The history of our Navy from its origin to the present day, 1775-1897, vol. 4 (of 4) - John Randolph Spears

But when all has been told and written about the history of the American navy since the Civil War, the one significant fact of all is this: we have from our own resources, mental and material, sent afloat a White Squadron that, though small in number, is fit to keep the sea in spite of foul weather or any other foul force.

The Eber.
The Trenton.

The Harbor after the Samoan Hurricane.

From a photograph.

INDEX

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

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