The Gulf and Inland Waters / The Navy in the Civil War. Volume 3.

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INDEX

• Alabama, the, 108
• Albatross, the, 134 et seq., 152, 165 et seq.
• Alden, Commander James, 54, 134, 136, 229
• Alexandria, dam built at, 203 et seq.
• Alice Vivian, the, U.S. transport, 197
• Althea, the, 249
• Apalachicola, Fla., 3
• Arkansas Post (Fort Hindman), 120, 161
• Arkansas, the, Confederate ram, 98 et seq.;
  • destruction of, 105, 119
• Arizona, the, 164, 166 et seq., 187
• Augur, General, 167
• Averett, Lieutenant, 35
  
  
• Bache, Lieutenant George M., 121, 147, 170, 178, 191, 197, 212
• Bacon, Lieutenant George B., 68
• Bailey, Captain Theodorus, 53, 72, 82, 86 et seq.
• Bailey, Lieutenant-Colonel Joseph, builds a dam at Alexandria, 204 et seq., 207;
  • promoted to Brigadier-General, 209, 211
• Baldwin, Lieutenant Charles H., 56
• Banks, General, succeeds Butler in Gulf Department, 109, 139, 153;
  • toward Alexandria, 164 et seq., 176, 183;
  • sent to Texas, 185 et seq., 194 et seq.;
  • on the Red River, 198 et seq., 204;
  • relieved by Canby, 211
• Baron de Kalb, the, see De Kalb.
• Batey, the, Confederate steamer, 129, 131
• Baton Rouge, La., surrender of, 90, 104 et seq., 109
• Batteries: Chalmette, the, 60, 83, 85;
  • McGehee, the, 60, 85
• Beauregard's evacuation of Memphis, 47
• Bell, Captain H.H., 54, 66, 77, 187
• Belmont, Mo., Union victory at, 19, 21
• Bennett, Lieutenant J.W., 220
• Benton, the, Union gunboat, 15;
  • before Island No. 10, 31, 42, 44 et seq., 47 et seq., 51, 103, 107, 116, 123, 155 et seq., 160 et seq., 166, 169 et seq., 191
• Black Hawk, the, U.S. steamer, 114, 121, 123, 191
• Blake, Lieutenant, 5
• Blockade, purpose of, 3 et seq.
• Blodgett, Lieutenant, of the Conestoga, 50
• Blue Wing, the, U.S. transport, 120, 122
• Boggs, Commander Charles S., 54, 82
• Bois, Frank, 170
• Bowling Green, Ky., 21
• Brand, Lieutenant-Colonel, 129, 131
• Breckenridge, General, commands an attack on Baton Rouge, 105 et seq.
• Breese, Lieutenant-Commander K.R., 163, 168, 191
• Brent, Major J.L. (afterward Colonel), 129, 131, 201 (note) et seq.
• Brooklyn, U.S. sloop, 53 et seq., 76 et seq., 83, 85, 90, 94 et seq., 104, 228 et seq., 237, 244 (note)
• Brown, Commander Isaac N., 99 et seq.
• Brown, Lieutenant-Commander George, of the Indianola, 126, 128 et seq., 229
• Browne, Lieutenant G.W., 191
• Bryant, Lieutenant N.C., of the Cairo, 42
• Buchanan, Admiral Franklin, 220, 235 et seq., 239 et seq.;
  • wounded, 242 et seq.
• Buchanan, Lieutenant-Commander, 109
• Buell, Major-General, 37 et seq.
• Burnham, Captain A.H., 220 (note)
• Burnside, General, 183
• Butler, General B.F., at New Orleans, 85, 87;
  • succeeded by General Banks in Department of Gulf, 109
  
  
• Cairo, Ill., 9 et seq.
• Cairo, the, Union gunboat, 14, 42, 48, 117
• Caldwell, Lieutenant C.H.B., 54, 66 et seq.;
  • before New Orleans, 72 et seq., 133, 168
• Calhoun, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 109, 164
• Canal, cut by Pope, 31;
  • around Vicksburg, 141
• Canby, General, commands Department of West Mississippi, 211, 225, 246, 249
• Carondelet, the, Union gunboat, 14, 21, 24;
  • before Donelson, 26 et seq.;
  • her passage to New Madrid in thunder-storm, 32 et seq., 36, 42, 44 et seq., 48, 51;
  • fights with the Arkansas, 99 et seq.;
  • losses on, 102, 123, 147, 154 et seq., 157, 160, 168, 170, 191, 194, 207, 215 et seq.
• Cayuga, U.S. gunboat, 53 et seq., 72 et seq., 80, 82 et seq., 85, 105
• Chickasaw, the, 226 et seq., 229, 242 et seq., 245, 247
• Chillicothe, the U.S. vessel, 111 et seq., 123, 142 et seq., 145 et seq., 191, 194 et seq., 207
• Choctaw, the, U.S. vessel, 111, 113, 163, 172, 177, 192
• Churchill, General, surrenders to McClernand, 122
• Cincinnati, the, Union gunboat, 14, 21 et seq., 42 et seq., 103, 120 et seq., 147;
  • loss of, 170, 172, 177 et seq., 249
• Clifton, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 95 et seq., 164, 187
• Collins, John, 233
• Colorado, flag-ship, 5, 53, 57
• Columbus, Ky., fortified by Confederates, 11, 18, 21;
  • fall of, 28 et seq.
• Conestoga, the, Union gunboat, 12, 18, 21, 27, 50
• Confederate navy, commanded by Hollins, 40;
  • fourteen river steamboats seized for, 41 et seq.;
  • spirited attack by, 43 et seq.;
  • ten vessels before New Orleans, 60 et seq.;
  • condemnation of, 84 et seq.
• Cooke, Commander A.P., 164
• Cornay, Captain, 202 (note)
• Cornyu, Colonel, 182
• Corpus Christi, Texas, 108
• Cotton, the, Confederate steamer, 109
• Couthony, Lieutenant S.P., 191
• Covington, the, 182, 209 et seq.
• Cox, General, 183
• Craven, Captain Thomas T., 54;
  • commands a fleet from New Orleans, 90, 96;
  • heroic death of, 231
• Craven, Commander T.A.M., 229
• Cricket, the, 178, 191 et seq., 195, 199 et seq.
• Crocker, Lieutenant Frederick, 187
• Crosby, Lieutenant Pierce, 54, 66, 248
• Cummings, A. Boyd, 136
• Curtis, General, 49, 107
  
  
• Dahlgren, Acting-Master C.B., 172
• Dana, General, 188
• Davis, Captain Charles H., 40, 47, 49;
  • made flag-officer, 51;
  • in the Yazoo, 97 et seq.;
  • follows the Arkansas, 102 et seq.;
  • arranges an expedition, 107;
  • relieved in command, 110
• Davis, Jefferson, 131
• De Camp, Commander John, 54, 89
• Defiance, the, Confederate vessel, 85
• DeKalb, the, U.S. ironclad, 118, 120 et seq., 142, 145 et seq., 169, 171, 177.
  • See the St. Louis.
• De Soto, the, 126 et seq.
• Donaldson, Lieutenant Edward, 54, 229
• Donelson, Fort, see Fort Donelson.
• Doubloon, the, Confederate steamer, 81
• Dove, Commander, of the Louisville, 27
• Drayton, Captain Percival, 229, 240
• Duncan, General, 60, 88
• Dunnington, Colonel, surrenders to Admiral Porter, 122
  
  
• Eads, James B., 12
• Eastport, the, Confederate gunboat, 24 et seq., 191 et seq., 198 et seq., 203
• Elfin, the, 214
• Ellet, Colonel Charles, jr., 46 et seq., 119 (note)
• Ellet, Colonel Charles Rivers, 119, 124 et seq.;
  • rashness of, 127 et seq., 140
• Ellet, Lieutenant-Colonel A.W., of the Monarch, 48, 97, 103, 122;
  • reckless daring of, 140
• Ellet, Lieutenant-Colonel John A., 140
• Emory, General, 195
• Enoch Train, the, Confederate ram, 5 et seq.
• Era No. 5, the, 127 et seq.
• Erben, Lieutenant Henry, 42
• Essex, the, 15, 21;
  • disaster to, 23 et seq., 103, 105, 133, 135, 167 et seq., 190
• Estrella, the, 109, 164 et seq., 188
  
  
• Fairplay, the, 215
• Farragut, Flag-Officer David G., commands the Western Gulf Blockading Squadron, 8, 35 et seq.;
  • before New Orleans, 40, 42;
  • at Vicksburg, 51 et seq., 54, 62;
  • prompt action of, 86, 90 et seq.;
  • in the Yazoo, 97 et seq., 101 et seq.;
  • on the Gulf, 107 et seq., 124, 126;
  • moves up the river, 133 et seq.;
  • his advice respecting the Ellet family, 139 et seq., 144;
  • Porter communicates with, 151 et seq., 158;
  • in the Red River, 164 et seq.;
  • returns to Gulf, 174, 183, 187;
  • resumes command, 218, 221;
  • begs for co-operation, 223, 226 et seq.;
  • in action, 232 et seq.;
  • his attack on the Tennessee, 240 et seq.;
  • goes North, 246
• Fawn, the, 212 et seq.
• Featherstone, brigade of, 149
• Ferguson, Colonel, 148 et seq.
• Fitch, Colonel, 50
• Fitch, Lieutenant-Commander Le Roy, 180 et seq., 213 et seq.
• Foote, Flag-Officer A.H., 15 et seq.;
  • his views on manning ships, 17 et seq.;
  • promotion of, 20 et seq.;
  • returns to Cairo, 24 et seq.;
  • wounded, 28, 31, 35 et seq.;
  • at Fort Pillow, 39 et seq.
• Forest Queen, the, 155, 157
• Forest Rose, the, 123, 141 et seq., 171
• Forrest, General, 181, 214
• Forrest, Lieutenant Moreau, 213, 216
• Fort Donelson, Ky., 23;
  • plan of attack on, 25 et seq., 90, 161, 180
• Fort Henry, Ky., expedition against, 21 et seq., 161, 180
• Fort Hindman, see Arkansas Post.
• Fort Hindman, the, 191 et seq., 194 et seq., 199 et seq., 206 et seq.
• Fort Jackson, 58 et seq., 63, 66, 69 et seq., 76, 78 et seq., 87, 89
• Fort McRae, 8
• Fort Pickens, 8
• Fort Pillow, 31, 39 et seq.;
  • force at, 42 et seq., 45
• Fort St. Philip, 58, 60, 62 et seq., 69, 72, 75 et seq., 78 et seq., 87 et seq.
• Fort Sumter, 144
• Foster, Lieutenant-Commander Joseph P., 142, 191
• Franklin, General, 187, 190, 194 et seq., 204
• Fremont, General, 17 et seq.
• Fry, Captain Joseph, 50
• Fulton, the, U.S. ram, 143
  
  
• Gabaudau, Mr., 153
• Gaines, the, Confederate gunboat, 220, 239
• Galena, the, 229, 236, 244 (note)
• Galveston, Tex., 3, 8;
  • disaster at, 108 et seq., 188, 249
• Gamble, Lieutenant-Commander William M., 247
• Gazelle, the, 191
• General Beauregard, the, Confederate ram, 47 et seq.
• General Bragg, the, Confederate ram, 43, 47;
  • capture of, 49, 101, 107, 116
• General Lovell, the, Confederate ram, 47 et seq.
• General Price, the, Confederate ram, 44, 47 et seq., 155 et seq., 166, 170
• General Quitman, the, Confederate vessel, 61, 84
• General Rusk, Confederate steamer, 8
• General Sumter, the, Confederate ram, 44, 47;
  • capture of, 49, 102, 105
• General Thompson, the, Confederate ram, 47;
  • destruction of, 49
• General Van Dorn, the, Confederate ram, 44, 47, 49
• Genesee, the, 134 et seq.
• Gherardi, Lieutenant-Commander Bancroft, 229
• Gillis, Lieutenant-Commander James H., 247
• Gilmore, Theodore, 33
• Glide, the, 122 et seq.
• Gorman, General, 122
• Gorringe, Master H.H., 191, 200
• Governor Moore, the, Confederate vessel, 61, 81 et seq.
• Grand Era, the, Confederate tender, 129
• Grand Gulf, 11, 163 et seq.
• Granger, General, 34, 215, 227, 245, 248
• Granite City, the, 187 et seq.
• Grant, Captain of the General Quitman, 61, 84 (note)
• Grant, General U.S., commands military district about Cairo, 18 et seq.;
  • at Fort Donelson, 25 et seq.;
  • at Pittsburg Landing, 36 et seq.;
  • at Vicksburg, 123 et seq., 139;
  • orders the levee cut, 141, 153, 157, 161;
  • at Grand Gulf, 163, 168 et seq., 172, 176, 178;
  • directions to Steele, 190, 211
• Greene, Lieutenant-Commander Charles H., 229
• Greene, General Thomas, 197
• Greer, Lieutenant-Commander James A., 155, 191
• Gregory, Acting-Master, 43
• Guest, Lieutenant John, 56
• Gunboats, contract for seven, given to Eads, 12 et seq.;
  • delay in equipping for lack of money, 15
• Gwin, Lieutenant, of the Tyler, 21;
  • invaluable service at Pittsburg Landing, 28 et seq., 37 et seq.;
  • in the Yazoo, 99;
  • mortally wounded, 118 et seq.
  
  
• Haines's Bluff, 119, 148
• Halleck, General, his orders unsatisfactory to Captain Foote, 16 et seq., 25;
  • orders to Foote, 28;
  • withdraws Pope's forces from Fort Pillow, 40, 49, 91, 186, 189
• Hamilton, Lieutenant William, 242 (note)
• Harding, Colonel, 180
• Hart, Lieutenant-Commander, John E., 134, 165 et seq.
• Harrell, Lieutenant A.D., 56
• Harriet Lane, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 88, 94 et seq., 108
• Harrison, cavalry of, 197
• Harrison, Commander George W., 220
• Harrison, Lieutenant Napoleon B., 54
• Hartford, the, U.S. flag-ship, 52 et seq., 68, 72, 77, 85, 90, 134 et seq., 139, 151 et seq., 165, 228 et seq., 231 et seq., 236, 238 et seq.
• Hastings, the, U.S. transport, 197
• Hatteras, the, 108
• Helena, Ark., 49 et seq., 110, 116
• Henry Clay, the, 155, 157
• Henry, Fort, see Fort Henry.
• Herron, General, 177
• Hickman, Ky., fortified by Confederates, 11, 18, 29 et seq.
• Higgins, Colonel, 60, 65;
  • condemns Mitchell's course, 70 et seq., 87, 155 (note)
• Hill, plantation of, 148, 150 et seq.
• Hoel, Lieutenant William R., 33, 147, 155, 160, 191
• Hollins, Commodore George N., 7, 35;
  • commands Confederate navy, 40 et seq.
• Hood, General, 213, 215 et seq.
• Hospital fleet, at Pilot Town, 57
• Howard, Lieutenant Samuel, 191
• Huger, Thomas B., mortally wounded, 83
• Hurlburt, General, 37;
  • report of, 39
  
  
• Ida, the, 249
• Illinois, her devotion to the Union, 9
• Illinois, regiment of: Forty-second, 32
• Imperial, the, 173
• Indianola, the, U.S. vessel, 111 et seq., 123, 126, 128 et seq., 152, 165
• Iowa, regiment of: Twenty-third, 176
• Iroquois, the, U.S. corvette, 54, 77 et seq., 83, 89, 94 et seq.
• Island No. 10, 28 et seq., 31 et seq.;
  • surrender of, 34;
  • disappearance of, 36, 39 et seq., 124
• Itasca, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 66 et seq., 71 et seq., 77, 79, et seq., 90, 229
• Ivy, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 166
  
  
• Jackson, Fort, see Fort Jackson.
• Jackson, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 61, 81
• Jackson, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 95
• Jenkins, Captain Thornton A., 184, 227, 229, 235
• Johnson, Acting-Master Amos, 67
• Johnson, Master J.V., 32
• Johnston, Commander J.D., 223, 239;
  • surrenders, 243 et seq., 249
• Jones, Acting-Master Edmund, 67, 72 et seq.
• Jones, Lieutenant-Commander M.P., 247
• Jouett, Lieutenant James E., burns schooner Royal Yacht, 8, 229, 233, 239, 242 (note)
• Juliet, the, 123, 199, 201 et seq.
  
  
• Katahdin, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 73, 95, 105
• Kennebec, U.S. gunboat, 54, 77, 80, 95, 229, 237, 244 (note)
• Kennon, Beverley, of the Governor Moore, 61;
  • encounter with the Varuna, 81 et seq.
• Kentucky, neutrality of, 17
• Key West, description of, 1
• Key West, the, 214
• Kickapoo, the, 247
• Kilby, Commander A.H., 42, 50
• Kimberley, Captain, 240 (note)
• Kineo, U.S. gunboat, 54, 73, 76 et seq., 85, 105, 134 et seq., 183
• King, Lieutenant, 214 et seq.
• Kinsman, the, 109
• Kirkland, Lieutenant-Commander W.A., 247
  
  
• Lackawanna, the, 228 et seq., 237, 240 et seq., 244 (note)
• Lafayette, the, U.S. vessel, 111, 113, 155 et seq., 160 et seq., 166, 191 et seq.
• Lancaster, the, 102, 140
• Langthorne, Lieutenant A.R., 191
• Lee, Admiral S. Phillips, 54, 82, 90, 211, 216 et seq.
• Lee, General Robert E., 249
• Le Roy, Commander William E., 229, 243 et seq.
• Lexington, the, Union gunboat, 12, 18 et seq., 24, 28, 37 et seq., 50, 121, 178 et seq., 191, 193 et seq., 197 et seq., 206
• Liddell, General, 197
• Lincoln, President A., 94 (note)
• Linden, the, 123, 171
• Lioness, the, U.S. ram, 107, 119, 123, 143
• Little Rebel, the, 47;
  • taken into Union fleet, 49
• Livingston, the, Confederate gunboat, 40
• Lord, Lieutenant, 210
• Loring, General, 145
• Louisiana, the, Confederate vessel, 61, 69 et seq., 79 et seq., 85 et seq., 88
• Louisville, the, Union gunboat, 14;
  • injury sustained by, 27, 51, 103, 120 et seq., 147, 151, 155 et seq., 160, 191, 194, 207
• Lovell, Colonel, 84 (note)
• Lovell, General, 41 et seq.;
  • at New Orleans, 59 et seq., 81
• Low, Lieutenant-Commander W.W., 247
  
  
• McCann, Lieutenant-Commander William P., 229
• McClernand, General, 20, 116;
  • at Vicksburg, 120 et seq.
• McCloskey, Captain, 129
• McCulloch, General, 176
• McGunnegle, Lieutenant, 46 (note), 48, 50
• McIntosh, Captain, 88
• McKean, Flag-Officer W.W., succeeds Mervine, 5;
  • commands an indecisive affair in Pensacola Bay, 8;
  • at Ship Island, 52
• McKinstry, Captain J.P., 134, 137
• Macomb, Commander William H., 134
• McRae, Fort, see Fort McRae.
• McRae, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 61, 83 et seq.
• Maitland, pilot, 201 et seq.
• Manassas, the, Confederate ram, 61, 75, 78, 83, 84 (note), 100
• Manhattan, the, 226 et seq., 229, 232, 242 et seq., 245
• Marchand, Captain John B., 229
• Marmora, the, U.S. gunboat, 117, 123, 142, 178
• Maurepas, the, Confederate gunboat, 40
• Memphis, Tenn., 47 et seq.;
  • surrender of, 49
• Mervine, Flag-Officer William, 4 et seq.
• Metacomet, the, 229, 232 et seq., 238 et seq., 242 (note), 244 (note), 248
• Mexico, Gulf of, 1 et seq.
• Miami, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 87, 95
• Milwaukee, the, 247 et seq.
• Mississippi, doubtful allegiance of, 9
• Mississippi River, Government's object in entering, 3;
  • Union humiliation in, 5 et seq.;
  • description of, 9 et seq.;
  • importance of controlling, 11 et seq.;
  • successes on, 23 et seq.;
  • encounter between gunboats on, 43;
  • Confederate rams, 43 et seq.;
  • Confederate fleet conquered, 49 et seq.;
  • naval forces from Gulf and upper river meet in, 51;
  • obstructions in, 64 et seq.;
  • cleared by Caldwell, 68 et seq.;
  • unhealthiness of, 104;
  • controlled by Confederates from Vicksburg to Port Hudson, 106;
  • change of commanders in, 110;
  • successes and disasters in, 125 et seq.;
  • open from Cairo to Gulf, 173
• Mississippi, the, tonnage of, 54, 71, 73 et seq., 76, 83, 86, 134, 137 et seq.
• Missouri, doubtful allegiance of, 9
• Missouri, the, U.S. ship, 138
• Mitchell, Commander, 61, 69 et seq., 88
• Mitchell, Lieutenant-Commander J.G., 191
• Mobile, Ala., 3, 218 et seq.
• Monarch, Union ram, 48 et seq., 107, 122 et seq.
• Monongahela, the, 134 et seq., 184, 188, 229, 237, 240 et seq., 244 (note)
• Montgomery, Captain, 41 et seq., 47
• Moose, the, 183
• Morgan, General J.H., daring raid of, 182
• Morgan, Lieutenant, 210
• Morgan, the, Confederate gunboat, 220, 239
• Morning Light, the, 108
• Morris, Captain H.W., 54
• Morton, Acting-Master Gilbert, 215
• Mosher, the, Confederate tug, 61, 76
• Mound City, the, Union gunboat, 14 et seq., 42, 44 et seq.;
  • catastrophe to, 50, 107, 123, 147, 155 et seq., 160, 162, 168, 170, 191, 194, 207
• Mullany, Commander J.R.M., 229, 238
• Murphy, Lieutenant J.M., 147, 149, 155
• Murphy, Lieutenant P.M., 220
  
  
• Napoleon III., unfriendly attitude toward the United States, 185, 249
• Natchez, surrender of, 90
• Naumkeag, the, 212 et seq.
• Naval, operations, extent of, 1
• Nelson, General, 37 et seq.
• Neosho, the, 191, 194 et seq., 200, 202 et seq., 206 et seq., 216
• New Madrid, Mo., 20;
  • taken by Pope, 30 et seq.
• New Orleans, 2, 59 et seq.;
  • bombardment of, 69 et seq.;
  • surrender of, 86 et seq.
• Niagara, the, 8
• Nichols, Lieutenant Ed. T., 54
• Nicholson, Commander J.W.A., 229
• Nields, Ensign H.C., 233 et seq.
  
  
• Octorara, the, U.S. steamer, 95, 97, 229, 244 (note), 247 et seq.
• Oneida, the, U.S. corvette, 54, 73, 76, 81 et seq., 94, 96, 229, 234 et seq., 238, 244 (note)
• Osage, the, 191 et seq., 194 et seq., 197, 199, 202, 206 et seq., 247
• Ossipee, the, 229, 237, 240, 243 et seq.
• Ouachita, the, 191, 193
• Owasco, the, U.S. gunboat, 55, 95, 188
• Owen, Lieutenant-Commander E.K., 121, 147, 155, 191
• Ozark, the, 191, 194, 206 et seq.
  
  
• Paducah, Ky., seized by Grant, 18, 21
• Palmer, Captain James S., of the Iroquois, 95;
  • of the Hartford, 134
• Palmer, Commodore of the Hartford, 167;
  • left in command, 246, 248
• Parker, Commodore Foxhall A., 240 (note)
• Paulding, Lieutenant, of the St. Louis, 21;
  • before Donelson, 27
• Pearce, Lieutenant John, 191, 200
• Pendergrast, Flag-Officer G.J., commands Home Squadron, 4
• Pennock, Captain Alexander M., 179, 211
• Pensacola Navy Yard, 3, 5, 8, 52, 60, 90, 107, 227 et seq., 242 (note), 246
• Pensacola, the, U.S. vessel, 52 et seq., 73, 75, et seq., 78, 85, 100 (note)
• Perkins, Lieutenant-Commander George H., 229, 242 (note), 247
• Petrel, the, U.S. steamer, 142 et seq., 171
• Phelps, Lieutenant-Commander S.L., of the Conestoga, 18, 21, 24 et seq., 28;
  • of the Benton, 42;
  • commands an expedition from Helena, 107, 179, 182;
  • at Grand Ecore, 195, 198, 200 et seq.
• Pickens, Fort, see Fort Pickens.
• Pierce, Captain, 129
• Pillow, Fort, see Fort Pillow.
• Pinola, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 66 et seq., 71, 77 et seq., 80 et seq., 95
• Pittsburg Landing, 36 et seq.
• Pittsburg, the, Union gunboat, 15, 27, 34, 42, 44, 117, 123, 147, 155, 157, 160 et seq., 166, 191, 194, 207
• Point of Rocks, 158, 161
• Polk, the, Confederate gunboat, 40
• Ponchartrain, the, Confederate gunboat, 40, 50
• Pope, General, at New Madrid, 30 et seq., 34, 36;
  • at Fort Pillow, 39 et seq.
• Porter, Admiral David D., 53, 79, 85, 87;
  • relieves Captain Davis, 110;
  • his orders to Walke, 116;
  • Colonel Dunnington surrenders to, 122 et seq.;
  • success and disasters in Mississippi, 126 et seq.;
  • hopes frustrated, 132, 139 et seq.;
  • undertakes to reach the Yazoo, 147 et seq.;
  • before Vicksburg, 154, 158, 161;
  • at Grand Gulf, 163, 165 et seq.;
  • assumes command of river, 174;
  • inaugurates raids, 177, 179, 189 et seq.;
  • in the Red River, 194 et seq., 200 et seq., 204;
  • at Red River Dam, 206;
  • relieved by Porter, 211
• Porter, Commander William D., 15, 21, 23, 88, 90 et seq., 94;
  • ordered to Hampton Roads, 97, 103 et seq.
• Port Hudson, 11, 173
• Port Royal, the, 229
• Portsmouth, the, U.S. sloop, 80, 87
• Preble, Lieutenant George H., 54
• Preble, the, sailing sloop, 5, 7
• Prentiss, General, 176
• Princess Royal, the, 183
• Pritchett, Lieutenant-Commander, 175 et seq.
  
  
• Queen City, the, 212 et seq.
• Queen of the West, Union ram, 48, et seq., 84 (note);
  • "lives to fight another day," 99 et seq., 103 et seq., 117, 123 et seq., 140, 151, 165
  
  
• Ramsay, Lieutenant-Commander F.M., 163, 172
• Ransom, Lieutenant George M., 54
• Rattler, the, 121 et seq., 142 et seq., 145
• Read, Abner, 184
• Reed, Acting-Master J.F., 172
• Reynolds, Master, 44
• Richmond, steam sloop, 5 et seq., 54, 77, 90, 94 et seq., 134 et seq., 138, 153, 167, 217, 227 et seq., 232 et seq., 237, 244 (note)
• River Defence Fleet, 42 et seq., 47, 49, 60 et seq., 81, 84 et seq.
• Roberts, Colonel, 32
• Rob Roy, the, 197
• Rodgers, Commander John, 12;
  • relieved by Captain Foote, 16
• Rodolph, the, 248
• Roe, Lieutenant, 75
• Royal Yacht, Confederate schooner, 8
• Romeo, the, 123, 142 et seq.
• Russell, Lieutenant J.H., 5, 54
  
  
• Sabine Pass, 106
• Sachem, the, U.S. schooner, 87, 187
• St. Charles, 50 et seq.
• St. Clair, the, 181
• St. Louis, the, Union gunboat, 15, 21;
  • injury sustained by, 27, 42, 45, 48, 50 et seq., 118, 177.
  • See the DeKalb.
• St. Philip, Fort, see Fort St. Philip.
• Samson, the, U.S. ram, 107, 114
• Santee, U.S. frigate, 7 et seq., 42
• Schofield, General, 215
• Sciota, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 77 et seq., 95, 249
• Selfridge, Lieutenant-Commander, 117, 172, 177 et seq., 191, 197 et seq.
• Selma, the, Confederate gunboat, 220, 239
• Seminole, the, 229
• Shepperd, Lieutenant, F.E., 145
• Sherman, General W.T., at Haines's Bluff, 119;
  • directed to support Porter, 148, 150 et seq., 163, 168, 170, 173;
  • confers with Banks, 189 et seq.;
  • at Alexandria, 203, 225
• Sherman, of the tug Mosher, 77
• Shirk, Lieutenant J.W., of the Lexington, 21;
  • gallant service at Pittsburg Landing, 37 et seq.;
  • at Memphis, 50, 155, 213 et seq.
• Ship Island, 52
• Signal, the, U.S. gunboat, 117, 123, 142, 171, 207, 210
• Silver Wave, the, U.S. transport, 155
• Smith, Colonel Giles A., 150
• Smith, Commander Melancton, 54, 134, 138
• Smith, General A.G., 190, 192 et seq., 211
• Smith, General M.L., 69
• Smith, General T. Kilby, 194, 196 et seq.
• Smithland, Ky., seized by Grant, 18
• Smith, Lieutenant Albert N., 54
• Smith, Lieutenant-Commander Watson, 121, 143
• Sproston, Lieutenant, 5
• Squadron, Atlantic, 4, 249
• Squadron, East Gulf, 8, 249
• Squadron, Home, 4, 249
• Squadron, Mississippi, 55, 107, 211, 216 et seq.
• Squadron, Western Gulf Blockading, 8, 52, 187, 249
• Squadron, West India, 4
• Squires, Captain, 60
• Star of the West, the, 144
• Steele, General, 168, 189 et seq., 212, 246
• Stembel, Commander, of the Lexington, 18 et seq., 21;
  • of the Cincinnati, 42;
  • dangerously shot, 44
• Stephenson, Captain, 61
• Stevens, Commander Thomas H., 229, 232, 238
• Stevens, Lieutenant, 105
• Stevenson, General, 132
• Stonewall Jackson, the, Confederate vessel, 81 et seq.
• Stringham, Flag-Officer, commands Atlantic Squadron, 4
• Strong, Captain James H., 188, 229, 237
• Sumter, Fort, see Fort Sumter.
• Switzerland, the, Union ram, 49, 123, 140, 151 et seq., 166 et seq.
  
  
• Tallahassee, Fla., 3
• Tawah, the, 214
• Taylor, General Richard, 129, 164, 167;
  • engages a negro brigade, 176 et seq., 249
• Tecumseh, the, 226 et seq., 244 (note)
• Tennessee, the, Confederate ram, 220 et seq., 231, 236 et seq., 240 et seq.
• Terry, Lieutenant-Commander Edward, 167
• Thatcher, Master Charles, 191
• Thatcher, Rear-Admiral H.K., 246, 248 et seq.
• Theron, Monsieur, French Consul in Texas, 185 et seq.
• Thomas, General, 216
• Thomas, Lieutenant-Commander N.W., 137
• Thompson, Lieutenant E., of the Pittsburg, 27, 42
• Tilghman, General, surrenders Fort Henry to Union fleet, 23
• Tinclads, description of, 110
• Tiptonville, Tenn., 29 et seq., 35
• Todd, Captain, 94 (note)
• Torpedoes, 117, 224
• Townsend, Captain, 41
• Townsend, Commander Robert, 190
• Tuscumbia, the, U.S. vessel, 111 et seq., 155, 157, 160 et seq., 168
• Tyler, the, Union gunboat, 12, 19 et seq., 24, 27 et seq., 37 et seq., 99 et seq., 123, 175, 212 et seq.
  
  
• Undine, the, 214
• United States Navy, anomalous position of, 17, 20 et seq.;
  • seventeen vessels in, and their tonnage, 54;
  • six gunboats, 55 et seq.;
  • tinclads, 110 et seq.
  
  
• Varuna, U.S. corvette, 54 et seq., 73, 81 et seq.
• Velocity, the, 108
• Vicksburg, Miss., 11, 51, 90 et seq.;
  • description, 93 et seq.;
  • surrender of, 173
• Vicksburg, the, 125, 151
• Vincennes, the, sailing-sloop, 5 et seq.
• Virginia, the, 188
• Virginius, the, Confederate steamer, 50
  
  
• Wade, Colonel, 163
• Wainwright, Commander Richard, 54
• Wainwright, Lieutenant Jonathan M., of the Harriet Lane, 56
• Walke, Commander Henry, of the Tyler, 19 et seq.;
  • commands the Carondelet, 26;
  • his gallant passage down the river, 32 et seq., 42;
  • in the Yazoo, 99 et seq.;
  • at Helena, 110;
  • in the Yazoo, 116 et seq., 139, 155;
  • at Alexandria, 166 et seq.
• Walker, General, 192
• Walker, Lieutenant-Commander John G., 118, 121 et seq., 142, 169, 171;
  • sent to Yazoo City, 177
• Warley, Lieutenant A.F., commands the Enoch Train, 5, 61, 84 (note)
• Warner, the, 209 et seq.
• Water Witch, the, steamer, 5, 7
• Watson, captain, 201
• Watters, Lieutenant-Commander John, 134, 183
• Weaver, Lieutenant-Commander, 183
• Webb, the, Confederate gunboat, 128 et seq., 217
• Welles, Secretary of Navy, 88
• Wells, Lieutenant-Commander Clark H., 229
• Westfield, the, U.S. gunboat, 55 et seq., 95, 108
• Wharton, General, 181
• Wharton, Lieutenant, 231
• Wheeler, General, 181
• Williams, General, at Baton Rouge 104 et seq.
• Wilson, Charles, 33
• Wilson, Lieutenant Byron, of the Mound City, 147, 155, 191
• Wilson, Lieutenant-Colonel James H., 142 et seq.
• Winona, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 77, 80, 95, 183
• Winnebago, the, 220 et seq., 229, 232, 234, 238, 242 et seq., 247
• Winslow, Lieutenant Francis, holds his ground in Water Witch, 7
• Wisconsin, regiment of: Fourth, 204
• Wissahickon, the, U.S. gunboat, 54, 73, 76, 85, 90, 95
• Woods, Colonel, 107
• Woodworth, Lieutenant Selim E., 56, 155 et seq.
• Woolsey, Commander, 183
  
  
• Yankee, the, Confederate gunboat, 18
• Yazoo Valley, description of, 115 et seq., 141 et seq.