Port and Starboard Watch Bills, CSS "Arctic,"

August, 1862.

These lists of the port and starboard watch personnel on the CSS Arctic were transcribed from the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, Series 1, Volume 23, page 703.

In almost all cases, each name is followed by their rating aboard the vessel, and then their trade.

Port Watch Bill.

First Part:

William Foskey, seaman, trade - seaman.

Thomas Garrison, quartermaster, trade - pilot.

Thomas Cahoun, seaman, trade - seaman.

William Bell, quarter gunner, trade - seaman.

Edward Hale, captain's steward, trade - seaman.

Thomas Carrol, second class fireman.

Henry Collings, seaman, trade - seaman.

William Staunton, ordinary seaman, trade - clerk.

John Westcott, seaman, trade - pilot.

George W. Jones, seaman, trade - seaman.

Second Part:

Thomas Nixon, seaman, trade - gunner's mate. [trade shown possibly an error?]

William Cook, seaman, trade - seaman.

Thomas Burrus, ordinary seaman, trade - seaman.

William Grisson, ordinary seaman, trade - seaman.

Edward Certain, ordinary seaman.

Samuel Pratt, seaman, trade - pilot.

James Easters, gunner's mate, trade - carpenter.

William Briggs, seaman.

Thomas Liverman, seaman.

Alex. Murray, seaman.

Starboard Watch Bill.

First Part:

William Gleason, boatswain's mate, trade - carpenter.

William Adams, gunner's mate, trade - seaman.

David Hean, purser's steward, trade - seaman.

Edward Daniels, quartermaster, trade - pilot.

John Anderson, quartermaster, trade - pilot.

John Pingelly, ship's cook, trade - seaman, cook.

John Cannon, first class fireman.

John Smith, seaman, trade - seaman.

James Bell, seaman, trade - seaman.

Edgar Grisson, seaman, trade - pilot.

Second Part:

William Westcott, seaman, trade - pilot.

Rubn. Ouctrin (Oustien), seaman.

Alex. Black, seaman, trade - seaman.

James Newton, seaman, trade - seaman, sawyer.

John Savage, seaman, trade - pilot.

Edward Green, seaman, trade - seaman.

Joseph Burrows, seaman, trade - pilot.

John Woodward, ordinary seaman, trade - mariner.

James Guthrie, seaman, trade - pilot.

January, 2000.