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James Iredell Waddell ()

James Iredell Waddell (July 3, - March 15, ) was an officer in the United States Navy and later in the Confederate States Navy.

Waddell was born in Pittsboro, North Carolina. He joined the United States Navy as a Midshipman in September His nearly two decades in the U.S.

Navy included early service in USS Pennsylvania, Mexican-American War operations off Veracruz aboard USS Somers, a tour off South America in USS Germantown, an assignment as a United States Naval Academy instructor, eastern Pacific duty in USS Saginaw and a cruise with the East Indies Squadron with USS .

Lieutenant Waddell resigned his commission while returning home in the John Adams late in at the outbreak of the American Civil War and was dismissed from the U.S. Navy in January

In March , Waddell was appointed a Lieutenant in the Confederate States Navy.

Sent to New Orleans, he was assigned to the incomplete ironclad CSS Mississippi until her destruction in late Apr