1. Felix Senac was a Confederate States Navy agent to Europe from 1862 to 1865.
12 Facts About Felix Senac
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Felix Senac would be paymaster of the Confederate navy in Europe until the end of the Civil War.
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Felix Senac was born on July 28,1815, in Spanish Pensacola to Pierre and Agnes Senac of French New Orleans.
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In 1841, Felix Senac married Marie Louise Hollinger in Mobile, Alabama, while serving as deputy postmaster in that city.
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In 1852, Felix Senac moved his family to Key West while overseeing the construction of Fort Taylor.
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Felix Senac was living with his family in New Orleans when the city fell to Union forces on April 26,1862.
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On September 15,1862, Felix Senac was summoned to Richmond, Virginia, in front of a Congressional Committee to explain the reasons for the loss of the two Confederate ironclads.
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On February 28,1865, as Confederate agents in Europe were slowly preparing to make their way back to the Confederacy, Felix Senac received orders from Richmond to stay in Paris.
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Felix Senac died a few months later on January 27,1866, in Wiesbaden and is buried there.
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Felix Senac continued to live in England and then moved to Washington, DC, with her mother Marie Louise who died on October 2,1898.
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Felix Senac was transferred to the US Weather Bureau in 1891.
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Felix Senac died on January 3,1929, in Washington, DC, at the age of 84.