INDEX

Abby Bradford, merchant-ship, capture of, by the Sumter, iv. [412];
captured by the frigate Powhatan, [413].
Abellino, Yankee privateer, captures prizes in the Mediterranean, iii. [343].
Acasta, British gun-boat, attacks the Constitution, iii. [260].
Acquia Creek, Potomac River, capture of Confederate forts at, iv. [66], [81–83].
Active, British brig, captured by the Hazard, i. [206].
Adams, American frigate, changed to a corvette, iii. [54];
Captain Charles Morris in command of, [57];
on the coast of Africa, [58];
chased by the Tigris, [59];
scurvy on board, [60];
runs on a rock, [61];
attacked on the Penobscot, [62];
burned, [ib.]
Adams, Captain H. A., disloyal conduct of, iv. [117].
Adams, John, member of first Marine Committee, i. [36].
Adams, Samuel, and the Boston tea-party, i. [12].
Adelaide, Federal transport, iv. [100].
Adeline, American brig, recaptured from the British, ii. [74].
Admiral Duff, British privateer, blown up by the Protector, i. [207].
Adriana, American brigantine, Ambassador to Holland sails on, iv. [153].
Adventure, British ship, burned by Paul Jones, i. [78].
Africa, British ship-of-the-line, ii. [55].
Africa, making the coast of, safe for American traders, iii. [340–358].
Aiken, Southern revenue cutter, converted into the Confederate privateer Petrel, iv. [93].
Alabama, Confederate privateer, off Galveston, iv. [357];
known as No. 290, [430];
Captain Semmes appointed to command, [431];
cruises off the Azores, Martinique, Galveston, Cape Town, and the East Indies, [432–436];
encounters the Kearsarge at Cherbourg, [436];
comparison of their armaments, [437];
the fight, [438–441];
prizes taken by, [447].
Alabama claims, iv. [430].
Albatross, Federal gun-boat, passes the batteries of Port Hudson, iv. [358].
Albemarle, Confederate ironclad ram, iv. [456];
laid up at Plymouth, N.C., [457];
blown up by Lieutenant Cushing, [461].
Albemarle Sound, N.C., a Confederate privateer resort, iv. [94].
Albert Adams, Federal merchant-ship, captured by the Sumter, iv. [415].
Alden, Captain James, iv. [386].
Alden, Commander James, iv. [314].
Alert, British corvette, surrenders to the Essex, ii. [42];
attempt to rescue from Porter, [43], [44].
Alert, British cutter, captures the Lexington, i. [119], [120].
Alexander, Captain Charles, i. [66].
Alexandria, British frigate, ii. [359].
Alexandria, Red River, Admiral Porter’s squadrons arrive at, iv. [370].
Alfred, American flagship, sent to France, i. [130];
captured, [132], [133].
Algerian fleet sent after Yankee merchantmen, iii. [341].
Algerian Navy, strength of the, iii. [344].
Algerian pirates encouraged by England, i. [308], [309].
Algiers, Africa, tribute paid to by the United States, iii. [339];
by England, [340].
Algiers, Dey of, ransom paid to, i. [309], [310];
treatment of Americans by, iii. [340], [341].
Algiers, harbor defences of, iii. [345].
Allen, American gun-boat, iii. [141].
Allen, Captain William Henry, ii. [360];
carries the American Minister to France, [361];
sails into the English Channel, [ib.];
captures a wine ship from Portugal, [362], [363];
encounters the Pelican, [362–364];
his ship surrendered, [367];
dies in Mill Prison Hospital, [371].
Allen, Lieutenant William Howard, takes charge of the ship, ii. [364];
continues the fight, [367];
killed in an engagement with pirates, iii. [333].
Alliance, American frigate, detailed to carry Lafayette home, i. [232];
fouls the Bonhomme Richard, [234];
takes a valuable prize, [236];
fires into the Bonhomme Richard, [254];
flight of Paul Jones on the, [275];
cruises on the French coast, [297];
narrow escape of, [298];
sails from Havana with specie, [ib.];
attacked by the Sybille, [299];
sold, [303].
Alligator, American tender, surrendered to the British, iii. [235].
Alligator, American schooner, defeats an attack at Cole’s Island, ii. [419].
Alvarado, Mexican port, Commodore Conner attempts to take, iii. [410];
captured by Lieutenant Charles G. Hunter, [428].
Alwyn, John C., Lieutenant in the Java fight, mortally wounded, ii. [166], [171], [172].
American citizens in foreign countries, iii. [385], [386].
American commerce, English policy toward, i. [306], [307], [384];
protected by Portugal, [307];
menace to, iv. [412].
American cruisers in British waters, i. [112–133].
American flag, first salute given to, i. [69];
designed, [134];
first hoisted, [135];
first saluted by a foreign power, [138];
protected by Portugal, [307];
a shield for an infamous traffic, iii. [361];
a Chinese assault on, [380].
American frontier in 1812, ii. [262].
American Navy, first existence of, i. [1];
founders of, [37];
first ships of, in commission, [39–43];
resolutions of Congress founding it, [41];
first officers and first ships of, [39–43];
origin of the, [1–47];
first cruise of the, [48–62];
first squadron poorly manned and inefficient, [49–53];
along shore in 1776, [63–83];
mismanagement in, [159];
at the time of the Declaration of Independence, [300];
building a new navy, [303];
strength of, at commencement of hostilities with France, [315];
almost extinct, [396];
reduced to a peace footing, [398];
discreditable lack of, ii. [26];
increase of, [356];
development of, from 1815 to 1859, iv. [1–9];
personnel of the, in 1859, [24–26];
number of men who took part with the Southern States, [27];
value of men from Northern ports and the Great Lakes, [36];
a nautical curiosity shop, [37];
ferryboats as naval ships, [ib.];
first great naval expedition of the War of the Rebellion, [168];
modern, sketch of, [523–554];
in 1885, condition of, [523].
American prisoners in England, i. [122];
in Tripoli, [345], [358].
American seamen, impressment of, ii. [18];
courage and skill of, [357].
American sea-power in 1812, ii. [21].
American shipping and French cruisers, i. [314].
American squadron, career of the first, i. [60].
Ammen, Captain Daniel, at Port Royal, iv. [163];
Commander of the Patapsco, [480].
Amphitrite, American pilot-boat, attacks a French privateer, ii. [34].
Amy, American bark, Blackford, at Rio Janeiro, iv. [548].
Anacostia, Federal screw steamer, at Acquia Creek, iv. [81].
Anarchy in the West Indies and along the Spanish Main, iii. [325].
Andrea Doria, brig of first American Navy, i. [39];
in the first naval battle of the Revolution, [58];
ordered to sea, [64];
fight with brig Racehorse, [68], [69];
burned, [70].
Andrews, Major W. S. G., Commander of Fort Hatteras, iv. [107].
Anglo-Saxon aggressiveness, iii. [391].
Anglo-Saxon cheer, the, ii. [308].
Angostura, Venezuela, Commodore Perry arrives at, iii. [329].
Anthracite coal used by blockade-runners, iv. [55].
Antonio, Cape, Captain Kearny of the Enterprise captures pirates near, iii. [331].
Aquidaban, Brazilian rebel monitor, iv. [548].
Arbuthnot, Captain James, captured by the Wasp, iii. [93–96].
Arcade, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Archer, captured by Captain Read of the Tacony, iv. [424].
Argus, American sloop, ii. [360];
carries the American Minister to France, [361];
cruises in the English Channel, [ib.];
too successful for her safety, [362];
encounters Pelican, [362], [363];
her sails become unmanageable, [364];
surrenders, [367];
contemporary view of the battle, [369];
taken by a prize crew to Plymouth, [371].
Argus, American frigate, captures six prizes, ii. [151].
Argus, American cruiser, in the attack on Tripoli, i. [374].
Ariadne, British man-of-war, captures the Alfred, i. [132], [133].
Ariel, American schooner, ii. [292].
Arkansas, Confederate ram, skirmish in the Yazoo River, iv. [342], [343];
machinery gets out of order, [343];
attacks Farragut’s squadron, [344].
Arkansas Post, naval force sent to help capture, iv. [351].
Armada, British liner, chases the Wasp, iii. [92].
Armament and construction of gun-boats, iv. [246].
Armament of battle-ships from 1812 to 1859, iv. [24].
Armor-plated ships, first use of, iv. [9], [10].
Armstrong, Commodore James, surrenders Pensacola Navy Yard to Confederates, iv. [112];
suspended for five years, [113].
Arnold, Benedict, invades Canada, i. [84];
builds a fleet, [89];
fight on Lake Champlain, [92–94];
character of, as a fighter, [105].
Arsenals established in New York State, ii. [264].
Asp, American ship, ii. [352].
Atalanta, British brig, surrenders to the Alliance, i. [298].
Atalanta, British ship, captured by the Wasp, iii. [100].
Atalanta, British frigate, ii. [16].
Atlanta, formerly the Fingal, Confederate ironclad, iv. [488];
surrenders to the Weehawken, [489].
Atlanta, United States cruiser, iv. [533].
Atlantic, British letter-of-marque whaler, captured by Porter, iii. [9].
See [Essex, Jr.]
Audience, an intensely interested, iii. [152].
Augusta, Federal ship, in Port Royal squadron, iv. [172].
Augusta, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. [474].
Aulick, Captain James, sent to Japan in 1851, iii. [443];
recalled on false charges, [ib.]
Avon, British brig-sloop, captured by the Wasp (3), iii. [93–96].
Aylwin, American gun-boat, iii. [141].
Bache, Lieutenant G. M., iv. [369].
Badajos, rapacity of English veterans in the streets of, iii. [134].
Bahama, British merchant-ship, officers and crew of the Alabama taken in the, to Terceira, iv. [431].
Bahama Islands, a resort for contraband traders in the Civil War, iv. [48].
Bahia, Brazil, Captain Bainbridge paroles his prisoners at, ii. [167], [175].
Bailey, Lieutenant-colonel Joseph, saves Admiral Porter’s squadron, iv. [371–376];
receives thanks of Congress, [376].
Bailey, Captain Theodorus, at New Orleans, iv. [316];
commands first division of Farragut’s squadron, [324];
sent ashore to deliver Farragut’s letter, [338].
Bainbridge, Captain William, i. [316];
surrenders to the French frigate Insurgent, [ib.];
Captain of the Voluntaire refuses to accept his sword, [ib.];
deceives the French officer, [317];
sent to Tripoli in charge of the Essex, [335];
chases a Tripolitan corsair, [341];
loses his ship on a reef, [343];
court-martialed, [344];
a prisoner in Tripoli, [345];
communicates with American fleet, [346];
a shot penetrates his prison, [368];
remonstrates with the Navy Department of Madison’s administration, ii. [26];
cruising in Brazil, [152];
fight with the British frigate Java, [153–173];
wounded, [155];
conducts his ship while his wounds are being dressed, [156];
paroles 378 of the Java’s crew, [167];
blows up the Java, [173];
his dream realized, [172], [173];
his character illustrated, [177];
insulted at Barcelona, iii. [311–313].
Bainbridge, Midshipman Joseph, his duel with the Secretary of Sir Alexander Ball, iii. [307–311];
captures a Carthaginian privateer, iii. [65];
attacked and captured by the Orpheus and Shelburne, [65], [66].
Baker, Captain Thomas H., iv. [89].
Baldwin, Lieutenant, i. [66].
Ball, Sir Alexander, iii. [307].
Ballard, American gun-boat, iii. [141].
Ballard, Midshipman Edward J., ii. [206].
Baltimore, American frigate, five men of the, impressed in the British service, [401].
Bankhead, Captain J. P., at Port Royal, iv. [163].
Banks, General Nathaniel Prentiss, sent on expedition to Shreveport, La., iv. [368].
Banshee, the first steel blockade-runner, iv. [57].
Barbary pirates encouraged by England, i. [307];
war with, [333], [334].
Barclay, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. [8].
Barclay, Captain Robert H., appears off Erie, ii. [289];
fond of festivities, [291];
misses the American fleet, [292];
opposes Perry, [296];
superiority of his ships, [298];
determines to meet Perry, [302];
awaits the American squadron, [306];
fires the first gun, [308];
surrenders, [324], [326];
loses a second arm in the battle, [330].
Barnard, Captain Tim, iii. [187];
captures nineteen prizes, [ib.]
Barney, Captain Joshua, sketch of, i. [209–215];
has command of the clipper-schooner Rossie, ii. [245];
captures by, [246–248];
commands a fleet in Chesapeake Bay in 1813, [403];
attacked by the British on the Patuxent River, [403–409];
Captain Samuel Miller and Colonel Wadsworth sent to his assistance, [409], [410];
moves up the Patuxent River, [413];
burns his fleet, [414];
wounded, [416].
Barney, Major William B., acts as aid to his father, ii. [406];
in command of cutter Scorpion, [408].
Barossa, British frigate, ii. [395].
Barreaut, Captain, chases American ships, i. [316];
recalled by Captain St. Laurent, [317–319].
Barriers on the Mississippi to prevent Farragut’s advance, iv. [320];
broken down by the Itasca, [323].
Barron, Captain James, sent to Tripoli in charge of the President, i. [335];
with Stephen Decatur, iii. [318–322];
restored to active service, [323].
Barron, Captain Samuel, sent to Tripoli in charge of the Philadelphia, i. [335].
Barron, Flag Officer Samuel, captured at Fort Hatteras, iv. [106].
Barry, Captain John, i. [39];
commands American brig Lexington, [63];
cruises off Virginia capes, [64];
encounters British tender Edward, [64];
sinks the Effingham, [188];
captures and destroys the schooner Alert, [189], [190];
appointed to the Raleigh, [ib.];
chases the Unicorn, [191];
loses the Raleigh, [194].
Bashaw of Tripoli, treachery of, i. [335], [336];
refuses to make a treaty, [340];
agrees to give up prisoners, [378].
Bassett, Lieutenant F. S., opinion of Commodore Hopkins, i. [61].
Batteaux, travelling in, ii. [263].
Battle of Bunker Hill, i. [26];
Champlain, [92–111];
of Fort Pillow, iv. [298];
of Grand Gulf, [367];
of Lake Erie, ii. [309–325];
of Lexington, i. [14];
of Memphis, iv. [298–307];
of New Orleans (in the Civil War), [326–340];
of Pittsburg Landing, [284].
Baton Rouge surrenders to Captain Craven of the Brooklyn, iv. [340].
Baudara de Sangare, a private vessel, captured by the Shark, iii. [332].
Baury, Lieutenant Frederick, iii. [81].
Bay Point. See [Fort Beauregard].
Bazely, Lieutenant John, captures the Lexington, i. [119], [120].
Beagle, American ship, captures Cape Cruz, iii. [334].
Beaufort, Confederate gun-boat, takes crew off the Congress after she surrenders to the Merrimac, iv. [208].
Beauregard, Confederate ram, attacks the Queen of the West at Fort Pillow, iv. [301];
rammed and sunk by the Monarch, [302].
Bell, Henry H., iv. [314].
Belligerent ships, rules and orders regarding, issued by British Government, iv. [411].
Belligerents, rights of, iv. [86].
Belmont, on the Mississippi, battle at, iv. [251];
the Confederates compel Grant to retreat, [252].
Belvidera, British frigate, encounters the President, ii. [29];
escapes, [32].
Ben. Dunning, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Benham, Admiral A. E. K.,
prompt action of, at Rio Janeiro, iv. [548].
Bentham, Commander George, attacks the General Armstrong in the harbor of Fayal, iii. [187–199];
sets fire to the Armstrong, [200].
Benton snag-boat, converted by Eads into an armored vessel, iv. [246–249].
Benton, Porter’s flagship before Vicksburg, iv. [363].
Benton, Federal gun-boat, Lieutenant-commander J. A. Greer, iv. [369].
Berceau, French frigate, fights with the Boston, i. [328];
returned to France, [330].
Beresford, Captain John Poer, recaptures the Frolic from the Wasp, ii. [118].
Berkeley, British minister at Washington, recalled and promoted, ii. [2].
Bermudas a basis for contraband trade during the Civil War, iv. [48].
Betsey, British bark, captured by Captain Alexander, i. [66].
Biddle, Captain Nicholas, i. [64];
commands the Randolph, [160];
attacks the Yarmouth, [162].
Biddle, James, Lieutenant on the Wasp (No. 2), ii. [111];
leads the boarders, [ib.];
hauls down the flag of the Frolic, [112];
appointed to command the Hornet, iii. [272];
commands the Macedonian, [331];
sent to the Pacific Coast, [401];
sent to Japan to negotiate a treaty of peace, [440].
Bienville, Federal ship, in Port Royal squadron, iv. [172].
Black Hawk, Federal gun-boat, iv. [369].
Black Prince, purchased by Naval Committee, i. [39].
Black Rock, near Buffalo, Lieutenant Elliott establishes a navy yard at, ii. [273].
Black Snake, British gun-boat, iii. [126].
Blake, Captain H. C., iv. [432].
Blakely, Master-commandant Johnston, ii. [375];
fights with the Reindeer and the Avon, iii. [85–96];
captures the Atalanta, [100];
lost with his ship, [103].
Blockade-runner, legal status of, iv. [57], [58].
Blockade-runners, chiefly in the hands of the British, iv. [48];
reckless loading of, [61];
profits of, [63], [64].
Blockading the Southern ports, iv. [28–30];
no force available to blockade at the beginning of the war, [32];
lack of ships and men, [34];
Congress slow to appreciate the need of a navy, [35].
“Blood is thicker than water,” iii. [381], [382].
Blythe, Captain Samuel, attacks the Enterprise, ii. [375];
killed, [379];
buried at Portland, [385].
Board of Admiralty, i. [158].
Boggs, Commander Charles S., iv. [314].
Bolton, American bomb-brig, i. [56].
Bonhomme Richard, American ship, i. [227];
origin of the name, [228];
fitted out by Jones, [229];
mixed crew of, [230];
Richard Dale as master’s mate on, [ib.];
the Alliance runs foul of, [234];
accident to, [235];
meets the Serapis, [243];
fight with the Serapis, [245–259];
comparative strength of the two ships, [265];
after the surrender, [269–272];
sinking of the ship, [272].
Bonita, American schooner, in attack on Alvarado, iii. [410].
Bonne Citoyenne, British war-ship, blockaded in the harbor of Bahia, ii. [179];
cowardice of Captain Greene, [180].
Borer, American gun-boat, iii. [141].
Boston, American frigate, i. [286], [287].
Boston, American ship, fights the Berceau, Captain Senez, i. [328], [329].
Boston Port Bill, i. [13].
Boston, tea destroyed in harbor of, i. [13];
press-gang riots in, [395].
Boston, United States cruiser, iv. [533].
Boutelle, Mr., of the Federal Coast Survey, replaces the buoys at Port Royal, iv. [171].
Bowling Green, Kentucky, Confederate position at, untenable after surrender of Fort Henry, iv. [266].
Boxer, British brig, attacks the Enterprise, ii. [375];
surrenders, [379];
crew of, [382];
decision of the British court on the loss of the, [384].
Bragg, Confederate ship, captured at Fort Pillow, iv. [302].
Breckenridge, General, attacks the Federal forces at Baton Rouge, iv. [344].
Breese, Lieutenant-commander K. R., iv. [369].
Breeze, Chaplain, on the Lawrence in the battle of Lake Erie, ii. [317].
British Government, attitude of the, toward African pirates, iii. [340].
British grab at the Valley of the Mississippi, iii. [229], [230].
British merchants and the American war, i. [112].
British Navy in American waters, i. [195].
British waters, rights of belligerents in, iv. [411].
Brock, Sir Isaac, his view of the English possession of America, ii. [279].
Broke, British gun-boat, iii. [143].
Broke, Captain Philip Vere, Commodore British squadron, ii. [55];
challenges Lawrence of the Chesapeake to fight, “ship to ship,” ii. [203], [204];
boards the Chesapeake, [214];
is wounded, [217];
becomes delirious, [221], [225];
made a baronet, [226];
death of, [229].
Brooke, Lieutenant John M., assigned to assist in designing an ironclad, iv. [184].
Brooklyn, screw sloop, iv. [314].
Brooklyn, Federal gun-boat, iv. [386].
Brown, Lieutenant George, iv. [389].
Brown, Captain Isaac N., iv. [342];
skirmish with the Federal fleet in the Yazoo River, [ib.];
attacks Farragut’s squadron, [344];
supports Breckenridge at Baton Rouge, [ib.]
Brown, Lieutenant James, ii. [217].
Browne, Lieutenant G. W., iv. [370].
Brownson, Captain Willard H., at Rio Janeiro, iv. [548];
on the coast of Mexico, [553].
Bruinsburg, Federal army crosses from, to Grand Gulf, iv. [364].
Bryant, Captain N. C., before Fort Pillow, iv. [290].
Buchanan, Flag Officer Franklin, iv. [188];
his difficulty in finding a crew, [195];
wounded, [210];
his report of the fight, [ib.];
Confederate fleet of, at Mobile, [380];
sends the Tennessee into action, [399];
wounded, [402].
Budd, Lieutenant George, ii. [206], [218].
Bullock, Commander James D., supervises construction of the Alabama, iv. [430].
Bunker Hill, battle of, i. [26].
Bunker Hill, American privateer, ii. [394].
Burleton, Admiral Sir George, chases the Hornet, iii. [282].
Burnside, General A. E., sent to capture Roanoke Island, iv. [109].
Burrows, American gun-boat, iii. [141].
Burrows, Lieutenant William, appointed to command the Enterprise, ii. [375];
encounters the Boxer, [375–377];
is mortally wounded, [377];
receives the surrender of the Boxer, [379].
Bushnell, David, invents first American submarine torpedo boat, i. [164];
sketch of his life, [180–184].
Butler, General Benjamin F., sent to attack the forts on Hatteras Islands, iv. [100];
his report at, [107];
occupies New Orleans, [338], [339];
his plan for blowing up Fort Fisher, [508–510].
Byron, Captain of, chased by the President, ii. [29–32].
Cabot, brig of first American Navy, i. [39];
commanded by Captain Elisha Hinman, i. [66];
fired by her captain, [163].
Cairo, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. [245];
Captain N. C. Bryant commands, [290];
runs by torpedoes in the Yazoo River expedition, iv. [350].
Calbreth, Peter, one of the capturers of the Margaretta, i. [17].
Caldwell, Lieutenant C. H. B., iv. [314];
breaks barriers across the Mississippi, [323].
Caleb Cushing, Federal revenue cutter, cut out and burnt by the Archer, iv. [424].
Caledonia, British brig, captured by Lieutenant Elliott, ii. [279].
California, a bone of contention between Americans and English, in 1842, iii. [387], [388];
operations that insured the acquisition of, iii. [387], [388].
Canada invaded by American troops, i. [84];
annexation of, agitated in 1812, ii. [20];
invasions of, for resenting British aggressions, ii. [263].
Canning, British prime minister, diplomacy of, in regard to the Chesapeake affair, ii. [1].
Canton, China, American fleet sent to, to protect American interests, iii. [380].
Cape Cruz, South America, a pirate resort captured by the Greyhound and Beagle, iii. [334].
Carden, Captain John Surnam, i. [389];
cruel treatment of sailors, [ib.];
cruises in the Azores, ii. [121];
falls in with the United States, [122];
fight with, [125–134];
Decatur refuses to receive his sword, [139].
Caribbean Sea a nest for pirates, iii. [326].
Carleton, Sir Guy, his supplies captured by Paul Jones, i. [79];
confidence of, [85];
his fleet at St. John’s, [87];
fight on Lake Champlain, [92–94].
Carleton, British schooner, ii. [100].
Carnation, British brig, attacks the General Armstrong in the neutral port of Fayal, Azores, iii. [187–200].
Caroband Bank, South America, fight between the Hornet and Peacock near, ii. [181].
Caroline, American schooner, attacks the British camp at Villeré’s Plantation on the Mississippi, iii. [239];
is fired and abandoned, [240].
Carondelet, James B. Eads’s shipyard at, iv. [243].
Carondelet, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. [245], [369];
goes aground outside Fort Henry, [265];
gets free, [266];
shells Fort Donelson, [268], [271];
disabled before Fort Donelson, [271];
gun bursts on, [272];
in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, [363].
Carronades, description and value of, ii. [36–38].
Carronades (short guns) out of use, iii. [141].
Carrying trade of the Mediterranean, England’s tribute to the Dey of Algiers for, iii. [340];
after the War of 1812, [ib.]
Cassin, Lieutenant Stephen, iii. [139].
Castilian, English brig-sloop, iii. [93].
Catherine, British ship, captured by Lieutenant Downes, iii. [10].
Cat-o’-ninetails used to enforce orders on British ships, i. [389].
Catskill, Federal ironclad, iv. [480].
Cayuga, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. [314].
Centipede, American gun-boat, iii. [141].
Centipede, British launch, ii. [398];
sunk, [400].
Ceremonies connected with first American fleet, i. [44–46].
Ceres, British man-of-war, captures the Alfred, i. [132], [133].
Chads, Lieutenant, in the fight with the Constitution, takes command when Captain Lambert is mortally wounded, ii. [165].
Champlain, Lake, naval battle on, i. [92–100];
reflections on the battle, [105–111].
Champlin, Stephen, in the battle of Lake Erie, ii. [326];
fires the last shot of the battle, [327].
Chandeleur Islands, the British forces arrive at, to attack New Orleans, iii. [230].
Chaplin, Lieutenant J. C., attacks the forts at Acquia Creek, iv. [82].
Charles City, Ark., attack on, by Federal gun-boats and an Indiana regiment, iv. [307].
Charleston, United States cruiser, plans of, imported, iv. [531].
Charleston, S. C., defences of, iv. [467];
bombardment of, iv. [480–502].
Charlton, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. [14].
Charwell, British brig, iii. [110].
Chase, Major W. H., and Colonel Lomax, capture the Pensacola Navy Yard, iv. [112].
Chasseur, Baltimore clipper, attacks the St. Lawrence, British war-schooner, iii. [204].
Chatsworth, American brigantine, slave-ship captured by Lieutenant Foote, iii. [366].
Chauncey, Commodore Isaac, appointed to command the forces on the Great Lakes, ii. [270];
attacks Kingston, [ib.];
attacks Toronto, [341];
attacks Fort George, [342];
returns to Sackett’s Harbor, [348];
makes another assault on Toronto, [349];
Sir James Yeo’s squadron appears, [ib.];
jockeying for position, [350];
Chauncey opens fire, [351];
returns to the attack, [352];
misses the great opportunity of his life, [353];
operations of, on Lake Ontario, iii. [113–129].
Cherub, British war-ship, accompanies the Phœbe in the attack on the Essex, iii. [25].
Chesapeake, American frigate, built, i. [312].
Chesapeake, Lawrence appointed to command of, ii. [197];
her crew, [198];
the ship reputed to be unlucky, [199];
is fitted out for a voyage to intercept British ships, [200];
is blockaded by the Shannon in Boston Harbor, [203];
goes out to meet the Shannon, 1813, [204];
crew mutinous, [205];
closes down on the Shannon, [206];
the battle, [209];
the Chesapeake is boarded, [214];
hand-to-hand fight, [217];
the ship is captured, [221];
taken to Halifax, [222];
comparison of the two ships, [229].
Chickasaw, Federal monitor, iv. [386].
Chickasaw, Federal gun-boat, shells Fort Gaines, and compels it to surrender, iv. [405].
Chicora, Confederate ironclad, built at Charleston, iv. [473];
fires on the Keystone State and captures her, [475].
Chillicothe, Federal gun-boat, iv. [369].
Chinese assault on the American flag, a, iii. [380].
Chinese war of 1856, American interests involved in, and fleet sent to protect them, iii. [379–382].
Chippeway, British schooner, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. [297].
Chubb, British ship, disabled and surrenders to Macdonough, iii. [156].
Chubb, British gun-boat, iii. [143].
Cincinnati, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. [245];
flagship of Commodore Foote before Fort Henry, [261];
Captain R. N. Stembel commands, [289];
throws the first shell into Fort Pillow, [293];
attacked by Confederate rains, [ib.];
the Mound City goes to the rescue of, [294];
sinks, [ib.]
Circassian, blockade-runner, captured off Havana by the Fulton ferryboat Somerset, iv. [37].
Civilization promoted by Anglo-Saxon aggressiveness, iii. [391].
Clarence, merchant-ship, captured by Captain Maffitt, of the cruiser Florida, iv. [424];
placed under command of Lieutenant Read, [ib.];
burnt, [ib.]
Coaling stations, need of, by Federal war-ships in Southern waters, iv. [161].
Cocke, Captain W. H., iii. [333];
fired on and killed by a Porto Rican fort, [ib.]
Collier, Sir Ralph, K. C. B., iii. [260].
Collins, Captain Napoleon, at Port Royal, iv. [163];
commanding the Wachusett, captures the Florida in Bahia Harbor, iv. [424].
“Colonial Navy,” distinguished from temporary cruisers, i. [28], [29].
Colorado, United States screw frigate, launched, iv. [15].
Columbia, American frigate, attacks and bombards the Malay town of Quallah Battoo, iii. [375–379].
Columbia, United States cruiser, iv. [534].
Columbiad, description of, iv. [119].
Columbus, successful cruise of Captain Whipple in the, i. [66].
Columbus, American ship-of-the-line, sent to Japan, iii. [440].
Columbus, Ky., Confederate position at, becomes untenable after surrender of Fort Henry, iv. [266].
Columbus, on the Mississippi, Confederates evacuate, iv. [275].
Comet, American privateer, ii. [252].
Commander-in-chief of the Navy, title held by Commodore Hopkins only, i. [62].
Condor, blockade-runner, wreck of, at Fort Fisher, iv. [511].
Conestoga, merchant-vessel, purchased by Commander Rodgers, iv. [241];
Captain Phelps appointed to command, [251].
Confederacy, American frigate, i. [287].
Confederacy, American packet, captured by the English, i. [298].
Confiance, British frigate, iii. [142];
flagship of Captain Downie in the battle of Lake Champlain, [153];
disabled and surrendered to the Saratoga, [165].
Congress, American galley, i. [89];
Arnold’s, flagship, [99];
covers retreat at Crown Point, [104];
burned by Arnold, [105].
Congress, American frigate, built, i. [312];
opens fire on the ironclad Merrimac in Hampton Roads, iv. [200];
grounded, [207];
two Confederate gun-boats open fire on her, [ib.];
Lieutenant Pendergrast surrendered her to the Merrimac, [208];
hot shot fired at her by the Merrimac, [209];
her magazine explodes, [215].
Connecticut troops desert, i. [30].
Conner, Commodore David, lands a force at Point Isabel, iii. [409];
his fleet not fitted for shallow waters, [410];
his conduct of the seige of Vera Cruz, [418].
Connyngham, Captain Gustavus, i. [123];
captures prizes on the French coast, [124];
commission taken from him, [125];
takes command of the Revenge, [126];
his ship injured, [127];
refits in English port, [128];
gets provisions in an Irish port, [ib.];
sails for America, [ib.];
denounced as a pirate, [129];
cruel treatment of, in English prison, [ib.]
Constellation, American frigate, built, i. [312];
Captain Thomas Truxton commands, [316], [319];
battle with French frigate Insurgent, [320];
discipline on board of, [322], [323];
battle with French frigate Vengeance, [323–325];
Captain Charles Gordon appointed to command in Decatur’s fleet, iii. [343].
Constitution, United States frigate, built, i. [312];
flagship in the attack on Tripoli, [367];
called a “pine box” by Englishmen, [380];
Captain Isaac Hull disputes with the Captain of the British warship Havana, ii. [13], [14];
is chased by two frigates, [ib.];
ship prepares for action, [ib.];
frigates retreat, [16];
her escape from a British squadron, [53–69];
“a bunch of pine boards,” [73];
fight with Guerrière, [76–95];
comparative strength of the two ships, [96];
return to Boston, [101];
cruising off Brazil, [152];
falls in with the Java, [153], [155–173];
attempt of the Java to board, [158];
the London Times on the victory, [176];
Lawrence applies for the command of, [197];
laid up at Boston, iii. [241];
goes to sea again, [242];
captures the war-schooner Picton, [ib.];
falls in with the British frigate La Pique, [ib.];
the British ship runs away, [243];
is chased by the Junon and Tenedos, [244];
returns to Boston, [245];
captures the Lord Nelson, [ib.];
chases the Elizabeth and captures the Susan, [ib.];
is chased by the Elizabeth and Tiber, [246];
fight with the Cyane and Levant, [247–256];
sails to Porto Praya, [260];
attacked by three British frigates, [261];
her fighting days over, [268];
plan of, iv. [537].
Continental Congress, effect on the, of the British vengeance on Portland, i. [26].
Continental Naval Board, i. [158].
Contraband trade in the Civil War, iv. [48–52].
Cooke, Captain. See [Albemarle].
Coquette, American merchant schooner, plundered by the Porto Rico privateer Palmira, iii. [332].
Cornwallis, Lieutenant-general Lord, released from imprisonment in exchange for Henry Laurens, iv. [154].
Corpus Christi, Texas, captured by Farragut, iv. [357].
Cossack, Federal transport, iv. [478].
Cottineau, Captain Denis Nicholas, i. [232].
Cotton-mills of the world shut down during the War of the Rebellion, iv. [47].
Countess of Scarborough attacks Paul Jones’s fleet off Flamborough Head, i. [243];
surrender to the Pallas, [267].
Couronne, French ironclad, witnesses the Alabama-Kearsarge fight, iv. [438].
Couthouy, Lieutenant S. P., iv. [369].
Cox, William, midshipman on the Chesapeake, ii. [206].
Coxetter, Captain Louis M., iv. [91–93].
Craighead’s Point, shells thrown into Fort Pillow from, iv. [290].
Craney Island, Captain Tattnall fires and blows up the Merrimac on, iv. [236–237].
Craven, Captain Thomas Tunis, iv. [314];
sinks with his ship, [394].
Craven, Commander T. A. M., iv. [386].
Crawford, William H., American minister to France, ii. [361].
Cricket, Federal gun-boat, iv. [370].
Crosby, Lieutenant Pierce, iv. [315].
Crown Point, retreat of Benedict Arnold to, i. [103];
account of the roads and distances to, from New York, [109].
Crowninshield, George, Jr., privateersman, brings home the bodies of Captain Lawrence and Lieutenant Ludlow, ii. [225].
Croyable, French gun-ship, captured off the Delaware, and renamed the Retaliation, i. [316], [400].
Cruisers, Confederate, tales of the, iv. [407–451].
Cuba, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Cumberland, Federal sailing sloop-of-war, opens fire on the ironclad Merrimac, iv. [200];
is rammed by the Merrimac, [201];
in a sinking condition, [202];
continues firing as she goes down, [203].
Cumberland Head, Plattsburg Bay, Macdonough’s squadron at, iii. [149].
Dabney, John B., American consul at Fayal, iii. [187];
his report on the fight between the Carnation and the General Armstrong, [195], [196], [198–201].
Dacres, Captain James Richard, ii. [55];
surrenders to Captain Hull, [94].
Dahlgren, Rear-admiral John Adolph, his smooth-bore gun introduced, iv. [489].
Dahlgren, Admiral John A. B., relieves Dupont of his command, iv. [489].
Dale, Commodore Richard, master’s mate on Lexington, i. [68];
escape of, from English prison, [123];
joins Paul Jones’s fleet, [230];
resourceful conduct of, [256], [260–262];
wounded, [266];
gallant conduct on the Trumbull, [295–297];
placed in command of squadron in the Mediterranean, [334].
Dartmoor Prison, Rev. Joseph Bates imprisoned in, iii. [294].
Dartmouth, merchant-ship, tea thrown from, in Boston Harbor, i. [13].
Dash, privateer of Baltimore, captures schooner Whiting in Chesapeake Bay, ii. [241].
Dauphin, American ship, captured by Algerian pirates, i. [309].
Dauphin Island, Mobile, iv. [379];
Federal troops landed on, [385].
“Davids,” torpedo boats, first used at Charleston, iv. [497];
derivation of name, [498].
Davis, Captain Charles, relieves Commodore Foote, iv. [289];
his inactivity, [293].
Davis, Captain Charles H., replaces the buoys at Port Royal, iv. [171].
Davis, Jefferson, proclamation inviting applications for letters of marque, iv. [85].
Davis, Gunner’s Mate John, heroism of, iv. [110];
promoted and honored, [111].
Davyson, Captain Thomas, surrenders to the Providence, i. [282], [283].
Dead Sea, exploration of the, iii. [464].
Deane, American frigate, with the Boston, captures six prizes, i. [284], [287].
Deane, Silas, member of first Marine Committee, i. [36];
American commissioner to France with Franklin, i. [117].
De Camp, Commander John, iv. [314].
Decatur, American privateer, throws her guns overboard, ii. [75].
Decatur, Lieutenant James, in the attack on the city of Tripoli, i. [361];
killed by the Tripolitans, [362].
Decatur, Lieutenant Stephen, Jr., i. [346];
captures the Mastico, [ib.];
sails on the Mastico to set fire to the Philadelphia, [348–361];
made a captain, [358];
in the attack on the city of Tripoli, [361];
his encounter with a Tripolitan captain, [363], [364];
falls in with the British ships Eurydice and Atalanta, ii. [16];
cruises in the Azores in the United States, [121];
encounters the Macedonian, [122];
fights the second frigate battle of the War of 1812, [125–134];
his personal direction of the guns, [128];
surrender of the British frigate, [133];
ball given to Decatur and his officers in New York, [149];
gold medal given by Congress to, [150];
transferred to the President, iii. [212];
ordered to cruise in the East Indies, [215];
chased by the British fleet, [216];
lightens his ship, [217];
addresses his crew, [218];
attempts to retreat, [221];
ordered to cruise in the South Atlantic, [271];
his duelling experiences, [307–315];
his fatal duel with Commodore Barron, [318–321];
his death, [322];
a squadron under his command sent to Africa, [343];
his treaty with the Dey, [347–355];
compels the Dey to pay indemnity, [355];
goes to Tripoli and compels the Bashaw to settle, [357].
Deerhound, English yacht, witnesses the Alabama-Kearsarge fight off Cherbourg, France, iv. [438];
assists in picking up the crew of the Alabama, [441].
Defence, Connecticut cruiser, captures two transports, i. [203], [204].
Defiance, Confederate ironclad, abandoned by her crew at New Orleans, iv. [337].
De Gama, Saldanha, Brazilian rebel admiral, iv. [548].
De Kalb, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, first called the St. Louis, iv. [245];
takes part in capture of Arkansas Post, iv. [351].
Delaware, United States frigate, i. [316].
Demologos, Fulton’s first steam war-ship, iv. [4], [11].
Desertions from British ships, i. [394].
De Soto, Federal boat, added to Ellet’s command, iv. [351];
burned, [352].
Detroit, American brig, captured by the British, ii. [274];
recaptured by Lieutenant Elliott, [276];
runs aground on Squaw Island, [278];
British again capture her, [ib.];
the Americans destroy her, [279].
Detroit, United States cruiser, at Rio Janeiro, iv. [548];
fires on the Guanabara, [553].
Diadem, British frigate, strength and armament of, iv. [23].
Diamond Reef, near Cape Hatteras, iv. [165].
Dickenson, Captain James, attacks the Hornet, iii. [273];
is killed in the fight, [276].
Diligence, British schooner, sent to capture Captain Jeremiah O’Brien, i. [23].
Diligent, English brig, surrenders to the Providence, i. [282], [283].
Discipline on board American frigate Constellation, i. [322].
Discord fomented by England between the States of the Union, i. [384].
Divided We Fall, American privateer, ii. [253].
Dixie, Confederate privateer, iv. [93].
Dolphin, American cutter, purchased by Franklin and other commissioners, i. [117].
Dolphin, American privateer, ii. [242].
Dolphin, United States cruiser, iv. [531].
Donaldson, Commander Edward, iv. [389];
of the Sciota, [315].
“Don’t tread on me,” the significant motto, i. [2], [46].
Douglas, Hon. Captain George, iii. [247];
surrenders, [255].
Douglas, Lord Howard, his views on armor-clad ships, iv. [198].
Downes, Lieutenant John, sent on a cruise in the Georgiana, iii. [10];
captures by, [10], [11];
in the Essex-Phœbe fight, [28];
is appointed to command the Epervier, 1815, [343];
attacks and overpowers the Malays at Quallah Battoo, [373], [374].
Downes, Commander John, iv. [480].
Downie, Captain George, iii. [144], [145];
at the battle of Lake Champlain, [153], [154];
killed, [165].
Drayton, Captain Percival, at Port Royal, iv. [163];
Captain of the Hartford, [386];
of the Passaic, [480].
Drayton, General Thomas F., at Port Royal, iv. [170].
Druid, British brig, attacked by the Raleigh, i. [131], [132].
Drummond, British gun-boat, iii. [143].
Drummond, British schooner, captured by Chauncey at Lake George, ii. [353].
Drunkenness and debauchery promoted by gun-boats, ii. [394].
D. Trowbridge, Federal merchant-ship, captured by the Sumter, iv. [415].
Dublin, British frigate, cruises off Callas, iii. [389].
Duc de Lauzan, American frigate, i. [287], [299].
Duckworth, Admiral Sir John T., on the cartel of the Alert, ii. [47].
Duddingstone, Lieutenant William, i. [4];
shot, [10].
Duelling in the American Navy, iii. [305–323];
at Gibraltar, [313], [314].
Duke of Gloucester, British ship captured by Americans at Toronto, burned at the attack on Fort George, ii. [346].
Dummy monitor sent adrift by Porter’s men, iv. [357].
Dunmore, Lord, in Chesapeake Bay, i. [35].
Dunovant, Colonel R. M., at Fort Beauregard, iv. [170].
Dupont, Commander Samuel Francis, spikes the guns of San Blas, iii. [402];
takes command of a fleet to take possession of Port Royal, iv. [163].
Dynamite cruisers, construction of, iv. [542].
Eads, James B., ship-builder, takes a contract to build seven ironclad gun-boats, iv. [242–244];
construction of, described, [245], [246];
Eads and Ericsson, [244].
Eagle, American sloop, in Macdonough’s squadron, ii. [354];
sunk by the British in the Sorel River, [355].
Eagle, American sloop, iii. [136], [138].
Earle, Commodore, attempts to capture the Oneida and destroy Sackett’s Harbor, ii. [266], [268].
Eastport, Confederate river steamer, captured by Lieutenant Phelps, iv. [267].
Eastport, Federal gun-boat, iv. [369].
Eben Dodge, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Eclipse, American merchant-ship, attacked and looted by Malays, iii. [374–376].
Edinburgh Review on the treatment of America by Great Britain, i. [384].
Edwin, American merchant-brig, captured by the Dey of Algiers, iii. [341], [351].
Effingham, American frigate, sunk, i. [188].
Eliza, merchant-schooner, David Porter’s first ship, ii. [33].
Elizabeth, British schooner, captured by Porter, iii. [4].
Ellet, Colonel Charles, Jr., converts seven river steamers into rams on the Ohio River, iv. [298];
his part in the attack on Fort Pillow, [301].
Ellet, Colonel Charles R., sent by Porter to control the Mississippi between Vicksburg and Port Hudson, iv. [351].
Elliott, Lieutenant Jesse D., sent to Buffalo to purchase vessels, ii. [273];
capture of the Detroit, [276], [278], [279];
in command of the Niagara, [292];
brings up the gun-boats, [322];
criticized for inactivity, [335], [336];
acts as second to Commodore Barron in his duel with Decatur, iii. [319];
commands the Ontario in an expedition against the Dey of Algiers in 1815, [343].
Elliptical route plan condemned by Admiral Porter, iv. [101].
Emily St. Pierre, British merchant-ship, seized by United States cruiser James Adger, iv. [58];
recaptured by her captain, [ib.]
Enchantress, merchant-schooner, captured by Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis, iv. [91].
Endymion, British frigate, attacks the Prince de Neufchâtel, American privateer, iii. [202];
is defeated, [203];
assists in the capture of the President, [222].
England, greed of, in dealings with her colonies, i. [4];
tries to crush the new republic, [314].
English Navy of 1812 in American waters, ii. [25].
English officers offended by names given to Yankee ships, iii. [313].
English seaman in 1812, ii. [25].
Ensign, naval, first American, i. [46].
Enterprise, American brig, sent to South America to put down piracy, iii. [331].
Enterprise, American schooner, captures the French privateer Seine, i. [330];
sent to Tripoli in charge of Lieutenant Andrew Sterrett, [335];
battle with the war polacre Tripoli, [335];
the luckiest, naval ship of the War of 1812, ii. [372];
captures eight privateers, [373];
cruises in the Mediterranean, [ib.];
captures the Tripoli and the ketch Mastico, [ib.];
changed to a brig and overloaded with guns, [374];
drives off English privateers under command of Master-commandant Johnston Blakely, [375];
Lieutenant William Burrows takes charge of her, [ib.];
cruises for privateers, [ib.];
encounters the Boxer, [ib.];
her commander wounded, and Lieutenant McCall takes his place, [377], [378];
the Boxer surrenders, [379];
after the battle Master-commandant James Renshaw appointed to command, [386];
cruises off the southern coast, [ib.];
escapes from a British frigate, [ib.];
employed as harbor guard, [387].
Enterprise, American sloop, i. [89].
Epervier, British brig-sloop, captured by the Peacock, iii. [66–71];
taken into Savannah by Lieutenant John B. Nicholson, [76–78].
Epervier, American ship, lost at sea, iii. [354].
Era, Confederate steamer, captured by Federal fleet, iv. [352].
Erben, Captain Henry, at Fort Pillow, iv. [289].
Ericsson, a name given to the first monitor, iv. [215].
Ericsson, John, Swedish engineer, his screw propeller, iv. [10];
his boat the Francis B. Ogden, [ib.];
induced to come to America, [11];
plans the first screw steamship, [12];
Naval Board makes a contract with, for the Monitor, [191].
Erie, Pa., chosen as base of operations for gaining control of Lake Erie, ii. [282];
ship-building at, [286].
Espiègle, British war-brig, chased by Captain Lawrence of the Hornet, ii. [181];
again chased after sinking the Peacock, [190].
Essex, American frigate, sent to Tripoli, i. [335].
Essex, American frigate, ii. [33];
first cruise in War of 1812, [34–50];
British frigate Minerva refuses to fight with, [39–41];
captures the Alert, [41–43];
crew of Alert plan a rescue, [44];
chased by the Shannon, [47];
Farragut’s account of the crew, [49];
begins her second cruise, Oct. 8, 1812, iii. [1];
cruises off Port Praya, [2];
captures the brig Nocton, [2], [3];
dysentery among the crew, [4];
panic on board, [6];
painted and disguised, [8];
captures British whalers, [ib.];
refitted from the captured ships, [9];
captures the Atlantic and the Greenwich, [ib.];
captures the Charlton, [13];
goes into the harbor of Nukahiva to refit, [18–21];
an incipient mutiny on, [21];
attacked by the Phœbe and Cherub, [24–43];
losses of, [44];
sent to England to be added to the British Navy, [48];
her captures, [52];
amount of damage done to the enemy, [ib.]
Essex, Federal armor-plated gun-boat, iv. [249];
in the battle of Port Henry, [ib.];
disabled, [262];
Flag Officer Foote’s warning to his crews about wasting shot, [261];
Commander Robert Townsend, [369].
Essex Junior, formerly the British whaler Atlantic, iii. [12];
in the fight between the Phœbe and Cherub against the Essex, [33–43];
is disarmed and sent to New York, [49].
Estido, Algerian brig, captured near Cape Palos by the American Navy, iii. [348].
Eurydice, British frigate, ii. [16].
Evans, Surgeon Amos E., ii. [168].
Experiment, British frigate, captures the Raleigh, i. [194].
Experiment, American schooner, i. [330].
Exploring expeditions of the American Navy, iii. [464].
“Export powder,” an inferior quality of gunpowder, ii. [368].
Fair American, British brig, driven ashore by the Hyder Ali, i. [215].
Fairfax, Lieutenant D. M., takes Mason and Slidell off the Trent, iv. [144–146].
Fairfax, Commander D. M., iv. [480].
Falcon, Captain Thomas Gordon, chased by the Constitution, iii. [247];
surrenders, [252].
Falmouth (now called Portland), Maine, attacked by British, i. [24–26], [32].
Fame, privateer of Salem, ii. [241].
Fanny, successful blockade-runner, iv. [63].
Farragut, Commodore David Glasgow, midshipman on the Essex, ii. [40];
his wit saves a rescue of the Alert by her crew, [44];
his account of the crew of the Essex, [49];
as captain when only twelve years old, iii. [12], [13];
resumes his studies at Nukahiva, [19–21];
his account of the fight of the Essex with the Phœbe and Cherub, [40–42];
in his home at Norfolk, Va., 1862, awaiting orders, iv. [311];
a member of the Naval Retiring Board, [313];
suggested by Porter as a suitable commander of the New Orleans expedition, [313];
accepts the position, [314];
ships in his squadron, [314], [315];
disguises his ships, [317];
advances past the barriers, [324–330];
demands surrender of New Orleans from Mayor Monroe, [338];
pressed by the Administration to open up the Mississippi, [341];
his bold cruise practically fruitless, [342];
his fortune in the Gulf of Mexico, [357];
runs his squadron past the works of Port Hudson, [ib.];
captures Galveston and Corpus Christi, [ib.];
losses in his fleet, [358];
watches Confederates strengthen their works at Mobile, [384];
moves his fleet up to Fort Morgan, [389];
commences the battle, [392];
disregards the torpedoes, [396];
lashed to the mast, [ib.];
wins the battle when the Tennessee surrenders, [403];
in his report gives special praise to members of his fleet, [ib.];
his place in history, [465].
Faunce, Captain John, iv. [99].
Federal Government, its great aim to strangle and starve the Confederates, iv. [239].
Fernando de Noronha, Brazil, Porter visits and communicates with Bainbridge at, iii. [3];
Captain Semmes allowed to make his headquarters there, iv. [527].
Ferryboats as successful naval ships, iv. [37].
Finch, British gun-boat, iii. [143];
disabled in the battle of Lake Champlain, [161].
Fingal, Scotch iron steamer, erected into a Confederate ironclad, iv. [486];
renamed the Atlanta, [488].
Fitch, Colonel, attacks Charles City, Ark., iv. [307];
storms and captures it, [308].
Flag. See [American Flag].
Flag, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. [474].
Flambeau, French privateer, captured by the Enterprise, ii. [373].
Flamborough Head, naval fight between the Serapis and Bonhomme Richard near, i: 243.
Flannen Islands, the Alliance, of Paul Jones’s fleet, captures a valuable prize off the coast of, i. [236].
Flores, General José Maria, paroled by Commodore Stockton, iii. [397];
breaks his parole, [ib.]
Florida, Confederate cruiser built at Liverpool, iv. [416];
her first voyages, [417];
Captain John Newland Maffitt appointed to command of, [418];
is fired at by Captain Preble of the Winona, [419];
escapes, [ib.];
blockaded by the Cuyler, [420];
runs the blockade, [423];
Captain Charles M. Morris appointed to command of, [424];
rammed by the Wachusett and taken to the United States, [ib.];
scuttled at Newport News, [429].
Fly, schooner of first American Navy, i. [40].
Foote, Admiral Andrew Hull, Lieutenant on the American brig Perry, sent to Africa to assist in putting down the slave traffic, iii. [363];
his sincere desire to stop the traffic, [364];
captures the slave-ships Martha and Chatsworth, [364–366];
the “original prohibitionist of the navy,” [367];
is sent to Canton to protect American interests, [380];
is fired on by the Chinese forts, [ib.];
bombards and captures the forts, [380], [381];
relieves Commander John Rodgers of his command on the Mississippi, iv. [250];
assembles a fleet at Paducah, [255];
inspects the crews, [256];
seeming insolence of Captain Walke to, [266];
joins the expedition to Fort Donelson, [268];
is seriously wounded, [271];
again, [272];
is relieved by Captain Charles H. Davis, [289].
Forest Queen, Federal army transport, in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, iv. [364].
Fort Beauregard, on Bay Point, Charleston, S. C., Confederate fort at Port Royal, iv. [169], [467].
Fort Donelson, strength of, iv. [268];
arrival of the Carondelet, [ib.];
the St. Louis, Louisville, and Pittsburg arrive before, [271];
all three ships disabled, [ib.];
the fleet at a disadvantage, [272];
surrendered to General Grant, [ib.]
Fort Erie, the Coney Island of Buffalo, ii. [273].
Fort Fisher, N. C., capture of, iv. [503–518];
fortifications of, [505];
General Butler’s plan of capture, [508–514];
garrison of, [514].
Fort Gaines shelled by Federal gun-boat Chickasaw, iv. [405].
Fort George attacked by the Americans under Winfield Scott, ii. [342–344];
Scott hauls down the British flag, [344].
Fort Gregg, Charleston, S. C., iv. [467].
Fort Henry, Tennessee River, Foote assembles a fleet at Paducah to attack, iv. [255];
troops under Grant proceed up the river, [ib.];
storm clears the river of torpedoes, [256];
attacked by Foote’s fleet, [261–266];
a victory for the gun-boats, [266];
its importance to both armies, [ib.]
Fort Hindman, Federal gun-boat, iv. [370].
Fort Jackson, Confederate fortification on the Mississippi, iv. [318];
bombardment of, [322–324];
surrendered to Porter, [339].
Fort Johnson, Charleston, S. C., iv. [467].
Fort Morgan, iv. [385], [386], [389].
Fort Moultrie, Charleston, S. C., iv. [467].
Fort Pillow, Federal fleet advances to, iv. [289];
evacuated by Confederates, [298].
Fort Pinckney, Charleston, S. C., iv. [467].
Fort Ripley, Charleston, S. C., iv. [467].
Fort Sumter, five monitors open fire on, iv. [491];
bombarded and reduced to a wreck, [493].
Fort Wagner, Charleston, S. C., iv. [467], [469], [490].
Fort Walker, on Hilton Head, Confederate fort at Port Royal, iv. [169].
Fortress Monroe, the Monitor retires to, after the fight with the Merrimac, iv. [226].
Forward, American schooner, in attack on Alvarado, iii. [410].
Forward, filibuster craft, cut out by Lieutenant Brownson of the United States frigate Mohican, iv. [553].
Foster, Lieutenant-commander J. P., iv. [369].
Foster, General John G., Captain Flusser appeals to him to go and burn the Confederate ironclad Albemarle, iv. [454].
Fox, Augustus V., appointed assistant to Gideon Welles, Secretary of the Navy, iv. [35].
Fox, Captain W. H. Cocke, iii. [333].
Foxardo affair, the unfortunate, iii. [337], [338].
France, United States Government abrogates all treaties with, July 7, 1798, i. [314].
Francis B. Ogden, Ericsson’s model boat, attains speed of ten miles an hour, iv. [10];
Captain Stockton makes a trip on, [ib.]
Franklin sails for France on the Reprisal, i. [114].
Franklin, Sir John, American expedition sent to search for the remains of, iii. [464].
Franklin, American schooner, captures ten vessels and Governor Wright of St. John’s, i. [203];
captures a quantity of war supplies, [ib.]
Freeborn, Federal steamer, at Acquia Creek, iv. [81].
“Free trade” before “sailors’ rights,” the motto of Washington politicians in 1812, ii. [18].
Freely, Confederate privateer, iv. [93].
Frémont, John C. (“the Pathfinder”), takes possession of San Diego, iii. [394];
commands in the Mississippi Valley, iv. [241].
French cruisers destroy American shipping, i. [314].
French troops enter Mexico, iv. [367].
Friendship, American ship, attacked and looted by natives of Sumatra, iii. [368].
Frolic, American sloop, built at Portsmouth, N. H., in 1814, iii. [64];
Master-commandant Joseph Bainbridge appointed to, [65]:
sinks a Carthagenian privateer, [ib.];
encounters the British frigate Orpheus and schooner Shelburne, [ib.];
surrenders, [66].
Frolic, British brig, encountered by the Wasp, ii. [106];
captured by the Wasp, [107–112];
comparison between the ships, [116];
recaptured by the Poictiers, [118].
Frontier posts retained by England contrary to treaty, i. [383];
posts used as Indian headquarters, [ib.]
Fry, Captain Joseph, capture of, iv. [308];
captured and executed by the Spaniards in the Virginius expedition, [ib.]
Fulton ferryboat Somerset captures the blockade-runner Circassian off Havana, iv. [37].
Fulton, naval plans of, iv. [3], [4];
his first steam war-ship, the Demologos, [4];
report of commissioners appointed to examine her, [7], [8];
blown to pieces, [9].
Fulton 2d, launched in 1887, iv. [11].
Gadsden, Christopher, member of first Marine Committee, i. [36].
Gaines, Confederate gun-boat, iv. [380].
Galatea, British frigate, chased by the Congress and President, ii. [151].
Galena, Federal gun-boat, iv. [389].
Gallinipper, American barge, captures a pirate schooner, iii. [335].
Galveston, Texas, blockaded by the South Carolina, iv. [44];
bombarded by Captain James Alden of the Federal frigate South Carolina, [121];
the foreign consuls protest against the bombardment, [123];
captured by Farragut, [357];
is retaken by the Confederates, [ib.]
Gamble, Lieutenant Peter, killed in the battle of Lake Champlain, iii. [157].
Gaspé, captured by men armed with paving-stones, i. [9].
Gazelle, Federal gun-boat, iv. [370].
Geisinger, Midshipman David, placed in charge of the captured ship Atlanta, iii. [100].
General Armstrong, American privateer schooner, iii. [186];
owned by New York men, [ib.];
under Captain Tim Barnard captures nineteen prizes, [187];
sails from New York under command of Captain Samuel C. Reid, [ib.];
arrives at Fayal and encounters the Carnation, Plantagenet, and Rota, [ib.];
is attacked by boats from the three ships, but beats them off, [189];
scuttled and abandoned by her crew, [200].
General Bragg, Confederate gun-boat, rams the Cincinnati at Fort Pillow, iv. [293];
raked by the Carondelet, [294];
surrenders, [302].
General Monk, British ship, attacked and captured by the Hyder Ali, i. [209–215].
General Pike, American ship, burned at the attack on Fort George, ii. [346].
General Price, Federal ram, in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, iv. [364].
General Rusk, Confederate steamer, blockaded in Galveston by the Federal frigate Santee, iv. [137].
Georgiana, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. [8].
Gerdes, F. H., Federal coast surveyor at New Orleans, iv. [322].
German troops hired by England to fight in America, i. [32].
Ghent, terms and conditions of the treaty of, iii. [209].
Gherardi, Commander Bancroft, iv. [389].
Gibraltar, formerly the Sumter. See [Sumter].
Gibraltar, duels between American and English officers at, iii. [311–313].
Gillis, Captain John P., iv. [99];
of the Seminole at Port Royal, [163].
Glasgow, British sloop-of-war, fight with Commodore Hopkins’s American squadron, i. [59].
Globe, American privateer, ii. [250].
“God Save the King,” American sailors on British ships compelled to bare their heads when played, i. [394], iii. [291].
Godon, Captain S. W., at Port Royal, iv. [163].
Golden Rocket, captured by the Sumter, iv. [410].
Goldsborough, Flag Officer L. M., in charge of expedition sent against Roanoke Island, iv. [109];
in charge of a large fleet sent to ram the Merrimac, [235].
Gordon’s Landing, Red River, fort at, attacked by Ellet, iv. [352].
Gorringe, Master H. H., iv. [370].
Governor, Federal transport, sinks off Cape Hatteras, iv. [166].
Governor Tompkins, American privateer, ii. [253].
Governor Tryon, British sloop, attacked by and strikes to the American privateer Thorn, i. [209].
Grampus, American schooner, in fleet sent to punish pirates in South America, iii. [331];
captures the Pandrita, [332].
Grand Gulf, Porter attacks fortifications of, and finds them evacuated, iv. [367];
Grant makes it his base of supplies, [ib.]
Grant, General Ulysses Simpson, attempts to dislodge Confederates below Cairo, iv. [251];
attacks the Confederates at Belmont, [251], [252];
proceeds up the Tennessee, to attack Fort Henry, [255];
muddy roads prevents his taking part in the capture of the fort, [266];
at Fort Donelson, [268];
Captain Walker diverts the Confederates’ attention from him, [271];
Confederates surrender to him, [272];
fight with Confederates at Pittsburg Landing, [284];
arrives before Vicksburg, [351];
goes to New Carthage to surround Vicksburg, [363];
makes Grand Gulf his base of supplies, [367].
Granville, French privateer, in the fleet of Paul Jones, i. [234].
Graves, Admiral, destroys Portland, Maine, i. [24–26].
Grease as a protection on armor-plated ships, iv. [10].
Great Britain, sea-power of, in 1812, ii. [22];
European nations dread the power of, [23].
Greene, Lieutenant Charles H., iv. [386].
Greene, Captain P. B., blockaded in Bahia Harbor, ii. [179];
refuses Lawrence’s challenge, [ib.];
cowardice of, [180];
rescued by the Montagu, [ib.]
Greene, Lieutenant S. D., executive officer of the Monitor, iv. [216];
takes charge of the guns in the turret, [219], [220];
takes command after Worden is disabled, [226];
his statement, [229], [230];
orders regarding the Merrimac, [235].
Greenpoint, Brooklyn, N. Y., the Monitor constructed at, iv. [192].
Greenwich, British letter-of-marque whaler, captured by Porter, iii. [9].
Greer, Lieutenant-commander James A., before Vicksburg, iv. [363], [369].
Greyhound, Captain John Porter, iii. [333].
Growler, American schooner, captured by the British, ii. [351];
recaptured by the Americans, [351].
Growler, American sloop, in Macdonough’s squadron, ii. [354];
grounded in the Sorel River, [355].
Growler, American sloop, iii. [135], [138].
Guanabara, Brazilian rebel warship at Rio Janeiro, iv. [548];
fired on by the United States cruiser Detroit, [553].
Guerrière, American frigate, built in 1814, iii. [64];
Decatur’s flagship in expedition sent against the Dey of Algiers, [346], [347].
Guerrière, British frigate, picking sailors from American ships, ii. [6];
flees from an inferior force, [7];
stops the Spitfire, and takes off John Deguyo, an American citizen, [ib.];
race with the Constitution, [55];
Captain Dacres in charge of, [55–60];
fight with the Constitution, [76–95];
surrendered and blown up, [95].
Gun-boats, the ideal navy, ii. [388];
description and build of, [389];
arguments in favor of, [390];
cheapness of, [392];
points against, [ib.];
cost of, [393];
difficulty of getting unanimity of captains in battle, [394];
lack of discipline on gun-boats, [ib.];
use of, in Long Island Sound, [395];
first encounter with gun-boats, [ib.];
uselessness again shown, [416].
Gunners of 1812 and 1861 compared, iv. [419].
Gunpowder, expedients for getting, by the United Colonies, i. [28].
Guns, penetrating power of long and short, iii. [142];
improvements made in, iv. [18–23].
Gwin, Lieutenant, supports Grant at Pittsburg Landing, iv. [284].
Hacker, Captain Hoysted, i. [79], [282], [283].
Haggerty, Captain F. L., at Port Royal, iv. [163].
Halifax, British war-ship, i. [406], [407].
Hallock, Captain William, i. [66].
Hambleton, Purser on the Lawrence in the battle of Lake Erie, ii. [317].
Hamilton, American schooner, ii. [350].
Hamilton, Schuyler, suggests cutting through the trees of swamp from the Mississippi to New Madrid, iv. [281].
Hampton Roads, the first point blockaded in the Civil War, iv. [40];
Keystone State blockades, [45].
Hanchett, Captain, ii. [398].
Handy, Captain Robert, misunderstands signals, iv. [133], [134];
letter to Captain Pope, showing his fear of the Manassas, [136].
Hannah, a Providence packet, chased by the Gaspé, i. [5].
Harding, Captain Seth, surrenders to the Orpheus and Roebuck, i. [298].
Harriet Lane, American revenue cutter, used as a war-ship, iv. [42];
Captain John Faunce, [99].
Harriet Lane, Federal frigate, captured in the Gulf of Mexico, iv. [357].
Harrison, Lieutenant Napoleon B., iv. [314].
Hartford, United States screw sloop, built, iv. [16];
flagship of Captain Farragut, [314];
set on fire by Confederate fire-raft, [329];
passes the batteries at Port Hudson, [358];
flagship of Rear-admiral Farragut, [386].
Hatteras, Cape, battle between the Wasp and the Frolic in the tail of a gale off, ii. [107].
Hatteras, Fort, captured by Federal forces, iv. [106];
the first Union victory in the War of Secession, [ib.]
Hatteras hurricane, a fleet of transports in a, iv. [166].
Hatteras Inlet, N. C., resort of the “Hatteras Pirates,” iv. [97].
Hatteras, merchant-steamer, captured and sunk by the Alabama at Galveston, iv. [432].
Hawke, American tender, captured by British off Long Island, i. [56].
Hawkins, Captain Richard, refuses to fight the Essex, ii. [39–41];
branded as a coward, [40].
Haymakers, Machias, attack of the, on the Margaretta, i. [21].
Haymakers and wood-choppers as Yankee seamen, iii. [82], [83], [86], [90], [95].
Hazard, American privateer, captured the British brig Active, i. [206].
Hazard, Captain, in the first naval battle of the Revolution, i. [57].
Hebrus, British frigate, ii. [420].
Hector, British letter-of-marque ship, captured by Lieutenant Downes, iii. [10].
Heddart, Captain Francis, extracts from his account of the Serapis-Bonhomme Richard battle, i. [245], [257].
Henley, Midshipman John D., assists in the attack on the city of Tripoli, i. [366].
Henry Clay, Federal army transport, in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, iv. [364];
catches fire and sinks, [ib.]
Hewes, Joseph, member of first Marine Committee, i. [36].
Hibernia, British transport, captured by Captain Hopkins, i. [281].
Hickman, on the Mississippi, evacuated by the Confederates, iv. [275].
Highflyer, British schooner, Captain Rodgers succeeds in getting private signals from, ii. [23], [358].
Hillyar, Captain James, in the harbor of Valparaiso, iii. [25];
attempts to attack the Essex, but is scared off, [26];
attacks the Essex in company with the Cherub, [30–43];
criticism on handling his ship, [46].
Hilton Head. See [Fort Walker].
Hinman, Captain Elisha, i. [66];
sent to France for army supplies, [130];
his ship captured by the British, [133].
Hislop, Lieutenant-general, Governor of Bombay, on board the Java in her fight with the Constitution, ii. [168];
Captain Bainbridge’s curious dream of, [172], [173].
Hoel, Lieutenant W. R., iv. [363], [370].
Hoffman, Lieutenant B. V., sent to take charge of the Cyane when she surrendered, iii. [252].
Hoke, General, advances on Plymouth, N. C., and captures it, iv. [455], [456].
Holdup, Thomas, in the battle of Lake Erie, chases and captures the Chippewa and Little Belt, ii. [326].
Holland, torpedo boat, launching of, iv. [543].
Holland, John P., inventor of submarine torpedo boats, iv. [542].
Honor, American Medal of, origin of, iv. [111].
Hope, Lieutenant David, horrible cruelty of, to sailors, i. [389];
wounded on the Macedonian, ii. [140];
his report on gunnery practice, [143].
Hopkins, Esek, Commander-in-chief of first American fleet, i. [42];
career of, [48];
dismissed from the service, [61];
dies near Providence, R. I., [ib.]
Hopkins, Captain John Burrows, in command of the Cabot, i. [57].
Hopkins, Commodore Robert, receives his appointment through influence of John Adams, i. [49];
sent to Chesapeake Bay in search of Lord Dunmore, [53];
goes to the Bahamas instead and attacks the British there, [ib.]
Hopkins, Stephen, member of first Marine Committee, i. [36].
Hornet, sloop of first American Navy, i. [40].
Hornet, American sloop-of-war, blockades the British warship Bonne Citoyenne in Bahia Harbor, ii. [179];
raises the blockade on the approach of the Montagu, [180];
captures the Resolution, [181];
falls in with the Peacock, [ib.];
fight with the Peacock, [182–184];
encounters the Penguin, iii. [273];
the Penguin surrenders, [274–280];
the Hornet chased by the Cornwallis, but escapes, [282–284];
Captain Robert Henley appointed to command, [330];
detailed to South America to destroy pirates, [331].
Horses, wild, as weapons of offence, iii. [401].
Housatonic, Federal war-ship, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. [474].
Howard, Lieutenant Samuel, iv. [370].
Howe, Captain Tyringham, i. [59].
Huger, Captain Thomas B., at New Orleans, iv. [321];
mortally wounded, [332].
Hull, Lieutenant Isaac, cuts the privateer Sandwich out of Puerto Plata, i. [329];
tricky conduct of the officers of two British frigates to, ii. [15];
the frigates turn and retreat, [16];
his opinion of the crew of the Constitution, [52];
his escape from a British squadron, after standing at his post for two days, [53–69];
race with the Guerrière, [55];
fight with and capture of the Guerrière, [76–95];
reception on returning to Boston, [101];
Congress votes a gold medal to, [103].
Humphreys, Joshua, American ship-builder, statement of, in regard to new ships, i. [311];
his theories accepted, [312].
Hunt, William H., Secretary of the Navy, appoints a board of naval officers, with Rear-admiral Rodgers at its head, iv. [527].
Hunter, American ship, captured by the Peacock, ii. [191];
taken in charge by the Hornet, [ib.]
Hunter, British ship, attacked by privateers, i. [200].
Hunter, British brig, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. [296].
Hussar, Austrian war-ship, Martin Koszta, an American citizen taken and detained on, iii. [385];
on demand of Captain Ingraham of the St. Louis is given up, [ib.]
Hutter, Midshipman, killed while assisting the Union wounded out of the Congress, iv. [209].
Hyder Ali, American privateer, Captain Joshua Barney, attacks and captures the General Monk, i. [212–215].
Illinois, United States battle-ship, iv. [534], [536].
Impressment, feeling of American seamen regarding the practice of, ii. [18].
Independence, American privateer, Commander Thomas Truxton, cuts out three big ships from the British fleet, i. [205].
Indian Chief, Confederate ship, iv. [499].
Indiana, United States battle-ship, iv. [534].
Indianola, Federal armored gun-boat, in attack on Port Hudson, iv. [352];
captured and sunk by the Confederates, [ib.]
Indians, friendship of, cultivated by England to injure United States, i. [383];
incited by British to attack pioneers, [ib.]
Ingraham, Captain Duncan Nathaniel, demands the surrender of Martin Koszta, an American citizen detained on the Austrian war-ship Hussar, iii. [385];
medal presented to him by Congress, [386].
Inland navy an imperative necessity to reach the heart of the Confederacy, iv. [241].
Inman, Lieutenant William, chases and captures a pirate schooner, iii. [335].
Insurgent, French frigate, Captain Barreaut, captures the American ship Retaliation, i. [316];
battle with the Constellation, [320–322];
surrenders, [321];
lost at sea, [330].
International law, a question of violation of, iv. [160].
Intrepid, formerly the Mastico, used as a fire-ship at the attack on Tripoli, i. [371];
explodes, [378].
Investigator, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Iowa, United States battle-ship, iv. [534], [536].
Ironclad warfare, superior activity of the Confederates in preparing for, iv. [184].
Ironclads, the Confederate Government the first to construct, iv. [185];
the Merrimac launched, [188];
Congress makes appropriation for construction of, [190];
dilatory action of Naval Board in making contracts for, [191];
first battle between, [220].
Iroquois, United States screw sloop, built, iv. [16].
Iroquois, Federal screw corvette, iv. [314].
Irving, Washington, on Perry’s victory on Lake Erie, ii. [338].
Isaac Smith, Federal war-ship, in the Port Royal fleet, iv. [164].
Island No. 10, strongly fortified by the Confederates, iv. [275];
Foote’s flotilla arrives in front of, [276];
capture of, delayed two weeks by Foote, [281];
Captain Walke successfully runs the gauntlet of batteries on, [282], [283];
the island captured, [283], [289];
has disappeared under action of the current, [284].
Isle-aux-Noix, British fort at, iii. [136], [139].
Isle St. Mary, Paul Jones lands on and surrounds the house of the Earl of Selkirk, i. [147], [148].
Itasca, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. [314];
breaks down barriers placed across the Mississippi, [323];
Lieutenant-commander George Brown, [389].
Ivy, Confederate gun-boat, iv. [127].
James, Reuben, seaman, saves Decatur’s life, i. [364].
James Adger, American cruiser, captures the Emily St. Pierre, iv. [58];
the latter recaptured, [ib.]
Jamestown, Confederate warship, captures several prizes in sight of the Monitor, iv. [235].
Japan, condition of, in the sixteenth century, iii. [438];
experience with Christianity, [ib.];
Dutch trading at Nagasaki, [ib.];
introduction of Western civilization by the American fleet, [439];
Commodore M. C. Perry’s work in opening the ports of Japan, [ib.];
appointed to the Japan mission, [443];
Commodore Perry’s exhibition of power and dignity wins the respect of, [444].
Jason, British transport, captured by Captain Hopkins, i. [281].
Java, British frigate, fight with the Constitution off the coast of Brazil, [155–173];
poor gunnery of, [157];
a complete wreck in sixty-five minutes, [162];
losses of, [169].
Jefferson, American brig, iii. [113].
Jefferson Davis, Confederate privateer, captures the John Welsh, Enchantress, S. J. Waring, iv. [91];
Mary Goodell and Mary E. Thompson, [92];
runs aground at St. Augustine and is lost, [93].
Jenkins, Captain Thornton A., iv. [386].
Jersey, the notorious prison-ship, sketch of, i. [221–226].
John Adams, Perry’s flagship on his cruise to South America, iii. [327].
John Welsh, merchant-brig, captured by Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis, iv. [91].
Johnson, Captain Henry, in charge of brig Lexington, sent to Europe, i. [117].
Johnson, Captain J. D., succeeds Admiral Buchanan on the Tennessee, iv. [402];
surrenders his ship to Captain Le Roy, of the Federal steamer Ossipee, [403].
Jones, Captain Jacob, encounters the Frolic in a gale, ii. [106];
captures the Frolic, [107–117];
surrenders the Wasp and the Frolic to the frigate Poictiers, [118], [119];
rewarded with a gold medal from Congress, [119];
given command of the frigate Macedonian, [119], [143].
Jones, American brig, iii. [113].
Jones, John Paul, first independent command of, i. [64];
promoted to rank of captain, [73];
fight with the Solebay, [73–76];
outsails the British frigate Milford, [77];
sails into Canso Harbor, [ib.];
in Newport Harbor, [78];
in command of flagship Alfred, [79];
passes through British squadron off Block Island, [ib.];
captures brig Mellish, [ib.];
encounters and captures coal fleet in Canso Harbor, [80];
captures a British privateer, [ib.];
chased by the Milford, [ib.];
arrives in Boston, [82];
ordered back to the brig Providence, [83];
bad treatment of, by Congress, [ib.];
appointed to the gun-ship Ranger, [134];
sails to Nantes, [135];
reaches Quiberon Bay, [137];
sails from Brest to England, [138];
scuttles a merchant-brig, [ib.];
seizes the Lord Chatham, [ib.];
sails to Whitehaven, [ib.];
attempts to capture the Drake, [140];
descends on Whitehaven, [141];
his crew takes an earl’s silver, [142];
attacks the house of the Earl of Selkirk, [147];
returns the silver taken by his crew, [151], [152];
second and successful attempt to capture the Drake, [152];
generosity of, [155];
fought for honor, [158];
inactivity of, in France, [228];
fits out the Bonhomme Richard, [229];
Congress arranges to give him a fleet, [232];
the Alliance, Pallas, and Vengeance put under his command, [232];
trouble with Captain Landais of the Alliance, [234];
his fleet sails from L’Orient augmented by the Monsieur and Granville, [ib.];
captures a brigantine, [235];
Landais refuses to attend a council of officers, [237];
proposes to attack Leith, [ib.];
delay and a windstorm prevent his landing, [240];
meets a fleet of merchantmen off Flamborough Head, [243];
the Serapis bears down to meet him, [ib.];
attacks the Serapis, [245];
fight with the Serapis, [247–259];
character of, [265];
his account of events after the surrender, [269–272];
arrives at Texel, followed by a British squadron, [273];
flight of, [275];
made a hero of, at Paris, [ib.];
sails to America in the Ariel, [277];
honors on his arrival, [ib.];
denounced as a pirate by the British Government, [ib.];
misrepresented by English writers, [ib.];
his pride in being an American, [278].
Jones, Lieutenant Thomas ap Catesby, with a small flotilla, opposes the British fleet at New Orleans, iii. [232–238];
he is cut down and his small force eventually surrenders, [236], [237];
sent in command of a squadron to the Pacific coast, [388];
strikes the first blow in the Mexican War, [390];
lands at and takes possession of Monterey, [ib.];
surrenders the town, [ib.];
appointed chief officer on the Confederate ironclad Merrimac, iv. [188];
takes command after Captain Buchanan is wounded, [209];
returns with the Merrimac to Sewell’s Point, [213].
Joseph, British ship, captured by the Surprise, i. [124].
Joseph H. Toone, Federal schooner, iv. [129].
Joseph Maxwell, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Joseph Parke, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Jouett, Lieutenant James E., cuts out the Royal Yacht from Galveston Harbor, iv. [138], [139];
Lieutenant-commander of the Metacomet, [386].
Judah, Confederate privateer schooner, destroyed at Fort Pickens, iv. [120].
Julia, American schooner, ii. [268];
captured by the British, [351].
Junon, British frigate, becalmed in Hampton Roads, attacked by gun-boats, ii. [395];
chases the Constitution off Cape Ann, iii. [244].
J. W. Hewes, merchant-ship, captured by Confederate privateers, iv. [97].
Katahdin, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. [315].
Kearny, Sailing-master Lawrence, attacks a party from the frigate Hebrus, ii. [420];
captures the tender of the frigate Severn, [421].
Kearny, Brigadier-general Stephen W., goes to the assistance of Commodore Stockton in Mexico, iii. [398];
is repulsed and wounded, [ib.];
marches to San Diego, [ib.]
Kearsarge, American sloop-of-war, built, iv. [38].
Kearsarge, Federal armored frigate, meets the Alabama in Cherbourg Harbor, France, iv. [436];
comparison of their armament, [437];
description of the fight, [438–441];
the best gunnery of the Civil War, [441].
Kearsarge (new), United States battle-ship, iv. [534], [536].
Kedge anchor, use of, on the Essex, ii. [49].
Kedging, method of, described, ii. [58].
Kennebec, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. [314];
Lieutenant-commander William P. McCann, [389].
Kennon, Captain Beverley, at New Orleans, iv. [321];
attacks the Varuna, [334];
surrenders, [335].
Kentucky, western, railroad communication with the East cut off from, iv. [267].
Keokuk, Federal monitor, at Charleston, iv. [483], [485].
Kerr, Captain Robert, attacks the Constitution at Porto Prayo, iii. [260].
Keystone State, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. [474].
Kidnapped sailors ill-fed and poorly paid on British ships, i. [387].
Kilty, Captain A. H., before Fort Pillow, iv. [289];
aids the Cincinnati, [294].
Kines, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. [315], [358].
Kingston, Canada, chief naval and military post in 1812, ii. [265];
Commodore Chauncey attacks, [270].
Kirkcaldy, Scotland, anecdote of the parson of, on the approach of Paul Jones’s squadron, i. [238].
Koszta, Martin, an American citizen, taken by the Austrian authorities on board the war-ship Hussar, iii. [385].
Lackawanna, Federal gun-boat, iv. [389].
Lady Gore, British schooner, captured by Chauncey at Lake George, ii. [353].
Lady Prevost, British war-vessel, fired and destroyed by the Americans, ii. [279].
Lafayette, carried back to France in the Alliance, i. [232];
narrowly escapes capture, [ib.]
Lafayette, Federal gun-boat, in Porter’s fleet surrounding Vicksburg, iv. [363];
Lieutenant-commander J. P. Foster, [369].
Lake Erie, the battle of, ii. [309–325].
Lamb, Colonel William, commander of Fort Fisher, iv. [507].
Lambert, Captain Henry, surrenders to Captain Bainbridge of the Constitution, ii. [155–173];
his attempt to board the Constitution, [158];
mortally wounded, [165];
Captain Bainbridge returns his sword, [172].
Lambert, Jonathan, proprietor of the island of Tristan d’Acunha, a breeding resort for seals in the South Atlantic, iii. [270].
Lancaster, United States screw sloop, built, iv. [16].
Lancaster, Federal ram, sunk below Port Hudson, iv. [358].
Landais, Captain Pierre, placed in command of the Alliance by Congress, i. [232];
mutinous conduct of, [234];
fouls the Alliance with the Bonhomme Richard, [ib.];
insolence of, [235];
captures a valuable prize, [236];
refuses to attend a council of officers, [237];
jealousy of, [241];
further insubordination of, [244];
fires into the Bonhomme Richard, [254];
treachery of, [267];
dismissed and settles in New York City, [ib.]
Langdon, John, member of first Marine Committee, i. [36].
Langthorne, Lieutenant A. R., iv. [370].
La Pique, British frigate, encounters the Constitution off Porto Rico, iii. [242].
Lardner, Captain J. L., commands the Susquehanna at Port Royal, iv. [163].
Laugharne, Captain Thomas L. P., surrenders to Porter, ii. [42].
Laurens, Henry, American Ambassador to Holland, is removed from the Mercury by the Captain of the British ship Vestal, and taken to St. Johns, Newfoundland, iv. [153];
taken to England and imprisoned in the Tower of London, [154];
exchanged for Lord Cornwallis, [ib.];
his case parallel to the Trent affair, [ib.]
Lurestinus, British frigate, ii. [395].
Law, Lieutenant of British marines, fires at Lawrence and wounds him, ii. [213].
Lawrence, American brig, flagship of Commodore Perry, ii. [290];
in the battle of Lake Erie, [317];
Perry shifts his flag to the Niagara, [321];
sunk in Little Bay, [337].
Lawrence, Captain James, Midshipman on the Constitution, i. [348];
Captain of the Hornet, [403];
blockades the British warship Bonne Citoyenne in Bahia Harbor, ii. [179];
challenges Captain Greene, [ib.];
compelled to raise the blockade, [180];
recaptures the William, [181];
captures the Resolution, [ib.];
is chased by the Peacock, [182];
the Peacock is beaten, [183];
Lawrence fits his ship for another fight, [190];
chases the Espiègle, [ib.];
put all hands on half rations and squares away for home, [191];
promoted to command the Chesapeake, [192];
sails out of Boston to meet the Shannon, [197];
has difficulty in getting a crew, [199];
is challenged by Captain Broke of the Shannon, [203];
sails out to meet the enemy, [204];
addresses his crew, [205];
mutinous spirit of his men, [206];
displays great skill in handling his ship, [ib.];
the Chesapeake is damaged and begins to drift, [213];
Lawrence shot, [ib.];
dies, [221];
interred in Trinity Churchyard, [225].
Lay, John L., devises a torpedo boat, iv. [458];
used by Lieutenant Cushing to destroy the Albemarle, [459–461].
Leander affair, the, i. [403], [404];
Captain Whitby court-martialed, [405].
Lear, Tobias, American Consul-general at Algiers 1812, iii. [340].
Lee, American galley, i. [89].
Lee, American schooner, i. [30], [197];
assists in capturing a British troop-ship, [203].
Lee, Captain F. D., Chief of Confederate torpedo corps, iv. [497].
Lee, Richard Henry, member of first Marine Committee, i. [36].
Lee, Rear-admiral S. Phillips, iv. [314];
in command of the Albemarle Station, [454].
Leopard and Chesapeake, affair of the, i. [40].
Le Roy, Commander William E., iv. [389].
Letter of marque and a privateer, difference between, iii. [242].
Levant, British sloop-of-war, chased by the Constitution, iii. [247];
surrenders, [255].
Lewis, Captain Jacob, made Commodore of the American fleet in New York Harbor, ii. [394].
Lexington, American brig, i. [63];
captured by British frigate Pearl, [66];
escapes, [68];
sent to Europe under Captain Johnson, [117];
captured by the cutter Alert, [119], [120];
fate of the crew of, [121], [122].
Lexington, merchant-vessel, purchased by Commander Rodgers for use in Federal Navy, iv. [241];
Captain Stembel appointed to command, [251].
Lexington, Federal gun-boat, iv. [369].
Lexington, battle of, i. [14].
Lincoln’s proclamation blockading the Southern ports, iv. [28–30].
Linnet, British brig, at the battle of Lake Champlain, iii. [138], [142], [166];
surrenders, [ib.]
Linzee, Captain, chased by the Gaspé, i. [5].
Little, Captain John, fights and captures the Berceau, i. [328].
Little Belt, British corvette, fires on the American frigate President, ii. [10];
in battle of Lake Erie, [297].
Little Falls, N. Y., Indian and Dutch traders at, ii. [263].
Little Rebel, sunk by the Federals at Fort Pillow, iv. [302].
Livermore, Parson Samuel, ii. [214].
Livingston, Confederate gun-boat, iv. [127].
Lloyd, Captain Robert, assists in the attack on the General Armstrong, iii. [194].
Lockyer, Captain, attacks Lieutenant Catesby Jones at New Orleans, iii. [235].
Lomax, Colonel, captures the Pensacola Navy Yard, iv. [112].
Lord Nelson, British merchantman, captured by the Oneida, ii. [265].
Los Angeles, Cal., captured from the Mexicans by Commodore Stockton, iii. [397];
recaptured, [ib.];
retaken by the Americans, [401].
Lottery, American ship, captured, iii. [204].
Louisa Beaton, American brigantine, engaged in the African slave traffic, iii. [364].
Louisa Hatch, captured by the Alabama, iv. [427].
Louisa Kilham, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Louisiana, American schooner, in the attack on New Orleans, iii. [240];
used as a powder-boat to blow up Fort Fisher, iv. [510].
Louisville, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. [245];
disabled, [271];
in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, [363], [369].
Lowell, Confederate ship, sunk at Fort Pillow, iv. [301].
Lowry, Captain R. R., iv. [100].
Loyal Convert, British vessel, i. [90].
Ludlow, Lieutenant Augustus C., strives to get the crew in place, ii. [206];
mortally wounded, [210];
interred in Trinity Churchyard, [225].
Ludlow, American gun-boat, iii. [141].
Lynch, Confederate Commodore W. F., at Roanoke Island, iv. [109].
Lyons, Lord, British Minister to Washington, his instructions relative to the Trent affair, iv. [150–153].
McCall, Lieutenant Edward Rutley, in the Boxer fight, ii. [376];
takes command after Captain Burrows is disabled, [378];
the Boxer surrenders to him, [379].
McCann, Lieutenant William P., iv. [389].
McCauley, Commodore, disloyal conduct of, at the Norfolk Navy Yard, iv. [72–74].
McClellan, Federal transport, iv. [135].
McDonald, Lieutenant James, succeeds Captain Dickenson in command, iii. [276];
surrenders to Captain Biddle, [276–278].
Macdonough, Captain Thomas, i. [348];
in the attack on the city of Tripoli, [361];
sends the Growler and Eagle in pursuit of British gun-boats, iii. [136];
repairs to Vergennes, Vt., [ib.];
in command of a squadron, [144], [145];
his careful preparations, [147–150];
his squadron assembled, [152];
an interested audience, [ib.];
the battle opened with a prayer, [154];
a sporting rooster, [155];
Macdonough is knocked senseless, [161];
he cleverly winds his ship, [164];
wins the battle of Lake Champlain, [166];
casualties and losses of, in the battle, [174];
anecdote of, [179–181];
the Legislature of New York donates him land, [182];
the Legislature of Vermont presents him with a farm, [ib.];
he is promoted, [183];
his victory served to bring the war to a close, [184].
Macedonian, British frigate, cruelty and flogging of sailors on, i. [389];
encounters the frigate United States, ii. [124];
battle with, [125–134];
a horrible scene of carnage, [134];
the crew breaks into the spirits-room, [136], [137];
American seamen found on board, [137], [138];
losses among the crew, [139];
the forces of the two ships, [140];
taken to New York, [148];
fitted for sea in the American service, [150].
Machias, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Machias haymakers, attack of the, on the Margaretta, i. [21].
McLane, American steamer, grounded before Alvarado, Mexico, iii. [410].
Macomb, Major-general Alexander, opposed to Sir George Prevost at Plattsburg, iii. [147], [169].
McRae, Confederate gun-boat, iv. [17].
McRae, Confederate cotton-clad steamer, iv. [321];
fight with the Federal steamer Iroquois, [332].
Madame Island, Paul Jones captured British vessels at, i. [78].
Madison, American privateer, ii. [245].
Madison, the flagship of Commodore Chauncey, ii. [341].
Madison, President, lack of an American Navy discreditable to the Administration of, ii. [26].
Maffitt, Captain John Newland, authority on construction of fortifications, iv. [170];
appointed to command of Confederate cruiser Florida, [418];
goes to Havana and Mobile to get a crew, [ib.];
his ship fired at by Captain Preble, of the Winona, [419];
is blockaded, but escapes, [423];
goes to Nassau, [ib.];
cruises between New York and Brazil, [424];
overhauls his ship, [ib.];
he is relieved by Captain Morris, [ib.]
Magnet, British brig, iii. [128].
Mahan, Captain A. T., fortifications of Mobile described by, iv. [379–383].
Mahone, William, Southern politician, trickery of, iv. [74], [75].
Maine, United States cruiser, iv. [534].
Maitland, Captain, falls in with the Constitution, iii. [243];
afraid to engage the Constitution, [ib.]
Majestic, British cruiser, iv. [534], [535].
Majestic, British razee, assists in the capture of the President off Long Island, iii. [216].
Malayans, teaching, to fear the American flag, iii. [373–379].
Malden, Captain Barclay, his rendezvous before the battle of Lake Erie, ii. [294].
Maley, Lieutenant William, i. [330].
Manassas, Confederate ram, formerly the Enoch Train, iv. [127];
remodelled and put in charge of Lieutenant Alexander F. Warley, [128];
strikes the Richmond and causes a panic, [129–131]; 321;
attacks the Brooklyn, [332];
sinks, [333].
Manhattan, Federal monitor, iv. [386].
Manly, Captain John, i. [30], [197];
surrenders the Hancock, [185].
Manners, Captain William, fights the Wasp, iii. [85];
severely wounded, [87];
killed, [88].
Maples, Captain John F., goes in search of the sloop Argus, ii. [362];
finds her by the light of the flames on a wine ship, [363];
captures the sloop, [363–367];
sends it by a prize crew to Plymouth, [371].
Marchand, Captain John B., iv. [389].
Margaret and Jessie, successful blockade-runner, iv. [63].
Margaretta, attack on the, by the Machias haymakers, i. [21].
Maria, British transport, captured by Captain Hopkins, i. [281].
Maria, Boston schooner, captured by Algerian pirates, i. [309].
Marine Committee of Congress, i. [158].
Marine Committee of United Colonies appointed, i. [36].
Marquis de la Fayette, French privateer, i. [297].
Mars, American privateer, fitted out by Captain Thomas Truxton, cruises in English Channel, and captures numerous prizes, i. [205].
Mars, English privateer, captured by the Alliance, i. [297].
Marston, Captain John, iv. [200].
Martha, American slave-ship, captured by Lieutenant Foote, iii. [364].
Martin, British sloop, grounds on Crow’s Shoal, ii. [401].
Mary, British schooner, captured by Chauncey at Lake George, ii. [353].
Mary, British brig, cut out and fired by the Wasp, iii. [92].
Mary E. Thompson, merchantman, captured by Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis, iv. [92].
Mary Goodell, merchantman, captured by Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis, iv. [92].
Mashonda, frigate of Rais Hammida, Algerian Admiral, iii. [345–347];
captured by Captain Downes of the Epervier, [347].
Mason, James Murray, Confederate Commissioner to England, in company with John Slidell, sails in the blockade-runner Theodora, iv. [141];
arrives at Cardenas, Cuba, and proceeds to Havana, [ib.];
sails in the Trent for St. Thomas, [143];
is taken off the Trent and carried into Boston, [147–149];
he and Slidell are released, [156].
Mastico, Tripolitan ketch, captured by Decatur, i. [346];
he sails in it to fire the Philadelphia, [348–356];
its name changed to the Intrepid, [358].
See [Intrepid].
Mathews, Jack, an old man-of-war tar, on the ironclad Essex, gallant conduct of, iv. [261];
death of, [265].
Mattabesett, Federal gun-boat, iv. [457].
Matterface, Lieutenant William, in the attack on the American ship General Armstrong, iii. [194].
Maurepas, Confederate gun-boat, iv. [127].
Mayo, W. R., his report of the assault on Fort Fisher, iv. [520].
Medicines excluded by blockade of Southern ports, iv. [56].
Mediterranean, second war with African pirates in the, iii. [339–358].
Medway, British liner, captures the Siren, iii. [79].
Medway, British frigate, with Farragut’s fleet at New Orleans, iv. [323].
Melampus, British war-ship, i. [406], [407].
Mellish, British brig, captured by Paul Jones, i. [79].
Memphis, battle of, iv. [298–307];
railroad communication with, cut off, [266], [267].
Memphis, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. [474].
Mercedita, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. [474].
Mercer, Captain Samuel, iv. [99].
Merchants, British, sufferings by the American Revolution, i. [112], [113], [127].
Mercury, Dutch packet, Henry Laurens, Ambassador to Holland, sails on, iv. [153];
the British frigate Vestal overhauls her and takes Mr. Laurens from, [ib.]
Merrimac, United States screw frigate, launched, iv. [15];
the old frigate transformed into a floating fort, [186];
reconstructed, [186–188];
particulars of building, [187];
the best and heaviest guns placed on her, [188];
her engines in bad condition, [ib.];
named the Virginia, but not known in history by that name, [189];
starts on a trial trip, [197];
the Congress and Cumberland harmlessly open fire on her, [200];
she rams the Cumberland, [202];
opens fire on and silences the Federal batteries, [207];
attacks the Congress, which surrenders, [ib.];
comparison of her guns and armament with the Monitor, [217], [218];
Captain Worden tries to find a vulnerable spot, [222];
she runs aground twice, [223];
tries to ram the Monitor, [224];
attempts made to board the Monitor, [225];
fires at the Minnesota, [ib.];
steams back to Norfolk, [229];
leak discovered, [230];
the gunnery better than the Monitor’s, [232];
the Merrimac overhauled at Norfolk, [234];
Commodore Tattnall relieves Buchanan in command, [ib.];
Tattnall takes the Merrimac down to Hampton Roads, [ib.];
the Monitor retreats from, [235];
blown up on Craney Island, [237].
Mervine, Captain, attempts to march on Los Angeles, but is driven back, iii. [398].
Metacomet, Federal gun-boat, iv. [386].
Metsko Devantigers, Japanese reporters, iii. [455].
Mexican War, the navy’s part in the, iii. [424], [428], [429].
Mexico, Gulf of, naval operations in the, iii. [402–428];
Farragut’s operations in the, iv. [357].
Mexico, French troops enter, iv. [367].
Miami, Federal gun-boat, iv. [454].
Milford, British frigate, encounter with Paul Jones, i. [77].
Miller, Captain Samuel, assists Commodore Barney with his marines, ii. [409], [410].
Milwaukee, Federal gun-boat, sunk by a torpedo, iv. [406].
Minerva, British frigate, Captain of, refuses to fight the Essex, and is branded as a coward, ii. [39–41].
Minerva, English privateer, captured by the Alliance, i. [297].
Minneapolis, United States cruiser, iv. [534].
Minnesota, United States frigate, compared with Arnold’s Congress, iv. [3].
Minnesota, American frigate, iv. [99].
Mississippi, the British grab at the Valley of the, iii. [229], [230].
Mississippi, Federal side-wheel steamer, iv. [314].
Mississippi, Federal gun-boat, goes aground in front of Port Hudson, is fired and abandoned, iv. [358].
Mississippi squadron transferred to the Navy Department, iv. [349];
ships composing the, [245–249].
Mississippi River, blockade of the entrance to, iv. [124–126];
opening of the, by Federal Navy, [240].
Mississippi, Valley of, the British plan to get possession of, iii. [229], [230].
Mississippi Valley, practically all Confederate territory till opened by the Federal Navy, iv. [240].
Mitchell, Lieutenant-commander J. G., iv. [369].
Mobile, Ala., Porter’s views on attack on, iv. [341].
Mobile, fortifications of, described by Mahan, iv. [379–383].
Mobile Bay, description of, iv. [377];
Confederate defences of, ashore and afloat, [379].
Mohawk, United States screw sloop, built, iv. [16];
Captain S. W. Godon, [163];
rescues the crew of the Peerless, [167].
Mohican, United States frigate, cuts out the steamer Forward on the coast of Mexico, iv. [553].
Monarch, Federal ram, in attack on Fort Pillow, iv. [301];
attacks and sinks the Beauregard, [302].
Monitor, Federal ironclad, iv. [191];
rapid work in constructing, [192];
particulars of building, [192–194];
her passage to Hampton Roads, [215];
commanded by Captain J. L. Worden, [ib.];
comparison of armament with that of the Merrimac, [217], [218];
the fight with the Merrimac, [220];
superiority of the Monitor’s revolving turret, [221];
the Merrimac tries to ram, [224], [225];
her pilot-house struck and her captain disabled, [225];
retires to Fortress Monroe, [226];
her gunnery was poor, [231];
the battle an unparalleled lesson in naval warfare, [233];
letter from the crew to Captain Worden, [233], [234];
bombards the batteries at Sewell’s Point, [235];
ordered to Beaufort, N. C., [237];
founders at sea in a gale, [ib.]
Monitors, most efficient and safest style of coast-defence ships, iv. [194].
Monongahela, Federal gun-boat, passes the batteries of Port Hudson, iv. [358];
Commander James H. Strong, [389].
Monroe, ——, Mayor of New Orleans, objects to surrendering the city to Farragut, iv. [338].
Monsieur, French privateer, in the fleet of Paul Jones, i. [234];
captures a Holland ship, [235].
Montagu, British frigate, rescues the Bonne Citoyenne from the Hornet, ii. [180].
Montauk, Federal monitor, shells and burns the Confederate ironclad Nashville, iv. [480].
Monterey, Cal., Captain Catesby Jones takes possession of, iii. [390];
the American fleet under Captain Sloat take possession of, [392].
Montezuma, American ship, i. [316].
Montezuma, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. [8].
Montgomery, American brig, fight with the Surinam, ii. [254].
Montgomery, Captain J. E., at Fort Pillow, iv. [290];
retreats, [297].
Montgomery, John B., takes possession of settlement on San Francisco Bay, iii. [392].
Monticello, Federal frigate, iv. [99].
Montmorency, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Moore, Captain, i. [15];
killed on the Margaretta, i. [22].
Moore, Confederate cotton-clad steamer, iv. [321];
rams and sinks the Varuna, [334];
fired by the Cayuga and Oneida, [ib.]
Morgan, Confederate gun-boat, iv. [380].
Morris, Captain Charles, wit of, in an emergency, ii. [58];
shot through the body in the Guerrière fight, [88];
placed in command of the Adams, iii. [57];
runs the blockade in the Chesapeake, [57], [58];
he cruises on the coast of Africa, [58];
goes in search of the Jamaica fleet, [ib.];
sails to Newfoundland, thence to Ireland, and after taking a few prizes is chased by the Tigris, [59];
again chased for forty hours, [59], [60];
his crew attacked by scurvy, [60];
his ship is driven on a rock, [ib.];
attacked by a British fleet and compelled to burn his ship, [62];
appointed to command of the Florida, iv. [424];
during his absence on shore Captain Collins of the Wachusett captures her and takes her to the United States, [ib.]
Morris, Lieutenant George U., iv. [201];
attacks the Merrimac, [ib.];
his ship is rammed, [201], [202];
refuses to surrender, [202–204];
his gallantry commended, [204], [205].
Morris, Captain Henry W., iv. [314].
Morris Island, Charleston, iv. [467].
Morse, Jedidiah, his description of the South Carolina islands, iv. [31].
Mosher, unarmored Confederate boat, Captain Sherman commanding, iv. [321], [329];
fired at and sunk by the Hartford, [ib.]
Mosquito, American ship, chases and captures a pirate brig, iii. [335].
Mottoes, naval, on men-of-war, iii. [30].
Mound City, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. [245];
Captain A. H. Kilty commands, [289];
rammed by the Van Dorn, [294];
Confederate shell bursts her boiler, [307];
in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, [363];
Lieutenant A. R. Langthorne commands, [370].
Mowatt, Captain, attack of, on Portland, Maine, i. [24–26].
Muckie, bombarded and burned by the American frigate Columbia, iii. [376–378].
Mugford, Captain James, captures a transport with 1,500 barrels of powder, i. [203].
Mullany, Commander J. R. M., iv. [389].
Murphy, Lieutenant J. McLeod, iv. [363].
Murray, British gun-boat, iii. [143].
Murray, Captain Alexander, beats off two British gun-ships, i. [207].
Murray, Colonel J., with 1,000 British troops assaults Plattsburg and Saranac, ii. [355];
burns the public stores at both places and then retreats, [ib.]
Nahant, Federal ironclad, Commander John Downes, iv. [480];
at Charleston, [485].
Naiad, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, [415].
Nancy, English merchantman, captured by the Raleigh and Alfred, i. [130].
Nancy, British brigantine, captured by the Lee, i. [197–199].
Nantucket, Federal ironclad, iv. [480].
Napier on the character of the veterans sent to America, iii. [134].
Napoleon III., Emperor of France, his views in regard to Texas and Mexico modified by the surrender of New Orleans, iv. [340];
tries to persuade Texas to secede from the Confederacy, [368].
Narcissus, British frigate, attacks the American schooner Surveyor, ii. [417].
Narragansett Indian impressed by the British, a, iii. [293].
Nashville, Confederate cruiser, blockaded in the Great Ogeechee River, iv. [479];
attacked and burned by Captain Worden of the monitor Montauk, [480].
Natchez, Tenn., surrenders to Captain Craven of the Brooklyn, iv. [340].
National sea-power, curious chain of events that led to creation of, i. [1], [2].
Nautilus, American cruiser, in the attack on Tripoli, i. [374].
Nautilus, East India Company’s cruiser, surrenders to the Peacock, iii. [285].
Naval architecture, a point on, iii. [227].
Naval armament, means for furnishing United Colonies with, i. [35].
Naval calls, iii. [471].
Naval discipline, effect of, on raw recruits, iv. [250].
Naval forces of the United States compared with those of Great Britain in 1812, ii. [21–23].
Naval officers, old-time, life led by, iii. [305–307];
American, work that they have had to do in out-of-the-way parts of the world in times of peace, [359–386];
disloyalty of, at commencement of the Civil War, iv. [70].
Naval operations in the Gulf of Mexico, iii. [402–428].
Naval terms applied to war-ships, iii. [54].
Navy, British, in American waters, i. [195].
Navy, colonial, creation of a, i. [30].
Navy of the United Colonies, regulations of, i. [34].
Navy, the American, at the battle of New Orleans, iii. [229].
Neapolitan, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Neilds, Ensign H. C., heroic conduct of, iv. [394].
Neosho, Federal gun-boat, iv. [370].
Nereyda, Peruvian cruiser, captured the American whalers Walker and Barclay, iii. [7];
is dismantled by the Essex and sent to the Viceroy of Peru, [ib.]
Netley, British brig, iii. [111].
Neutral ports, violations of, iv. [427].
Neutrality laws observed by American naval officers, iii. [28], [29].
Neutrality, the law of, in open ports, iv. [44].
New Carthage, Grant crosses from, to surround Vicksburg, iv. [363].
New Castle, British frigate, attacks the Constitution, iii. [260].
New Ironsides, successful Federal ironclad, iv. [190], [480].
New Madrid, on Missouri River, captured by Pope, iv. [276].
New Orleans, British attack on, iii. [230];
blockaded by the Brooklyn, iv. [44];
attacked by Farragut’s squadron, [314–337];
Farragut demands the surrender of the city, [338];
General Butler takes possession of, [339].
New Providence taken by Commodore Hopkins, i. [56].
Newton, Isaac, first Assistant Engineer of the Monitor, iv. [216].
New York, United States cruiser, iv. [533].
New Zealander, British ship, captured by Porter, iii. [14].
Niagara, British merchantman, captured, ii. [265];
Elliott’s ship in battle of Lake Erie, [292].
Niagara, American ship, Perry shifts his flag from the Lawrence to, ii. [321];
after the war is sunk in Little Bay, [337].
Niagara, United States screw frigate, launched, iv. [15].
Nichols, Lieutenant Edward T., iv. [315].
Nichols, Captain Samuel, first Captain of marines in American Navy, i. [53].
Nicholson, Captain James, i. [187].
Nicholson, Lieutenant John B., sent by Decatur to take charge of the Macedonian when she surrendered, ii. [134];
carries the Epervier into Savannah after her fight with the Peacock, iii. [77];
transferred to the Siren, [ib.];
a story of sailors’ superstitions, [78], [79].
Nicholson, Commander J. W. A., iv. [386].
Nicholson, Captain Samuel, appointed to the American frigate Constitution, i. [312].
“Ninety-day fleet, the,” iv. [39].
Nipsic, United States cruiser, thrown ashore at Samoa, iv. [554].
Noah, Mordecai M., American Consul at Tunis, demands indemnity for seizure of the Abellino prizes, iii. [355].
Nocton, British brig, captured by Porter, iii. [2];
recaptured by the Belvidera, [3].
Nonita, American schooner, in attack on Alvarado, iii. [410].
Nonsuch, American frigate, in Perry’s cruise to South America, iii. [327];
Perry makes it his flagship, [ib.];
the crew infected with yellow fever, [329].
Norderling, Mr., Swedish Consul at Algiers in 1815, iii. [348].
Norfolk, American ship, i. [316].
Norfolk Navy Yard, loss of the, iv. [66–83].
North, Lord, despair of, on hearing of the surrender of Lord Cornwallis, i. [299].
Nukahiva, Marquesas Islands, Porter brings the Essex and his fleet of captured whalers here to refit, iii. [16];
a sailor’s paradise, [19];
an incipient mutiny at, [21–23].
Nymphe, British frigate, chased by the President and Congress, ii. [151].
Ocracoke Inlet, fort at, iv. [108].
Octorara, Federal gun-boat, iv. [386].
Ogdensburg, N. Y., British attack on, ii. [268].
“Old Glory” first hoisted, i. [135].
“Old Ironsides” (the Constitution), i. [312].
“Old Sow, The,” ii. [267].
Old-time naval officers, iii. [305–307].
Old War Horse, another name for the Benton, iv. [249].
Olney, Captain Joseph, i. [163].
“On to Canada,” the war-cry of 1812, ii. [20].
Oneida, American war-brig, ii. [264];
captures the Lord Nelson, [265];
Commodore Earle attempts to capture, [266].
Oneida, Federal screw corvette, iv. [314].
Oneida, Federal gun-boat, iv. [389].
Ontario, American sloop-of-war, sent against the Dey of Algiers in 1815, iii. [343].
Ontario, Lake, operations on, iii. [113–129].
Ordronaux, Captain J., attacked by the British frigate Endymion, iii. [202–207].
Oreto, Confederate cruiser. See [Florida].
Orpheus, British frigate, captures the Confederacy, i. [298].
Orpheus, British frigate, with the Sherburne, attacks and captures the Frolic, iii. [65], [66].
Osage, Federal gun-boat, iv, [369];
sunk by a torpedo, [406].
Ossipee, Federal gun-boat, iv. [389].
Ottawa, Federal gun-boat, iv. [163].
Ottawa, Federal war-ship, attacked ironclad Palmetto State, iv. [474].
Otter Creek, Vt., Macdonough fortifies, iii. [137].
Ouachita, Federal gun-boat, iv. [369].
Owen, Lieutenant-commander E. K., iv. [363], [369].
Ozark, Federal gun-boat, iv. [370].
Pacific coast, naval operations on the, in 1842, iii. [389–428].
Pakenham, Sir Edward Michael, in command of the British forces to attack New Orleans, reaches the Chandeleur Islands, iii. [230].
Pallas, American ship, i. [232];
Countess of Scarborough surrenders to, [267].
Palmetto State, Confederate ironclad, iv. [473];
armament of, [ib.];
attacks the Mercedita, [474];
paroles her crew, [475].
Palmira, Porto Rico privateer, plunders American schooner Coquette, and is captured by the Grampus, iii. [332].
Pamlico Sound, N. C., a rendezvous for Confederate privateers, iv. [94].
Pandrita, pirate ship, captured by the Grampus, iii. [332].
Paper blockade, Navy Department tries to establish, iv. [41].
Parker, Captain John, at Lexington, i. [14].
Parker, Lieutenant, in the Java fight, ii. [165].
Parker, Lieutenant George, dies at sea, iii. [78];
a story of sailors’ superstition in connection with his death, [78], [79].
Parker, Lieutenant, the Congress surrenders to, iv. [208].
Parsons, P. Usher, fleet surgeon in the battle of Lake Erie, ii. [294].
Pass à Loutre, Federal fleet retreat down the, iv. [137].
Passaic, Federal monitor, iv. [237], [480], [490].
Patapsco, Federal ironclad, iv. [480], [490].
Patterson, Master-commandant William T., attacks the British camp, iii. [239];
sets fire to and abandons his ships, [240].
Paul Jones, American privateer, ii. [251].
Paulding, Captain Hiram, breaks up the nest of plotters against the Federal Government, iv. [71].
Paving-stones used as missiles to capture the Gaspé, i. [9].
Pawnee, Federal frigate, iv. [99], [163].
Peabody, Federal transport, iv. [100].
Peacock, American corvette, meets the brig-sloop Epervier, iii. [66];
captures the sloop, [67–71];
cruises, [78];
attached to Decatur’s fleet, [271];
captures prizes and the cruiser Nautilus, [285].
Peacock, British brig, encounters the American sloop Hornet, ii. [181];
the battle, [183];
her captain killed, [ib.];
sinks, [184];
good treatment of the officers and men by the Americans, [187];
comparison of the ships, [190].
Peake, Captain William, attacks the Hornet, ii. [181];
is killed, [183];
proud of his ship, [190].
Pearce, Lieutenant John, iv. [370].
Pearl, British frigate, captures the Lexington, i. [68];
the latter escapes, [ib.]
Pearson, Captain Richard, encounters the Bonhomme Richard, i. [243], [245];
surrenders, [259];
anecdote of, [262–264];
conduct of, [274];
treated as if he had won a victory, [275].
Pechell, Captain Samuel John, in charge of expedition sent against Craney’s Island, ii. [398].
Peerless, Federal transport, lost near Cape Hatteras, iv. [167].
Peiho River, attack on Chinese forts in the, iii. [382].
Pelican, British frigate, goes in search of the American sloop Argus, ii. [362];
attacks the Argus, [363], [364];
captures the sloop, [364–367];
takes her into Plymouth, [371].
Pembina, Federal gun-boat, iv. [163].
Pendergrast, American Flag Officer G. J., his proclamation, iv. [40].
Pendergrast, Lieutenant Austin, takes command of the Congress, iv. [208];
surrenders to Lieutenant Parker of the Beaufort, [ib.];
assists in transferring the wounded, [209];
escapes by swimming, [ib.]
Penguin, British brig-sloop, is beaten by the Hornet, iii. [273–281].
Penguin, Federal gun-boat, at Port Royal, iv. [171].
Pensacola, United States screw sloop, iv. [16];
Captain Henry W. Morris, [314].
Pensacola Navy Yard surrendered to Confederates, iv. [112].
Perkins, Lieutenant-commander George H., iv. [386].
Perry, Federal brig, captures the Savannah, iv. [89].
Perry, Christopher Raymond, gallant conduct of, i. [296].
Perry, Commodore Matthew Calbraith, brother of Oliver H. Perry, sent against the Mexican port of Frontera, iii. [410];
captures the Mexican fleet, [ib.];
captures Tabasco, [413];
conducts the operations during the siege of Vera Cruz, [424];
his early services, [435];
a Japanese poem dedicated to him, [437];
his work in opening the ports of Japan, [439];
appointed to the Japan mission, [443];
anchors off Uraga, [ib.];
reception by the Japanese, [444–447];
difficulty in opening negotiations, [449], [450];
the Japanese Governor accompanied by three reporters, [455];
permission from the Emperor to receive the President’s message, [ib.];
the Emperor grants all that is asked, [457–463];
amusing features of the expedition, [463];
assigned to the Fulton 2d, iv. [11];
his opinion of her, [ib.]
Perry, Oliver Hazard, in command of a fleet of gun-boats at Newport, R. I., in 1812, ii. [280];
ordered to join Commodore Chauncey, [282];
inspects the navy yard at Black Rock, [283];
finds five ships being constructed at Erie, Pa., [ib.];
hastens to Pittsburg for cannon-balls, [285];
returns to Erie, [286];
starts for Buffalo in a row-boat, [ib.];
compels the British to abandon the Niagara River, [287];
stricken with fever through overwork, [288];
ordered to co-operate with General Harrison, [ib.];
his appeal for men, [289];
starts on an expedition with an inadequate force, [ib.];
chooses the Lawrence as his flagship, [290];
gets his fleet in deep water, [291];
cruises on Lake Erie, [292];
is joined by officers and men from the Constitution, [ib.];
sails up the lake to join General Harrison, [292];
arrives at Put-in-Bay, [293];
confers with General Harrison, [294];
sickness, [ib.];
his fleet anchors in Put-in-Bay, [ib.];
sketch of Perry’s fleet, [295];
sketch of Barclay’s fleet, [296];
comparison of the commanders, [300];
his thoughtfulness for his men, [305];
the battle of Lake Erie commences, [309];
closes in on the British, [311];
loads and fires his own guns, [315];
his flagship a wreck, [317];
shifts his flag to the Niagara, [321];
the decisive movement, [322];
the British surrender, [324];
“We have met the enemy and they are ours!”, [325];
receives the swords of the British officers on the Lawrence, [328];
his letter to the Secretary of the Navy, [332];
results of his victory, [333];
promoted from rank of master-commandant to captain, [334];
his praise of Lieutenant Elliott, [336];
value of ships captured in the battle, [337];
his squadron at Erie, [ib.];
Washington Irving’s opinion of the victory, [338];
his duel with Captain Heath, iii. [317];
detailed to cruise in South American waters, [327];
sails up the Orinoco, [ib.];
demands compensation for American vessels, [329];
contracts yellow fever, [ib.];
dies while entering the Port of Spain, Trinidad Island, [330];
buried at Newport, R. I., [ib.]
Pert, American schooner, ii. [270].
Perthshire, British merchantman, captured off Mobile, iv. [43];
released by the Niagara, [ib.];
claims compensation, [44].
Petrel, American schooner, in attack on Alvarado, iii. [410].
Petrel, Confederate privateer, iv. [93];
chases the St. Lawrence, which fires into and sinks her, [94].
Phelps, Captain S. S., appointed to command of the Conestoga, iv. [251];
convoys General Grant down the Mississippi, [ib.];
captures the Confederate steamer Eastport, [267];
takes command of her, [ib.];
before Fort Pillow, [290];
Lieutenant-commander of the Eastport, [369].
Philadelphia, American gondola, i. [90];
on Lake Champlain, [100].
Philadelphia, American frigate, sent to Tripoli, i. [335];
sunk on a reef, [343];
raised by the Tripolitans, [344];
boarded and fired by Decatur, [349–358].
Phœbe, British frigate, attempts to attack the Essex, iii. [25], [26];
is scared off, [ib.];
with the Cherub makes another attack on the Essex, [30–43].
Pico Andres, Mexican Governor of Los Angeles, iii. [397];
breaks his parole, [ib.]
Picton, British war-schooner, captured by the Constitution, iii. [242].
Pike, Zebulon M., explorer, at storming of Toronto, ii. [341];
killed by the explosion of a magazine, [342].
Pinola, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. [316].
Piracy discoveries at Cape Cruz, South America, iii. [335].
Pirate caves with the bones of dead in them, iii. [324], [325].
Piratical assaults on Yankee traders, iii. [366].
Pitcairn, Major, at Lexington, i. [14].
Pitchforks used by haymakers in their attack on the Margaretta, i. [21].
Pittsburg, armor-plated Federal gun-boat, built by Eads, iv. [245];
Captain Egbert Thompson commands, [290];
before Vicksburg, [363], [370].
Pittsburg Landing, fight at, iv. [284].
Plantagenet, British liner, assists in the attack on the General Armstrong, iii. [188], [194], [196–198].
Planter, Confederate transport, turned over to the Federals by Robert Small, a negro slave, iv. [501], [502].
Plattsburg Bay, operations of Macdonough in, iii. [145], [150].
“Playing ball with the red coats,” ii. [268].
Plunger, Holland submarine boat, iv. [545].
Po Adam, Malay chief, rescues Captain Endicott, iii. [370];
aids Captain Downes in his attack on Quallah Battoo, [374].
Pocahontas, Federal frigate, iv. [163].
Poictiers, British frigate, recaptures the Frolic from the Wasp, ii. [118].
Policy, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. [8].
Polk, Confederate gun-boat, iv. [127].
Polly, American privateer, attacks the English sloop-of-war Indian, ii. [242].
Pomone, British frigate, assists in the capture of the President, iii. [222].
Pope, Captain John, his report on the retreat of the Federal fleet, iv. [137];
captured New Madrid, [276];
fortifies the river, [ib.];
shuts Confederates in, [ib.]
Porcupine, American schooner, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. [295].
Porpoise, American schooner, in fleet sent to South America to punish pirates, iii. [331].
Port Hudson, Farragut runs his squadron past, iv. [357];
the Albatross, Monongahela, and Kineo successfully pass the batteries of, [358];
the Mississippi and the Lancaster fired and sunk below, [ib.]
Porter, Midshipman David, assists Lieutenant Rodgers in charge of captured French frigate Insurgent, i. [323];
sent to Tripoli, [335];
sent from the Enterprise to take possession of the Tripoli, [335], [336];
lands and fires gun-boats in the port of Tripoli, [340];
surrenders to the Tripolitans, [343];
his experience and training, ii. [33], [34];
captures the corvette Alert, [42];
crew of, plan a rescue, [44];
receives an insulting challenge from Sir James Yeo, [348];
starts on a second cruise in the Essex, iii. [1];
cruises off Port Praya, [2];
captures the British brig Nocton, [ib.];
reaches Fernando de Noronha, [3];
Bainbridge directs him to pose as Sir James Yeo, [ib.];
captures the schooner Elizabeth, [4];
left free to choose his own course, [ib.];
rounds Cape Horn, [ib.];
dysentery among his crew, [5], [6];
encounters fearful storms, [6];
a panic on board, [ib.];
sails for Valparaiso, [7];
overhauls the Nereyda, throws her guns and arms overboard, [ib.];
disguises his ship, [8];
captures the British whalers Barclay, Montezuma, Georgiana, and Policy, [ib.];
captures the whalers Atlantic and Greenwich, [ib.];
forms a squadron, [10];
captures the whaler Charlton, the ships Seringapatam and New Zealander, [14];
captures the Sir Andrew Hammond, [16];
refits his ship at Nukahiva, [ib.];
the prisoners plan to capture the Yankee force, [21];
an incipient mutiny, [ib.];
he sails from Nukahiva, [23];
waits for the British frigate, the Phœbe, [24];
gives a reception to the officials of the city, [25];
the Phœbe arrives and attempts to attack him, [25–28];
he challenges the Phœbe, [29];
a heavy squall interferes, [31];
the Essex disabled and the enemy gives chase, [ib.];
Porter retires into neutral waters, [32];
Porter’s running gear disabled, [36];
he surrenders his ship, [43];
is sent to New York on the Essex, Junior, [49];
escapes in a fog, [ib.];
aids the defence of Baltimore, [53];
services, death, and burial, [ib.];
operating against the pirates of South America, iii. [333];
endeavors to get support of the local governments, [ib.];
compels a Porto Rico alcalde to show respect to American officers, [336];
court-martialed, [ib.];
is suspended and resigns his commission, [ib.]
Porter, Commander David D., his idea of attacking New Orleans, iv. [313];
finds New Orleans fishermen good spies, [ib.];
arranges the expedition, [ib.];
commands the mortar fleet up the Mississippi River, [325];
placed in charge of the Mississippi squadron, [349];
tin-clads added to his squadron, [ib.];
tries to get in behind Vicksburg, [358];
is unsuccessful, [363];
attacks the fortifications of Grand Gulf, [367];
sent with General Banks’s expedition to Shreveport, La., [369];
arrives at Alexandria, [370];
captures the Abby Bradford from the Sumter, [413];
disagreement with General Butler at Fort Fisher, [508].
Porter, Captain John, in command of the Greyhound in South America, iii. [333].
Porter, Confederate Navy Constructor J. L., assists in making the working drawings for the Merrimac, iv. [185].
Porter, Captain William D., iv. [249];
in Commodore Foote’s fleet, [255];
severely scalded, [265].
Portland, Maine, atrocities of the British at, i. [24–26], [32];
influence of atrocities, [196].
Port Royal, Federal gun-boat, iv. [389];
capture of, [162–182].
Portsmouth, American frigate, in the bombardment of Chinese forts, iii. [380–382].
Potomac, American frigate, attacks and punishes the Malays at Quallah Battoo, iii. [373–375].
Powhatan, Federal frigate, captures the Abby Bradford from the Sumter, iv. [413].
Preble, American sloop. See [Rising Sun].
Preble, Captain Edward, i. [26];
in command of the Constitution, [346];
attacks the city of Tripoli, [359];
Congress gives him a gold medal, [378].
Preble, Lieutenant George H., iv. [315].
President, American frigate, built, i. [312];
sent to Tripoli, [335];
encounters and is fired on by the corvette Little Belt, ii. [7];
Captain John Rodgers sent to look for the Guerrière, [8];
chases the British frigate Belvidera, [29–32];
the frigate escapes, [32];
mentioned, [121];
chases the Nymphe, [151];
chases the Curlew, [358];
a lieutenant of the President boards the Highflyer, [ib.];
special efforts ordered to capture the President, [359];
termed “The Waggon” by the British, [360];
Decatur transferred to, iii. [212];
attacked by the British fleet, [216];
surrenders, [222];
is carried to the Bermudas, [226];
her dimensions, [227].
Press-gang riots in Boston, i. [395], [397].
Press-gangs, raised in England, i. [156];
methods of the, [386], [387];
number of Americans enslaved by the, ii. [2–4].
Prevost, Sir George, attacks Sackett’s Harbor, ii. [345];
mistakes trees for troops, [346];
in command of “Wellington’s Invincibles” at Plattsburg, iii. [147];
defeated, [169], [170];
dies of chagrin, [183].
Price, Confederate gun-boat, rams the Cincinnati, iv. [293];
disabled by the Carondelet, [294].
Prince de Neufchâtel, American privateer, ii. [253];
attacked by the British frigate Endymion, iii. [202–207].
Prince of Orange, British brig, captured by the Surprise, i. [124], [125].
Prince Regent, British ship, iii. [129].
Princeton, Ericsson’s first screw steamship, iv. [12];
Captain Stockton assigned to her, [14];
the “Peacemaker,” one of her guns, bursts, [ib.];
her success pronounced, [ib.]
Pring, Captain, in the battle of Lake Champlain, iii. [166];
surrenders, [ib.]
Prisoners, American, in England, bad treatment of, i. [122].
Prisons, British, iii. [288–304].
Privateer and a letter of marque, difference between, iii. [242].
Privateers, commissioned by Congress, i. [33];
authorized by General Court of Massachusetts, [196];
by Connecticut and Rhode Island, [197];
by General Washington, [ib.];
work accomplished by them up to 1777, [217];
another account of them, [220], [221];
captured prisoners from privateers on prison-ship Jersey, [221–226];
result of licensing of, iii. [324].
Privateers, American, capture sixteen English cruisers during the Revolutionary War, i. [302].
Privateers in the War of 1812, only a few made money, ii. [233–258];
two hundred and fifty commissioned during the war, [240].
Proctor, General, his incursion into Ohio prevented by the result of the battle of Lake Erie, ii. [333].
Protector, American gun-ship, blows up the British privateer Admiral Duff, i. [207];
beats off the frigate Thames, [ib.]
Providence, brig of first American Navy, i. [39], [57];
commanded by Captain John P. Rathburne, descends on New Providence, Bahamas, [186].
Quaker City, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. [474].
Quallah Battoo, Malays of, attacked by the American frigate Potomac, iii. [373], [374];
bombarded by the Columbia, [376].
Queen Charlotte, British ship, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. [296];
sunk in Little Bay, [337].
Queen of France, American ship, i. [280], [281].
Queen of the West, Federal ram, at Fort Pillow, iv. [301];
sinks the Lowell, [ib.];
rammed by the Beauregard, [ib.];
sent to attack Port Hudson, [351];
abandoned by the Federals, [352].
Racehorse, British brig, captured by the Andrea Doria, i. [69].
Radford, Captain William, absent from duty, iv. [201].
Rainbow, British gun-ship, captures the Hancock, i. [185].
Rais Hammida, the terror of the Mediterranean, iii. [344], [346];
killed, [347].
Raleigh, American man-of-war, sent to France, i. [130];
attacks the Druid, [131];
loads her supplies, [132];
returns to America, [133];
captured, [194].
Raleigh, Confederate gun-boat, assists in taking crew off the Congress, iv. [208].
Randolph, American frigate, i. [160];
blown up, [162].
Ransom paid to the Dey of Algiers, i. [309], [310].
Ransom, Lieutenant George M., iv. [315].
Rathbone, Captain John P., i. [186];
releases American prisoners, [ib.];
commands the Queen of France, [281].
Rattlesnake, American ship, captured by the Leander, ii. [387].
Ravenel, Dr. St. Julien, aids in fitting out torpedo boats, iv. [497].
Razee, a line-of-battle ship, ii. [403], iii. [56].
Read, Lieutenant Charles W., appointed to command the Clarence, iv. [424];
captures the Tacony and burns the Clarence, [ib.];
captures the Archer and cuts out the Caleb Cushing, [ib.];
captured, [ib.]
Red River, Texas, blockaded, iv. [358].
Red River dam, iv. [372–374].
Reefer, American schooner, iii. [410].
Reid, Commodore George C., bombards and burns Malay towns, iii. [375–379].
Reid, Captain Samuel C., sails from New York Harbor, iii. [187];
arrives at Fayal, [ib.];
the brig Carnation, accompanied by the Plantagenet and the frigate Rota; enter the harbor, [188];
attacked in a neutral port, [189];
heavy loss of the enemy, [ib.];
the population gather to watch the issue, [190];
the Carnation attacks with a fleet of boats, [ib.];
a fierce hand-to-hand fight, [192];
he scuttles and abandons his ship, [200];
returns home, [201];
is enthusiastically received and honored, [ib.];
his pedigree, [ib.];
originated the arrangement of the stars and stripes in the American flag, [ib.];
dies in New York City, [ib.]
Reilly, Lieutenant James, iii. [81].
Reindeer, British brig-sloop, captured by the Wasp (No. 3), iii. [88];
armament of, [91];
the wounded of, sent to Plymouth, [ib.]
Renshaw, Master-commandant James, on the Enterprise after the Boxer-Enterprise battle, ii. [386].
Reprisal, American brig, captures a number of prizes, i. [70];
fight with the Shark, [71];
Franklin sails for France on the, [114];
close call of, [118];
ordered to leave France, [119];
founders, [ib.]
Resolute, Federal steamer, at Acquia Creek, iv. [81].
Resolution, British brig, captured by the Hornet, ii. [181], [191].
Retaliation, American gun-ship, formerly the French ship Croyable, i. [316], [330], [400].
Revenge, American sloop, i. [89].
Revenge, American man-of-war, i. [126];
takes numerous prizes, [ib.]
Rhind, Commander A. C., iv. [480];
Commander of the Louisiana, [510].
Rhode Island, first naval fight in waters of, i. [2].
Richmond, United States screw sloop, iv. [16];
Captain Thornton A. Jenkins, [386].
Richmond, Va., railroad communication cut off from, iv. [267].
Ricot, Captain, in Paul Jones’s fleet, i. [232].
Rifled cannon introduced into the American Navy, iv. [20], [21].
Rising Sun, American sloop, renamed the Preble, iii. [136], [138], [140].
“River Defence Squadron,” Confederate, iv. [297].
Roanoke, United States screw frigate, launched, iv. [15].
Roanoke Island, expedition to, iv. [109].
Robertson, Lieutenant John Downie, in the battle of Lake Champlain, iii. [165].
Robinson, Captain Isaiah, i. [69];
captures the Racehorse, [ib.]
Rodgers, Rear-admiral John, with Midshipman David Porter and others, sail the captured frigate Insurgent with 173 French on her, i. [323];
brings the ship safely into St. Kitts, [ib.];
ready to move his fleet in one hour, ii. [28];
starts to intercept a big fleet of merchantmen, [29];
chases the Belvidera, [ib.];
fires the first shot of the War of 1812, [30];
his leg broken, [31];
the frigate escapes him, [32];
cruises and captures merchantmen and recaptures an American ship, [ib.];
challenged by the Guerrière, [72];
sails from Boston, [121];
chases the British frigate Nymphe, [151];
chases the Curlew, [358];
falls in with the British schooner Highflyer, and secures her book of private signals and instructions, [ib.];
value and usefulness of the book, [359];
ordered to report to General Frémont, iv. [241];
buys and fits out merchant-vessels, [ib.];
relieved of his command, [250];
appointed head of Board of Naval Officers, [527].
Rodgers, Captain John, iv. [480].
Rodgers, Commander George W., killed on the Catskill, iv. [480], [491].
Rodgers, Captain R. C. P., at Port Royal, iv. [163].
Rodman, Captain United States Ordnance Department, his experience with heavy guns, iv. [18], [20].
Rodolph, Federal wrecking steamer, sunk by a torpedo, iv. [406].
Roebuck, British frigate, captures the Confederacy, i. [298].
Roosevelt, Clinton, proposed steel-plated ship, iv. [9].
Rooster, a sporting, iii. [155].
Rose, British ship, captured by Lieutenant Downes, iii. [10];
sent to St. Helena as a cartel, [12].
Rota, British frigate, in the attack on the General Armstrong, iii. [188–200].
Rowan, Captain Stephen C., iv. [99];
destroys the Confederate fleet at Roanoke Island, [110].
Royal Savage, American schooner, i. [89].
Royal Yacht, Confederate privateer, blockaded by the Santee in Galveston, iv. [138].
Russell, Lieutenant John H., iv. [314].
Russell, Lord, correspondence about the Trent affair, iv. [150–152];
letter of, on the closing of Charleston Harbor, [471], [472].
S. J. Waring, merchantman, captured by Confederate privateer Jefferson Davis, iv. [91].
Sabine, Federal sailing ship, rescues the crew of the Governor, iv. [167].
Sackett’s Harbor, N. Y., chosen as a naval station, ii. [264];
attacked by the British, [345].
Sailors, kidnapped, cruelty to, on British ships, i. [387].
Sailor’s rights ignored by politicians, ii. [18].
St. Eustatius, Governor of, gives first salute to the American flag, i. [69].
St. James, American privateer, beats off a British frigate, i. [206].
St. John’s, British fleet built at, i. [87].
St. Laurent, Captain, deceived by Captain Bainbridge, i. [317].
St. Lawrence, British liner, iii. [129].
St. Louis, Commodore Foote’s flagship, disabled, iv. [271];
Captain Henry Erben commands, [289].
Sally, purchased by first Marine Committee, i. [39].
Saltonstall, Captain Dudley, i. [46];
commands the Trumbull, [164];
captain of the Warren, [283].
Samoa, hurricane at, iv. [554].
Sand-bar, lifting vessels over a, ii. [289], [290].
San Diego, Cal., John C. Frémont takes possession of, iii. [394].
Sandwich, American privateer, cut out of Puerto Plata by Lieutenant Isaac Hull, i. [329].
San Jacinto, American frigate, iii. [380].
San Jacinto, United States screw sloop, iv. [15];
Mason and Slidell, Confederate Commissioners, taken to Boston in, [148].
See [Mason, James Murray].
San Juan de Ulloa, a castle on Gallega Reef, Vera Cruz, fortification of, iii. [418].
Santa Anna, Mexican General, landed from the American fleet at Vera Cruz, iii. [424];
the American Government negotiates with him to return to Mexico, [427];
escorted up the streets of Vera Cruz, [ib.];
is recognized by a squad of soldiers and saluted, [ib.];
again master of Mexican affairs, [ib.]
Santee, Federal frigate, blockades Galveston, iv. [137].
Saranac River, the British retire from, iii. [136].
Saratoga, American frigate, i. [287];
captures the Charming Molly and two other ships, [292];
lost in a hurricane, [293].
Saratoga, American privateer, ii. [253].
Saratoga, American corvette, iii. [137], [138];
Macdonough’s flagship in the battle of Lake Champlain, [155].
Sassacus, Federal gun-boat, iv. [456].
Savannah, American frigate, iii. [392].
Savannah, Confederate privateer, captures brig Joseph, iv. [88];
captured by Federal brig Perry, [89].
Sciota, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. [315].
Scorpion, American gun-boat, ii. [292].
Scorpion, American cutter, ii. [408].
Scorpion, American schooner, captured by the British, iii. [110].
Scott, Lieutenant-colonel Winfield, at Black Rock, ii. [275];
takes possession of Squaw Island, [278];
hauls down the British flag, [344].
Scourge, American privateer, ii. [253].
Scourge, American schooner, ii. [350].
Seahorse, American tender, makes a gallant fight against the British fleet, iii. [233–235].
Sea-power, American, in 1812, ii. [21];
of Great Britain, [22].
Search, the right of, on the high seas, i. [387];
reaffirmed, ii. [19].
Seine, French privateer, captured by the American schooner Enterprise, i. [330].
Selfredge, Lieutenant-commander T. O., iv. [369].
Selfredge, Lieutenant-commander T. O., Jr., at Fort Fisher, iv. [519].
Self-restraint of Americans, iii. [303].
Selkirk, Earl of, house of, surrounded by Paul Jones, i. [147], [148].
Selma, Confederate gun-boat, iv. [380].
Selman, Captain John, captures ten British vessels and Governor Wright of St. John’s, i. [203].
Seminole, Federal frigate, iv. [163].
Seminole, Federal gun-boat, iv. [389].
Semmes, Commander Raphael, his ship capsizes and he loses half the crew, iii. [417];
takes command of Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [408];
chases the Brooklyn, [409];
captures the Golden Rocket, [410];
takes five prizes into Cuba, [411];
takes the Abby Bradford to Venezuela, [412];
the Powhatan captures her, [413];
some of his captures, [415];
his ship sold to English blockade-runners, [ib.];
Brazil authorities allow him to use Fernando de Noronha as headquarters, [427];
appointed to command of Alabama, [431];
ships his officers and men at Terceira, [ib.];
encounters the San Jacinto, [432];
captures the Ariel, [ib.];
goes to Galveston to intercept transports, [ib.];
captures the Hatteras, [ib.];
his reception at Cape Town, [434];
his gallantry, [435];
cruises in the East Indies, [436];
fight with the Kearsarge, [438–441];
rescued by the yacht Deerhound, [442];
his reception in England, [447].
Seneca, Federal gun-boat, iv. [163].
Senez, Captain Andre, surrenders to Captain Little of the Boston, i. [328], [329].
Sentiment, a touching tale of, iii. [243], [244].
Serapis, British frigate, encounters the Bonhomme Richard, i. [243];
fight with the latter, [245–259];
surrenders, [259];
comparative strength of the two ships, [265].
Seringapatam, British ship, captured by Porter, iii. [14].
Severn, British ship, ii. [421].
Seward, William H., his reply to the despatch of the British Government relative to the Trent affair, iv. [154–156].
Sewell’s Point, Confederate batteries erected at, iv. [195].
Shajackuda Creek, Niagara River, expedition starts from, ii. [275];
route opened up by Perry, [287].
Shannon, British frigate, ii. [55];
blockades Boston, [200];
challenges the Chesapeake, [203];
captures her, [209–221];
arrives at Halifax, [222];
comparison of the two ships, [229].
Shark, American brig, captures five pirate vessels, iii. [331].
Shark, British sloop, fight of, with American brig Reprisal, i. [71].
Shaw, Lieutenant, captures the French privateer Seine, i. [330].
Sheed, William W., Sailing-master, attacks the British, ii. [402].
Shelburne, British schooner, assists in capturing the Frolic, iii. [65].
Shenandoah, Confederate cruiser, destroys American whaling and sealing fleets, iv. [447].
Sherman, Captain, “bravest man in the Confederate squadrons,” iv. [321], [329], [340].
Sherman, General Thomas W., commands a force against Port Royal, iv. [164].
Shipbuilder, the private, a factor in the sea power of a nation, iv. [38].
Shipbuilding after the Revolution, i. [304].
Ship-masts retained for use of the crown, i. [15].
Shirk, Lieutenant, supports Grant at Pittsburg Landing, iv. [284];
commander of Federal gun-boat Tuscumbia, iv. [363].
Shreveport, La., General Banks sent on expedition to, to frustrate designs of Napoleon III., iv. [368].
Shubrick, Lieutenant J. T., boards the Peacock and endeavors to save the ship from sinking, ii. [184].
Shubrick, Commodore William Bradford, in command of the Pacific Coast Squadron, iii. [401].
“Siege of Plattsburg,” a popular song, iii. [184].
Silver Wave, Federal Army transport, before Vicksburg, iv. [364].
Simcoe, British gun-boat, iii. [143].
Simes, British schooner, sunk, ii. [271].
Sinclair, Captain Arthur, sent to take charge of the American fleet west of the Niagara, iii. [106];
sails into Lake Huron, [107];
destroys St. Joseph, [ib.];
destroys a block-house, [108];
returns to Detroit, [109].
Sir Andrew Hammond, British whaler, captured by Porter, iii. [16];
recaptured by the Cherub, [50].
Sir George Prevost, British gun-boat, iii. [143].
Sir James Yeo, British gun-boat, iii. [143].
Sir Sidney Beckwith, British gun-boat, iii. [143].
Sir William Erskine, British sloop, attacked and captured by the American privateer Thorn, i. [209].
Siren, American brig, accompanies Decatur on his expedition to fire the Philadelphia, i. [348–350];
John B. Nicholson placed in command of, iii. [78];
cruises on the coast of Africa, [ib.];
is captured, [79].
Slave traffic on the coast of Africa, iii. [360];
Admiral Foote’s efforts to stamp it out, [363–367].
Slavers, chasing, on the African coast, iii. [360–361].
Slavery, kidnapped sailors subjected to a state of, i. [387].
Slidell, John, Confederate commissioner to France. See [Mason, James Murray].
Sloat, Captain John Drake, takes possession of Monterey, California, iii. [392];
gives up command of the squadron, [394].
Smith, Lieutenant Albert N., iv. [315].
Smith, Lieutenant Joseph B., attacked by the Merrimac, iv. [207];
stands by his ship until killed, [208].
Smith, Commander Melancthon, iv. [314].
Smith, Lieutenant Sydney, indiscreet zeal of, iii. [136].
Solebay, British frigate, fights with American brig Providence, under Paul Jones, i. [74].
Somers, American brig, enters Vera Cruz harbor and fires the Creole, iii. [417];
capsizes and drowns half her crew, [ib.]
Somers, American schooner, captured by the British, iii. [111].
Somers, American schooner, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. [295].
Somers, overturned while chasing a blockade-runner, iii. [417].
Somers, Commandant Richard, assists in attack on the city of Tripoli, i. [359–367];
blown up on the Intrepid, [378].
Somers, Captain, fights five duels in succession, iii. [315–317].
Somerset, Fulton ferryboat, captures the blockade-runner Circassian, iv. [37].
Somerville, Captain Philip, assists in the attack on the General Armstrong, iii. [194].
Sorel River, invaded by “Wellington’s Invincibles,” iii. [135].
Soulé, Pierre, Senator and Minister to Spain, iv. [338].
South Carolina islands, as described by Jedidiah Morse, iv. [31].
Southampton, British frigate, flagship of Sir James L. Yeo, ii. [348].
Southcombe, Captain, fights off nine British barges, iii. [204].
Southern States dependent on commerce for necessaries of life, iv. [46];
their lack of factories and mills before the Civil War, [ib.]
Southfield, Federal gun-boat, iv. [454].
Sparlin, British sloop, captured by the Thorn, i. [209].
Spitfire, American merchantman, stopped by the Guerrière, ii. [7].
Spitfire, British sloop, ii. [359].
Spies, New Orleans fishermen as, iv. [313].
Sproats, David, inhuman conduct of, i. [224].
Spy service of Federal government not as good as the Confederate, iv. [189].
Squaw Island, N. Y., the Detroit grounds on, ii. [278].
Stanton, Edward, Secretary of War, his views of the victory of the Merrimac, iv. [211–212].
Star of the West, Federal steamer, first shot of the Civil War fired at, iii. [363];
taken by the Confederates, [ib.]
Stars and Stripes first saluted by a foreign power, i. [138].
State of Georgia, Federal warship, iv. [237].
Steamboats under fire of heavy guns, iv. [252].
Steam-rams, first fight of, in history, iv. [307].
Stembel, Captain R. N., before Fort Pillow, iv. [289];
badly wounded, [294].
Sterrett, Lieutenant Andrew, sent to Tripoli, i. [335];
appointed to command the Enterprise, ii. [373];
captures the Tripoli, [ib.]
Stettin, armed merchantman, attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, iv. [474].
Stevens, Captain T. H., at Port Royal, iv. [163].
Stevens, Robert L., invents first ironclad, iv. [9].
Stevens, Commander Thomas Holdup, iv. [386];
in charge of Federal fleet to carry Fort Sumter by storm, [494].
Stewart, Lord George, commander in the attack on the Constitution at Porto Praya, iii. [260].
Stewart, Captain Charles, sails from Boston, iii. [242];
overhauls and captures the British war-schooner Picton, [ib.];
falls in with the British frigate La Pique, [243];
finds the British frigates Junon and Tenedos lying in wait for him, [244];
escapes to Marblehead, [ib.];
returns to Boston, [245];
sails out of Boston while blockade squadron is off port, [ib.];
captures British merchant ship, Lord Nelson, [ib.];
chases the Elizabeth, but captures the Susan, [245];
chased by the frigates Tiber and Elizabeth, [246];
escapes, [ib.];
encounters the frigate Cyane and sloop-of-war Levant, [247];
opens fire on both ships, [249];
the Cyane surrenders to, [252];
the Levant surrenders to, [255];
sails to Porto Praya with his captures, [260];
the Newcastle, Leander, and Acasta surprise him, [260];
the Newcastle opens fire, [265];
the Constitution sails away free, [ib.];
her last fight, [268].
Stivers, A. C., Chief Engineer of the Monitor, iv. [216].
Stockton, Captain Robert Field, succeeds Captain Sloat in command of the Pacific Squadron, iii. [394];
lands and attacks Los Angeles, [ib.];
novel trick to deceive the enemy, [ib.];
organizes a state government, [397];
is succeeded by Commodore Shubrick, [401];
his trip on Ericsson’s Francis B. Ogden, iv. [10];
he induces Ericsson to come to America, [11];
assigned to the Princeton, [14].
Stoddert, Benjamin, Secretary of Navy, i. [334].
“Stone Fleet,” sinking of the, iv. [470].
Stonewall Jackson, Confederate ironclad, iv. [333];
rams the Varuna and sinks her, [334];
is driven ashore by the Oneida and Cayuga, [ib.]
Stoney, Theodore D., Charleston citizen, builds, at his own expense, a number of “Davids,” iv. [497].
Stringham, Flag Officer Silas H., assigned to command of Hatteras Island expedition, iv. [99].
Strong, Commander James H., iv. [389].
Submarine torpedo vessel, principles and construction of a, i. [165–170];
experiments made to prove the nature and use of a, [172].
Sullivan’s Island, Charleston, S. C., iv. [469].
Sumatra, attack of natives of, on American ship Friendship, iii. [368].
Sumter, Confederate gun-boat, rams the Cincinnati at Fort Pillow, iv. [293];
surrenders, [302].
Sumter, Confederate ship, captured at Fort Pillow, iv. [302].
Sumter, Confederate cruiser, iv. [407];
Captain Semmes takes command of, [408];
captures the Abby Bradford, [412];
cruises in the Caribbean Sea, [413];
on the Brazil coast, [414];
is chased by Iroquois, [ib.];
goes to Spain and Gibraltar, [415];
expense of, to the Confederate Government, [416];
sold and converted into an English merchant-ship, [ib.];
runs the blockade of Charleston, [ib.];
name changed to the Gibraltar, [ib.];
lost in the North Sea, [ib.]
Superior, American frigate, iii. [113].
Superiority of British naval crews, i. [60].
Superstition, sailors’, iii. [78], [79].
Surprise, American brig, renamed the Eagle, iii. [139].
Surprise, American cutter, i. [123];
captures the ship Joseph and the brig Prince of Orange, [124];
detained in France by the British ambassador, [125].
Surveyor, American schooner, attacked and overpowered by the British frigate Narcissus, ii. [417].
Susquehanna, American ship, sent to Japan in 1851, iii. [443].
Susquehanna, Federal frigate, iv. [163].
Sylph, American schooner, ii. [349].
Symonds, Sir William, his opinion of Ericsson’s Francis B. Ogden, iv. [10].
Tabasco, Mexico, captured by Commodore M. C. Perry, iii. [414].
Tacony, captured by Captain Read of the Clarence, iv. [424].
Tapanagouche, British schooner sent to capture Captain Jeremiah O’Brien, i. [23].
Tarbell, Captain, unsuccessfully attacks the becalmed British fleet in Hampton Roads, ii. [395].
Tartarus, English brig-sloop, iii. [93].
Tattnall, Commodore Josiah, takes part in the English attack on Chinese forts, iii. [382];
attacks the Castle of San Juan de Ulloa in the siege of Vera Cruz, [420–423];
commands a squadron of four vessels sent in to divert the attention of the Mexicans, [424];
exchanges places with a brother officer on the Constellation, and so saves his life, [354];
commands the Confederate fleet at Savannah, iv. [168];
his worthless flotilla, [ib.];
attacked by the Federal fleet and retires, [171];
destroys the Merrimac, [236], [237].
Tayloe, Lieutenant, killed while assisting the Union wounded out of the Congress, iv. [209].
Taylor, Captain John, chased by Captain Lawrence of the Hornet, ii. [181].
Taylor, Thomas E., leading blockade-runner, iv. [57].
Tea destroyed in Boston Harbor, i. [13].
Teaser, privateer of New York, ii. [245].
Teaser, American blockade-runner, iv. [60].
Tecumseh, British gun-boat, iii. [145].
Tecumseh, Federal monitor, iv. [386];
sunk by a torpedo, [394].
Tenedos, British frigate, captures the American frigate President, iii. [222];
goes in chase of the Constitution, [244].
Tennessee, Confederate ram, iv. [380].
Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers, how far navigable, iv. [240].
Tennessee opened up by the capture of Fort Henry, iv. [266];
railroad communication cut off from, [267].
Terceira, a Portuguese island, officers and crew of the Alabama shipped from, iv. [431].
Terry, General Alfred H., at Fort Fisher, iv. [516].
Texas, Napoleon III. tries to persuade, to secede from the Confederacy, iv. [367–368].
Thalia, British frigate, ii. [29].
Thames, British frigate, attacks American gun-ship Protector, i. [207].
Thatcher, Master Charles, iv. [370].
Theodora, Confederate blockade-runner, carries Mason and Slidell to Cuba, iv. [141].
Thetis, British frigate, chased by Porter and escapes, ii. [38].
Thomas, American privateer, ii. [252].
Thompson, Confederate ram, sunk at Fort Pillow, iv. [302].
Thompson, Captain Egbert, before Fort Pillow, iv. [290].
Thompson, Captain Thomas, i. [130];
sent to France for supplies, [ib.];
returns to America, [132–133].
Thorn, American privateer, attacks and strikes the Governor Tryon and Sir William Erskine, i. [209];
captures the Sparlin, [ib.];
captured by the Deane, [284], [287].
Ticonderoga, American schooner, iii. [137–139].
Tigress, American schooner, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. [295];
captured by the British, iii. [109].
Tilghman, General Lloyd, surrenders Fort Henry to Commodore Foote, iv. [265–266].
Tillinghast, Lieutenant T. G., iii. [81].
Tin-clads, light-draft steamers in Admiral Porter’s squadron, iv. [349].
Tiptonville, Pope shuts Confederates in by occupying, iv. [276].
Toey-wan, steamer chartered by Captain Tattnall in the attack on Chinese forts, iii. [382–384].
Tombigbee Channel, Mobile, lined with torpedoes, iv. [406].
Tom Bowline, store-ship for Decatur’s fleet, iii. [271].
Tompkins, American ship, ii. [352].
Toronto, Canada, Americans plan to attack, ii. [339];
a force under General Dearborn sent to attack, [340];
stores and prisoners taken, [342].
Torpedo boat, the first one built, i. [164];
general principles and construction of a submarine vessel, [165].
Torpedoes made of whiskey demijohns, iv. [350].
Townsend, Commander Robert, iv. [369].
Trabangan, Malay settlement, natives of, capture the American merchant-ship Eclipse and kill Captain Wilkins, iii. [374–379].
“Tracking” up a river, ii. [287].
Trajano, Brazilian rebel warship, iv. [548].
Transit, New London merchant-ship, captured by Confederate privateers, iv. [97].
Treaty of Ghent, terms and conditions of, iii. [209];
the real cause of the war ignored in the treaty, [210].
Tredegar Iron Mills, Richmond, Va., the only gun and engine factory possessed by the South at the outbreak of the Civil War, iv. [46].
Trenchard, Lieutenant Stephen Decatur, wounded in a fight with Chinese, iii. [382].
Trent, British mail steamer, Confederate Commissioners Mason and Slidell taken from, iv. [148];
attitude of the British Government in regard to the seizure, [150–152];
instructions to Lord Lyons, [152], [153];
reply of Mr. Seward to the despatch of the British Government, iv. [154];
review of Mr. Seward’s reply, [154–158];
Commodore Smith’s comment on the reply, [156].
Trenton, United States cruiser, ashore at Samoa, iv. [554].
Trepassy, British brig, surrenders to the Alliance, i. [298].
Tribute, paid to Algerian pirates by America, iii. [339];
by England, [340].
Tripoli declares war against America, i. [333];
pays indemnity to United States, iii. [357].
Tripoli, war polacre, is beaten by the American schooner Enterprise, i. [335].
Tripolitans, treachery of, i. [335], [336].
Trippe, American sloop, in battle of Lake Erie, ii. [295].
Trippe, Sailing-master John, at attack on city of Tripoli, i. [366].
Tristan d’Acunha, Island of, in the South Atlantic, Jonathan Lambert pre-empts, iii. [270], [271];
a breeding resort for seals, [ib.];
Decatur makes it a rendezvous, [ib.]
True Briton, captured by the Randolph, i. [160].
Trumbull, American galley, i. [89], [164].
Trumbull, American ship, captures two British transports, i. [164];
cruises along American coast with a crew of landsmen, [290];
is nearly disabled, [291];
attacked by three British ships and surrenders, [295–297].
Truxton, Captain Thomas, captures prizes in the Azores, i. [205];
cuts out three ships from the British fleet, [ib.];
fits out the Mars and cruises in the English Channel, [ib.];
involves France in war with England, [206];
successfully beats off a British frigate, [ib.];
Captain of the Constellation, compels the French frigate Vengeance to fight, [323];
loses her in the night, [328].
Truxton, American brig, grounded before Tuspan, Mexico, and is captured, iii. [410].
Tucker, John, Assistant Secretary of War, asks Commodore Vanderbilt his terms for destroying the Merrimac, iv. [212].
Tucker, Captain Samuel, captures thirty British vessels, i. [203].
Tunis, brought to terms by the American fleet, i. [378], [379];
pays indemnity to United States for seizing the Abellino prizes, iii. [353].
Tuscumbia, Federal gun-boat in Porter’s fleet before Vicksburg, iv. [363].
Tybee Bar, Savannah, coal-ships ordered to go to, iv. [165].
Unadilla, Federal frigate, iv. [163];
attacked by the Confederate ironclad Palmetto State, [474].
Underwriter, Federal gun-boat, boarded and destroyed by John Taylor Wood, iv. [452].
Unicorn, British frigate, captures the Raleigh, i. [194].
United States, American frigate, built, i. [312].
United States Astronomical Expedition to the Southern Hemisphere, members of, iii. [464].
United States, frigate, falls in with the Eurydice and Atalanta, ii. [16];
cruises between the Azores and the Canary Islands, [121];
encounters the Macedonian, [122];
battle with, [125–134];
losses after the battle, [139];
comparison of the forces of the two ships, [140];
blockaded in New London, [150].
United States Government abrogates all treaties with France, i. [314].
United We Stand, American privateer, ii. [253].
Valcour Island, Lake Champlain, fight between Benedict Arnold and Sir Guy Carleton at, i. [92–99].
Van Brunt, Captain G. I., iv. [99].
Vandalia, United States warship, sank at Samoa in a hurricane, iv. [554].
Vandalia, Federal sailing-ship, iv. [163];
sails from Hampton Roads with a fleet of coal schooners in charge, [165];
encounters a hurricane, [166].
Vanderbilt, Commodore Cornelius, asked for what sum he would destroy the Merrimac, iv. [212].
Van Dorn, Confederate gun-boat, rams the Mound City and disables her, iv. [294].
Varuna, Federal screw corvette, iv. [314].
Vaughan, Captain William, at Sackett’s Harbor, ii. [267];
drives off the British, [268].
Vengeance, American brig, in Paul Jones’s fleet, i. [232].
Vengeance, French frigate, fight with the Constellation, i. [323];
surrenders, [327];
slips away in the night to Curaçao, [328];
returned to France, [330].
Vera Cruz, Mexico, siege and blockade of, by Americans, iii. [417–424];
the city captured, [424–427];
the navy’s part in the capture, [424].
Vergennes, Vt., Macdonough builds the Saratoga there, iii. [137].
Vesuvius, United States dynamite cruiser, iv. [540].
Veterans of the Peninsular War sent to subjugate America, iii. [135].
Vicksburg, Admiral Farragut’s fleet arrives at, iv. [341];
moves made against, by way of the Yazoo River country, [350];
they failed, [ib.];
General Grant arrives before, [351];
Admiral Porter tries to get in behind, [358–363];
Grant surrounds, [363].
Victor, British gun-boat, captures the Hancock, i. [185].
Vigilant, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Vincennes, American ship, sent to Japan in 1845, iii. [440].
Vincennes, Federal war-ship, iv. [129];
misunderstands signals, [133], [134].
Viper, American gun-boat, iii. [141].
Virginia, American frigate, grounded in Chesapeake Bay, i. [186].
Virginia, English frigate, i. [284].
Virginia, a name given to the reconstructed Merrimac, but not used, iv. [189].
Vixen, American cruiser, in the attack on Tripoli, i. [374].
Vixen, American brig, captured by British frigate Southampton, ii. [348].
Vixen, American steamer, in attack on Alvarado, iii. [410].
Voluntaire, French frigate, i. [316].
Wabash, United States screw frigate, iv. [15];
commanded by Captain Samuel Mercer, [99];
Captain C. R. P. Rodgers, commander, [163].
Wachusett, Federal frigate, captures the Florida, iv. [424].
Wadsworth, Captain Alexander Scammel, appointed to the Constellation, iii. [327].
“Waggon, The,” a contemptuous term applied to the frigate President by the British, ii. [360].
Wales, Captain R. W., fights a battle with the Peacock, iii. [68–71];
surrenders, [71];
his ship is carried into Savannah, [77].
Walke, Commander Henry, in charge of transport Supply, iv. [115];
disobeys orders, [ib.];
is court-martialed, [116];
appointed to command the Taylor, [250];
convoys General Grant down the Mississippi, [251];
in command of gun-boat Taylor, [251];
gallant conduct of, [252];
his timely aid, [ib.];
commands the Carondelet in Commodore Foote’s fleet, [255];
his seeming insolence to Commodore Foote, [266];
commences the attack on Fort Donelson, [268];
diverts the Confederates’ attention from Grant, [271];
successfully runs the Carondelet past the batteries of Island No. 10, [281];
resourcefulness of, [282];
passes six forts, under fire of fifty guns, [283];
aids the Cincinnati, [294].
Walker, American whaler, captured by the Peruvian cruiser Nereyda, iii. [7].
“Wall-piece,” a gun used in capturing the Margaretta, i. [17].
Wampanoag, Federal ironclad, iv. [472], [473].
War of 1812, events which led up to, i. [383];
Great Britain fomented discord between the States of the Union, [384];
used every means to harass American commerce, [ib.];
impressed men by force to serve on English ships, [386];
used the press-gang in foreign ports, [387];
demanded right of search on the high seas, [ib.];
used nothing to enforce an order but the cat-o’-ninetails, [389];
American ships stripped of their crews, [397];
five men off the Baltimore impressed in the British service, [401];
the affair of the Leopard and Chesapeake, [402–413];
case of the Spitfire and Guerrière, ii. [7];
tricky conduct of the officers of two British frigates, [15];
war declared, [28];
justified by the Trent affair, iv. [140].
War-ship, the first submarine, i. [157];
the first Yankee, on fresh waters, ii. [264];
development of the, from 1815–1859, iv. [1–9].
Ward, Fleet Officer James H., his attack on the Acquia Creek batteries, iv. [81];
killed, [82].
Ward, Samuel, Rhode Island delegate to Continental Congress, i. [31].
Warren, Fort, Mass., Mason and Slidell confined there, iv. [156].
Warren, American frigate, i. [280], [283].
Warrington, Master-commandant Lewis, iii. [66];
attacks and captures the Epervier, [66–71];
succeeds Porter in clearing the South American coast of pirates, [338].
Washington, American galley, i. [89]; on Lake Champlain, [99].
Washington, George, and the Congress of the United Colonies, i. [27].
Washington, D. C., conduct of the British sailors at capture of, ii. [418], [419].
Wasp, schooner, of first American Navy, i. [40].
Wasp (No. 2), American sloop-of-war, fight with the Frolic, ii. [107–117];
both the Wasp and the Frolic captured by the British frigate Poictiers, [118], [119];
taken into the British navy and lost at sea, [119].
Wasp (No. 3), American sloop-of-war, cuts her way through British blockaders, iii. [81];
fights and captures the Reindeer, [86–88];
comparison of the two ships, [91];
cuts out the Mary under the convoy of the Armada, and is chased by the Armada, [92];
encounters the Avon, [93];
fights and disables her, [97];
the Castilian and Tartarus appear and chase the Wasp off, [97];
captures two merchantmen and the Atalanta, [100];
mysterious end of, [102–104].
Waters, Captain Daniel, assists in capturing a British troop-ship, i. [203];
desperate fight with two British sloops-of-war, [209].
Water Witch, carries an exploring expedition to Parana, iii. [464].
Water Witch, Federal war-ship, iv. [129–133].
Watson, William H., Lieutenant, ii. [364];
is cut down and carried off unconscious, [ib.];
captures a pirate schooner off South America, iii. [335].
Watt, British privateer, fights with the Trumbull, i. [291].
Webb, Confederate ram, iv. [352].
Weehawken, Federal ironclad, iv. [480].
Weitzel, General, in command of troops at Fort Fisher, iv. [513].
Welles, Gideon, Secretary of the Navy, his account of the effect that the raid of the Merrimac had upon a cabinet meeting at Washington, iv. [211].
Wellington, Duke of, on the character of the veterans sent to America, iii. [134].
“Wellington’s Invincibles” invade the Sorel River, iii. [135];
sent to New Orleans under Sir Edward Packenham, iii. [230].
Wellington, British gun-boat, iii. [143].
Wells, Clark H., Lieutenant-Commander, iv. [389].
West India pirates, iii. [324].
Western waters, ships of the line of battle on, iv. [249].
Westfield, Federal ship, destroyed by the Confederates, iv. [357].
West Wind, Federal merchant-ship, captured by Confederate cruiser Sumter, iv. [415].
Whaler, an armed British, transformed into a Yankee cruiser, iii. [9], [10].
Whaling fleet, British, taken by surprise, iii. [8–10].
Wheaton, Joseph, one of the capturers of the Margaretta, i. [16].
Whinyates, Captain Thomas, ii. [106];
encounters the Wasp in a gale, [ib.];
gives battle to the Wasp, [107];
wounded, [112];
surrenders, [116];
his ship recaptured by the Poictiers, [118].
Whipple, Abraham, in command of boats attacking the Gaspé, i. [9];
commands American ship Columbus, [66];
in charge of the Providence, [281].
Whiskey demijohns for torpedoes, iv. [350].
White River, Ark., Federal operations on, iv. [307].
White Squadron, formation of, iv. [531–554].
Whitehead, Federal gun-boat, iv. [457].
Wickes, Captain Lambert, in the fight with the Shark, i. [71];
carries Franklin to France, [114];
captures prizes, [ib.];
goes on a cruise in the Bay of Biscay, [ib.];
captures fifteen prizes, [118].
Wilderness, building war-ships and gun-boats in the, ii. [286].
Wilkes, Captain Charles, stops the British steamer Trent and takes off Mason and Slidell, iv. [144–160];
sails into Boston, with his prisoners, [148], [149];
his conduct commended by Secretary of the Navy Welles, [ib.]
Wilkinson, General, attempts to attack Montreal, ii. [271];
expedition fails, [272];
builds winter quarters on Salmon River, [ib.]
William, American merchant-ship, captured by the Java, ii. [153];
recaptured by Captain Lawrence, of the Hornet, [181].
William S. Robins, merchant-ship, captured by Confederate privateers, iv. [97].
Williams, Richard, reports to the British Government on the Trent affair, iv. [150].
Williams, Captain John Foster, captures the British brig Active, i. [206];
fights and blows up the British privateer Admiral Duff, [207];
compels the frigate Thames to haul off, [ib.]
Williamson, Chief Engineer W. P., assists in the reconstruction of the frigate Merrimac into an ironclad, iv. [185–186].
Will-o’-the-Wisp, blockade runner, iv. [57];
description of, [ib.]
Wilmer, American gun-boat, iii. [141].
Wilmington, N. C., a favorite resort of blockade-runners, iv. [41].
Wilson, Lieutenant-commander Byron, iv. [363–369].
Winnebago, Federal monitor, iv. [386].
Winona, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. [315].
Wissahickon, Federal screw gun-boat, iv. [315].
Wolfe, British sloop-of-war, ii. [348].
Wood, Lieutenant John Taylor, iv. [189];
boards and destroys the Federal gun-boat Underwriter, [452];
his statement on the retiring of the Monitor from the fight, [230], [231].
Woodworth, Lieutenant S. E., iv. [364].
Woolsey, Lieutenant Melancthon, ii. [264].
Worden, Lieutenant John L., causes Fort Pickens to be reinforced, iv. [119];
arrested and held prisoner for seven months, [ib.];
Captain of the Monitor, [205];
begins the battle with the Merrimac, [219];
gets to close quarters, [222];
has his ship under good control, [212];
disabled, [225];
Lieutenant Greene succeeds him in command, [229];
transferred to a tug and taken to Washington, [230];
letter to him from his crew, [233];
Captain of the Montauk, [480].
Wright, Governor, of St. John’s, captured by Captain Selman, i. [203];
released, [ib.]
Wyalusing, Federal gun-boat, iv. [457].
Wyer, Captain, captures four prizes in the Mediterranean, iii. [343].
Wyman, Captain R. W., at Port Royal, iv. [163].
Yankee squadron, first cruise of the, i. [48].
Yarmouth, British ship, attacked by the Randolph, i. [162].
Yarnall, Lieutenant, in the battle of Lake Erie, ii. [313];
Perry leaves him in charge, [318].
Yellow fever decimates the crews of the American ships before Vera Cruz, iii. [418].
Yeo, Sir James L., placed in command of the British naval forces on Lake Ontario, ii. [348];
captures the American brig Vixen in the West Indies, [ib.];
sends an insulting challenge to Captain Porter of the Essex, [ib.];
captures two schooners and supplies, [ib.];
meets Commodore Chauncey’s squadron, [349];
has some brushes with the enemy, [350–353];
operations on Lake Ontario, iii. [114–126].
York, Confederate privateer, iv. [93].
Yucatan, Mexico, governed by the Americans during the Mexican War, iii. [414].