Ships: Second Assistant Engineer
Residence: Key West FL.
CSA Navy - Killed when the CSS Chattahoochee exploded May 27, 1863. Buried here with other crew members May 28, 1863.∼Frederick W. Arents, born New York, 1840; son of Shippen and Jane Arents; family moved to Richmond, Virginia, after 1850; previous service as private, company D, 1st Virginia Artillery (2nd Virginia Artillery/3rd company Howitzers); participated in the land battles around Richmond, in the summer of 1862; transferred, in early, 1863, to the Confederate States Navy, as 3rd Assistant Engineer; killed in boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; buried at the First United Methodist Church Cemetery, Chattahoochee, Florida.
Ships: Second Assistant Engineer
Residence: Key West FL.
CSA Navy - Killed when the CSS Chattahoochee exploded May 27, 1863. Buried here with other crew members May 28, 1863.∼Frederick W. Arents, born New York, 1840; son of Shippen and Jane Arents; family moved to Richmond, Virginia, after 1850; previous service as private, company D, 1st Virginia Artillery (2nd Virginia Artillery/3rd company Howitzers); participated in the land battles around Richmond, in the summer of 1862; transferred, in early, 1863, to the Confederate States Navy, as 3rd Assistant Engineer; killed in boiler explosion aboard CSS Chattahoochee, Apalachicola River, Florida, May 27, 1863; buried at the First United Methodist Church Cemetery, Chattahoochee, Florida.
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