Thomas C. Dunn Commanded USS Emma and Captured the Blockade Runner Ella

Register of Commissioned, Warrant and Volunteer  Officers  of the Navy of the United States.

HONORABLY DISCHARGED 1865

Acting Volunteer Lieutenant Thomas C, Dunn  discharged  October 26, 1865.

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Journal of the Executive Proceedings of the Senate December 29, 1864.

Abraham Lincoln nominated Thomas C. Dunn as an Acting Master to date from August 11, 1864.

From Annual Reports of the Navy Department.  December 6, 1864.

Acting  Volunteer Lieutenant Thomas C. Dunn was in command of the steamer USS Emma and involved in the destruction of the blockade running steamer  Ella on December 3, 1864.

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Lieutenant Thomas C. Dunn was in command of the USS Emma in the Reserve Line of ships during the First Battle of Fort Fisher.  The USS Montgomery, under Lt. Edward H. Faucon was also in this line.

--Old B-Runner