Confederate Navy
Information about the Confederate Navy in Richmond, VA during the Civil War.

Written Accounts

1862-06-16, Richmond Dispatch; Paper backs away from complaints about the lack of support by "high officials" for the engineering efforts at Drewry’s Bluff.
1862-09-18, New York Tribune; news from Richmond from a released prisoner who was hospital Steward of Libby Prison – Pope’s officers are being held in close confinement, the Virginia II is yet unfinished
1862-09-18, Richmond Dispatch; CSS Nansemond at foot of 18th St. – wants crewmen
1862-10-02, Richmond Dispatch; 2 brawling sailors, 17th & Main, taken to Castle Thunder
1862-10-04, Richmond Dispatch; D. W. Rogers, pardoned from execution, has been respited only. Maybe same as John Roach, crew of CSS Virginia
1862-10-30, Richmond Dispatch; escape attempt at Castle Thunder; notes on those admitted
1862-11-07, Richmond Dispatch; list of 10 new inmates at Castle Thunder & their offences. Includes Jas. Howard, deserter from Woolfolk’s Battery, & 3 CSN men, all drunk.
1862-11-08, Richmond Dispatch; 7 new prisoners at Castle Thunder, including 2nd SC man from GH#18 for misdemeanor, and a soldier recognized as a crewman of CSS Patrick Henry
1862-11-12, Richmond Dispatch; Mrs. Maria Clopton, President Ladies’ Gunboat Association, calls meeting at R. H. Maury residence, Clay between 11th and 12th
1862-11-13, Richmond Dispatch; Maria Clopton adv for the Ladies’ Gunboat Association to meet at R. H. Maury’s house, Clay between 11th and 12th

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