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.