Georgia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as assistant surgeon, May 1, 1863; served aboard the CSS Arctic, and on the Wilmington station, North Carolina,1863 - 1864; captured aboard the CSS Bombshell during the engagement at Albemarle Sound, North Carolina, May 5, 1864; later served aboard the CSS Isondiga, 1864; CSS Resolute, CSS Firefly, Savannah station, 1864; appointed assistant surgeon, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864. [Georgia in the War, 1861-1865, page 114; ORN 1, 9, 745 & 2, 1, 275; JCC 4, 123; Register1864.]

George H. Titcomb, born Savannah, Georgia, 1825; resided as a pilot, in 1860, with his wife, Mary, and children, at Chatham County, Georgia; served as pilot in the Confederate States Navy, at Savannah; also shown as being in charge of the steamer CSS Sampson, in 1862; transferred to the Charleston station, about 1863. [CSN Register; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), pages 537 and 819.]

W.R. Tittleton, see William R. Tetterton.

Patrick Tobin, Private, CSMC, CSS Sumter, 1861. [CSS Sumter Muster Roll.]

Richard Tobin, 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.]

James W. Tolbert, Seaman, Florida Volunteer Coast Guards, mustered in January 27, 1862. [Soldiers of Florida, 49.]

William Toledano, enlisted in the Confederate States Navy on October 24, 1861, and served as 2nd class boy aboard the CSS Jackson, New Orleans station, in 1861, and the CSS General Polk, 1861-1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 476, 479-480 and 880; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 38.]

J.W. Toler, served in company B, Naval Battalion (?); his widow, Mrs. K. Cassie Toler filed for a post war Confederate pension from Polk County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 953.]

James Hamilton Tomb (surname also shown as Tombs), born Florida, 1839; declined appointment as engineer in the United State Navy, April 23, 1861; appointed 3rd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy, June 21, 1861; captured on the Mississippi River, April, 1862; confined Fort Warren, Boston Harbor; later appointed 2nd assistant engineer on September 5, 1862, and ordered to report for duty aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston station; served aboard the CSS Juno in 1863, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, South Carolina, on the night of August 6, 1863; appointed acting 1st assistant engineer on August 15, 1863; in command of the CSS David (described as a "cigar torpedo steamer"), 1864; appointed chief engineer, Provisional Navy, January 7, 1864, to rank from October 5, 1863; attempted, unsuccessfully, to destroy the USS Memphis, off Charleston, South Carolina, March 5, 1864; paroled, at the close of the war, at Tallahassee, Florida, on May 16, 1865; personal details, at the time of his parole, shown as gray eyes, light hair, light complexion, and standing 5 feet 8 inches tall; served in the Brazilian Navy, 1866-1867; also served, post war, on the Norfolk and Western Railroad; died 1929; buried Evergreen Cemetery, Jacksonville, Florida. [ORN 1, 15, 358 - 359 and 1, 18, 318; John E. Ellis; Florida Confederate Card File; Register1864; SHC-UNC; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 202; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 514 and 516.]

James Tomilty (surname also shown as Tomalty), 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.]

Patrick Tomley, officers cook, Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and exchanged. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RB - Prisoner of War rolls.., Mississippi Squadron-Miscellaneous, page 550.]

George Tomlinson, originally served as private, Independent Grays, company H, 6th Virginia Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 8, 1863. [Norfolk County Record 278.]

J.W. Tomlinson, born Virginia; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as 3rd assistant engineer, February 12, 1863; served aboard the CSS Beaufort, 1863 - 1864, and aboard the CSS Chickamauga, Wilmington station, 1864; assigned to duty aboard the CSS Richmond, James River squadron, January, 1865; sent on temporary duty at Drewry's Bluff, February, 1865. [ORN 1, 3, 710 and 1, 11, 664 & 811; Register1864.]

Patrick Tomminy, served as coal heaver 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 Tooker, resided in, and enlisted at Beaufort County, North Carolina, May 10, 1861, aged 44, as sergeant, company I, 3rd Regiment North Carolina State Troops; reduced to private, and transferred to the Confederate States Navy, February 11, 1862. [NCT 3, 587.]

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

John M. Tooley, born Natchez, Mississippi, about 1839; resident of New Orleans; originally enlisted at New Orleans, Louisiana, August 21, 1861, as a private in company H, 13th Louisiana Infantry; enlisted by Naval lieutenant W. W. Carnes, on April 9, 1864, at Dalton, Georgia, for service as ordinary seaman aboard the floating battery CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron; transferred, on May 4, 1864, to the CSS Sampson, Savannah squadron; later served as seaman aboard the CSS Macon, in 1865; shown on a Roll of Confederate Prisoners of War who surrendered at Jackson, Mississippi, in May, 1865. [Booth 3, 849; CSS Macon Rolls; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 538-540; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 585.]

John Toplin, served as ordinary seaman on the CSS Sampson, and later aboard the CSS Savannah, Savannah squadron, 1863 - 1864; discharged from the Naval service on January 19, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 581 and 630; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 970.]

A. C. Torrence, shown on a Roll of Confederate Prisoners of War who surrendered at Jackson, Mississippi, May, 1865, as being a private [?] in the Naval service; resident of New Orleans, Louisiana. [Booth 3, 851.]

Robert Terry Totty,
born about 1839; previous service in the United States Navy, on the East India station, 1857 to 1860; enlisted as private, Purcell's Battery, Virginia Artillery (Captain Cayce's company, Virginia Light Artillery), August 19, 1862, later company B, 1st Virginia Regiment, Infantry; transferred to the Confederate States Navy and directed to report to commander Murray Mason, for assignment to duty, November 19, 1863; served as yeoman, CSS Richmond; paroled at Appomattox, April 10, 1865; post war occupation, soliciting agent; wife, Mary Mildrid Totty; admitted to the Robert E. Lee, Camp 1, Confederate Veterans' Home, Richmond, Virginia, July 15, 1913; place of residence at time of admission, Richmond, Virginia; discharged at his own request, July 21, 1913. [LVa.]

Cornelius Touhey, served as 2nd class fireman on the Savannah squadron, in 1863; later as 1st class fireman aboard the CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, 1864; deserted about April, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 529-530; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 350.]

Frank Townsend, Seaman, CSS Alabama; born England; reduced to Ordinary Seaman, November 16, 1863, forfeited three months pay and confined in double irons on bread and water for thirty days (possibly for mutinous conduct); wounded in action, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel; ORN 1, 2, 782.]

Henry Townsend, resident of Norfolk, Virginia; served as seaman aboard the CSS Beaufort, James River squadron, May, 1864; arrested at Richmond, and sent to the chain gang for 90 days for breaking into a private residence at Rocketts, Richmond, on Tuesday, May 17, 1864, causing some damage, and threatening the life of the resident; took the oath of allegiance at City Point, Virginia, on September 28, 1864. [Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 19, 1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 671.]

J. H. Townsend, appointed captain aboard the Confederate States ram General Sterling Price, of the Mississippi River Defense fleet, January 29, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 263.]

L. W. Townsend, served as a landsman in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, May 15, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 670.]

Henry Toye, enlisted for three years or the war, as coal heaver in the Confederate States Navy, aboard the CSS Huntress at Charleston, South Carolina, on July 8, 1862; received a $50 bonus at enlistment. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 164 and 747.]

John Trainer, 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.]

Pat. Trainer, served as landsman aboard the cruiser CSS Florida, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 370.]

Thomas Trainor (surname also shown as Treanor), served as landsman aboard the CSS Tuscarora, New Orleans station, in 1861; rated as coal heaver from November 9, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 75, 99 and 872.]

Francis Traner, indicated to have been one of the seamen captured aboard the Tacony, off Portland harbor, June, 1863, and confined at Portland jail; no such person listed in other documentation. [ORA 2, 6.]

---- Trask, Acting Master, CSS Capitol, May, 1862. [ORN 1, 23, 698.]

John A. Travers
, recruited as landsman at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864; served as carpenter's mate aboard the CSS Neuse, North Carolina, in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 955 and 1233.]

Thomas B. Travers, resident of Alexandria, Virginia; father was harbor master; original entry into the Confederate States Navy, as acting gunner, March 21, 1862; served aboard the CSS Arkansas and CSS Capitol, 1862; involved in the action of July 15, 1862, when the Arkansas took passage from the Yazoo River, through the combined Union fleet above Vicksburg; after the destruction of the CSS Arkansas, August 5, 1862, Travers, in company with several other officers of the Arkansas, travelled through Louisiana, and, after crossing the Comite and Amite Rivers, reached Camp Moore, near Tangipahoa, where they took the train and arrived in Jackson, Mississippi, on Sunday, August 9, 1862; later served aboard the CSS Atlanta, Georgia, 1862 - 1863; captured aboard the CSS Atlanta, Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, July 4, 1863; paroled September 28, 1864; exchanged at Cox's Wharf, Virginia; released and sent to Richmond from City Point, Virginia, October 18, 1864, after being exchanged; later served aboard the CSS Webb, on the Red River, April, 1865; abandoned the vessel below New Orleans, and was captured, and sent aboard the USS Bermuda, to Philadelphia, as a prisoner of war; post war, steamboat captain and lighthouse keeper; married, with seven daughters. [ORN 1, 14, 268; 1, 19, 132 & 136; 1, 22, 166 & 169 and 1, 23, 698; CSN Register; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; Fort Warren; some biographical information provided by his great, great, grandson, John Gallagher, a member of the US Coast Guard, in an e-mail (jboats@goeaston.com) dated June 6, 2004; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated October 20, 1864; Charleston Courier dated Thursday, July 31, 1862.]

J. R. Traylor, shown on a Roll of Confederate Prisoners of War who were paroled at Natchitoches, Louisiana, June 10, 1865, as being a sailor on the gunboat, CSS Missouri; resident of Natchitoches, Louisiana. [Booth 3, 865.]

R. H. Treadway, served as landsman aboard the CSS Tuscaloosa, Mobile station, 1863; deserted about July, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 353.]

J. T. Trebbs, resident of Caroline County, Virginia; served as boatswain's mate in the Confederate States Navy; paroled at Richmond, Virginia, April 20, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 671.]

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

Adam Tredwell, Clerk, CSS Ellis, August, 1861; also shown as C.C. (?), CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 1, 6, 781 and 2, 1, 276.]

Elijah Trene, Pilot, CSS Webb, February, 1863. [ORN 1, 24, 407.]

Thomas Trenyear, served as private in the Confederate States Marine corps, aboard the CSS Morgan, Mobile station, in 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1181.]

L.E. Tresnell (or Fresnell?), landsman, Confederate States Navy; attached as 1st sergeant to company D, 1st Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [M1091.]

P. P. Tricon, appointed acting master's mate in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on March 10, 1862, and ordered to report aboard the CSS Bienville for duty. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 518.]

--- Triena, served as seaman aboard the CSS Spray, St. Mark's, Florida, 1863; captured 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 814.]

Daniel Trigg, passed midshipman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863; lieutenant, CSS Virginia II, 1864 - 1865. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 1, 10, 765.]

John D. Trimble, midshipman, served aboard the steamer Juno, Charleston station, in 1863, and was involved in the capture of the 1st launch of the USS Wabash, off Charleston, on the night of August 6, 1863; attached to the Savannah station, Georgia, 1864; served aboard the CSS Savannah; involved in the taking out of the USS Water Witch, June 3, 1864. [ORN 1, 15, 491 & 499; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 158; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XZ - Prizes, prize money, etc., Distribution of Prize Money - Miscellaneous, page 20.]

W.H. Trimmer, served with John Newland Maffitt on the Crusader, in Pensacola, in 1859, involved in a survey of the Florida coast; later served aboard the cruiser CSS Florida. [Pensacola Journal (Florida) dated May 14, 1905.]

M. M. Troutman (middle initial also shown as T.), served as landsman and ordinary seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at the Savannah squadron, 1864; sent to Battery Buchanan on December 30, 1864; also indicated to have served, about 1863, aboard the CSS Indian Chief; died as a prisoner of war, at the United States General Hospital at Fort Monroe, Virginia, prior to February, 1866. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, pages 290-291; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 118 and 764; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 1005.]

Samuel Troutman, born Rowan County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, farmer; enlisted at Rowan County, aged 36, in the Confederate States Navy; served as landsman, CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [CSN Shipping Articles; ORN 2, 1, 274.]

N. Trowbridge, born Louisiana; aged 22; mate [?, ORN 2, 1, 291, actually shows him as being a private in the Confederate States Marine Corps], CSS McRae; discharged from the service, February 8, 1862, after being admitted to the hospital vessel, St. Philip, October 30, 1861, for intermittent fever. [St. Philip; ORN 2, 1, 291.]

John Troxler, Landsman, CSS Arctic, 1863. [ORN 2, 1, 276.]

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

Stephen Picket Truesdell (surname also shown as Truesdale), born at Beaufort, North Carolina, December 25, 1840; resided at Mount Pleasant, South Carolina; enlisted at Richmond, Virginia, July 20, 1861, as private, company I, 1st South Carolina (Gregg's) Volunteer Infantry (other accounts indicate that he enlisted April 8 or 22, 1861, at Charleston, South Carolina, was stationed at Morris Island, South Carolina, and transferred to Richmond, Virginia) transferred to the Confederate States Navy, January 17, 1862; served on the CSS Virginia, Hampton Roads, Virginia, 1862; wounded in the back of the head and left arm by fragments of bursting gun on CSS Virginia; transferred to CSS Charleston; also indicated to have served as landsman aboard the CSS Indian Chief, about 1864; name appears on a list of Confederate refugees and deserters released March 16, 1865, at Charleston, South Carolina, on taking the oath of allegiance; applied, unsuccessfully, for a Confederate state pension; resided in Florida since May or June, 1904. [SC1st; ORN 2, 1, 309; Florida Confederate Pension File No. D20339; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 765-766.]

---- Truman, enlisted in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at Richmond, Virginia, about March, 1864; no further record. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 293.]

Charles D. Tucker, served as clerk in the Confederate States Navy, on the Richmond station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 484 - 487.]

Charles D. Tucker, acting master in the Confederate States Navy; commanded the steamer Moultrie, Charleston squadron, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XF - Fuel and Water - Water for ships, page 126.]

David Tucker, served as landsman aboard the gunboat CSS Savannah, in 1864; transferred to the CSS Chicora, Charleston station, in 1864; applied for a post war Confederate pension from Duplin County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives; Confederate Navy Subject file, N - Personnel, NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 608.]

F.M. Tucker, Acting Master's Mate, relieved of command of CSS Gunnison, November, 1863. [ORN 1, 20, 848.]

George C. Tucker
, served as 3rd class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 76.]

Henry Tucker, Officers' Cook, CSS Alabama; born England; captured by USS Kearsarge, June 19, 1864, off Cherbourg, France. [William Marvel.]

John B. Tucker, served as 3rd class boy at the New Orleans station, in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 76.]

John H. Tucker, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

John Randolph Tucker, born Alexandria, Virginia, 1812 (birthplace also shown as District of Columbia, appointed from Virginia); father of Confederate Navy engineer, John T. Tucker (listed below); previous service in the United States Navy, from June 1, 1826; resided, in 1860, with his children, at Norfolk, Virginia; appointed commander, Confederate States Navy, June 10, 1861; commanded Charleston Squadron, South Carolina, and served on the CSS Chicora, 1863; intended to report for duty, with his command, at Wilmington, in early 1865, but was diverted to Richmond, on the fall of Wilmington; Commander, CSS Patrick Henry, 1865; formed a Naval Brigade in the final land campaign in Virginia, April, 1865; captured and sent to Washington, D.C., then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, where he was received April 15, 1865; released July 24, 1865; short post war service in the naval service of Peru, from which he resigned about 1878; resided as a widower, in 1880, with one son (born 1852) at Petersburg, Virginia; died at his residence in Petersburg, June 12, 1883. [ORN 1, 12, 188 - 190; Scharf, 193; CDAB, 1059; Register1863; Fort Warren; 1860 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; New York Times dated June 13, 1883.]

John T. Tucker
, born Virginia, 1839; son of Confederate Navy commander, John Randolph Tucker (see entry above); resided with his father and siblings, in 1860, at Norfolk, Virginia; appointed 2nd assistant engineer, Confederate States Navy; served, in 1863, as 1st assistant engineer aboard the CSS Patrick Henry, James River; detached from the vessel on September 23, 1863, and was ordered to proceed to Wilmington, and to await further orders; sent to Canada and Bermuda, by authority of the Confederate government, and was involved in the Johnson's Island expedition, late 1863;served aboard the CSS Neuse, and also aboard CSS Chickamauga, 1864. [ORN 1, 2, 824 and 1, 3, 710; 1860 U.S. Census; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1231; Confederate Navy subject file O - Operations of Naval ships and fleet units; OM - Routine Operations; CSS Atlanta - Miscellaneous, pages 453 - 464.]

Levi M. Tucker, born Kentucky; original entry into Confederate States Navy, November 10, 1863; commissioned assistant paymaster, January 7, 1864, to rank from November 10, 1863; appointed assistant paymaster, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864; served aboard the CSS Hampton, James River squadron, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 766; Register1864; JCC 4, 122.]

O. G. Tucker, enlisted at Yorktown, [Virginia?], April 9, 1862, as private, company I, 1st Louisiana Heavy Artillery (Regulars); also temporarily attached to the 12th Louisiana Battery, date not specified; discharged April 8, 1864, for appointment as assistant Engineer in the Confederate States Navy. [Booth 3, 879.]

W.G. Tucker, Landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, May, 1864. [ORN 1, 17, 700.]

W. J. Tucker, served as landsman aboard the floating battery, CSS Georgia, Savannah squadron, in 1864; transferred, at an unspecified date, to the Charleston squadron. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 503; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 716.]

Whiting D. Tucker, qualified, on May 2, 1864, to serve in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Richmond station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 460.]

William D. Tucker, served in the Confederate States Marine Corps, James River squadron, 1864 (may have served aboard the CSS Fredericksburg); died in hospital at Richmond, Virginia, prior to August 9, 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 44.]

William S. Tucker, landsman, CSS Chattahoochee, 1863. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll.]

John Tuckett, enlisted for three years as seaman in the Confederate States Navy, at Charleston, South Carolina, on September 1, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 178.]

Francis Tuft (first name also incorrectly shown as William), born Liverpool, England, 1839; shipped from the whaler, Edward, as landsman, and rated cooper/carpenter, CSS Shenandoah, December 5, 1864; allowed liberty at Melbourne, Australia, returning aboard the cruiser, January 31, 1865; completed the cruise, discharged and paid off at Liverpool, England, November, 1865; married Caroline McKee, 1871, at Liverpool; moved to New Zealand, about 1878; occupation, farmer; moved to Australia, 1897; died Sydney, New South Wales, Australia, November 29, 1919; buried at the Church of England cemetery, Prospect. [Alabama Claims 1, 975; see also, volume titled Roll the Summers Back, by Tuft's son in law, Joseph A. Porter, published 1961 by Jacaranda Press, Brisbane, Australia; also Tuft's death certificate, in the possession of the author; CSS Shenandoah Deck Log; Whittle 82-83.]

John N. Tuggle, qualified, on May 2, 1864, to serve in the Confederate States Marine Corps, at the Richmond station. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 460.]


Robert Tullington, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Jamestown, James River squadron, 1861 - 1862; rated as coxswain from January 1, 1862; deserted from the vessel on June 11, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 312 and 947; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 442.]

Adolphe Turbert
(name also shown as Adolph Turbut), served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861, and aboard the CSS Pamlico from October 15, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 54 and 267.]

T.S. Turkild, see Thomas S. Threlkeld.

Alexander Turner, served in the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Josephine Turner, later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Sampson County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

B. M. Turner, 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.]

George P. Turner, born Virginia; previous service in the United States Marine Corps; appointed 2nd lieutenant in the Marine Corps of the Virginia State Navy, April 23, 1861; transferred to the Confederate States Marine Corps, as 2nd lieutenant, June, 1861; employed, with the rank of captain, on recruiting duties in Richmond, Virginia, May, 1862; dismissed from the service on December 11, 1862. [CSN-Museum; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 12, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 329.]

George W. Turner, Acting Master's Mate, paroled at Nanna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785.]

J.C. Turner, acting master's mate, Confederate States Navy; served on the Charleston station, 1864. [CSN Register; Register1864.]

J.D. Turner, served aboard the CSS Charleston, and the CSS Indian Chief, Charleston station, in 1864, and was transferred, by order of flag officer J.R. Tucker, dated September 13, 1864, to the command of flag officer Lynch, at the Wilmington station, North Carolina; served as landsman aboard the CSS Albemarle, and Halifax Station, 1864. [ORN 2, 1, 274; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 156 and 761.]

J. L. Turner, recruited as landsman at the Naval rendezvous, Kinston, North Carolina, on May 2, 1864, and served aboard the CSS Neuse in 1864. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 955 and 1233.]

Jacob H. Turner
, served as acting master's mate aboard the receiving vessel, CSS Danube, at Mobile, in 1864; paroled at Nunna Hubba Bluff, Alabama, May 10, 1865. [Porter's Naval History, 785; Register1864; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1076.]

James E. Turner, Pilot, CSS Nansemond, July, 1864; temporary duty at Drewry's Bluff, James River, February, 1865; attached to Semmes' Naval Brigade, for special service, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 727 and 1, 11, 812; M1091.]

John Turner, resident of Cumberland, Maine; served as landsman and surgeon's steward (also shown as clerk), CSS Atlanta, 1862-1863; captured aboard that vessel at Wassaw Sound, June 17, 1863; sent to Fort Lafayette, New York Harbor, then to Fort Warren, Boston Harbor, September 6, 1863; released, December 10, 1864, upon taking the Oath of Allegiance; personal description at the time of taking the oath shown as black hair, blue eyes, dark complexion and standing 5 feet 3 ¼ inches tall. [ORN 1, 14, 268 & 2, 1, 275; Atlanta Medical Journal, frontispiece; see also, the letter written by seaman William B. Moore, addressed to Captain Arthur Sinclair, CSS Atlanta, March 9, 1863, included in the Atlanta Medical Journal; Fort Warren; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RE - Release and Exchange, A-W, pages 161-163.]

John M. Turner, machinist, Confederate States Navy; served on the steamer Southern Republic, off Moscow, Alabama, April 30, 1863; also on the Confederate steamer Nashville; surrendered and paroled at Atlanta, Georgia, May 10, 1865; filed for a post war Confederate pension from Berrien County, Georgia. [GA Pension Index 963; Georgia State Archives.]

L. Turner, served aboard the CSS Columbia, Charleston station, 1865; transferred to the Richmond station on January 22, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, pages 270 - 271.]

M.B. Turner
, Landsman, ironclad CSS Fredericksburg, wounded in action (on head), James River, Virginia, October 22, 1864. [ORN 1, 10, 589.]

M.V. Turner, resided in, and enlisted at Cleveland County, North Carolina, April 27, 1861, aged 18, as private, company C, 15th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to 2nd company D, 15th Regiment North Carolina Troops, April 8, 1863; transferred to the Confederate States Navy, April 1, 1864. [NCT 5, 534 & 548.]

Samuel V. Turner
, born Virginia, about 1828; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as sailmaker, June 11, 1861; served at the Naval works, Charlotte, 1862 - 1865; (Register1864 also shows him on duty at Charleston, South Carolina, 1863 - 1864) enrolled as lieutenant in Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865; resided as a sailmaker, in 1870, with his wife, Cordelia, and three children, at Norfolk, Virginia. [Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; M1091; 1870 U.S. Census.]

Timothy Turner, served as landsman at the New Orleans station, and aboard the CSS General Polk, in 1861; rated as coal heaver from November 1, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 471; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 58-59.]

W.J. Turner, Fireman, CSS Webb, April, 1865. [ORN 1, 22, 170.]

William Turner, Coxswain, CSS Selma, captured at Mobile Bay, Alabama, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Port Royal, as a prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 844.]

William A. Turner, enlisted as landsman aboard the CSS Baltic, Mobile squadron, June 15, 1862; discharged by medical survey, September 25, 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file M - Medical; MN - Discharges from medical custody and deaths; Deaths - discharges, page 380; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 110.]

William Mason Turner, served as assistant surgeon in the Confederate States Navy, and aboard the CSS Chicora, Charleston station, in 1862; captured at Richmond, Virginia, on April 3, 1865; paroled at Richmond, April 18, 1865. [Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 204; Confederate Navy subject file, X - Supplies, XN- Naval stores afloat, Stores for ships (April, 1862 - December, 1863), page 882.]

John J. Tushingham, appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer in the Confederate States Navy, at New Orleans, on September 14, 1861; tendered his resignation from the Naval service, which was accepted on November 24, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 520 and 1067.]

J. M. Tweedy, served as ordinary seaman aboard the CSS Resolute, Savannah squadron, in 1863; deserted about October, 1863. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 381 - 382; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NZ - Desertions and straggling, Miscellaneous, page 356.]

J. Twinning, served as landsman in the Confederate States Navy; captured at Mobile Bay, August 5, 1864, and sent aboard the USS Ossipee, as prisoner of war. [ORN 1, 21, 841.], served as ordinary seaman at the New Orleans station in 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, page 91.]

Charles Tyler, served as seaman at the New Orleans station, 1861 - 1862. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS New Orleans - Yorktown, pages 83 and 115.]

Clarance W. Tyler (first name also shown as Clarence), born New Hanover County, North Carolina; pre-war occupation, student; enlisted at New Hanover County, April 15, 1861, aged 17, as private, company I, 18th Regiment North Carolina Troops; transferred to the Confederate States Navy on or about September 20, 1861 (original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 4th class, also shown as September 12, 1861); originally ordered to proceed to Newbern, North Carolina, and to report to flag officer William F. Lynch for duty, but this order was revoked on September 30, 1861, and Tyler was instead ordered, after his leave of absence was over, to proceed to Savannah and report to flag officer J. Tattnall for duty; served as midshipman on the CSS Arctic and at the Savannah Station, 1861 - 1862; served aboard the CSS Capitol, 1862; wounded in action, in the head, on the CSS Arkansas, Yazoo River, July 15, 1862, during that ram's passage through the Federal fleet above Vicksburg; waiting orders, 1862 - 1863; resigned January 9, 1864. [NCT 6, 411; ORN 1, 19, 69; 1, 23, 698 and 2, 1, 276 & 322; Register1863; Daily Mississippian (Jackson, Mississippi), dated July 21, 1862; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 330; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, pages 523 - 524.]

Henry B. Tyler, born Virginia; previous service in the United States Marine Corps, from March 3, 1823; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Marine Corps, May 6, 1861; original entry into Confederate States Marine Corps, as lieutenant colonel, from June 18, 1861; paroled, at the close of the war, at Lynchburg, Virginia, in April, 1865; died at his residence in Fairfax County, Virginia, on Thursday, December, 1879, aged eighty-two. [Register1864; JCC 1, 818; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861; Washington Post (D.C.) dated December 20, 1879, page 4; Confederate Navy subject file, R - Prisoners and Prisons, RL - Paroles, A-W, page 205.]

Henry B. Tyler, jr., served as 1st lieutenant in the Confederate States Marine Corps; dismissed from the service on December 10, 1861; Tyler wrote to adjutant general Cooper, in Richmond, Virginia, on January 15, 1862, requesting a copy of the charges, evidence and defence in his case, in an attempt to lay his own evidence before the Confederate president. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; Lists and Registers, page 682; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NV - Miscellaneous; Marine Corps - Miscellaneous, page 19.]

John Washington Tynan, born Portsmouth, Virginia, 1836; previous service in the United States Navy, from November 21, 1857; name stricken from the rolls of the United States Navy, May 6, 1861; served as 2nd assistant engineer, CSS St. Nicholas, at Fredericksburg, Virginia, June, 1861 (Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated June 1, 1861 shows him as serving aboard the CSS United States on that date); original entry into Confederate States Navy, December 21, 1861; appointed acting 2nd assistant engineer (later promoted acting 1st assistant engineer; his date of promotion to this grade is shown as December 21, 1861); served on the Richmond station, 1861 - 1862, and aboard the CSS Virginia; participated in the engagement at Hampton Roads, Virginia, March, 1862; served aboard the steamer CSS Chattahoochee, 1862 - 1863; later promoted acting chief engineer, May 22, 1863; served on the Savannah station, Georgia, 1863 - 1864 and on the CSS Tallahassee, 1864; resided as a machinist, in 1880, with his wife, Margaret (maiden name Martin) and one daughter (born 1866) at the residence of his mother in law, at Savannah, Georgia; died in Savannah, June 24, 1892. [CSS Chattahoochee Muster Roll; ORN 1, 4, 555; 1, 7, 48; 1, 15, 502 & 2, 1, 307, 308, 321 & 323; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; 1880 U.S. Census; Daily Dispatch (Richmond, Virginia) dated May 31, 1861, June 1, 1861 and July 19, 1861; Irish World and American Industrial Liberator (New York) dated Saturday, July 2, 1892, page 8; Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NN- Acceptances......Revoked commissions; Acceptances - Appointments of officers (L - Z) - Revoked commissions, page 526.]

Mark Tynan, enlisted, for one year, as 1st cook aboard the cruiser CSS Nashville, Charleston, South Carolina, on September 20, 1861. [Confederate Navy subject file N - Personnel; NA - Complements, rolls, lists of persons, etc.; CSS Alabama - CSS Neuse, page 1228; Alabama Claims 2, (appendix 2), 133.]

Joseph Tyner, served in the Confederate States Navy; his widow, Pollie Tyner, later applied for a post war Confederate pension from Johnston County, North Carolina. [NC State Archives.]

Henry Hewlings Tyson, born Maryland; original entry into Confederate States Navy, as acting midshipman, 4th class, October 31, 1861; ordered to report to commander Kennedy, aboard the CSS Richmond, at Aquia Creek, Richmond station, November, 1861, and served until 1862; also on the side wheeled gunboat CSS Morgan, Mobile Squadron, Alabama, 1862 - 1863; served aboard the school ship, CSS Patrick Henry, and also aboard the CSS Richmond, James River squadron, Virginia, 1864; later promoted passed midshipman, Provisional Navy of the Confederate States; attached as 2nd lieutenant to company I, 2nd Regiment, Semmes' Naval Brigade, April, 1865; surrendered and paroled at Greensboro, North Carolina, April 26, 1865. [ORN 1, 10, 644 and 2, 1, 292 & 321; Register1863; Register1864; M1091; New York Herald dated November 8, 1861, page 2.]



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