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Hon. J. L. M. Curry , LL.D., William Robertson Garrett , A. M. , Ph.D., Confederate Military History, a library of Confederate States Military History: Volume 1.1, Legal Justification of the South in secession, The South as a factor in the territorial expansion of the United States (ed. Clement Anselm Evans), Biographical: officers of civil and military organizations. (search)
fleet at Drewry's Bluff, and subsequently received the appointment to the President's staff, with the rank of colonel of cavalry. He organized numerous boat expeditions against the enemy on Chesapeake bay and tributary waters, and inspected the Confederate water defenses on the seaboard and at Port Hudson and Vicksburg. His most daring exploits were summarized in a joint resolution of thanks to Commander John Taylor Wood and his officers and men, passed by the Confederate Congress, February 15, 1864, for the daring and brilliantly executed plans which resulted in the capture of the U. S. transport schooner Elmore, on the Potomac river; of the ship Allegheny, and the U. S. gunboats Satellite and Reliance; and the U. S. transport schooners Golden Rod, Coquette, and Two Brothers, on the Chesapeake; and more recently in the capture from under the guns of the enemy's works of the U. S. gunboat Underwriter, on the Neuse river, near New Bern, N. C., with the officers and crews of the sev