Dallas Moses

"The USS Water Witch was a US warship. It was never a slave ship. It was captured by Confederates and one of first ones killed in this action was Dallas Moses, a black slave River pilot who fought for Confederates. Interesting, technically he would have been the only black officer in either navy as he was hired as a pilot for the CS Navy. He made a $100 a month and negotiated his own contracts. His counter part privates in USCT make $13 month. He and his wife owned a farm and had their own cleaning business.

The counter point, many of the white US navy men refused to fight, yet the black US sailors did, one being killed in defense of his ship.

Yet the modern day NAACP is "offended" by the ship he died trying to capture trying to put "history" on something that never happened. The Confederate flag never flew over a slave ship. Please NAACP tell us which flag did? (hint: nickname is "stars and strips" and has a canton of white stars on a blue field - today there are 50 stars). And he had never visited museum? How can you make such stupid comments on something you know nothing about? Agenda?"

Your servant,
Jamey B Creel

CSS Tallahassee Marine Guard
Dept of the Gulf - 2nd FL Co D Leon Rifles

Confederate Ancestors:
Duncan S & John Creel (CSMC)
Lt Preston Creel, Sgt James F Creel, Levi Creel (29th AL Co K)
George S Pickle, AE Averitt & Joshua Harris(51st GA, Co A)
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Wreck of Civil War (sic) gunboat found under mud?

".......a Confederate Navy Lt. Thomas Pelot was assigned to lead a raid to capture the ship in the early-morning darkness on June 3, 1864.

Pelot led a group of about 120 men who used small boats to slip alongside the Water Witch undetected. Their numbers gave them a healthy advantage over the ship’s crew of 65 sailors.

Taken by surprise, the Union sailors still put up a fight, engaging the Confederates in close-quarters combat with sabers and revolvers. Luther Billings, the assistant paymaster aboard the Water Witch, later estimated 40 men were killed or wounded in the raid.

The dead included Pelot, who led the assault, and Dallas Moses, a slave who was also paid a $100 monthly salary as a Confederate river pilot.

Moses piloted the lead boat in the sneak attack, and was supposed to steer the captured Water Witch back to Savannah — under the flag of the Confederate Navy."