I have discovered a couple of CSA Navy books with listed personnel. But of course not the one I need. So I was advised to inquire about the ssilor I was looking for.
Thomas Mason (very common name)
Acting Master's Mate
DOB 1843
DOD 8/11/1868 - buried at Shockoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, VA
Any ideas??
Acting Masters Mate Thomas Mason, Confederate States Navy, 1864-65:
The CSS Hampton was a wood gunboat with two guns. Scuttled in the abandonment of Richmond in April, 1865.
The services of Admiral Semmes' naval brigade, composed of the navy and marine corps personnel of the squadron, in the retreat from Richmond upon its fall, is detailed in the memoir of Admiral Semmes.
Before service in the CS Navy, Mason enlisted in Company D, 10th Virginia Cavalry Regiment, CSA, at Richmond on April 2, 1862. His records show he was detailed to the CS Engineers at Richmond for a time. And in early 1864 by orders of the Confederate Secretary of War he was ordered discharged from the Army, and transferred to the "C.S.N." (CS Navy)...
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And he was in fact discharged from the Army for having "securing the position of Masters mate in the C.S.N. by order of Sec. Mallory (Confederate Navy Secretary Stephen Mallory of Florida): the following giving him as in March, 1864, age 19 years, born in Richmond, 5'9" tall, dark complexion, blue eyes, black hair, and a clerk by profession.
His whole 10th VA Cavalry record here:
From the
Daily Dispatch (Richmond) August 11, 1868:
age 25y
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His father and mother apparently from Ireland:
Stephen was a grocer by trade. He died age 52 at 310 N. 17th Street of Cerebral Congestion, per Cemetery and state records state. His grave in the plot he owned, near his wife and several children, is unmarked.
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