From Wikipedia.
Confederate naval officer Peter Murphey was born in Caswell County, N.C., on July 10, 1810, and was the son of Archibald Debow Murphey, considered the father of North Carolina public education.
He served in North Carolina and Virginia waters in 1861-1862 and then was assigned to the Mobile Squadron and commaded the CSS Morgan in 1862 and the CSS Selma 1862-1864. He was wounded and captured at the Battle of Mobile Bay in August 1864 and a prisoner of war until October. In May 1865, he surrendered and was paroled.
Murphey died in Mobile, Alabama in 1876 and his burial site is thought to be somewhere along Big Shell Road in the city. However, his body may have been washed away in one of the storms.
Pride of North Carolina, Son of Alabama. --Old B-Runner
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