- Joseph Nicholson Barney
Infobox Military Person
name= Joseph Nicholson Barney
lived=1818-1899
placeofbirth=Maryland
placeofdeath=Virginia
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rank=Former Lieutenant, U.S. Navy
FirstLieutenant , CSN (July 2, 1861)
Commander (April 29, 1863)
Commander PNCS (June 2, 1864)
commands=CSS Jamestown (1861-1862)CSS Harriet Lane (1863)CSS Florida (Sept. 1863)
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battles=Battle of Hampton Roads , March 8-9, 1862
Drewry's Bluff (May 15, 1862)
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laterwork=Joseph Nicholson Barney was born in 1818 in
Maryland , son of John Barney and Elizabeth Nicholson Hindman. He married Eliza Jacobs Rogers onJune 9 , 1846 inNew Castle County ,Delaware . He married a second time to Anne (Nannie) Seddon Dornin. He died inVirginia in 1899.Civil War
Joseph Nicholson Barney was appointed into the
Confederate Navy and was Commander of theCSS Jamestown during theBattle of Hampton Roads and so was also present during the famous Naval battle with theUSS Monitor . Later he assumed command of the Confederate raider,CSS Florida in September 1863 but had to be detached due to ill health. From 1864 to 1865, he was a Confederate Naval Agent in Europe. He surrendered on his return and took the Oath of Allegiance to the U.S. Constitution [President Andrew Johnson granted amnesty to those who had fought for the Confederacy if they took this oath. Exceptions were anyone who had been high-ranking officers, or who had resigned from the US Army or US Navy to join the Confederacy or had been taught at West Point or Annapolis] onSeptember 29 , 1865.References
*cite book | title=Register of Officers of the Confederate States Navy |others=Office of Naval Records and Library United States Navy Department | publisher=J.M. Carroll & Company | location=Mattituck, NY | year=1983 | id=ISBN 0-8488-0011-7
*cite web | title=Rootsweb.com | work=Family & Ancestry of Bruce L. Nicholson | url=http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=brucen&id=I7689 | accessdate=2006-05-28Notes
See also
* Letterbook of Joseph Nicholson Barney, Special Collections Branch, United States Naval Academy
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