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Online Library of Selected Images:
-- SHIPS of the CONFEDERATE STATES --

CSS Virginia (1862-1862) -- Ship's Officers and other People

This page provides links to what images we have of the officers who served in CSS Virginia, and of others who played important roles in her creation.

For pictures of individual officers of CSS Virginia, see:

  • Captain Franklin Buchanan, Commanding Officer through 8 March 1862;
  • Captain Josiah Tattnall, Commanding Officer after about 24 March 1862;
  • First Lieutenant Catesby ap R. Jones, Executive Officer, and Acting Commanding Officer from 9 March to about 24 March 1862;
  • First Lieutenant Charles Carroll Simms;
  • First Lieutenant Hunter Davidson;
  • First Lieutenant John Taylor Wood;
  • First Lieutenant Walter R. Butt;
  • Captain's Clerk Arthur Sinclair, IV (or Jr.).

    In addition to the officers listed above, our Photo # NH 45978 features very small pictures of two of the ship's engineers: Chief Engineer H.A. Ramsey and Assistant Engineer E.V. White. These portraits are among those in the lower right portion of this view.

    For pictures of two officers whose work was important to the creation of CSS Virginia, see:

  • Naval Constructor John L. Porter; and
  • Commander John M. Brooke.

    For more pictorial coverage of, or relating to, CSS Virginia, see:

  • CSS Virginia (1862-1862), ex-USS Merrimack.


    If you want higher resolution reproductions than the Online Library's digital images, see: "How to Obtain Photographic Reproductions."


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