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16 May 2014

COOGANs listed in Union (US) Naval Correspondence during the United
States Civil War (1861-1865):
***Note - not a complete listing***

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PRISONERS OF WAR, ETC. (US WAR DEPT, VOL II, PAGE 544)
SUSPECTED AND DISLOYAL PERSONS

CASE OF CHARLES BARKLEY AND THE SCHOONER "H. MIDDLETON"

"Charles Barkley was the master of the schooner 'H. Middleton,'
which vessel was captured outside the port of Charleston, S. C.,
August 21, 1861 and conveyed to New York.  Captain Barkley was
conveyed to Fort Lafayette and from thence tranferred to Fort
Warren.  He was charged with having run the blockade and with being
disloyal to the United States Government."

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ATLANTIC BLOCKADING SQUADRON (NAVAL WAR RECORDS, VOL 6, PAGE 179-180)

REPORT OF FLAG OFFICER PENDERGAST, US NAVY, COMMANDING WEST INDIA
   SQUADRON, OF THE CRUISE OF THE USS ROANOKE FROM CHARLESTON, S. C.,
   TO HAMPTON ROADS, VIRGINIA

US FLAGSHIP ROANOKE, Off Fortress Monroe, September 6, 1861.

"SIR: I have the honor to make the following report of the passage of
this ship from Charleston, S.C., to Hampton Roads, Virginia.  Events
occurring while off Charleston I have already reported to you.

[events from Sunday, September 1, 1861 - Thursday, September 5, 1861]

Friday, 6th - At 4 a.m., got up steam and lowered the propeller; land
reported two points off port bow; came to anchor off Fortress Monroe
at 3 p.m.

The officers and crew of the prize schooner 'Henry Middleton' (sent to
New York on the 28th of August in charge of a prize crew) are on board
of this ship.  I await your orders as regards the disposition to be
made of them.  Their names are as follows: C. Barclay, captain; William
Simmons, mate; Stephen Bennet, seaman; A. Strombo, seaman; Joseph 
Clifton, seaman; Richard Ravel, seaman; William Williams, cook; Beman [sic],
passenger; Frederick Donestick on the shipping articles but not on
board.

[other comments]

G. J. PENDERGAST
Flag-Officer, Commanding West India Blockading Squadron" 

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PRISONERS OF WAR, ETC. (US WAR DEPT, VOL II, PAGE 545-547)
SUSPECTED AND DISLOYAL PERSONS

BRITISH CONSULATE, New York, September 20, 1861
Right Hon. Lord Lyons.

"My Lord:.....

[other prisoners]

In addition to these four seaman, Bernard Coogan, aged twenty-six,
a native of Galway, was a passenger from Charleston to Liverpool.
He had gone out to Charleston by the 'Columbia,' arriving there on
the 12th of March and intending to remain with a brother who is
settled there.  Finding no encouragement to remain and being
unable to bear the expense of a journey northward, he took advantage
of the 'H. Middleton,' the first vessel by which he could return
home, and in which the captain gave him a passage.  The master of
the 'H. Middleton,' a very intelligent man, corroborated the
statement of the seaman and Coogan.  Having closely examined them
myself I see no reason whatever to doubt the truth of these 
statements.

[other comments]

I have further to report that the whole of these nine men are kept
continually in irons.  They form part of the number of twenty-seven
men who occupy one room - a casemate - the dimensions of which
Lieutenant Wood informed me were ten feet wide, thirty feet long and
about eight feet high.

I have the honor to request that your lordship will be so good as to
bring the foregoing facts under the notice of the United States
Government.

I feel satisfied that a knowledge of the circumstances which I have
above detailed cannot but be followed by an order for the discharge
of these poor men, some of whom have survived the perils of shipwreck
only to be made prisoners while attempting to reach asylum, and all
of whom have been actuated by no more criminal motive than that of
a desire to return to their native country.

I have, &c...

E. M. ARCHIBALD"

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE, Washington, September 23, 1861
Col. Martin Burke, Fort Hamilton, N.Y.

"COLONEL: You are hereby authorized to discharge William Simms,
William Williams, Joseph Clifton, Richard Revel, Bernard Coogan,
William Smith, John Angus, Charles McClenehan and William Perry,
detained as prisoners at Fort Lafayette, N.Y., who are understood
to be British subjects.

I have the honor to be, your obedient servant,

WILLIAM H. SEWARD"

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