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Richard Fielder Armstrong a Georgia born, Lieutenant in the Confederate States navy, who served on both the Sumter and the Alabama, under Raphael Semmes.

John McIntosh Kell was a naval officer born in Darien, Georgia. From 1851 to 1855 Kell participated in the Perry expedition to Japan, which opened up trade between that nation and the United States. Promoted to lieutenant in 1855, he accompanied the Paraguay expedition three years later. In 1856 he married Julia Blanche Munroe; they had ten children, of whom seven survived to adulthood. In April 1961 Kell was appointed lieutenant in the Confederate navy and ordered to New Orleans. Commander Semmes, CSN, had requested Kell as his first lieutenant and executive officer aboard the CSS Sumter, the South's first commerce raider. After the Sumter ended its service as a raider at Gibraltar, Semmes and Kell were ordered to the Alabama (formerly Enrica or 290), a superior English-built vessel specifically designed as a commerce raider. As Semme's trusted first officer, Kell once again demostrated his ability and loyalty. National Biography Online http://www.anb.org (Retrieved January 20, 2009)

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