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Collection Reference Number GLC00684.11
From Archive Folder Collection of John McIntosh Kell, Commander in the Confederate Navy 
Title Appointment of John Kell to commander of the Provisional Navy of the Confederate States
Date 1 June 1864
Author Mallory, Stephen Russell (1813-1873)  
Document Type Military document
Content Description Kell promoted for service "as first Lieutenant and Executive Officer on the C.S. Steam Sloops Sumter and Alabama, under the command of Captain Raphael Semmes." Commission effective from 4 October 1863. Signed by Mallory as Secretary of Navy.
Subjects Military History  Civil War  Navy  Confederate General or Leader  Confederate States of America  
People Mallory, Stephen Russell (1813-1873)  Kell, John McIntosh (1823-1900)  
Place written Richmond, Virginia
Theme The American Civil War; 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