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Hi, Terry !

I`ve found the info I was after at CSNAVY.ORG after getting low hits.

I`ve found one Norwegian on CSS Livingstone:- August Heyer.

I need help with is military records on these men of CSS Beaufort ( are there other Scandinavians than those stated below ?) and the names of prizes of CSS Winslow :

"Crew composed almost exclusively of Englishmen and Scandinavians (mostly Danes and Swedes), recruited from 5 prizes taken by the CSS Winslow July-Aug 61. Scandinavian names on the muster roll include Frank Anderson, August Eliason, Abraham Lawson, John M. Kedslie, and A. E. Albertson."

This is from Ella Lonn, Foreigners in the Confederacy, p. 285-86.

C. S. S. WINSLOW.
Acquisition.--Purchased at Norfolk in 1861.
Description.--Side-wheel river steamer.
Battery.--July, 1861; 1 32-pounder, 1 small brass rifle 6-pounder.
Disposition.--Wrecked on a sunken hull outside of Hatteras Inlet while going to the assistance of a French vessel which was ashore near there.
Remarks.--Formerly the J. E. Coffee.

I will be greatful for some help here, Terry.

PS: Merry Christmas to you and your familiy "Down Under" from a frozen and cold Viking ! ( It`s - 10 C and snow )

Roy

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