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The Charlotte Navy Yard.
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citizens, gave Miss Alexander invaluable aid in her researches for data and furnished her with the following list of men who came to Charlotte with the removal of the naval works from Norfolk. Mrs. Wilkes has made mention of some of them and paid a fine tribute to their sterling worth and fine loyalty. The list of names given by Mr. Zimmerman is as follows:

Ruben Culpepper.
W. E. Culpepper.
Henry W. Tatum.
Joshua Sykes.
Cornelius Myers.
William Myers.
Washington Bright.
Cope Smith.
Edward Lewis.
Isaac Sumner.
John Davis.
James Lloyd.
Clay Guy.
Augustus Tabb.
Andrew Hoffennagle.
James Recketts.
George W. Thompson, Sr.
Thomas Winfields.
Charles L. Walker.
Michael Holey.
George W. Gleason, Jr.
Thomas Peed.
Willoughby Butt.
A. Brewer.

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T. J. Roake. Jr.
Robert Culpepper.
R. M. Grimes.
B. M. Presson.
Thomas Dwyer.
George Dougherty.
Jerry Nicholson.
Hugh Smith.
Henry Brown.
Henry Tucker.
Henry Goodwin.
Elias Guy.
Henry Tabb.
John Thomas.
John W. Owens.
Augustus Recketts.
George W. Thomas, Jr.
Columbus Walker.
Joshua Hopkins.
George W. Gleason. Sr.
James Peed.
John Howards.
Marcellus Thurma.
G. J. Rooke, Sr.

Unfortunately, it has been impossible to secure a complete roster of the men who came to Charlotte with the naval works, and who served here from 1862 to 1865, part of that time as members of the three companies of marines. Mr. Zimmerman recalls the names of 51 men, all skilled workmen, who came to Charlotte from Norfolk in 1862. There were many others of