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- 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].