Lt. Clarence L. Stanton, CSN: CSS Chickamauga and Wilmington Station

I was looking up information about the Confederacy's CSS New Orleans, a ironclad floating battery in the Mississippi River that both John Julius Guidry and John Julius Guidry served on in 1862.  While doing that, I came across this information  on the CSNavy site.

Of course, when I saw this man had been at the Wilmington Station, that meant Fort Fisher and environs, so my attention and interest was naturally piqued.

LT. CLARENCE L. STANTON

Buried at the huge Spring Grove Cemetery in Cincinnati.  This is where Union Generals Joseph Hooker and Godfrey Weitzel are buried.  Weitzel was at The First Battle of Fort Fisher.

Garden Lane,  Section 45, Lot1, Grave 33.

Born 12 June, 1841, Mayesville, Kentucky.  Died  6 January 1917.

Appointed from Kentucky.

 Acting Master:  April 28, 1863

First Lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864, to rank from January 6, 1864.

Served on the CSS Chicora, Charleston, South Carolina, 1863-1864.

CSS Chicamauga, 1864.

Wilmington Station, 1864.

Captured  April 6, 1865, Sailors Creek, Virginia.

Released on Oath, May 15, 1865,  Johnsons Island.

--Old B-Runner

Lee Forgets Naval Brigade at Drewry's Bluff

APRIL 3-6TH, 1865:  General Lee, in his hardpressed and hurried evacuation from Richmond, neglected to apprise Commodore John R. Tucker, commanding the Confederate Naval Brigade at Drewry's Bluff on the James River, of the projected evacuation of the capital.

Tucker maintained his station until the 3rd when he saw the smoke from the burning ironclads and learned that Confederate troops were streaming out of Richmond.

Tucker then joined the Naval Brigade to major general Custis Lee's division of Lt. general Richard S. Ewell's corps.  The brigade participated in Ewell's rear guard stand at Sailor's Creek on April 6 which was intended to cover the westward retreat.

The Naval brigade was captured along with Ewell's entire corps but was the last to surrender.  Tucket tendered his sword to Lt. General J. Warren Keifer.  Some years after the war, when Keifer had become a prominent member of Congress, he returned the sword to the ex-Confederate naval officer.

--Old B-R'er