Gilbert Elliott - builder of ironclad ram CSS Albemarle

CSS Albemarle

CSS Albemarle was an ironclad ram of the Confederate Navy , named for a town and a sound in North Carolina and a county in Virginia...

Family

Parents Gilbert Elliott (May 20, 1813 - May 20, 1851) and Sarah Ann Grice (b. June 1, 1819)-[April 22], [1891] at "Milford" estate in Camden County, North Carolina

Camden County, North Carolina

-Schools:There are five schools in Camden County: Grandy Primary School, Camden Intermediate School, Camden Middle School, Camden County High School, and CamTech High School. However one other former school lies in Shiloh. It was a community school for the Shiloh area. The school is now home to a...

 daughter of shipbuilder Charles Grice and Mary Grandy. His mother after she became a widow moved to Oxford, NC and became the author of a cookbook, [Mrs. Elliott's Housewife], published in New York in 1870.

Education

Educated in the local schools of Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Elizabeth City, North Carolina

Elizabeth City is a city in Pasquotank County and Camden County in the State of North Carolina. With a population of 18,683 at the 2010 census, Elizabeth City is the county seat of Pasquotank County....

Was a law clerk by 1860

Military career

Probably enlisted in the Confederate Army on May 16, 1862 at Camp Mangum in North Carolina

North Carolina

North Carolina is a state located in the southeastern United States. The state borders South Carolina and Georgia to the south, Tennessee to the west and Virginia to the north. North Carolina contains 100 counties. Its capital is Raleigh, and its largest city is Charlotte...

, the next day he was appointed First Lieutenant and given duty of Regimental Adjutant

Construction of the Confederate ironclad "CSS Albemarle"

Began in 1862 in a former cornfield in Halifax County, North Carolina

Halifax County, North Carolina

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