The Mad Genealogist

Confederate Ironclads

• CSS Albemarle, Albemarle type. Sunk by spar torpedo in Roanoke River near Plymouth NC 28 Oct 1864 (0 killed). Raised by Union 21 Apr 1865. Sold to be broken up 15 Oct 1867.
• CSS Arkansas, Arkansas type. Destroyed to prevent capture above Baton Rouge LA 6 Aug 1862. Wreck located in 1981 under a rock levee at Baton Rouge.
• CSS Atlanta. Captured by USS Weehawken and Nahant in Wassaw Sound near Savannah River 17 Jun 1863, taken into Union service; see USS Atlanta.

FTM 2011 is now available for pre-sale.  If you want a chance to preorder it now at 40% off the regular price of $39.95 before it is release it to the public at the end of August. You can get another 20%  percent off that price also, which will come out to 48% off the retail price. I’ll tell you how but you can only do it until August 18th.

1. First Click the link below for 40% off and add the product to your cart, it will show a 40% off Price of $23.97.

I received and email from Michael on his findings and I am well pleased by his detail and the report he gave me. See below…

Brian,

Two weeks ago I hired Michael Pollock to do some Virginia Research and see If he could track down William Nichols parents.

I had most of William Life from 1765 to death abt 1789 (dont have actual death info) He was born abt 1725, I was guessing in VA. I had a lot of info which I provided. This is what I have here http://www.mynicholsfamily.com/?p=64. I think his father in law is a john Windom of Isle of Wright Co, VA. I found a Will in Norfolk County VA mentions a William Nichols son of John Nichols, I definately wanted this checked out to see if it was related to my Nichols in any way.

It is a common misconception that admiralty Court records are limited to cases pertaining to seamen and the vessels that traveled the high seas. While a court with admiralty powers regularly oversaw such matters as seamen’s wages, smuggling, piracy, prize (the confiscation of enemy ships and their cargo during wartime),shipwrecks, salvage, insurance, freight and passenger contracts, bottomry (using a ship as collateral), and contracts between merchants and mariners, they also had civil and criminal jurisdiction over all persons having any relation to maritime transactions, including shipbuilders and dockworkers.

Ironically the first By 1775 African Americans numbered more than 500,000 or roughly 25 percent of the North American population. Of these, only 10 percent were free, the rest subject to slavery or indenture. Nonetheless, many blacks had been at the forefront of political unrest in Massachusetts, and on March 5, 1770, Crispus Attucks was killed at the so called Boston Massacre, becoming the first African American to die for his country. 

By Jake Gibson & Steve Centanni, Published June 17, 2010 on FOXNews.com

ARLINGTON, Va. — Several discarded headstones recently discovered in a creek bed near Arlington National Cemetery have left Department of Defense officials scrambling for answers.

Pentagon spokesman Geoff Morrell called the discovery “alarming and concerning.”

Pentagon officials as well as officials at the Arlington National Cemetery had no idea about the existence of the headstones until they were made aware by a Washington Post story.

Here is a tip that works great for me. When visiting a Court house, I always take my Digital Camera.  I can photograph the old books then go home and look at them on the computer any time I want.

Footnote has developed a new Civil War web experience. This page features all of  their Civil War content in a most unique and engaging way. In the past month, Footnote has added thousands of new Civil War records to their collections. Some of the new collections that are found on the Civil War page include, but are not limited to, the following:

• U.S. Civil War Union Service Records – various states
• U.S. Civil War Confederate Service Records – various states
• U.S. Civil War Battle Maps
• U.S. Civil War Subversion Investigations

The following lists of delinquent taxpayers for the Fourth Collection District of North Carolina for the Direct Federal Tax of 1816 can be found in the Carolina Federal Republican (a New Bern, N.C., newspaper) for January 3, 1818, on page 3, and in the Carolina Centinel (also a New Bern, N.C., newspaper) for June 13, 1818, on page 4. The first newspaper carries the Craven, Jones, Lenoir and Green lists, while the second contains the Johnston and Wayne.