The gunner who was decapitated was 17 year old Stephen Minton. After that happened Capt. Brown ordered the nearest cannoneer to "Throw that body overboard." A shocked Smith Minton replied, "I can't, sir. That's my brother."
As I was made to understand it, the Confederate Navy (such as it was) was terribly Hamstrung by Nepotisim. Is there any truth to that? Does anybody know? At any rate, great video.
Midshipman Daniel B Talbott was on that ship. He was also on the Patrick Henry and the Virginia. He came from kentucky. He's my great-great-uncle. Graduate of the Confederate Naval academy. Died of disease in September 1864 at the Confederate Naval Hospital in Charleston South Carolina. He has a remarkable story. A man in Kentucky murdered his dad at our family Tavern in kentucky. Bardstown. Daniel killed the guy himself in revenge and then went South to join the Confederate Navy for some reason. Little depressing that one of my ancestors fought for the wrong cause. But I understand in context I think
