Navy Yard Pensacola
The former Navy Yard Pensacola is now Naval Air Station Pensacola. There was a yellow fever epidemic in the yard in the late summer of 1863, accounting for the large number of Marine deaths in a short timespan.
Deaths
Name | Rate/Rank | Date of Death | Age | |
---|---|---|---|---|
✚ | Thomas Brown | Private, USMC | 6 October 1863 | |
✚ | John Dainey | Private, USMC | 8 October 1863 | |
✚ | George Derbyshire | Private, USMC | 4 October 1863 | |
✚ | John Donovan | Private, USMC | 12 October 1863 | |
⚔ | Frank Enduly | Private, USMC | 15 October 1863 | |
✚ | Kingman Flint | 2nd Lieutenant, USMC | 15 October 1863 | |
✚ | Michael Harney | Private, USMC | 16 November 1863 | |
✚ | George Manning | Private, USMC | 11 October 1863 | |
✚ | Michael Masterzon | Private, USMC | 27 September 1863 | |
✚ | Patrick McDermolt | Private, USMC | 26 September 1863 | |
✚ | Michael McGinnis | Private, USMC | 6 November 1863 | |
✚ | Hugh McGuire | Private, USMC | 6 October 1863 | |
✚ | Fred Norton | Private, USMC | 6 November 1863 | |
✚ | Samuel Parker | Private, USMC | 6 November 1863 | |
✚ | George Smith | Sergeant, USMC | 16 March 1864 | |
✚ | George E. Smith | Private, USMC | 11 October 1863 | |
✚ | John C. Spofford | Private, USMC | 16 October 1863 | |
✚ | Thomas Walsh | Private, USMC | 15 October 1863 | |
✚ | Ephraim Wiley | Private, USMC | 15 October 1863 | |
✚ | James Wilson | Private, USMC | 12 October 1863 |
Key
⚔ killed in action
★ prisoner of war
✚ died of disease or injury
◼died of yellow fever
ø died due to vessel loss
✹ died in ordnance accident
⋂ buried on land in marked grave
〰 buried/lost at sea
🎖 Medal of Honor recipient
✎ transcribed letters of sailor/marine posted