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Benson J. Lossing, Pictorial Field Book of the Civil War. Volume 3., Chapter 16: career of the Anglo-Confederate pirates.--closing of the Port of Mobile — political affairs. (search)
to 571, inclusive, volume II. The latter, as we have observed, were fitted out by British hands, and their commanders bore commissions from the Confederate Government so-called. See page 570, volume II. The Confederate Navy Department was organized with S. R. Mallory, formerly a National Senator, at its head, and he continued in office until the close of the war. His department according to A Register of the Commissioned and Warrant Officers of the Navy of the Confederate States, to January 1, 1864, printed at Richmond, was composed as follows: S. R. Mallory, Secretary of the Navy, with a chief clerk, three inferior clerks, and messenger; an Office of Orders and Details; Office of Ordnance and Hydrography; Office of Provisions and Clothing, and Office of Medicine and Surgery. The Register contains severa hundred names of officers, including all ranks known in our navy, from admiral down. There was but one admiral (Franklin Buchanan), twelve captains, three provisional captains,