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Re: Records of CSN in Trans-Mississippi!

Many personnel of the CSS COTTON are listed in Booth's volumes of the Louisiana rosters. I believe that most of the personnel who served on both the CSS COTTON and the CSS ARKANSAS were actually army personnel on detachment to these vessels, and not personnel who had been transferred to the Confederate Navy. I have seen statements to that effect somewhere in the pages of the volumes of the Naval Official Records, but cannot recall which volume/s. I even recall that one lieutenant from an army unit decided to serve as a private just so that he could serve on the CSS ARKANSAS.

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