The Naval History of the United States. Volume 2

by Willis J. Abbot

• [CHAPTER I.]
• Police Service on the High Seas.—War Service in Asiatic Ports.—Losses by the Perils of the Deep.—A Brush With the Pirates.—Admiral Rodgers at Corea.—Services in Arctic Waters.—The Disaster at Samoa.—The Attack on the "Baltimore's" Men at Valparaiso.—Loss of the "Kearsarge."—The Naval Review.
• [CHAPTER II.]
• The Naval Militia.—A Volunteer Service which in Time of War will be Effective.—How Boys are Trained for the Life of a Sailor.—Conditions of Enlistment in the Volunteer Branch of the Service.—The Work of the Seagoing Militia in Summer.
• [CHAPTER III.]
• How the Navy Has Grown.—The Cost and Character of Our New White Ships of War.—Our Period of Naval Weakness and our Advance to a Place among the Great Naval Powers.—The New Devices of Naval Warfare.—The Torpedo, the Dynamite Gun, and the Modern Rifle.—Armor and its Possibilities.

PART V.
THE NAVAL WAR WITH SPAIN.

• [CHAPTER I.]
• The State of Cuba.—Pertinacity of the Revolutionists.—Spain's Sacrifices and Failure.—Spanish Barbarities.—The Policy of Reconcentration.—American Sympathy Aroused.—The Struggle in Congress.—The Assassination of the "Maine."—Report of the Commission.—The Onward March to Battle.
• [CHAPTER II.]
• The Opening Days of the War.—The First Blow Struck in the Pacific.—Dewey and his Fleet.—The Battle at Manila.—An Eye-witness' Story.—Delay and Doubt in the East.—Dull Times for the Blue-jackets.—The Discovery of Cervera.—Hobson's Exploit.—The Outlook.
• [CHAPTER III.]
• The Spanish Fleet makes a Dash from the Harbor.—Its total Destruction.—Admiral Cervera a Prisoner.—Great Spanish Losses.—American Fleet Loses but one Man.

LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

• [Battle of Lake Champlain.]
• [Blue-Jackets at the Guns.]
• [The Fight with the "Boxer."]
• [The Surrender of the "Boxer."]
• [On the Way to Lake Erie.]
• [Hiram Paulding fires the Guns.]
• [Boarding the "Reindeer."]
• [The Captain of the "Reindeer."]
• [The End of the "Reindeer."]
• [The End of the "Wasp."]
• [The Descent on Wareham.]
• [The Battle of the Barges.]
• [Sharp-Shooters.]
• [The March on Washington.]
• [The Burning of Washington.]
• [Planning the Attack.]
• [The Star Spangled Banner.]
• ["President" and "Endymion."]
• [The "President" tries to Escape.]
• [Foundered at Sea.]
• [Privateersmen at Home.]
• [Prison Chaplain and Jailor.]
• [King Dick and his Chaplain.]
• [The last Volley of the War.]
• [Blue-Jackets before Vera Cruz.]
• [The "Hartford," Farragut's Flagship.]
• [Departure of a Naval Expedition from Port Royal.]
• [Fort Moultrie.]
• [Anderson's Command occupying Fort Sumter.]
• [Major Robert Anderson.]
• [Fort Sumter under Fire.]
• [Destruction of Norfolk Navy-Yard.]
• [The "French Lady."]
• [Blockading the Mouth of the Mississippi.]
• [Flag of the Confederacy.]
• [Naval Patrol on the Potomac.]
• [The Fleet off Hatteras.]
• [Attack on the Hatteras Forts.]
• [Shores of Albemarle Sound.]
• [Contrabands escaping to Fleet.]
• [Flag of South Carolina.]
• [Destruction of the "Albemarle."]
• [Nassau: The Haunt of the Blockade-Runners.]
• [Cotton Ships at Nassau.]
• [Blockade-Runner in North Carolina Sounds.]
• [Pursuing a Blockade-Runner.]
• [Fortress Monroe.]
• [Du Pont's Expedition off Cape Hatteras.]
• [The Opening Gun.]
• [The Fight at Hilton Head.]
• ["Merrimac" and "Cumberland."]
• [Battle of the "Monitor" and "Merrimac."]
• [Handling a Gun.]
• [A River-Gunboat.]
• [Mortar Boats at Island No. 10.]
• [Looting a Prize.]
• [Sinking of the "Alabama."]
• [Rescue of Capt. Semmes.]
• [The End of a Privateer.]
• [The "Nashville" burning a Prize.]
• ["Shenandoah" burning Whalers.]
• [Fort Pensacola.]
• [Destruction of the Schooner "Judah."]
• [Capture of the "Harriet Lane."]
• [Levee at New Orleans before the War.]
• [Fire-raft at Forts of the Mississippi.]
• [Breaking the Chain.]
• [Ram "Tennessee" at Mobile Bay.]
• [New Orleans on Approach of Fleet.]
• [The "Arkansas" under Fire.]
• [Porter's Flotilla on the Red River.]
• [Dummy Gunboat passing Forts on the Mississippi.]
• [Passing the Vicksburg Batteries.]
• [Manning the Yards.]
• [Bailey's Dam on the Red River.]
• [Cutting out a Blockade-Runner.]
• [War-ships off Charleston Harbor.]
• [Charleston Bombarded.]
• [Fight at Mobile Bay.]
• [Charge of Sailors at Fort Fisher.]
• [Attack on a Corean Fort.]
• [Wreck of United States War-ships off Samoa.]
• [Wreck of the "Kearsarge."]
• [Cruiser "Columbia" (Commerce Destroyer).]
• [Torpedo Boat "Cushing."]
• [Armored Cruiser "New York."]
• [Dynamite Cruiser "Vesuvius."]
• [United States Battle-ship "Indiana."]
• [Partial View of the Wreck of the "Maine."]
• [Dewey at Manila.]
• [The "Zealandia" leaving San Francisco with Troops for the Philippines.]
• [Morro Castle, Santiago De Cuba.]
• [The Protected Cruiser "Olympia," Admiral Dewey's Flagship.]
• [Admiral George Dewey.]
• [Acting Rear Admiral W. T. Sampson.]
• [Rear-Admiral Montgomery Sicard.]
• [Commodore W. S. Schley.]
• [Captain A. S. Barker.]
• [Captain "Jack" Philip.]
• [Commodore J. Crittenden Watson.]
• [Ensign Worth Bagley Of The "Winslow."]
• [Cadet George T. Pettengill.]
• [Captain F. W. Dickins.]
• [Commodore John A. Howell.]
• [Brig.-Gen. H. C. Hasbrouck.]
• [Captain C. E. Clark.]
• [Admiral F. M. Bunce.]
• [Bombardment of Spanish Ports and Fleet at Santiago De Cuba, July 6, 1898.]
• ["Maria Teresa" and "Vizcaya" burning on the Beach near Santiago.]
• [The Flagship "New York," followed by the "Vixen," closing on the "Cristobal Colon," while the Latter was being run ashore west of Santiago.]
• [Effect of a Single Spanish Shot on Upper Deck of the Battle-Ship "Texas".]
• [Band of the "Oregon" playing Funeral March after the Defeat of the "Colon".]
• [Engineer Battalion unloading Tools at Siboney.]
• [Auxiliary Cruisers protecting Landing.]
• [Commodore Watson's Fleet for Service in Spanish Waters.]

CHAPTER XII.

CAPTURE OF THE "SURVEYOR." — WORK OF THE GUNBOAT FLOTILLA. — OPERATIONS ON CHESAPEAKE BAY. — COCKBURN'S DEPREDATIONS. — CRUISE OF THE "ARGUS." — HER CAPTURE BY THE "PELICAN." — BATTLE OF THE "ENTERPRISE" AND "BOXER." — END OF THE YEAR 1813 ON THE OCEAN.