| Burning of the Night Hawk | Frontispiece | [iv] |
| Chart of Wilmington Harbour and Approaches | Page | [45] |
| Portrait of Colonel Lamb | To face page | [56] |
| Banshee chased by James Adger | To face page | [78] |
| Will-o'-the-wisp's Dash for Wilmington | To face page | [106] |
| Banshee No. 2 Running the Gauntlet of the Galveston Blockading Squadron in Daylight | To face page | [156] |
| Map of the East Coast of North America | [At end] |
CHAPTER I
HOW I BEGAN
Feeling in Liverpool—Declaration of blockade—Its immediate
result—Effect on trade in Liverpool—The theory of
blockades—Attitude of the Federal States—Seaboard of the
Seceding States—The Federal Navy—Energy of the Northern
States—Additions to the Federal Fleet—Position of the
Southerners at sea—Want of building yards and material—Commerce
destroyers—The Merrimac and the Monitor—The Alabama