Confederate Congress Gives Thanks to Naval Officers

The Confederate Congress also awarded thanks to their naval officers:

JOHN T. WOOD for his operations in the Chesapeake Bay.

EBENEZER FARRAND  for action at Drewry's Bluff

ISAAC N. BROWN for his actions at Vicksburg

RAPHAEL SEMMES, the CSS Alabama, of course.

Also, JOHN LANCASTER    He was the Englishman who used his personal yacht to rescue Semmes and his crew after the Alabama was sunk by the Kearsarge.

--Old B-Runner