Isaac D . Seyburn Isaac D . Seyburn ( March 1824 - March 6 , 1895 ) was a Welsh - American merchant captain who served as an officer in the United States Navy during the Civil War , with the rank of Acting - Master . He was wounded in action during the 1861 Battle of Port Royal . During 1863 he commanded the schooner as part of the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under Rear Admiral David Farragut . Seyburn resigned his commission in 1864 due to war injuries and initially settled in Maine . He later moved to Louisiana , where he operated a sugar plantation . Background and personal life . Isaac D . Seyburn was born in Wales in March 1824 . He was , . had blue eyes and dark hair . By profession , he was a " Master Mariner . " On March 15 , 1848 , he was married in Pittston , Maine , to Mary Ann Rogers who was born in New York City on November 20 , 1828 . She was a daughter of John Rogers ( 1800 – 1863 ) and Elizabeth Carroll Reynolds ( 1806 – 1871 ) . Elizabeth C . Reynolds ’ family is descended from Christopher Reynolds who settled in what is now Isle of Wight County , Virginia ( on the south shore of the James River about west of Newport News ) , before 1630 and received a land grant of in 1636 . Her grandfather , Bernard Reynolds ( 1763 – 1833 ) , served in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War . Isaac and Mary Ann Seyburn had five children , Emily Williamson Seyburn ( 1853 – 1934 ) , Mary Catharine Seyburn ( 1854 – 1893 ) , Stephen Young Seyburn ( 1856 – 1923 ) , Edward Isaac Seyburn ( 1860 – 1931 ) and John Rogers Seyburn ( 1867 – 1905 ) who were all born in Maine . Seafaring career . In 1854 , Seyburn acquired a brig , a two - masted , square - rigged merchant ship of about that he named the " Emily W . Seyburn " after his first child who had been born the year before . The brig was registered in Pittston , Maine . There are records of its periodic arrival in New York between 1854 and 1860 carrying cargo under charter , e . g . , coal from Newcastle upon Tyne in England , flour from New Orleans , nickel and hides from Montevideo in Uruguay . By 1857 , the brig was either sold or another Master was hired to sail her because records indicate that Seyburn thereafter was Master of the ship " Stephen J . Young " ( 1856 – 1857 ) , and Master of the ship " Lew Chew " ( 1857 – 1861 ) . Stephen J . Young was the son of Stephen Young , the ship ' s owner ; he was also the owner of the " Lew Chew " ; Seyburn ' s eldest son was named after him . Civil War naval service . On August 29 , 1861 , Isaac D . Seyburn volunteered for service in the United States Navy and was awarded a temporary commission as an Acting Master , a volunteer officer whose term of service was until the end of the Civil War . The naval rank of " Master " was later replaced by that of " Lieutenant ( junior grade ) . " He reported for service in New York on September 10 , 1861 . Seyburn was seriously wounded in action aboard the steam sloop of war during the Battle of Port Royal on November 7 , 1861 . The battle was a major Union victory and up until then the largest naval and amphibious force ever assembled by the United States . Seyburn was wounded when a 32 - pound solid minie ball from defending shore batteries shattered the bones of his lower left leg just above the ankle . Seyburn was treated at the Naval Hospital , Brooklyn , New York , between November 14 , 1861 and March 1 , 1862 . He never regained use of the leg , but was confined to crutches and endured pain for the rest of his life . Despite his injuries , Seyburn continued with his naval service . During his convalescence , he was assigned to the Monitor Board in New York and was a member of the team supervising the construction of the " Passaic " - class monitor in Jersey City , New Jersey . At about the time the " Weehawken " was launched on November 5 , 1862 , Seyburn was ordered to the ironclad steamer where he served until the end of her deployment on May 21 , 1863 when the ship arrived in Philadelphia for repairs . " Galena " , commissioned on April 21 , 1862 , was one of the first three ironclads , each of a different design , built by the U . S . Navy during the Civil War ; it was also the second , after the , to be put under fire . On June 10 , 1863 , Seyburn was given command of the , a three - masted fore - and - aft schooner . While under his command , the " Kittatinny " was assigned to the West Gulf Blockading Squadron under the overall command of Rear - Admiral David Farragut . The ship is credited with having chased an unidentified schooner ashore on September 22 , 1863 where that vessel was burned by her crew , and with having captured the three - masted schooner , " Reserve " , on October 25 , 1863 off Pass Cavallo , Texas . On December 23 , 1863 , while on deployment off the coast of Texas , Seyburn was ordered to proceed with the " Kittatinny " to New Orleans . Shortly after his arrival , Seyburn submitted his resignation . In his letter , dated February 18 , 1864 , from the station ship , Seyburn indicated that he wanted to resign because he had been crippled by his wound and because " the high handed injustice practiced on me by the Commanding officers of the first division of this Squadron is to me insufferable . " His resignation was accepted and Seyburn was honorably discharged on March 24 , 1864 in Gardiner , Maine . Post - war life . Following his discharge , Seyburn remained in Maine until sometime between July 1869 and March 1870 when he moved his family to Louisiana , principally due to the warmer climate , where he had acquired the Idlewild Plantation in Patterson , St . Mary Parish ( some southwest of New Orleans ) . Idlewild was a sugar cane plantation and Isaac D . Seyburn earned his livelihood as a planter . His wife , Mary Ann , died on March 19 , 1880 and Isaac D . Seyburn died on March 6 , 1895 . Postscript . Isaac D . Seyburn was of the Episcopal faith and attended services at the Holy Trinity Church in Patterson , Louisiana . When the church was deconsecrated in 1940 , the stained glass window over the altar , known as the Seyburn Memorial , was acquired by St . Mary ' s Episcopal Church in nearby Franklin , Louisiana , where it remains today . Idlewild Plantation remained in the family at least until Edward Isaac Seyburn ' s son , Edward Reynolds Seyburn , sold it in 1977 . It was purchased by Dr . Walter H . Daniels . He and his wife Pam still reside in Idlewild . Dr . Daniels efforts got Idlewild Plantation listed on the National Register of Historic Places ( Designation No . 82000459 of November 2 , 1982 ) . One of the eight Flying Junior dinghies in the Vanderbilt Sailing Club fleet was named for Isaac D . Seyburn , who was the great great great grandfather of a former Commodore of the Club ; another was named " Lew Chew " .