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Volume 3, Issue 3 Northwest Confederate Veteran Profile: William Robert Inge Dalton Born in Livingston, Alabama, December 6, 1841, William Robert Inge Dalton grew up in Mississippi. His family were friends with both the Davis and Lincoln families. In 1859 young Dalton received an appointment to the US Navy Academy and trained on the USS Constitution (Old Ironsides). On March 8, 1861, Dalton resigned from the Naval Academy, and enlisted in the Confederate Navy as a Midshipman on June 12. Midshipman Dalton was assigned to the CSS Florida before spending most of 1862 on the CSS Nashville. He also served on the CSS Tennessee and was captured on the CSS Atlanta on June 17, 1863, at Port Royal, South Carolina. After he was paroled, and after the blockades, he joined Lee’s army as a dispatch bearer taking messages back and forward to the Confederate ministers in London and Paris. He was promoted to Lieutenant June 2, 1864. Towards the end of the war Dalton served with the James River batteries defending Richmond, and ended the war at Appomattox. Dalton graduated from St. Louis College of Physicians and Surgeons in Missouri in 1884. He practiced in New York City until 1903 and wrote many articles on immunization and the use of vaccine virus, whereupon he moved to Seattle, Washington. His specialty was actually dermatology. Dr. Dalton was an active member of the John B. Gordon United Confederate Veterans Camp #1456 of Seattle, and in 1916 the Camp sent a letter to President Wilson offering their services to the country during WWI. William Robert Inge Dalton became the only officer of the War of Rebellion who also served in World War I. After the war Dalton wrote his memoirs, primarily concerning his time in the Confederate Navy. They are now only available in archives. He died in Seattle on May 25, 1931. Featured Flags: CSS Navy Ensigns That Survived The War The Bayonet William R. I. Dalton in the Confederate Navy uniform of a Passed Midshipman. The CSS Alabama is one of the most famous ships in naval history. She sank 62 Yankee vessels in her short but very successful career! The ensign pictured below left is housed at the Maritime Museum of South Africa. The flag and a revolver were given to a local resident when the Alabama visited the western cape of South Africa in 1863. Both artifacts are currently on loan to the State of Alabama Archives. The flag pictured at the top right is another “Stainless Banner” pattern ensign, this one belonging to the CSS Atlanta, one of the most well known ironclads of the War. It measures 16-feet by 24-feet. The flag in the middle belonged to the CSS Tennessee, and under this ensign defiantly faced an entire US Navy fleet practically alone at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Both the Atlanta and the Tennessee were captured and used by the US Navy.
Page 7 Confederate History: Confederate Privateer Jefferson Davis The Bayonet When the townspeople of St. Augustine awoke on August 17, 1861, they saw "a black painted brig with dark canvas sails beating towards the harbor entrance". The ship was the Jefferson Davis, a Confederate privateer seeking food and water stores. This 187-ton brig was built in Baltimore in 1845 as a merchant vessel and was being illicitly operated as a slaver when she was captured off Cuba in 1858 by USS Dolphin. The U.S. Government sold her to a Charleston shipping merchant in January 1859 but with the outbreak of the Civil War she was soon granted a letter of marque by the Confederate government, designating her a privateer in the war on Union commerce. Despite her brief career, cut short by the shallow bars of St. Augustine's inlet, she Sketch of CSS Jeff Davis remained the most successful privateer of the Civil War. Built in Baltimore as the 187-ton merchant brig Putnam in 1845, she was renamed Echo, and was illegally used as a slaver. She was captured by USS Dolphin off of Cuba in 1858; her cargo of 271 enslaved people was returned to Africa. The U.S. Government sold her to a Charleston shipping merchant in January 1859. At the outbreak of the War Between the States, the brig was granted a letter of marque signed by Jefferson Davis himself, designating her a privateer or privately operated commerce raider. Under Captain Coxetter of Jacksonville, Jefferson Davis' first raiding cruise, described as "the last truly classic cruise in the history of private-armed sea power," succeeded in capturing nine northern merchant vessels in just seven weeks off the coast of New England, making her the most successful Confederate privateer of the war. Needing water and supplies, she attempted to enter St. Augustine's inlet on August 17, 1861 where she ran aground and was abandoned. Though she has never been located, her compliment of iron cannons will register as a distinctive target during planned magnetometer surveys of the old channel CSS Jefferson Davis, 1861 entrance. Confederate Factoid: Lt. Simeon Cummings If you’re standing on the front steps of Elm Springs and look 90-degrees to the right you will see a very small cemetery. Immediately noticeable is the white marble Confederate headstone and iron Cross of Honor facing the old manor. For 131 years Confederate Navy Lieutenant Simeon W. Cummings held the distinction of being the only Confederate killed during the war and buried outside of the United States. On August 3, 1863, a hunting party consisting of three officers was returning to the CSS Alabama from Saldanha Bay in South Africa. When re-boarding the Alabama that evening, Lt. Cummings’ loaded rifle caught on something and discharged, killing him. He was disinterred in 1994 and reburied with full military honors at Elm Springs.
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