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.

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