Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters: 956 Confederate and Union Naval and Military Personnel, Contractors, Politicians, Officials, Steamboat Pilots and Others
Civil War Biographies from the Western Waters: 956 Confederate and Union Naval and Military Personnel, Contractors, Politicians, Officials, Steamboat Pilots and Others
Editor/Author
Smith Jr., Myron J.
Publication Year: 2015
Publisher: McFarland
Price: Core Collection Only

ISBN: 978-0-7864-6967-3
Category: History - United States -- History
Image Count:
150
Book Status: Available
Table of Contents
Included in this biographical encyclopedia are Union and Confederate naval officers down to the rank of mate; enlisted sailors who won the Medal of Honor, or otherwise distinguished themselves or who wrote accounts of life on the gunboats; army officers and leaders who played a direct role in combat along Western waters; political officials who influenced river operations; civilian steamboat captains and pilots who participated in wartime logistics; and civilian contractors directly involved, including shipbuilders, dam builders, naval constructors and munitions experts.
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Table of Contents
- Also by Myron J. Smith, Jr. and from McFarland
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Abbreviations
- A
- Achew, Henry
- Ackerman, Charles Edward
- Ackley, Charles S.
- Adams, Cassilly
- Adams, John
- Adams, William Wirt
- Addison, William John
- Alford, Edward
- Algee, James B.
- Allen, Henry S.
- Allen, Robert
- Allen, Robert Thomas Prichett
- Allen, Thomas
- Alms, Herman (sometimes Hermann) Henry
- Ammerman (sometimes Amerman), Charles H.
- Anshutz, William J. (“W. J.”)
- Apperly, William
- Armstrong, Aaron H.
- Arther, Matthew
- Asten, Charles
- Athearn, Ira
- Atkinson, John W.
- Attenborough, R. Henry
- Attenborough, William M.
- Autry, James Lockhart
- Averett, Samuel Wootton
- B
- Babcock, Charles A.
- Bache, George Mifflin, II
- Bacot, Richard (“Dickie”) Hayes
- Badger, Oscar C.
- Baer, William H.
- Bailey, Joseph
- Baird, William P.
- Baldwin, Nathaniel Plummer
- Baldwin, Robert Graves
- Baldwin, Robert Thomas
- Baldwin, Thomas
- Banks, Nathaniel Prentice
- Barbot, Alphonse
- Barclay, Peter
- Barclay, William
- Barry, William Taylor Sullivan
- Barry, William Wesley
- Bartlett, Henry E.
- Bates, Edward
- Bates, Newton L.
- Bates, Thomas W.
- Baumgarten, Gustar H.E.
- Baylor, George Wythe
- Beaman, Ezra C.
- Beauchamp, Hiram Herschel (“Harry”)
- Beauchamp, Joseph
- Beauregard, Pierre Gustave Toutant
- Beecher, William P.
- Bell, Tyree Harris
- Beltzhoover, Daniel
- Bennett, William C.
- Benson, John George
- Bentley, James C.
- Bentley, John H.
- Benton, Josiah H.
- Benton, Thomas Owen
- Bertolette, Jonathan Cleaver
- Bickerstaff, Samuel
- Billups, John Eden
- Bishop, Joshua
- Bixby, George H.
- Bixby, Horace Ezra
- Blair, Francis Preston, Jr.
- Blair, Montgomery
- Blake, Francis O.
- Blanchard, Thomas
- Bledsoe, Hiram Miller, Jr.
- Blodgett, George M.
- Blythe, Green Lee
- Bodman, Hanson Allen
- Bofinger, John N.
- Boggs, William Brenton
- Bois, Frank E.
- Boisseau, Joseph
- Bolton, Samuel L.
- Bone, George W.
- Boone, William Pennebaker
- Bowen, John Stevens
- Bowers, Daniel C. (“Dan”)
- Bowers, Theodore S.
- Boyd, Robert, Jr.
- Boyle, Jeremiah Tilford
- Bradley, Charles
- Brady, James
- Brashear, Joseph T.
- Brayman, Mason
- Breckenridge, Clifton Rodes
- Breckenridge, John Cabell
- Breese, Kidder Randolph
- Brennand, Edward E.
- Brennen, Edward C.
- Brent, Joseph Lancaster
- Brent, Thomas William
- Bridgman, William R.
- Briggs, Charles Calvin
- Brinton, John Hill
- Brooks, Edwin F.
- Brooks, Samuel S.
- Brott, Elijah C.
- Brown, Benjamin Franklin
- Brown, Eugene H.
- Brown, George
- Brown, George E.
- Brown, George Washington
- Brown, Isaac Newton
- Brown, Joseph (“Captain Joe”)
- Brown, Oliver Hazard Perry
- Brown, Spencer Kellogg
- Browne, George Washington.
- Browne, Henry R.
- Browne, Symmes E.
- Brownell, William P.
- Bryant, John L.
- Bryant, Nathaniel Cushing
- Bryson, Andrew
- Buckner, Simon Bolivar
- Buell, Don Carlos
- Buffington, William J.
- Buford, Abraham (“Abe”)
- Buford, Napoleon Bonaparte
- Bunner, John C.
- Burbridge, John Quincy
- Burns, Thomas W.
- Burnside, Ambrose Everett
- Burt, James Otis
- Burton, John
- Butts, George
- Byrnes, James
- C
- Calhoon, Richard
- Calhoon, Thomas Stevenson
- Callender, Eliot
- Cameron, Simon
- Campbell, Alexander
- Campbell, James Edwin
- Campbell, Leonidas Caldwell
- Canida, James O.
- Cannon, John W.
- Carroll, Richard
- Carswell, William
- Carter, Jonathan Hanby
- Carter, Samuel Perry
- Castle, Frederick A.
- Castleman, John Breckenridge (“Breck”)
- Castleman, Thomas W.
- Caven, Charles H.
- Chalmers, James Ronald (“Little Un”)
- Chambers, John W.
- Champion, Sidney Smith
- Chaney, William L.
- Chester, Benjamin
- Chester, Luster P.
- Chester, Thomas R.
- Church, Frank Linnaeus
- Churchill, Thomas James
- City, George Washington
- Clapp, Fayette
- Clark, Charles Peter
- Clark, Harry E.
- Clark, James W.
- Closson, Nelson A.
- Clow, William Lot
- Coates, James Henry
- Cobb, Robert H.
- Coburn, Forrest
- Coffinberry, Henry Darling
- Coleman, Ferdinand Timothy
- Coleman, Silas Bunker
- Collier, Daniel
- Collins, Richard Andrew (“Capt. Dick”)
- Conant, Thaddeus L.
- Constantine, William L.
- Cook (sometimes Cooke), Henry Selden
- Cook, Thomas
- Cooke, Henry Selden.
- Corcoran, Thomas E.
- Cornay, Florian Octave
- Cornwell, John J.
- Cotton, Peter
- Coulson, Washington Clem (“W.C.”)
- Courtenay, Thomas Edgeworth
- Couthouy, Joseph Pitty
- Covert, Ellison
- Coyle, Joseph C.
- Crain, Walter O.
- Crandall, Warren Daniel
- Creasman, William Burton
- Critchell, Robert S.
- Cronin, Michael J.
- Cropsey, Andrew Jackson
- Crosby, William B., Jr.
- Currie, George Earl
- Curry, Llewellyn B.
- Cutter, Richard H.
- D
- Dalton, Hamilton Henderson
- Dana, Charles Anderson
- Darcy, John J.
- Davis, Charles Henry
- Davis, Frederic E.
- Davis, Jefferson Finis
- Dawson, Lewis
- Decker, William
- Deming, John
- Dennis, John S.
- Detweiller, Henry
- Dexter, Henry T.
- Dister, Peter
- Ditzenbach, John
- Dodge, Grenville Mellen
- Doland, James T.
- Dominy, Cyrenis
- Donaldson, James Lowry
- Donaldson, Oliver
- Donelly, Patrick
- Dorman, John Henry
- Dorsey, John W.
- Doughty, Thomas
- Dove, Benjamin M.
- Dow, Henry
- Downs, James
- Draper, Edgar LeRoy
- Duble, John A.
- Dudley, Daniel B.
- Duke, Basil Wilson
- Duncan, Charles Convers
- Duncan, James K.L.
- Dunn, Elisha W.
- Dunn, Martin
- Dunnington, John W.
- Dupuy, John S.
- E
- Eads, James Buchanan
- Eakle, Illiam P.
- Easton, Langdon Chevis
- Eberhart, Gustavus Adolphus
- Ebert, George Washington
- Edes, Robert Thaxter
- Edwards, Arthur
- Egly, Victor
- Ellet, Alfred Washington
- Ellet, Charles, Jr.
- Ellet, Charles Rivers
- Ellis, Edmund Curtis
- Ellis, Richard
- Emerson, Primus
- English, William H.
- Erben, Henry
- Erickson, Conrad
- Ernest, William E.
- Ernst (sometimes Ernest), William M.
- Esnard, John E.
- Evans, John
- Ewing, Francis M.
- Eytinge, Henry St. Clair
- F
- Fagan, Henry
- Farrell, Thomas M.
- Faulkner, William D.
- Featherston, Winfield Scott
- Fentress, Walter E.H.
- Ferguson, Charles (“Champ”)
- Ferguson, Samuel Wragg
- Ferguson, William
- Ferrell, John H.
- Ferry, Theodore P.
- Fitch, Graham Newell
- Fitch, Le Roy
- Fitzpatrick, James W.
- Flanigan (sometimes Flannigan), Michael E.
- Flanner, Frank W.F.
- Flannigan, Michael E.
- Flatau, Louis Spencer (“Spence”)
- Fleming, James
- Flint, James Milton
- Floyd, John Buchanan
- Flye, William
- Follett, Fletcher Miller
- Foote, Andrew Hull
- Ford, Marshall H.
- Forney, John Horace
- Forrest, Aaron
- Forrest, Moreau
- Forrest, Nathan Bedford (“Wizard of the Saddle”)
- Foster, James P.
- Foster, John Watson
- Foutly, George W.
- Fowler, Littleton Augustus (“Gus”)
- Fox, Gustavus Vasa
- Franks, William J.
- Fraser, Alexander
- Freeman, Robert J.
- Frémont, John Charles
- French, James S.
- French, Jefferson A.
- Fretwell, John Richard
- Fry, Joseph
- Fulkerson, Isaac Debough
- Fuller, Charles Alexander
- Fulton, James Baird
- G
- Gantt, Edward W.
- Garland, Robert Rice
- Garver, George W.
- Gassoway, Elmore S.
- Gaudet, Michel Oscar
- Gaudet, Oscar
- George, James Zachariah
- Gerould, Martin L.
- Gettis, James S.
- Getty, Robert Henry
- Gibson, Thomas
- Gifford, Robert W.
- Gift, George Washington
- Gilchrist, Edward
- Gillespie, Eliza Maria (“Sister Mary of St. Angela” or “Mother Angela”)
- Gilman Augustus Henry
- Gilmartin, Peter P.
- Gilmore, William
- Gipson, James C.
- Girty, Thomas
- Glassford, Henry A.
- Glenney, Daniel W.
- Goble, Edward W.
- Goble, Samuel B.
- Gorman, Patrick
- Gorman, Willis Arnold
- Gorringe, Henry Honeychurch
- Goudy, Jason
- Gould, Abraham N.
- Grace, John R.
- Gracey, Francis Patten (“Frank”)
- Graham, George Washington (“Wash”)
- Grant, Alexander M.
- Grant, Ulysses Simpson
- Graves, Hiram B.
- Gray, Charles C.
- Gray, George Noah
- Green, Henry D.
- Green, Thomas
- Greene, Colton (sometimes George Colton)
- Greene, George Colton
- Greenwood, Miles
- Greer, James Augustin
- Gregg, William
- Gregory, Thomas B.
- Grier, William
- Griffith, John
- Griggs, Chauncey Wright
- Grimball, John (“Jack”)
- Grisamore, Silas T.
- Griswold, William N.
- Groves, George J.
- Guibor, Henry
- Guild, Charles Fox
- Gunn, John Montague
- Guthrie, Benjamin Wilburne
- Guthrie, John Julius
- Guthrie, John Julius, Jr.
- Gwathmey, Washington
- Gwin, William
- H
- Hagerup, Anthony Edward
- Haines, Martin Van Buren
- Hale, David W.
- Hall, Samuel
- Halleck, Henry Wagner
- Halliday, William Parker
- Halstead, Francis William (“Frank”)
- Hambrick, James W.
- Hamersly, Lewis Randolph
- Hamilton, Thomas W.
- Hamilton, William F.
- Hanford, William C.
- Hapgood, Charles Burt
- Harding, Abner Clark
- Harkins, Henry
- Harris, Isham Green
- Harris, Samuel Stanhope
- Harrison, Isaac Foster (“Black”)
- Harter, Lafayette
- Hartt, Edward
- Hartupee, John W.
- Hartwig, Henry
- Hartwig, Peter
- Hassendeubel, Franz (“Francis”)
- Hassert (sometimes Hassett), John B.
- Hassett, John B.
- Hathaway, James H.
- Hawes, James Morrison
- Haynes, Milton Andrews
- Hazlett, Hiram K.
- Heap, Joseph K.
- Heath, Henry (“Harry”)
- Hebert, Louis
- Heiman, Adolphus
- Helm, Benjamin Hardin (“Ben”)
- Hentig, George
- Herron, Francis Jay
- Herron, Thomas Grover
- Hickey, Michael
- Hicks, Stephen G.
- Higgins, Edward
- Hill, Frederick Stanhope
- Hill, John B.
- Hiner, David Augustus
- Hines, Thomas Henry
- Hite, Joseph C.
- Hobson, Edward Henry
- Hodges, John G.
- Hoel, William Rion
- Hoffman, Benjamin A.
- Hoffman, William D.
- Hoge, George Blaikie
- Holcomb, William L.
- Hollins, Frederick W.
- Hollins, George Nicholas
- Hollins, George Nicholas, Jr.
- Holmes, Shepley R.
- Holt, Henry Clay
- Hook, Isaac Newton (“Ike”)
- Hopkins, George H.
- Hotchkiss, Thomas P.
- Hovey, Alvin Peterson
- Howard, James
- Howard, Samuel
- Howard, William H.
- Howden, Robert
- Howland, Henry
- Hudson, Adrian
- Huger, Thomas Bee
- Huling, Edmund James
- Hull, Joseph Bartine
- Humphrey, John Thomas
- Hunley, Horace Lawson
- Hurd, Jacob S.
- Hurd, Jesse Young
- Hurd, Joseph H.
- Hurlbut, Stephen Augustus
- Huskey, Michael
- Hyland, John
- I
- Ilsley, Edward D
- Irwin, Jeremiah
- J
- Jack (sometimes Jacks), Eugenius Alexander
- Jacks, Eugenius Alexander
- Jackson, Andrew, III
- Jackson, William Hutchinson
- James, Milton
- Jarvis, Joseph Russell
- Jeffers, William Lafayette
- Jenkins, Joseph H.
- Jenkins, Thomas
- Jiggetts, Lewis M.
- Johnson, Adam Rankin (“Stovepipe”)
- Johnson, Andrew
- Johnson, Bushrod Rust
- Johnston, Albert Sidney
- Johnston, James Vincent (“Jimmie”)
- Johnston, John Vincent
- Johnston, Joseph Eggleston
- Johnston, William P.
- Jones, George M.
- Jordan, Charles W.
- Jordan, Scott Dyer
- Judah, Henry Moses
- K
- Kearney, James A.
- Kearney, Thomas H.
- Keeling, Frank
- Keene, Henry T.
- Kelley, David Campbell
- Kellogg, Spencer
- Kemp, Daniel Francis
- Kendrick, Charles
- Kendricks, George
- Kenney, Chuncey Lewis
- Kershner, Edward
- Kilty, Augustus Henry
- King, Edward M.
- King, Houston
- King, James Wilson
- King, Samuel Houston (“Houston”)
- Kintzing, Matthew R.
- Kitchen, Solomon George
- Klinefelter, John Simpson
- Kountz, William J.
- Kroehl, Julius Hermann
- Kuhl, Hugh
- L
- Laffey, Bartlett
- Lamont, Alexander
- Langlands, Robert Henry
- Langthorne, Amos R.
- Lanning, James
- Lauderdale, John Vance
- Lawther, Robert Ralston
- Layton, Pierre Soule, Sr.
- Leathers, Thomas P.
- Le Duc, William Gates
- Lee, Samuel Phillips
- Lee, Stephen Dill
- Leech, Thomas F.
- Lees, William James
- Lemcke, Julius Augustus (“Gus”)
- Lenthall, John
- Leon, Pierre
- Levy, Charles Harvey
- Lewis, Icabod N.
- Liddell, St. John Richardson
- Lincoln, Abraham
- Lining, Charles Edward
- Litherbury, Charles W.
- Litherbury, John
- Litherbury, John W.
- Little, George D.
- Little, James C.
- Livingston, John William
- Loan, William Francis
- Lockett, Samuel Henry
- Lodwick, Preston
- Logan, Matthew D.
- Looney, Robert Fain
- Lord, George P.
- Loring, William Wing (“Old Blizzards”)
- Lovejoy, Samuel H.
- Lovell, William Farley Storrow
- Lowe, William Warren
- Lynch, William Francis
- Lyon, George Armstrong
- Lyon, Hylan Benton
- M
- Mack, Eugene
- Mackall, William Whann
- Mahatha, Robert
- Major, James Patrick
- Malin, John W.
- Mallory, Stephen Russell
- Marks, Samuel Fleming
- Marsden, Charles Poole
- Marsh, George R.
- Marsh, Grant Prince
- Marsh, Henry C.
- Marshall, Alfred
- Marshall, James
- Martin, Abner
- Martin, Hiram H.
- Martin, William
- Mason, James Cass
- Maury, Dabney Herndon
- May, Edward
- May, Robert Logan
- Maynadier, Henry Edward
- McAllister, Richard
- McBaker, James McC.
- McBlair, Charles Henry
- McCann, Joseph Richard (“Dick”)
- McCarthy, Anthony
- McCauley, Edward Yorke
- McClellan, George Brinton
- McClernand, John Alexander
- McCormick, Michael
- McCown, John Porter
- McCreary, James Bennett
- McCulloch, Henry Eustace
- McCulloch, Robert Allan (“Black Bob”)
- McDaniel, Zedekiah
- McDaniel, Zera
- McDonald, John
- McDuffie, Hugh E.
- McElroy, Thomas
- McFarland, William D.
- McGary, Charles P.
- McGaughey, Edward Washington Augustin
- McGinnis, George Francis
- McGinnis, James
- McGunnegle, Wilson
- McHugh, Martin
- McKean, Edward
- McKinney, Henry
- McNeely, James S.
- McNeely, Joseph S. (sometimes James S.)
- McPherson, James Birdseye
- McRae, John
- McSemple, Alexander
- Meade, George V.
- Meade, Richard Worsam, III
- Meany, Charles L.
- Megler, Joseph George
- Meigs, Montgomery Cunningham
- Mendenhall, Samuel
- Meredith, William H.
- Meriwether, Minor
- Merrifield, G.H.
- Merriman, Edward
- Metcalfe, Lyne Shackelford
- Michael, William H.C.
- Mieslang, Nicholas
- Miller, Charles W.
- Miller, James
- Miller, Marshal J. (“Marsh”)
- Miller, Merrill
- Milliken, Samuel
- Mims, Livingston
- Miner, William H.
- Minor, Lewis Willis
- Mitchell, John Gardner
- Mixer, Henry M.
- Moffatt, Edgar R.
- Molloy, Hugh
- Molloy, John
- Montague, Thomas H.
- Montgomery, Frank Alexander
- Montgomery, James (sometimes Joseph) Edward (“Ed”)
- Montgomery, Joseph
- Moore, William
- Morehead, Joseph W.
- Morfit, Charles McLean
- Morgan, Edmund
- Morgan, Edward
- Morgan, James Morris (“Little Morgan”)
- Morgan, John Hunt (“Thunderbolt of the Confederacy”)
- Morong, John Campbell
- Morrison, John Gordon
- Morse, DeWitt C. (“Gunboat”)
- Morse, Thomas J.
- Morton, Charles W.
- Morton, Daniel H.
- Morton, Gilbert
- Morton, John Watson, Jr.
- Morton, Oliver Hazard Perry Throck
- Moses, Jabez H.
- Mouton, Jean Jacques Alfred Alexander
- Moyer, Joseph
- Muncy, Milton B.
- Murphy, John McLeod
- N
- Naile, Frederick Irvin
- Napier, Thomas Alonzo
- Neave, Isaac P.
- Neeld, John R.
- Neil, William
- Nelson, William (“Bull”)
- Newell, Cicero
- Nibbe, John H.
- Niemeyer, Henry Woods
- Nixon, John W.
- Noble, Charles Peter
- Noble, Henry Theopolis
- Noyes, Lucius T.
- Nutter, Joseph
- O
- O’Donoghue, Timothy
- Oakes, Frank J.
- Ogden, Frederick Nash
- Oglesby, Richard James (“Uncle Dick”)
- O’Leary, Arthur
- Oliver, Francis A.
- O’Neil, A.F.
- Orme, William Ward
- Osgood, George Cowles
- Ovatt, James
- Owen, Elias Kenneth
- P
- Page, William Champe
- Paine, Eleazer Arthur
- Palmer, Archy S.
- Parisot, Sherman H. (“Shum”)
- Parker, John Carr
- Parker, Scollay
- Parr, Andrew Hague
- Parr, Daniel G.
- Parsons, Lewis Baldwin
- Parsons, William Henry
- Pattison, Thomas
- Patton, Isaac Williams
- Paulding, James P.
- Paulding, Leonard
- Pearce, John
- Pease, William Strong
- Pemberton, John Clifford
- Pennock, Alexander Mosely
- Peppers, George H.
- Perkins, Charles Grover
- Peters, John H.
- Pettus, John Jones
- Phelps, Alfred, Jr.
- Phelps, Seth Ledyard
- Phillips, Jesse James
- Phillips, John L.
- Phillips, Thaddeus Lambert
- Pierce, Henry H.
- Pierce, Henry M.
- Pillow, Gideon Johnson
- Pinkney, Ninian
- Pinkney, Robert F.
- Pipkin, William Moss (“Bill Pip”)
- Plattsmier, John T.
- Poe, Adam W.
- Poe, George WE
- Poe, Jacob
- Poe, Thomas Washington, Jr.
- Polignac, Camille Armand Jules Marie, Prince de (“Prince Polecat”)
- Polk, Leonidas
- Pollard, Daniel
- Pook, Samuel M.
- Poole (sometimes Pool), Sylvester
- Poor, Charles Henry
- Pope, John
- Popejoy, James P.
- Porter, David Dixon
- Porter, John Luke
- Porter, Sydney Dale
- Porter, William David (“Dirty Bill”)
- Portis, John Wesley
- Powell, Robert Conrad
- Pratt, Joseph Henry
- Preble, James
- Preble, Joseph (sometimes James)
- Prentiss, Benjamin Mayberry
- Prichett (sometimes Prichet), James M.
- Prince, William Berry, Jr.
- Pritchett, James M.
- Proctor, Alexander
- Proctor, Baron Faulkner
- Purdy, William B.
- Q
- Quigley, Howell
- Quigley, James L.
- Quinby, Isaac Ferdinand
- R
- Ramsay, Francis Munroe (“Frank”)
- Rand, George Dexter
- Randolph, Peyton H.
- Ranger, Frank
- Ravell, John (“Jack”)
- Raynor, William Henry
- Read, Charles William (“Savvy” or “Savez”)
- Read, Frederick
- Read, N.M.
- Reber, William McClellan
- Reed, Charles H.
- Reed, J. Frank
- Reed, Thomas Brackett
- Reese, Elias
- Rennell, Nugent T.
- Renshaw, Francis B. (“Frank”)
- Revell (sometimes Ravell), John (“Jack”)
- Reynolds, Roddie
- Rice, John H.
- Rice, Samuel Allen
- Richards, James W.
- Richardson, James F.
- Richardson, Robert Vinkler
- Riley, Robert K.
- Ritter, John C.
- Ritter, William L.
- Robbins, Eugene Patterson
- Roberts, George Washington
- Robinson, Charles
- Robinson, William F.
- Roby, Francis M.
- Roddy, Phillip Dale
- Rodgers, John, II
- Rogers, Charles Smith
- Rogers, George W.
- Rogers, John
- Rosecrans, William Starke (“Old Rosy”)
- Rosenmiller, David Porter, Jr.
- Ross, Lawrence Sullivan (“Sul”)
- Ross, Leonard Fulton (“Judge”)
- Ross, Reuben Reddick
- Rucker, Edmund Winchester
- Ruggles, Daniel
- Rusch, Nicholas J.
- Rusling, James Folwer
- Russell, Daniel Renner
- Ryman, Thomas G.
- S
- Sampson, Frederick G.
- Sanders, Morton W.
- Sanford, Joseph P.
- Saunders, Herbert T.
- Scales, Dabney Minor
- Schaller, Franz (“Frank”) Emile
- Schetky, Charles Alexander
- Scofield, Hiram
- Scott, John
- Scott, John Sims
- Scott, Uriah Bonser (“Ubiquitous” or “U.B.”)
- Scott, Winfield (“Old Fuss and Feathers”)
- Sears, Amasa Churchill
- Sebastian, Benjamin
- Sebastian, John
- Selfridge, Thomas Oliver, Jr.
- Sells, Elijah
- Semonin, Paul F.
- Shackelford, James Murrell
- Shacklett, James H. (sometimes J.H. Shacklette)
- Shacklette, J.H.
- Shaw, Edward
- Sheffer, Thomas T.
- Shelby, Joseph Orvill (“Jo”)
- Shepperd, Francis Edgar
- Sherley (sometimes Shirley), Zachariah Madison (“Zachary”)
- Sherman, William Tecumseh (“Cump”)
- Shibley, Howard C.
- Shillito, William B.
- Shinn, Jacob
- Shirk, James Whitehall
- Shirley, John T.
- Shirley, Zachariah Madison (“Zachary”)
- Sibley, Arthur
- Sill, William
- Simons, Maurice Kavanaugh
- Simonton, Hiram
- Skelding, Henry Thomas
- Slattery, Daniel P.
- Slocum, Henry Warner
- Smith, Andrew Jackson (“A.J.” or “Whiskey”)
- Smith, Arthur A.
- Smith, Ashbel (“Old Jingles”)
- Smith, Charles Ferguson
- Smith, Edmund Kirby (“Ted” or “Seminole”)
- Smith, Giles Alexander
- Smith, Jabez Mitchell
- Smith, Marshall Joseph
- Smith, Martin Luther
- Smith, Morgan Lewis
- Smith, Robert B.
- Smith, Thomas E.
- Smith, Thomas Kilby
- Smith, Watson
- South, Perry
- Sparks, Gale W.
- Spooner, Charles W.
- Stanley, Henry Morton
- Stanton, Edwin McMasters
- Starr, Phineas R.
- Stauffer, David M.
- Stebbins, De Wayne
- Steele, Oliver Brice (“Ollie”)
- Steever, West
- Stembel, James McBride
- Stembel, Roger Nelson
- Stevens, Henry Kennedy (“Harry” or “Hal”)
- Stevens, Thomas Nichols
- Stevenson, Carter Littlepage
- Stillman, Charles Allyn
- Stockdale, Sidney A. (“Sid”)
- Stoddard, James
- Stone, Phineas Jones, Jr.
- Stone, Sardine Graham, Jr.
- Strausz, Alexander
- Strong, William
- Strope, William H.
- Strunk, Simon Henry
- Stuart, David
- Sutherland, Edwin W.
- Swan, Simeon D.
- Swaney, John
- Swift, John
- Swift, Richard Kellogg
- T
- Talbot, William
- Talbott, Daniel Boone
- Talbott, William
- Talcott, Horace A.
- Tate, Robert
- Taylor, Jesse Irwin
- Taylor, Richard
- Taylor, Richard (“Dick”)
- Taylor, Samuel Burk (“Sam”)
- Terry, Silas Wright
- Thomas, George Henry
- Thomas, Lloyd
- Thompson, Albert Perry
- Thompson, Augustus F.
- Thompson, Charles Robinson
- Thompson, Egbert
- Thompson, Meriwether (“Jeff” or “The Swamp Fox of the Confederacy”)
- Thorp, Abner
- Tilghman, Lloyd
- Timmons, Barnard
- Tobin, John William
- Tobin, Thomas F.
- Tod, David
- Totten, Joseph Gilbert
- Townsend, Robert
- Trabue, Robert Paxton
- Travers, Thomas B.
- Trudeau, James Deberty
- True, Rowland Stafford
- Trufant, William Boyd
- Trulson, Hans
- Tubbs, Samuel
- Tunnard, William Henry
- Tuohy, James
- Turner, Reuben A.
- V
- Van Cleve, John W., Jr.
- Van Dorn, Earl
- Vandergrift, Jacob Jay
- Van Ness, Ralph G.
- Van Pelt, Elbert C.
- Van Vleit, Leonard S.
- Venable, Calvin Davenport
- Vernay, George David
- Villepigue, John Bordenave
- Vincent, Freeman
- Voigt, Robert
- W
- Waagner, Gustave
- Wade, Richard M.
- Wade, William Bartee
- Waite, Frederick H.
- Walcutt, Charles Carroll
- Walke, Henry
- Walke, Henry Augustus
- Walker, John George
- Walker, John Grimes
- Walker, William Henry Talbot (“Shot Pouch”)
- Wall, William Henry
- Wallace, Lewis (“Lew”)
- Ward, William H.
- Ward, William Shaw
- Ward, William Walker
- Wardrop, William
- Warren, Henry G.
- Washburn, Cadwallader Colden
- Washington, Henry William Macrae
- Waterman, George S.
- Waterman, Luther Dana
- Waters, John G.
- Watson, Adolphus Eugene
- Watson, John Stoughton, II
- Watson, Joseph
- Waul, Thomas Neville
- Webster, Joseph Dana
- Welch, David N.
- Weldon, Thomas
- Welles, Gideon
- Wells, Charles James Stuart
- Wells, William R.
- Wentworth, Walter H.
- Westfall, Lewis
- Wetmore, Henry Stanley
- Wharton, Arthur Dickson (“A.D.”)
- Wheeler, Joseph (“Fighting Joe”)
- White, Robert M. (“Bob”)
- Wilkes, Perry
- Wilkinson, John
- Wilkinson, Robert
- Willard, George Washington
- Willets, Nicholas B.
- Willey, William A.
- Williams, Robert
- Wilson, Andrew J.
- Wilson, Byron
- Wilson, James
- Wilson, James Harrison
- Wilson, John A.
- Winram, Samuel R.
- Winslow, John Ancrum
- Wise, George Douglas
- Wise, John
- Withers, William Temple
- Wofford, Jefferson Llewellyn
- Woodlock, Andrew
- Woods, Charles Robert
- Woods, Peter Cavanaugh, Sr.
- Woodward, Thomas Griffitts
- Woodworth, Selim E.
- Woolfolk, A.C.
- Woon, John
- Wright, Charles A.
- Wright, Horatio Gouverneur
- Wright, Stapleton Crutchfield
- Wright, Thomas
- Wybrant, John
- Y
- Yates, John A.
- Yates, Richard
- Yeatman, Thomas Henry
- Yost, George Roberts
- Z
- Zimmerman, Eugene
- Appendix A: Individuals by Organization
- Confederate Army
- Confederate Navy
- U.S. Army
- U.S. Marine Corps
- U.S. Navy
- Civilian Contractor
- Civilian Politician/Government Official
- Civilian Steamboat Captain/Pilot
- Appendix B: Campaigns, Battles and Engagements
- Alexandria, LA, Battle Below (April 1864)
- Argyle Landing, MS, Battle of (May 1863)
- Arkansas Post, AR, U.S. Expedition (January 1863)
- Baton Rouge, LA, Battle of (August 1862)
- Bell’s Mills, TN, Battle of (December 1864) see Nashville, TN, Battle of (December 1864)
- Benton County, TN, C.S. Tennessee River Steamer Capture (August 1862)
- Big South Fork, Cumberland River, U.S. Expedition (December 1863)
- Black and Ouachita River U.S. Expedition (March 1864) see Harrisonburg, LA, Battle of (March 1864)
- Bledsoe’s Landing, MO, C.S. Raid (October 1862)
- Buffington Island (Ohio River), Battle of (July 1863) see Morgan’s Great Ohio Raid (June–July 1863)
- Cerro Gordo, TN, C.S. Raid (June 1863)
- Chattanooga, TN, Battle of (October–December 1863)
- Chickasaw Bayou Campaign (October 1862–January 1863)
- Chicot County, AR, C.S. Mississippi River Blockade (May–June 1864)
- Clarendon, AR, Battle of (June 1864)
- Clifton, TN, Battle of (February 1863)
- Coldwater River U.S. Expedition (February–April 1863) see Yazoo Pass U.S. Expedition (February–April 1863)
- Columbia, AR, Battle of (June 1864) see Chicot County, AR, C.S. Mississippi River Blockade (May–June 1864)
- Decatur, AL, Battles of (December 1864–January 1865)
- Deer Creek, MS, C.S. Expedition (March 1863)
- Deloges Bluff, LA, Battle of (April 1864)
- Des Arc, AR, U.S. Expedition (August 1864)
- Dover, TN, Battle of (February 1863) see Fort Donelson C.S. Expedition (February 1863)
- Eddyville, KY, Battle Below (April 1865)
- Eddyville, KY, U.S. Raid (October 1861)
- Eunice’s Bluff, LA, Battle of (May 1864)
- Fort Beauregard, LA see Harrisonburg, LA, Battle of (May 1863)
- Fort Donelson, TN, U.S. Campaign (February 1862)
- Fort Heiman, TN see Fort Henry, TN, U.S. Campaign (February 1862); Tennessee River C.S. Blockade (October–November 1864)
- Fort Hindman, AR, Battle of (January 1863) see Arkansas Post, AR U.S. Expedition (January 1863)
- Fort Pillow, TN, U.S. Campaign (April–May 1862)
- Franklin, TN, Battle of (November 1864)
- Gaines Landing, AR, Battle of (May 1864)
- Gaines Landing, AR, Battle of (August 1864)
- Gaines Landing, AR, U.S. Destruction of (June 1863)
- Goodrich’s Landing, LA, Battle of (June 1863)
- Grand Ecore, LA, Battle of (April 1864)
- Grand Gulf, MS, Battle of (April 1863)
- Green Bottom Bar, Tennessee River, Battle (April 1863)
- Greenville (MS) Bends, C.S. Blockade (May–June 1864)
- Harpeth Shoals, Cumberland River, C.S. Raid (January 1863)
- Harrisonburg, LA, Battle of (May 1863)
- Harrisonburg, LA, Battle of (March 1864)
- Haynes’ Bluff, MS, U.S. Feint (April 1863)
- Helena, AR, Battle of (July 1863)
- Henderson, KY, C.S. Raid (July 1862)
- Hickman, KY, C.S. Raid (April 1864)
- Island No. 10, U.S. Campaign (March–April 1862)
- Johnsonville, TN C.S. Expedition (November 1864)
- Knoxville, TN, C.S. Siege of (November–December 1863)
- Lake Providence, LA, Battle of (June 1863)
- Little Red River, LA, U.S. Expedition (July 1863)
- Little Rock, AR, U.S. Campaign (September 1863)
- Liverpool Landing, MS, Battle of (February 1864) see Yazoo City, MS, U.S. Expedition (February 1864)
- Lucas Bend, MO, Battle of (September 1861)
- Lucas Bend, MO, Battle of (January 1862)
- Mechanicsburg, MS, U.S. Expedition (June 1863)
- Memphis, TN, Battle of (June 1862)
- Memphis, TN, C.S. Mississippi River Blockade (June 1864)
- Meridian, MS, U.S. Expedition (February 1864)
- Milliken’s Bend, LA, Battle of (June 1863)
- Mississippi River C.S. Blockade (May–June 1864) see Chicot County, AR, C.S. Mississippi Blockade (May–June 1864); Greenville (MS) Bends, C.S. Blockade (May–June 1864)
- Morganza, LA, Engagement at (December 1863)
- Murfreesboro, TN, Battle of (December 1862–January 1863) see Stones River, TN, Battle of (December 1862–January 1863)
- Newburgh, IN, C.S. Raid (July 1862)
- Newcastle, IN, C.S. Raid (July 1862)
- Ohio C.S. Expedition (June–July 1863) see Morgan’s Great Ohio Raid (June–July 1863)
- Palmyra, TN, Destruction of (April 1863)
- Paris Landing, TN, C.S. Blockade (October–November 1864) see Tennessee River C.S. Blockade (October–November 1864)
- Pittsburg Landing, TN, Battle of (April 1862) see Shiloh, Battle of (April 1862)
- Ratliff’s Landing, LA, Battle at (May 1864)
- Red River, LA, U.S. Campaign (March–May 1864)
- Rowes Landing, LA, Battle of (September 1864)
- St. Charles, AR, Battle of (1862) see White River, AR, U.S. Expedition (June 1862)
- Shawneetown, IL, C.S. Raid (August 1864)
- Shiloh, Battle of (April 1862)
- Spottsville, KY, C.S. Raid (September 1862)
- Steele’s Bayou, U.S. Expedition (March 1863)
- Stones River, TN, Battle of (December 1862–January 1863)
- Tallahatchie River U.S. Expedition (February–April 1863) see Yazoo Pass U.S. Expedition (February–April 1863)
- Tennessee River C.S. Raid (January 1865)
- Tennessee River U.S. Expedition (February 1862)
- Tennessee River U.S. Expedition (March 1863)
- Trinity, LA, U.S. Raid (March 1865)
- Tunica Bend, LA, Battle of (June 1864) see Como Landing, LA, Battle of (June 1864)
- Vicksburg, MS, U.S. Campaign (May–July 1862)
- Vicksburg, MS, U.S. Campaign (October 1862–January 1863) see Chickasaw Bayou Campaign (October 1862–January 1863)
- Waterproof, LA, Battle of (February 1864)
- White River AR, U.S. Expedition (June 1862)
- White River, AR, U.S. Expedition (September 1863) see Little Rock U.S. Campaign (September 1863)
- Yazoo City, MS, U.S. Expedition (May 1863)
- Yazoo City, MS, U.S. Expedition (July 1863)
- Yazoo City, MS, U.S. Expedition (February–March 1864)
- Yazoo City, MS, U.S. Expedition (June 1864)
- Yazoo Pass, MS, U.S. Expedition (February–April 1863)
- Yazoo River, U.S. Expedition (June 1862) see Liverpool Landing, MS, U.S. Expedition (June 1862)
- Yazoo River, U.S. Expedition (April 1864)
- Appendix C: Ship Registers
- A. Houghton (U.S. mortar schooner)
- A. O. Tyler (steamer)
- Abeona (U.S. tinclad no. 32)
- Alec Scott (steamer) see Lafayette (U.S. ironclad)
- Alfred Robb (U.S. tinclad no. 21)
- Allegeheny Belle (steamer)
- Argosy (U.S. tinclad no. 27)
- Argyle (steamer)
- Arkansas (C.S. ironclad ram)
- Autocrat (steamer)
- Avenger (U.S. ram)
- B. M. Runyan (steamer)
- Baron de Kalb (U.S. ironclad)
- Belle Memphis (steamer)
- Ben Franklin (steamer)
- Benton (U.S. ironclad)
- Bill Henderson (steamer)
- Black Hawk (U.S. large tinclad, Mississippi Squadron flagboat)
- Bostona (steamer)
- Bostona II (steamer)
- Brilliant (U.S. tinclad no. 18)
- C. P. Williams (mortar schooner)
- C. T. Dumont (steamer)
- Cairo (U.S. ironclad)
- Callie (steamer)
- Capitol (C.S. auxiliary)
- Carondelet (U.S. ironclad)
- Champion (U.S. tinclad no. 24)
- Charley Bowen (steamer)
- Charter (steamer)
- Chattanooga (steamer)
- Chickasaw (U.S. monitor)
- Chillicothe (U.S. ironclad)
- Choctaw (U.S. ironclad)
- Cincinnati (U.S. ironclad)
- City of Cairo (steamer)
- City of Memphis (steamer)
- City of Vicksburg (steamer)
- Clara Dolson (U.S. receiving ship)
- Clara Poe (steamer)
- Colili (steamer)
- Collier (U.S. tinclad no. 29)
- Colossus (U.S. tinclad no. 25)
- Conestoga (U.S. timberclad)
- Cordellia Ann (U.S. Army gunboat)
- Cotton (C.S. auxiliary gunboat)
- Courier (steamer)
- Covington (U.S. tinclad no. 25)
- Cricket (U.S. tinclad no. 6)
- Curlew (steamer)
- Curlew (U.S. tinclad no. 12)
- D. A. January (U.S. Army hospital boat)
- Dahlia (U.S. tugboat)
- Daisy (U.S. tugboat)
- Dan Smith (U.S. mortar schooner)
- DeSoto see General Lyon
- Diana (U.S. ram fleet/MMB ram)
- Dunbar (C.S. auxiliary gunboat)
- Eastport (C.S. ironclad)
- Eastport (U.S. ironclad)
- Elfin (U.S. tinclad no. 52)
- Elk (U.S. tinclad no. 47)
- Ella Faber (steamer)
- Emerald (U.S.receiving ship)
- Emma Duncan (steamer)
- Empress (steamer)
- Essex (U.S. ironclad)
- Exchange (U.S. tinclad no. 38)
- Fairplay (U.S. tinclad no. 17)
- Fairy (U.S. tinclad no. 51)
- Fanny Bullitt (steamer)
- Fashion (steamer)
- Fawn (U.S. tinclad no. 30)
- Firefly (U.S. tugboat)
- Forest Rose (U.S. tinclad no. 9)
- Fort Hindman (U.S. tinclad no. 13)
- Gazelle (U.S. tinclad no. 50)
- General Beauregard (CRDF ram)
- General Bragg (U.S. gunboat)
- General Burnside (U.S. tinclad no. 63)
- General Earl Van Dorn (CRDF ram)
- General Grant (U.S. tinclad no. 62)
- General Lyon (U.S. auxiliary)
- General Pillow (U.S. tinclad no. 20)
- General Polk (C.S. gunboat)
- General Quitman (steamer)
- General Sherman (U.S. tinclad no. 60)
- General Sterling Price (U.S. gunboat)
- General Thomas (U.S. tinclad no. 61)
- George Surgis (U.S. tugboat)
- Gladiator No. 2 (steamer)
- Golden Era (steamer)
- Grampus (C.S. auxiliary gunboat)
- Grampus (U.S. receiving ship)
- Grampus No. 2 (steamer)
- Gray Eagle (steamer)
- Great Western (U.S. storeship/receiving ship)
- Grossbeak (U.S. tinclad no. 8)
- H. L. Hunley (C.S. submarine)
- Hard Times (steamer)
- Hastings (U.S. tinclad no. 15)
- Henry Von Phul (steamer)
- Horace Beals (U.S. mortar schooner)
- Horizon (steamer)
- Huntress (U.S. tinclad no. 58)
- Ibex (U.S. tinclad no. 10)
- Imperial (steamer)
- Indianola (U.S. ironclad)
- Itasca (steamer)
- Ivy (C.S. gunboat)
- J. F. Pargoud (steamer)
- Jackson (C.S. gunboat)
- Jacob Poe (steamer)
- Jennie Hopkins (steamer)
- Jenny Lind (steamer)
- Jesse Benton see Lily
- John D. Simonds (steamer)
- John P. Jackson (U.S. gunboat)
- Joseph Pierce (steamer)
- Judge Torrence (U.S. ammunition boat)
- Juliet (U.S. tinclad no. 4)
- Kate (U.S. tinclad no. 55)
- Kenton (steamer)
- Kenwood (U.S. tinclad no. 14)
- Key West (U.S. tinclad no. 32)
- Kickapoo (U.S. monitor)
- Lafayette (U.S. ironclad)
- Lancaster (U.S. ram fleet/MMB ram)
- Laurel (U.S. tugboat)
- Leonora (steamer)
- Lexington (U.S. timberclad)
- Liberty (steamer)
- Liberty No. 2 (steamer)
- Lily (U.S. tugboat)
- Linden (U.S. tinclad no. 10)
- Lioness (U.S. ram fleet/MMB ram)
- Little Rebel (CRDF ram)
- Little Rebel (U.S. tinclad no. 16)
- Livingston (C.S. gunboat)
- Louisiana (C.S. ironclad)
- Louisville (U.S. ironclad)
- Lue Eaves (U.S. Army gunboat)
- Manassas (C.S. ironclad)
- Manitou see Fort Hindman
- Marmora (U.S. tinclad no. 2)
- Maurepas (C.S. gunboat)
- May Duke (steamer)
- McRae (C.S. gunboat)
- Melnotte (steamer)
- Meteor (U.S. tinclad no. 44)
- Miami (U.S. gunboat)
- Mignonette (U.S. tugboat)
- Mississippi (steamer)
- Mississippi (U.S. frigate)
- Missouri (C.S. ironclad)
- Missouri (steamer)
- Mist (U.S. tinclad no. 26)
- Mistletoe (U.S. tugboat)
- Mittie Stephens (steamer)
- Mohawk (C.S. auxiliary gunboat)
- Monarch (U.S. ram fleet/MMB ram)
- Moose (U.S. tinclad no. 34)
- Mound City (U.S. ironclad)
- Mountaineer (steamer)
- Myrtle (U.S. tugboat)
- Naiad (U.S. tinclad no.53)
- Natchez No. 5 (C.S. auxiliary/cottonclad)
- Naumkeag (U.S. tinclad no. 37)
- Neosho (U.S. monitor)
- Nettie Hartupee (steamer)
- New Era (U.S. timberclad) see Essex (U.S. ironclad)
- New National (U.S. auxiliary)
- New Orleans (C.S. floating battery)
- Newsboy (U.S. Army gunboat)
- Norfolk Packet (mortar schooner)
- Nymph (U.S. tinclad no. 54)
- Octarora (U.S. mortar schooner)
- Oriole (U.S. tinclad no. 52)
- Osage (U.S. monitor)
- Ouachita (U.S. large tinclad)
- Ozark (U.S. monitor)
- Pansy (U.S. tugboat)
- Parthenia (steamer)
- Paul Jones (C.S. auxiliary)
- Paw Paw (U.S. tinclad no. 31)
- Peerless (steamer)
- Peosta (U.S. tinclad no. 31)
- Peri (U.S. tinclad no. 57)
- Petrel (U.S. tinclad no. 5)
- Pittsburg (U.S. ironclad)
- Platte Valley (steamer)
- Pontchartrain (C.S. gunboat)
- Prairie Bird (U.S. tinclad no. 11)
- Queen City (U.S. tinclad no. 26)
- Queen of the West (U.S. ram fleet/MMB ram)
- Rattler (U.S. tinclad no. 1)
- Red Fox (steamer)
- Red Rover (C.S. auxiliary)
- Red Rover (U.S. hospital boat)
- Reindeer (U.S. tinclad no. 35)
- Resolute see Myrtle
- Robert E. Lee (steamer)
- Romeo (U.S. tinclad no. 3)
- Rowena (steamer)
- Ruth (steamer)
- St. Clair (U.S. tinclad no. 19)
- St. Louis see Baron de Kalb
- St. Phillip (C.S. hospital boat/auxiliary)
- Sallie List (steamer)
- Sampson (U.S. ram fleet/MMB ram/storeship)
- Sciota (U.S. gunboat)
- Signal (U.S. tinclad no. 8)
- Silver Cloud (U.S. tinclad no. 28)
- Silver Lake (U.S. tinclad no. 23)
- Silverheels (steamer)
- Sioux City (steamer)
- Siren (U.S. tinclad no. 56)
- Skylark (steamer)
- Sovereign (U.S. storeship)
- Spiteful see Thistle
- Star of the West see St. Phillip
- Sumter (U.S. gunboat)
- Sunny Side (steamer)
- Sunshine (steamer)
- Swallow (steamer)
- Switzerland (U.S. ram fleet/MMB ram)
- Sybil (U.S. tinclad no. 59)
- Tallahatchie (U.S. tinclad no. 46)
- Tawah (U.S. tinclad no. 29)
- Tempest (U.S. tinclad no. 1)
- Tensas (U.S. tinclad no. 39)
- Thistle (U.S. tugboat)
- Trent (steamer)
- Tuscarora (C.S. gunboat)
- Tuscumbia (U.S. ironclad)
- Tyler (U.S. timberclad)
- Undine (U.S. tinclad no. 55)
- Union (steamer)
- Victory (U.S. tinclad no. 33)
- Victory No. 4 (steamer)
- Vindicator (U.S. ram)
- Volunteer (U.S. auxiliary)
- W. B. Terry (steamer)
- W. F. Packard (steamer)
- W. H. Sidell (U.S. army gunboat)
- W. R. Carter (steamer)
- Warsaw (steamer)
- Watson (C.S. towboat auxiliary)
- Webb see William H. Webb
- William H. Brown (U.S. auxiliary)
- William H. Webb (C.S. ram/gunboat)
- Winona (U.S. gunboat)
- World (steamer)
- Yankee (steamer)
- Bibliography
- List of Names and Terms