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Photo # NH 44924:  Lt. Arthur Sinclair, CSN

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First Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair, IV (or Jr.), Confederate States Navy, (1837-1925)

Arthur Sinclair, IV, was born in Norfolk, Virginia, on 5 May 1837, the son and grandson of U.S. Navy officers. He served at sea under his father in the 1850s but had returned to civilian life by the time of the the 1860-61 secession crisis. Sinclair entered Southern naval service and served in CSS United States and in other ships during 1861, and on board the ironclad Virginia during her battle with USS Monitor on 9 March 1862. He was subsequently sent to join CSS Mississippi at New Orleans, but she was destroyed at about the time he arrived. Appointed to the rank of Acting Master in August 1862, he was an officer of CSS Alabama, under Captain Raphael Semmes, during her destructive commerce raiding career in 1862-64.

First Lieutenant Sinclair was present during the battle between Alabama and USS Kearsarge on 19 June 1864. When his ship was sunk, he was rescued by the English yacht Deerhound and taken to Southampton. He later served as an officer of the inactive cruiser CSS Rappahannock at Calais, France. Following the Civil War, he primarily lived in Baltimore, Maryland, where he was a merchant. In the 1890s he wrote a memoir of CSS Alabama, entitled "Two Years on the Alabama". Arthur Sinclair died in Baltimore in November 1925.

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Photo #: NH 44924

First Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair, IV (or Jr.), CSN


Halftone reproduction of a photograph of Sinclair in Confederate Navy uniform, published in "Two Years on the Alabama", by Arthur Sinclair (2nd Edition, 1896).

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 81KB; 490 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 57255

CSS Alabama (1862-1864)


Two of the ship's officers on deck, during her visit to Capetown in August 1863.
They are Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair IV, (left) and Lieutenant Richard F. Armstrong. The gun beside them is a 32-pounder of Lt. Sinclair's Division.
Halftoned image, copied from Sinclair's book, "Two Years on the Alabama".

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 131KB; 595 x 765 pixels

 
Photo #: NH 66640

Confederate States Navy Officers
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who served with Raphael Semmes

Line engraving by H.B. Hall, Jr., New York, featuring portraits of seven officers who served with Semmes in CSS Alabama and were present during her engagement with USS Kearsarge.
In center is Lieutenant Richard F. Armstrong.
The others are (clockwise from top):
Lieutenant Arthur Sinclair, IV (or Jr.);
Midshipman Eugene A. Maffitt;
Midshipman Edwin M. Anderson;
Master's Mate George T. Fulham;
First Lieutenant (later Captain) Becket K. Howell, Marine Corps; and
Acting Master Irvine S. Bulloch.
Howell and Armstrong also served with Semmes in CSS Sumter.

U.S. Naval Historical Center Photograph.

Online Image: 151KB; 545 x 765 pixels

 


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