to continue downriver, and then return and discharge liberated former Confederate States prisoners. The Patrick Henry was specially modified to serve as the school ship in May 1862 when she was sent to the Rockets Navy Yard in Richmond. All but four of her guns had been mounted at the naval battery at Drewry's Bluff on the James River. The four remaining guns were used for gunnery drills and training of the midshipmen, and served to assist, when necessary, in the defense of that river location. Two class rooms made of pine boards were mounted amidships on the gun deck between the paddlewheel boxes, and an oversized fully rigged mast was placed forward for sail handling and training. Finally a small launch armed with a twelve-pound howitzer was kept on davits for training. Toward the end of the war the demand for midshipmen to assist with shoreside combat duty greatly increased, requiring the students to be housed in huts built inside the Drewry's Bluff batteries. Supervision of the Academy The superintendent, LT Parker, had been an instructor of seamanship at the U.S. Naval Academy, and was assisted by six CS Navy lieutenants and three CS Navy masters along with several civilian professors. The faculty worked on the hurricane deck between the paddlewheel boxes in two small recitation rooms. While serving as the superintendent Parker wrote the textbook Elements of Seamanship for the school. Faculty and staff The following academic faculty served at CSNA: Military Faculty Lieutenant Wiburn B. Hall, CSN - Commandant of Midshipman and Executive Officer of the CSS Patrick Henry Lieutenant Oscar F. Johnston, CSN - Commandant of Midshipman and Professor of Astronomy, Navigation and Surveying Lieutenant Benjamin P. Loyall, CSN - Commandant of Midshipman and Professor of Astronomy, Navigation and Surveying Lieutenant James H. Rochelle, CSN - Commandant of Midshipman and Executive Officer of the CSS Patrick Henry Lieutenant Thomas W. W. Davies, CSN - Assistant Professor of Astronomy, Navigation and Surveying Lieutenant Charles Iverson Graves, CSN - Instructor of Seamanship Lieutenant James W. Billups, CSN - Assistant Instructor of Seamanship Lieutenant William Van Comstock, CSN - Instructor of Gunnery Lieutenant John P. McGuire, CSN - Assistant Professor of Mathematics Master George M. Peek, CSN - Professor of Mathematics Master George W. Armistead, CSN - Professor of Physics Master George A. Pepley, CSN - Professor of French and German Civilian Faculty Gustave Adolphus "Gus" Peple - Professor