List of prominent alumni Clifton R. Breckinridge - served in the U. S. House of Representatives Jefferson Davis Howell (1846–1875) - youngest brother of Varina Howell Davis, wife of President Jefferson Davis, he captained various steamers, and gave his life saving others in a shipwreck of the mail steamship Pacific Colonel John Thomas Scharf - commissioner of Maryland Notes References Campbell, Thomas R., Academy on the James: The Confederate Naval School, Shippensburg, PA, Burd Street Press, 1998. Conrad, James Lee, Rebel Reefers: The Organization and Midshipmen of the Confederate States Naval Academy, Da Capo Press, 2003, Herndon, G. Melvin, The Confederate States Naval Academy, The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. 69, No. 3 (July 1961), pp. 300–323. Minor, Hubbard T., with Campbell, Thomas R., ed., Confederate Naval Cadet: The Diary and Letters of Midshipman Hubbard T. Minor, with a History of the Confederate Naval Academy, 2007, Morgan, James Morris, with Campbell, Thomas R., ed., Midshipman in Gray: Selections from Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, White Mane Publishing Co., 1997, Morgan, James Morris, Recollections of a Rebel Reefer, Boston and New York, Houghton Mifflin Company, The Riverside Press Cambridge, 1917. Scharf, J. Thomas. History of the Confederate States Navy: From its Organization to the Surrender of its Last Vessel.'' New York: Rogers and Sherwood, 1887; repr. The Fairfax Press, 1977. External links Confederate States Navy Naval academies Educational institutions established in 1862 Educational institutions disestablished in 1865 1862 establishments in Virginia Defunct military academies 1865 disestablishments in Virginia