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Running the Blockade / A Personal Narrative of Adventures, Risks, and Escapes During the American Civil War

Chapter 16: INDEX
By Thomas E. Taylor
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A first-person account of repeated attempts to run a naval blockade during the American Civil War, recounting dangerous escapes, calculated risks, and the practical organisation of systematic blockade-running operations. Alongside vivid adventure, the work analyses blockade practice, distinguishing military and commercial blockades, exploring legal questions about effective blockade and contraband, and describing tactics used by blockaders such as cruising far from and near departure points and attempts to control neutral harbors. The narrative is supplemented by maps and illustrations and aims to combine personal memoir with practical lessons for naval strategy.

INDEX

Abaco lighthouse, 83
Alabama, the, 7, 8, 78
American Civil War, outbreak of, 1
Arab horse, an, 97, 98, 99
Astoria, the, 30
Avery, Mrs., 159
Azores, gale off the, 20
Bahamas, the, 24, 27, 39, 48, 82, 169
Banshee, the, 33, 35, 36, 38, 39, 40, 41, 43, 47, 48,
51, 59, 64, 67, 68, 69, 70, 73, 84, 93, 114, 115
breakdown of, 71
capture of, 85
crew of, 34
defects of, 35
engines of, 47
fire on, 76, 77
open house on, 65
precautions on, 50
total loss of, 85
Banshee No. 2, the, 85, 98, 99, 100, 101, 124, 137, 139,
141, 143, 148, 150, 151, 157, 160, 161, 163, 164
Baton Rouge, 159
Bayley, Mrs., 88
Bermuda, 24, 39, 115, 117, 129, 169
Big Hill, the, 53
Blockade, declaration, 3
experts, 28
lessons of the, 167
Blockaders and blockade-runners, 167
Blockade-running, excitement of, 49
profits of, 10, 69, 85
risks of, 10
Blockades of the future, 169
Blockading fleet, the, 6
Bragg, General, 163
Branchville, 137
British Government, attitude of, 9, 39
British merchants, Southern sympathies of, 38
Burgoyne, Captain Hugh, V.C., 59, 89, 91
Burroughs, Pilot, 43, 51, 52, 53, 75, 117
Butler, General, 133
Cape Fear, 49
Cape Fear Club, 63
Cape Fear river, 44, 47, 58
Cape Hatteras, 4, 85
Capper, Captain, 101, 102, 108, 109
Captain, H.M.S., 59, 89, 91
Captures, 12
Charleston, 24, 25, 28, 38, 117, 137, 163
ships blockading, 6
trade of, 25
Chase, a weary, 81
City Point, 58
Clawson, Mr. T. W., 61
Collie and Co., Alexander, 26
Commerce destroyers, 7
Confederate fleet, the, 6, 7, 8
ports, 11
states, trade of, 18
Congress, the, 7
Craig's Landing, 60, 62
Crawford, Mr., 146
Cuba, 145, 162
Cumberland, the, 7
Curtis, General, 57, 61, 62, 63
Danville, 135, 140
Davis, Mr. Jefferson, 97
Deserter, execution of a, 159
Despatch, the, 17, 30
breakdown of, 19, 20
cargo on, 17, 19
condemned, 28
in quarantine, 30
reaches Nassau, 20
release of, 32
seizure of, 31
start of, 19
yellow fever on board, 30
Dinner bill, a, 139
Dixie, 58
Doering, Mr. Arthur, 88, 89, 94, 96
Don, the, 90
Erskine, chief engineer, 42, 77, 78, 81, 82
Eugénie, the, 76
Falcon, the, 124, 128
Farragut, Admiral, 8
Fastnet, the, 35
Federal Navy, inadequacy of the, 8
Florida, the, 7
Fort Caswell, 111, 112
Fort Fisher, 46, 48, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 60, 61,
67, 73, 99, 103, 113, 114, 116, 140, 141, 163
Fort Lafayette, 85
Fraser, Trenholm and Co., 26
Freight charges, 18
Funchal Bay, 38
Galveston, 25, 44, 111, 148, 150, 151,
152, 153, 157, 159, 160, 163
Galveston Bay, 157
Game-cock, a, 100
Georgia, 137
Georgia, the, 7
Grace Church, 57
Great Eastern, the, 59
Greenough or Greenhow, Mrs. Rose, 60, 128
Gulf-stream, action of the, 169
Halifax, 115
Halpin, Captain, 59, 76, 77
Hamilton, 116
Hampton Roads, 7
Harper, Captain John, 63
Harper's Ferry, 57
Havana, 25, 145, 146, 148, 149, 154, 162, 164
Heiliger, Mr., 97, 133
Hewett, Captain, afterwards Admiral, V.C., 59, 89, 91, 124, 125
Hicks Pasha, 89
Hobart Pasha, 59, 89, 90
Mrs., 87, 89
Hoke, General, 134
Holcombe, Professor, 60
Houston, 158, 159, 160
Hurst, Mr. Frank, 88, 90, 115, 148, 154, 158, 161, 165
Infernal machine, an, 129
International Exhibition, the, 9
Irishman, a resourceful, 121
James Adger, the, 78, 80, 84
James river, the, 135, 136
John Brown raid, the, 57
Joint Stock Companies, establishment of, 93
Lafitte, Mr. J. B., 26
Lamb, Col. William, 55, 56, 57, 61, 62, 63,
67, 75, 99, 104, 118, 125, 137, 163
Mrs., 56, 57
Lawley, Hon. Francis, 59
Lee, General, 135, 137
army of, 137, 139, 163
Lincoln, President, 2, 3, 8
Liquidation, a disastrous, 164
Liverpool, 33
confederate vessel in, 17
feeling in, 3, 10
Loading, reckless, 66
Look-out man, pay of the, 48
Madeira, 36
Maffitt, Captain, 42
Magruder, General, 157
May, Mr., 126
Merrimac, the, 7, 8
Mexico, Gulf of, 149, 162
Minnesota, the, 67
Mississippi, the, 159
Mobile, 7, 8, 25
Monitor, the, 7
Murray-Aynsley, Admiral, 59, 79, 81, 83, 90, 92, 165
Mrs., 87, 89
Nassau, 20, 22, 23, 24, 27, 38, 39, 40, 43, 44, 47,
69, 80, 82, 101, 109, 114, 115, 129, 131, 133, 140,
141, 145, 146, 147, 149, 160, 162, 163, 165, 174
agencies at, 24
freight charges at, 18
life at, 86-100
yellow fever at, 96, 97
National character, 175
New Orleans, 25
New Providence, 20
New York, 30
Night Hawk, the, 59, 116, 117, 118, 126, 162, 164
boarded by Northerners, 120
on fire, 121, 122, 123
Niphon, the, 74
Norfolk Navy Yard, 5, 7
Norfolk, surrender of, 57
North Breaker shoal, the, 54, 73, 119
North, policy of the, 29
"Norther," a, 149, 150, 154
Northerners, energy of the, 5
fleet of the, 5
views of, as to belligerents, 36
Oreto, the, 42
Orton, 58
Paris, Congress at, 4
Petersburg, 133, 135
Plimsoll Act, the, 16
Port Royal, 30
Porter's fleet, admiral, 60, 140, 141, 142
Portman, Mr. Maurice, 89
Potomac river, 4
Power, Mr. Tom, 64
Providence, 57
Quarantine, 97
Queenstown, 20, 35
Quick-firing guns, 172
Race, a ding-dong, 79
Randolph, General, 142
Mrs., 143
Rappahanock, the, 8
Rhode Island, 57
Richmond, 44, 98, 128, 131, 132, 133, 134, 135, 136, 137, 140
privations in, 138
Rio Grande, the, 4
"Roberts," Captain, 59, 90, 91
Royal Proclamation, reception of a, 9
St. John, 32
Savannah, 42
Search-lights, 170, 171
Seceding States, seaboard of, 4
Shenandoah, the, 7
Sherman, General, 137
Smith's Inlet, 118
Smith's Island, 45
Somnambulism, 20, 21
South, acknowledgment of the, as belligerents, 3
partisan leaning towards, 12
Southern Historical Papers, extract from, 57
Southern Ports, blockade of the, 3
cargo suitable for, 18
States, secession of, 2
traders, 26
Southerners, Navy of the, 6, 7
Speed of vessels, 173
Stanton, Mr. Secretary, 58
Steele, Captain, 41, 42, 51, 52, 53, 67, 76,
78, 79, 82, 85, 89, 109, 113, 152, 154
Stormy Petrel, the, 114
Stowaway, a, 80
Suakim, Admiral Hewett, V.C., at, 91
Sumpter, the, 8
Tallahasse, the, 8
Taylor, Mr. Tom, 59
Tennessee, 137
Tennessee, the, 8
Texas, 158
Trent affair, the, 13, 39
Trent, the, 13
Tripod, the, 161, 162
Tristram Shandy, the, 94, 95
Tubal Cain, the, 42
United States, fleet of the, 4
Mercantile Navy of the, 8
Venus, the, 92
Virginia, 140
Vizitelly, Mr. Frank, 59, 89
War, end of the, 163
Washington, 58, 85
Watson, Mr. L. G., 26, 89
Whiting, General, 60, 62
Whitworth guns, Colonel Lamb's, 56, 137
Wild Dayrell, the, 111, 114
loss of, 113
Wild Rover, the, 114, 141
Wilkes, Captain, afterwards Admiral, 13, 14, 39, 40
Will-o'-the-wisp, the, 101, 114, 144, 151
ashore, 105
destruction of, 111
on fire, 106
sale of, 110
Wilmington, 24, 25, 38, 43, 44, 45, 47, 58,
64, 66, 80, 83, 92, 95, 102, 106, 115,
117, 125, 127, 128, 131, 132, 137, 139,
140, 142, 145, 148, 149, 157, 163, 174
ships blockading, 6
ship-building at, 8
trade of, 25
yellow fever at, 96, 97
Wilmington Bar, 46, 118
Wilmington, the, 63
Wilmington Messenger, extract from the, 61
Wood, Mr. Henry, 63
Yellow Fever, 96