Confederate States Navy Officers - Confederate States Marine Corps Officers, Confederate States Navy Admirals, Confederate States Navy Captains (Paperback)

Please note that the content of this book primarily consists of articles available from Wikipedia or other free sources online. Pages: 38. Chapters: Confederate States Marine Corps officers, Confederate States Navy admirals, Confederate States Navy captains, Confederate States Navy commanders, William Harwar Parker, William A. Webb, Raphael Semmes, Thomas Egenton Hogg, Clifton R. Breckinridge, Irvine Bulloch, Josiah Tattnall, John Mercer Brooke, John Newland Maffitt, John L. Rapier, John Randolph Tucker, William H. Face, George Washington Gift, William Pinckney Mason, Samuel Barron, Franklin Buchanan, Charles Read, Murray Mason, Washington Duke, Lloyd J. Beall, James Iredell Waddell, William T. Glassell, John Taylor Wood, Charles Linn, Catesby ap Roger Jones, William F. Lynch, French Forrest, Jonathan H. Carter, Stephen Mallory II, Thomas Jefferson Page, James W. Cooke, Nelson Tift, Albert S. Berry, Isaac N. Brown, Charles Carroll Simms, Joseph Nicholson Barney, Horace Lawson Hunley, David Porter McCorkle, Charles Manigault Morris, Duncan Ingraham, Thomas B. Huger, Edwin Maffitt Anderson, Peter U. Murphey, James D. Johnston, George Minor. Excerpt: William Harwar Parker (October 8, 1826 - December 30, 1896) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy. His auto-biography, entitled Recollections of a Naval Officer 1841-1865, provides a unique insight into the United States Navy of the mid 19th century during an era when the Age of Sail was coming to an end and the advent of steam power and ironclads was beginning. Born in New York City, Parker was the child, grandchild and ultimately brother of Naval officers. He became a United States Navy midshipman at the early age of 15, recalling in his biography that he had held his father's hand while being escorted to his first ship. Parker's appointment date as a Midshipman was on October 19, 1841 just after his 15th birthday. His first assignment was to the receiving ship USS North Ca...