On this day in 1885, a former officer on the CSS Neuse passed away. Lieutenant Algernon Sydney Worth, was born in Virginia, about 1841. He was the son of a United States Naval officer, Algernon S. Worth (who died in 1841), and his wife, Mary. Worth is shown residing with his mother, and other siblings, in the 1850 and 1860 Census, at the home of United States Naval sailing master H.A.F. Young (who also later served in the Confederate States Navy), in Portsmouth, Norfolk County, Virginia. Worth is listed as going to Naval School in 1860, likely to the US Naval Academy at Annapolis. He served in the United States Navy, as midshipman, from September 21, 1858 until his resignation on April 25, 1861. The original entry into the Confederate States Navy, June 11, 1861, has him as an acting midshipman. He was appointed passed midshipman, October 3, 1862 and served aboard the steamer, CSS Patrick Henry (home of the Confederate Naval Academy), in the James River, Virginia, between 1862 and 1863. He reported for duty at Houston, Texas, February, 1863 and was promoted master in line of promotion, January 7, 1864. Shortly after this promotion, he was detailed to Kinston to serve as an officer in the expedition against the USS Underwriter in New Bern. Records show that he then served aboard the CSS Hampton in the James River squadron in 1864. He was then appointed 2nd lieutenant, Provisional Navy, June 2, 1864. Sometime during thelater half of 1864, he was assigned for duty on the CSS Neuse as he appears on the 3rd quarter muster pay roll of the ship. After the war, he is shown as residing (with M.A. Worth, who may have been his sister) at Brooklyn, New York, as a clerk, in 1870. Then he resided as a Naval store clerk, in 1880, with his wife Idella, and two daughters (eldest daughter born 1875) at Savannah, Georgia. He died on August 19, 1885 in Washington DC about age 44 or 45 and is buried there. [ORN 1, 19, 835 and 2, 1, 299; Register1862; Register1863; Register1864; JCC 4, 122; 1850 U.S. Census; 1860 U.S. Census; 1870 U.S. Census; 1880 U.S. Census; Callahan; Norfolk County Record 221.] ...
