James Hamilton Tomb, CSN-- Part 1: In the Confederate and Brazilian Navies

In the last post I wrote about James Tomb's attack on the USS Memphis on this date 155 years ago.  I'd never heard of him so did some further research.  There wasn't an article in Wikipedia on him.  He was an interesting character.

From the Google Books site.  He wrote a book about his service titles "Engineer in Gray:  Memoirs of Chief Engineer  James H. Tomb, CSN."

James Hamilton Tomb  (1839 to 1929)

Devoted almost 12 years of his early life to wartime naval service.  First, he was with the Confederate Navy in the American Civil War and then with the Marinha do Brasil (Brazilian Navy) in the War of the Triple Alliance.

He was a steam engineer by profession and became a  torpedo expert by circumstance.

--Old B-Runner