Charles Fleming McIntosh
Born: October 21, 1812
Birthplace: Norfolk, Virginia
Father: George McIntosh 1768 – 1826
(Buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)
Mother: Elizabeth Mason Walke 1784 – 1855
(Buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)
Wife: Isabella Donaldson Thorburn 1827 – 1909
(Buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)
Children:
George McIntosh 1850 – 1902
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)
Annie Dornin McIntosh Tunstall 1855 – 1895
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)
Isabella Thorburn McIntosh Baylor 1857 – 1918
(Buried: Elmwood Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)
Helen Winder McIntosh 1858 – 1859
(Buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)
Elizabeth Walke McIntosh 1860 – 1865
(Buried: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia)
Occupation before War:
Served in the United States Navy
Civil War Career:
1861 – 1862: Served in the Confederate States Navy
Commander of CSS Louisiana as it was being built
1862: Served in the Defense of New Orleans, Louisiana, with his incomplete ship, CSS Louisiana, was Mortally Wounded in engagement with Farragut's fleet on the Mississippi River in the Battles of Forts Jackson and St. Philip
Died: May 13, 1862
Place of Death: New Orleans, Louisiana
Age at time of Death: 49 years old
Original Burial Place: New Orleans, on the site where the New Orleans Superdome in the 1960's was built
Memorial Place: Cedar Grove Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia
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