Confederate Naval Officers and other People

• Stephen Mallory, Confederate Secretary of the Navy
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• John Mercer Brooke, navy officer involved in conversion of USS Merrimack into CSS Virginia; invented a rifled cannon, the Brooke rifle
• Isaac Brown, captain of ironclad CSS Arkansas
• Franklin Buchanan, captain of CSS Virginia when it destroyed the USS Cumberland and USS Congress on March 8, 1862
• James W. Cooke, captain of the CSS Albemarle
• French Forrest, commandant of Gosport Navy Yard, raised and rebuilt the USS Merrimack into the ironclad CSS Virginia
• George N. Hollins, Captain, CSN, commanded naval station at New Orleans
• Horace Hunley, developer of the Confederate submarine CSS Hunley
• Catesby ap Roger Jones, in command of the CSS Virginia in its battle with the USS Monitor
• John McIntosh Kell, first lieutenant and executive officer on CSS Alabama
• William F. Lynch, in command of gunboats and defense of Roanoke Island attacked by Burnside
• John Newland Maffitt, blockade runner and privateer
• Matthew Fontaine Maury, Confederate agent in London
• William Harwar Parker, captain, CSS Beaufort, 1862; wrote a well-known memoir Recollections of a Naval Officer in 1883. This memoir was an important resource in my Civil war novels.
• John L. Porter, naval constructor for the Confederate Navy
• Charles Read, commerce raider, known for daring exploits
• Raphael Semmes, captain of the commerce raider CSS Alabama
• Josiah Tattnall III, in command of naval forces in Virginia, ordered the CSS Virginia destroyed in May 1862 to prevent capture by Union forces
• John Randolph Tucker, in command of warships at Charleston, SC
• James Iredell Waddell, commanded the commerce raider CSS Shenandoah
• John Taylor Wood, Captain; Wood fired the stern gun on the CSS Virginia that wounded Capt. Worden of the USS Monitor
• John Taylor Wood, Wikipedia