May 1, 1863: Establishment of the Provisional Confederate Navy-- Part 2

At this time, the Confederate Congress also provided that:  "...all persons serving in the land forces of the Confederate States who shall desire to be transferred to the naval service, and whose transfer as seamen or ordinary seamen shall be applied for by the Secretary of the Navy, shall be transferred from the land to the naval service...."

Throughout the war, the Confederate Navy suffered from an acute shortage of seamen.  Mallor complained that the law was not complied with, and that hundreds of men has applied for naval duty but were not transferred.

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