Gilbert Elliott

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Gilbert Elliott (December 10, 1843 - May 9, 1895) - builder of ironclad ram CSS Albemarle

Contents 1 Family 2 Education 3 Military Career 4 Construction of the Confederate ironclad "CSS Albemarle" 5 References

[edit] Family

Parents Gilbert Elliott (May 20, 1813 - May 20, 1851) and Sarah Ann Grice (b. June 1, 1819) at "Milford" estate in Camden County, North Carolina daughter of shipbuilder Charles Grice and Mary Grandy

[edit] Education

Educated in the local schools of Elizabeth City, North Carolina
Was a law clerk by 1860

[edit] Military Career

Probably enlisted in the Confederate Army on May 16, 1862 at Camp Mangum in North Carolina, the next day he was appointed First Lieutenant and given duty of Regimental Adjutant

[edit] Construction of the Confederate ironclad "CSS Albemarle"

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

[edit] References

Elliott, Robert G., Ironclad of the Roanoke, White Mane Publishing, 1994, ISBN 0-942597-63-X