Raphael Semmes (September 27, 1809 - August 30, 1877) was an officer in the United States Navy from 1826 to 1860 and the Confederate States Navy from 1860 to 1865. During the American Civil War he was captain of the famous commerce raider CSS "Alabama", taking a record fifty-five prizes. Late in the war he was promoted to admiral and also served briefly as a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army.

Franklin Buchanan (September 13, 1800-May 11, 1874) was an officer in the United States Navy who became an admiral in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War, and commanded the ironclad CSS Virginia. Buchanan was born in Baltimore, Maryland. He became a midshipman in 1815, was promoted to Lieutenant in 1825, Commander in 1841 and Captain in 1855. Over the four and a half decades of his U.S. Navy service, Buchanan had extensive and worldwide sea duty.

Stephen Russell Mallory (1813 - November 9, 1873) was a United States politician and the Confederate Secretary of the Navy during the American Civil War. Mallory was considered one of President Jefferson Davis's ablest Cabinet officers. He was the father of Stephen Russell Mallory, a U.S. Representative and Senator from Florida.

Catesby ap Roger Jones (April 15, 1821 - June 20, 1877) was an officer in the U.S. Navy who became a commander in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Jones was born in Fairfield, Virginia, son of Major General Roger Jones and Mary Ann Mason Page. (The "ap" in his name is a Welsh patronymic meaning "son of".) His mother was a lineal descendant of William Byrd of Westover and Robert "King" Carter. This also made her a cousin of General Robert E. Lee.

French Forrest (1796-December 22, 1866) was an American naval officer who served first in the United States Navy and later the Confederate States Navy. His combat experience prior to the Civil War included service in the War of 1812 and the Mexican-American War. Born in Maryland, he became a midshipman on June 9, 1811 and participated in the War of 1812.

John L. Porter (1813 - December 14, 1893), whose father was a shipwright at Portsmouth, Virginia, was born in 1813. He became a U.S. Navy civilian employee during the 1840s and a Naval Constructor in 1859. After resigning from the U.S. Navy in May 1861, he began working for the Confederate States Navy at the Gosport (Norfolk) Navy Yard, at Portsmouth.

John Newland Maffitt (February 22, 1819-May 15, 1886) was an officer in the Confederate States Navy who was nicknamed the "Prince of Privateers" due to his remarkable success as a blockade runner and commerce raider in the U.S. Civil War.

James Dunwoody Bulloch (25 June1823 - 7 January1901) was the Confederate States of America's chief foreign agent in Great Britain during the American Civil War. He was the half-brother of a distinguished Confederate naval officer, Irvine Bulloch and of Martha Bulloch. Martha was the mother of future U.S. President Theodore Roosevelt and the grandmother of Eleanor Roosevelt.

James Iredell Waddell (July 3, 1824 - March 15, 1886) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy. Waddell was born in Pittsboro, North Carolina. He joined the United States Navy as a Midshipman in September 1841. His nearly two decades in the U.S. Navy included early service in USS "Pennsylvania", Mexican-American War operations off Veracruz aboard USS "Somers", a tour off South America in USS "Germantown", …

William A. Webb was an American sailor and Mexican-American War veteran who resigned his United States Navy commission after more than 20 years of service to join the Confederate States Navy in the American Civil War. Webb was decorated for his service as Captain of the CSS "Teaser", part of the James River Squadron, during the Battle of Hampton Roads (1862). In 1863, his orders sent him to Savannah, …

Richard Lucian Page (December 20, 1807 - August 9, 1901) was a U.S. Navy officer who joined the Confederate States Navy and later became a brigadier general in the Confederate States Army during the American Civil War. He was a cousin of Confederate General Robert E. Lee. Page was born in Clarke County, Virginia. He died in Blue Ridge Summit, Pennsylvania, and is buried in Cedar Hill Cemetery, Norfolk, Virginia.

Isaac Newton Brown (May 27, 1817 - September 1, 1889) was a naval officer in both the United States Navy and the Confederate States Navy. He received the Confederate Medal of Honor for his distinguished service during the American Civil War. Isaac N. Brown was born in Caldwell County, Kentucky, but spent part of his later youth in western Tennessee. In March 1834, shortly after his father died, he joined the United States Navy as a midshipman.

William Harwar Parker (October 8, 1826 - December 30, 1896) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy.

Meriwether Jeff Thompson (January 22, 1826 - September 5, 1876) was a brigadier general in the Missouri State Guard during the American Civil War. He served in the Confederate Army as a cavalry commander, and had the unusual distinction of having a ship in the Confederate Navy named for him. Thompson was born in Virginia into a family with a strong military tradition on both sides. He moved to St. Joseph, Missouri in 1847, where he served as the city engineer.

James Wallace Cooke (died 1869), born in North Carolina, joined the U.S. Navy in 1828. In May 1861, while holding the rank of Lieutenant, he resigned his United States commission and joined the Virginia State Navy, entering the service of the Confederate States in the following month. Later in 1861, he was placed in command of the small gunboat CSS "Ellis" and was captured with her after a hard fight off Roanoke Island, North Carolina on February 10, 1862.

James D. Johnston was an officer in the United States Navy, then served as a commander in the Confederate Navy during the American Civil War. Johnston was born in Kentucky and was appointed from that state as a U.S. Navy Midshipman in 1832. He achieved the rank of Lieutenant in 1843 and had not received further promotion when he resigned from the service in April 1861.

George Minor (December 7, 1845, Richmond, Virginia - January 30, 1904, Richmond, Virginia) was an American composer. Minor attended a military academy in Richmond, and served during the American Civil War as Chief of Ordnance and Hydrography of the Confederate States Navy. After the war, he went into the music field, teaching at singing schools and conducting at musical conventions. He helped found the Hume-Minor Company, which made pianos and organs.

Joseph B. Smith (1826 - 8 March 1862) was an officer in the United States Navy during the American Civil War. Born in Belfast, Maine, Smith was appointed midshipman on 19 October 1841. After graduating with the Class of 1847, he served at the Washington Navy Yard, in "Mississippi" and with the U.S. Coast Survey. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1855, and soon afterwards was assigned to the steam frigate "Merrimack", his station until 1857.

Thomas B. Huger (died April 25, 1862) was an officer in the Confederate States Navy during the U.S. Civil War. Before the war, he had served for over 20 years in the United States Navy. Huger was born in South Carolina. He joined the U.S. Navy as a midshipman in March 1835. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in February 1848 and continued in the service until his native state seceded from the United States. Resigning his commission in the U.S. Navy in January 1861, …

Charles Manigault Morris (7 May 1820 - 22 March 1895) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy. He was a descendant of Lewis Morris{Great Grandsonand was also a descendant of Ralph Izard(Great Grandson}. Morris was born in South Carolina, entered the United States Navy as a midshipman in December 1837. He was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1851 and resigned his commission in January 1861.

Peter U. Murphey was an officer in the Confederate States Navy during the U.S. Civil War. Murphey was born in North Carolina. Appointed from that state as a United States Navy midshipman in 1834, he was promoted to the rank of Lieutenant in 1846. Murphey resigned from the U.S. Navy in April 1861 and became a Confederate States Navy officer in June of that year. In the rank of First Lieutenant, he served in Virginia and North Carolina waters in 1861-62, …

Charles Carroll Simms, a native of Virginia, became a U.S. Navy midshipman in 1839. He served in the U.S. Navy for more than two decades, achieving the rank of Lieutenant in 1854. He was dismissed from the service in April 1861, after his state left the United States, and briefly was an officer in Virginia's Navy. Commissioned as a First Lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy in June 1861, …

Rear Admiral John Ancrum Winslow (1811 - 29 September 1873) was an officer in the United States Navy during the Mexican-American War and the American Civil War. He was in command of the steam sloop of war USS "Kearsarge" during her historic 1864 action with the Confederate ship "Alabama".

Clifton Rodes Breckinridge (November 22, 1846 - December 3, 1932) was a Democratic alderman, congressman, diplomat, businessman and veteran of the Confederate Army and Navy. He was the son of Vice President of the United States and Confederate General John C. Breckinridge and the great-grandson of U.S. Senator and Attorney General of the United States John Breckinridge.

Duncan Nathaniel Ingraham (6 December 1802 - 16 October 1891) was an officer in the United States Navy who later served in the Confederate States Navy.

Connally Findlay Trigg (September 18, 1847 - April 23, 1907) was a United States Congressman from Virginia and a Confederate soldier during the American Civil War. He was born in Abingdon, the county seat of Washington County, Virginia. He attended the common schools, studied law and was admitted to the bar in 1870 and commenced practice in Abingdon. He was the son of Dr. Daniel Trigg of Abingdon and Anna Munford Tompkins, …

James Hooker Strong (26 April 1814 - 28 November 1882) was a U.S. admiral. Strong, born in Canandaigua, New York, on 26 April, 1814, was appointed a midshipman in the United States Navy while he was a student in the Polytechnic College at Chittenango, New York, on 2 February, 1829. He made his first cruise on the Brazil station in "Lexington" from 1833 to 1835. After various cruises, he commanded the store ship "Relief" in 1859.

Matthew Fontaine Maury was born on January 14, 1806 near Fredericksburg, Virginia. The years of his youth were spent in Tennessee; but he looked forward to joining the navy, emulating his older brother who was a naval officer. From 1825 to 1834, Maury made his first three extended voyages -- to Europe, around the world, and to the Pacific coast of South America.