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Field name | Value |
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Collection Reference Number | GLC00684.03 |
From Archive Folder | Collection of John McIntosh Kell, Commander in the Confederate Navy |
Title | Appointment of John Kell to Lieutenant of the United States Navy |
Date | 24 July 1856 |
Author | Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869) |
Additional authors | Dobbin, James Cochran (1814-1857) Hardin, S.B. (fl. 1856) |
Document Type | Military document |
Content Description | Commission effective from 15 September 1855. Co-signed by James Cochrane Dobbin, Secretary of the Navy, and L.B. Hardin. |
Subjects | President Navy Military History Government and Civics |
People | Pierce, Franklin (1804-1869) Dobbin, James Cochran (1814-1857) Hardin, L.B. (fl. 1843-1856) Kell, John McIntosh (1823-1900) |
Place written | Washington, D.C. |
Theme | Naval & Maritime |
Sub-collection | Papers and Images of the American Civil War |
Additional Information | Folder Information: Kell was a member of the United States Navy from 1843 until 19 January, 1861, the day of Georgia's secession from the United States. He served in the Confederate Navy for the duration of the Civil War, commanded the C.S.S. Savannah, and was made a captain for his work as First Lieutenant under Captain Raphael Semmes on the C.S.S. Alabama. In 1886, he became the Adjutant General of Georgia. In 1900, the year of his death, he published a book, "Recollections of a Naval Life; Including the Cruises of the Confederate Steamers Sumter and Alabama." |
Copyright | The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History |
Module | Civil War, Reconstruction and the Modern Era: 1860-1945 |