Confederate Congress Gives Thanks-- Part 2: Naval Officers

**  John T. Wood, actions in Chesapeake Bay

**  Ebenezer Farrand, Drewry's Bluff

**  Isaac N. Brown, CSS Arkansas

**  Raphael Semmes,  CSS Alabama

John Lancaster, Englishman for using his personal yacht to rescue Semmes and some of the crew of the CSS Alabama after its battle with the USS Kearsarge.

--Old Secesh

Confederate Congress Gives Thanks-- Part 1: Generals

And, the Confederate Congress gave its tanks as well.

**  State of Alabama--  February 8, 1861, for hosting the Confederate government at its capital in Montgomery and loaning $500,000  to the young Confederacy.

**  Gen. Pierre G.T. Beauregard, for Fort Sumter and First Battle of Manassas.

**  Gen. Joseph E. Johnston, for First Manassas.

**  Robert E. Lee, received thanks on several occasions

And, there were naval officers as well.

Next Post.  --Old Secesh

Congress Gives Thanks-- Part 3: Union Naval Officers

Congress also gave its thanks to these Union naval officers:

**  Admiral David G. Farragut

**  Admiral David D. Porter

**  John L. Worden, who commanded the USS Monitor in its epic battle with the CSS Virginia.

**  Captain John A. Winslow, commanded the USS Kearsarge in its battle with the CSS Alabama.

--Old Secesh

Congress Gives Thanks to Union Generals-- Part 2

The U.S. Congress also gave its thanks during the course of the war.  They limited their official thanks to just 15 army officers:

**  Brigadier General Nathaniel Lyon--  the North's first hero, given posthumously.  Killed August 10, 1861, at the Battle of Wilson's Creek in Missouri.

**  Major General Ambrose Burnside

**  Major General Joseph Hooker for the defense of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore.

**  Major General William S. Rosecrans for his victory at Stones River, Tennessee.

**  Ulysses S. Grant  He also received the only Gold Medal awarded during the Civil War for his victories at Forts Henry and Donelson, Shiloh and Vicksburg.

--Old Secesh